People Who Went To Penn: George William Crump

George William Crump (1786-1848) was once a prominent political figure, as a member of Congress and the U.S. Ambassador to Chile, but this Penn alum definitely made his most important contribution to U.S. history sans the burden of his three-piece suit. Or any clothes at all. Get it? Because he was naked. Yep, in 1804, good old Crumpy became the world's first recorded streaker.

Many people think the tradition of streaking began with that Australian guy at the rugby match in the '70s, but it turns out the phenomenon of running around naked in public is much older (and much more American!) than that. In his senior year at Washington College, Crump was arrested and suspended for his nude romp through Lexington, VA, thus paving the way for college streakers for years to come. And since we're pretty sure they didn't have Facebook in the early 1800s (or even incriminating daguerreotypes for that matter), he was still able to get into Penn Med and eventually land himself a sweet government job. Stay tuned to see if we can, in fact, trace the origins of krumping back to this badass source.