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Undergraduate Colleges /
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Notable people associated with Carleton |
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- Michael Armacost, former ambassador and president of the
Brookings Institution from 1995-2002.
- Jack Barnes, the leader of the Socialist Workers Party (USA)
- Pierce Butler, Supreme Court Justice from 1923 to 1939, is a 1887
alumnus
- Eric Hillemann, archivist at Carleton College, won the Carper Award in 2003. He is known as a formidable quizbowl player, and coach of the Carleton team.
- Melvin R. Laird, President Nixon's secretary of defense from 1969 to 1973, is a 1942 alumnus of Carleton.
- Ambassador Burton Levin,
Former United States Consul General to Hong Kong and US Ambassador to Burma from May 1987 to September 1990 is currently the SIT Investment
Visiting Professor of Asian Policy.
- Barrie M. Osborne, producer of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, is a 1966 alumnus of Carleton.
- Peter Tork of The
Monkees was a student of English at Carleton for three years
until he dropped out to pursue music full time.
- Garrick Utley, correspondent
for CNN perhaps best known for his reports related to the 9.11.01 terrorist attacks, was a 1961 alumnus of Carleton, who majored in political
science.
- John Bates Clark, famous American economist was an professor at Carleton and taught Veblen.
- Thorstein Veblen, American economist and author of The Theory of the Leisure Class, was an 1880
Carleton alumnus.
- Paul Wellstone, a U.S. Senator from Minnesota until his death in
2002, was a professor of political science at Carleton from 1969 to 1990.
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