Kimball Union Academy is a

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located in

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. Founded in 1813, it is the 22nd oldest boarding school in the

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. It is located in the upper

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village of Meriden,

. The academy's village campus is hours via major highways from

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, and

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. Nearby bus, train, and plane terminals link the area directly with Boston,

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, and

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. 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

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* Francis B. Brewer, congressman * Augusta Cooper Bristol (1835–1910), poet, lecturer * John Graham Brooks (1846-1938), sociologist and author * Henry E. Burnham, U.S. senator * Frank Gay Clarke, congressman * William Cogswell, congressman, general * William N. Cohen, Justice of the

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* Frank Dunklee Currier, congressman * Irving W. Drew, U.S. senator * Kasim Edebali, NFL player * Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, Presbyterian minister, Reconstruction politician * Louis B. Goodall, congressman * A.J. Greer,

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player for the

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* Broughton Harris,

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newspaper editor and businessman who was one of the Runaway Officials of 1851 as Secretary of the

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* Jordan Harris,

player for the

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* Doc Hazelton, major league baseball player and college coach * Chester Bradley Jordan, Governor of New Hampshire * Ernest Everett Just, African American biologist * Nathan Knight, NBA basketball player * Edward Chalmers Leavitt, artist * John C. Lord,

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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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Notable alumni

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