45 Notable alumni of
Randolph-Macon College
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Randolph-Macon College is 1675th in the world, 581st in North America, and 546th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 45 notable alumni from Randolph-Macon 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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Pearl S. Buck
- Occupations
- novelistwriterautobiographertranslatormissionary
- Biography
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Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck was an American writer and humanitarian. She is best known for The Good Earth, the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932, which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, Buck became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China" and for her "masterpieces", two memoir-biographies of her missionary parents.
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Nader Talebzadeh
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm criticfilm directorfilm producer
- Biography
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Nader Talebzadeh, also known as Nader Ordoubadi, was an Iranian conservative journalist and filmmaker.
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Gregg Marshall
- Enrolled in Randolph-Macon College
- 1981-1985 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- basketball coach
- Biography
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Michael Gregg Marshall is an American college basketball coach whose most recent position was head coach at Wichita State University. Marshall has coached his teams to appearances in the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament in 14 of 22 years as a head coach. He is the winningest head coach in Wichita State and Winthrop history with 331 and 194 wins, respectively. He resigned on November 17, 2020, after an internal investigation following allegations by multiple former players detailing physical and verbal abuse at the hands of Marshall. Marshall was paid a settlement of $7,750,000 by Wichita State for his resignation.
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Dorian Leigh
- Occupations
- model
- Biography
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Dorian Elizabeth Leigh Parker, known professionally as Dorian Leigh, was an American model and one of the earliest modeling icons of the fashion industry. She is considered one of the first supermodels, and was well known in the United States and Europe.
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Marty Brennaman
- Occupations
- journalistsports commentator
- Biography
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Franchester Martin Brennaman is an American former sportscaster, best known for his long tenure as the play-by-play voice of Major League Baseball's Cincinnati Reds on the Cincinnati Reds Radio Network. Known for his opinionated, zealous, and occasionally contentious style, Brennaman called Reds games from 1974 to 2019.
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Blanche Lincoln
- Occupations
- politiciancongressional staff
- Biography
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Blanche Lambert Lincoln is an American politician who served as a United States senator from Arkansas from 1999 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, she was first elected to the Senate in 1998; she was the first woman elected to the Senate from Arkansas since Hattie Caraway in 1932 and youngest woman ever elected to the Senate at age 38. She previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Arkansas's 1st congressional district from 1993 to 1997.
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George Preston Marshall
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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George Preston Marshall was an American professional football executive who founded the National Football League (NFL)'s Washington Redskins. The team began play as the Boston Braves in 1932; he renamed them the Redskins the following year and relocated the team to Washington, D.C. in 1937. Marshall was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame with its inaugural class of 1963. He was a supporter of racial segregation and was the last NFL owner to integrate African Americans onto a roster, only doing so in 1962 amid pressure from the federal government who threatened to block the use of D.C. Stadium. Marshall owned the team and was its president until his death from health issues in 1969.
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Hugh Scott
- Enrolled in Randolph-Macon College
- Studied in 1919
- Occupations
- lawyerwriterdistrict attorneymilitary officermember
- Biography
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Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1941 to 1945 and from 1947 to 1959 and in the U.S. Senate, from 1959 to 1977. He served as Senate Minority Leader from 1969 to 1977.
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Randy Forbes
- Enrolled in Randolph-Macon College
- In 1974 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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James Randy Forbes is an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, he was the U.S. representative for Virginia's 4th congressional district, serving from 2001 to 2017.
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Ted Bell
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Theodore Augustus Bell III was an American author of 12 suspense novels, including Hawke, Assassin, Pirate, Spy, Warlord, Phantom, and Overkill. He is best known for his New York Times Bestselling series of spy thriller novels (mentioned above) featuring the character Lord Alexander Hawke.
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Walter Hines Page
- Occupations
- writerambassadoropinion journalistpublisherjournalist
- Biography
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Walter Hines Page was an American journalist, publisher, and diplomat. He was the United States ambassador to Great Britain during World War I. After World War I broke out in 1914 Page was so enthusiastically in favor of Britain during the period of American neutrality (before April 1917) that Wilson and other top officials increasingly discounted his views. Page was instrumental in negotiating the sale of American war materials, including munitions, food and supplies, to the British, helping to ensure that it had the resources it needed to continue the fight against Germany.
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Claude A. Swanson
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Claude Augustus Swanson was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Virginia. He served as U.S. Representative (1893–1906), Governor of Virginia (1906–1910), and U.S. Senator from Virginia (1910–1933), before becoming U.S. Secretary of the Navy under President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 until his death. Swanson and fellow U.S. Senator Thomas Staples Martin led a Democratic political machine in Virginia for decades in the late 19th and early 20th century, which later became known as the Byrd Organization for Swanson's successor as U.S. Senator, Harry Flood Byrd.
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E. Barrett Prettyman
- Enrolled in Randolph-Macon College
- In 1911 graduated with Magister Artium
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Elijah Barrett Prettyman was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. His son was American attorney E. Barrett Prettyman Jr.
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John Letcher
- Occupations
- lawyerjournalisteditorpolitician
- Biography
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John Letcher was an American lawyer, journalist, and politician. He served as a Representative in the United States Congress, was the 34th Governor of Virginia during the American Civil War, and later served in the Virginia General Assembly. He was also active on the Board of Visitors of Virginia Military Institute.
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Andrew Sledd
- Enrolled in Randolph-Macon College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- university teachertheologianChristian minister
- Biography
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Andrew Warren Sledd was an American theologian, university professor and university president. A native of Virginia, he was the son of a prominent Methodist minister, and was himself ordained as a minister after earning his bachelor's and master's degrees. He later earned a second master's degree and his doctorate.
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Lemuel Diggs
- Occupations
- pathologist
- Biography
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Lemuel Whitley Diggs was an American pathologist who specialized in sickle cell anemia and hematology.
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James I. Robertson, Jr
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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James Irvin "Bud" Robertson Jr. was an American historian on the American Civil War and professor at Virginia Tech.
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David Watson Taylor
- Occupations
- engineermilitary officer
- Biography
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David Watson Taylor was an American naval architect and an engineer in the United States Navy. He served during World War I as Chief Constructor of the Navy, and Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair. Taylor is best known as the man who constructed the first experimental towing tank ever built in the United States.
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Chris Gerlufsen
- Occupations
- basketball coach
- Biography
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Chris Gerlufsen is an American college basketball coach who is the head coach of the San Francisco Dons men's basketball team. He served as the acting head coach for Hawaii during their 2019–20 season while head coach Eran Ganot took a leave of medical absence, compiling an 8–5 record during that period.
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Holland Nimmons McTyeire
- Occupations
- priestjournalisteditortheologian
- Biography
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Holland Nimmons McTyeire was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1866. He was a co-founder of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He was a supporter of slavery in the United States.
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Drew Maloney
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Andrew Kerwin Maloney is a former senior U.S. government official and government affairs executive and the president and CEO of the Edison Electric Institute, an industry association that represents all of America's investor-owned electric companies. He previously served as president and CEO of the American Investment Council, an industry association for private-equity investors and firms. Prior to that, he served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Legislative Affairs.
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John H. Gibbons
- Occupations
- nuclear physicistphysicist
- Biography
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John Howard "Jack" Gibbons was an American scientist, nuclear physicist, and internationally recognized expert in technologies for energy efficiency and energy resource conservation. He served as the assistant to the president for science and technology and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1998.
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James Cannon Jr
- Years
- 1864-1944 (aged 80)
- Occupations
- presbytermissionary
- Biography
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James Cannon Jr. was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1918. He was a prominent leader in the temperance movement in the United States in the 1920s, until derailed by scandal. H. L. Mencken said in 1934: "Six years ago he was the undisputed boss of the United States. Congress was his troop of Boy Scouts, and Presidents trembled whenever his name was mentioned.... But since that time there has been a violent revolution, and his whole world is in collapse."
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John Stanley Grauel
- Occupations
- Aliyah Bet activist
- Biography
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John Stanley Grauel was a Methodist minister and American Christian Zionist leader. He was a crew member of the Aliyah Bet ship Exodus 1947 and a secret Haganah operative. Grauel is sometimes credited with being the key individual who persuaded the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine to recommend for the Partition Resolution of November 1947, creating the State of Israel. In a speech to the Jewish Agency, Golda Meir, referred to his testimony as the first appeal by a "priest, a perfectly worthy gentile, a priori, no Jewish witness was to be believed."
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James Rives Childs
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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James Rives Childs was an American diplomat, a writer and an authority on Giacomo Casanova.
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Patrick Henry Drewry
- Enrolled in Randolph-Macon College
- Studied in 1896
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Patrick Henry Drewry was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Virginia. He served in the Virginia Senate (1912–1920). He also represented Virginia's 4th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1920 until his death in 1947. Drewry was a long-serving member of the House Naval Affairs Committee and was involved in naval expansion efforts during World War II.
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Robert J. Wood
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Robert Jefferson Wood was a United States Army four-star general who helped organize the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) military organization in the early 1950s and later served as director of the military assistance program from 1962 to 1965.
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William Conrad Gibbons
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- 1926-2015 (aged 89)
- Occupations
- political scientist
- Biography
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William Conrad Gibbons was an American historian and foreign policy expert.
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David Clopton
- Occupations
- lawyerjudgepolitician
- Biography
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David Clopton was an American politician who was member of the U.S. House of Representatives, the C.S. House of Representatives, a member of the Alabama Legislature, and associate judge of the Alabama Supreme Court. A member of the Democratic Party, he was also a veteran of the Confederate Army.
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Porter Hardy Jr
- Enrolled in Randolph-Macon College
- Studied in 1922
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Porter Hardy Jr. was a farmer, businessman and Democrat politician who represented Virginia's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for more than two decades, including supporting the Byrd Organization during Massive Resistance.
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Thomas Granville Pullen, Jr
- Occupations
- university teacher
- Biography
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Thomas Granville Pullen Jr. was the fifth president of the University of Baltimore from 1964 to 1969. Prior to that, he acted as state superintendent of schools for Maryland from 1942 to 1964.
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Benjamin Lee Arnold
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Benjamin Lee Arnold was an American academic and the second president of Oregon State University.
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John Joseph Kindred
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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John Joseph Kindred was an American physician and politician. Kindred served five terms as U.S. Representative from New York from 1911 to 1913, and from 1921 to 1929, before returning to the practice of medicine. As a physician, his focus was on mental diseases, and he established mental hospitals in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
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Walter Leak Steele
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Walter Leak Steele was a U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1877 and 1881.
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Seth Clabough
- Occupations
- novelist
- Biography
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Seth Clabough is an American poet and fiction writer with Pushcart Prize nominations in both genres and author of the novel All Things Await, which was nominated for the 2017 Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction.
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Joshua Soule Zimmerman
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Joshua Soule Zimmerman was an American lawyer, politician, and orchardist in the U.S. state of West Virginia. In the early years of the 20th century, Zimmerman served as the Prosecuting Attorney for Hampshire County and as a Democratic member of the West Virginia House of Delegates.
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Collins Denny
- Occupations
- lawyerpriest
- Biography
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Collins Denny was an American clergyman and educator. He was Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy at Vanderbilt University from 1891 to 1910. He served as bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South from 1910 to 1943.
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William M. Robbins
- Years
- 1828-1905 (aged 77)
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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William McKendree Robbins was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina.
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James DeRuyter Blackwell
- Occupations
- poetwriter
- Biography
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James DeRuyter Blackwell of Warrenton, Virginia is a celebrated author and poet of the American Civil War era. He attended Randolph-Macon College and graduated from Dickinson College. He studied and practiced law before serving in the Army of the Confederacy and was honorably discharged in 1864. He gave up law for health reasons and devoted his life to literature. His experiences from the Civil War can be seen in much of his work as published in his "The Poetical Works of J. Der. Blackwell, 1879, E. J. Hale and Son, New York" which has been in print for over 130 years. It contains such poems as "The Dead Drummer Boy", "The Unknown Grave" and "Forget Not the Dead". The poem "War" specifically mentions the battles along the Rappahannock River in Virginia, considered the eastern boundary between the Union and Confederate States of America. In "War", he describes the bloody battles and the internal conflicts associated with glory and death. Blackwell is often read or quoted in Memorial and Veterans Day observances.
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James Ferguson Dowdell
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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James Ferguson Dowdell was the second President of the East Alabama College, now known as Auburn University, from 1868 to 1870, and a U.S. Representative from Alabama.
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William D. Cardwell
- Years
- 1868-1954 (aged 86)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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William Duval Cardwell was a Virginia politician. He represented Hanover County in the Virginia House of Delegates, and served as that body's Speaker from 1906 until 1908.
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Joseph Chappell Hutcheson
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Joseph Chappell Hutcheson, Sr., was a Texas politician and a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives and the United States House of Representatives.
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Mary Stuart MacDougall
- Occupations
- biologistmicrobiologistzoologist
- Biography
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Mary Stuart MacDougall was an American biologist who studied protozoology. She wrote Biology: The Science of Life.
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Frank Warfield Crowder
- Years
- 1869-1932 (aged 63)
- Biography
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Reverend Frank Warfield Crowder was the rector of St. James' Episcopal Church in New York City. He was a supporter of the death penalty.
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Paul Reeves
- Occupations
- Anglican priest
- Biography
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George Paul Reeves was an American bishop. He was the Seventh Bishop of Georgia in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (ECUSA).
