26 Notable alumni of
Spring Hill College
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Spring Hill College is 1960th in the world, 680th in North America, and 640th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 26 notable alumni from Spring Hill 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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Paul Morphy
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- chess theoreticianchess player
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Paul Charles Morphy was an American chess player. During his brief career in the late 1850s Morphy was acknowledged as the world's greatest chess master.
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Jeremiah Denton
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- military officerpolitician
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Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr. was an American politician and military officer who served as a U.S. Senator representing Alabama from 1981 to 1987. He was the first Republican to be popularly elected to a Senate seat in Alabama. Denton was previously a United States Navy rear admiral and naval aviator taken captive during the Vietnam War.
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Nick Bollettieri
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- tennis coach
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Nicholas James Bollettieri was an American tennis coach. He pioneered the concept of a tennis boarding school, and helped develop many leading tennis players during the past decades, including Andre Agassi, Jim Courier, Monica Seles, and Mary Pierce. He also worked with players such as Maria Sharapova, Daniela Hantuchová, Jelena Janković, Nicole Vaidišová, Sabine Lisicki, Sara Errani, Tommy Haas, Max Mirnyi, Xavier Malisse, Venus Williams, Serena Williams, Martina Hingis, Anna Kournikova, Marcelo Ríos, and Kei Nishikori. Bollettieri was also a tour traveling coach, the last time having been for and with Boris Becker for a span of two years.
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Clifton Williams
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- test pilotmilitary officerastronautengineeraircraft pilot
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Clifton Curtis Williams Jr., was an American naval aviator, test pilot, mechanical engineer, major in the United States Marine Corps, and NASA astronaut, who was killed in a plane crash; he never went into space. The crash was caused by a mechanical failure in a NASA T-38 jet trainer, which he was piloting to visit his parents in Mobile, Alabama. The failure caused the flight controls to stop responding, and although he activated the ejection seat, it did not save him. He was the fourth astronaut from NASA's Astronaut Group 3 to have died, the first two (Charles Bassett and Theodore Freeman) having been killed in separate T-38 flights, and the third (Roger B. Chaffee) in the Apollo 1 fire earlier that year. The aircraft crashed in Florida near Tallahassee within an hour of departing Patrick AFB.
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Alexis Herman
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- politiciansocial workersociologist
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Alexis Margaret Herman formerly served as the 23rd U.S. Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton; she was the first African-American to hold the position. Prior to serving as Secretary, she was Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.
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Jo Ann Jenkins
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- business executiveinternational forum participant
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Jo Ann Jenkins is the CEO of AARP. She was appointed on September 1, 2014, having previously served as chief operating officer from 2013 to 2014. Between 1994 and 2010, she was a senior adviser, chief of staff, and chief operating officer of the Library of Congress.
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Carlos Trujillo
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- politicianlawyer
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Carlos Trujillo is an American lobbyist and government affairs professional who previously served as United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served four terms in the Florida House of Representatives from 2010 until his appointment as ambassador.
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Colman McCarthy
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- peace activistjournalistteacher
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Colman McCarthy is an American journalist, teacher, lecturer, pacifist, progressive, anarchist, and long-time peace activist, directs the Center for Teaching Peace in Washington, D.C. From 1969 to 1997, he wrote columns for The Washington Post. His topics ranged from politics, religion, health, and sports to education, poverty, and peacemaking. Washingtonian magazine called him "the liberal conscience of The Washington Post." Smithsonian magazine said he is "a man of profound spiritual awareness." He has written for The New Yorker, The Nation, The Progressive, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Reader's Digest. Since 1999, he has written biweekly columns for National Catholic Reporter.
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Miller Reese Hutchison
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- entrepreneurinventorbusinessperson
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Miller Reese Hutchison was an American electrical engineer and inventor. He developed some of the first portable electric devices, such as a vehicle horn and a hearing aid. His father was William Hutchison and mother born Tracie Elizabeth Magruder. He attended Marion Military Institute from 1889 through 1891, Spring Hill College 1891 through 1892, the University of Mobile Military Institute from 1892 through 1895, and graduated from Auburn University (then called Alabama Polytechnical Institute) in 1897. While still in school he invented and patented a lightning arrester for telegraph lines in 1895. At the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in 1898, he volunteered and was appointed engineer for the United States Lighthouse Board, laying cables and mines to protect harbors in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Jim Hendry
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- athlete
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James Hendry is an American baseball coach and executive. He is a special assistant for New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman, and is a former general manager of the Chicago Cubs.
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Patrick J. Geary
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- medievalistuniversity teacher
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Patrick J. Geary is an American medievalist. He is a professor emeritus of Western Medieval History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. From 2004 to 2011, he also held the title of Distinguished Professor of Medieval History Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Thomas P. Christie
- Enrolled in Spring Hill College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in mathematics
- Biography
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Thomas Philip Christie is an American defense analyst who worked for the U.S. government.
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Arnold L. Punaro
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- military officer
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Arnold L. Punaro is a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and CEO of The Punaro Group and IronArch Technology. He is currently Chairman of the Secretary of Defense’s Reserve Forces Policy Board and a member of the Defense Business Board. He was an executive vice president at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) in McLean, Virginia from 1997–2010. Punaro held several positions with the United States Senate (from 1973–97) including Staff Director of the Senate Armed Services Committee. He is recognized by Defense News as one of the 100 Most Influential Individuals in the U.S. Defense.
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Samuel D. McEnery
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- politicianjudgelawyer
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Samuel Douglas McEnery served as the 30th Governor of the U.S. state of Louisiana, with service from 1881 until 1888. He was subsequently a U.S. senator from 1897 until 1910. He was the brother of John McEnery, one of the candidates in the contested 1872 election for governor.
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Thomas Semmes Walmsley
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- politicianlawyer
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Thomas Semmes Walmsley was an American attorney and politician who was the mayor of New Orleans from July 1929 to June 1936. He is also known for his rivalry with Louisiana Governor Huey Long.
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Reginald "Reggie" Warren
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- basketball player
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Reginald Warren is an American professional basketball player for Veltex Shizuoka in Japan.
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Edward Troye
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- painter
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Edward Troye was a Swiss-born American painter of Thoroughbred horses.
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Milt Bolling
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- baseball player
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Milton Joseph Bolling was a shortstop in Major League Baseball who played from 1952 through 1958 for the Boston Red Sox (1952–1957), Washington Senators (1957) and Detroit Tigers (1958). Bolling batted and threw right-handed. He was the older brother of Frank Bolling.
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Mickey Gorka
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- basketball coach
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Michael "Mickey" Gorka is an Israeli professional basketball coach and former professional player.
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J. Daniel Breen
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- judgelawyer
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John Daniel Breen is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee.
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Eric Campbell
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- basketball player
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Eric Campbell is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for Spring Hill College.
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Moon Ducote
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- basketball playerbasketball coachbaseball playerplayer of American football
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Richard Joseph "Moon" "Duke" DuCôté was an American baseball, football, and basketball coach, football and baseball player, football official, and businessman. He first attended Spring Hill College and was a notable athlete at Auburn University. He played minor league baseball with the Mobile Bears, Portsmouth Truckers, and Charlotte Hornets. In 1920, he played with the Cleveland Tigers of the American Professional Football Association (APFA).
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Richard W. Moore
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- lawyer
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Richard Wayne Moore is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama from 2017 to 2021. Prior to assuming that role, he had served as the Inspector General for the Tennessee Valley Authority since 2003, when he was appointed by George W. Bush and confirmed by the United States Senate.
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Emily Coody Marks
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- judge
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Emily Michele Coody Marks is the Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama.
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Richard Alvin Tonry
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- politicianlawyer
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Richard Alvin Tonry was an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the United States House of Representatives for Louisiana's 1st congressional district for a partial term in 1977.
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Georgie Ratterman
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- player of American football
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George Henry "Georgie" Ratterman was a college football player.
