Samuel Huntington 1785

Mode of exit: Transferred to Yale

Career: Judge, politician Notable achievement: First chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court

Quote: "I have moved my Patriarchal Caravan through the wilderness to this Canaan" [Cleveland, Ohio]

Huntington was named after a prominent uncle who had signed the Declaration of independence and served as governor of Connecticut. After graduating from Yale, the younger Huntington settled with 18 members of his family in the village of Cleveland, which at the time consisted of a few log huts. He was elected to the senate of the new state's first General Assembly, and in 1803 received Ohio's first commission as a judge of its Supreme Court. He got himself elected governor in 1808, serving out a single stormy term as the threat of war with Great Britain split the nation.