15 Notable alumni of
Asbury University
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Asbury University is 2035th in the world, 707th in North America, and 667th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 15 notable alumni from Asbury University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Dean Jones
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actorsingeractorstage actor
- Biography
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Dean Carroll Jones was an American actor. He was best known for his roles as Agent Zeke Kelso in That Darn Cat! (1965), Jim Douglas in The Love Bug (1968) and Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977), and Dr. Herman Varnick in Beethoven (1992). He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his performance as Albert Dooley in The Million Dollar Duck (1971). In 1995, he was inducted as a Disney Legend for his film work.
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Ted Strickland
- Enrolled in Asbury University
- In 1963 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Theodore Strickland is an American former politician who served as the 68th governor of Ohio from 2007 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served in the United States House of Representatives, representing Ohio's 6th congressional district (1993–1995, 1997–2007).
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Jody Hice
- Enrolled in Asbury University
- In 1982 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianpastorradio personality
- Biography
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Jody Brownlow Hice is an American politician, radio show host, and political activist who served as the U.S. representative for Georgia's 10th congressional district from 2015 to 2023. He is a member of the Republican Party.
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Andy Merrill
- Occupations
- singervoice actor
- Biography
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Andrew Merrill is an American voice actor best known for his portrayal of the character Brak on Space Ghost Coast to Coast and Cartoon Planet.
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Joe Frank Harris
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Joe Frank Harris is an American businessman and Democratic politician who served as the 78th governor of Georgia from 1983 to 1991.
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Sue Bell Cobb
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Sue Bell Cobb is an American jurist and former Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, the first woman to hold that office in Alabama's history. In 2018 she unsuccessfully ran for governor of Alabama losing in the primary to Tuscaloosa mayor Walt Maddox receiving 30 percent of the vote compared to his 52 percent.
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Gregory F. Van Tatenhove
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Gregory Frederick Van Tatenhove, also known as Greg Van Tatenhove, is a US district judge of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky. He was a legislative aide of Senator Mitch McConnell, a law clerk for Judge Eugene Edward Siler Jr., US Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky (2001–05), and on the recommendation of Senators Jim Bunning and Mitch McConnell he was nominated to fill his current seat on the US District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky (2006–present). Daniel Cameron was a law clerk for Van Tatenhove, who later swore him in as Kentucky Attorney General.
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Dennis F. Kinlaw
- Years
- 1922-2017 (aged 95)
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Dennis Franklin Kinlaw, was a Wesleyan-Holiness Old Testament Scholar, former President of Asbury College.
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J. B. Matthews
- Occupations
- peace activist
- Biography
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Joseph Brown "Doc" Matthews Sr., best known as J. B. Matthews, was an American linguist, educator, writer, and political activist. A committed pacifist, he became a self-described "fellow traveler" of the Communist Party USA in the mid-1930s, achieving national prominence as a leader of a number of the party's so-called "mass organizations". Disillusionment with communism led to anti-communist testimony before the Dies Committee in 1938. He then served as chief investigator for the House Committee on Un-American Activities, headed by Martin Dies Jr., consultant on Communist affairs for the Hearst Corporation, and by June 1953 research director for Joseph McCarthy's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the United States Senate. When Matthews published claims that the Protestant clergy comprised a base of support of the American Communist movement, he was forced to resign. This was regarded as McCarthy's first big defeat, signaling that his position was starting to weaken among his colleagues.
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Joseph R. Pitts
- Enrolled in Asbury University
- In 1961 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- business executivepoliticianmilitary officerteacher
- Biography
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Joseph Russell Pitts is a former American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Pennsylvania's 16th congressional district from 1997 to 2017. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district was based in Lancaster and Reading and included much of the Amish country. It also included the far southwestern suburbs of Philadelphia in Chester County.
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Becky Lourey
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Becky Lourey is an American politician, a former Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) state senator and state representative, and a former Minnesota gubernatorial candidate. Her son Matt served in the U.S. Army and was killed on May 27, 2005, as a result of injuries received in combat over Buhriz, Iraq, where he was serving in his second tour of duty.
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Frederick Bohn Fisher
- Years
- 1882-1938 (aged 56)
- Occupations
- priest
- Biography
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Frederick Bohn Fisher was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1920. He also gained notability as a pastor, missionary, author, and official in the Methodist missionary and men's movements. He is also one of the founders of the prestigious Mount Hermon School, Darjeeling. The yellow house in Mount Hermon School is named after him as Fisher House.
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Steve Thurston
- Occupations
- authorjournalistphotographer
- Biography
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Steve Thurston is a Chilean-American journalist, entrepreneur, humanitarian photographer and co-founder, CEO and president of Integrity Ministries (Integridad Network, Inc.), a non-profit media organization.
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Edward L.R. Elson
- Biography
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The Reverend Edward Lee Roy Elson was a Presbyterian minister and Chaplain of the United States Senate.
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Bill Huffman
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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William S. Huffman was an American politician from the state of Michigan. Huffman served as mayor of Madison Heights, Michigan from 1961 to 1963. He then served in the Michigan House of Representatives, where he represented Oakland County's 6th district from 1963 to 1964, and then the 66th state House district from 1965 to 1974. He then served in the Michigan Senate, where he represented the 16th district from 1975 until his resignation in 1982.
