List of Widener University alumni

Widener University is a private university in Chester, Pennsylvania. Following is an incomplete list of its notable alumni.

Arts

Name	Class	Major	Notability	References
Louis Comfort Tiffany			Artist and designer

Business

Name	Class	Major	Notability	References
Eugene C. Lewis			Businessman, engineer, and chairman of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway
Edwin Harrison McHenry			Vice-president of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and the Consolidated Railway
Leslie C. Quick Jr.			founder Quick & Reilly Inc.
Cyrus Tang			businessman and philanthropist

Clergy

Name	Class	Major	Notability	References
Howard Meeks			Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Michigan

Education

Name	Class	Major	Notability	References
Robert Dorsey Coale			Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology and Dean of the Physics Faculty at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
James T. Harris III			president of the University of San Diego and Widener University
Ericka Hart			former adjunct professor at the Columbia School of Social Work and sex educator
Kathleen Hetherington			president of Howard Community College
George Michael			Historian, political scientist, writer, and professor at Westfield State University

Entertainment

Name	Class	Major	Notability	References
Benjamin P. Ablao Jr.			Independent filmmaker and actor
Matthew McGrory			The world's tallest actor
Cecil B. DeMille			Legendary Hollywood director
Burt Mustin			actor, Gus the Fireman on Leave it to Beaver
Dan Yemin			musician
H.Foley			Comedian

Law

Name	Class	Major	Notability	References
Peter J. Barnes III			New Jersey Superior Court judge and New Jersey Senate
Aimee Belgard			New Jersey Superior Court judge
Carl Danberg			Attorney General of Delaware, Commissioner of the Delaware Department of Correction, and Brigadier general in the Delaware Army National Guard
Faustino J. Fernandez-Vina			associate justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court
Alina Habba			lawyer
Don McGahn			White House Counsel
Jim Schultz			Associate White House Counsel
Lee Solomon			associate justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey
Margaret M. Sweeney			senior judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims
David C. Weiss			United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the District of Delaware,

Literature and journalism

Name	Class	Notability
Frederick J. Chiaventone		Historian, award-winning novelist, screenwriter
David M. Hall		writer, editor, and corporate trainer
Tim Newby	1996	writer, author
Brent Staples	1973	New York Times editorial writer and author of Parallel Time
Brian Tierney		publisher of The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News
Louis Weitzenkorn		writer, newspaper editor, and playwright

Military

Name	Class	Major	Notability	References
Irving J. Carr			U.S. Army Major General
Carl Danberg			Brigadier General in the Delaware Army National Guard, Attorney General of Delaware, and Commissioner of the Delaware Department of Correction
Thomas D. Finley	1911	High school	U.S. Army Major general	^[1]^[2]^[3]
Terry Halvorsen			Chief Information Officer at the US Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer.
Frederic E. Humphreys			first American military pilot
Benjamin Ralph Kimlau			World War II hero
Charles F. B. Price			Lieutenant General of the United States Marines and Legion of Merit recipient
John H. Tilelli Jr.	1963		United States Army four-star general

Politics

Name	Notability	References
Dawn Marie Addiego	New Jersey state senator
Richard Alloway	Pennsylvania state senator
Jesse Matlack Baker	Pennsylvania State Representative and Pennsylvania State Senator
Truxtun Beale	United States Minister to Persia and United States Minister to Greece
David J. Brightbill	Pennsylvania State Senator
Chris Brown	New Jersey Senate and New Jersey General Assembly
Chris A. Brown	New Jersey Senator
Michael A. Brown	Council of the District of Columbia
John H. Carrington	North Carolina Senate
Mark B. Cohen	Pennsylvania General Assembly
Carolyn Comitta	Pennsylvania State Senate and Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Drew Crompton	Political consultant
William J. Crow	Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Joseph DeFelice	former chair of the Philadelphia Republican Party
Bryan Cutler	Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Sam Fiocchi	New Jersey General Assembly
Tom Gannon	Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Dianne Herrin	Pennsylvania House of Representatives and Mayor of West Chester, Pennsylvania
Tom Houghton	Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Wayne Langerholc	, Pennsylvania State Senator
Walter Francis Layer	Pennsylvania State Representative
John Linder	Mayor of Chester, Pennsylvania
Mike Missanelli	sports journalist and host for ESPN
Patrick J. Murphy	United States House of Representatives and United States Secretary of the Army
D. Lane Powers	United States House of Representatives	^[4]
Brian Presk	former legislative staffer and government relations professional
Barbara Bohannan-Sheppard	Mayor of Chester, Pennsylvania
Robert J. Smith II	New Jersey General Assembly
Gerald J. Spitz	Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Todd Stephens	Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Terry Van Horne	Pennsylvania House of Representatives

Science and technology

Name	Class	Major	Notability	References
Curtis Henderson			pioneer in the practice of cryonics
Brendan Kehoe			author of Zen and the Art of the Internet: A Beginner's Guide and software developer
Sylvanus Morley			an archaeologist who led extensive excavations of the Maya site of Chichen Itza on behalf of the Carnegie Institution
Max C. Starkloff			Physician and Health Commissioner of St. Louis
Frank Wilcoxon			chemist and statistician

Sports

Name	Class	Notability
Dan Borislow		Entrepreneur and sports team owner
Clarence C. Combs Jr.,		polo player
Tom Deery		College Football Hall of Fame inductee
Joe Fields		New York Jets all-pro center
Billy "White Shoes" Johnson	1974	NFL 75th Anniversary All-Time Team, College Football Hall of Fame inductee
Jamarr Johnson		professional basketball player, 2x IBL Champion, and 2x IBL scoring leader
Phil Martelli	1976	former St. Joseph's University head basketball coach
William A. Nimick		Professional baseball team owner and president
Pat Quinn		former NHL Coach and General Manager
Roy Sherid		Pitcher for New York Yankees
Bill Stern		Newsreel and sports commentator
Bob Swank		football coach
William Wesley		advisor for the New York Knicks

References

^ "Honors Conferred On Undergraduates". Delaware County Daily Times. Chester, PA. October 14, 1911. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Pennsylvania Military College: Commencement Supplement to the Annual Catalog". Pennsylvania Military College. Chester, PA. 1927. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Finley, Renette T. B.; Finley, David D. (January–February 1996). "Obituary, Thomas D. Finley". Assembly. West Point, NY: Association of Graduates of the United States Military Academy. p. 152 – via Google Books.
^ David Lane Powers, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed September 9, 2007.

External links

Official website

[1] "Honors Conferred On Undergraduates". Delaware County Daily Times. Chester, PA. October 14, 1911. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.

[2] "Pennsylvania Military College: Commencement Supplement to the Annual Catalog". Pennsylvania Military College. Chester, PA. 1927. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.

[Assembly-3] Finley, Renette T. B.; Finley, David D. (January–February 1996). "Obituary, Thomas D. Finley". Assembly. West Point, NY: Association of Graduates of the United States Military Academy. p. 152 – via Google Books.

[4] David Lane Powers, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed September 9, 2007.

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