Saturday, November 8, 2008

The Conference of Presidents

ECAC Hockey may get the short thrift when people count numbers of national champions, etc, but one area the ECAC dominates is most U.S. presidents among alumni.. In total, 15 of the 44 U.S. presidents, including president-elect Barack Obama attended schools with ECAC Hockey teams, either as undergraduate students, or law or business students.
Here's the breakdown

Harvard (John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, Rutherford B. Hayes, Barack Obama, George W. Bush)

Princeton (John Kennedy (later transferred to Harvard), James Madison, Woodrow Wilson)

Union (Chester A. Arthur)

Yale (William Taft, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton)

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