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[]
- 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
- Jonathan Hunt Jr., U.S. Congressman from Vermont's 1st district and lawyer
- 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 Noëlle 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[]
Military[]
- Theodore P. Greene, U.S. Navy rear admiral
- George Bradley Kellogg, Adjutant General of the Vermont National Guard, Lieutenant Colonel of the 1st Vermont Cavalry Regiment in the American Civil War[4]
- John W. Phelps, brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and later a minor party candidate for president[5]
Politics[]
- Becca Balint, Majority Leader of the Vermont Senate[6]
- F. Elliott Barber, Jr., Vermont Attorney General[7]
- Herbert G. Barber, Vermont Attorney General[8]
- Arthur P. Carpenter, US Marshal for Vermont[9]
- Willard H. Chandler, Wisconsin state senator
- Harrie B. Chase, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, brother of Paul A. Chase[10]
- Paul A. Chase, Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, brother of Harrie B. Chase[11]
- Ezra Clark, Jr., U.S. congressman[12]
- James Elliot, U.S. congressman[13]
- Clarke C. Fitts, Vermont Attorney General[14]
- Levi K. Fuller, 44th Governor of Vermont[15]
- Ernest Willard Gibson, U.S. Senator
- Ernest W. Gibson Jr., Governor of Vermont
- Ernest W. Gibson III, Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court[16]
- Abram A. Hammond, 12th Governor of Indiana[17]
- Broughton Harris, Vermont newspaper editor and businessman; one of the Runaway Officials of 1851 as Secretary of the Utah Territory[18]
- Kittredge Haskins, U.S. congressman[19]
- Frederick Holbrook, 27th Governor of Vermont[20]
- George Howe, State's Attorney of Windham County, United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, member of the Vermont Senate[21]
- Jonathan Hunt, bank president and congressman[22]
- Daniel Kellogg, U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont and Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court[23]
- Samuel Knight, chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court[24]
- John Humphrey Noyes, utopian socialist, free love advocate, and founder of the Oneida Community
- Harvey Putnam, U.S. congressman[25]
- Peter Shumlin, 81st Governor of Vermont[26]
- Micah Townshend, Secretary of State of Vermont[27]
- Sharon Treat, state representative for Maine's 79th District
- James Manning Tyler, U.S. congressman[28]
- Eleazer L. Waterman, Judge of the Vermont Superior Court[29]
Professionals[]
- Emma Bailey, first American woman auctioneer
- Walter J. Bigelow, editor at the Brattleboro Reformer, former mayor of Burlington, Vermont[30]
- Dr. Charles Chapin, U.S. Marshal for Vermont[31]
- Alonzo S. Church, college president[32]
- William Bullock Clark, geologist
- Donald J. Cram, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, grew up in Brattleboro[33]
- 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[]
- Brad Baker, minor league baseball player[34]
- Chris Duffy, center fielder and first baseman for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Milwaukee Brewers, and Philadelphia Phillies[35]
- James Galanes, Olympic cross-country skier[36]
- Ernie Johnson, pitcher for the Boston Braves/Milwaukee Braves and Baltimore Orioles[37]
- Bill Koch, Olympic ski racer, silver and bronze medalist[38]
- Joe Shield, quarterback for the Green Bay Packers[39]
References[]
- ^ Stephanie Greene, Vermont Public Radio, Small Town, Big Names, September 30, 2013
- ^ Ely Culbertson, Contract Bridge Complete, 1936, page xviii
- ^ "Spotlight on Brattleboro's Royall Tyler". Berkshire Eagle. Pittsfield, MA. September 12, 2018.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Condos, James (2014). Biographical Sketches of Federal and State Officers and Members of the General Assembly of 2015-2016 (PDF). Montpelier, VT: Vermont Secretary of State. p. 20.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Carpenter for U.S. Marshal". St. Albans Messenger. St. Albans, VT. February 19, 1914. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Corporal Chase Receives Discharge". Brattleboro Daily Reformer. Brattleboro, VT. April 11, 1919. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Paul A. Chase Passes Bar Exams". Brattleboro Daily Reformer. Brattleboro, VT. October 6, 1922. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "CLARK, Ezra, Jr., (1813-1896)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
- ^ "ELLIOT, James, (1775-1839)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
- ^ "Funeral of Clarke C. Fitts". Vermont Phoenix. Brattleboro, Vermont. December 29, 1916. p. 7.
- ^ "Funeral of Ex Governor Fuller of Vermont". Boston Evening Transcript. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
- ^ Graff, Chris (February 3, 1983). "Gibson Named to Court". Burlington Free Press. Burlington, VT. Associated Press. p. 1.
- ^ "Indiana Governor Abram Adams Hammond". National Governors Association. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
- ^ Jacob G. Ullery, Men of Vermont Illustrated, 1894, page 182
- ^ "HASKINS, Kittredge, (1836-1916)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
- ^ "Vermont Governor Frederick Holbrook". National Governors Association. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
- ^ Cabot, Mary R. (1922). Annals of Brattleboro, 1681-1895. Vol. II. Brattleboro: E. L. Hildreth & Co. pp. 708–709.
- ^ "HUNT, Jonathan, (1787 - 1832)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
- ^ Hiram Carleton, Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont, Volume 1, 1903, page 286
- ^ Taft, Russell S. (January 1, 1894). "The Supreme Court of Vermont, Part II". The Green Bag. Boston, MA: Boston Book Company.
- ^ "PUTNAM, Harvey, (1793 - 1855)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
- ^ "Governor Peter E. Shumlin's Biography". Project Vote Smart. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
- ^ Walton, E. P. (1873). Records of the Governor and Council of the State of Vermont. Vol. I. Montpelier, VT: J. and J. M. Poland. pp. 518–519.
- ^ "TYLER, James Manning, (1835-1926)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
- ^ Crockett, Walter Hill (1923). Vermont, the Green Mountain State. Vol. 5. New York, NY: Century History Company. pp. 180-181.
- ^ "Former Mayor of Burlington Dead". St. Albans Daily Messenger. St. Albans, VT. May 3, 1935. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Burnham, Henry (1880). Hemenway, Abby Maria (ed.). Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermont: Early History, with Biographical Sketches of some of its Citizens. Brattleboro, VT: D. Leonard. p. 134 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ White, James Terry (1899). The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. J.T. White. p. 180.
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1987". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
- ^ "Brad Baker". Baseball-Reference.Com. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
- ^ "Chris Duffy". Baseball-Reference.Com. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
- ^ "Jim Galanes". SR/Olympic Sports. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
- ^ "Ernie Johnson". Baseball-Reference.Com. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
- ^ "Bill Koch". SR/Olympic Sports. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
- ^ "Joe Shield". Pro-Football-Reference.Com. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
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