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Presidents' Day
Created: 2/19/2006 10:44:03 PM
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We have run some presidential trivia in the past on both Election Day and Presidents' Day. Now we have been asked to share it again, so here it goes.
The presidents being celebrated today did not attend Ivy schools, but they combined to collect six honorary degrees from Ivy schools. George Washington also had a couple of famous images nearby Ivy campuses. First there is the famous portrait, "George Washington at Princeton," from the time of the Battle of Princeton. And then in 1925, there was a one-cent stamp of Washington on Cambridge Common. Washington did not go to college, but received an honorary LL.D. from five institutions: Harvard, 1776; Yale, 1781; Penn, 1783; Washington College of Maryland, 1789; and Brown, 1790.
Abraham Lincoln's son Robert Todd attended Harvard while Lincoln was in office. While his mother visited him on campus, Lincoln was obviously absorbed in some of the heaviest demands ever faced by a President and never made the trip to Cambridge. Robert Todd Lincoln, a member of the Class of 1864, joined the Union Army after graduation and passed the bar in 1867. His father had been bestowed with three honorary degrees -- Knox College, 1860; Columbia, 1861; and Princeton, 1864.
In reference to the Election Day material, the 2004 election was the 34th of 55 presidential elections involving a candidate with Ivy League connections (whether it be as an undergraduate, a law or medical student or a former university president). Below all 55 elections are detailed. Please note, in many cases there were more non-Ivy candidates involved in an election, but only the Ivy Leaguers involved are listed. The criteria used were those who finished among the top five in electoral votes.
In all, the list includes 30 men from seven of the eight Ivy schools:
1789 -- John Adams (Harvard) & John Jay (Columbia) lost
1792 -- John Adams (Harvard) & Aaron Burr (Princeton) lost
1796 -- John Adams (Harvard) defeated Aaron Burr (Princeton) & Samuel Adams (Harvard)
1800 -- Aaron Burr (Princeton), John Adams (Harvard) & John Jay (Columbia) lost
1804 -- No Ivies
1808 -- James Madison (Princeton) won
1812 -- James Madison (Princeton) defeated De Witt Clinton (Columbia)
1816 -- Rufus King (Harvard) lost
1820 -- John Quincy Adams (Harvard) lost
1824 -- John Quincy Adams (Harvard) won
1828 -- John Quincy Adams (Harvard) lost
1832 -- No Ivies
1836 -- William H. Harrison (Penn Medical) & Daniel Webster (Dartmouth) lost
1840 -- William H. Harrison (Penn Medical) won
1844 -- No Ivies
1848 -- No Ivies
1852 -- No Ivies
1856 -- No Ivies
1860 -- John C. Breckinridge (Princeton) lost
1864 -- George B. McClellan (Penn) lost
1868 -- No Ivies
1872 -- B. Gratz Brown (Yale) lost
1876 -- Rutherford B. Hayes (Harvard Law) defeated Samuel J. Tilden (Yale)
1880 -- No Ivies
1884 -- No Ivies
1888 -- No Ivies
1892 -- No Ivies
1896 -- No Ivies
1900 -- No Ivies
1904 -- Theodore Roosevelt (Harvard) won
1908 -- William H. Taft (Yale) won
1912 -- Woodrow Wilson (Princeton) defeated Theodore Roosevelt (Harvard & Columbia Law) & William H. Taft (Yale)
1916 -- Woodrow Wilson (Princeton) defeated Charles E. Hughes (Brown & Columbia Law)
1920 -- No Ivies
1924 -- No Ivies
1928 -- No Ivies
1932 -- Franklin D. Roosevelt (Harvard & Columbia Law) won
1936 -- Franklin D. Roosevelt (Harvard & Columbia Law) won
1940 -- Franklin D. Roosevelt (Harvard & Columbia Law) won
1944 -- Franklin D. Roosevelt (Harvard & Columbia Law) defeated Thomas E. Dewey (Columbia Law)
1948 -- Thomas E. Dewey (Columbia Law) lost
1952 -- Dwight D. Eisenhower (former Columbia President) defeated Adlai E. Stevenson (Princeton)
1956 -- Dwight D. Eisenhower (former Columbia President) defeated Adlai E. Stevenson (Princeton)
1960 -- John F. Kennedy (Harvard) won
1964 -- No Ivies
1968 -- No Ivies
1972 -- No Ivies
1976 -- Gerald Ford (Yale Law) lost
1980 -- No Ivies
1984 -- No Ivies
1988 -- George H. Bush (Yale) defeated Michael S. Dukakis (Harvard Law)
1992 -- William J. Clinton (Yale Law) defeated George H. Bush (Yale)
1996 -- William J. Clinton (Yale Law) won
2000 -- George W. Bush (Yale & Harvard Business School) defeated Albert A. Gore (Harvard)
2004 -- George W. Bush (Yale & Harvard Business School) defeated John Kerry (Yale)
School By School
Brown (1) -- Charles E. Hughes
Columbia (7) -- John Jay, De Witt Clinton, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles E. Hughes, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Thomas E. Dewey, Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dartmouth (1) -- Daniel Webster
Harvard (11) -- John Adams, Samuel Adams, Rufus King, John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Michael S. Dukakis, George W. Bush, Albert A. Gore
Penn (2) -- William H. Harrison, George B. McClellan
Princeton (5) -- Aaron Burr, James Madison, John C. Breckinridge, Woodrow Wilson, Adlai E. Stevenson
Yale (8) -- B. Gratz Brown, Samuel J. Tilden, William H. Taft, Gerald Ford, George H. Bush, William J. Clinton, George W. Bush, John Kerry
Note: Cornell's connection to the election is Charles Evan Hughes, who lost to Woodrow Wilson in 1916. Hughes was a former professor at Cornell Law School.
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