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List of notable people associated with Sewanee
This is a list of some notable people affiliated with
Sewanee: The University of the South .
Radney Foster ,
country music artist
Franklin Burroughs , author
H.T. Kirby-Smith , author and poet
Thomas Lakeman , author
Andrew Nelson Lytle , author and former editor,
Sewanee Review
Aaron McCollough , poet
Speer Morgan , novelist, short story writer and editor
William Alexander Percy , poet and memoirist
Wyatt Prunty , poet and founding director of the
Sewanee Writers' Conference
John Jeremiah Sullivan , writer, Southern editor of
The Paris Review , author of
Pulphead
Allen Tate , poet, critic, assistant editor of
The Sewanee Review
Bertram Wyatt-Brown , historian, author
Julian Adams , film producer, writer, and actor
Paul Harris Boardman , film producer and screenwriter
Anson Mount , stage, film, and television actor,
Hell on Wheels
John Swasey , voice actor
Jean Yarbrough , film and television director
"Diddy" Seibels
Samuel and Victoria Pickering
Douglass Adair , historian and editor of the
William and Mary Quarterly
Alan P. Bell , psychologist at the
Kinsey Institute
Benjamin B. Dunlap , president of
Wofford College
John V. Fleming , professor emeritus at
Princeton University
Rayid Ghani , professor of Machine Learning and Public Policy at
Carnegie Mellon University and Chief Scientist,
Obama for America 2012 Campaign
W. Cabell Greet (1901–1972), philologist and McIntosh Professor of English at
Barnard College
Thomas N.E. Greville (1910–1998), mathematician and professor at
University of Wisconsin-Madison
J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton (1878–1961), historian, archivist, and professor at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jeff McMahan ,
White's Professor of Moral Philosophy , University of Oxford
Charles H. McNutt , archaeologist and professor at
Memphis State University
Richard Mitchell , "The Underground Grammarian"
Walter Nance , professor of Human Genetics at
Virginia Commonwealth University
Eric Woodfin Naylor (1936–2019), Hispanist and translator of
el Libro de buen amor
Samuel F. Pickering Jr. , professor of English at the
University of Connecticut ; inspiration for Mr. Keating in the film
Dead Poets Society
Douglas Porch , professor at the
Naval Postgraduate School
S. Lynne Stokes , statistician and professor at
Southern Methodist University
Richard Tillinghast , English teacher and poet
Bertram Wyatt-Brown , historian and professor at the
University of Florida and
Case Western University
Clarence Faulk , publisher of
Ruston Daily Leader ; owner of radio station KRUS; diversified businessman in
Ruston ,
Louisiana
Ward Greene (1892–1956), journalist, playwright and editor
Smith Hempstone , journalist and U.S. Ambassador to
Kenya
Jack Hitt , author and contributing editor of
New York Times Magazine ,
Harper's Magazine and
This American Life
Roger Hodge , deputy editor of
The Intercept , former editor of Harper's Magazine and
The Oxford American
Jon Meacham , Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Chair in American Presidency at
Vanderbilt University , former editor-in-chief of
Newsweek ; winner of 2009 Pulitzer Prize for biography
Phelan Beale , lawyer of
Grey Gardens fame
Stuart Bowen ,
Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction , 2004–2013
Robert L. Brown , Associate Justice Arkansas Supreme Court
Alexander Campbell King ,
Solicitor General of the United States and Judge of
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Benjamin Franklin Cameron (1890–1964), Judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Thorn Lord , lawyer and
Democratic politician from
New Jersey
Hart T. Mankin ,
General Counsel of the Navy , 1971–1973, and Judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims , 1990–1996
Travis Randall McDonough , United States District Judge,
Eastern District of Tennessee
Patrick Henry Nelson II (1856–1914), South Carolina Fifth Circuit Solicitor; President of the
South Carolina Bar (1911–1912); member of the
South Carolina House of Representatives (1885–1887)
David C. Norton , United States District Judge,
District of South Carolina
Pride Tomlinson (1890–1967), Justice of the
Tennessee Supreme Court
Archibald Butt (1865–1912), journalist, military advisor to the President
William Crawford Gorgas (1854–1920),
Surgeon General of the US Army
Cary T. Grayson (1878–1938), naval surgeon, rear admiral, chairman of the
American Red Cross
Frank Kelso (1933–2013), admiral, USN,
Chief of Naval Operations (CNO)
Marcel Lettre ,
Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence , 2015–2017
Leonidas Polk , Episcopal bishop and Confederate general; founder of the University of the South
Bill Studeman , admiral, U.S. Navy, director of
Naval Intelligence , director of the
National Security Agency
Robert Stanley Adams (1895–1943), member of the Florida State Senate
Ellis Arnall ,
governor of
Georgia
Richard Walker Bolling ,
Democratic congressman from
Missouri
David Cadman ,
Vancouver City Councillor
Harry P. Cain ,
Republican Senator from
Washington , 1946–1953
William S. Cogswell Jr. , member of the
South Carolina House of Representatives
Carl Copeland Cundiff , United States Ambassador to
Niger
Steven Dickerson , Republican member of the
Tennessee Senate , 2013–2020
Tucker Eskew , Republican political consultant
Kirkman Finlay Jr. , mayor of
Columbia, South Carolina , 1978–1986
Robert C. Frasure , first
United States Ambassador to Estonia after regaining independence from the Soviet Union
Robert E. Gribbin, 3rd , United States Ambassador to
Rwanda , 1996–1999, and the
Central African Republic , 1993–1995
William Pike Hall Sr. ,
state senator for
Caddo and
DeSoto parishes,
Louisiana , 1924–1932;
Shreveport attorney
[5]
Clarke Hogan ,
Republican member of the
Virginia House of Delegates , 2002–2010
Henry F. Holland ,
Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs , 1954–1956
John Jay Hooker (1930–2016), attorney, political gadfly, candidate for Tennessee governor
Luke Lea , Democratic Senator from
Tennessee , 1911–1917
Peter O'Donnell , Republican state party chairman in
Texas during the 1960s;
Dallas investor and philanthropist
[6]
LeRoy Percy , attorney, planter, and politician in Mississippi; elected by the state legislature to the US Senate and served 1910–1913
Vail M. Pittman ,
19th Governor of Nevada
[7]
Albert J. Pullen , member of the
Wisconsin State Senate
Simon Pierre Robineau , member of the
Florida House of Representatives
Steve Schale , State Director for the 2008 Barack Obama campaign in Florida
Armistead I. Selden Jr. ,
Democratic congressman from Alabama
Phil Smith (1931–2020), member of the
Alabama House of Representatives
Lee M. Thomas , Administrator,
United States Environmental Protection Agency , 1985-89
Shannon R. Valentine , member of the
Virginia House of Delegates
John Sharp Williams (1854–1932),
Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives , U.S. Senator from Mississippi
Gene Robinson , ninth bishop of the
Diocese of New Hampshire and the first
openly gay Episcopal bishop
J. Neil Alexander ,
bishop of
Atlanta and dean of the School of Theology of
The University of the South
John Maury Allin , 23rd presiding bishop of the
Episcopal Church , 1974–1985
Harry Brown Bainbridge III , Bishop of Idaho, President of Province VIII, Chair of Episcopal Relief & Development
[8]
Allen L. Bartlett , Bishop of
Pennsylvania , 1987–1998
Foley Beach , archbishop of the
Anglican Church in North America
G.P. Mellick Belshaw (1928–2020), bishop of
New Jersey
Mark Bourlakas , bishop of
Southwestern Virginia
Theodore DuBose Bratton , Bishop of the Episcopal Church and chaplain general of the
United Confederate Veterans
[9]
[10]
Edmond Browning , presiding bishop of the
Episcopal Church
William G. Burrill , bishop of
Rochester
Charles Judson Child Jr. , bishop of
Atlanta
Thomas N. Carruthers (1900–1960), bishop of
South Carolina
William Stirling Claiborne (1872–1933), priest
Clarence Alfred Cole (1909–1963), bishop of
Upper South Carolina
Glenda S. Curry , bishop of
Alabama
Carl P. Daw Jr. , executive director of the
Hymn Society
Alex D. Dickson , bishop of
West Tennessee
William Porcher DuBose , dean and priest
James Duncan , bishop of
Southeast Florida
Chip Edgar (born 1964), bishop of
South Carolina
Hunley Elebash (1923–1993), bishop of
East Carolina
Thomas C. Ely , bishop of
Vermont , 2001–2019
Leopold Frade , Episcopal bishop
Robert F. Gibson Jr. , bishop of
Virginia , 1961–1974
Campbell Gray , Episcopal bishop
Duncan M. Gray Jr. (1926–2016), bishop of
Mississippi
Marion J. Hatchett , liturgical scholar and one of the key framers of the
1979 Book of Common Prayer
John E. Hines , 22nd Presiding Bishop of the
Episcopal Church , 1965–1974
George Nelson Hunt, III , bishop of
Rhode Island
T. J. Johnston (born 1956), bishop in the
Anglican Mission in America
Edwin M. Leidel Jr. , bishop of
Eau Claire
Clark Lowenfield (born 1957), bishop of the
Western Gulf Coast
Mary Adelia Rosamond McLeod , bishop of Vermont, the first female Episcopal priest elected to head a diocese
C. Brinkley Morton , bishop of
San Diego
Alfred C. Marble Jr. (1936–2017), bishop of
Mississippi
Henry N. Parsley , bishop of
Alabama , chancellor of
The University of the South
Leonidas Polk , Episcopal bishop and Confederate general; founder of the University of the South
Charles Todd Quintard , bishop of
Tennessee
Gretchen Rehberg , bishop of
Episcopal Diocese of Spokane
George Lazenby Reynolds (1927–1991), bishop of
Tennessee
Gene Robinson , bishop of
New Hampshire
Harry W. Shipps , bishop of
Georgia
Becca Stevens , Episcopal priest
Hudson Stuck ,
Anglican Archdeacon who organized the first ascent of
Mount McKinley
Eugene Sutton , bishop of
Maryland
G. Porter Taylor , bishop of
Western North Carolina
George Townshend (1876–1957), Archdeacon of
Clonfert , Canon of
St Patrick’s Cathedral , Dublin,
Hand of the Cause of the
Bahá’í Faith
[11]
Reginald Heber Weller (1857–1935), Episcopal priest and bishop active in the ecumenical movement
Royden Yerkes , professor of theology 1935–1947
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"Johnny Rook" (PDF) . Sewanee Magazine : 18–27. Retrieved 21 October 2017 .
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"How poetry and fear influenced Amanda Shires' new album, 'To the Sunset' " .
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"About - AIA" .
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"Rick Woodward Named Distinguished Sportsman for 2010" .
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"Funeral for Pike Hall at 11 A.M. Today – Prominent Attorney, Civic Leader Succumbs After Brief Illness" .
The Shreveport Times . December 17, 1945. pp. 1, 6. Retrieved March 26, 2015 .
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"Ralph K.M. Haurwitz, UT's 'Mr. Anonymous' a force behind research: Peter O'Donnell, Jr., wife have given more than $135 million for science, engineering efforts, July 4, 2010" .
Austin American-Statesman . Retrieved September 12, 2013 .
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"Nevada Governor Vail Montgomery Pittman" . National Governors Association. Retrieved October 6, 2012 .
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"Rev. Theodore D. Bratton Is Given U. C. V. Post" . The Owensboro Messenger . December 10, 1929. p. 5. Retrieved May 1, 2018 – via
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