Well-Known Harvard University Attendees: Including Natalie Portman, Barack Obama, and Ken Mehlman

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Well-Known HarvardUniversity Attendees


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About Harvard

Harvard University is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and wascreated in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard was the firsthigher education school in the United States.

It was named after its benefactor, John Harvard.

Radcliffe College was established in 1879 as its sister school, wasbecame a prominent school for women.

Harvard is currently known as one of the best ivy league schools in theUnited States.

Harvard generally has about 20,000 students. This includesundergraduate, graduate, and professional students.

Harvard University isdevoted to excellence in teaching, learning, andresearch, and to developing leaders in many disciplines who make adifference globally.
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Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman not onlyattended Harvard, but graduatedas well.

She is most known for herrolein the Star Wars prequeltrilogy, V for Vendetta, andBlack Swan.

She enrolled in 1999 to studypsychology and graduated inwith her bachelors degree in2003.
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Ken Mehlman

Ken Mehlman is a well-knownRepublican politician who was

the campaign managerfor thesuccessful George W. Bush

reelection campaign.

Recently, he has been speakingout on civil marriage after helaunched Project Right Side.Thisorganization is trying to get more

conservatives to support marriageequality.

Mehlman attended Harvard Lawwith Barack Obama, and receivedhis JD in 1991.
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Barack Obama

Barack Obama is the current,and 44th President of theUnited States.

Obama first graduated from

Columbia University, and then

went onto Harvard Law School

and earned his law degree.

He has worked as a civil rights

attorney in Chicago.
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Matt Damon

Matt Damon is known The Bourneseries and Good Will Hunting. Hestarted his career writing the GoodWill Huntingscreenplay with his

friend Ben Affleck.

Damon and Affleck both starred inthis movie, which ended up beingthe start of a very successful careerfor both of them.

He attended Harvard University andstudied theater from 1988 to 1992.He never graduated, because heleft to pursue a career in acting.
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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore, more famously knownas "Teddy" Roosevelt, graduatedfrom Harvard University in 1880 and

studied biology.

Afterwards, he was elected to the

New York State Assembly. Here, he

became the leader of the reform

faction for the Republican Party.

He later on became the 26th

President of the United States.
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