Kimball Union Academy

Kimball Union Academy is a private boarding school located in New Hampshire.

Founded in 1813, it is the 22nd-oldest boarding school in the United States. It is located in the upper Connecticut River Valley village of Meriden, New Hampshire.

The academy's village campus is hours via major highways from Boston, Massachusetts, and Hartford, Connecticut. Nearby bus, train, and plane terminals link the area directly with Boston, New York City, and Manchester, New Hampshire. The academy is governed by a 17-member board of trustees.

Notable alumni

Abdul-Malik Abu (born 1995), basketball player in the Israeli Premier Basketball League F. Lee Bailey, defense attorney Frederick H. Billings, lawyer, financier and President of the Northern Pacific Railway Francis B. Brewer, congressman Augusta Cooper Bristol (1835–1910), poet, lecturer John Graham Brooks (1846-1938), sociologist and authorJames E. Mooney, "John Graham Brooks," American National Biography Online, Feb. 2000. Henry E. Burnham, U.S. senator Frank Gay Clarke, congressman William Cogswell, congressman, general William N. Cohen, Justice of the New York Supreme Court Frank Dunklee Currier, congressman Daniel Bateman Cutter, physician and New Hampshire politician Irving W. Drew, U.S. senator Kasim Edebali, NFL player Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, Presbyterian minister, Reconstruction politician Louis B. Goodall, congressman A.J. Greer, NHL player for the Florida Panthers Broughton Harris, Vermont newspaper editor and businessman who was one of the Runaway Officials of 1851 as Secretary of the Utah Territory Jordan Harris, NHL player for the Boston Bruins Doc Hazelton, major league baseball player and college coach Chester Bradley Jordan, Governor of New Hampshire Ernest Everett Just, African American biologist Nathan Knight (born 1997), NBA and Israeli Basketball Premier League basketball player Edward Chalmers Leavitt, artist John C. Lord, Presbyterian minister and nativist James D. Lynch, African American politician, minister Charles W. Porter, Secretary of State of Vermont Samuel L. Powers, congressman Will Sheff, rock musician Steven Sotloff, Israeli-American journalist Taylor Soule, WNBA player Dana Stone, Vietnam War photographer Bainbridge Wadleigh, U.S. senator Aldace F. Walker, railroad president James M. Warner, Civil War general, industrialist Augustus Washington, African American photographer William Wells, Civil War general, Medal of Honor winner Andrew Wheating, Olympian Benjamin F. Whidden, first ambassador to HaitiProceedings - Grafton and Coös County Bar Association, New Hampshire By Grafton and Coos Bar Association, p. 351-358

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