The Class of 1930 Room Public Service Wall

with biographical sketches by Howard Coffin

Among the excellent facilities provided in the new Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences, the Class of 1930 Room has already established its special usefulness to go along with its attractive design and appointments. When this large seminar room was in the planning stage, committee members from 1930 proposed that one of the panelled walls be used to highlight Dartmouth's commitment to public service by recording the names of all the Dartmouth graduates who have served in national elective office or as governors of the states. This list of one Vice President, 25 U.S. Senators, 130 U.S. Congressmen, and 43 Governors, assembled for the first time, is presented by means of individual plaques, with space remaining for names to be added in future years. Something to look forward to is the day when the first woman graduate of the College takes her place on what has come to be known as the Public Service Wall.

The 1930 Room display is headed by a quotation from President Ernest Martin Hopkins - and the statement: "Presented by the Class of 1930 to honor our classmates, those who have preceded, those who followed, and those who will follow, in the Dartmouth tradition of accepting the responsibility of public life. We recognize here those who have served in national elective office or as Governors."

In the lists that follow, the Dartmouth classes represented range from 1774 to 1970. The full roster of honored alumni is:

Vice President of the UnitedStates Nelson A. Rockefeller '30 1974-77

Governors Samuel Huntington '85 Ohio, 1808-10 Martin Chittenden '89 Vermont, 1813-15 Samuel Dinsmoor '89 New Hampshire, 1831-34 Samuel Bell '93 New Hampshire, 1819-23 Nathan Cutler '98 New Hampshire, 1829-30 Henry Hubbard 'O3 New Hampshire, 1842-44 Matthew Harvey '06 New Hampshire, 1830-31 Albion Keith Parris '06 Maine, 1822-27 Levi Woodbury '09 New Hampshire, 1823-24 Lemuel Hastings Arnold '11 Rhode lslajtd, 1831-32 Carlos Coolidge '11 Vermont, 1848-50 Samuel Dinsmoor '14 New Hampshire, 1849-52 John Hubbard '16 Maine, 1850-53 Emory Washburn '17 Massachusetts, 1854-55 Ralph Metcalf '23 New Hampshire, 1855-57 Noah Martin '24 New Hampshire, 1852-54 Salmon P. Chase '26 Ohio, 1856-61 Moody Currier '34 New Hampshire, 1885-87 James Wilson Grimes '36 lowa, 1854-58 Benjamin Franklin Flanders '42 Louisiana, 1867-68 John Noble Goodwin '44 Arizona, 1863-65 Charles H. Bell '44 New Hampshire, 1881-83 Redfield Proctor '51 Vermont, 1878-80 Nelson Dingley '55 Maine, 1874-76 Benjamin Franklin Prescott '56 New Hampshire, 1877-79 Edward F. Noyes '57 Ohio, 1872-74 Samuel E. Pingree '57 Vermont, 1884-86 John Nichol Irwin '67 Idaho, 1883; Arizona, 1890-92 Samuel Walker McCall '74 Massachusetts, 1916-19 Frank S. Black '75 New York, 1897-99 Albert O. Brown '78 New Hampshire, 1921-23 Samuel D. Felker '82 New Hampshire, 1913-15 Winfield Scott Hammond '84 Minnesota, 1907-15 Charles Manley Smith '91 Vermont, 1935-36 John H. Bartlett '94 New Hampshire, 1919-21 Channing H. Cox '01 Massachusetts, 1921-24 Fred H. Brown '03 New Hampshire, 1923-25 Robert O. Blook '13 New Hampshire, 1941-45 Sherman Adams '2O New Hampshire, 1949-53 Lane Dwinell '28 New Hampshire, 1955-58 Nelson A. Rockefeller '3O New York, 1959-75 Robert Straub '43 Oregon, 1975-79 Walter Peterson '47 New Hampshire, 1969-73

United States Senators Dudley Chase '91 Vermont, 1813-17, 1825-31 Samuel Bell '93 New Hampshire, 1823-35 Judah Dana '95 Maine, 1836-37 Daniel Webster '01 Massachusetts, 1827-41, 1845-50 Henry Hubbard, '03 New Hampshire, 1835-41 Albion Parris '06 Massachusetts, 1827-28 Levi Woodbury '09 New Hampshire, 1825-31, 1841-45 Ether Shepley '11 Maine, 1833-36 Leonard Wilcox '17 New Hampshire, Rufus Choate '19 Massachusetts, Salmon P. Chase '26 Ohio, 1848-55 Moses Norris '28 New Hampshire, 1849-55 Daniel Clark '34 New Hampshire, 1857-66 James Wilson Grimes '36 lowa, 1859-69 George Gilman Fogg '39 New Hampshire, 1866-67 Charles Henry Bell '44 New Hampshire, 1879 James Patterson '48 New Hampshire, 1867-73 Redfield Proctor '51 Vermont, 1891-1908 Jonathan Ross '51 Vermont, 1899-1900 Henry Eben Burnham '65 New Hampshire, 1901-13 Irving Webster Drew '70 New Hampshire, 1918 George H. Moses '90 New Hampshire, 1918-33 Fred H. Brown '03 New Hampshire, 1933-39 Thomas J. Mclntyre '37 New Hampshire, 1962-79 Slade Gorton '49 Washington, 1981-Paul Tsongas '62 Massachusetts, 1979-84

U.S. Congressmen Samuel Taggart '74 New Hampshire, 1803-17 Sylvester Gilbert '75 Connecticut, 1818-19 Ebenezer Mattoon '76 Massachusetts, 1801-03 John Sherburne '76 New Hampshire, 1973-97 Elijah Brigham '78 Massachusetts, 181-16 Peleg Sprague '83 New Hampshire, 1797-99 Calvin Goddard '86 Connecticut, 1801-05 Charles Marsh '86 Vermont, 1815-17 Nathaniel Terry '86 Connecticut, 1817-19 Silas Betton '87 New Hampshire, 1803-07 Sylvanus Backus '88 Connecticut, 1816-17 Daniel Chipman '88 Vermont, 1815-17 Martin Chittenden '89 Vermont, 1803-13 Samuel Dinsmoor '89 New Hampshire, 1811-13 Asa Lyon '90 Vermont, 1815-17 Jeremiah Nelson '90 Massachusetts, 1805-07, 1815-25 John Locke '92 Massachusetts, 1823-29 Erastus Root '93 New York, 1803-05; 1809-11,1815-17, 1831-33 Samuel Allen '94 Massachusetts, 1817-29 Daniel Durell '94 New Hampshire, 1807-09 Heman Allen '95 Vermont, 1812-18 Abijah Bigelow '95 Massachusetts, 1810-15 Luther Jewett '95 Vermont, 1815-17 John Noyes '95 Vermont, 1815-17 Phineas White '97 Vermont, 1821-23 William Wilson '97 Ohio, 1823-27 Benjamin Orr '98 Massachusetts, 1817-19 John Wilson '99 Maine, 1813-15 Eleazar Wheelock Ripley '00 Louisiana, 1835-39 Daniel Webster '01 New Hampshire, 1813-17Massachusetts, 1823-27 Joseph Richardson '02 Massachusetts, 1827-31 Henry Hubbard '03 New Hampshire, 1829-35 Joseph Lyman '05 New York, 1819-21 Richard Fletcher '06 Massachusetts, 1837-39 Matthew Harvey '06 New Hampshire, 1821-25 Albion Parris '06 Massachusetts, 1815-18 Phineas Tracy '06 New York, 1827-33 Daniel Buck '07 Vermont, 1823-25, 1827-29 Joseph Buffum '07 New Hampshire, 1819-21 Jonathan Hunt '07 Vermont, 1827-32 Ichabod Bartlett '08 New Hampshire, 1823-29 Isaac Fletcher '08 Vermont, 1837-41 George Grennell '08 Massachusetts, 1829-39 Rufus Mclntire '09 Maine, 1827-35 Lemuel Arnold '11 Rhode Island, 1845-47 Robert Burns '11 New Hampshire, 1833-37 John Blanchard '12 Pennsylvania, 1845-49 Daniel Breck '12 Kentucky, 1849-51 Edward Reed '12 New York, 1831-33 Thomas Edwards '13 Neiv Hampshire, 1859-63 Thaddeus Stevens '14 Pennsylvania, 1849-53, 1859-68 Thomas Whipple '14 New Hampshire, 1821-29 George Simmons '16 New York, 1853-57 David Brunson '19 Maine, 1841-43 Rufus Choate '19 Massachusetts, 1831-34 George Perkins Marsh '20 Vermont, 1843-49 Hezekiah Williams '20 Maine, 1845-19 Edward Curtis '21 New York, 1837-41 Andrew Tracy '21 Vermont, 1853-55 Charles Hazen Peaslee '24 New Hampshire, 1847-53 James Alvord '27 Massachusetts, 1839 Moses Norris '28 New Hampshire, Ira Allen Eastman '29 New Hampshire, 1839-43 Richard Molony '32 Illinois, 1851-53 Samuel Sawyer '33 Missouri, 1879-81 Harry Hibbard '35 New Hampshire, 1849-55 Bradford Stevens '35 Illinois, 1871-73 Amos Tuck '35 New Hampshire, 1847-53 John Wentworth '36 Illinois, 1843-51, 1853-55,1865-67 Gilman Marston '37 New Hampshire, 1859-63, 1865-67 Benjamin Franklin Flanders '42 Louisiana, 1862-63 Francis Brewer '43 New York, 1883-85 Daniel Gooch '43 Massachusetts, 1857-65, 1871-75 Samuel Thurston '43 Oregon, 1849-51 John Noble Goodwin '44 Maine, 1861-63Arizona, 1865-67 Ambrose Ranney '44 Massachusetts, 1881-87 Benjamin Dean '45 Massachusetts, 1878-79 Thomas Fessenden '45 Maine, 1862-63 Moses Stevens '46 Massachusetts, 1891-95 Samuel Bell '47 NewHampshire, 1871-73,1875-77 James Patterson '48 New Hampshire, 1863-67 Joshua Hall '51 New Hampshire, 1879-83 Charles Willard '51 Vermont, 1869-75 Nelson Dingley '55 Maine, 1881-99 Walbridge Field '55 Massachusetts, 1879-81 Henry Moses Pollard '57 Missouri, 1877-79 William Cogswell '59 Massachusetts, 1887-95 Henry Moore Baker '63 New Hampshire, 1883-87 Evarts Farr '63 New Hampshire, 1879-80 Charles Quincy Tirrell '66 Massachusetts, 1901-10 James Codding '71 Pennsylvania, 1895-99 George Williams '72 Massachusetts, 1891-93 Frank Gay Clarke '73 New Hampshire, 1897-1901 Samuel Walker McCall '74 Massachusetts, 1893-1913 Samuel Leland Powers '74 Massachusetts, 1901-05 Frank Swett Black '75 New York, 1895-97 William Emerson Barrett '80 Massachusetts, 1895-99 David Foster '80 Vermont, 1901-12 Thomas Kyle '81 Ohio, 1901-05 Winfield Scott Hammond '84 Minnesota, 1907-15 Sherman Burroughs '94 New Hampshire, 1917-23 Fred Jay Douglas '95 New York, 1937-15 Robert Leach '02 Massachusetts, 1924-25 Fletcher Hale '05 New Hampshire, 1925-31 Edgar Hiestand '10 California, 1953-63 Harold Mosier '12 Ohio, 1937-39 Arthur Healey '13 Massachusetts, 1933-12 Ellsworth Buck 'l4 New York, 1944-49 William Rogers 'l5 New Hampshire, 1923-25, 1932-37 Jay LeFevre '187 New York, 1943-51 Sherman Adams '20 New Hampshire, 1945-47 Joseph Talbot '22 Connecticut, Edwin Dooley '26 New York, 1957-63 John McGuire '28 Connecticut, 1949-53 David Martin '29 Nebraska, 1961-75 Robert McClory '30 Illinois, 1963-83 High Mitchell '30 Washington, 1949-53 Herman Schneebeli '30 Pennsylvania, 1960-77 Thomas Curtis '32 Missouri, 1951-69 John Monagan '33 Connecticut, 1959-73 Henry P. Smith 111 '33 New York, 1965-75 Perkins Bass '34 New Hampshire, 1955-63 William E. Minshall '35 Ohio, 1955-73 Clark MacGregor '44 Minnesota, 1961-71 Frank Guarini '46 New Jersey, 1979- Richard Mallory '49 Vermont, 1973-75 William Frenzel '50 Minnesota, 1971-Allen Ertel '58 Pennsylvania, 1977-83 Douglas Walgren '62 Pennsylvania, 1979-John R. McKernan Jr. '70 Maine, 1983-

1983 Daniel Webster: Webster and Rockefeller areprobably the only two "household names" on the1930 Room Public Service Wall. Webster servedtwo terms each as a representative from bothNew Hampshire and Massachusetts and waselected four times as U.S. senator from Massachusetts. He also served twice as secretary ofstate, under Presidents Harrison and Tyler andunder President Fillmore.

In Steven Vincent Benet's The Devil and Daniel Webster, published in 1937, Benetwrote:

"They say that if you go to his grave andspeak loud and clear, 'Dan'l Webster - Dan'lWebster!' the ground'll begin to shiver and thetrees begin to shake. And after a while you'llhear a deep voice saying, 'Neighbor, how standsthe Union?' Then you better answer the Unionstands as she stood, rock-bottomed and coppersheathed, one and indivisible, or he's liable torear right out of the ground."

It is worth noting that on the 200 th anniversary of Webster's birth, January 18, 1982, NewHampshire was shaken by a rare and unusuallystrong earthquake. The quake was centered inFranklin, N.H., the town zvhere Webster wasborn.

Samuel Pingree: (Above.) An 1857 Dartmouthgraduate, Pingree went off to fight early in theCivil War. In the ill-fated Peninsula Campaignof Gen. George McClellan, Pingree toaswounded leading a desperate charge against en-trenched Confederate positions. He survived,was acclaimed a war hero, and later was electedgovernor of Vermont.

John Wentworth: (Left.) Knoivn as "LongJohn," this New Hampshire native stood six feetsix and weighed some 300 pounds. After graduation from Dartmouth in 1836, Wentworth tookhis meager savings and travelled to Detroit unsuccessfully seeking a teaching position.

Within three years Wentworth owned a majorChicago newspaper. At 28 he was elected toCongress. In 1857 Wentworth was electedmayor of Chicago after telling one campaign audience, "You can either vote for me or you cango to hell." Well-known for his outspokenness,Wentworth once informed fellow congressmanAbraham Lincoln that he (Lincoln) needed"someone to run him."

Year by year Wentworth purchased more andmore Chicago and Cook County property untilhe was said to be the richest man in Chicago.

Richard W. Mallary: (Not pictured.) The percentages were against this '49 Dartmouth College graduate in his political career. Afterserving as speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives, Mallary was elected in 1972 to

Congress. He quickly established a reputation asone of Congress' most brilliant members. In1974, perhaps too soon, he decided to run forthe U.S. Senate. Vermont which was a once arock-ribbed Republican state, steadily becamemore Democratic. Though it had never elected aDemocrat to the Senate, Mallary's Democraticopponent, a little-known county prosecutor, wonelection rather handily. Mallary is now a Vermont power company executive.

Rufus Choate: "(Right.) The roommate of JamesMarsh '17, Choate had to borrow money to attend Dartmouth and suffered a nervous breakdoion shortly before graduating in 1819.

A brilliant lawyer and orator, one court reporter complained that he could not keep upwith Choate's arguments, asking, "Who can record chain lightning?"

He was chosen-to fill Daniel Webster's Senateseat on Webster's death and delivered a movingeulogy to Webster in a memorial service at Dartmouth. Choate apparently did not feel at homein the Senate. And he declined appointmentsboth to the U.S. Supreme Court and the Massachusetts Supreme Court.

Edward Everett, regarded as the greatest orator of his time, delivered the eulogy at memorialservices for Choate in Faneuil Hall, Boston.

Historians have found Choate a difficult subject to research, for his handwriting was perhapsthe most illegible of all famous American men.

James Wilson Grimes: (Left.) Soon after hisDartmouth graduation in 1836, this NewHampshire native headed west to seek his fortune. His adopted state of lowa elected him tothe U.S. House and then to the Senate duringthe Civil War. As a member of the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs, Grimes greatly aidedthe Union cause by advocating the building ofironclad warships.

During impeachment proceedings againstPresident Andrew Johnson, Grimes took a position unpopular in lowa by supporting the president. The strain of the trial became too much forthe frail Grimes and he suffered a stroke. However, he was carried into the Senate for the finalvote. The impeachment move failed by just onevote.

Erasttis Root: (Not pictured.) This native ofHebron, Conn., thrived in public life despite areputation for being uncouth. On one of his firstappearances before the state Senate, political enemies accused him of being drunk. Root went tocourt and cleared his name. He became a powerin the Empire State politics and was elected tothree terms in Congress.

Amos Tuck: (Above.) Tuck, an 1835 Dartmouth graduate, was a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln. Admirers have said that theRepublican Party was really a New Hampshirecreation for which this Granite State native wasprincipally responsible. New Hampshire senthim to Congress for three terms, and his sonEdward (Class of 1862), endowed the nation'sfirst graduate school of business in his name.

John Noble Goodwin: (Not pictured.) This

Maine native, an 1844 Dartmouth graduate,was elected to Congress in 1860 as a strong supporter of Abraham Lincoln. But two years later,Maine voters refused to return him to Washington.

In 1863, Lincoln named a governor for theTerritory of Arizona, but the man died before hecould depart from Washington. So Lincoln thennamed Goodwin to the post as governor of awild land with less than 600 settlers. Goodwinapparently thrived in the appointive job and waslater elected to Congress from Arizona. Heended his career by establishing a successful lawpractice in Neiv York City.

Nelson Rockefeller: (Not pictured.) New Yorkgovernor, presidential candidate and vice president, Rockefeller was for many years a majorfigure in American politics. Yet that interestfailed to blossom until after his graduation fromDartmouth in 1930. His roommate of fouryears, John French of Woodstock, could not recall ever having talked politics with Rockefellerduring their undergraduate days. French remembered that Rockefeller, when speculating onhis post-graduate career, discussed working withhis father in philanthropic activities. French alsorecalled that Rockefeller showed no interest whileat Dartmouth in two other areas that would occupy much of his later life Latin America andmodern art. French said that his and Rockefeller's room at Dartmouth was decorated with apicture of a sailing ship and two shoddy reproductions of Murillo paintings.

Sherman Adams: (Above.) A member of theClass of 1920, this native Vermonter became amajor figure in the New Hampshire lumber industry, was elected governor of New Hampshireand a congressman from that state, and waslater a key assistant to President Dwight Eisenhower. He was best knozon during his Dartmouth years as a long-distance hiker. He oncedetermined to hike the 83 miles of trails maintained by Dartmouth from Littleton to Hanoverin less than 24 hours. Though the journey ineluded climbs totaling some 15,000 feet, Adamsreached Hanover 13 minutes short of his deadline.

Adams gained a reputation in the WhiteHouse as a tough-minded presidential assistantand doorkeeper to the Oval Office. He ivasknown in Washingto7i as "the abominable noman." The New York Times once said that"an 'OK S.A.' or a 'No S.A.' carries almost asmuch weight on a document as a presidentialsignature."

Thaddeus Stevens: (Left.) This mischievous ladwas said to have killed a cow during his oneterm at the University of Vermont and, indeed,his career was marked by a violent temper. Hewas graduated from Dartmouth in 1814 andwas for many years a struggling lawyer in Gettysburg, Pa.

He gained a reputation for defending numerous slaves escaping to freedom. He was electedto Congress in 1848 and played a major role infounding the Republican Party. He became athorn in the side of Abraham Lincoln, urgingthe president to take stronger stands againstslavery and the Confederacy.

In 1863, during the confederate invasion ofthe north that ended with the Battle of Gettysburg, rebel troops destroyed some iron works innearby Chambersburg they likely knew belongedto Stevens.

George Perkins Marsh: (Above.) Born inWoodstock, Vt., 20 miles west of Hanover, in1801, Marsh suffered as a child from poor eyesight and learned by hearing others read. Yet heentered Dartmouth in 1816, a year before hiscousin James Marsh - the Father of AmericanTranscendentalism would deliver the 1817valedictory address at Dartmouth. Well beforehis graduation in 1820, George was known asthe most brilliant student in his class.

He served two terms in Congress, being firstelected as a Whig in 1834. President ZacharyTaylor appointed him minister to Turkey, andAbraham Lincoln made him minister to Italy.Considered a "universal genius," Marsh isknown as the father of the American conservation movement.

His stately Woodstock home, overlooking thevillage of Woodstock and the Ottauquechee Valley, today is the home of another noted conservationist Laurence Rockefeller, brother ofNelson Rockefeller,

Salmon P. Chase: (Right.) He was graduatedfrom Dartmouth in 1826 without distinction.He zvas called "the attorney general for runawayslaves" after defending many escaped slaveszvithout charging legal fees.

Elected, to Congress from Ohio, Chase resigned to become Lincoln's secretary of the treasury. Though Lincoln disliked Chase, he apparently respected him. The closing paragraph ofthe Emancipation Proclamation invoking "thegracious favor of Almighty God" was written byChase.

Chase loas boosted by a group of northern Abolitionists to oppose Lincoln for the presidencyin 1864. That same year Chase offered his resignation to Lincoln and, to Chase's dismay, Lincoln accepted. But Chase later campaigned forLincoln, was appointed chief justice by Lincoln,and later presided at Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial. His portrait is on a $10,000.00 bill.

Frank Swett Black: (Not pictured.) Black, likeNelson Rockefeller, was a successful player inthe risky game of New York State politics. Theson of a jail keeper in Limington, Maine, Blackbarely had enough money to pay his waythrough Dartmouth. He was graduated in 1875and later opened a law office in Troy, N.Y.After his election as Rensselaer County Republican Committee chairman, he launched a successful attack on election fraud in the county.

His reputation as a corruption fighter wonhim election to a single term in Congress. Laterhe won a term as New York governor. Duringthat term he completed construction of the statecapital in Albany where Nelson Rockefellerwould take office more than a half century lateras governor of New York.

Ether Shepley: (Not pictured.) An 1811 Dartmouth graduate, Shepley abandoned a plannedcareer in medicine due to ill-health whichplagued him all his life. In his home state ofMaine, he rode a reputation as a strong advocateof Maine's separation from Massachusetts to aseat in the U.S. House.

He later served seven years as chief justice ofthe Maine Supreme Court. Still later he personally completed a revision of Maine's state statutes. When his son went off to the Civil War,Shepley returned to the practice of law to runhis son's law office. He died of complicationsfrom a broken hip in 1877, at age 87.

Allen Ertel: (Not pictured.) Ertel, a 1958 graduate, served six years in Congress before resigning in 1982 to run for governor of Pennsylvania. He lost in a close race and is now running for the office of state attorney general.

Ertel's life changed drastically on March 28,1979, when a major accident occurred at theThree Mile Island nuclear power plant. Ertel became a strong critic of the plant, its operatorsand training programs. He presented his viewsto the presidential commission named to. investigate the accident, a commission headed by Dartmouth's 13th president, John G. Kemeny.

Eleazar Wheelock Ripley: (Above.) Not allveterans could trade so well on their war years.Ripley, the son of a daughter of the founder ofDartmouth, was graduated from the College in1800 and 12 years later went off to fight theBritish. He fought in several engagements andonce was severely wounded. At the Battle ofLundy's Lane he was accused of having abandoned the battlefield and some captured Britishguns. A court of inquiry was convened, but disbanded when Congress awarded Ripley a goldmedal. He later moved to New Orleans andtwice was elected to Congress from Louisiana.