Princeton lagging in national leaders?

mancune
Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:23:38 +0000

Princeton has done exceptionally well in producing Supreme Court justices lately – it’s strange that it lags so far behind its peers in producing political leaders. According to this recent US News compilation, Princeton doesn’t even make the top 10 colleges in producing members of Congress and the Senate.

[Introduction: The Top 10 Colleges for Members of Congress - US News & World Report](http://politics.usnews.com/news/slideshows/the-top-10-colleges-for-members-of-congress/)

Harvard leads the list with 15 members of congress, Stanford 11 and Yale 10 members of congress. Yale leads the list of Senators, with 6, versus 5 for Harvard and Stanford.

No president has had a Princeton degree since Woodrow Wilson. while many have had Harvard or Yale degrees.
You would think that with the Woody Wood school, Princeton would have many more budding politicos running around. (Like Georgetown, which ranks number 4 or 5.)