Great People from Harvard University!

Famous alumni act as precious, most valuable marketing assets for any universities. After all, there is no better evidence of your degree’s quality & effectiveness than sharing it with a prize-winning author, or an internationally known politician or successful CEO. The university, with the graduates who reached the highest office in the country, is Harvard University, which has become the president of the alumni list. 

Founded in 1636, Harvard University based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This history is more around a hundred years before the U.S. presidency. No further university has many more presidents of the future than Harvard. The list of presidents starts long back:-

1. John Adams

John Adams was the first president ever to graduate from Harvard University & he also studied Harvard, his son John Quincy Adams, & he was the 6th president of the U.S.

2. James Madison

Biography reports called a new Jersey College once James Madison attended Princeton. In 1771, a few decades upon its founding, Madison qualified from the university. Town & Country reports that somehow the American Whig Society is founded by Madison as an undergraduate. 

3. John Quincy Adams

He studied at Harvard University in the year 1787.The Miller Center notes that John Quincy Adams took only two years to finish his undergraduate education from Harvard due to the education he obtained abroad. He followed his father to Europe once the elder Adams has become a diplomat & special envoy to the United States.

4. William Henry Harrison

He studied at the University of Pennsylvania: Withdrew. Town and Country state that as an undergraduate, William Henry Harrison exchanged majors to prove that even future presidents would change course during the studies. At Hampden-Sydney University in Virginia, Harrison started his undergraduate medical career.

5. Rutherford B. Hayes

He studied at Harvard University Law School in the year 1845.Most people are not very familiar with Rutherford B. Hayes. And now you understand he’s numbered among the presidents attending schools in the Ivy League! Of Hayes ‘ practices as a law student, Town & Country have a single entry: “To be a Whig enthusiast.”

6. Theodore Roosevelt

As one might expect from Theodore Roosevelt, whereas in college, he did a lot to keep busy. He was a good boxer, entered several clubs, & served as a Harvard Advocate’s editor. Since graduating from Harvard, Roosevelt registered at Columbia as just a law student.

7. William Howard Taft

According to Town & Country, Taft took part in many extracurricular practices as an undergraduate. He also became a Linonian Society member, a literary & debating club. Taft has also become a Skull & Bones member, a secret society co-founded by his father. 

8. Woodrow Wilson

He started to study at Princeton University in the year 1879. The Miller Center claims that Woodrow Wilson was struggling with weak eyesight & potential dyslexia, all of which postponed his learning as just a child to read. However, Wilson did not allow that to stop him mostly from pursuing an education in the Ivy League. (Nor probably did he let his absence of formal education stand in his way, poorly prepared as it is for post-Civil War South meagre public education.)

9. Franklin D. Roosevelt

He studied at Harvard University in the year 1903. Also studied at Columbia University Law School, where he withdrew. According to Town & Country, Franklin D. Roosevelt visited two Ivy League colleges but graduated from just one. He graduated from Harvard, in which he also performed as Harvard Crimson’s publisher-in-chief.

10. John F. Kennedy

He studied at Harvard University in the year 1940. The fact that John F. Kennedy entered Harvard, perhaps the most storied in Ivy League schools, would profoundly shock no one. He became a member of the varsity swim group there, undertook a future in college football, & joined the sailing team.

11. Gerald Ford

He studied at Yale University Law School in the year 1941. Town and Country state that Gerald Ford invested some of his time “recuperating from being a soccer star at Michigan University” as the student at Yale’s law school.

12. George H.W. Bush

He studied at Yale University in the year 1948. The Miller Center claims that George H.W. Bush did attend Yale University as “portion of a surge, World War two veterans who flooded post-war colleges and universities.” In an accelerated degree program, he studied economics & became engaged in campus student activities.

13. Bill Clinton

Studied at Yale University Law School in the year 1973. The Biography claims that Bill Clinton did attend Georgetown University as such an undergraduate, an elite school that is not yet among the exclusive row of colleges & universities in an Ivy League. He won a Rhodes scholarship & planned to analyze at Oxford University but forced to go back to Arkansas by his draft notice.

14. George W. Bush

He studied at Yale University in the year 1968, and Harvard University Business School in a Class of 1975.George W. Bush joined two elite Ivy League universities contrary to popular criticism of his intelligence. Town and Country noted that Bush was involved in cheerleading as an undergraduate at Yale. The Biography describes him at Yale as a common student and states that as an undergraduate, he gave priority his social life over education.

15. Barack Obama

He completed his study at Columbia University in the year 1983, and also studied at Harvard University Law School in a Class of 1991. According to Biography, Barack Obama started his undergraduate studies at Occidental College in Los Angeles after battling racism & his father’s lack in his youth. He formally studied for two years at college, so then transferred to the University of Columbia. He graduated in political science with a degree.

16. Donald Trump

He studied at the University of Pennsylvania in the year 1968.Donald Trump has often spoken about his experience in the Ivy League. But he did not start his education at an elite university through which he graduated, like several other presidents. Donald Trump, as per Biography, was enrolled at Fordham University since attending a military academy— selected by the father of his strict discipline. He moved to the University of Pennsylvania two years later, where he earned a degree in economics.

 Thus Harvard is one of the universities from where a maximum no of graduates have cleared who came up as president.