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The Philolexian Society of Columbia University is one of the oldest college literary and debate societies in the United States. Following is a partial list of Philolexian Society members organized by area of notability.

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Name	Class	Notability	References
Julian Clarence Levi	1894	Architect	^[1]
William Barclay Parsons	1879	Civil engineer and founder of Parsons Brinckerhoff	^[2]

Name	Class	Notability	References
Horatio Allen	1823	President of Erie Railroad, civil engineer, and inventor	^[3]^[4]
William Backhouse Astor Sr.	1811	Business magnate	^[3]^[4]
William Backhouse Astor Jr.	1849	Businessman, racehorse owner and breeder, and yachtsman	^[3]^[4]
Douglas Black	1915	President of Doubleday and Company	^[2]^[5]
Stuyvesant Fish	1871	Illinois Central Railroad president	^[6]^[7]
Robert Goelet	1860	Businessman and yachtsman	^[3]^[8]
James Lenox	1818	President of the New York Chamber of Commerce, bibliophile, and philanthropist	^[3]^[4]
Ward Melville	1909	Founding president of Thom McAn, Melville Corporation (CVS Health), and philanthropist behind Stony Brook University	^[9]
John Lloyd Stephens	1822	Founder and vice president of the Panama Railroad Company, Special Ambassador to Central America, explorer, and author	^[10]^[3]
John Aikman Stewart	1840	Banker	^[11]^[3]
William R. Travers	1838	Businessman and first president of the Saratoga Race Course	^[2]^[3]
Lawrence Wien	1925	Real instate investor and attorney who pioneered real estate syndicates	^[2]

Name	Class	Notability	References
George Washington Bethune	1823	Preacher-pastor in the Dutch Reformed Church	^[12]^[3]^[4]
Jackson Kemper	1809	First missionary bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States	^[3]^[4]
Thomas Merton	1938	Trappist monk, writer, theologian, and poet	^[13]^[14]
James B. Nies	1882	Episcopal minister and Assyriologist	^[15]
Benjamin T. Onderdonk	1809	Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York	^[3]^[4]
Henry Onderdonk	1805	Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania	^[10]^[3]^[4]
Marvin Vincent	1854	Presbyterian minister and professor	^[16]^[4]

Name	Class	Notability	References
Charles Anthon	1815	Classical scholar and educator	^[3]^[4]
William Anthony Aery	1904	Professor of social science and director of education at the Hampton Institute, editor of the Southern Workman	^[17]^[18]^[19]
Donald Barr	1941	Dalton School headmaster	^[20]
Wm. Theodore de Bary	1941	East Asian scholar and Columbia University provost	^[13]^[21]
Jacques Barzun	1927	Historian, provost, and University Professor at Columbia University	^[22]^[23]^[24]^[8]
Robert Fulton Cutting	1871	President of Cooper Union, financier, and philanthropist	^[4]
Robert Emory	1831	President of Dickinson College	^[2]^[3]
Dixon Ryan Fox	1911	Union College president	^[25]^[26]
Mott T. Greene	1967	Historian of science and academic	^[27]
Robert Gutman		Sociologist and a lecturer in social and environmental studies at Princeton University's School of Architecture	^[28]^[29]^[30]
Frank S. Hackett	1899	Educator, founder of Riverdale Country Day School, and pioneer in the Country Day School movement	^[31]
Carl Hovde	1950	Columbia College Dean	^[2]
James Hall Mason Knox	1841	Lafayette College president	^[2]^[3]
Arthur MacMahon	1912	Political scientist and pioneer in the academic study of public administration	^[26]
Robert Marshak	1936	City College of New York president	^[2]
Brander Matthews	1871	Academic and literary critic	^[6]^[7]^[4]
Parker Thomas Moon	1913	Political scientist and researcher on international peace	^[32]
Nathaniel F. Moore	1802	President of Columbia College	^[6]^[3]^[33]^[4]
Steven Raphael	1963	economist, professor of public policy at Goldman School of Public Policy, and adjunct fellow at Public Policy Institute of California	^[27]
Victoria Rosner	1990	Dean of NYU Gallatin School and ean of Academic Affairs at Columbia University	^[8]^[34]^[35]
Edwin R. A. Seligman	1878	Economist and academic	^[36]
William Milligan Sloane	1868	Historian, professor at Princeton University, and coach of the first U.S. Olympic team	^[4]
Howard Spodek	1963	Professor of history and geography and urban studies at Temple University	^[27]
Paul van K. Thomson	1940	Professor and vice president for academic affairs of Providence College, Catholic priest, and author	^[37]
John Howard Van Amringe	1860	Mathematician and the first Dean of Columbia College	^[3]^[4]
Eugene Victor Wolfenstein	1962	Social theorist, psychoanalyst, and a professor of political science at University of California, Los Angeles	^[24]

Name	Class	Notability	References
Sidney Buchman	1923	Film producer and Oscar-winning screenwriter	^[2]
I. A. L. Diamond	1941	Oscar-winning screenwriter	^[2]
Bernard M. L. Ernst	1905	Magician and associate of Harry Houdini.	^[38]
Orrin Keepnews	1943	Grammy-winning record producer	^[8]
William Ludwig	1932	Oscar-winning screenwriter and co-founder of the Writers Guild of America	^[2]
Robert C. Schnitzer	1927	Actor, producer, educator, and theater administrator	^[39]^[22]
Ben Stein	1966	Actor, comedian, and commentator	^[8]
Garth Stein	1987	Academy Award-winning film producer, screenwriter, and novelist	^[2]
John La Touche	1937	Lyricist for Cabin in the Sky and The Golden Apple	^[40]
Kenneth Webb	1906	Film director, screenwriter, and composer	^[41]
Gideon Yago	2000	MTV personality	^[2]

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Name	Class	Notability	References
Willard Bartlett	1869	Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals	^[42]
Samuel Blatchford	1837	Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States	^[43]^[3]^[4]
Edgar M. Cullen	1860	Chief Judge, New York Court of Appeals	^[44]^[4]
James W. Gerard	1890	Justice of the New York Supreme Court and U.S. Ambassador to Germany	^[10]
Arthur Lazarus Jr.	1946	American Indian rights lawyer	^[28]
John Henry Livingston	1869	Lawyer	^[45]^[4]
John McKeon	1825	U.S. House of Representatives and United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York	^[3]^[4]
Edward Mitchell	1861	U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and member of the New York State Assembly	^[2]
Frederic de Peyster	1816	Lawyer	^[3]^[4]
William M. Price	1805	U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York	^[3]^[4]
Benjamin Aymar Sands	1874	Lawyer	^[46]^[4]
Theodore Sedgwick	1827	U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York	^[3]^[4]
Charles H. Tuttle	1899	United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York	^[47]^[48]
Paul Windels	1908	lawyer and Corporation Counsel of New York City	^[49]

Name	Class	Notability	References
James Warner Bellah	1923	Western writer	^[50]
Elliott V. Bell	1925	BusinessWeek publisher, a financial writer for The New York Times, and New York State Superintendent of Banks	^[51]
John Berryman	1936	poet, scholar, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry	^[52]^[53]
Randolph Bourne	1912	Essayist and critic	^[2]^[54]
McAlister Coleman	1909	Journalist, author, and political activist	^[55]^[56]
David Cort	1924	foreign news editor of Life	^[57]
Julien T. Davies	1866	Writer	^[58]
Evert Augustus Duyckinck	1835	Biographer and publisher	^[3]^[4]
Jason Epstein	1949	Co-founder of The New York Review of Books, co-founder of Library of America, and founder of Anchor Books	^[59]
Edgar Fawcett	1867	Novelist and poet	^[4]
William Dudley Foulke	1869	Literary critic, journalist, poet, and reformer	^[45]
Allen Ginsberg	1948	Poet, author, and winner of the National Book Award	^[60]^[61]^[8]
Robert Giroux	1936	Publisher, chairman and editor-in-chief of Farrar Straus & Giroux	^[62]^[53]
Robert Gottlieb	1952	Editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster, president and editor-in-chief of Alfred A. Knopf, and editor of The New Yorker	^[2]
Alfred Harcourt	1904	Publisher and co-founder of Harcourt Brace;	^[2]
John Hollander	1950	Poet	^[62]
Richard Howard	1951	Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and translator	^[63]
Joyce Kilmer	1908	Poet and literary critic	^[64]^[65]
Gustav Kobbé	1877	Music critic and author	^[46]^[4]
Henry Demarest Lloyd	1867	Pioneer muckraking journalist and progressive political activist	^[66]
Jay Michaelson	1993	Writer, journalist, professor, rabbi, commentator on CNN, and a columnist for Rolling Stone	^[8]
John L. O'Sullivan	1831	Magazine editor and columnist who coined the phrase manifest destiny and U.S. Minister to Portugal	^[2]^[3]
Sam Quinones	1964	Journalist and author	^[8]
Ed Rice	1940	Author, publisher, photojournalist, and painter	^[13]
Henry Morton Robinson	1923	Novelist	^[67]
Garth Stein	1987	Novelist and Academy Award-winning film producer	^[68]
George Templeton Strong	1838	Diarist	^[2]^[3]
Ralph de Toledano	1938	Editor of Newsweek and the National Review, journalist, author, poet, and novelist	^[54]
Thomas Vinciguerra	1985	Journalist, editor, author, and founding editor of The Week	^[54]^[69]
Walter Wager	1944	Novelist	^[70]
Samuel Ward	1831	Poet and lobbyist	^[71]^[3]^[4]

Name	Class	Notability	References
Cornelius Rea Agnew	1849	Surgeon and medical director of the New York Volunteer Hospital	^[3]^[4]
Gavin Arthur	1924	Sexologist, astrologer, actor, and magazine publisher	^[57]
Robert N. Butler	1949	Pulitzer Prize-winning gerontologist	^[72]^[73]
James Chapin	1916	ornithologist and curator of the American Museum of Natural History	^[5]
Oliver Wolcott Gibbs	1841	Chemist and president of the National Academy of Sciences	^[3]^[4]
Emory McClintock	1859	actuary	^[74]

Name	Class	Notability	References
John Chrystie	1806	War of 1812 veteran and namesake of Chrystie Street in Manhattan	^[3]^[4]
Alfred Thayer Mahan	1858	Military theorist, United States naval officer, president of the Naval War College, and historian	^[75]^[3]^[4]

Name	Class	Notability	References
Martin C. Ansorge	1903	United States House of Representatives	^[76]
Elliott V. Bell	1925	New York State Superintendent of Banks, BusinessWeek publisher, and a financial writer for The New York Times	^[51]
Frederic René Coudert Jr.	1918	United States House of Representatives from New York and member of New York's Rapp-Coudert Committee	^[2]
Isaac C. Delaplaine	1834	United States House of Representatives	^[3]^[4]
Charles G. Ferris	1811	United States House of Representatives	^[3]^[4]
Hamilton Fish	1827	United States Secretary of State	^[6]^[3]^[4]
Hamilton Fish II	1869	Speaker of the New York State Assembly and U.S. Congressman	^[3]^[4]
Nicholas Fish II	1867	U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland and U.S. Ambassador to Belgium	^[2]
James W. Gerard	1890	U.S. Ambassador to Germany and justice of the New York Supreme Court	^[2]
Samuel L. Gouverneur	1817	member of the New York State Assembly and Postmaster of New York City	^[2]^[3]
James Alexander Hamilton	1805	Acting U.S. Secretary of State and son of Alexander Hamilton	^[54]^[3]^[33]
Abram Hewitt	1842	Mayor of New York City, United States House of Representatives, ironmaking industrialist, and lawyer	^[2]^[3]
Stephen W. Kearny	1812	Military Governor of New Mexico and Military Governor of California	^[2]^[3]
Harvey R. Kingsley	1893	President of the Vermont State Senate, attorney, and judge	^[77]
Wellington Koo	1909	Premier and foreign minister of China, Ambassador to the United States, member of the International Court of Justice	^[78]^[79]
William Langer	1910	Governor of North Dakota and U.S. Senate	^[8]
John L. Lawrence	1803	Chargé d'Affaires at Stockholm, member of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate	^[2]^[3]
William Beach Lawrence	1818	Governor of Rhode Island (acting)	^[2]^[3]
Hugh Maxwell	1808	Collector of the Port of New York and District Attorney of New York City	^[2]^[3]
John McKeon	1825	U.S. House of Representatives and United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York	^[2]^[3]
John Purroy Mitchel	1899	Mayor of New York City and Collector of the Port of New York	^[80]
John L. O'Sullivan	1831	U.S. Minister to Portugal and magazine editor and columnist who coined the phrase manifest destiny	^[10]^[3]
Charles A. Peabody Jr.	1869	New York State Assembly	^[45]
Edmund H. Pendleton	1805	United States House of Representatives	^[2]^[3]
George L. Rives	1868	United States Assistant Secretary of State	^[2]^[4]
James I. Roosevelt	1815	United States House of Representatives and District attorney for Southern New York	^[3]^[4]
John Lloyd Stephens	1822	Special Ambassador to Central America, explorer, author, and a founder and vice president of the Panama Railroad Company	^[2]^[3]
John R. Thurman	1835	United States House of Representatives	^[3]^[4]
Peter Dumont Vroom	1808	Governor of New Jersey, U.S. Congressman, and U.S. Minister to Prussia	^[3]^[4]
J. Mayhew Wainwright	1884	United States Assistant Secretary of War and United States House of Representatives	^[2]
Samuel Ward	1831	Lobbyist and poet	^[3]^[71]^[4]

Name	Class	Notability	References
Paul Governali	1943	Professional football player and coach	^[2]
William Milligan Sloane	1868	coach of the first U.S. Olympic team, historian, and professor at Princeton University	^[2]^[4]

Name	Class	Notability	References
Lucien Carr	1946	Member of the original New York City circle of the Beat Generation and convicted murderer	^[81]^[28]
Elbridge Thomas Gerry	1857	Social reformer, founder of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children	^[82]^[3]^[83]