| Name |
Class |
Areas of Note |
John Gardner | 1780 | Leading Salem merchant; his McIntire-designed Salem home [1804] now part of the Peabody-Essex Museum |
Stephen Higginson | 1780 | Boston benefactor of the poor; called "The Man of Ross" after John Kyle, English Good Samaritan eulogized as "The Man of Ross" by Alexander Pope [1732] |
John Brown Cutting | 1781 | Apothecary General, Continental Army [1777-80]; Jefferson confidant [1788-89]; US London agent seeking release of impressed American sailors [1790] |
William King | 1781 | Militia commander, War of 1812; leader, Maine statehood [1817-20]; 1st governor of Maine [1820-21]; 1 of 2 Maine leaders represented in the US Capitol's Statuary Hall |
Benjamin Abbot | 1782 | Second principal, Phillips Exeter Academy [1788-1838] |
Richard Cutts | 1782 | Congressman [1801-13]; superintendent general of military supplies [1813-17]; comptroller, US Treasury [1817-29] |
Samuel Holyoke | 1783 | Composer, compiler & teacher of sacred music; cofounder & 1st headmaster, Groton Academy, now Lawrence Academy [1793] |
Jonathan Steele | 1783 | Attorney; clerk, New Hampshire Federal District Court [1789-1805]; judge, New Hampshire Superior Court [1810-12] |
George Sullivan | 1783 | Lawyer, politician & orator; New Hampshire attorney general [1805-06, 1816-35]; Federalist member, US House of Representatives [1814-15]; author "An Oration Pronounced on the Fourth of July 1816 Before the Inhabitants of Boston" |
James Wilson | 1783 | Attorney & New Hampshire politician; member, State House of Representatives [1803-08, 1812-14]; Federalist member, US House of Representatives [1809-11] |
Charles Cutts | 1784 | Speaker, New Hampshire House of Representatives [1807, -08, -10]; US senator from New Hampshire [1810-13]; secretary, US Senate [1814-25]; supervised restoration of the US Capitol [1814-19] following its destruction by British forces |
John T. Kirkland | 1784 | President, Harvard University [1810-28] |
Joseph Leland | 1784 | Minuteman from Grafton, Massachusetts; served in the Continental Army throughout the Revolution, beginning at Lexington [1775-1783]; Leland was 27 when he entered Phillips Academy |
L.C.F. Cougnacq | 1785 | From Hispaniola [Haiti]; 1 of 1st 2 international students attending Andover |
William Lee | 1785 | US consul, Bordeaux [1801-15]; auditor general, US Treasury [1817-29]; diarist noted for his account of Washington in the era of Madison & Adams; mastermind of US reception for Lafayette [1824] |
Howell Lewis | 1785 | Private secretary to his uncle, George Washington [1792-] |
Charles March | 1785 | From Jamaica; 1 of 1st 2 international students at Andover |
Francis Cabot Lowell | 1786 | Pioneering industrialist, developer of corporate finance for industry; founder, New England cotton textile industry; Lowell, Massachusetts named in his honor [1826] |
William Tudor | 1786 | Cofounder & editor, North American Review [1815]; coiner of the phrase "the Athens of America" as a Boston epithet; US consul, Lima [1824-27], US chargé d'affaires, Rio de Janeiro [1827-30] |
Cyrus King | 1787 | Federalist congressman [1813-17] from what was then the Maine District of Massachusetts |
Samuel Love Jr. | 1787 | Officer in the Revolution [1776-]; Virginia planter; early breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses [1787-] |
Jonathan Phillips | 1787 | Boston philanthropist, supporting libraries & public art |
Charles Pinckney Sumner | 1787 | Boston social activist involved in temperance, anti-Masonic & anti-slavery movements |
François Boscarien | 1788 | From Bayonne, France, the earliest European student at Andover, coming at the outset of the French Revolution |
Joshua Wingate | 1789 | Assistant Secretary of War, Jefferson Administration; general, War of 1812 |