100 Notable alumni of
Centre College
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Centre College is 1239th in the world, 447th in North America, and 419th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Centre College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Cassius M. Clay
- Occupations
- writerlawyerdiplomatpoliticianphotographer
- Biography
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Major General Cassius Marcellus Clay was an American planter, politician, military officer and abolitionist who served as the United States ambassador to Russia from 1863 to 1869. Born in Kentucky to a wealthy planter family, Clay entered politics during the 1830s and grew to support the abolitionist cause in the U.S., drawing ire from fellow Southerners. A founding member of the Republican Party in Kentucky, he was appointed by President Abraham Lincoln as the U.S. minister to Russia, where Clay is credited with influencing Russian support for the Union during the American Civil War.
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John C. Breckinridge
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- lawyermilitary personnelpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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John Cabell Breckinridge was an American lawyer, politician, and soldier. He represented Kentucky in both houses of Congress and became the 14th and youngest-ever vice president of the United States. Serving from 1857 to 1861, he took office at the age of 36. He was a member of the Democratic Party, and ran for president in 1860 as a Southern Democrat. He served in the U.S. Senate during the outbreak of the American Civil War, but was expelled after joining the Confederate Army. He was appointed Confederate Secretary of War in 1865.
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Yi Gu
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Yi Ku was a Korean prince who was head of the House of Yi from 1970 until 2005. He was a grandson of Emperor Gojong of the Joseon dynasty. Through Kuni Asahiko, Ku was a second-cousin to Emperor Emeritus Akihito of Japan.
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Adlai Stevenson I
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- politicianlawyer
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Adlai Ewing Stevenson was an American politician who served as the 23rd vice president of the United States from 1893 to 1897 under President Grover Cleveland. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a U.S. Representative for Illinois in the late 1870s and early 1880s. He was the founder of the Stevenson political family.
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John Marshall Harlan
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- politicianjudgelawyer
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John Marshall Harlan was an American lawyer and politician who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1877 until his death in 1911. He is often called "The Great Dissenter" due to his many dissents in cases that restricted civil liberties, including the Civil Rights Cases, Plessy v. Ferguson, and Giles v. Harris. Many of Harlan's views expressed in his notable dissents would become the official view of the Supreme Court starting from the 1950s Warren Court and onward. His grandson John Marshall Harlan II was also a Supreme Court justice.
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Fred M. Vinson
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- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Frederick "Fred" Moore Vinson was an American attorney and politician who served as the 13th chief justice of the United States from 1946 until his death in 1953. Vinson was one of the few Americans to have served in all three branches of the U.S. government. Before becoming chief justice, Vinson served as a U.S. Representative from Kentucky from 1924 to 1928 and 1930 to 1938, as a federal appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1938 to 1943, and as the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1945 to 1946.
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Fushimi Hiroaki
- Years
- 1932-.. (age 92)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Fushimi Hiroaki is a former Japanese prince and 24th head of the Fushimi-no-miya shinnōke (collateral branch of the Imperial Family of Japan). He has not been a member of the imperial family since the passing of the Imperial Household Law of 1947. If the law had not been changed, he would have been 4th in line to the Japanese throne as of 2019.
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John Sherman Cooper
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- diplomatlawyerpoliticianjudgeplayer of American football
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John Sherman Cooper was an American politician, jurist, and diplomat from the United States. He served three non-consecutive, partial terms in the United States Senate before being elected to two full terms in 1960 and 1966, representing Kentucky. He also served as U.S. Ambassador to India from 1955 to 1956 and U.S. Ambassador to East Germany from 1974 to 1976. He was the first Republican to be popularly elected to more than one term as a senator from Kentucky and, in both 1960 and 1966, he set records for the largest victory margin for a Kentucky senatorial candidate from either party.
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Jacqueline Coleman
- Enrolled in Centre College
- In 2004 studied Bachelor of Arts and study of history
- Occupations
- politicianbasketball coachteacher
- Biography
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Jacqueline Layne Coleman is an American educator and politician serving as the 58th lieutenant governor of Kentucky since 2019. She has worked as a high school administrator, teacher, and basketball coach. Coleman is also the founder and president of Lead Kentucky, a nonprofit organization focused on education policy reform. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
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George Graham Vest
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- politicianlawyer
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George Graham Vest was a U.S. politician. Born in Frankfort, Kentucky, he was known for his skills in oration and debate. Vest, a lawyer as well as a politician, served as a Missouri Congressman, a Confederate Congressman during the Civil War, and finally a U.S. Senator.
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Joseph Holt
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- lawyerpoliticianjudgemilitary officer
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Joseph Holt was an American lawyer, soldier, and politician. As a leading member of the Buchanan administration, he succeeded in convincing Buchanan to oppose the secession of the South. He returned to Kentucky and successfully battled the secessionist element thereby helping to keep Kentucky in the Union. President Abraham Lincoln appointed him the Judge Advocate General of the United States Army. He served as Lincoln's chief arbiter and enforcer of military law, and supporter of emancipation. His most famous roles came in the Lincoln assassination trials.
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James B. McCreary
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- politicianlawyer
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James Bennett McCreary was an American lawyer and politician from Kentucky. He represented the state in both houses of the U.S. Congress and served as its 27th and 37th governor. Shortly after graduating from law school, he was commissioned as the only major in the 11th Kentucky Cavalry, serving under Confederate Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan during the American Civil War. He returned to his legal practice after the war. In 1869, he was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives where he served until 1875; he was twice chosen Speaker of the House. At their 1875 nominating convention, state Democrats chose McCreary as their nominee for governor, and he won an easy victory over Republican John Marshall Harlan. With the state still feeling the effects of the Panic of 1873, most of McCreary's actions as governor were aimed at easing the plight of the state's poor farmers.
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Augustus Owsley Stanley
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- politicianlawyer
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Augustus Owsley Stanley I was an American politician from Kentucky. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 38th governor of Kentucky and also represented the state in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. From 1903 to 1915, Stanley represented Kentucky's 2nd congressional district in the House of Representatives, where he gained a reputation as a progressive reformer. Beginning in 1904, he called for an antitrust investigation of the American Tobacco Company, claiming they were a monopsony that drove down prices for the tobacco farmers of his district. As a result of his investigation, the Supreme Court of the United States ordered the breakup of the American Tobacco Company in 1911. Stanley also chaired a committee that conducted an antitrust investigation of U.S. Steel, which brought him national acclaim. Many of his ideas were incorporated into the Clayton Antitrust Act.
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Thomas Theodore Crittenden
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- politicianlawyer
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Thomas Theodore Crittenden was a United States colonel during the American Civil War, and a Democratic politician who served as the 24th Governor of Missouri from 1881 to 1885.
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John Y. Brown, Sr
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- politicianlawyer
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John Young Brown was an American attorney and politician. He was a state representative for nearly three decades, serving one term as speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives and as majority floor leader during the term of Governor Edward T. Breathitt. He was elected to one term in the U.S. House of Representatives from March 4, 1933, to January 3, 1935, to an at-large seat elected statewide on a general ticket. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Kentucky in 1939 and the unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate in 1946 and 1966. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
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James Ben Ali Haggin
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- lawyer
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James Ben Ali Haggin was an American attorney, rancher, investor, art collector, and a major owner and breeder in the sport of Thoroughbred horse racing. Haggin made a fortune in the aftermath of the California Gold Rush and was a multi-millionaire by 1880.
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Basil W. Duke
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- lawyerwriterlobbyistmilitary officer
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Basil Wilson Duke was a lawyer in Kentucky and a Confederate general officer during the American Civil War. Afterward, he achieved renown as a historian. His most notable role in the war was second-in-command to his brother-in-law John Hunt Morgan. Duke later wrote a popular account of what was called Morgan's Raid (1863). He took over Morgan's command in 1864 after U.S. soldiers killed Morgan. At the end of the war, Duke served among Confederate President Jefferson Davis's bodyguards after his flight from Richmond, Virginia, through the Carolinas.
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Bo McMillin
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- player of American footballAmerican football coach
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Alvin Nugent "Bo" McMillin was an American football player and coach at the collegiate and professional level. He played college football at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, where he was a three-time All-American at quarterback, and led the Centre Praying Colonels to an upset victory over Harvard in 1921. McMillin was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player as part of its inaugural 1951 class.
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Beriah Magoffin
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- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Beriah Magoffin was the 21st Governor of Kentucky, serving during the early part of the Civil War. Personally, Magoffin adhered to a states' rights position, including the right of a state to secede from the Union, and he sympathized with the Confederate cause. Nevertheless, when the Kentucky General Assembly adopted a position of neutrality in the war, Magoffin ardently held to it, refusing calls for aid from both the Union and Confederate governments.
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Crit Luallen
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- politician
- Biography
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Eugenia Crittenden "Crit" Luallen is an American politician who served as the 56th lieutenant governor of Kentucky from November 13, 2014, to December 8, 2015. Luallen previously served as Kentucky State Auditor.
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William Campbell Preston Breckinridge
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- politicianlawyer
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William Campbell Preston Breckinridge was a lawyer and Democratic politician from Kentucky; a U.S. Representative from 1885 to 1895. He was a scion of the Breckinridge political family: grandson of Senator John Breckinridge, and first cousin of Vice President John C. Breckinridge.
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George W. Harkins
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George Washington Harkins was an attorney and prominent chief of the Choctaw tribe during Indian removal.
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Abraham Buford II
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- military personnel
- Biography
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Abraham "Abe" Buford II was an American soldier, Confederate combatant, and landowner. After serving in the United States Army during the Mexican–American War, Buford joined the Confederate States Army in 1862 and served as a cavalry general in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. After the war, he retired to his native Kentucky and became a thoroughbred horse breeder.
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John Y. Brown
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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John Young Brown was an American politician from the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky who represented the state in the United States House of Representatives and served as its 31st governor. Brown was elected to the House of Representatives for three non-consecutive terms, each of which was marred by controversy. He was first elected in 1859, despite his own protests that he was not yet twenty-five years old, the minimum age set by the Constitution for serving in the legislature. The voters of his district elected him anyway, but he was not allowed to take his seat until the Congress' second session, after he was of legal age to serve. After moving to Henderson, Kentucky, Brown was elected from that district in 1866. On this occasion, he was denied his seat because of alleged disloyalty to the Union during the Civil War. Voters in his district refused to elect another representative, and the seat remained vacant throughout the term to which Brown was elected. After an unsuccessful gubernatorial bid in 1871, Brown was again elected to the House in 1872 and served three consecutive terms. During his final term, he was officially censured for delivering a speech excoriating Massachusetts Representative Benjamin F. Butler. The censure was later expunged from the congressional record.
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John T. Stuart
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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John Todd Stuart was a lawyer and a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
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William Alexander Richardson
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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William Alexander Richardson was a prominent Illinois Democratic politician before and during the American Civil War.
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Jeff Hoover
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- politician
- Biography
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Jeff Hoover is an American politician in the Republican Party of Kentucky.
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William Birney
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- lawyerjuristuniversity teachermilitary officer
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William Birney was an American professor, Union Army general during the American Civil War, attorney and author. An ardent abolitionist, he was noted for encouraging thousands of free black men to join the Union army.
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Ormond Beatty
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- university teacheracademic administrator
- Biography
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Ormond Beatty was an American educator and academic administrator. He was the seventh president of Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. An 1835 graduate of Centre, Beatty became a professor the following year and taught chemistry, natural philosophy, mathematics, metaphysics, biblical history, and church history over the course of his career. He was selected to fill the position of president pro tempore following the resignation of William L. Breckinridge in 1868 and was unanimously elected president by the board of trustees in 1870. He was Centre's first president who was not a Christian minister, and he led the school until his resignation in 1888, at which point he taught for two additional years before his death in 1890. Beatty also involved himself in religious affairs, serving as a ruling elder in the First and Second Presbyterian Churches in Danville, as a commissioner to three Presbyterian Church General Assemblies, and as a trustee of the Danville Theological Seminary.
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Edgar Diddle
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- player of American footballbasketball coachbasketball player
- Biography
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Edgar Allen Diddle was an American college men's basketball coach. He is known for coaching at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky from 1922 to 1964. Diddle became the first coach in history to coach 1,000 games at one school. Diddle was known as one of the early pioneers of the fast break and for waving a red towel around along the sidelines. During games he would wave, toss, and chew on this towel, and even cover his face in times of disappointment. His red towel is now part of WKU's official athletic logo. Diddle experienced only five losing seasons in 42 years.
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William Preston Johnston
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- poet
- Biography
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William Preston Johnston was a lawyer, scholar, poet, and Confederate soldier. He was the son and biographer of Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston. He was a president of Louisiana State University and the first president of Tulane University from 1884(Tulane being renamed from the University of Louisiana that year).
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Stephen Rolfe Powell
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- glass artist
- Biography
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Stephen "Steve" Rolfe Powell was an American glass artist based at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, where he taught for more than 30 years. He often created elaborately colored three-foot glass vessels incorporating murrine.
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Caleb Powers
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Caleb Powers was a United States representative from Kentucky and the first Secretary of State of Kentucky convicted as an accessory to murder.
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James S. Jackson
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- politicianlawyermilitary officer
- Biography
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James Streshly Jackson was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky and a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
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Nathan L. Bachman
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- lawyerprosecutorpoliticianjudge
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Nathan Lynn Bachman was a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1933 until his death. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
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Brutus J. Clay
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- politician
- Biography
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Brutus Junius Clay was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky, and a son of Green Clay. His brother Cassius Marcellus Clay also was a politician in the state, and they both joined the Unionist Party at the time of the American Civil War.
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Richard P. Ernst
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Richard Pretlow Ernst was a Republican U.S. Senator from Kentucky who served from 1921 to 1927.
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Allen W. Gullion
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- military personnel
- Biography
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Major General Allen Wyant Gullion, USA was an American Army officer who served as the 19th Judge Advocate General of the United States Army from 1937 to 1941 and the 17th Provost Marshal General of the United States Army from 1941 to 1944.
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Theodore O'Hara
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- poet
- Biography
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Theodore O'Hara was a poet and an officer for the United States Army in the Mexican–American War, and a Confederate colonel in the American Civil War. He is best known for the poems "Bivouac of the Dead", which is quoted in many cemeteries, and "The Old Pioneer".
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Tom Thurman
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- film director
- Biography
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Tom Thurman is an American filmmaker.
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John Christian Bullitt
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- lawyer
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John Christian Bullitt was a lawyer and civic figure in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He founded the law firm known today as Drinker Biddle & Reath. Erected in 1907, Bullitt's bronze statue adjacent to City Hall was the work of artist John J. Boyle and was dedicated to his legacy of reforming Philadelphia City government.
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William T. Martin
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- politicianlawyer
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William Thompson Martin was an American lawyer and politician who became a Confederate States Army major general during the American Civil War. He later served in the Mississippi state senate, and was a delegate to four Democratic National Conventions. Martin was the president of the Natchez, Jackson, and Columbus Railroad, of which he oversaw the construction in 1884.
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Claude Matthews
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- politician
- Biography
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Claude Matthews was an American politician who served as the 23rd governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from 1893 to 1897. A farmer, he was nominated to prevent the loss of voters to the Populist Party. The Panic of 1893 occurred just before he took office, leading to severe economic problems during his term. Republicans took the Indiana General Assembly in the 1894 mid-term election and repudiated many of the Democrats' laws, leading to violence in the assembly. A popular party figure when he left office, he was a nominee to run for president at the 1896 Democratic National Convention, but lost his bid for the nomination to William Jennings Bryan.
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John M. Robsion
- Enrolled in Centre College
- In 1900 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- politicianlawyerteacher
- Biography
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John Marshall Robsion, a Republican, represented Kentucky in both the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
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Thomas C. McCreery
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Thomas Clay McCreery was a Democratic U.S. Senator from Kentucky.
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Andrew Fleming West
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- classical philologisteducatorclassical scholar
- Biography
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Andrew Fleming West was an American classicist, and first dean of the Graduate School at Princeton University.
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Joseph Horace Lewis
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- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Joseph Horace Lewis was an American lawyer, military leader and politician. He served as a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, and later a U.S. Representative from Kentucky and justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, the court of last resort in Kentucky at the time.
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George Madison Adams
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- politicianlawyerclerk
- Biography
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George Madison Adams was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky, nephew of Green Adams, and slaveowner.
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Thomas Cruse
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- military personnel
- Biography
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Thomas Cruse was a brigadier general in the United States Army who was a recipient of the Medal of Honor for valor in action on July 17, 1882, at the Battle of Big Dry Wash, Arizona. An 1879 graduate of West Point, he served in numerous campaigns on the Western Frontier and later in the Philippines. He retired as a brigadier general in 1918.
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King Swope
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- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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King Swope was an American attorney and politician who served as a U.S. representative from Kentucky.
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Robert M. Duncan Jr
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- lawyer
- Biography
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Robert M. Duncan Jr. is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky from 2017 to 2021.
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Ernest S. Croot III
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 52)
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Ernest S. Croot III is a mathematician and professor at the School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology. He is known for his solution of the Erdős–Graham conjecture, and for contributing to the solution of the cap set problem.
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Thomas H. Paynter
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- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Thomas Hanson Paynter was a United States Senator and Representative from Kentucky.
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George B. Martin
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- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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George Brown Martin, a Democrat, served as a member of the United States Senate from Kentucky.
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William Patterson Alexander
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- missionary
- Biography
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William Patterson Alexander was an American missionary to the Kingdom of Hawaii. His family continued to influence the history of Hawaii.
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Theophilus T. Garrard
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- military officer
- Biography
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Theophilus Toulmin Garrard was a politician, Union general in the American Civil War, farmer, and businessman.
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Tom Riner
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tom Riner is an American politician and pastor who served as a Democratic member of the Kentucky House of Representatives for the 41st District from 1982 until 2017. He was defeated by Attica Scott in the 2016 Democratic primary for the seat. The New York Times once wrote regarding Tom's stance of political discourse, "He looks for God everywhere, and in places he does not find him, he tries to put him there."
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Leslie Combs II
- Years
- 1901-1990 (aged 89)
- Occupations
- equestrian
- Biography
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Leslie Combs II was an American equestrian. He was the founder and owner of the Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Kentucky.
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James M. Birney
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- lawyerpoliticianjudgediplomat
- Biography
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James Birney was an American lawyer, newspaper publisher and politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. He served as the 13th lieutenant governor of Michigan and as the U.S. Minister to the Netherlands.
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John H. Rogers
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- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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John Henry Rogers was a United States representative from Arkansas and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas.
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James A. McKenzie
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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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James Andrew McKenzie was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky and uncle of John McKenzie Moss.
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Joshua Fry Bell
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Joshua Fry Bell was a Kentucky slave owner and political figure.
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Frank Leslie Chelf
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Frank Leslie Chelf was a United States representative from Kentucky. He was born on a farm near Elizabethtown, Kentucky. He graduated from Masonic Home High School and lived at the Masonic Widows and Orphans Home (now Masonic Homes of Kentucky) in Louisville, KY. He attended the public schools as well as Centre College at Danville, Kentucky and St. Mary's College. He graduated from Cumberland School of Law at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee in 1931 and was admitted to the bar in 1931 and commenced practice in Lebanon, Kentucky. He served as an attorney of Marion County, Kentucky 1933–1944.
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Robert Charles Wickliffe
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Robert Charles Wickliffe, (grandson of Charles A. Wickliffe and cousin of John Crepps Wickliffe Beckham) was a U.S. Representative from Louisiana; born in Bardstown, Kentucky, while his parents were visiting relatives; he attended the public schools of St. Francisville, Louisiana; was graduated from Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, in 1895 and from the law department of Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana in 1897; was admitted to the bar in 1898 and commenced practice in St. Francisville; member of the state constitutional convention in 1898; enlisted as a private in Company E, First Regiment, Louisiana Volunteer Infantry, during the Spanish–American War; was mustered out of the service in October 1898; returned to West Feliciana Parish; district attorney of the twenty-fourth judicial district of Louisiana 1902–1906; elected as a Democrat to the 61st and 62nd congresses, (March 4, 1909 – June 11, 1912), when he was killed while crossing a railroad bridge in Washington, D.C.; interment in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky.
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Elijah Hise Norton
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Elijah Hise Norton was a U.S. congressman from Missouri during the United States Civil War.
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Howie Camnitz
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Samuel Howard Camnitz was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Philadelphia Phillies (1913) in the National League and for the Pittsburgh Rebels (1914–15) in the Federal League. A native of Covington, Kentucky, he batted and threw right-handed. In an 11-season career, Camnitz posted a 133–106 record with 915 strikeouts and a 2.75 earned run average in 2085+1⁄3 innings pitched.
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Red Roberts
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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James Madison "Red" Roberts was an American football player and coach. He played football for the Centre Praying Colonels in Danville, Kentucky. Roberts was thrice selected All-Southern, and a unanimous choice for the Associated Press Southeast Area All-Time football team 1869-1919 era. After college Roberts, played in the early National Football League (NFL) for the Toledo Maroons and the Akron Pros. He also played in the first American Football League for the Cleveland Panthers. Roberts served as the head football coach at Waynesburg College—now known as Waynesburg University—in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, for one season, in 1923. He later made a run for the office of Governor of Kentucky as a Democrat in 1931, losing in the primary to Ruby Laffoon who went on to win the election.
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Samuel D. Burchard
- Biography
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Samuel Dickinson Burchard was a 19th-century American Presbyterian Church minister from New York.
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John Bennett Dawson
- Occupations
- judgepolitician
- Biography
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John Bennett Dawson was an American politician who served as a Democrat in the United States House of Representatives from the state of Louisiana.
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John Finis Philips
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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John Finis Philips was a United States representative from Missouri and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri.
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Edward W. Creal
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Edward Wester Creal was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
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Lewis W. Green
- Occupations
- university teacheracademic administrator
- Biography
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Lewis Warner Green was an American Presbyterian minister, educator, and academic administrator who was the president of Hampden–Sydney College, Transylvania University, and Centre College for various periods from 1849 to 1863. Born in Danville, Kentucky, baptized in Versailles, and educated in Woodford County, Green enrolled at Transylvania University but transferred to Centre College to complete his education. He graduated in 1824 and in doing so became one of two members of the school's first graduating class. After short periods studying medicine and law, he enrolled at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1831 but returned to Kentucky in 1832 before graduating. The occasion of his return was his election as professor of political economy and belles-lettres; he taught for two years, and became licensed as a preacher during that span, before taking a two-year leave of absence to travel to Europe. Some time after returning, he was elected by the Synod of Kentucky to be professor of oriental and biblical literature at Hanover College, though he stayed there for only one academic year before returning to Centre in 1839 to resume his prior teaching positions and take the office of vice president.
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Glover H. Cary
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Glover H. Cary was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky.
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Red Weaver
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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James Redwick "Red" Weaver was an American football player and coach.
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Thomas Z. Morrow
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Thomas Zanzinger Morrow was a lawyer, judge, and politician from Kentucky. He was one of twenty-eight men who founded the Kentucky Republican Party. His brother-in-law, William O. Bradley, was elected governor of Kentucky in 1895, and his son, Edwin P. Morrow was elected to that same office in 1919.
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John W. Lewis
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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John William Lewis was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
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J. C. S. Blackburn
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn was a Democratic Representative and Senator from Kentucky. Blackburn, a skilled and spirited orator, was also a prominent trial lawyer known for his skill at swaying juries.
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Alexander Graves
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Alexander Graves was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.
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Asa Grover
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Asa Porter Grover was a United States representative from Kentucky. He was born near Phelps, New York where he attended the common schools before moving to Kentucky in 1837. He attended Centre College in Danville, Kentucky and taught school in Woodford and Franklin Counties. In addition, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1843 and commenced practice in Owenton, Kentucky.
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Edward William Cornelius Humphrey
- Occupations
- theologian
- Biography
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Edward William Cornelius Humphrey, also known as "Alphabet Humphrey" and "Judge Humphrey", was a theological and legal scholar and influential member of the National Presbyterian General Assembly. A Harvard graduate with an honorary degree from Amherst, he was also an 1864 graduate of Centre College, of which he became a trustee in 1885. He was a trustee of the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and for forty-four successive terms was elected Director of the Louisville Law Library Company. He was a key figure in a long discussion and eventual acceptance of a Presbyterian creed revision held in May 1902 in New York City by the national Presbyterian General Assembly.
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Lewis Craig Humphrey
- Occupations
- editorjournalist
- Biography
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Lewis Craig Humphrey was an American Kentucky newspaper editor who began his journalistic career as a reporter at the Louisville daily newspaper, the Louisville Evening Post, under the supervision of editor and publisher Richard W. Knott. Upon Knott's death, Humphrey became chief editor of the paper.
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Jo Ellen Powell
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 71)
- Enrolled in Centre College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Jo Ellen Powell is a career member of the United States Foreign Service who served as Consul General in Frankfurt, Germany and was nominated as the US ambassador to Mauritania by Barack Obama on July 15, 2010. She has been known in Frankfurt for her active engagement with Germany's Muslim community, as well as with students, through the "Windows on America" program. Prior to that Powell was the executive director of the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, director of the Office of Employee Relations, and management counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Canberra, Australia. Powell has also served in France, Italy, Lebanon, and Jordan. She is married to Stephen Engelken, also a career diplomat and current deputy chief of mission to Islamabad in Pakistan, with whom she has a son.
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John Mason Martin
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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John Mason Martin was a U.S. Representative from Alabama, son of Joshua Lanier Martin.
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Ed Kubale
- Occupations
- player of American footballAmerican football coach
- Biography
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Edwin C. Kubale was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky from 1928 to 1937 and Southwestern Presbyterian University—now known as Rhodes College—in Memphis, Tennessee from 1938 to 1941, compiling a career college football coaching record of 69–55–8. Kubale played college football at the Center position at Centre.
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Boyd Winchester
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Boyd Winchester was a United States representative from Kentucky. He was born in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. He pursued preparatory studies and then attended Centre College in Danville, Kentucky and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, Virginia. He graduated from the law department of the University of Louisville, Kentucky, in 1857 and commenced practice in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Robert L. Myers
- Occupations
- coach
- Biography
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Robert Lee "Chief" Myers was an American football coach and athletic director foundational in the success of the Centre Praying Colonels football programs of Centre College in the period from 1917 to 1925. This era included the 1921 Centre vs. Harvard football game, one of the sport's greatest upsets.
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William M. Beckner
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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William Morgan Beckner was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
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Herb Covington
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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Herbert Hunt "Flash" Covington, also called "the Mayfield Flash", was an American football, basketball, and baseball player for the Centre Praying Colonels of Centre College in Danville, Kentucky.
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Thomas M. Paschal
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Thomas Moore Paschal was a U.S. Representative from Texas.
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Abram Comingo
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Abram Comingo was a Democratic Representative representing Missouri from March 4, 1871 – March 4, 1875. He was a slaveholder.
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Andrew McConnell January Cochran
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Andrew McConnell January Cochran was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.
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Emmet O'Neal
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Emmet O'Neal was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky and an ambassador to the Philippines. A member of the Centre College Athletic Hall of Fame, his brother was Louisville Mayor Joseph T. O'Neal.
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Terry Snoddy
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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Hall Terry Snoddy also known as Terry Snowday was a college football player.
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John Richard Barret
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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John Richard Barret was a slave owner and U.S. Representative from Missouri.
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Thomas D. Baird
- Occupations
- teacher
- Biography
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Thomas D. Baird was an educator born in Newark, Ohio, United States. Baird was the first professor of mathematics of Westminster College, and the fifth principal of Baltimore City College. He died in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Samuel Johnson Pugh
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Samuel Johnson Pugh was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
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Middleton S. Barnwell
- Occupations
- priest
- Biography
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Middleton Stuart Barnwell was the seventh Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Idaho and the fifth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia. Barnwell was the 349th bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. He was also the first president of what is now Boise State University.
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Robert Patterson Clark Wilson
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Robert Patterson Clark Wilson was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.
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Joshua Bullitt
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Joshua Fry Bullitt was a justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals.
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Mathew Ector
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Matthew Duncan Ector was an American legislator, a Texas jurist, and a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
