18 Notable alumni of
Lincoln University - Missouri
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Lincoln University - Missouri is 1911th in the world, 665th in North America, and 625th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 18 notable alumni from Lincoln University - Missouri sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Joe Torry
- Occupations
- actorscreenwritertelevision actor
- Biography
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Joe Torry is an American actor and comedian.
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Ronald Townson
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Ronald Townson was an American vocalist. He was an original member of the 5th Dimension, a popular vocal group of the late 1960s and early 1970s; he is the only original member of the group who is no longer living.
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Carey Means
- Occupations
- stage actorvoice actor
- Biography
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Carey Means is an American voice and stage actor best known for playing Frylock on the Adult Swim show Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and Thundercleese on The Brak Show. He has also performed in several theatrical musicals and plays, including South Pacific, Two Trains Running, A Soldier's Play, and Waiting for Godot. He provided the voice of Jonah Bishop on the Nickelodeon series Welcome to the Wayne.
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Lincoln Kilpatrick
- Occupations
- actorstage actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Lincoln Kilpatrick was an American film, television, and stage actor.
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Blaine Luetkemeyer
- Enrolled in Lincoln University - Missouri
- In 1974 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- bankerbusiness executivepoliticiancattle rancher
- Biography
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William Blaine Luetkemeyer is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Missouri's 3rd congressional district since 2013, having represented Missouri's 9th congressional district from 2009 to 2013. A member of the Republican Party, Luetkemeyer formerly served as a member of the Missouri House of Representatives. On January 4, 2024, he announced he would not run for reelection in 2024.
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Mervyn M. Dymally
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mervyn Malcolm Dymally was an American politician from California. He served in the California State Assembly (1963–1966) and the California State Senate (1967–1975) as the 41st Lieutenant Governor of California (1975–1979) and in the U.S. House of Representatives (1981–1993). Dymally returned to politics a decade later to serve in the California State Assembly (2003–2008).
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Wendell Oliver Pruitt
- Occupations
- aircraft pilot
- Biography
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Wendell Oliver Pruitt was an American military pilot and Tuskegee Airman originally from St. Louis, Missouri. He was killed during a training exercise in 1945. After his death, his name, along with that of William L. Igoe, was given to the Pruitt–Igoe public housing complex in St. Louis.
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Oliver Lake
- Occupations
- saxophonistrecording artistcomposerjazz musician
- Biography
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Oliver Lake is an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer, poet, and visual artist. He is known mainly for alto saxophone, but he also performs on soprano and flute. During the 1960s, Lake worked with the Black Artists Group in St. Louis. In 1977, he founded the World Saxophone Quartet with David Murray, Julius Hemphill, and Hamiet Bluiett. Lake worked in the group Trio 3 with Reggie Workman and Andrew Cyrille. Lake has appeared on more than 80 albums as a bandleader, co-leader, and side musician. He is the father of drummer Gene Lake. Lake has been a resident of Montclair, New Jersey.
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Julius Hemphill
- Occupations
- jazz musiciancomposersaxophonist
- Biography
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Julius Arthur Hemphill was a jazz composer and saxophone player. He performed mainly on alto saxophone, less often on soprano and tenor saxophones and flute.
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John Hicks
- Occupations
- pianistjazz musiciancomposer
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John Josephus Hicks Jr. was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. He was leader of more than 30 recordings and played as a sideman on more than 300.
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John Carter
- Occupations
- saxophonistjazz musicianclarinetistmusic teacher
- Biography
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John Wallace Carter was an American jazz clarinet, saxophone, and flute player. He is noted for the acclaimed Roots and Folklore series, a five-album concept album set inspired by African American life and experiences.
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John Collins-Muhammad
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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John Collins-Muhammad, Jr., known by his initials, JCM, is an American politician and Muslim minister from the state of Missouri. He served on the Board of Alderman of the City of St. Louis representing the 21st Ward where he represented the northside. Collins-Muhammad was elected to his first term in April 2017 at the age of 25, which makes him the youngest person ever to be elected alderman in St. Louis, and the first Muslim ever elected to that position. He was re-elected in April 2021 garnishing nearly 63% of the vote in his ward. He resigned in May 2022. He led protests during the 2014 Ferguson Uprising and is a prominent figure in the Nation of Islam. Although he was a member of the Democratic Party, he was a frequent critic of the party.
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Joshua Peters
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Joshua D. Peters is an American politician in the Democratic Party who was the Missouri State Representative of Missouri's 76th District from 2013 to 2019. Peters was first elected in a special election on April 2, 2013. He represented portions of north Saint Louis City. At the time of his election, he was the youngest African American ever elected to the Missouri House of Representatives. In 2016 Peters served as the House Minority Chief Deputy Whip.
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William Tecumseh Vernon
- Occupations
- missionary
- Biography
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William Tecumseh Vernon was an American educator, minister and bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church who served as president of Western University beginning in 1896 and Register of the Treasury from 1906 to 1911.
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Theodore McMillian
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Theodore McMillian was the first African American to serve on the Missouri Court of Appeals, and the first African American to serve as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
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John A. Lankford
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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John A. Lankford, American architect. He was the first professionally licensed African American architect in Virginia in 1922 and in the District of Columbia in 1924. He has been regarded as the "dean of black architecture".
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William J. Thompkins
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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William J. Thompkins was a physician and health administrator in Kansas City, Missouri and served as Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia from 1934 to his death. He first received national notice when he challenged Jim Crow Laws in Oklahoma in Federal Courts in the early 1910s. He was a successful physician and was appointed superintendent of the Old General Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri and the Assistant Commissioner of Health in that City. He wrote an influential study of the relationship between housing conditions and tuberculosis in blacks and was active in Democratic politics which garnered him attention at the highest levels of the party. He became president of the National Negro Democratic Association and was a major campaigner for the Democratic Presidential Candidates in campaigns from 1928 until 1940, gaining national level party appointments in 1932, 1936, and 1940. In 1934 he was appointed Recorder of Deeds for Washington, DC. This position was the highest federal appointment given to an African American, a tradition which was started with Frederick Douglass' appointment to the position in 1881.
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Leon Bates
- Years
- 1899-1972 (aged 73)
- Occupations
- trade unionist
- Biography
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Leon E. Bates Sr. was an American labor union leader with the United Auto Workers union (UAW) from 1937 to 1964 when he retired as an "International Representative" of the UAW. He was one of the first African-American union organizers to work for the "UAW-CIO" (Congress of Industrial Organizations).
