12 Notable alumni of
Huntingdon College
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Huntingdon College is 2715th in the world, 950th in North America, and 898th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 12 notable alumni from Huntingdon 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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Harper Lee
- Occupations
- novelistmusicianwriterpoet lawyerprose writer
- Biography
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Nelle Harper Lee was an American novelist whose 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature. She assisted her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book In Cold Blood (1966). Her second novel, Go Set a Watchman, was an earlier draft of Mockingbird that was published in July 2015 as a sequel.
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Jeff Sessions
- Enrolled in Huntingdon College
- 1965-1969 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianlawyerpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III is an American politician and attorney who served as the 84th United States attorney general from 2017 to 2018. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as United States senator from Alabama from 1997 to 2017 before resigning that position to serve as attorney general in the administration of President Donald Trump.
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Bob Zellner
- Enrolled in Huntingdon College
- In 1961 studied sociology and psychology
- Occupations
- historiancivil rights advocate
- Biography
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John Robert Zellner is an American civil rights activist. He graduated from Huntingdon College in 1961 and that year became a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) as its first white field secretary. Zellner was involved in numerous civil rights efforts, including nonviolence workshops at Talladega College, protests for integration in Danville, Virginia, and organizing Freedom Schools in Greenwood, Mississippi, in 1964. He also investigated the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner that summer.
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Lucille Benson
- Occupations
- actorfilm actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Lucille Benson was an American character actress.
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Alexis Wineman
- Years
- 1994-.. (age 30)
- Occupations
- beauty pageant contestantmodel
- Biography
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Alexis Wineman is an autism advocate who was named Miss Montana 2012. She won the "America's Choice" award at the Miss America 2013 pageant and is the first known autistic contestant to compete in the Miss America pageant.
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Billy C. Sanders
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Billy C. Sanders is a retired senior sailor of the United States Navy who served as the fifth Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy.
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Terry Moorer
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Terry Fitzgerald Moorer is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama. He was formerly a United States magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama.
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Thomas Sigismund Stribling
- Occupations
- writerlawyerscience fiction writercrime fiction writershort story writer
- Biography
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Thomas Sigismund Stribling was an American writer. Although he passed the bar and practiced law for a few years, he quickly began to focus on writing. First known for adventure stories published in pulp fiction magazines, he enlarged his reach with novels of social satire set in Middle Tennessee and other parts of the South. His best-known work is the Vaiden trilogy, set in Florence, Alabama. The first volume is The Forge (1931). He won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1933 for the second novel of this series, The Store. The last, set in the 1920s, is The Unfinished Cathedral (1934). Both the second and third novels were chosen as selections by the Literary Guild.
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Kristi DuBose
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Kristi Kaye DuBose is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama.
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Maria Howard Weeden
- Occupations
- artistwatercoloristpoet
- Biography
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Maria Howard Weeden, who signed her work and published as Howard Weeden, was an American artist and poet based in Huntsville, Alabama. After the American Civil War, she began to sell works she painted, which included portraits of many African-American freedmen and freedwomen. She exhibited her work in Berlin and Paris in 1895, where it was well received. She published four books of her poetry from 1898 to 1904, illustrated with her own art. She was posthumously inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1998.
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Elizabeth Hight
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Elizabeth Ann Hight is a retired United States Navy rear admiral who served as the vice director of the Defense Information Systems Agency. She assumed this post in December 2007. In 2008, she was nominated for appointment to the grade of vice admiral and assignment as director, Defense Information Systems Agency; commander, Joint Task Force – Global Network Operations; and deputy commander, U.S. Strategic Command Global Network Operations and Defense, Arlington, Virginia. Her nomination was rejected by the Senate due to a perceived conflict of interest with her husband, retired Air Force Brigadier General Gary Salisbury, who is vice president of business development and sales for Northrop Grumman Corp.'s mission systems sector, defense mission systems division. She retired from the Navy in 2010.
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Kirk deViere
- Years
- 1970-.. (age 54)
- Enrolled in Huntingdon College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in business activity and marketing
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kirk Joseph deViere is a former Democratic member of the North Carolina State Senate, having representing the 19th district from 2019 to 2023. He was first elected in the 2018 elections, defeating incumbent state senator Wesley Meredith and won re-election in the 2020 elections. deViere previously served on the Fayetteville, North Carolina city council from 2015 to 2017.
