100 Notable alumni of
Washington and Lee University
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Washington and Lee University is 641st in the world, 240th in North America, and 221st in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Washington and Lee University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Pat Robertson
- Enrolled in Washington and Lee University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- entrepreneurChristian ministerwriterpoliticiantelevangelist
- Biography
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Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson was an American media mogul, religious broadcaster, political commentator, presidential candidate, and charismatic minister. Robertson advocated a conservative Christian ideology and was known for his involvement in Republican Party politics. He was associated with the Charismatic movement within Protestant evangelicalism. He served as head of Regent University and of the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN).
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Tom Wolfe
- Occupations
- reporterwriternon-fiction writerjournalistscreenwriter
- Biography
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Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques. Much of Wolfe's work was satirical and centred on the counterculture of the 1960s and issues related to class, social status, and the lifestyles of the economic and intellectual elites of New York City.
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John Warner
- Enrolled in Washington and Lee University
- Studied in 1949
- Occupations
- lawyerpoliticianmilitary officerfarmerjurist
- Biography
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John William Warner III was an American lawyer and politician who served as the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1972 to 1974 and as a five-term Republican U.S. Senator from Virginia from 1979 to 2009. Warner served as Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee from 1999 to 2001, and again from 2003 to 2007. He also served as the Chairman of the Senate Rules Committee from 1995 to 1999.
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Matt Bevin
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Matthew Griswold Bevin is an American businessman and politician who served as the 62nd governor of Kentucky from 2015 to 2019 and was the third Republican elected to that office since World War II, after Ernie Fletcher (2003–2007) and Louie Nunn (1967–1971). He is currently the CEO of Neuronetrix Solutions, LLC.
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Mike Henry
- Occupations
- voice actortelevision produceractortelevision actorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Michael Robert Henry is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He is known for his work on the animated sitcom Family Guy, where he was a writer and producer, as well as the voice of Cleveland Brown (until 2021), Herbert, Bruce, Consuela, the Greased-up Deaf Guy, among others. Henry is also known for co-creating and starring in the spin-off The Cleveland Show (2009–2013), for which he voiced Cleveland Brown and Rallo Tubbs, among others. He is also known for his recurring role as Dann in the television series The Orville.
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Philippe Labro
- Occupations
- directorjournalistnews presenterfilm directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Philippe Labro is a French author, journalist and film director. He has worked for RTL, Paris Match, TF1 and Antenne 2. He received the Prix Interallié for his autobiography L'Étudiant étranger in 1986.
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Lewis F. Powell, Jr
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Lewis Franklin Powell Jr. was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1972 to 1987.
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Joe Wilson
- Enrolled in Washington and Lee University
- In 1969 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianlawyermilitary officer
- Biography
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Addison Graves "Joe" Wilson Sr. is an American politician and attorney serving as the U.S. representative for South Carolina's 2nd congressional district since 2001. A member of the Republican Party, his district stretches from Columbia to the Georgia–South Carolina border. He served as the South Carolina state senator from the 23rd district from 1985 to 2001.
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Roger Mudd
- Occupations
- television presenterjournalistnews presenter
- Biography
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Roger Harrison Mudd was an American broadcast journalist who was a correspondent and anchor for CBS News and NBC News. He also worked as the primary anchor for The History Channel. Previously, Mudd was weekend and weekday substitute anchor for the CBS Evening News, the co-anchor of the weekday NBC Nightly News, and the host of the NBC-TV Meet the Press and American Almanac TV programs. Mudd was the recipient of the Peabody Award, the Joan Shorenstein Award for Distinguished Washington Reporting, and five Emmy Awards.
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J. Michael Luttig
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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John Michael Luttig is an American lawyer and jurist who served as a U.S. circuit judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1991 to 2006. Luttig resigned his judicial appointment in 2006 to become the general counsel of Boeing, a position he held until 2019.
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John William Davis
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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John William Davis was an American politician, diplomat and lawyer. He served under President Woodrow Wilson as the Solicitor General of the United States and the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom. He was the Democratic nominee for president in 1924, losing to Republican incumbent Calvin Coolidge.
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Jesse Evans
- Years
- 1853-..
- Occupations
- cowboy
- Biography
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Jesse Evans was an American outlaw and gunman of the Old West, and the leader of the Jesse Evans Gang. He received some attention due to his disappearance in 1882, after which he was never seen or heard from again. Commentators speculated that Evans was living in Florida under the name Joe Hines in 1948, though no definitive proof was ever provided.
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Glenn Kirschner
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- lawyeranalyst
- Biography
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Glenn L. Kirschner is an American attorney, a former U.S. Army prosecutor, a former assistant U.S. Attorney in the office of the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia and an NBC News/MSNBC legal analyst.
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John J. Crittenden
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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John Jordan Crittenden was an American statesman and politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky. He represented the state in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate and twice served as United States Attorney General in the administrations of William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore. He was also the 17th governor of Kentucky and served in the state legislature. Although frequently mentioned as a potential candidate for the U.S. presidency, he never consented to run for the office.
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Marc Short
- Occupations
- political adviserpolitical staffer
- Biography
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Marc T. Short is an American political advisor who served as chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence. Prior to holding this role, Short was the director of legislative affairs at the White House from 2017 to 2018. He became chief of staff for Pence in March 2019. He was a senior fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs, a CNN contributor, chief of staff to Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, and the House Republican Conference. He was president of Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce from 2011 to 2016. He was a frequent guest on Meet The Press of NBC News.
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Michael Allen
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Michael Allen is an American political journalist. He is the co-founder and executive editor of Axios and the former chief political reporter for Politico. While at Politico, he wrote the daily Playbook; in April 2010, in reference to his frequent correspondence with White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer, The New York Times called him "The Man The White House Wakes Up To." Prior to joining Politico for its 2007 launch, he worked at numerous other publications, including The New York Times and Time.
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Michael Norell
- Occupations
- screenwritertelevision actor
- Biography
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Michael Alden Norell was an American screenwriter, actor, and executive producer who starred as Captain Henry "Hank" Stanley on the television series Emergency!, produced by Jack Webb from 1972 to 1978.
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Jack Goldsmith
- Occupations
- university teacherlawyerjurist
- Biography
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Jack Landman Goldsmith III is an American legal scholar. He serves as the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he has written extensively in the fields of international law, civil procedure, federal courts, conflict of laws, and national security law. Writing in The New York Times, Jeffrey Rosen described him as being "widely considered one of the brightest stars in the conservative legal firmament".
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James L. Kemper
- Occupations
- politiciansoldierlawyer
- Biography
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James Lawson Kemper was a lawyer, a Confederate general in the American Civil War, and the 37th Governor of Virginia. He was the youngest brigade commander and only non-professional general officer in the division that led Pickett's Charge, during which he was severely wounded.
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Bill Brock
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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William Emerson Brock III was an American Republican politician who served in both chambers of the United States Congress from 1963 to 1977 and later in the United States Cabinet from 1981 to 1987. He was the grandson of William Emerson Brock Sr., a Democratic U.S. senator who represented Tennessee from 1929 to 1931.
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Joseph L. Goldstein
- Occupations
- biologistuniversity teacherphysicianbiochemistgeneticist
- Biography
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Joseph Leonard Goldstein ForMemRS is an American biochemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1985, along with fellow University of Texas Southwestern researcher, Michael Brown, for their studies regarding cholesterol. They discovered that human cells have low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptors that remove cholesterol from the blood and that when LDL receptors are not present in sufficient numbers, individuals develop hypercholesterolemia and become at risk for cholesterol related diseases, notably coronary heart disease. Their studies led to the development of statin drugs.
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Gilbert Shelton
- Occupations
- journalistcomics artistvisual artistcaricaturist
- Biography
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Gilbert Shelton is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the iconic underground characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Fat Freddy's Cat, and Wonder Wart-Hog.
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Neal Dunn
- Enrolled in Washington and Lee University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- bankerpoliticianurologist
- Biography
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Neal Patrick Dunn is an American surgeon and Republican Party politician serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 2nd congressional district since 2017.
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Rebecca Makkai
- Occupations
- novelistwritereducator
- Biography
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Rebecca Makkai is an American novelist and short-story writer.
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Robert Mosbacher
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Robert Adam Mosbacher Sr. was an American businessman, accomplished yacht racer, and a Republican politician. A longtime friend and political ally of George H. W. Bush, Mosbacher served in Bush's Cabinet as Secretary of Commerce from 1989 to 1992.
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Sarah Feinberg
- Enrolled in Washington and Lee University
- In 1999 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in politics
- Occupations
- officialexecutivecivil servant
- Biography
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Sarah Elizabeth Feinberg is an American civic employee who previously served as the Interim President of the New York City Transit Authority from 2020 to 2021, and a former Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration. She was nominated for the role of MTA Chairperson but was ultimately not selected for the position. Her background is mostly in communications.
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Austin Peay
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Austin Peay was an American politician who served as the 35th governor of Tennessee from 1923 to 1927. He was the state's first governor since the Civil War to win three consecutive terms and the first to die in office. Prior to his election as governor, he served two terms in the Tennessee House of Representatives (1901–1905).
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A. Linwood Holton, Jr
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Abner Linwood Holton Jr. was an American politician and attorney. He served as the 61st governor of Virginia, from 1970 to 1974, and was the first elected Republican governor of Virginia of the 20th century. He was known for supporting civil rights, integration, and public investment.
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Ruby Laffoon
- Occupations
- Democratic Partyjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Ruby Laffoon was an American attorney and politician who served as the 43rd Governor of Kentucky from 1931 to 1935. A Kentucky native, at age 17, Laffoon moved to Washington, D.C., to live with his uncle, U.S. Representative Polk Laffoon. He developed an interest in politics and returned to Kentucky, where he compiled a mixed record of victories and defeats in elections at the county and state levels. In 1931, he was chosen as the Democratic gubernatorial nominee by a nominating convention, not a primary, making him the only Kentucky gubernatorial candidate to be chosen by a convention after 1903. In the general election, he defeated Republican William B. Harrison by what was then the largest margin of victory in Kentucky gubernatorial history.
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John Breckinridge
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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John Breckinridge was an American lawyer, slave-owning planter, soldier, and politician in Virginia and Kentucky. He served several terms each in both state's legislatures before legislators elected him to the U.S. Senate. He also served as United States Attorney General during the second term of President Thomas Jefferson. He is the progenitor of Kentucky's Breckinridge political family and the namesake of Breckinridge County, Kentucky.
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J. Bennett Johnston
- Occupations
- politicianlobbyistlawyer
- Biography
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John Bennett Johnston Jr. is a retired American attorney, politician, and later lobbyist. A member of the Democratic Party, Johnston represented Louisiana in the U.S. Senate from 1972 to 1997.
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Courtney Simmons Elwood
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Courtney Simmons Elwood is an American attorney who served as the general counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the Trump administration between 2017 and 2021.
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Walt Michaels
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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Walter Edward Michaels was an American professional football player and coach who was best remembered for his six-year tenure as head coach of the National Football League (NFL)'s New York Jets from 1977 to 1982. In 1977, Michaels was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame, the National Polish American Sports Hall of Fame and into the Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame on Long Island in the Baseball Category with the Class of 1997.
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Rob Ashford
- Occupations
- dancerchoreographer
- Biography
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Rob Ashford is an American stage director and choreographer. He is a Tony Award, Olivier Award, Emmy Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award winner.
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Elisha Franklin Paxton
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Elisha Franklin Paxton was an American lawyer and soldier who served as a Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War. He died while leading the “Stonewall Brigade“ during the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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Henry S. Foote
- Occupations
- politicianwriterlawyer
- Biography
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Henry Stuart Foote was a United States Senator from Mississippi and the chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations from 1847 to 1852. He was a Unionist Governor of Mississippi from 1852 to 1854 and an American Party supporter in California. During the American Civil War, he served in the First and Second Confederate Congresses. A practicing attorney, he published two memoirs related to the Civil War years, a book on Texas before its annexation and a postwar book on the legal profession and courts in the Southern United States.
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John Otho Marsh, Jr
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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John Otho Marsh Jr. was an American politician and an adjunct professor at George Mason University School of Law. He served as the United States Secretary of the Army from 1981 to 1989, and as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia from 1963 to 1971.
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Thomas Nelson Page
- Occupations
- diplomatlawyerwriternovelistpoet
- Biography
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Thomas Nelson Page was an American lawyer, politician, and writer. He served as the U.S. ambassador to Italy from 1913 to 1919 under the administration of President Woodrow Wilson during World War I.
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Julia Tutwiler
- Occupations
- writerbotanical collectorpoetbotanistphilanthropist
- Biography
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Julia Strudwick Tutwiler was an advocate for education and prison reform in Alabama. She served as co-principal of the Livingston Female Academy, and then the first (and only) woman president of Livingston Normal College (now the University of West Alabama). She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1971.
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Archibald Alexander
- Occupations
- writertheologianuniversity teacherministerpastor
- Biography
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Archibald Alexander was an American Presbyterian theologian and professor at the Princeton Theological Seminary. He served for 9 years as the President of Hampden–Sydney College in Virginia and for 39 years as Princeton Theological Seminary's first professor from 1812 to 1851.
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James Oscar Davis III
- Enrolled in Washington and Lee University
- In 1979 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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James Oscar Davis III is an American politician from the U.S. state of Florida. He is a Democrat and served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1997 to 2007, representing Florida's 11th congressional district. He was the Democratic nominee for governor of Florida in the 2006 election, but was defeated by Republican Charlie Crist.
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G. David Low
- Occupations
- engineerastronaut
- Biography
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George David Low was an American aerospace executive and a NASA astronaut. With undergraduate degrees in physics and mechanical engineering and a master's degree in aeronautics and astronautics, he worked in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at the California Institute of Technology in the early 80's, before being picked as an astronaut candidate by NASA in 1984. In addition to holding some technical assignments, he logged more than 700 hours in space (including stints on the Columbia, the Atlantis, and the Endeavour Space Shuttles), before he left NASA in 1996 to pursue a career in the private sector. He was the son of George M. Low, the manager of the Apollo Spacecraft Program Office, and later, the 14th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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Thomas Todd
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Thomas Todd was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1807 to 1826. Raised in the Colony of Virginia, he studied law and later participated in the founding of Kentucky, where he served as a clerk, judge, and justice. He was married twice and had a total of eight children. Todd joined the U.S. Supreme Court in 1807 and his handful of legal opinions there mostly concerned land claims. He was labeled the most insignificant U.S. Supreme Court justice by Frank H. Easterbrook in The Most Insignificant Justice: Further Evidence, 50 U. Chi. L. Rev. 481 (1983).
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John Letcher
- Occupations
- journalistlawyerpoliticianeditor
- 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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Clifton Rodes Breckinridge
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianbanker
- Biography
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Clifton Rodes Breckinridge was a Democratic alderman, congressman, diplomat, businessman and veteran of the Confederate Army and Navy. He was a member of the prominent Breckinridge family, the son of Vice President of the United States and Confederate General John C. Breckinridge and the great-grandson of U.S. Senator and Attorney General of the United States John Breckinridge.
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Matthew M. Graves
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- prosecutorlawyer
- Biography
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Matthew Michael Graves is an American lawyer who has served as the United States attorney for the District of Columbia since 2021.
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G. William Whitehurst
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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George William Whitehurst is an American former journalist and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from the commonwealth of Virginia. He began his career as a professor at the Norfolk campus of the College of William and Mary, which became Old Dominion College in 1962. After serving as Dean of Students from 1963–1968, Whitehurst left academia for a nineteen-year stay in Congress. Upon retiring from politics, he returned to what was by then Old Dominion University, where he currently holds the chair of Kaufman Lecturer in Public Affairs.
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Meredith Attwell Baker
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Meredith Attwell Baker is the president and chief executive officer of CTIA, an industry trade group that represents the international wireless telecommunications industry. From 2009 to 2011, Baker was a member of the United States Federal Communications Commission, nominated by U.S. President Barack H. Obama. She also served in the National Telecommunications and Information Administration as a political appointee, and was subsequently named a deputy assistant secretary of the Commerce Department by President George W. Bush in February 2007.
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H. F. Lenfest
- Occupations
- entrepreneurlawyer
- Biography
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Harold FitzGerald "Gerry" Lenfest was an American lawyer, media executive, and philanthropist. Lenfest, along with his wife Marguerite, were among the most prominent Philadelphia-based philanthropists in his last two decades, donating more than $1.3 billion to 1,100 groups, supporting various educational, artistic, journalistic, and healthcare causes.
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Eddie Cameron
- Enrolled in Washington and Lee University
- Studied in 1925
- Occupations
- basketball playerAmerican football coachbasketball coachplayer of American footballsports executive
- Biography
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Edmund McCullough Cameron was an American football and basketball player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head basketball coach at Washington and Lee University for one season in 1924–25 and at Duke University from 1928 to 1942, compiling a career college basketball record of 234–104. Cameron was also the head football coach at Duke University from 1942 to 1945, tallying a mark of 25–11–1, and the athletic director at the school from 1951 to 1972. Cameron was part of Duke athletics from 1926 to 1972, the second longest tenure in the school's history. Duke's home basketball arena was renamed as Cameron Indoor Stadium in his honor in 1972.
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James McDowell
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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James McDowell was the 29th Governor of Virginia from 1843 to 1846 and was a U.S. Congressman from 1846 to 1851.
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J. P. Boulee
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Jean-Paul "J. P." Boulee is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
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Louis Dubin
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Louis Myerberg Dubin is a fourth-generation real estate developer who develops upscale condominiums, typically in large east-coast United States cities. He is a founding partner of Redbrick LMD, an opportunistic real estate investment and developments company headquartered in Washington, D.C. His former New York based firm Athena often sold condominiums to middle and upper-middle class buyers. His firm converted landmark buildings into luxury condominiums, one of which was bought by Charles Bronfman. He designed buildings to feature art by artist-sculptors such as Jonathan Cramer. He was described by New York Magazine as being one of the "new generation of uptown A-listers".
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George C. Peery
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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George Campbell Peery was an American Democratic politician, and was the 52nd governor of Virginia from 1934 to 1938. He became the second governor to be selected, at least partially, by the soon to be very powerful Byrd Organization, led by Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr.
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Powhatan Ellis
- Occupations
- lawyerpoliticianjudgediplomat
- Biography
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Powhatan Ellis was a justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court, United States senator from Mississippi, and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Mississippi.
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Christopher Burnham
- Occupations
- politicianbusinesspersonmilitary officer
- Biography
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Christopher Bancroft Burnham is and American business executive, public servant, and politician. He is the chairman and chief executive officer of Cambridge Global Capital, LLC and chairman of the board of EN+ Group. He has served as Under Secretary General for Management of the United Nations, Assistant Secretary of State for Resource Management and chief financial officer of the U.S. Department of State. He was a three-term Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives, Connecticut State Treasurer as well as vice chairman of Deutsche Bank Asset Management and global co-head of private equity.
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Jerome Turner
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Jerome Turner was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee.
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David Freed
- Years
- 1970-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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David J. Freed is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania from 2017 to 2021. Prior to assuming that role, he was the District Attorney of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
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Kate Cordsen
- Occupations
- modelphotographer
- Biography
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Kate Cordsen is an American photographer and contemporary artist. Cordsen lives in New York City.
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Jason Sorens
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- assistant professor
- Biography
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Jason Sorens is an American political scientist and a conservative libertarian activist. He founded the Free State Project in 2001.
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Chapman Revercomb
- Enrolled in Washington and Lee University
- Studied in 1914-1916
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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William Chapman Revercomb was an American politician and lawyer. A Republican, he served two separate terms in the United States Senate representing the state of West Virginia.
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Charles P. Snyder
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Charles Philip Snyder was a four-star admiral in the United States Navy who served as the U.S. Navy's first Naval Inspector General during World War II.
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Charles Triplett O'Ferrall
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- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Charles Triplett "Trip" O'Ferrall was a Virginian politician who served as a U.S. Representative from 1883 to 1894 and as the 42nd Governor of Virginia from 1894 to 1898.
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Robert Latham Owen
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Robert Latham Owen Jr. was one of the first two U.S. senators from Oklahoma. He served in the Senate between 1907 and 1925.
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William C. Preston
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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William Campbell Preston was a senator from the United States and a member of the Nullifier, and later Whig Parties. He was also the cousin of William Ballard Preston, William Preston and Angelica Singleton Van Buren. He first married Maria Eliza Coalter in 1819, then Louisa Penelope Davis after Maria's death. Preston was a slaveowner and vocal opponent of abolitionism.
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John Thomas Lewis Preston
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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John Thomas Lewis Preston was an American educator and military officer from Virginia. He was a primary founder and organizer of the Virginia Military Institute, and was one of its first two faculty members. He also served in the Confederate military during the American Civil War.
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George Lynn
- Occupations
- television actoractor
- Biography
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Peter George Lynn was an American actor and writer.
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Kenn George
- Occupations
- politicianrancher
- Biography
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Kenneth Suggeet George II is an American businessman, politician and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Uruguay from September 2, 2019 to January 20, 2021.
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William Wallace Barron
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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William Wallace Barron was an American Democratic politician in West Virginia. He was the state's 26th Governor from 1961 to 1965.
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James Hardy Dillard
- Occupations
- promotereducator
- Biography
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James Hardy Dillard, also known as J. H. Dillard, was an educator from Virginia. The son of slaveholders, Dillard was educated at Washington and Lee University and held a variety of teaching positions. In 1891, Dillard was named a professor at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Peter Early
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Peter Early was an American lawyer, jurist and politician who served as governor of Georgia and as a U.S. congressman during the early 19th Century.
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Alex Hitz
- Occupations
- chefcolumnistcookbook writerphilanthropist
- Biography
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Alex Hitz is an American celebrity chef, author of two cookbooks, philanthropist, socialite, columnist. Founder of the food product line The Beverly Hills Kitchen. Former food editor of House Beautiful.
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Rodney Mims Cook, Sr
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rodney Mims Cook was an American politician who served for over twenty years as Atlanta alderman and member of the Georgia House of Representatives.
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Jay Fant
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Julian E. "Jay" Fant is a Republican politician who formerly served as a member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 15th District, which includes parts of downtown Jacksonville in southern Duval County, from 2014 to 2018.
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James H. Monroe
- Occupations
- combat medic
- Biography
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James Howard Monroe was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration of honor the Medal of Honor, for his actions as a combat medic in the Vietnam War.
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Jackson Morton
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jackson Morton was an American politician. A member of the Whig Party, he represented Florida as a U.S. Senator from 1849 to 1855. He also served as a Deputy from Florida to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1862.
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Charles Gaines
- Occupations
- writeractorfilmmakernovelistjournalist
- Biography
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Charles Latham Gaines, Jr. is an American writer and outdoorsman, notable for numerous works in both the fiction and non-fiction genres. His writing most typically concerns the outdoors sports of fishing in general and fly fishing in particular, as well as upland bird hunting and mountaineering, often with an intellectual and philosophical bent, and an eye towards the various cultures and traditions surrounding different forms of fishing around the world.
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Homer A. Holt
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Homer Adams Holt was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 20th governor of West Virginia from 1937 to 1941. Born in Lewisburg, West Virginia, he attended the Greenbrier Military School there and then went on to graduate from Washington and Lee University in 1918, where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. After serving in the army during World War I, he returned to Washington and Lee in 1920 and studied law, receiving his degree in 1923. In 1924, he married Isabel Wood.
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James Breckinridge
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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James Breckinridge was a Virginia lawyer and politician and a member of the Breckinridge family. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates, as well as the U.S. House of Representatives. He also fought in the American Revolutionary War and served as a brigadier-general during the War of 1812.
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James Brown
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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James Brown was a Virginia-born American lawyer, planter and politician who served as a Secretary of State for the new state of Kentucky, and later as U.S. Senator from Louisiana, and Minister to France (1823–1829) before his retirement and death in Philadelphia.
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Stephen F. Brauer
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Stephen F. Brauer is an American businessman, philanthropist, and former U.S. Ambassador to Belgium (2001–2003). Brauer is currently chairman of Hunter Engineering Company, a manufacturer of automotive service equipment and technology that is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Miles Benjamin McSweeney
- Occupations
- publisherpolitician
- Biography
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Miles Benjamin McSweeney was the 87th governor of South Carolina from June 2, 1899, to January 20, 1903.
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Anthony R. Ierardi
- Biography
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Anthony Robert Ierardi retired from military service as a United States Army lieutenant general on 1 August 2019. Over the course of his career, he served in a uniquely diverse set of Army and Joint command and staff assignments in operational and institutional units and organizations. Ierardi's concluding assignment was as the Joint Staff's Director for Force Structure, Resources, Assessments, J-8. Previously, he served as the Deputy Chief of Staff G-8 of the United States Army, and commanded the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood Texas. He attended Washington and Lee University and Georgetown University and holds business administration and Master of Arts degrees.
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Duncan Clinch Heyward
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- politician
- Biography
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Duncan Clinch Heyward was the 88th governor of South Carolina from January 20, 1903, to January 15, 1907. While in office, Heyward spoke about the supremacy of the white race, and the right of the "white man" to settle every social and political question.
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William Jackson Humphreys
- Enrolled in Washington and Lee University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- meteorologistatmospheric physicist
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William Jackson Humphreys was an American physicist and atmospheric researcher.
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William T. Poague
- Occupations
- treasurermilitary personnel
- Biography
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William Thomas Poague was a Confederate States Army officer serving in the artillery during the American Civil War. He later served as Treasurer of the Virginia Military Institute.
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William Swan Plumer
- Years
- 1802-1880 (aged 78)
- Occupations
- Christian minister
- Biography
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William Swan Plumer was an American clergyman, theologian and author who was recognized as an intellectual leader of the Presbyterian Church in the 1800s.
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William H. Smathers
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- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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William Howell Smathers was a Democratic United States Senator from New Jersey, serving from 1937 to 1943.
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Walter H. Kansteiner, III
- Biography
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Walter H. Kansteiner III is an American businessman and politician who served as the United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from June 2001 until November 2003.
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W. Stanley Proctor
- Occupations
- sculptor
- Biography
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W. Stanley "Sandy" Proctor is an American painter and sculptor in Florida who makes bronze figures. He was inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame in 2006.
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William Lindsay Brandon
- Occupations
- physicianpolitician
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William Lindsay Brandon was a medical doctor, state legislator, planter and military officer best known for having served as a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Brandon was born c. 1801–1802, though his exact birthdate is indeterminate.
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John Haldeman
- Occupations
- baseball playerjournalist
- Biography
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John Avery Haldeman was a journalist who played one game for Major League Baseball's Louisville Grays in the 1877 season.
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Henry D. Flood
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Henry De La Warr Flood was a representative from the Commonwealth of Virginia to the United States House of Representatives, brother of U.S. Representative Joel West Flood and uncle of U.S. Senator Harry Flood Byrd.
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William Y. Smith
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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William Young Smith was a United States Air Force four-star general who served as Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (COFS SHAPE) from 1979 to 1981 and as Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (DCINCEUR) from 1981 until his retirement from military service in 1983.
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Isaac S. Pennybacker
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Isaac Samuels Pennybacker was a United States representative and a United States senator from Virginia and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia.
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Lon Vest Stephens
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lawrence "Lon" Vest Stephens was an American politician, newspaper editor, and banker from Missouri. He served as State Treasurer of Missouri from 1890 to 1897, and as the 29th Governor of Missouri from 1897 to 1901.
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George Earle Chamberlain
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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George Earle Chamberlain Sr. was an American attorney, politician, and public official in Oregon. A native of Mississippi and member of the Democratic Party, Chamberlain's political achievements included appointment followed by election as the first Attorney General of Oregon, a stint as the state's 11th Governor, and two terms in the United States Senate in Washington, DC.
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Alexander McNutt
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Alexander Gallatin McNutt was a Mississippi attorney and politician who served as Governor from 1838 to 1842.
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James Sloan Kuykendall
- Years
- 1878-1928 (aged 50)
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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James Sloan Kuykendall was an American farmer, lawyer, and Democratic politician in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Kuykendall was twice elected as a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates representing Hampshire County (1907–1908 and 1919–1920). Kuykendall also served three terms as the mayor of Romney and later fulfilled the position of city attorney.
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James Harrison Oliver
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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James Harrison Oliver was a rear admiral and member of the Naval Board of Strategy during World War I. He was also the first military governor of the United States Virgin Islands from 1917 to 1919. He was often referred to as J. H. Oliver.
