15 Notable alumni of
Franklin College
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Franklin College is 2368th in the world, 829th in North America, and 783rd in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 15 notable alumni from Franklin 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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Robert Wise
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- film editordirectorproducerfilm producertrade unionist
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Robert Earl Wise was an American film director, producer, and editor. He won the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for his musical films West Side Story (1961) and The Sound of Music (1965). He was also nominated for Best Film Editing for Citizen Kane (1941) and directed and produced The Sand Pebbles (1966), which was nominated for Best Picture.
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Marjorie Main
- Occupations
- television actorstage actorfilm actoractorcharacter actor
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Mary Tomlinson, professionally known as Marjorie Main, was an American character actress and singer of the Classical Hollywood period, best known as a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player in the 1940s and 1950s, and for her role as Ma Kettle in 10 Ma and Pa Kettle movies. Main started her career in vaudeville and theatre, and appeared in film classics, such as Dead End (1937), The Women (1939), Dark Command (1940), The Shepherd of the Hills (1941), Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), and Friendly Persuasion (1956).
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Edna Parker
- Occupations
- teacher
- Biography
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Edna Ruth Parker was an American supercentenarian who, for 15 months, was recognized as the oldest person in the world. She was featured in two documentaries and included in a Boston University DNA database of supercentenarians.
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Elmer Davis
- Occupations
- writer
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Elmer Holmes Davis was an American news reporter, author, the Director of the United States Office of War Information during World War II and a Peabody Award recipient.
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Fuzzy Vandivier
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- basketball coachbasketball player
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Robert P. "Fuzzy" Vandivier was an American high school and collegiate basketball player during the 1920s.
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Roger D. Branigin
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- politicianlawyer
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Roger Douglas Branigin was an American politician who was the 42nd governor of Indiana, serving from January 11, 1965, to January 13, 1969. A World War II veteran and well-known public speaker, Branigin took office with a Democratic general assembly, the first time since the Great Depression that Democrats controlled both the executive and legislative branches of the Indiana state government. Branigin was a conservative Democrat who oversaw repeal of the state's personal property taxes on household goods, increased access to higher education, and began construction of Indiana's deep-water port at Burns Harbor on Lake Michigan. During his one term as governor, Branigin exercised his veto power one hundred times, a record number for a single term. Branigin was the last Democrat to serve as governor of Indiana until Evan Bayh took office in 1989.
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Paul Monroe
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- 1869-1947 (aged 78)
- Occupations
- linguistlexicographerwriter
- Biography
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Paul Monroe, Ph.D., LL.D. was an American educator. He specialized in the history of education, and in comparative studies.
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William Steele Holman
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- politicianjudgelawyer
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William Steele Holman was a lawyer, judge and politician from Dearborn County, Indiana. He was a member of the Democratic Party who served as a U.S. Representative from 1859 to 1865, 1867 to 1877, 1881 to 1895, and 1897, spanning sixteen Congresses. He is known for originating the Holman Rule, allowing amendments to appropriations bills to cut a specific program or federal employee salary. He died in office in 1897, a month after his last election.
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Steven A. Cohen
- Occupations
- environmentalist
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Steven A. Cohen is an American academic who has taught public management and environmental policy at Columbia University since 1981. He is the former executive director of Columbia University's Earth Institute and now serves as a senior advisor for the institute. He is a professor in the practice of public affairs at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. He is also the director of the Master of Public Administration in Environmental Science and Policy in the School of International and Public Affairs and the director of the Master of Science in Sustainability Management in the School of Professional Studies. He served on the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator's National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology (2002–2004). He currently serves on the board of directors of Homes for the Homeless, faculty advisory committee for the Porter School of Environmental Studies at Tel Aviv University, and the admissions committee of the Lotos Club. Cohen is the lead independent director of the board of directors of the Willdan Group, Inc. Cohen also sits on the judging committee for the Yidan Prize Foundation. He served on the advisory board of the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment (2016-2022).
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Christopher T. Gonzalez
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- 1963-1994 (aged 31)
- Biography
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Christopher T. Gonzalez, also known as Chris Gonzalez, was an activist who succumbed to AIDS on May 5, 1994, in Indianapolis. He left a legacy for gay and lesbian youth in and around the Indianapolis area that continues through the non-profit organization he founded, Indiana Youth Group. IYG was one of the first organizations in the country to support gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender youth.
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William G. Everson
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William Graham Everson was a major general in the United States Army who served as Chief of the National Guard Bureau.
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Jesse Overstreet
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- politicianlawyer
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Jesse E. Overstreet was an American lawyer and politician who served seven terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1895 to 1909. In 1900, Overstreet introduced the legislation that was ultimately passed as the Gold Standard Act.
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Francis M. Griffith
- Years
- 1849-1927 (aged 78)
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
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Francis Marion Griffith was an American educator and politician who served four terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1897 to 1905.
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Hugh Lowery
- Occupations
- athletics competitorplayer of American footballbasketball player
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Hugh Lowery was an American football player. He played at the tackle position for the 1920 Detroit Heralds during the first regular season of the National Football League (NFL), then known as the American Professional Football Association (APFA). He was also a member of the football, basketball, baseball and track and field teams at Franklin College.
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Otis William Caldwell
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- coachwriteruniversity teacherbotanist
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Otis William Caldwell was an American botanist, college football coach and science writer.
