72 Notable alumni of
Hampden-Sydney College

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Hampden-Sydney College is 1294th in the world, 467th in North America, and 439th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 72 notable alumni from Hampden-Sydney College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.

  1. William Henry Harrison

    William Henry Harrison
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1773-1841 (aged 68)
    Occupations
    statespersonpoliticianmilitary officerdiplomat
    Biography

    William Henry Harrison was an American military officer and politician who served as the ninth president of the United States. Harrison died just 31 days after his inauguration as president in 1841, making his presidency the shortest in U.S. history. He was also the first U.S. president to die in office, causing a brief constitutional crisis since presidential succession was not then fully defined in the United States Constitution. Harrison was the last president born as a British subject in the Thirteen Colonies and was the paternal grandfather of Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the United States.

  2. John Phillips

    John Phillips
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1935-2001 (aged 66)
    Occupations
    composerproducerdirectoractorsongwriter
    Biography

    John Edmund Andrew Phillips was an American folk rock musician. He was the leader of the vocal group the Mamas & the Papas and remains frequently referred to as Papa John Phillips. In addition to writing the majority of the group's compositions, he also wrote "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" in 1967 for former Journeymen bandmate Scott McKenzie, as well as the oft-covered "Me and My Uncle", which was a favorite in the repertoire of the Grateful Dead. Phillips was one of the chief organizers of the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.

  3. Scott Cooper

    Scott Cooper
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1970-.. (age 54)
    Occupations
    film actorscreenwritertelevision actoractorfilm producer
    Biography

    Scott Cooper is an American director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is known for writing and directing Crazy Heart (2009), Out of the Furnace (2013), Black Mass (2015), Hostiles (2017), and Antlers (2021).

  4. John S. Mosby

    John S. Mosby
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1833-1916 (aged 83)
    Occupations
    military personnellawyer
    Biography

    John Singleton Mosby, also known by his nickname "Gray Ghost", was an American military officer who was a Confederate army cavalry battalion commander in the American Civil War. His command, the 43rd Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, known as Mosby's Rangers or Mosby's Raiders, was a partisan ranger unit noted for its lightning-quick raids and its ability to elude Union Army pursuers and disappear, blending in with local farmers and townsmen. The area of northern central Virginia in which Mosby operated with impunity became known as Mosby's Confederacy. After the war, Mosby became a Republican and worked as an attorney, supporting his former enemy's commander, U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant. He also served as the American consul to Hong Kong and in the U.S. Department of Justice.

  5. Skipp Sudduth

    Skipp Sudduth
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1956-.. (age 68)
    Occupations
    film actorstage actortelevision actor
    Biography

    Robert Lee "Skipp" Sudduth IV is an American theater, film and television actor. He appeared in the 1998 film Ronin and the TV drama Third Watch.

  6. Sterling Price

    Sterling Price
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1809-1867 (aged 58)
    Occupations
    politicianbusinesspersonmilitary officer
    Biography

    Sterling Price was a United States general and senior officer of the Confederate States Army who fought in both the Western and Trans-Mississippi theater of the American Civil War. He rose to prominence during the Mexican–American War and served as governor of Missouri from 1853 to 1857. He is remembered today for his service in Arkansas (1862–1865) and for his defeat at the Battle of Westport on October 23, 1864.

  7. John Leighton Stuart

    John Leighton Stuart
    Born in
    China Flag China
    Years
    1876-1962 (aged 86)
    Occupations
    missionarydiplomat
    Biography

    John Leighton Stuart was a missionary educator, the first President of Yenching University and later United States ambassador to China. He was a towering figure in U.S.-Chinese relations in the first half of the 20th century, a man TIME magazine called "perhaps the most respected American in China." According to one Chinese historian, "there was no other American of his ilk in the 20th century, one who was as deeply involved in Chinese politics, culture, and education and had such an incredible influence in China."

  8. Robert Hurt

    Robert Hurt
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1969-.. (age 55)
    Enrolled in Hampden-Sydney College
    In 1991 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    Robert Hurt is an American attorney and politician who served as the U.S. representative for Virginia's 5th congressional district from 2011 to 2017, where he served on the Financial Services Committee as vice chair of the Capital Markets Subcommittee and Housing and Insurance Subcommittee.

  9. Robert Lewis Dabney

    Robert Lewis Dabney
    Years
    1820-1898 (aged 78)
    Occupations
    architectuniversity teachertheologianbiographer
    Biography

    Robert Lewis Dabney was a Southern Presbyterian pastor and theologian, Confederate army chaplain, and architect from Virginia. He was also chief of staff and biographer to Stonewall Jackson; his biography of Jackson remains in print today.

  10. John Wayles Eppes

    John Wayles Eppes
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1773-1823 (aged 50)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    John Wayles Eppes was an American lawyer and politician. He represented Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1803 to 1811 and again from 1813 to 1815. He also served in the U.S. Senate (1817–1819). His positions in Congress occurred after he served in the Virginia House of Delegates representing Chesterfield County (1801–1803).

  11. Paul Trible

    Paul Trible
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1946-.. (age 78)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    Paul Seward Trible Jr. is an American attorney, politician and academic administrator. Trible was the president of Christopher Newport University from 1996 until his retirement in 2022. A Republican, he represented Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives for three terms and the U.S. Senate for one.

  12. Jonathan Martin

    Jonathan Martin
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1977-.. (age 47)
    Occupations
    writerjournalist
    Biography

    Jonathan Martin is an American political journalist. He is Politico’s politics bureau chief and senior political columnist, the co-author of the 2012 book The End of the Line: Romney vs. Obama: The 34 Days That Decided the Election, and the co-author of the 2022 book This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future.

  13. William Cabell Rives

    William Cabell Rives
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1793-1868 (aged 75)
    Occupations
    diplomatpoliticianlawyer
    Biography

    William Cabell Rives was an American lawyer, planter, politician and diplomat from Virginia. Initially a Jackson Democrat as well as member of the First Families of Virginia, Rives served in the Virginia House of Delegates representing first Nelson County, then Albemarle County, Virginia, before service in both the U.S. House and Senate (his final term as a Whig). Rives also served two separate terms as U.S. Minister to France. During the Andrew Jackson administration, Rives negotiated a treaty whereby the French agreed to pay the U.S. for spoliation claims from the Napoleonic Wars. During the American Civil War, Rives became a Delegate to the Provisional Confederate Congress and the Confederate House of Representatives.

  14. Ed McMullen

    Ed McMullen
    Years
    1964-.. (age 60)
    Occupations
    diplomat
    Biography

    Edward Thomas McMullen Jr. is an American political strategist and diplomat, who served as the United States Ambassador to Switzerland from 2017 to 2021.

  15. George M. Bibb

    George M. Bibb
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1776-1859 (aged 83)
    Occupations
    politicianjudgelawyer
    Biography

    George Mortimer Bibb was an American lawyer and politician and the seventeenth United States Secretary of the Treasury. He was chief justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals and twice represented Kentucky as a senator in Congress, serving from 1811 to 1814 and from 1829 to 1835.

  16. Thomas S. Bocock

    Thomas S. Bocock
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1815-1891 (aged 76)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    Thomas Salem Bocock was a Confederate politician and lawyer from Virginia. After serving as an antebellum United States Congressman, he was the speaker of the Confederate States House of Representatives during most of the American Civil War.

  17. Roger Atkinson Pryor

    Roger Atkinson Pryor
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1828-1919 (aged 91)
    Occupations
    lawyerarmy officerpoliticianjudge
    Biography

    Roger Atkinson Pryor was a Virginian newspaper editor and politician who became known for his fiery oratory in favor of secession; he was elected both to national and Confederate office, and served as a general for the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. In 1865 he moved to New York City to remake his life, and in 1868 brought his family north. He was among a number of influential southerners in the North who became known as "Confederate carpetbaggers."

  18. William Branch Giles

    William Branch Giles
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1762-1830 (aged 68)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    William Branch Giles was an American statesman, long-term Senator from Virginia, and the 24th Governor of Virginia. He served in the House of Representatives from 1790 to 1798 and again from 1801 to 1803; in between, he was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates and was an Elector for Jefferson (and Aaron Burr) in 1800. He served as a United States Senator from 1804 to 1815 and then served briefly in the House of Delegates again. After a time in private life, he joined the opposition to John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay in 1824; he ran for the Senate again in 1825 and was defeated but appointed Governor for three one-year terms in 1827; he was succeeded by John Floyd, in the year of his death.

  19. George H. Denny

    George H. Denny
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1870-1955 (aged 85)
    Biography

    George Hutcheson Denny was an American academic and former president at both Washington and Lee University and the University of Alabama. Both a football coach and an educator, he ultimately was appointed Washington and Lee's president in 1901, and he remained in that spot until his resignation in 1912 to become president at Alabama. Denny served as president of Alabama from 1912 through 1936 and again as interim president in 1941 and 1942. Denny oversaw a major expansion of both enrollment and the physical campus during his tenure. He died at age 84 on April 2, 1955, in Lexington, Virginia.

  20. Elbert Lee Trinkle

    Elbert Lee Trinkle
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1876-1939 (aged 63)
    Occupations
    politicianbusinesspersonlawyer
    Biography

    Elbert Lee Trinkle was an American politician who served as the 49th Governor of Virginia from 1922 to 1926.

  21. William Ballard Preston

    William Ballard Preston
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1805-1862 (aged 57)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    William Ballard Preston was an American politician who served as a Confederate States Senator from Virginia from February 18, 1862, until his death in November. He previously served as the 19th United States Secretary of the Navy from 1849 to 1850. He is also the cousin of William Campbell Preston and William Preston.

  22. William H. Cabell

    William H. Cabell
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1772-1853 (aged 81)
    Occupations
    politicianjudgelawyer
    Biography

    William H. Cabell was a Virginia lawyer, politician, plantation owner, and judge aligned with the Democratic-Republican party. He served as a Member of the Virginia House of Delegates, as Governor of Virginia, and as a judge on what later became the Virginia Supreme Court. Cabell adopted his middle initial in 1795—which did not stand for a name—to distinguish himself from other William Cabells, including his uncle, William Cabell Sr.

  23. Hamilton Rowan Gamble

    Hamilton Rowan Gamble
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1798-1864 (aged 66)
    Occupations
    judgelawyer
    Biography

    Hamilton Rowan Gamble was an American jurist and politician who served as the Chief Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court at the time of the Dred Scott case in 1852. Although his colleagues voted to overturn the 28-year precedent in Missouri of "once free always free," Gamble wrote a dissenting opinion. During the American Civil War, he was appointed as the Governor of Missouri by a Constitutional Convention after Union forces captured the state capital at Jefferson City and deposed the elected governor, Claiborne Jackson.

  24. John S. Preston

    John S. Preston
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1809-1881 (aged 72)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    John Smith Preston was a wealthy planter, soldier, and attorney who became prominent in South Carolina politics in the 19th century. An ardent secessionist, he was the state's delegate dispatched to help convince the Virginia Secession Convention to join South Carolina in seceding from the antebellum Union in the months prior to the start of the American Civil War.

  25. Hank Crisp

    Hank Crisp
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1896-1970 (aged 74)
    Occupations
    player of American footballbasketball coachbaseball player
    Biography

    Henry Gorham Crisp was an American football, basketball, baseball and track coach and college athletics administrator. In spite of an accident when he was 13 years old that resulted in the loss of his right hand, Crisp went on to letter in football, basketball and track at both Hampden–Sydney College and Virginia Tech – then known primarily as VPI.

  26. Philip W. McKinney

    Philip W. McKinney
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1832-1899 (aged 67)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    Philip Watkins McKinney was an American lawyer, soldier and politician. McKinney served in the Virginia House of Delegates, was the Commonwealth attorney for Prince Edward County, and was elected as the 41st Governor of Virginia, serving from 1890 to 1894.

  27. Hugh A. Garland

    Hugh A. Garland
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1805-1854 (aged 49)
    Occupations
    lawyer
    Biography

    Hugh Alfred Garland was an American lawyer and politician. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates. In 1838 to 1841 he served as clerk of the United States House of Representatives. Garland, a slave owner, was a staunch supporter of slavery in the United States, and he led the defense for Dred Scott's owner, John F. A. Sanford, in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford, but died three years before the case was argued before the United States Supreme Court.

  28. Andrew Hunter

    Andrew Hunter
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1804-1888 (aged 84)
    Occupations
    lawyer
    Biography

    Andrew H. Hunter was a Virginia lawyer, slaveholder, and politician who served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly, including the Confederate House of Delegates. He was the Commonwealth's attorney for Jefferson County, Virginia, who prosecuted John Brown for the raid on Harpers Ferry.

  29. Landon Garland

    Landon Garland
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1810-1895 (aged 85)
    Occupations
    academic
    Biography

    Landon Cabell Garland, an American, was professor of physics and history and university president three times at different Southern Universities (Randolph Macon, Alabama, Vanderbilt) while living in the Southern United States for his entire life. He served as the second president of Randolph–Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, from 1836 to 1846; then professor from 1847 to 1855, and then third president of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, from 1855 to 1867; and first chancellor of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1875 to 1893. He was an apologist for slavery in the United States before the Civil War, but afterward became a vociferous spokesperson against slavery.

  30. William Lawrence Scott

    William Lawrence Scott
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1828-1891 (aged 63)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    William Lawrence Scott was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, a prominent railroad executive, as well as a prominent horse breeder and horse racer.

  31. Robert Humphreys

    Robert Humphreys
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1893-1977 (aged 84)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Robert Humphreys was briefly a member of the United States Senate from Kentucky.

  32. Paul Reiber

    Paul Reiber
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1947-.. (age 77)
    Occupations
    judgelawyer
    Biography

    Paul L. Reiber is the Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court. Reiber graduated from Hampden-Sydney College in 1970 and from Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974. Reiber was in private practice in Rutland until becoming a partner in Kenlan, Schwiebert & Facey in 1986. He also served for six years on Vermont's Judicial Nominating Board. He was appointed by Governor Jim Douglas as an associate justice in October 2003. Governor Douglas swore him in as chief justice on December 17, 2004.

  33. Moses Waddel

    Moses Waddel
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1770-1840 (aged 70)
    Occupations
    Christian ministerwriter
    Biography

    Moses Waddel was an American educator and minister in antebellum Georgia and South Carolina. Famous as a teacher during his life, Moses Waddel was author of the bestselling book Memoirs of the Life of Miss Caroline Elizabeth Smelt.

  34. Eugene W. Hickok

    Eugene W. Hickok
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1951-.. (age 73)
    Biography

    Eugene W. Hickok is a former United States Deputy Secretary of Education, serving from 2003-2005 under President George W. Bush, and a former Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Education, serving from 1995-2001 under Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Richmond.

  35. Thomas Watkins Ligon

    Thomas Watkins Ligon
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1810-1881 (aged 71)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    Thomas Watkins Ligon, a Democrat, was the 30th Governor of Maryland in the United States from 1854 to 1858. He was also a member of the United States House of Representatives, serving Maryland's third Congressional district from 1845 until 1849. He was the second Maryland governor born in Virginia and was a minority party governor, who faced bitter opposition from an openly hostile legislature.

  36. Burr Harrison

    Burr Harrison
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1904-1973 (aged 69)
    Occupations
    politicianjudgelawyer
    Biography

    Burr Powell Harrison was a Virginia lawyer, judge and Democratic politician who was a member of the Byrd Organization and served as U.S. Congressman representing Virginia's 7th congressional district (as had his father).

  37. John Peter Mettauer

    John Peter Mettauer
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1787-1875 (aged 88)
    Occupations
    surgeongynaecologist
    Biography

    John Peter Mettauer was an American surgeon and gynecologist. He was the son of surgeon Francis Joseph Mettauer.

  38. William Overton Callis

    William Overton Callis
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1756-1814 (aged 58)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    William O. Callis was the son of William Harry Callis and Mary Jane Cosby. He was a childhood friend of Presidents James Madison and James Monroe, was with Washington at Yorktown, and was known to Lafayette, Thomas Jefferson, and Benedict Arnold.

  39. William D. Reynolds

    William D. Reynolds
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1867-1951 (aged 84)
    Occupations
    Bible translatortranslator
    Biography

    William D. Reynolds was an American Southern Presbyterian (PCUS) missionary and Bible translator in Korea.

  40. Peter M. McCoy Jr

    Peter M. McCoy Jr
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1978-.. (age 46)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    Peter M. McCoy Jr. is an American attorney and politician who served as the United States Attorney for the District of South Carolina from 2020 to 2021. He was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 2011 to 2020.

  41. Samuel B. Pryor

    Samuel B. Pryor
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1816-1866 (aged 50)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Samuel B. Pryor was the first mayor of Dallas, Texas.

  42. William Spong Jr

    William Spong Jr
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1920-1997 (aged 77)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    William Belser Spong Jr. was an American Democratic Party politician and a United States Senator who represented the state of Virginia from 1966 to 1973.

  43. Gerald Fauth

    Gerald Fauth
    Biography

    Gerald Fauth is an American businessperson who serves on the National Mediation Board. Fauth was first appointed to the NMB by President Donald Trump in 2017 and served as its Chairman from November 2017 to June 2018 and again from July 2021 to June 2022. Prior to joining the NMB, he was the president of G.W. Fauth & Associates Inc., a transportation economic consulting firm.

  44. James Sloan Kuykendall

    James Sloan Kuykendall
    Years
    1878-1928 (aged 50)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    James Sloan Kuykendall was an American farmer, lawyer, and Democratic politician in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Kuykendall was twice elected as a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates representing Hampshire County (1907–1908 and 1919–1920). Kuykendall also served three terms as the mayor of Romney and later fulfilled the position of city attorney.

  45. George Washington Hopkins

    George Washington Hopkins
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1804-1861 (aged 57)
    Occupations
    lawyerpoliticianjudgediplomat
    Biography

    George Washington Hopkins was a nineteenth-century United States politician, diplomat, lawyer, judge and teacher.

  46. Neal Hunt

    Neal Hunt
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1942-.. (age 82)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Neal K. Hunt is an American real estate businessman and politician who served as a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing constituents in Wake County in the fifteenth district of the North Carolina Senate. He was first elected to the Senate in 2004. He previously served two terms in an at-large seat on the Raleigh City Council.

  47. W. Taylor Reveley II

    W. Taylor Reveley II
    Years
    1917-1992 (aged 75)
    Occupations
    academic administratorChristian ministerbasketball playeruniversity teacher
    Biography

    Walter Taylor Reveley II served as the 18th president of Hampden-Sydney College from 1963 to 1977. Founded in 1775 with other colonial colleges, Hampden-Sydney is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in America. During Reveley's presidency, a time of significant social and political unrest throughout the country, the faculty increased by more than 40 percent, the student body grew from roughly 500 to 800 and the endowment doubled. Major construction projects, including a science center and a library addition, were completed, and the college celebrated its bicentennial. He also oversaw the modernizing of the curriculum and the integration of the College.

  48. James A. Harrell, III

    James A. Harrell, III
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1971-.. (age 53)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    James Andrew "Jim" Harrell III served three terms as a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's ninetieth House district, including constituents in Alleghany and Surry counties. Harrell is originally from Elkin, North Carolina and later moved to Roaring Gap. As of 2011, Harrell is a lobbyist, running his own firm, James A. Harrell III and Associates, LLC, in Raleigh.

  49. Charles A. Bernier

    Charles A. Bernier
    Years
    1890-1963 (aged 73)
    Occupations
    baseball playerbasketball coach
    Biography

    Charles Arthur "Yank" Bernier was an American football, basketball, and baseball player, coach, and college administrator. He served as the head football coach at Hampden–Sydney College from 1912 to 1916 and again from 1923 to 1938 and at Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (VPI)—now known as Virginia Tech— from 1917 to 1919, compiling a career college football record of 87–106–18. Bernier was also the head basketball coach at Hampden–Sydney (1912–1917, 1923–1940), Virginia Tech (1917–1920), and the University of Alabama (1920–1923), amassing a career college basketball record of 242–219. In addition, he was the head baseball coach at the University of New Hampshire (1912), Virginia Tech (1918–1920), and Alabama (1921–1923), tallying a career college baseball record of 67–65–4. Bernier also served as the athletic director at Alabama from 1920 to 1923.

  50. Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy

    Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1846-1904 (aged 58)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyerteacher
    Biography

    Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy was an American lawyer, politician, and businessperson in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Flournoy served as a state senator representing the 12th Senatorial District in the West Virginia Senate (1885–1890) and served three terms as mayor of Romney, West Virginia. Flournoy unsuccessfully ran as a candidate for the West Virginia Democratic Party gubernatorial nomination in 1900.

  51. Elisha E. Meredith

    Elisha E. Meredith
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1848-1900 (aged 52)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    Elisha Edward Meredith was a U.S. Representative from Virginia.

  52. Thomas Atkinson

    Thomas Atkinson
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1807-1881 (aged 74)
    Occupations
    Catholic priest
    Biography

    Thomas Atkinson was the third Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina.

  53. Henry Bell Gilkeson

    Henry Bell Gilkeson
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1850-1921 (aged 71)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyerteacher
    Biography

    Henry Bell Gilkeson was an American lawyer, politician, school administrator, and banker in West Virginia.

  54. John M. P. Atkinson

    John M. P. Atkinson
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1817-1883 (aged 66)
    Occupations
    theologian
    Biography

    John Mayo Pleasants Atkinson was the tenth President of Hampden–Sydney College from 1857 to 1883. He was the first alumnus of the college to be named its president and is the longest tenured president to date (26 years).

  55. Alexander McKelway

    Alexander McKelway
    Years
    1866-1918 (aged 52)
    Occupations
    Christian ministerjournalisttrade unionist
    Biography

    Alexander Jeffrey McKelway was an American Presbyterian minister, and journalist. A supporter of the Presidency of Woodrow Wilson he is best known as an Progressive Era reformer, especially as an activist for child labor restrictions at the state and national level. He served as editor of the Presbyterian Standard magazine and as southern secretary of the National Child Labor Committee, he influenced the Democratic platform of 1916 and the Child Labor Bill of 1916. In 1916 he campaigned for Woodrow Wilson, serving as the director of the Bureau of Education and Social Service of the Democratic National Committee. He wrote two influential pamphlets promoting Wilson as a Progressive Era reformer:, "The Schoolmaster in the White House" and "Woodrow Wilson and Social Justice."

  56. William Henry Brodnax

    William Henry Brodnax
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1786-1834 (aged 48)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    William H. Brodnax, (1786 – October 23, 1834) was a nineteenth-century American militia Brigadier General and American politician from Virginia.

  57. William Daniel

    William Daniel
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1806-1873 (aged 67)
    Occupations
    politicianjudgelawyer
    Biography

    William Daniel, Jr. was an American slaveowner, lawyer, legislator and jurist who served on the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, that state's highest court, from 1846 to 1865.

  58. Robert Atkinson Gibson

    Robert Atkinson Gibson
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1846-1919 (aged 73)
    Occupations
    priest
    Biography

    Robert Atkinson Gibson was the sixth Episcopal bishop of Virginia.

  59. Robert Strange

    Robert Strange
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1796-1854 (aged 58)
    Occupations
    politicianjudgelawyer
    Biography

    Robert Strange was a Democratic U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina between 1836 and 1840.

  60. Richard McIlwaine

    Richard McIlwaine
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1834-1913 (aged 79)
    Occupations
    theologian
    Biography

    Richard McIlwaine was the eleventh President of Hampden–Sydney College from 1883 to 1904. He wrote an autobiographical account of his life experiences titled Memories of Three Score Years and Ten.

  61. Harry R. Houston

    Harry R. Houston
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1878-1960 (aged 82)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Harry Rutherford Houston was a Virginia politician. He represented Elizabeth City County in the Virginia House of Delegates, and served as that body's Speaker from 1916 until 1920.

  62. James R. Thornton

    James R. Thornton
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1853-1911 (aged 58)
    Biography

    James Riddle Thornton was an acting President of Hampden–Sydney College for two-and-a-half weeks in 1904.

  63. John M. Hart

    John M. Hart
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1866-1955 (aged 89)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    John Marion Hart was an American Democratic politician who served as a member of the Virginia Senate, representing the state's 4th district. Hart resigned his seat in the Senate before the expiration of his second term in order to accept appointment as collector of internal revenue for the Western District of Virginia by President Woodrow Wilson.

  64. Louis S. Epes

    Louis S. Epes
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1882-1935 (aged 53)
    Occupations
    politicianjudgelawyer
    Biography

    Louis Spencer Epes was an American lawyer, judge and politician. He served as a member of the Senate of Virginia and was appointed as a justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.

  65. Dan McFarlan

    Dan McFarlan
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1873-1924 (aged 51)
    Occupations
    baseball player
    Biography

    Anderson Daniel McFarlan was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He played in 1895 for the Louisville Colonels, and 1899 for two different teams, the Brooklyn Superbas and Washington Senators.

  66. Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy

    Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1886-1961 (aged 75)
    Occupations
    lawyer
    Biography

    Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy was an American lawyer and politician in the U.S. state of West Virginia. He was a prominent lawyer in Charleston, where he practiced law for over 50 years. Born in Romney in 1886, Flournoy was the son of West Virginia State Senator Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy. Flournoy was a grandson of Hampshire County Clerk of Court John Baker White and a nephew of West Virginia Attorney General Robert White and West Virginia Fish Commission President Christian Streit White. He was also a relative of Thomas Flournoy, United States Representative from Virginia.

  67. Robert K. Brock

    Robert K. Brock
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1878-1962 (aged 84)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Robert Kincaid Brock was an American Democratic politician who served twice as a member of the Virginia Senate, from 1912 to 1916 and again from 1936 to 1948.

  68. William H. Ewing

    William H. Ewing
    Years
    1841-1924 (aged 83)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    William Henry Ewing was an American Democratic politician who represented Prince Edward County in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1910 to 1914.

  69. Peter Winston

    Peter Winston
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1836-1920 (aged 84)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Peter Winston was an American physician and Democratic politician who represented Prince Edward County in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1914 until shortly before his death in 1920.

  70. James Jones

    James Jones
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1772-1848 (aged 76)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    James Jones was a medical doctor, Virginia legislator, and U.S. Representative from Virginia.

  71. W. H. Whiting, Jr

    W. H. Whiting, Jr
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1862-1949 (aged 87)
    Biography

    William Henry Whiting Jr. was the acting president of Hampden–Sydney College from 1904 to 1905 and again from 1908 to 1909.

  72. Thomas E. Glascock

    Thomas E. Glascock
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1932-.. (age 92)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Thomas Edwin Glascock is an American attorney and Democratic politician who served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1982 to 1983. While in the House, he was one of thirty-five delegates who voted for a resolution to bring the Equal Rights Amendment to the floor. In 1985, he ran in the 92nd district but was defeated by Independent candidate Mary T. Christian, who went on to be reelected as a Democrat eight times.