List of people from Brattleboro, Vermont
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The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Brattleboro, Vermont.
Artists and entertainers
[edit]- Sam Amidon, folk artist
- Tony Barrand, musician
- Saul Bellow, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature[1]
- H. H. Bennett, photographer
- Thomas Chubbuck, engraver and designer of the "Brattleboro stamp"
- Douglas Cox, violin maker
- Ely Culbertson, contract bridge player and promoter[2]
- Doveman (real name Thomas Bartlett), musician
- Jacob Estey, reed organ maker
- Karen Hesse, children's author
- Leavitt Hunt, photography pioneer and attorney
- Richard Morris Hunt, architect
- William Morris Hunt, painter
- Wolf Kahn, painter
- Rudyard Kipling, British author, wrote The Jungle Book, Captains Courageous, "Mandalay" and Gunga Din while residing there; later received the Nobel Prize in Literature
- Joanna "JoJo" Levesque, singer and actor
- Ki Longfellow, novelist, playwright and screenwriter
- Leslie William Miller, artistic subject
- Blanche Honegger Moyse, choral conductor
- Marcel Moyse, flute player
- Bing Russell, actor, baseball player and executive, father of Kurt Russell
- Patrick Schneeweis, folk-punk artist
- King Tuff, musician
- Royall Tyler, playwright[3]
- Kit Watkins, musician
- Claude Williamson, musician
- Stu Williamson, musician
Bands
[edit]Military
[edit]- Theodore P. Greene, U.S. Navy rear admiral[4]
- George Bradley Kellogg, Adjutant General of the Vermont National Guard, Lieutenant Colonel of the 1st Vermont Cavalry Regiment in the American Civil War[5]
- John W. Phelps, brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and later a minor party candidate for president[6]
Politics
[edit]- Becca Balint, U.S. Congresswoman, President pro tempore of the Vermont Senate[7]
- F. Elliott Barber, Jr., Vermont Attorney General[8]
- Herbert G. Barber, Vermont Attorney General[9]
- John S. Burgess, lieutenant governor of Vermont[10]
- Arthur P. Carpenter, US Marshal for Vermont[11]
- Willard H. Chandler, Wisconsin state senator[12]
- Harrie B. Chase, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, brother of Paul A. Chase[13]
- Paul A. Chase, Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, brother of Harrie B. Chase[14][15]
- Ezra Clark, Jr., U.S. congressman[16]
- James Elliot, U.S. congressman[17]
- Clarke C. Fitts, Vermont Attorney General[18]
- Levi K. Fuller, 44th Governor of Vermont[19]
- Ernest Willard Gibson, U.S. Senator[20]
- Ernest W. Gibson Jr., Governor of Vermont[21]
- Ernest W. Gibson III, Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court[22]
- Abram A. Hammond, 12th Governor of Indiana[23]
- Broughton Harris, Vermont newspaper editor and businessman; one of the Runaway Officials of 1851 as Secretary of the Utah Territory[24]
- Christian Hansen Jr., U.S. Marshal for Vermont and member of the Vermont House of Representatives[25]
- Kittredge Haskins, U.S. congressman[26]
- Mark Higley, Vermont state legislator
- Frederick Holbrook, 27th Governor of Vermont[27]
- Frank E. Howe, lieutenant governor of Vermont[28]
- George Howe, State's Attorney of Windham County, United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, member of the Vermont Senate[29]
- Jonathan Hunt, bank president and congressman[30]
- Daniel Kellogg, U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont and Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court[31]
- Samuel Knight, chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court[32]
- James Loren Martin, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont[33]
- John Humphrey Noyes, utopian socialist, free love advocate, and founder of the Oneida Community[34]
- Samuel E. Perkins, Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court[35]
- Harvey Putnam, U.S. congressman[36]
- Peter Shumlin, 81st Governor of Vermont[37]
- Micah Townshend, Secretary of State of Vermont[38]
- Sharon Treat, member of the Maine House of Representatives and Maine Senate[39]
- James Manning Tyler, U.S. congressman[40]
- Eleazer L. Waterman, Judge of the Vermont Superior Court[41]
- Miro Weinberger, mayor of Burlington, Vermont[42]
- Hoyt Henry Wheeler, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont[43]
Philanthropist
[edit]- Ronald Read, philanthropist, investor, janitor, and gas station attendant who received media coverage after his death in 2014 due to bequeathing US$1.2 million to Brooks Memorial Library and $4.8 million to Brattleboro Memorial Hospital.
Professionals
[edit]- Emma Bailey, first American woman auctioneer
- Walter J. Bigelow, editor at the Brattleboro Reformer, former mayor of Burlington, Vermont[44]
- Dr. Charles Chapin, U.S. Marshal for Vermont[45]
- Alonzo Church, college president[46]
- William Bullock Clark, geologist
- Donald J. Cram, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, grew up in Brattleboro[47]
- Charles N. Davenport, attorney, Democratic Party leader, founder of the Brattleboro Reformer[48]
- James Fisk, financier
- Charles Christopher Frost, botanist
- Edwin Brant Frost, astronomer
- Ida May Fuller, first recipient of Social Security check
- John Holbrook, publisher and businessman
- Richard Morris Hunt, architect
- Leif K-Brooks, computer programmer and web designer
- William Rutherford Mead, architect
- James L. Oakes, judge
- Herbert Reiner Jr., diplomat
- Samuel Stearns, astronomer and doctor
- William Willard, school founder
- Jody Williams, teacher, aid worker, anti-land mines activist, and Nobel laureate
Sports
[edit]- Brad Baker, minor league baseball player[49]
- Chris Duffy, center fielder and first baseman for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Milwaukee Brewers, and Philadelphia Phillies[50]
- James Galanes, Olympic cross-country skier[51]
- Ernie Johnson, pitcher for the Boston Braves/Milwaukee Braves and Baltimore Orioles[52]
- Bill Koch, cross-country skier, Olympic silver medalist, World championship bronze medalist, World cup winner[53][54]
- Joe Shield, quarterback for the Green Bay Packers[55]
- George Schildmiller, college baseball, basketball, and football player and college football coach[56]
References
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- ^ Lyman Simpson Hayes, History of the Town of Rockingham, Vermont, 1907, page 691
- ^ Fuller, James (2001). Men of Color, to Arms!: Vermont African-Americans in the Civil War. San Jose, CA: iUniversity Press. p. 28. ISBN 978-0-595-15826-3.
- ^ Rodriguez, Barbara (January 15, 2021). "Women hold unprecedented power in Vermont's statehouse. This is how they'll lead". 19thnews.org. Austin, TX: The 19th.
- ^ The Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory. Vol. 6. New Providence, New Jersey: Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, Incorporated. 1983. p. 82.
- ^ Fifield, James Clark (1918). The American Bar: Contemporary Lawyers of the United States and Canada. Minneapolis, MN: James C. Fifield Company. p. 670.
- ^ Milkey, Virginia A., Representative (2008). "House Concurrent Resolution in Memory Of Former Speaker of the House and Lieutenant Governor John Burgess Of Brattleboro". leg.state.vt.us. Vermont General Assembly. Retrieved February 25, 2022.
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