30 Notable alumni of
Emory & Henry College
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Emory & Henry College is 2507th in the world, 872nd in North America, and 825th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 30 notable alumni from Emory & Henry 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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Georgia Tann
- Occupations
- social worker
- Biography
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Beulah George "Georgia" Tann was an American social worker and child trafficker who operated the Tennessee Children's Home Society, an unlicensed adoption agency in Memphis, Tennessee. Tann used the home as a front for her black market baby adoption scheme from the 1920s to 1950. Young children were kidnapped and then sold to wealthy families, abused, or—in some instances—murdered. A state investigation into numerous cases of adoption fraud led to the institution's closure in 1950. Tann died of cancer before the investigation made its findings public.
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Toni Atkins
- Enrolled in Emory & Henry College
- In 1984 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Toni Gayle Atkins is an American politician who served as the 51st president pro tempore of the California State Senate from 2018 to 2024. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the 69th speaker of the California State Assembly from 2014 to 2016 and the California State Assembly majority leader from 2012 to 2014. She represented the 39th State Senate district from 2016 to 2024, encompassing most of San Diego.
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Morgan Griffith
- Enrolled in Emory & Henry College
- In 1980 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Howard Morgan Griffith is an American lawyer and politician who has been the U.S. representative for Virginia's 9th congressional district since 2011. The district covers most of Southwest Virginia, including the New River Valley and the Virginia side of the Tri-Cities. He is a member of the Republican Party and the Freedom Caucus.
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Eric McClure
- Occupations
- NASCAR team owner
- Biography
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Eric Wayne McClure was an American professional stock car racing driver and team owner. He last competed part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 0 Chevrolet Camaro for JD Motorsports.
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Robert Sheffey
- Biography
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Robert Sayers Sheffey was an American Methodist evangelist and circuit-riding preacher, renowned for his eccentricities and power in prayer, who ministered to, and became part of the folklore of, the Appalachian region of southwest Virginia, southern West Virginia and eastern Tennessee.
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B. B. Comer
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Braxton Bragg Comer was an American politician who served as the 33rd governor of Alabama from 1907 to 1911, and a United States senator in 1920. As governor, Comer presided over several reforms such as railroad regulation and the lowering of business rates in Alabama to make them more competitive with other states. He also increased funding for the public school system, resulting in more rural schools and high schools in each county for white students and a rise in the state's literacy rate.
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Robert P. Shuler
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Robert Pierce Shuler Sr., also known as "Fighting Bob", was an American evangelist and political figure. His radio broadcasts from his Southern Methodist church in Los Angeles, California, during the 1920s and early 1930s attracted a large audience and also drew controversy with his attacks on politicians and police officials. In 1931, the Federal Radio Commission revoked Shuler's broadcast license due to his outspoken views. He ran for the United States Senate in 1932 on the Prohibition Party ticket and attracted more than 500,000 votes.
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William E. Jones
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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William Edmondson "Grumble" Jones was a Confederate cavalry general with a reputation for being a martinet to his troopers and fractious toward superiors, but acknowledged to be a good commander. After disagreements of a personal nature with J.E.B. Stuart, Jones's brigade was set to guarding supply lines and unavailable during a crucial juncture of the Gettysburg Campaign when Lee suffered from a lack of capable reconnaissance cavalry. As the personality clash between Jones and Stuart escalated, Jones faced charges for impertinence, and was transferred to separate him from Stuart. Jones was killed leading a counter-attack in the 1864 Battle of Piedmont.
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Frank Rowlett
- Occupations
- cryptographermathematician
- Biography
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Frank Byron Rowlett was an American cryptologist.
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Walter Russell Lambuth
- Occupations
- missionarypastor
- Biography
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Walter Russell Lambuth was a Chinese-born American Christian bishop who worked as a missionary establishing schools and hospitals in China, Korea and Japan in the 1880s.
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Harley Orrin Staggers
- Enrolled in Emory & Henry College
- Studied in 1931
- Occupations
- legal servicescoachsheriffteacherpolitician
- Biography
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Harley Orrin Staggers Sr. was an American politician who served 16 terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1949 to 1981, representing West Virginia's 2nd Congressional District as a Democrat. From 1966 until his retirement in 1981, Congressman Staggers chaired the powerful House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (today the Committee on Energy and Commerce). A longtime supporter of the American railroad industry and its workers, Congressman Staggers' landmark legislative achievement was the Staggers Rail Act, passed in 1980.
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George C. Peery
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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George Campbell Peery was a Virginia lawyer, school principal and Democratic politician, who served as the 52nd governor of Virginia from 1934 to 1938, after serving three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as on the State Corporation Commission. Sometimes called the second governor selected (at least partially), by the soon to be very powerful Byrd Organization, led by former Virginia Governor and later multi-term Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr. Peery was also the first Virginia governor from southwest Virginia, and noted his descent from early settlers of the Clinch Valley.
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Henry DeLamar Clayton
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Henry DeLamar Clayton, Sr. was a prominent Alabama attorney, politician, Redeemer judge, and college president. He also served as a major general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, commanding a division in the Army of Tennessee in the Western Theater.
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Henry Carter Stuart
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Henry Carter Stuart was an American businessman and politician from Virginia. Between 1914 and 1918, he served as the 47th Governor of Virginia, a period which encompassed World War I.
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William F. Tucker
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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William Feimster Tucker was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
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Israel O'Quinn
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Israel Dean O'Quinn is an American politician. A Republican, he was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 2011. He currently represents the 44th district, made up of the cities of Bristol and Galax, Grayson County, and parts of Smyth and Washington counties in the southwestern part of the state.
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Campbell Slemp
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Campbell Slemp was a farmer and Confederate officer in southwest Virginia who became a Readjuster Democrat after Congressional Reconstruction and served in the Virginia House of Delegates. He eventually joined the Republican Party and won election to the United States House of Representatives from Virginia's 9th congressional district and controlled federal patronage in the Commonwealth from 1903 to 1907. Slemp died unexpectedly at home while in office, after which his son C. Bascom Slemp succeeded to the seat for more than a decade, until being ousted by the rising Byrd Organization.
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John Goode
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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John Goode Jr. was a Virginia attorney and Democratic politician. He served in both the United States Congress and the Confederate Congress, and was a colonel in the Confederate Army. He was Solicitor General of the United States during the presidency of Grover Cleveland. He was known as "the grand old man of Virginia".
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Samuel W. Small
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Samuel White "Sam" Small was a journalist, Methodist evangelist, and prohibitionist.
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Henry Bowen
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Henry Bowen was a Virginia lawyer, soldier and politician from Tazewell County, Virginia. After raising a unit which became the 22nd Virginia Cavalry, he fought for the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War, after which Bowen served in the Virginia House of Delegates, as well as the U.S. House of Representatives, first as a Readjuster, then as a Republican.
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James Stewart Martin
- Occupations
- judgepoliticianlawyermilitary officer
- Biography
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James Stewart Martin was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
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Timothy Cloyd
- Years
- 20th Century
- Biography
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J. Timothy Cloyd is an American educator and former higher education administrator. Cloyd served as the president of Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas from 2001 to 2013. In 2016, he became president of Drury University in Springfield, Missouri, a position he held until his resignation in March of 2023.
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James Buchanan Richmond
- Occupations
- judgepoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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James Buchanan Richmond was a nineteenth-century politician, lawyer, judge and banker from Virginia.
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Ariosto A. Wiley
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Ariosto Appling Wiley was an American lawyer, Spanish-American War veteran, and politician who served four terms as a U.S. Representative from Alabama from 1901 until his death in office in 1908.
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John Lee Buchanan
- Biography
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John Lee Buchanan was the second president of Virginia Tech (then Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College) and the sixth president of the University of Arkansas.
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Collins Denny
- Occupations
- lawyerpriest
- Biography
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Collins Denny was an American clergyman and educator. He was Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy at Vanderbilt University from 1891 to 1910. He served as bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South from 1910 to 1943.
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Elijah Embree Hoss
- Years
- 1849-1919 (aged 70)
- Occupations
- editorbiographermagazine writerpriest
- Biography
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Elijah Embree Hoss, Sr was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1902. He also distinguished himself as a Methodist pastor, college professor, administrator, and editor.
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Robert Ridgway
- Occupations
- editorpoliticianlawyerjournalist
- Biography
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Robert Ridgway was a nineteenth-century congressman, lawyer and journalist from Virginia.
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Jerry H. Geisler
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jerry Hubert Geisler was an American lawyer and Republican politician. He was first elected in 1965 to represent Carroll, Grayson, Galax City in the Virginia House of Delegates, defeating Hillsville mayor Raleigh Cooley. In 1967, Geisler switched parties to the Republican Party, a move made by many in the southern United States due to the national Democratic Party's new focus on civil rights. In 1974, he was selected by the members of his caucus to be minority leader, a position in which he served until he was defeated for election in the reorganized 5th district in 1981.
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Alexander G. Crockett
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Alexander George Crockett was an American Democratic politician who served as a member of the Virginia Senate, representing the state's 5th district.
