West Hartford's Alexander Porter Receives Academic Prize at Bowdoin College

2012 May 18

Alexander Porter of West Hartford, a member of the Bowdoin College Class of 2012, has been awarded the Jefferson Davis Award at Bowdoin's annual Honors Day ceremony, held May 9, 2012.

Porter, majoring in Government and Legal Studies and minoring in Spanish, is a graduate of William H. Hall High School.

About Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College is a highly selective liberal arts college located in Brunswick, Maine, about 25 miles north of Portland. One of the oldest colleges in the nation, it received its charter in 1794. Bowdoin enrolls approximately 1,750 students from across the country and around the world.

Notable alumni include 14th U.S. President Franklin Pierce (class of 1824), writers Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (both 1825), African-American newspaper editor John Brown Russwurm (1826), Civil War hero Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1852), Arctic explorer Robert E. Peary (1877), former Senate Majority Leader and architect of the Ireland peace accord George J. Mitchell (1954), former U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen (1962), and Olympic gold medalist Joan Benoit Samuelson (1979).