Note that the people listed may have only attended the university at some point and have not necessarily graduated.
Corvallis College's first graduating class was in 1870, and consisted of three people. Oregon State University is located in Corvallis, Oregon in the United States . It traces its roots to 1856, when Corvallis Academy was founded. It was not formally incorporated until 1858 when the name was changed to Corvallis College, and not chartered until 1868. In 1890 the school became known as Oregon Agricultural College, then in 1927 as Oregon State Agricultural College. Its current name was adopted in 1961. Alumni from each of these eras may be included on the list, and more than 200,000 people have attended the university since its founding.[ 1]
Art and architecture [ edit ] Literature and journalism [ edit ] Marion Eugene Carl Anthony E. Van Dyke Cecil D. Andrus John Ensign Douglas McKay Name Attended Notability Reference Cecil D. Andrus 1952 Governor of Idaho (1971–1977, 1987–1995) and U.S. Secretary of the Interior (1977–1981) [ 1] Earl I. Anzai ?–1964 Attorney General of Hawaii (1999–2002) [ 28] Brad Avakian ?–1984 Commissioner of the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (2008–2019 ) [ 29] Rod Chandler ?–1968 U.S. Representative of Washington (1983–1993) [ 30] Charles Crookham 1941–1943 Attorney General of Oregon (1992–1993) [ 31] John Ensign ?–1981 U.S. Representative of Nevada (1995–1999); Nevada U.S. Senator (2001—2011) [ 32] John Hubert Hall ?–1923 Governor of Oregon (1947–1949); member of the Oregon House of Representatives (1936–1947) [ 1] Julia Butler Hansen 1924–1926 U.S. Representative of Washington (1960–1974) [ 33] Darlene Hooley ?–1961 U.S. Representative of Oregon (1997—2009) [ 34] Hector Macpherson, Jr. 1936-1940 Oregon State Senator (1971-1974) [ 35] Douglas McKay ?–1917 Governor of Oregon (1949–1952) and U.S. Secretary of the Interior (1953–1956) [ 1] Paul Peek ?–? California Secretary of State (1940–1943); Speaker of the California State Assembly (1939) [ 36] Pou Sohtireak ?–1980s Cambodian Minister for Industry, Mines and Energy [ 37] Norris Poulson 1923 U.S. Representative of California (1943–1945, 1947–1955); mayor of Los Angeles, California (1953–1961) [ 38] Frederick Steiwer ?–1902 Oregon U.S. Senator (1927–1937) [ 39] Lowell Stockman ?–1922 U.S. Representative of Oregon (1943–1953) [ 40] Jolene Unsoeld 1949–1951 U.S. Representative of Washington (1989–1995) [ 41] Robert M. Veatch 1868-1871 Oregon Representative (1883-1886), Senator (1887-1892), and mayor of Cottage Grove, Oregon [ 42] James K. Weatherford 1868-1872 Oregon Representative, Speaker of the House (1876), Senator, and mayor of Albany, Oregon [ 43] Mary Carlin Yates ?–1968 U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Burundi and U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Ghana [ 1] Irwandi Yusuf 1993 Governor of Indonesian province of Aceh [ 44]
Linus Pauling William Oefelein Donald Pettit Science and engineering [ edit ] Name Attended Notability Reference Charity Dean Epidemiologist, assistant director of the California Department of Public Health , and co-founder and CEO of The Public Health Company. Paul H. Emmett 1917–1922 Manhattan Project research staff member and member of the United States National Academy of Sciences [ 46] Milton Harris 1924–1926 Founded the Harris Research Laboratories, which later merged with Gillette . [ 47] Donald M. Kerr ?–1969 Wildlife biologist and founder of the High Desert Museum [ 48] Ann Kiessling ?-1971 Reproductive biologist and leading stem cell researcher Linus Pauling 1917–1922 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and 1962 Nobel Peace Prize recipient [ 1] Glenn Odekirk 1923–1927 Hughes Aircraft Aerospace Engineer, helped design the H-4 Hercules [ 49] William Oefelein ?–1988 NASA astronaut [ 50] Donald Pettit ?–1978 NASA astronaut [ 51] Stephen O. Rice Pioneer in the related fields of information theory , communications theory , and telecommunications J. Michael Scott ?–1973 Ornithologist (research scientist), Peace Corps volunteer [ 52] Ernest H. Taves Psychiatrist, author, and UFO skeptic William Tebeau 1948 Chemical engineer and first African-American male graduate Earl A. Thompson Inventor of the manual transmission synchronizer in 1923 and leader of the team at General Motors Corporation that developed the first Hydramatic automatic transmission in 1940 Marta Torres Marine geologist known for her work on the geochemistry of cold seeps and methane hydrates Warren Washington 1954? - 1958 Atmospheric scientist Omran Al Mazrouei 2010 - 2016 Senior Climate Change Negotiator, the twenty eighth session of the conference of parties (COP28, Dubai). Awarded UAE president Zayed II first order medal.
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