1. Harvard University
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Often celebrated as an academic gateway to future success, the nation's first college housed fewer than 3 percent of the 111th Congress as undergraduates. Fifteen members, the most of any college, of the legislature's current class earned bachelor's degrees from Harvard, though many more earned business and law degrees from the university's graduate schools. Here are the members who have a bachelor's from Harvard:
- Rep. John Adler, D-N.J.
- Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M.
- Rep. Artur Davis, D-Ala.
- Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.
- Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn.
- Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla.
- Rep. James Himes, D-Conn.
- Rep. Ron Kind, D-Wis.
- Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah
- Rep. Scott Murphy, D-N.Y.
- Rep. Thomas Petri, R-Wis.
- Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va.
- Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
- Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va.
- Sen. David Vitter, R-La.
