18 Notable alumni of
Millsaps College
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Millsaps College is 2441st in the world, 849th in North America, and 803rd in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 18 notable alumni from Millsaps 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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Tate Reeves
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jonathan Tate Reeves is an American politician serving since 2020 as the 65th governor of Mississippi. A member of the Republican Party, Reeves served as the 32nd lieutenant governor of Mississippi from 2012 to 2020 and as the 53rd Mississippi State Treasurer from 2004 to 2012.
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Cassandra Wilson
- Occupations
- recording artistjazz singersongwriterjazz musician
- Biography
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Cassandra Wilson is an American jazz singer, songwriter, and producer from Jackson, Mississippi. She is one of the most successful female Jazz singers and has been described by critic Gary Giddins as "a singer blessed with an unmistakable timbre and attack [who has] expanded the playing field" by incorporating blues, country, and folk music into her work. She has won numerous awards, including two Grammys, and was named "America's Best Singer" by Time magazine in 2001.
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Donald Gray Triplett
- Occupations
- banker
- Biography
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Donald Gray Triplett was an American banker known for being the first person diagnosed as autistic. He was first diagnosed by Leo Kanner in 1943, and was labeled as "Case 1". Triplett was noted for his savant abilities, particularly the ability to name musical notes played on a piano and the ability to perform rapid mental multiplication.
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Kiese Laymon
- Occupations
- novelistwriter
- Biography
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Kiese Laymon is a Black southern writer from Jackson, Mississippi. He is a professor of English and Creative Writing at Rice University. He is the author of three full-length books: a novel, Long Division (2013), and two memoirs, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America (2013) and the award-winning Heavy: An American Memoir (2018). Laymon was awarded a "Genius Grant" from the MacArthur Fellows Program in 2022.
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James E. Graves, Jr
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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James Earl Graves Jr. is an American lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
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Ellen Gilchrist
- Occupations
- writerpoetjournalistshort story writerdiarist
- Biography
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Ellen Louise Gilchrist was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. She won a National Book Award for her 1984 collection of short stories, Victory Over Japan.
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Robert C. Robbins
- Occupations
- cardiologist
- Biography
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Robert Clayton Robbins, known professionally as Robert C. Robbins or R.C. Robbins, is an American cardiothoracic surgeon and the 22nd and current president of The University of Arizona. In the spring of 2023, the Faculty Senate at the University of Arizona gave R.C. Robbins a vote of “no confidence” due, in part, to the university leadership’s inaction regarding a violent student who would go on to fatally shoot a professor in October of 2022. He received a pay raise in October of 2023 from the Arizona Board of Regents. This was followed by his decision in December 2023 to enact hiring freezes, eliminate the Salary Increase Program and Pay Structure Increase for staff and faculty and Tuition Guarantee Program for students, and restrict purchasing by university departments due to the University of Arizona’s poor financial position. Previously, he was the president and CEO of the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas, from 2012 to 2017.
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Walter Gordon
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Walter Scott Gordon Jr. was a non-commissioned officer with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army during World War II.
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William Meyers Colmer
- Enrolled in Millsaps College
- Graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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William Meyers Colmer was an American politician from Mississippi.
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Rubel Phillips
- Occupations
- military officerlawyer
- Biography
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Rubel Lex Phillips was an American politician and lawyer. He grew up poor in Alcorn County, Mississippi, and graduated from the University of Mississippi School of Law. Hailing from a politically active family and initially a member of the Democratic Party, he served as a circuit court clerk from 1952 to 1956 and chaired the Mississippi Public Service Commission from 1956 to 1958. In 1962 Phillips joined the Republican Party. He ran as a Republican in the 1963 Mississippi gubernatorial election, the first person to do so since 1947. Supporting a platform of racial segregation and opposition to the presidential administration of John F. Kennedy, he lost, garnering only 38 percent of the vote.
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D. Michael Hurst Jr
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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David Michael Hurst Jr. is an American attorney who served as the United States attorney for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi from 2017 to 2021. Prior to assuming that role, he was the director of the Mississippi Justice Institute and general counsel for the Mississippi Center for Public Policy. Hurst Jr. previously served as an assistant United States attorney in the Southern District of Mississippi, as legislative director and counsel to Congressman Chip Pickering, and as counsel to the Constitution Subcommittee of the United States House Committee on the Judiciary. Hurst ran for Attorney General of Mississippi in 2015, losing to Democratic incumbent Jim Hood.
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Tex Sample
- Years
- 1934-.. (age 90)
- Occupations
- sociologist
- Biography
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Tex Sample is a specialist in church and society, a storyteller, author, and the Robert B. and Kathleen Rogers Professor Emeritus of Church and Society at the St. Paul School of Theology, a United Methodist seminary in Kansas City, Missouri, where he taught from 1967–1999. He has published four books about the working class.
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Neal Brooks Biggers Jr
- Occupations
- judgelawyermilitary officer
- Biography
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Neal Brooks Biggers Jr. was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi.
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James K. Vardaman, Jr
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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James Kimble Vardaman Jr. was an American lawyer who served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from 1946 to 1958. He was a US Navy captain during World War II, and political aide to President Harry S. Truman. Before the war, he had worked as bank counselor in Missouri.
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Vic Roby
- Years
- 1917-2011 (aged 94)
- Occupations
- radio personalityvoice actor
- Biography
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Victor Mills Roby, Jr. was an American radio and television announcer, voice-over artist and public affairs show host, and served for years as a staff announcer with NBC.
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William C. Lamar
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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William Chadwick Lamar is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi from 2017 to 2021.
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William Nathaniel Thomas
- Enrolled in Millsaps College
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- military officerChristian minister
- Biography
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William Nathaniel Thomas was a US Navy chief of chaplains, described by one historian as "one of the most distinguished Chaplains ever to serve in the US Navy." Born in Mississippi and entering the navy in 1918, he became a rear admiral and was a chief of chaplains of the United States Navy (1945–1949). He was chaplain aboard the USS Madawaska, a World War I troop transport. He then served on the USS Pennsylvania, the USS Raleigh and the USS West Virginia. He served at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, as an assistant chaplain and then as command chaplain. He wrote the Prayer of the Midshipman and the Dedication in Memorial Hall at the Naval Academy.
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Patricia Ann Lamkin
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Patricia Ann Lamkin was an American playwright, singer, songwriter, musician, actor, writer and editor.
