Albert J. Beveridge III ’57

Al died Jan. 3, 2026.

He came to Princeton from St. Mark’s School, majored in modern languages, played on the hockey team all four years, and joined Tiger Inn. He was a member of the Student Christian Association, the German Club, the Jamesburg Committee, and ROTC. His senior year roommates were Gerry Hackney, Fred Reynolds, Dave Robinson, and Ben Williams.

Following graduation he served in the Army, attaining the rank of first lieutenant, and then graduated from Harvard Law School. During this period, he met his wife, Madzy deKok, in Switzerland, and they were married in Holland in 1962. Al clerked for a Federal Court of Appeals judge, practiced law in Washington, D.C., and joined the Department of Justice as a tax specialist. He worked for Robert F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign, and then for Hubert Humphrey after Kennedy’s assassination. Al then joined his childhood friend from Indiana, Bill Ruckelshaus ’55, the first administrator of the E.P.A., and Richard Fairbanks in an environmental law practice in Washington.

Al served as chair of the D.C. Board of Elections, sat on numerous boards, taught courses in history and law at American, Catholic, George Washington, and Johns Hopkins universities, and earned a master’s degree and Ph.D. in American history from Johns Hopkins. He received the Troyer Steele Anderson Prize from the American Historical Association in 2005.

His wife, Madzy, died in 2020. Al is survived by their three children, Alexandra, Albert IV ’89, and Vanessa; and two grandchildren.