U.S. Secretary of Treasury, U.S. Representative, & U.S. Senator from Maine William Pitt Fessenden (1824) U.S. President Franklin Pierce (1824) Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1825) Novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne (1825) Medical missionary to the Batticotta Seminary Nathan Ward Civil War general Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1852) Civil War general Oliver Otis Howard (1850) Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Melville Fuller (1853) U.S. Speaker of the House Thomas Brackett Reed (1860) Mayo Clinic co-founder Dr. Augustus Stinchfield (1868) Physicist Edwin Hall (1875) Freelan Oscar Stanley, inventor of the Stanley Steamer, and builder of the Stanley Hotel (1877) Arctic explorer Admiral Robert Peary (1877) Gold mine owner, entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist Sir Harry Oakes (1896) Sex researcher Alfred Kinsey (1916) M*A*S*H creator H. Richard Hornberger (1945) Co-founder of the Subway sandwich chain Peter Buck (1952) U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Thomas R. Pickering (1953) U.S. Senator George Mitchell (1954) President and Chairman of the Board of L.L. Bean, Leon Gorman (1956). U.S. Senator and Secretary of Defense William Cohen (1962) American Express CEO Kenneth Chenault (1973) Author and Journalist Rinker Buck (1973)[citation needed] San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee (1974) Oaktree Capital Management founder and partner Sheldon M. Stone (1974) [113] Senior Managing Director of The Blackstone Group John Studzinski (1978) Olympic gold medalist Joan Benoit Samuelson (1979) Netflix founder and CEO Reed Hastings (1983) Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Anthony Doerr (1995) Investor Stanley Druckenmiller Barclays CEO Jes Staley Civil rights activist DeRay Mckesson (2007) The Friday Night Boys bassist Robby Reider (2007)