The article of Charles P. Ware '62 in the last number of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine does much to answer the question that is often asked, "Except in educational and philanthropic enterprises, and occasionally in some subordinate public office, what service to the public has been rendered by the sons of Harvard?"
The following list contains the names of those graduates who have filled important offices in the public service. Only the higher officers are named. The list would probably be doubled in length if made to include members of State legislature, judges of inferior courts, mayors, subordinate Federal officials, secretaries of legations, consuls, members of public commissions, etc. Moreover, graduates of other departments of the University, not alumni of the College, are not named here.
Presidents of the United States.
Class.
1755 John Adams.
1787 John Quincy Adams.
Vice-Presidents.
1755 John Adams.
1762 Elbridge Gerry.
Cabinet Officers.
1763 Timothy Pickering, State, War and Navy. Postmaster-General.
1770 Samuel Osgood, Postmaster-General.
1772 William Eustis, War.
1772 Levi Lincoln, Attorney-General.
1781 Samuel Dexter, Treasury, War.
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