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Notable Speakers
Several notable individuals, of both national and international acclaim, have spoken at Ohio University. Following is a list of some of those speakers.
U.S. Presidents
William McKinley- 25th President 1897-1901
Theodore Roosevelt- 26th President 1901-09
William Howard Taft- 27th President 1901-13
Warren G. Harding- 29th President 1921-23
Herbert Hoover- 31st President 1929-33
Dwight D. Eisenhower- 34th President 1953-61
John F. Kennedy- 35th President 1961-63 (He was a senator at the time he spoke)
Lyndon Johnson- 36th President 1963-69
Jimmy Carter- 39th President 1977-81
First Ladies
Eleanor Roosevelt- 32nd First Lady 1933-45; American spokesman in the United Nations
Hillary Rodham Clinton- 42nd First Lady 1993-2001; now U.S. Senator from New York 2000-
Other Government Officials
James William Fulbright- U.S. Senator from Arkansas 1945-75
Robert Taft- U.S. Senator from Ohio
John Glenn- U.S. Senator from Ohio 1975-99; Astronaut
William Jennings Bryan- U.S. Secretary of State 1913-15
Supreme Court Members
Tom Clark- Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1949-67
William Douglas- Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1939-75
Authors/Poets
Pearl Buck- writer
P.J. O’Rourke- author
Cornel West- author
Naomi Wolf- author
Arnold Toynbee- author
Gloria Steinem- author and journalist
Carl Sandburg- poet
Robert Frost- poet
Terry Anderson- journalist and former hostage
Journalists
Clarence Page- Chicago Tribune columnist; two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
Helen Thomas- columnist; former White House Bureau Chief
Seymour Hersh- journalist; Pulitzer Prize winner
David Halberstam- journalist and author
Other Notables
Martin Luther King, Jr.- Civil Rights Leader
Marian Anderson- singer
Dag Hammarskjold- U.N. Secretary General 1953-61
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield- owners of Ben & Jerry’s
Susan B. Anthony- women’s rights activist (women’s suffrage)
