| 1770s | ||
| Name | Class | Areas of Note |
| John Abbot | 1778 | First professor hired by Bowdoin College [1802]; Bowdoin trustee, treasurer, land agent and librarian [1802-1829]; namesake of Abbot, Maine [1827] |
| William Coleman | 1778 | Born in the Boston poorhouse, Coleman came to Andover on full scholarship; he went on to become an attorney in New York, a political ally of Alexander Hamilton; first editor, New York Evening Post [1801-1829], the leading Federalist, and later the leading Jacksonian newspaper in the nation; mentor to his successor at the Evening Post, William Cullen Bryant |
| Levi Hutchins | 1778 | At age 14, a fifer in his father’s militia regiment at the outset of the Revolution [1775]; privateer in the ill-fated pursuit of British prizes of war; New Hampshire clockmaker (1787-) |
| John Lowell Jr. | 1778 | Federalist leader and pamphleteer [c1795-1815] known as “the Boston Rebel” and “the Roxbury Farmer”; promoter of the Hartford Convention [1814]; founder of Harvard Law School; advocate for Unitarianism; agricultural reformer; president, Massachusetts Agricultural Society; benefactor, Massachusetts General Hospital |
| John Phillips | 1778 | President, Massachusetts Senate [1813-1823]; First mayor of Boston [1822-1823] |
| Josiah Quincy III | 1778 | Congressman [1805-1813]; Second mayor of Boston [1823-1828]; president, Harvard University [1828-1845]; namesake, Boston’s Quincy Market [1826] |
| Leonard White | 1778 | Massachusetts politician from Haverhill; member, Mass. House of Representatives [1809]; Federalist member, US Congress [1811-1813] |
| John Blake Cordis | 1779 | Mariner; boatswain aboard the ship Columbia [1790-1793], first American ship to circumnavigate the globe [1790]; US Navy lieutenant, USS Constitution on its first tour of duty [1798-1801] during Quasi-War with France |
| Benjamin Green | 1779 | Chief Justice, Massachusetts Court of Common Pleas; Speaker, Maine House of Representatives |
| 1780s | ||
| Name | Class | Areas of Note |
| John Gardner | 1780 | Leading Salem merchant; his McIntire-designed Salem home [1804] now part of the Peabody Essex Museum |
| Stephen Higginson | 1780 | Boston benefactor of the poor; called “The Man of Ross” after John Kyle, English Good Samaritan eulogized as “The Man of Ross” by Alexander Pope [1732] |
| John Brown Cutting | 1781 | Apothecary General, Continental Army [1777-1780]; Jefferson confidant [1788-1789]; US London agent seeking release of impressed American sailors [1790] |
| William King | 1781 | Militia commander, War of 1812; leader, Maine statehood [1817-1820]; First governor of Maine [1820-1821]; One of two Maine leaders represented in the US Capitol’s Statuary Hall |
| Benjamin Abbot | 1782 | Second principal, Phillips Exeter Academy [1788-1838] |
| Richard Cutts | 1782 | Congressman [1801-1813]; superintendent general of military supplies [1813-1817]; comptroller, US Treasury [1817-1829] |
| Samuel Holyoke | 1783 | Composer, compiler & teacher of sacred music; cofounder and first headmaster, Groton Academy, now Lawrence Academy [1793] |
| Jonathan Steele | 1783 | Attorney; clerk, New Hampshire Federal District Court [1789-1805]; judge, New Hampshire Superior Court [1810-1812] |
| George Sullivan | 1783 | Lawyer, politician and orator; New Hampshire attorney general [1805-1806, 1816-1835]; Federalist member, US House of Representatives [1814-1815]; author “An Oration Pronounced on the Fourth of July 1816 Before the Inhabitants of Boston” |
| James Wilson | 1783 | Attorney and New Hampshire politician; member, State House of Representatives [1803-1808, 1812-1814]; Federalist member, US House of Representatives [1809-1811] |
| Charles Cutts | 1784 | Speaker, New Hampshire House of Representatives [1807-1810]; US senator from New Hampshire [1810-1813]; secretary, US Senate [1814-1825]; supervised restoration of the US Capitol [1814-1819] following its destruction by British forces |
| John T. Kirkland | 1784 | President, Harvard University [1810-1828] |
| Joseph Leland | 1784 | Minuteman from Grafton, Massachusetts; served in the Continental Army throughout the Revolution, beginning at Lexington [1775-1783]; Leland was 27 when he entered Phillips Academy |
| L.C.F. Cougnacq | 1785 | From Hispaniola (Haiti); One of first three international students attending Andover |
| William Lee | 1785 | US consul, Bordeaux [1801-1815]; auditor general, US Treasury [1817-1829]; diarist noted for his account of Washington in the era of Madison and Adams; mastermind of US reception for Lafayette [1824] |
| Charles March | 1785 | From Jamaica; One of first three international students at Andover |
| John Wethered | 1785 | From Antigua in the West Indies; One of the first three international students at Andover |
| Francis Cabot Lowell | 1786 | Pioneering industrialist, developer of corporate finance for industry; founder, New England cotton textile industry; Lowell, Massachusetts named in his honor [1826] |
| William Tudor | 1786 | Cofounder and editor, North American Review [1815]; coiner of the phrase “the Athens of America” as a Boston epithet; US consul, Lima [1824-1827], US chargé d’affaires, Rio de Janeiro [1827-1830] |
| Cyrus King | 1787 | Major general, 6th Massachusetts militia [District of Maine], War of 1812; Federalist congressman [1813-1817] from what was then the Maine District of Massachusetts |
| Samuel Love Jr. | 1787 | Officer in the Revolution [1776-]; Virginia planter; early breeder of thoroughbred racehorses [1787-] |
| Jonathan Phillips | 1787 | Boston philanthropist, supporting libraries and public art |
| Charles Pinckney Sumner | 1787 | Boston social activist involved in temperance, anti-Masonic, and anti-slavery movements |
| François Boscarien | 1788 | From Bayonne, France, the earliest European student at Phillips Academy, coming at the outset of the French Revolution |
| Joshua Wingate | 1789 | Assistant Secretary of War, Jefferson Administration; general, War of 1812 |
| 1790s | ||
| Name | Class | Areas of Note |
| Timothy Alden | 1790 | Founder and first president, Allegheny College [1815] |
| Joseph Tuckerman | 1791 | Unitarian minister; “The Father of American social work”; leading Boston provider of social welfare, advocate for reforms benefiting the poor [1825-1838] |
| William Heath Davis | 1792 | Sea captain and sandalwood trader in the Pacific, based in Honolulu, Hawaii [1814-1822] |
| Stephen Longfellow | 1792 | Attorney and Massachusetts/Maine Federalist politician; delegate, Hartford Convention [1814-1815]; member, US House of Representatives [1823-1825]; father of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Joseph Dane | 1793 | Congressman from Massachusetts and Maine [1820-1823] |
| James Trecothick Austin | 1794 | Massachusetts Attorney General [1832-43] |
| Timothy Flint | 1795 | Missionary and explorer, Valley of the Mississippi [1815-1830]; first of many Christian missionaries educated at Phillips Academy; author, Recollections of the Last Ten Years Passed in the Valley of the Mississippi [1826], Geography and History of the Western States [1828] |
| Benjamin Ames | 1796 | Proponent of Maine statehood; First speaker, Maine House of Representatives [1820-1823]; president, Maine Senate [1824-1827] |
| Conrade Coakley | 1797 | From Nassau in the Bahamas, Coakley was in a doubly fatal dual with a British naval officer, fought in Nassau in 1806 |
| John Ball Brown | 1798 | Pioneer in orthopedic surgery; founder, Boston Orthopedic Institution [1838-1851], the first orthopedic surgery clinic in the US |
| John Farrar | 1798 | Hollis Professor of Mathematics, Harvard [1806-1836]; modernized teaching of mathematics and astronomy; developed the concept of hurricanes [1815]; author, An Elementary Treatise of Astronomy [1827]; fellow and vice chair, American Academy |
| Samuel Prescott Hildreth | 1798 | Physician; naturalist, historian of Eastern Ohio; author, History of the Diseases and Climate of Southeastern Ohio, [1837], Pioneer History [1848], Lives of the Early Settlers of Ohio [1852] |
| Israel Forster | 1799 | Manchester, Massachusetts, mill-owner; major in the local militia, War of 1812 |
| Samuel Lorenzo Knapp | 1799 | Literary scholar; author, “Lectures on American Literature” [1827] |
| Levi Konkapot | 1799 | Member of the Stockbridge Tribe (Stockbridge Munsee Tribe, Mohican Indians), First Native American student at Andover; member, Stockbridge Indian Company, War of 1812; tribal school teacher |