Princeton University

The #1 National university according to U.S. News & World Report's Best Colleges 2016

Roughly 44 U.S. Congressmembers have been affiliated with the school, such as attending classes, earning a degree, or being employed by the school.

Names in bold indicate Congressmembers who are currently in office as of May 2016.

John Sarbanes	Representative Democrat	MD	A.B., Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., 1984
Leonard Lance	Representative Republican	NJ	M.P.A., Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., 1982
Jeff Merkley	Senator Democrat	OR	M.P.A., Princeton University, 1982
Jared Polis	Representative Democrat	CO	A.B., Princeton University, Princeton, N. J., 1996
Terri Sewell	Representative Democrat	AL	A.B., Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., 1986
Ted Cruz	Senator Republican	TX	graduated Princeton University, B.A., 1992
Derek Kilmer	Representative Democrat	WA	A.B., Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., 1996
Ken Buck	Representative Republican	CO	A.B., Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., 1981
James Duff	Senator Republican	PA	graduated from Princeton University in 1904
Alfred Sieminski	Representative Democrat	NJ	was graduated from Princeton University in 1934
Peter Frelinghuysen	Representative Republican	NJ	graduated from Princeton University in 1938
Bruce Alger	Representative Republican	TX	graduated from Princeton University in 1940
Harry Haskell	Representative Republican	DE	attended Princeton University 1940-1942
Daniel Brewster	Senator Democrat	MD	educated at Gilman School, Baltimore, Md., St. Pauls School, Concord, N.H., Princeton University, and Johns Hopkins University
William Cahill	Representative Republican	NJ	senior fellow, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, 1974-1978
Claiborne Pell	Senator Democrat	RI	graduated, Princeton University 1940 and Columbia University 1946
Otis Pike	Representative Democrat	NY	A.B., Princeton University, 1946
William Ryan	Representative Democrat	NY	graduated from Princeton University in 1947 and from Columbia Law School in 1949
Clarence Long	Representative Democrat	MD	M.A., Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., 1935 Ph.D., Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., 1938
Donald Rumsfeld	Representative Republican	IL	A.B., Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., 1954
Arthur Andrews	Representative Republican	AL	Princeton University, A.B., 1931
Lunsford Preyer	Representative Democrat	NC	A.B., Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., 1941
Stewart McKinney	Representative Republican	CT	attended Princeton University, 1949-1951
Paul Sarbanes	Senator Democrat	MD	graduated, Princeton University 1954
Pierre du Pont	Representative Republican	DE	B.S.E., Princeton University, 1952-1956
Dewey Bartlett	Senator Republican	OK	graduated, Princeton University 1942
William Hudnut	Representative Republican	IN	A.B., Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., 1954
James Martin	Representative Republican	NC	Ph.D., Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., 1960
John Danforth	Senator Republican	MO	graduated from Princeton University 1958, Yale University Law School and Yale Divinity School 1963
Kaneaster Hodges	Senator Democrat	AR	graduated from Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., 1960, from the graduate school of theology of Southern Methodist University, Dallas 1963, and from the law school of the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 1967
James Leach	Representative Republican	IA	B.A., Princeton University, Princeton. N.J., 1964
William Bradley	Senator Democrat	NJ	graduated, Princeton University 1965
Cleveland Benedict	Representative Republican	WV	B.A., Princeton University, 1959
James Clarke	Representative Democrat	NC	A.B., Princeton University, 1939
Meldon Levine	Representative Democrat	CA	M.P.A., Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., 1966
Edwin Zschau	Representative Republican	CA	A.B., Princeton University, 1961
Michael Strang	Representative Republican	CO	A.B., Princeton University, 1956
Christopher Bond	Senator Republican	MO	graduated, Princeton University 1960
Peter Smith	Representative Republican	VT	B.A., Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., 1968
Walter Tucker	Representative Democrat	CA	attended Princeton University, 1974-1976
Robert Ehrlich	Representative Republican	MD	B.A., Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., 1979
William Frist	Senator Republican	TN	graduated from Princeton University 1974
James Marshall	Representative Democrat	GA	A.B., Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., 1972
Nan Hayworth	Representative Republican	NY	A.B., Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., 1981