14 Notable alumni of
West Virginia Wesleyan College
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West Virginia Wesleyan College is 2728th in the world, 957th in North America, and 905th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 14 notable alumni from West Virginia Wesleyan 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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Ted Cassidy
- Occupations
- film actorscreenwritertelevision actoractorvoice actor
- Biography
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Theodore Crawford Cassidy was an American actor. He tended to play unusual characters in offbeat or science-fiction works such as Star Trek and I Dream of Jeannie, and he played Lurch on The Addams Family in the mid-1960s. He also narrated The Incredible Hulk TV series and voiced The Hulk in the show's first 2 seasons.
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Greasy Neale
- Occupations
- American football coachbasketball coachbaseball playerplayer of American football
- Biography
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Alfred Earle "Greasy" Neale was an American football and baseball player and coach.
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Jason Koon
- Occupations
- poker player
- Biography
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Jason Koon is an American professional poker player from Weston, West Virginia known for his accomplishments in live and online poker tournaments.
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Pare Lorentz
- Enrolled in West Virginia Wesleyan College
- Studied in 1921-1923
- Occupations
- authorfilm criticdirectorjournalistfilm director
- Biography
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Pare Lorentz was an American filmmaker known for his film work about the New Deal. Born Leonard MacTaggart Lorentz in Clarksburg, West Virginia he was educated at Buckhannon High School, West Virginia Wesleyan College, and West Virginia University. As a young film critic in both New York City and Hollywood, Lorentz spoke out against censorship in the film industry.
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Blanche Lazzell
- Occupations
- painterprintmaker
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Blanche Lazzell was an American painter, printmaker and designer. Known especially for her white-line woodcuts, she was an early modernist American artist, bringing elements of Cubism and abstraction into her art.
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John Swan
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- politician
- Biography
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Sir John William David Swan is a former Bermudian political figure. A real estate developer, a political luminary and a philanthropist, Swan served as Premier of Bermuda from 1982 to 1995.
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L. J. Hanifan
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- 1879-1932 (aged 53)
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Lyda Judson Hanifan, better known as L. J. Hanifan, is credited with introducing the concept of social capital. Robert Putnam in his book, Bowling Alone (2000) credits a 1916 paper by Hanifan as the first recorded instance of the term. Hanifan also authored a book published in 1920 that contains a chapter entitled "Social Capital".
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Heather Conley
- Biography
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Heather A. Conley is president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Washington, D.C.
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Matt Foreman
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- LGBTQI+ rights activist
- Biography
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Matt Foreman is an American lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights lawyer and activist with a background in political advocacy and civil rights work. He is the program director at the Haas Jr. Fund, overseeing its work in the areas of gay and lesbian and immigrant rights.
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Sheriff Blake
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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John Frederick "Sheriff" Blake was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1920 to 1931 and 1937. He played for the St. Louis Browns, St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Phillies, and Chicago Cubs.
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Okey L. Patteson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Okey Leonidas Patteson was the 23rd Governor of West Virginia from 1949 to 1953. He was a member of the United States Democratic Party and of the "machine" that totally controlled politics in that era in the state.
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Edward Gay Rohrbough
- Occupations
- bankerpoliticianteacher
- Biography
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Edward Gay Rohrbough was a Republican United States Representative from West Virginia. He was born in 1874, near Buckhannon, West Virginia, in Upshur County, West Virginia. He served in the Seventy-eighth and Eightieth Congress. He died December 12, 1956.
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Daniel Pitt O'Brien
- Years
- 1900-1957 (aged 57)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Daniel Pitt O'Brien was Secretary of State of West Virginia 1948–1957.
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Katherine A. Hoadley
- Enrolled in West Virginia Wesleyan College
- 1997-2001 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- oncologistacademic
- Biography
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Katherine A. Hoadley is an American breast cancer researcher. As of 2017, she has served as the Associate Director of Cancer Genomics for the High-Throughput Sequencing Facility at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. Her research is focused on understanding the biology of cancer through gene expression analyses and integrative genomic approaches.
