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Each year at Commencement, the College awards honorary doctorates to those honorees selected by a committee of faculty. The Honorary Degree Committee makes their selection from a list of nominees compiled from suggestions made by faculty and staff.

For more information about the selection criteria, see page A7 in the Faculty Handbook.

Note: All names that are followed by class year are alumni of Grinnell College.

For text of the award citation, when available, click on the name of the honoree.

Year Honored Honoree Degree Awarded
2012 Jamaica Kincaid D.H.L.
  Kay Bucksbaum ’51 D.L.
  Pat Irwin ’77 D.H.L.
2011 Anna Quindlen  D.H.L.
  David Feldman '71  D.H.L.
  Henry Wilhelm '68  D.S.
  Pardis Sabeti  D.S.
2010 Jeffrey Sachs D.H.L.
  Lonabelle "Kappie" Kaplan Spencer '47 LL.D.
  Sam Tanenhaus '77 D.H.L.
2009 Thomas L. Friedman D.H.L
  Jodie Levin-Epstein '72 LL.D.
  John F. Schwaller '69 D.H.L.
  A. Gregory Theilmann '72 LL.D.
2008 Judith Butler D.H.L.
  Rekha Basu D.H.L.
  John W. Canady M.D. '80 D.Sc.
  James H. Lowry '61 LL.D.
2007 Angela Y. Davis D.H.L.
  Susan Asbrook Harvey '75 D.H.L.
  John Brady Keisling LL.D.
  Margaret Tolbert '79 D. Sc.
2006 James Banks D.H.L.
  Patricia O'Connor '71 D.H.L.
  Christopher Vaughan '71 D. Sc.
  Thomas Vilsack LL.D.
2005 Carol Bellamy D.H.L.
  Kathryn Jagow Mohrman '67 D.H.L.
  Rein Saral '65 D.H.L.
2004 Frances Moore Lappé D.H.L.
  Debhanom Muangman '58 D. Sc.
  William Schulz D.H.L.
  Mary Sue Wilson Coleman '65 D. Sc.
2003 Gordon Edelstein '76 D.F.A.
  Vernon E. Faulconer '61 LL.D.
  Merry Wiesner-Hanks '73 D.H.L.
2002 Raymond D. Horton '62 D.H.L.
  Robert B. Reich LL.D.
  Rubin Cooper Vera D.Sc.
2001 Caroline Scheaffer Arnold '66 D.H.L.
  Robert A. Dahl LL.D.
  Jim Diers '75 LL.D.
  Robert P. Moses D.H.L.
2000 Dolores C. Huerta D.H.L.
  Kim Kihwan '57 D.H.L.
  Mary Rosenthal Lefkowitz D.H.L.
  Arthur C. Risser '60 D.H.L.
1999 Marcia L. Colish D.H.L.
  Duane W. Krohnke '61 D.H.L.
  Anne Campbell Spence '66 D.Sc.
  Fred Wertheimer D.H.L.
1998 Alberta Nelson Coleman '35 D.H.L.
  Joycelyn Elders D.Sc.
  George T. McJimsey '58 D.H.L.
  Kunio Waki '66 D.H.L.
1997 Bertha Daubendiek '36 D.H.L.
  Jean Bethke Elshtain D.H.L.
  David McCullough D.H.L.
  David Mura '74 D.H.L.
1996 Robert F. Austin '54 D.H.L.
  Paula J. McDermott '75 D.H.L.
  Albert J. Pinder D.H.L.
  Ann W. Richards LL.D.
1995 Claude W. Ahrens '38
  Sister Dorina Chase D.H.L.
  Thomas W. Merrill '71 LL.D.
  Alan D. Wheat '72 LL.D.
1994 Mary Frances Berry L.H.D.
  I. Craig Henderson '63 S.D.
  Paul G. Risser '61 S.D.
  Joseph F. Rosenfield '25 L.H.D.
  Lanford Wilson L.H.D.
1993 Harry Edwards L.H.D.
  Wallace D. Loh '65 LL.D.
  David G. Marker '59 S.D.
  Martha Nussbaum L.H.D.
1992 Alfred W. Crosby L.H.D.
  Evelyn Davis L.L.D
  Linda Kaufmann Kerber L.H.D.
  Randall C. Morgan, Jr. '65 D.Sc.
1991 David Billington D.C
  Bob Edwards L.H.D.
  Grant O. Gale D.Sc.
  Liane Ellison Norman '59 L.H.D.
1990 Johnnetta B. Cole LL.D.
  Amb. George E. Moose '66 LL.D.
  Michael P. Schulhof '64 D.Sc.
  Lauren Soth L.H.D.
1989 Edward M. Hirsch '72 L.H.D.
  Donald E. Knuth D.Sc.
  Tetusuo Najita '58 LL.D.
  Geneva Overholser L.H.D.
1988 Charles W. Anderson LL.D.
  Marian Wright Edelman LL.D.
  Gary Giddons '70 D.F.A.
  Meridel LeSueur L.H.D.
1987 Thomas R. Chech '70 D.Sc.
  Mario M. Cuomo LL.D.
  Helene Scriabine L.H.D.
  Robert B. Winter '54 D.Sc.
1986 Hortense Calisher L.H.D.
  Curtis A. Harnack '49 L.H.D.
  Brian E. Urquhart LL.D.
  Henry T. Wingate '69 LL.D.
1985 Benjamin R. Barber LL.D.
  Judith L. Mann L.H.D.
1984 Sir Roger Bannister D.Sc.
  E. Douglas Brown L.H.D.
  Amy K. Clampitt '41 L.H.D.
  Charlayne Hunter-Gault L.H.D.
  Mary Louise Smith LL.D.
1983 John Kenneth Galbraith LL.D.
  Margaret E. Kuhn LL.D.
  George W. Simon '55 D.Sc.
1982 Samuel Hoyt Elbert '28 L.H.D.
  Mary Emily Hannah '58 LL.D.
  William Jovanovich L.H.D.
  Dean Melvin Rossa D.Sc.
1981 Barry Commoner LL.D.
  John C. Culver LL.D.
  Philip F. Nelson '50 L.H.D.
  Clinton A. Rehling '39 L.H.D.
1980 Joan Wilson Sullivan '50 L.H.D.
  Howard M. Warrington '34 LL.D.
  Edwin M. Yoder, Jr. L.H.D.
1979 Bernard Bailyn L.H.D.
  Jane Temple Howard L.H.D.
  John R. Parish '27 D.Sc.
  Marilyn Walsh '50 LL.D.
1978 Betty Hornor Liljestrand LL.D.
  Samuel R. Rosenthal L.H.D.
  Joseph Frazier Wall '41 L.H.D.
  Edward Osborne Wilson D.Sc.
1977 R. Hal Dean '38 LL.D.
  Patricia A. McIlrath '37 L.H.D.
  Louis Studs Turkel L.H.D.
  Garrett Garry Trudeau L.H.D.
1976 Murray Kempton LL.D.
  Ann Jacobson McGonigle '49 D.Arts
  Gregor Piatigorsky D.Arts
  Thomas Fisher Railsback '54 LL.D.
1975 Ralph James Kaufmann '47 L.H.D.
  Glenn Leggett L.H.D.
1974 Thomas Barnabas LL.D.
  Hanna Holborn Gray Litt.D.
  William F. Hejna '54 D.Sc.
  Blair Stewart LL.D.
  Nancy Theilgaard Watts '48 L.H.D.
1973 Harry A. Duncan '38 L.H.D.
  Lucius Perry Gregg D.Sc.
  Burton W. Jones '23 D.Sc.
  Marion Musser Lloyd LL.D.
  Louise Rosenfield Noun '29 L.H.D.
1972 Robert W. Crawford LL.D.
  G. Lester Duke '25 L.H.D.
  R. Buckminster Fuller Litt.D.
  Herbert J. Hancock '60 D.F.A.
  Clair C. Patterson '43 D.Sc.
  Dorothy Daniell Schramm LL.D.
  James S. Schramm D.F.A.
  John R. Spencer '47 D.F.A.
  Jessie L. Ternberg '46 D.Sc.
  Fred A. Winter '21 L.H.D.
1971 Andrew Billingsley '51 L.H.D.
  Roy J. Clampitt 1911 L.H.D.
  Alfred F. Conard '32 LL.D.
  Robert B. Heilman LL.D.
  Bayless A. Manning LL.D.
  Randall C. Morgan L.H.D.
  S. Idell Pyle 1916 D.Sc.
  Robert D. Ray LL.D.
  Harvey Uhlenhopp '36 LL.D.
1970 Horace Mann Bond L.H.D.
  H. Maurice Fridlund 1918 LL.D.
  Morse W. Rew 1907 D.Sc.
  John G. Stoessinger '50 LL.D.
  Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Litt.D.
1969 John F. Chapman '24 LL.D.
  Philip P. Hallie '46 Litt.D.
  Harold E. Hughes LL.D.
  Roger P. Loveland 1919 D.Sc.
  Dring D. Needham 1914 LL.D.
  James H. Stauss '36 LL.D.
  Curtis W. Tarr L.H.D.
1968 Barry Commoner D.Sc.
  Dennis H. Kelly 1918 D.Sc.
  Myron Koenig '32 L.H.D.
  Dwight J. Porter '38 LL.D.
1967 James I. Armstrong Litt.D.
  Daniel Bell L.H.D.
  Stephen Benedict L.H.D.
  George Champion LL.D.
  Ralph Ellison L.H.D.
  Fred W. Friendly L.H.D.
  Richard Gilman L.H.D.
  Peter S. Hackes '48 L.H.D.
  Samuel I. Hayakawa Litt.D.
  Gerald Holton D.Sc.
  Sally Hughes-Schrader 1917 D.Sc.
  Martin Luther King, Jr. L.H.D.
  William H. Lawrence L.H.D.
  Benjamin E. Mays Litt.D.
  George McGovern LL.D.
  Dean E. McHenry LL.D.
  Marshall McLuhan Litt.D.
  Leonard B. Meyer L.H.D.
  Ashley Montagu D.Sc.
  Willie Morris L.H.D.
  Calvin H. Plimpton D.Sc.
  Robert Rauschenberg L.H.D.
  Richard H. Rovere L.H.D.
  Harold C. Schonberg L.H.D.
1966 E. Wilson Lyon LL.D.
  Gabriel R. Manalac 1916 D.Ed.
1965 H. Eugene Breitenbach '25 LL.D.
  Dwight David Eisenhower LL.D.
  Mary Patterson Routt 1908 HH.D
  Helen Cosntance White L.H.D.
1964 Howard Rothmann Bowen Litt.D.
  Francis Crispin Ellis 1914 D.D.
  Theodore Alexander Gill D.D.
  Eugene Johnson McNeel LL.D.
  James Louis Robertson '29 LL.D.
  Henry Nelson Wieman Litt.D.
1963 I. Hwthorne Arey '28 LL.D.
  George A. Buttrick D.D.
  Arthur J. Jones 1893 LL.D.
  Arnold J. Toynbee L.H.D.
1962 Harry S. Ashmore LL.D.
  Luang Binbakyha Bidyabhed '23 D.Sc.
  Eugene Carson Blake D.D.
  James H. Douglas LL.D.
  L. F. Hickernell 1920 D.Sc.
  Anna Federsen Petteys '12 LL.D.
1961 Joseph I. Brody 1911 LL.D.
  William Graham Cole LL.D.
  Dwight G. McCarty 1901 LL.D.
  Allan Nevins Litt.D.
  William B. Otis 1901 L.H.D.
  Alonzo Petteys 1911 LL.D.
1960 Conrado Benitez LL.D.
  James Wills Lenhart D.D.
  C. Ward Macy 1920 LL.D.
  Wilfred J. McNeil LL.D.
  Herbert A. Templeton 1905 LL.D.
  Paul Weiss L.H.D.
  Theodore O. Yntema LL.D.
1959 Browne Barr '39 D.D.
  Carl C. Compton 1913 LL.D.
  Roswell Garst LL.D.
  Raymond D. Harriman 1909 L.H.D.
  Keyes D. Metcalf Litt.D.
  George D. Stoddard D.F.A.
  Burt J. Thompson 1894 LL.D.
1958 Robert H. Aborn 1918 D.Sc.
  Evelyn Fisher Frisble 1898 D.Sc.
  Edward R. Murrow LL.D.
  Eber L. Palmer 1918 LL.D.
1957 Lewis R. Barrett 1917 LL.D.
  Gardner Cowles LL.D.
  Clifford C. Crump D.Sc.
  Frank F. Everest '26 LL.D.
  James F. Findlay '22 LL.D.
  Raymond A. Hare '24 LL.D.
  MacKinlay Kantor Litt.D.
  Perry Miller Litt.D.
  James A. Pike D.D.
  William G. Pollard D.D.
  Liston Pope D.D.
  David Riesman LL.D.
  James Johnson Sweeney D.F.A.
  James A. Van Allen D.Sc.
  William H. Whyte, Jr. LL.D.
  Norbert Wiener D.Sc.
1956 George Leland Bach '36 LL.D.
  Mandell Morton Bober LL.D.
  Hallie Flanagan Davis 1911 D.F.A.
  Donald A. Quarles D.Sc.
  J. Stuart Russell 1913 LL.D.
1955 John Cowles LL.D.
  Charles Harold McCloy D.Sc.
1954 Mason Ladd 1920 LL.D.
  Thurgood Marshall LL.D.
  John H. Spencer '29 LL.D.
  Joseph N. Welch 1914 LL.D.
1953 Christopher J. Abbott LL.D.
  Truman B. Douglass LL.D.
  Frederick D. Kirsch, Jr. D.F.A.
  Wu Kuo-cheng '23 LL.D.
  Raymond B. McClenon D.Sc.
1952 Nelson I. Baxter D.D.
  Carl Joachim Friedrich LL.D.
  Gerard S. Nollen 1902 LL.D.
  Hudson H. Pittman 1912 D.D.
  Earle D. Ross L.H.D.
1951 Detley Wulf Bronk D.Sc.
  Clark Graham LL.D.
  Robert Wells Harper LL.D.
  William L. Laurence L.H.D.
1950 Mary Braginton 1920 L.H.D.
  James Francis Cooke D.F.A.
  James Norman Hall 1910 Litt.D.
  Earl D. Strong 1909 LL.D.
1949 Maynard B. Barnes 1919 LL.D.
  John Scott Everton D.D.
  Theodore W. Schultz LL.D.
  Forrest W. Seymour L.H.D.
1948 William Gardner McLaren 1898 LL.D.
  Royal John Montgomery D.D.
  Philip Winston Pillsbury LL.D.
  Arthur William Radford LL.D.
1947 John Stark Evans 1913 D.Mus.
  Archibald K. Gardner 1891 LL.D.
  William Gardner LL.D.
  Byron Sharpe Hollishead LL.D.
  Andrew Conway Ivy D.Sc.
  Leland West Mann D.D.
1946 Ronald Bridges D.D.
  Jean Charlot D.F.A.
  Marshall Field III LL.D.
  Norman Foerster L.H.D.
  Carl Joaquin Hambro LL.D.
  Paul Gray Hoffman LL.D.
  Leonard Eugene Hurtz LL.D.
  Ralph H. Lyman 1907 D.Mus.
  W. Albert Noyes Jr. 1919 D.Sc.
  Ezequiel Padilla LL.D.
  John Patrick Ryan LL.D.
  John H. Talbott '24 D.Sc.
  Everett Stanton Turner 1911 LL.D.
1945 Ernest Edward Charlton 1913 D.Sc.
  Donald J. Cowling LL.D.
  Fred Darby 1895 LL.D.
  John Dashiell Stoops LL.D.
1944 Henry Shoemaker Conard D.Sc.
  Russell Cowles D.F.A.
  Delton Thomas Howard L.H.D.
  Harold S. Matthews 1916 D.D.
  Richard Morrow Steiner '24 D.D.
  Harry S. Truman LL.D.
  Carl S. Weist D.D.
1943 Jesse M. Burlew 1900 D.Sc.
  Herbert C. Holdridge LL.D.
  Florence Stewart Kerr 1912 LL.D.
  Harold Dewey Smith LL.D.
  Edward A. Steiner L.H.D.
1942 Paul Hensen Appleby 1913 LL.D.
  David Ernest Crabb 1902 D.D.
  Eleanor Lowden 1903 L.H.D.
  Henry Robinson Luce LL.D.
  Modie Spiegel, Jr. M.A.
  Joseph Sunnen M.Sc.
1941 Arthur Edward Andersen LL.D.
  Virgil Melvin Hancher LL.D.
  Dennis Hugh Kelly 1918 M.A.
  William Wesley Waymack Litt.D.
  James Vincent Yager 1920 MA
1940 Glenn Clark 1905 Litt.D.
  Charles Eben Cushman 1891 D.D.
  Albert William Merrill 1890 D.Ed.
  John Scholte Nollen L.H.D.
1939 Frederick H. Bair 1912 D.Ed.
  Paul W. Richards 1894 LL.D.
1938 Rudolph Ganz D.Mus.
  P. Adelstein Johnson D.D.
  Francis Eber Palmer 1888 LL.D.
1937 Ernest Baden Benger 1907 D.Sc.
  Rossetter Gleason Cole D.Mus.
1936 Oliver Ellsworth Buckley 1909 D.Sc.
1935 Chester Charles Davis 1911 LL.D.
  Harry Lloyd Hopkins 1912 LL.D.
  Ervine Peter Inglis 1916 D.D.
  Sao-Ke Alfred Sze LL.D.
1932 Eliot Grinnell Mears LL.D.
  Reinhold Niebuhr D.D.
  Irving Berdine Richman Litt.D.
1931 Gordon Lockwood Berry 1906 BA
  Archibald Cattell 1891 LL.D.
  Harry Elmore Downer 1882 LL.D.
  Ray Anderson Eusden 1912 D.D.
  Ruth Sucko Nuhn 1914 M.A.
  Robert Ballantine Sweet 1900 BA
  Charles Elmer Tower 1896 D.D.
1930 Eli P. Clark LL.D.
  John Lewis Gillin 1895 LL.D.
  William Squire Kenyon 1890 LL.D.
1929 Norman Robert Blatherwick 1909 D.Sc.
  Salmon Oliver Levinson LL.D.
  Vere VanderHyden Loper 1915 D.D.
  William Albert Noyes, Sr. 1879 D.Sc.
1928 James Levi Barton D.D.
  Samuel Robinson Williams 1901 D.Sc.
1927 Ernest James Jaqua 1907 LL.D.
1926 Caroline Sheldon 1893 Litt.D.
1925 Joanna Harris Haines 1865 M.A.
  Cecelia I. Jeffrey 1909 M.A.
  William Edward Paul 1905 D.D.
1924 Harry Waldo Norris 1886 D.Sc.
  Garrett Polhemus Wyckoff 1894 LL.D.
1923 Edward Weeks Cross D.D.
  Jesse Myron Owen 1890 M.A.
1922 Margaret Moninger 1913 M.A.
1920 Edward Cary Hayes LL.D.
  Henry James 1883 M.A.
  Wilmot Brookings Mitchell Litt.D.
  Edward Caldwell Moore LL.D.
  John Winthrop Platner LL.D.
  Walter George Smith LL.D.
1919 Henry Forsythe Milligan D.D.
  Henry Morgenthau, Sr. LL.D.
1918 Jacob Wendell Clark MA
  Albert Shaw 1879 LL.D.
  Selden Lincoln Whitcomb 1886 Litt.D.
1917 Epghraim Douglass Adams 1887 LL.D.
  Henry Edwine Brown M.A.
  Malcolm Dana D.D.
  Daniel D. Murphy LL.D.
  William Wheelock Peet LL.D.
  Henry W. Tuttle D.D.
  Arthur L. Weatherly 1892 D.D.
1916 Emilius Clark Dudley 1899 LL.D.
  William D. Evans, Sr. L.L.D
  Harry Ernest Peabody D.D.
  Byron Webster Preston LL.D.
  John Oliver Thrush D.D.
1915 John Cheesman Clark L.L.D
  Charles Hamilton Hughes L.L.D
  Harvey Ingham L.L.D
  Rev. William Allen Knight D.D.
  Thomas McClelland L.L.D
  Rev. William J. Minchin D.D.
  John Calvin Montgomery 1893 M.A.
  Alfred Noyes Litt.D.
  Rev. Naboth Osborne D.D.
  Ellen Sabin L.L.D
  Samuel Strauss L.L.D
1914 James Perkins Burling 1889 D.D.
  Raymond Calkins D.D.
  Harlow Spencer Mills 1874 D.D.
  Lee L. Summers M.A.
1913 Charles Luther Fitch 1896 M.A.
  George C. Williams D.D.
1912 Oliver F. Emerson 1882 Litt.D.
  Charles E. McKinley 1891 D.D.
  Theodore C. Munger 1884 LL.D.
  Edward B. Scheve D. Mus.
1911 Dana W. Bartlett 1882 D.D.
  Jesse Macy 1870 LL.D.
1910 Frank William Johnson 1897 M.A.
1909 Ewing Ogden Tade 1858 D.D.
1907 Alexander Francis D.D.
  Abbie Williams Hill M.A.
  Charles Noble D.D.
1906 Azora S. Davis D.D.
  J.E. Dodge 1875 LL.D.
  Isaac A. Loos LL.D.
  James E. Snowden D.D.
  George E. White 1882 D.D.
1905 Asa Lee Ames 1882 M.A.
  Paul Shorey LL.D.
  George Meason Whicher 1882 Litt.D.
1904 Asher Anderson D.D.
  Andrew B. Chalmers D.D.
  Francis E. Clark LL.D.
  Frank G. Smith D.D.
1903 Rev. George Luther Cady D.D.
  Rev. George D. Marsh 1867 D.D.
  Rev. Robert L. Marsh D.D.
1902 Rev. Edward T. Harper D.D.
1901 Rev. C.O. Day D.D.
1898 Henry Carter Adams 1874 LL.D.
  Charles E. Bessey LL.D.
  Eli P. Clark M.A.
  Homer Taylor Fuller D.D.
  William W. Peet M.A.
  James H. Pettee D.D.
  Charles Theodore Steck 1858 D.D.
  Edmund March Vittum D.D.
  Frank N. White D.D.
  Frank P. Wigton 1879 M.A.
  John Hill Windsor 1854 D.D.
1896 Rev. Stephen G. Barnes D.D.
1894 Rev. Edward T. Fairbank D.D.
1892 Charles A. Berry D.D.
  E.C. Dudley, M.D. M.A.
  Luther C. Harris 1881 M.A.
  Mahlon Willett 1869 D.D.
1891 Rev. James L. Hill 1871 D.D.
  Judge W.L. Pattee LL.D.
  Rev. William H. Ryder D.D.
  Rev. Samuel H. Virgin D.D.
1890 John L. Atkinson M.A.
  Rev. John Wesley Carr 1865 M.A.
  Hiram Landis Getz, M.D. M.A.
  Lorettus S. Metcalf LL.D.
1889 Allen C. Barrows D.D.
  Thomas Davies D.D.
  H.T. Englehorn A.M.
  C.E. Harrington D.D.
  J.F. Heilner A.M.
  Julius A. Reed D.D.
1888 Alexander Fleischmann A.M.
  Mary E. Snell 1869 A.M.
  R.B. Snell 1870 A.M.
1887 Harvey Adams D.D.
  Henry E. Barnes D.D.
  Ephraim Cutter LL.D.
  Albert H. Heath D.D.
  William Kincaid D.D.
  Daniel Lane D.D.
  Robert W. McAll D.D.
1886 Charles F. Buss M.A.
  E.M. Cravath D.D.
  Charles F. Craver M.A.
  Edward A. Goodnow M.A.
  Irving J. Manatt LL.D.
  A.F. Sherrill D.D.
1884 James Brande D.D.
  David J. Brewer LL.D.
  Judge William R. Lewis M.A.
  James Powell D.D.
1883 William Bruce Allison LL.D.
  Henry Seymour Barnes Ph.D
  Silas Leroy Blake S.T.D.
  Samuel Hawkins Marshall Byers A.M.
  James Scott S.T.D.
1882 Ephraim Adams S.T.D.
  David Otis Mears S.T.D.
1881 James Falconer Wilson LL.D.
1880 George Washington Crary LL.D.
  James Amazias Whitney S.T.D.
1879 William Walter Woodworth S.T.D.
1878 John Wesley Chapman A.M.
  Samuel Ives Curtis S.T.D.
  Isaac Pendleton Langworthy S.T.D.
1877 Mary Ellis A.M.
  Charles Hammond LL.D.
  Jesse Winegar Hough S.T.D.
1876 Samuel Freeman Miller LL.D.
1875 John Bascom S.T.D.
  Selah Merrill S.T.D.
  Joshua Thomas Tucker S.T.D.
1874 Israel Ward Andrews LL.D.
  Stephan Rollins Dennen S.T.D.
1873 Job Cushman A.M.
  Rhys Gwesyn Jones S.T.D.
  James Madison Love LL.D.
1872 Arthur Sherburne Hardy A.M.
1871 Lucian Caleb Blanchard A.M.
  Charles Edward Cheney S.T.D.
  Thomas Drummond LL.D.
  James Bruen Howell LL.D.
  George Henry Lewis A.M.
  Edward Pruyn 1869 A.M.
  George Reed Ransom A.M.
  Julian Monson Sturtevant LL.D.
  George Thacher S.T.D.
1870 Richard Brockway Bull A.M.
  Chester Cicero Cole LL.D.
  Jesse Guernsey S.T.D.
  William Gardner Hammond LL.D.
  George Slocum Folger Savage S.T.D.
  John Teesdale A.M.
1869 Charles Aldrich A.M.
  Moses Willard Bartlett A.M.
  James Frederick Joy LL.D.
  Crescentius Niles Tarbox S.T.D.
1868 Charles Frederick Boynton A.M.
  Alexander Huntington Clapp S.T.D.
  Charles Henry Conklin A.M.
  James Williston Patterson LL.D.
  Orestes Hawley St. John A.M.
  Israel Perkins Warren S.T.D.
  Lyman Whiting S.T.D.
1867 Samuel Davies Cochran S.T.D.
  John Putnam Gulliver S.T.D.
  James Harlan LL.D.
  Jonathan Piper A.M.
1866 Orville Willard Merrill M.A.
  Charles Christopher Parry M.A.
  Charles Abiathar White A.M.
1865 Henry Martyn Dexter LL.D.
  George Daniel Frisbie M.A.
  James William Grimes LL.D.
  Francis Wayland Palmer M.A.
  Edwin McMasters Stanton LL.D.
1863 John Forest Dillon LL.D.
  Abram Scott Kissell M.A.
  George Grover Wright LL.D.