The Philolexian Society of Columbia University is one of the oldest college literary and debate societies in the United States. Following is a partial list of Philolexian Society members organized by area of notability.
Architecture and engineering
Business
Name
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Class
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Notability
|
References
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Horatio Allen
|
1823
|
President of Erie Railroad, civil engineer, and inventor
|
[3][4]
|
William Backhouse Astor Sr.
|
1811
|
Business magnate
|
[3][4]
|
William Backhouse Astor Jr.
|
1849
|
Businessman, racehorse owner and breeder, and yachtsman
|
[3][4]
|
Douglas Black
|
1915
|
President of Doubleday and Company
|
[2][5]
|
Stuyvesant Fish
|
1871
|
Illinois Central Railroad president
|
[6][7]
|
Robert Goelet
|
1860
|
Businessman and yachtsman
|
[3][8]
|
James Lenox
|
1818
|
President of the New York Chamber of Commerce, bibliophile, and philanthropist
|
[3][4]
|
Ward Melville
|
1909
|
Founding president of Thom McAn, Melville Corporation (CVS Health), and philanthropist behind Stony Brook University
|
[9]
|
John Lloyd Stephens
|
1822
|
Founder and vice president of the Panama Railroad Company, Special Ambassador to Central America, explorer, and author
|
[10][3]
|
John Aikman Stewart
|
1840
|
Banker
|
[11][3]
|
William R. Travers
|
1838
|
Businessman and first president of the Saratoga Race Course
|
[2][3]
|
Lawrence Wien
|
1925
|
Real instate investor and attorney who pioneered real estate syndicates
|
[2]
|
Clergy
Education
Name
|
Class
|
Notability
|
References
|
Charles Anthon
|
1815
|
Classical scholar and educator
|
[3][4]
|
William Anthony Aery
|
1904
|
Professor of social science and director of education at the Hampton Institute, editor of the Southern Workman
|
[17][18][19]
|
Donald Barr
|
1941
|
Dalton School headmaster
|
[20]
|
Wm. Theodore de Bary
|
1941
|
East Asian scholar and Columbia University provost
|
[13][21]
|
Jacques Barzun
|
1927
|
Historian, provost, and University Professor at Columbia University
|
[22][23][24][8]
|
Robert Fulton Cutting
|
1871
|
President of Cooper Union, financier, and philanthropist
|
[4]
|
Robert Emory
|
1831
|
President of Dickinson College
|
[2][3]
|
Dixon Ryan Fox
|
1911
|
Union College president
|
[25][26]
|
Mott T. Greene
|
1967
|
Historian of science and academic
|
[27]
|
Robert Gutman
|
|
Sociologist and a lecturer in social and environmental studies at Princeton University's School of Architecture
|
[28][29][30]
|
Frank S. Hackett
|
1899
|
Educator, founder of Riverdale Country Day School, and pioneer in the Country Day School movement
|
[31]
|
Carl Hovde
|
1950
|
Columbia College Dean
|
[2]
|
James Hall Mason Knox
|
1841
|
Lafayette College president
|
[2][3]
|
Arthur MacMahon
|
1912
|
Political scientist and pioneer in the academic study of public administration
|
[26]
|
Robert Marshak
|
1936
|
City College of New York president
|
[2]
|
Brander Matthews
|
1871
|
Academic and literary critic
|
[6][7][4]
|
Parker Thomas Moon
|
1913
|
Political scientist and researcher on international peace
|
[32]
|
Nathaniel F. Moore
|
1802
|
President of Columbia College
|
[6][3][33][4]
|
Steven Raphael
|
1963
|
economist, professor of public policy at Goldman School of Public Policy, and adjunct fellow at Public Policy Institute of California
|
[27]
|
Victoria Rosner
|
1990
|
Dean of NYU Gallatin School and ean of Academic Affairs at Columbia University
|
[8][34][35]
|
Edwin R. A. Seligman
|
1878
|
Economist and academic
|
[36]
|
William Milligan Sloane
|
1868
|
Historian, professor at Princeton University, and coach of the first U.S. Olympic team
|
[4]
|
Howard Spodek
|
1963
|
Professor of history and geography and urban studies at Temple University
|
[27]
|
Paul van K. Thomson
|
1940
|
Professor and vice president for academic affairs of Providence College, Catholic priest, and author
|
[37]
|
John Howard Van Amringe
|
1860
|
Mathematician and the first Dean of Columbia College
|
[3][4]
|
Eugene Victor Wolfenstein
|
1962
|
Social theorist, psychoanalyst, and a professor of political science at University of California, Los Angeles
|
[24]
|
Entertainment
Law
Literature and journalism
Name
|
Class
|
Notability
|
References
|
James Warner Bellah
|
1923
|
Western writer
|
[50]
|
Elliott V. Bell
|
1925
|
BusinessWeek publisher, a financial writer for The New York Times, and New York State Superintendent of Banks
|
[51]
|
John Berryman
|
1936
|
poet, scholar, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
|
[52][53]
|
Randolph Bourne
|
1912
|
Essayist and critic
|
[2][54]
|
McAlister Coleman
|
1909
|
Journalist, author, and political activist
|
[55][56]
|
David Cort
|
1924
|
foreign news editor of Life
|
[57]
|
Julien T. Davies
|
1866
|
Writer
|
[58]
|
Evert Augustus Duyckinck
|
1835
|
Biographer and publisher
|
[3][4]
|
Jason Epstein
|
1949
|
Co-founder of The New York Review of Books, co-founder of Library of America, and founder of Anchor Books
|
[59]
|
Edgar Fawcett
|
1867
|
Novelist and poet
|
[4]
|
William Dudley Foulke
|
1869
|
Literary critic, journalist, poet, and reformer
|
[45]
|
Allen Ginsberg
|
1948
|
Poet, author, and winner of the National Book Award
|
[60][61][8]
|
Robert Giroux
|
1936
|
Publisher, chairman and editor-in-chief of Farrar Straus & Giroux
|
[62][53]
|
Robert Gottlieb
|
1952
|
Editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster, president and editor-in-chief of Alfred A. Knopf, and editor of The New Yorker
|
[2]
|
Alfred Harcourt
|
1904
|
Publisher and co-founder of Harcourt Brace;
|
[2]
|
John Hollander
|
1950
|
Poet
|
[62]
|
Richard Howard
|
1951
|
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and translator
|
[63]
|
Joyce Kilmer
|
1908
|
Poet and literary critic
|
[64][65]
|
Gustav Kobbé
|
1877
|
Music critic and author
|
[46][4]
|
Henry Demarest Lloyd
|
1867
|
Pioneer muckraking journalist and progressive political activist
|
[66]
|
Jay Michaelson
|
1993
|
Writer, journalist, professor, rabbi, commentator on CNN, and a columnist for Rolling Stone
|
[8]
|
John L. O'Sullivan
|
1831
|
Magazine editor and columnist who coined the phrase manifest destiny and U.S. Minister to Portugal
|
[2][3]
|
Sam Quinones
|
1964
|
Journalist and author
|
[8]
|
Ed Rice
|
1940
|
Author, publisher, photojournalist, and painter
|
[13]
|
Henry Morton Robinson
|
1923
|
Novelist
|
[67]
|
Garth Stein
|
1987
|
Novelist and Academy Award-winning film producer
|
[68]
|
George Templeton Strong
|
1838
|
Diarist
|
[2][3]
|
Ralph de Toledano
|
1938
|
Editor of Newsweek and the National Review, journalist, author, poet, and novelist
|
[54]
|
Thomas Vinciguerra
|
1985
|
Journalist, editor, author, and founding editor of The Week
|
[54][69]
|
Walter Wager
|
1944
|
Novelist
|
[70]
|
Samuel Ward
|
1831
|
Poet and lobbyist
|
[71][3][4]
|
Medicine, science, and math
Military
Politics
Name
|
Class
|
Notability
|
References
|
Martin C. Ansorge
|
1903
|
United States House of Representatives
|
[76]
|
Elliott V. Bell
|
1925
|
New York State Superintendent of Banks, BusinessWeek publisher, and a financial writer for The New York Times
|
[51]
|
Frederic René Coudert Jr.
|
1918
|
United States House of Representatives from New York and member of New York's Rapp-Coudert Committee
|
[2]
|
Isaac C. Delaplaine
|
1834
|
United States House of Representatives
|
[3][4]
|
Charles G. Ferris
|
1811
|
United States House of Representatives
|
[3][4]
|
Hamilton Fish
|
1827
|
United States Secretary of State
|
[6][3][4]
|
Hamilton Fish II
|
1869
|
Speaker of the New York State Assembly and U.S. Congressman
|
[3][4]
|
Nicholas Fish II
|
1867
|
U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland and U.S. Ambassador to Belgium
|
[2]
|
James W. Gerard
|
1890
|
U.S. Ambassador to Germany and justice of the New York Supreme Court
|
[2]
|
Samuel L. Gouverneur
|
1817
|
member of the New York State Assembly and Postmaster of New York City
|
[2][3]
|
James Alexander Hamilton
|
1805
|
Acting U.S. Secretary of State and son of Alexander Hamilton
|
[54][3][33]
|
Abram Hewitt
|
1842
|
Mayor of New York City, United States House of Representatives, ironmaking industrialist, and lawyer
|
[2][3]
|
Stephen W. Kearny
|
1812
|
Military Governor of New Mexico and Military Governor of California
|
[2][3]
|
Harvey R. Kingsley
|
1893
|
President of the Vermont State Senate, attorney, and judge
|
[77]
|
Wellington Koo
|
1909
|
Premier and foreign minister of China, Ambassador to the United States, member of the International Court of Justice
|
[78][79]
|
William Langer
|
1910
|
Governor of North Dakota and U.S. Senate
|
[8]
|
John L. Lawrence
|
1803
|
Chargé d'Affaires at Stockholm, member of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate
|
[2][3]
|
William Beach Lawrence
|
1818
|
Governor of Rhode Island (acting)
|
[2][3]
|
Hugh Maxwell
|
1808
|
Collector of the Port of New York and District Attorney of New York City
|
[2][3]
|
John McKeon
|
1825
|
U.S. House of Representatives and United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
|
[2][3]
|
John Purroy Mitchel
|
1899
|
Mayor of New York City and Collector of the Port of New York
|
[80]
|
John L. O'Sullivan
|
1831
|
U.S. Minister to Portugal and magazine editor and columnist who coined the phrase manifest destiny
|
[10][3]
|
Charles A. Peabody Jr.
|
1869
|
New York State Assembly
|
[45]
|
Edmund H. Pendleton
|
1805
|
United States House of Representatives
|
[2][3]
|
George L. Rives
|
1868
|
United States Assistant Secretary of State
|
[2][4]
|
James I. Roosevelt
|
1815
|
United States House of Representatives and District attorney for Southern New York
|
[3][4]
|
John Lloyd Stephens
|
1822
|
Special Ambassador to Central America, explorer, author, and a founder and vice president of the Panama Railroad Company
|
[2][3]
|
John R. Thurman
|
1835
|
United States House of Representatives
|
[3][4]
|
Peter Dumont Vroom
|
1808
|
Governor of New Jersey, U.S. Congressman, and U.S. Minister to Prussia
|
[3][4]
|
J. Mayhew Wainwright
|
1884
|
United States Assistant Secretary of War and United States House of Representatives
|
[2]
|
Samuel Ward
|
1831
|
Lobbyist and poet
|
[3][71][4]
|
Sports
Miscellaneous
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