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“He was essentially banished from the family home,” said his biographer, Michael D’Antonio. “He hadn’t known anything but living with his family in a luxurious setting, and all of a sudden he’s sent away. That’s a rough way to start out in life.”

How many of the elites send their children away to boarding schools for a better education?

Robert Mueller grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, where he attended Princeton Country Day School, now known as Princeton Day School. After he completed eighth grade, his family moved to Philadelphia while Mueller himself went on to attend St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire,

A lacrosse teammate and classmate at St. Paul's School was future Massachusetts Senator and Secretary of State John Kerry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mueller

Another prep boarding school is Groton. Famous alumni whose parents
sent them away at age 13 are:

Dean Acheson, Secretary of State under President Truman, presidential advisor to Johnson

Francis Biddle, Attorney General under Franklin D. Roosevelt (1941–1945), Chief American Justice of the Nuremberg Trials

Jonathan Brewster Bingham, United States Representative from New York

McGeorge Bundy, National Security Advisor under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson
William Bundy, McGeorge Bundy's brother, foreign affairs advisor to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson

Jim Cooper, United States Representative from Tennessee

Laurence Curtis, United States Representative from Massachusetts
Bronson M. Cutting, United States Senator from New Mexico

C. Douglas Dillon, Secretary of the Treasury, Under Secretary of State, Ambassador to France

RP Eddy, Director at the White House National Security Council, United Nations Diplomat, CEO of Ergo

W. Averell Harriman, Secretary of Commerce, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, U.S. Ambassador to Britain, Governor of New York

Stephen A. Higginson, Judge of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
George Holding, member of Congress

Francis Keppel, Commissioner of Education under President Kennedy

W. Kingsland Macy, congressman

Joseph Medill McCormick, United States Senator from Illinois

Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Chair at the Council on Foreign Relations

James Graham Parsons, Ambassador to Laos and Sweden, Deputy U.S. Representative to SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks), 1970–1972

Endicott Peabody, former Governor of Massachusetts

Stanley Rogers Resor, Secretary of the Army, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy

Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt, son of President Theodore Roosevelt; distinguished U.S. Army officer and commander of U.S. forces in both World War I and II

Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt, Jr., career CIA officer, soldier, scholar, linguist; grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the U.S.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Congressman from New York; Naval Officer

James Roosevelt, son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Congressman from California; Brigadier General in the United States Marine Corps

James "Tadd" Roosevelt, Jr., Franklin D. Roosevelt's nephew, who was slightly older than his uncle, and attended Groton at the same time
Kermit Roosevelt, son of President Theodore Roosevelt; successful businessman; service in both World Wars

Kermit Roosevelt, Jr., career CIA; organized Operation Ajax; grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt

Quentin Roosevelt, son of President Theodore Roosevelt; fought and died in World War I

Quentin Roosevelt II, son of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.; grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt; killed in a plane crash under mysterious circumstances in China in 1948

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., son of President Theodore Roosevelt; led the D-day assault on Utah Beach; recipient of the Medal of Honor

Theodore Roosevelt III, World War II Veteran; eldest son of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.; grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt IV, managing director at Barclays Capital;
prominent conservationist; great-grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt

Eugene Rostow, Under-Secretary of State under President Johnson, head of Arms Control Agency

Robert C. Scott, United States Representative from Virginia

George Herbert Walker III, former ambassador to Hungary and board member of the New York Stock Exchange

Sumner Welles, Under Secretary of State under FDR

John Hay Whitney, Ambassador to Britain, newspaper publisher

Richard Whitney, President of the New York Stock Exchange

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Groton_School_alumni