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1141	Name:	Andrew Eliot
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1718
	Death Date:	9/13/1778

	Andrew Eliot (21 December 1718–13 September 1778) was a minister and a member of the American Philosophical Society via his 1768 election to the American Society. Born in Boston, he received exactly the early and advanced education his Puritan pedigree would have hoped for: a BA (1737) and MA (1740) from Harvard College. He was ordained in 1742 and shortly thereafter began his position of junior minister at Boston’s New North Church. By 1750, Eliot had assumed the role of sole minister to the congregation. Later in life, friends of Eliot (including Benjamin Franklin) would lobby to secure him additional divinity degrees. Once established, he promptly went to work softening church requirements surrounding practices such as baptism and conversion narratives. Relatedly, he supported the continuation of his ancestors’ work by joining missionary organizations in London, Edinburgh, and his home colony of Massachusetts. In addition to religious activities, Eliot also devoted his time and energy to his alma mater. He served Harvard College in a number of capacities including clerk and secretary before he was elected to the corporation. When fighting erupted at Lexington and Concord, Eliot sent his family away while British officers prevented his departure until March of 1776 with the evacuation of the city. Though Eliot would not live to see the end of the war, he died with an increasingly optimistic vision for the colonies’ independence. (PI)

1142	Name:	Samuel Eliot
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	8/25/1739
	Death Date:	1/18/1820

	Samuel Eliot (25 August 1739–18 January 1820) was a merchant and philanthropist, and a member of the American Philosophical Society via his 1768 election to the American Society. Born in Boston, he attended Boston Latin School before apprenticing as a merchant. This profession suited Eliot well and in the years to come he started his own firm. Through trips to England, where he cultivated connections with manufacturers, suppliers, and agents, his business grew into a wildly successful one. Though he was a social man with extensive professional and personal networks, he disdained public officeholding. However, in the years before the American Revolution, he voiced his opinions about imperial taxation. While others called for boycotts on British imports, Eliot was vocal in his support for the continuation of trade. Following the Battles of Lexington and Concord, Eliot and his family left Boston. The steps he had taken to safeguard his store allowed him to quickly resume business once the British occupation ended. Later in life, Eliot quietly but actively pursued a variety of philanthropic endeavors ranging from endowing a Greek professorship at Harvard University to paying all the charges for persons imprisoned for debt at a local jail on one occasion. While never active at the APS, he was a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Humane Society of Massachusetts, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He also served as the president of the Massachusetts Bank from 1798 until his death in 1820. (PI)

1143	Name:	Charles W. Eliot
	Year Elected:	1871
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1854
	Death Date:	8/22/1926

1144	Name:	Dr. Elizabeth Anderson
	Institution:	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
	Year Elected:	2021
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	406. Linguistics
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1959

	Elizabeth Anderson is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women’s & Gender Studies at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In 1987, she earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Harvard University, and joined the Philosophy Department at University of Michigan. Professor Anderson designed University of Michigan’s Philosophy, Politics, and Economics program, and was its founding director. She has won fellowships from the ACLS and Guggenheim Foundations, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the British Academy, served as President of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association, and is a 2019 MacArthur Fellow. She is the author of Value in Ethics and Economics (Harvard UP, 1993), The Imperative of Integration (Princeton UP, 2010), Private Government (How Employers Rule our Lives, and Why We Don’t Talk About It) (Princeton UP, 2017) and numerous, widely reprinted articles in journals of philosophy, law, and economics. She specializes in moral and political philosophy, social and feminist epistemology, and the philosophy of the social sciences. She has written extensively on egalitarianism, the interaction of facts and values in social science research, the intersection of democratic theory and social epistemology, and pragmatism. Her current research reconsiders the history of the Protestant work ethic from the 17th century to 21st century neoliberalism.

1145	Name:	Charles Ellet
	Year Elected:	1843
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1810
	Death Date:	6/21/1862

1146	Name:	Joseph Ellicott
	Year Elected:	1770
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	10/-/1780

1147	Name:	Andrew Ellicott
	Year Elected:	1785
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1753

1148	Name:	Stephan Elliot
	Year Elected:	1819
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1780
	Death Date:	3/28/1838

1149	Name:	A. Marshall Elliot
	Year Elected:	1895
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1844
	Death Date:	11/9/1910

1150	Name:	Sir John Elliott
	Institution:	University of Oxford
	Year Elected:	1982
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	404a
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1930
	Death Date:	March 10, 2022

	Sir John Elliott was born in Reading, England, on June 23, 1930. He was brought up in Surrey, where his father was headmaster of a preparatory school, and won a scholarship at the age of thirteen to Eton College. After military service, he went to Cambridge University in 1949 with a scholarship in modern languages but read history at Cambridge, where he won a First Class with distinction in both parts of the Historical Tripos. From 1952-55 he did research in the history of seventeenth-century Spain under the direction of Herbert Butterfield and was awarded a Ph. D. in 1955 for a thesis on the Catalan revolt of 1640, subsequently published in 1963 under the title of The Revolt of the Catalans. On the strength of this thesis he was also elected into a Research Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge and subsequently was appointed a teaching Fellow of the College and University Lecturer in History. In 1958 he married Oonah Sophia Butler. From 1968-73 he was Professor of History and Head of the History Department of King's College, University of London. In 1973 he and his wife moved to the United States when he was appointed a Professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. In 1990 he returned to England following his appointment as Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford, and he held the chair until his retirement in 1997. He is now an Honorary Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, to which the Regius chair is attached, and also of Trinity College, Cambridge. As a historian he has concentrated primarily on Early Modern Spain, Europe and the Americas. Among his publications, in addition to The Revolt of the Catalans, are Imperial Spain, 1469-1716 (1963); Europe Divided, 1559-1598 (1968); The Old World and the New, 1492-1650 (1970); A Palace for a King: The Buen Retiro and the Court of Philip IV, in collaboration with Jonathan Brown (1980); Richelieu and Olivares (1984); The Count-Duke of Olivares (1986); Spain and its World (1989). Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830 was published in 2006. His honors and prizes include the Wolfson Prize for History (1986), the Prince of Asturias Prize for the Social Sciences (1996), the Balzan Prize for History, awarded by the International Balzan Foundation (1999) and the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians (2007). Sir John holds several honorary doctorates, and in 1994 was knighted for his services to history. He also holds the Spanish orders of the Grand Cross of Alfonso el Sabio, and of Isabel la Católica.

1151	Name:	Jonathan Elmer
	Year Elected:	1774
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	11/29/1745
	Death Date:	9/3/1817

	Jonathan Elmer (29 November 1745–3 September 1817) was a politician, public officeholder, doctor, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1774. Born in New Jersey, Elmer was physically frail from his youth, but showed early promise in his intellectual pursuits. He attended the medical school at the College of Philadelphia, earning a Bachelor’s degree in 1768 and an M.D. in 1771. He was recognized as an excellent student and held in high esteem by the faculty of the college. Shortly after the publication of his thesis, he was admitted to the New Jersey Medical Society, an organization that he would one day lead as its president. Though Elmer never let his medical training lag and continued training young doctors throughout his life, in 1772 he began moving towards a career as a jurist and public servant. He served in various positions throughout his political career, both local and national, including the sheriff of his local county, a delegate to the Continental Congress, and, from 1789-1791, a representative for the State of New Jersey to the new United States Senate. Elmer was respected by his fellow Senators, but was not re-elected, seemingly because of his vote to place the new nation’s capital further south than his constituents preferred. Not discouraged, Elmer continued in his course of public service on a local level, working as justice of the peace and a judge of the common pleas court for his home of Cumberland County. He retired in 1814 when the health problems that had plagued him throughout his life worsened. He died in Bridgeton, New Jersey three years later. (ANB)

1152	Name:	Dr. Jon Elster
	Institution:	Columbia University
	Year Elected:	2012
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	304. Jurisprudence and Political Science
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1940

	Jon Elster (Ph.D., University of Paris, 1972) taught at Paris, Oslo and Chicago before coming to Columbia. His publications include Ulysses and the Sirens, Sour Grapes, Making Sense of Marx, The Cement of Society, Solomonic Judgements, Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences, Local Justice, Political Psychology, Alchemies of the Mind, Ulysses Unbound, and Closing the Books: Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective. His research interests include the theory of rational choice, the theory of distributive justice, and the history of social thought (Marx and Tocqueville). He is currently working on a comparative study of constitution-making processes from the Federal Convention to the present and is engaged in a project on the microfoundaitons of civil war.

1153	Name:	Conrad A. Elvehjem
	Year Elected:	1947
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1901
	Death Date:	7/27/1962

1154	Name:	Alfred L. Elwyn
	Year Elected:	1844
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1804
	Death Date:	3/15/1884

1155	Name:	Theodore N. Ely
	Year Elected:	1897
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1846
	Death Date:	10/28/1916

1156	Name:	Dr. Kerry Emanuel
	Institution:	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
	Year Elected:	2019
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Subdivision:	105. Physical Earth Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1955

	Dr. Kerry Emanuel is Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was on the faculty, most recently as Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Atmospheric Science, from 1981-2022, after spending three years on the faculty of UCLA. Emanuel’s initial focus was on the dynamics of rain and snow banding in winter storms, but his interests gradually migrated to the meteorology of the tropics and to climate change. His specialty is hurricane physics and he was the first to investigate how long-term climate change might affect hurricane activity, an issue that continues to occupy him today. His interests also include cumulus convection, and advanced methods of sampling the atmosphere in aid of numerical weather prediction. Emanuel is the author or co-author of over 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers, and three books, including Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes, published by Oxford University Press and aimed at a general audience, and What We Know about Climate Change, published by the MIT Press and now entering its third edition. He is a co-director of MIT’s Lorenz Center, a climate think tank devoted to basic, curiosity-driven climate research.

1157	Name:	Dr. Murray B. Emeneau
	Institution:	University of California, Berkeley
	Year Elected:	1952
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	406. Linguistics
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1904
	Death Date:	August 29, 2005

1158	Name:	Gouverneur Emerson
	Year Elected:	1833
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1796
	Death Date:	7/2/1874

1159	Name:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
	Year Elected:	1867
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1803
	Death Date:	4/28/1882

1160	Name:	Benjamin K. Emerson
	Year Elected:	1897
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1844
	Death Date:	4/7/1932

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