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Groton School

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Founded 1884 by Rev. Endicott Peabody.

Location:
Groton, MA

Founding Date:
1884

Motto:
Cui Servire est Regnare

Enrollment:
351

Official Website:
http://www.groton.org/

STUDENTS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Dean Acheson
Government
11-Apr-1893 12-Oct-1971 US Secretary of State, 1949-53
Joseph Alsop
Columnist
11-Oct-1910 28-Aug-1989 Matter of Fact
Louis Auchincloss
Author
27-Sep-1917 26-Jan-2010 Portrait in Brownstone
Francis Biddle
Government
9-May-1886 4-Oct-1968 US Attorney General, 1941-45
Hiram Bingham IV
Diplomat
17-Jul-1903 12-Jan-1988 Consul signed visas for 2000 Jews
Mac Bundy
Government
30-Mar-1919 16-Sep-1996 National Security Advisor, 1961-66
William Bundy
Government
24-Sep-1917 6-Oct-2000 Cold War advisor to JFK, LBJ
Cass Canfield
Publisher
26-Apr-1897 27-Mar-1986 Harper & Brothers
Jim Cooper
Politician
19-Jun-1954   Congressman, Tennessee 5th
Erastus Corning II
Politician
7-Oct-1909 28-May-1983 Mayor of Albany, New York, 1942-83
C. Douglas Dillon
Government
21-Aug-1909 10-Jan-2003 US Treasury Secretary, 1961-65
Charles H. Erhart, Jr.
Business
31-Jul-1925 16-Jan-2009 President of W.R. Grace & Co., 1989-90
Oliver La Farge
Author
19-Dec-1901 2-Aug-1963 Laughing Boy
Gerrit Graham
Actor
27-Nov-1949   Class Reunion
Joseph Grew
Diplomat
27-May-1880 25-May-1965 US Ambassador to Japan, 1932-41
Gordon Gund
Business
15-Oct-1939   Former owner, Cleveland Cavaliers
W. Averell Harriman
Diplomat
15-Nov-1891 26-Jul-1986 Ambassador to USSR, Governor of NY
Robert David Johnson
Historian
27-Nov-1967   Congress and the Cold War
Lincoln MacVeagh
Diplomat
1-Oct-1890 15-Jan-1972 Roosevelt's Ambassador to Greece
Harry Mathews
Author
14-Feb-1930   My Life in CIA
Robert McCormick
Business
30-Jul-1880 1-Apr-1955 Xenophobe in the Tribune Tower
Walter Russell Mead
Author
12-Jun-1952   Special Providence
Henry S. Morgan
Business
24-Oct-1900 8-Feb-1982 Co-Founder of Morgan Stanley
Joseph Medill Patterson
Business
6-Jan-1879 26-May-1946 Founder of New York Daily News
Endicott Peabody
Politician
15-Feb-1920 1-Dec-1997 Governor of Massachusetts, 1963-65
Stanley R. Resor
Government
5-Dec-1917 17-Apr-2012 Secretary of the Army, 1965-71
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.
Politician
17-Aug-1914 17-Aug-1988 Congressman from New York, 1949-55
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Head of State
30-Jan-1882 12-Apr-1945 US President during WWII
James Roosevelt
Politician
23-Dec-1907 13-Aug-1991 Congressman from California, 1955-65
Kermit Roosevelt
Relative
10-Oct-1889 4-Jun-1943 Theodore Roosevelt's son
Eugene Victor Rostow
Educator
25-Aug-1913 25-Nov-2002 Dean of Yale Law School, 1955-65
George Rublee
Diplomat
7-Jul-1868 26-Apr-1957 Advisor to Woodrow Wilson
Bobby Scott
Politician
30-Apr-1947   Congressman, Virginia 3rd
George Herbert Walker III
Diplomat
c. 1931   US Ambassador to Hungary, 2003-06
Sam Waterston
Actor
15-Nov-1940   Asst DA Jack McCoy on Law & Order
Sumner Welles
Diplomat
14-Oct-1892 24-Sep-1961 US Under Secretary of State, 1937-43
John Hay Whitney
Business
17-Aug-1904 8-Feb-1982 New York Herald Tribune
Jonathan Yardley
Critic
27-Oct-1939   Influential book critic

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Robert Bass
Business
c. 1948   Billionaire
Gordon Gund
Business
15-Oct-1939   Former owner, Cleveland Cavaliers
Henry S. Morgan
Business
24-Oct-1900 8-Feb-1982 Co-Founder of Morgan Stanley




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