List of Sewanee: The University of the South people

This is a list of some notable people affiliated with Sewanee: The University of the South.

Arts[]

Radney Foster, country music artist

Literature[]

Franklin Burroughs, author
H.T. Kirby-Smith, author and poet
Thomas Lakeman, author
Andrew Nelson Lytle, author, editor, Sewanee Review
Aaron McCollough, poet
Speer Morgan, novelist, short story writer and editor
William Alexander Percy, poet and memoirist
Wyatt Prunty, poet and founding director of the Sewanee Writer's Conference
John Jeremiah Sullivan, writer and editor, author of Pulphead
Allen Tate, poet, critic, assistant editor of Sewanee Review
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, historian, author

Music[]

Radney Foster, singer/songwriter
Jonathan Meiburg, musician^[1]
Tupper Saussy, American composer, musician
Amanda Shires, singer/songwriter, violin player^[2]

Photography[]

Stephen Alvarez, photojournalist and National Geographic photographer

Television and film[]

Julian Adams, film producer, writer, and actor
Paul Harris Boardman, film producer and screenwriter
Anson Mount, stage, film, and television actor, Hell on Wheels
John Swasey, voice actor
Jean Yarbrough, film and television director

Athletics[]

"Diddy" Seibels

Walter Barrett
Chigger Browne
Eric Cheape
Wild Bill Claiborne
Rupert Colmore
Harris G. Cope
Charlie Dexter, Major League Baseball player
Frank Faulkinberry
Jenks Gillem
Delmas Gooch
Joe B. Hall, University of Kentucky head basketball coach
Orin Helvey
Frank Juhan
Aubrey Lanier
Lawrence Markley
Henry D. Phillips
Kyle Rote Jr., soccer player
Phil Savage, former Senior VP and General Manager, Cleveland Browns
John Scarbrough
Henry Seibels, captain of 1899 Sewanee Tigers football team
John Shoop, football coach
Ormond Simkins
Lee Tolley
Silas Williams
Warbler Wilson
Eben Wortham, All-Southern fullback in 1917

Education[]

Samuel and Victoria Pickering

Douglass Adair, historian and editor of the William and Mary Quarterly
Alan P. Bell, psychologist at the Kinsey Institute
Benjamin B. Dunlap, president of Wofford College
John V. Fleming, professor emeritus at Princeton University
W. Cabell Greet (1901-1972), philologist and McIntosh Professor of English at Barnard College
Thomas N.E. Greville (1910-1998), mathematician and professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison
J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton (1878-1961), historian, archivist, and professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jeff McMahan (philosopher), White's Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Oxford
Charles H. McNutt, archaeologist and professor at Memphis State University
Richard Mitchell, "The Underground Grammarian"
Walter Nance, professor of Human Genetics at Virginia Commonwealth University
Eric Woodfin Naylor (1936-2019), Hispanist and translator of el Libro de buen amor
Rob Pearigen, president of Millsaps College
Samuel F. Pickering Jr., professor of English at the University of Connecticut; inspiration for Mr. Keating in the film Dead Poets Society
Douglas Porch, professor at the Naval Postgraduate School
S. Lynne Stokes, statistician and professor at Southern Methodist University
Richard Tillinghast, English teacher and poet
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, historian and professor at the University of Florida and Case Western University

Journalism[]

Clarence Faulk, publisher of Ruston Daily Leader; owner of radio station KRUS; diversified businessman in Ruston, Louisiana
Ward Greene (1892-1956), journalist, playwright and editor
Smith Hempstone, journalist and U.S. Ambassador to Kenya
Jack Hitt, author and contributing editor of New York Times Magazine, Harper's Magazine and This American Life
Roger Hodge, editor of The Oxford American; former editor of Harper's Magazine
Jon Meacham, editor of Newsweek; winner of 2009 Pulitzer Prize for biography

Law[]

Phelan Beale, lawyer of Grey Gardens fame
Stuart Bowen, Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, 2004-2013
Robert L. Brown, Associate Justice Arkansas Supreme Court
Alexander Campbell King, Solicitor General of the United States and Judge of United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Benjamin Franklin Cameron (1890-1964), Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Thorn Lord, lawyer and Democratic politician from New Jersey
Hart T. Mankin, General Counsel of the Navy, 1971-1973, and Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, 1990-1996
Travis Randall McDonough, United States District Judge, Eastern District of Tennessee
Patrick Henry Nelson II (1856–1914) South Carolina Fifth Circuit Solicitor; President of the South Carolina Bar (1911–1912); member of the South Carolina House of Representatives (1885–1887)
David C. Norton, United States District Judge, District of South Carolina
Pride Tomlinson (1890-1967), Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court

Military[]

Archibald Butt (1865–1912), journalist, military advisor to the President
William Crawford Gorgas (1854–1920), Surgeon General of the US Army
Cary T. Grayson (1878-1938), naval surgeon, rear admiral, chairman of the American Red Cross
Frank Kelso (1933–2013), admiral, USN, Chief of Naval Operations (CNO)
Marcel Lettre, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, 2015-2017
Leonidas Polk, Episcopal bishop and Confederate general; founder of the University of the South
Bill Studeman, admiral, U.S. Navy, director of Naval Intelligence, director of the National Security Agency,

Business[]

O. B. Grayson Hall Jr., chairman and chief executive officer of Regions Financial Corporation
Robert Ivy, FAIA, Chief Executive Officer of the American Institute of Architects^[3]
David Tallichet, restaurateur and creator of the themed restaurant
Rick Woodward, president Woodward Iron Company, owner Birmingham Barons^[4]

Politics and Government[]

Robert Stanley Adams (1895-1943), member of the Florida State Senate
Ellis Arnall, governor of Georgia
Richard Walker Bolling, Democratic congressman from Missouri
David Cadman, Vancouver City Councillor
Harry P. Cain, Republican Senator from Washington, 1946-1953
William S. Cogswell Jr., member of the South Carolina House of Representatives
Carl Copeland Cundiff, United States Ambassador to Niger
Steven Dickerson, Republican member of the Tennessee Senate, 2013-2020
Tucker Eskew, Republican political consultant
Kirkman Finlay Jr., mayor of Columbia, South Carolina, 1978-1986
Robert C. Frasure, first United States Ambassador to Estonia after regaining independence from the Soviet Union
Kenneth Goodenow, member of the Hawaii House of Representatives, 1996-2000
Robert E. Gribbin, 3rd, United States Ambassador to Rwanda, 1996-1999, and the Central African Republic, 1993-1995.
, state senator for Caddo and DeSoto parishes, Louisiana, 1924–1932; Shreveport attorney^[5]
Clarke Hogan, Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 2002-2010
Henry F. Holland, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, 1954-1956
John Jay Hooker (1930-2016), attorney, political gadfly, candidate for Tennessee governor
Luke Lea, Democratic Senator from Tennessee, 1911-1917
Peter O'Donnell, Republican state party chairman in Texas during the 1960s; Dallas investor and philanthropist^[6]
Vail M. Pittman, 19th Governor of Nevada^[7]
Albert J. Pullen, member of the Wisconsin State Senate
Simon Pierre Robineau, member of the Florida House of Representatives
Steve Schale, State Director for the 2008 Barack Obama campaign in Florida
Armistead I. Selden Jr., Democratic congressman from Alabama
Phil Smith (Alabama politician) (1931-2020), member of the Alabama House of Representatives
Lee M. Thomas, Administrator, United States Environmental Protection Agency, 1985-89
Ralph T. Troy (Class of 1957), mayor of Monroe, Louisiana, 1972–1976^[8]^[9]
Shannon R. Valentine, member of the Virginia House of Delegates
John Sharp Williams (1854-1932), Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives, U.S. Senator from Mississippi

Religion[]

Gene Robinson, ninth bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire and the first openly gay Episcopal bishop

George Townshend, (1876-1957), Archdeacon of Clonfert, Canon of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, Hand of the Cause of the Bahá’í Faith^[10]
J. Neil Alexander, bishop of Atlanta and dean of the School of Theology of The University of the South
John Maury Allin, 23rd presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, 1974-1985
Harry Brown Bainbridge III, Bishop of Idaho, President of Province VIII, Chair of Episcopal Relief & Development^[11]
Allen L. Bartlett, Bishop of Pennsylvania, 1987-1998
Foley Beach, archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America
G.P. Mellick Belshaw (1928-2020), bishop of New Jersey
Mark Bourlakas, bishop of Southwestern Virginia
Theodore DuBose Bratton, Bishop of the Episcopal Church and chaplain general of the United Confederate Veterans^[12]^[13]
Edmond Browning, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church
William G. Burrill, bishop of Rochester
, bishop of Atlanta
Thomas N. Carruthers (1900-1960), bishop of South Carolina
William Stirling Claiborne (1872–1933), priest
Clarence Alfred Cole (1909-1963), bishop of Upper South Carolina
Glenda S. Curry, bishop of Alabama
Carl P. Daw Jr., executive director of the Hymn Society
Alex D. Dickson, bishop of West Tennessee
William Porcher DuBose, dean and priest
James Duncan, bishop of Southeast Florida
Hunley Elebash (1923-1993), bishop of East Carolina
Thomas C. Ely, bishop of Vermont, 2001-2019
Leopold Frade, Episcopal bishop
Robert F. Gibson Jr., bishop of Virginia, 1961-1974
Campbell Gray, Episcopal bishop
Duncan M. Gray Jr. (1926–2016), bishop of Mississippi
Marion J. Hatchett, liturgical scholar and one of the key framers of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer
John E. Hines, 22nd Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, 1965-1974
George Nelson Hunt, III, bishop of Rhode Island
Edwin M. Leidel Jr., bishop of Eau Claire
Mary Adelia Rosamond McLeod, bishop of Vermont, the first female Episcopal priest elected to head a diocese
C. Brinkley Morton, bishop of San Diego
Alfred C. Marble Jr. (1936-2017), bishop of Mississippi
Henry N. Parsley, bishop of Alabama, chancellor of The University of the South
Leonidas Polk, Episcopal bishop and Confederate general; founder of the University of the South
Charles Todd Quintard, bishop of Tennessee
George Lazenby Reynolds (1927-1991), bishop of Tennessee
Gene Robinson, bishop of New Hampshire
Harry W. Shipps, bishop of Georgia
Becca Stevens, Episcopal priest
Hudson Stuck, Anglican Archdeacon who organized the first ascent of Mount McKinley
Eugene Sutton, bishop of Maryland
G. Porter Taylor, bishop of Western North Carolina
, bishop of Atlanta

References[]

^ Butler, Buck (Summer 2009). "Johnny Rook" (PDF). Sewanee Magazine: 18–27. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
^ "How poetry and fear influenced Amanda Shires' new album, 'To the Sunset'".
^ "About - AIA".
^ "Rick Woodward Named Distinguished Sportsman for 2010".
^ "Funeral for Pike Hall at 11 A.M. Today – Prominent Attorney, Civic Leader Succumbs After Brief Illness". The Shreveport Times. December 17, 1945. pp. 1, 6. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
^ "Ralph K.M. Haurwitz, UT's 'Mr. Anonymous' a force behind research: Peter O'Donnell, Jr., wife have given more than $135 million for science, engineering efforts, July 4, 2010". Austin American-Statesman. Retrieved September 12, 2013.
^ "Nevada Governor Vail Montgomery Pittman". National Governors Association. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
^ Gordon E. Harvey, Historic Ouachita Parish: An Illustrated History. San Antonio, Texas: Historical Publishing Network. 2007. p. 45. ISBN 9781893619708. Retrieved July 9, 2013.
^ "Sewanee Alumni News (1958); List of 1957 graduates". Retrieved July 10, 2013.
^ "George Townshend – Bahai Chronicles". Retrieved 2021-08-15.
^ "Homepage".
^ "Bratton, Theodore DuBose". The Episcopal Church. Retrieved July 29, 2015.
^ "Rev. Theodore D. Bratton Is Given U. C. V. Post". The Owensboro Messenger. December 10, 1929. p. 5. Retrieved May 1, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.

[1] Butler, Buck (Summer 2009). "Johnny Rook" (PDF). Sewanee Magazine: 18–27. Retrieved 21 October 2017.

[2] "How poetry and fear influenced Amanda Shires' new album, 'To the Sunset'".

[3] "About - AIA".

[4] "Rick Woodward Named Distinguished Sportsman for 2010".

[5] "Funeral for Pike Hall at 11 A.M. Today – Prominent Attorney, Civic Leader Succumbs After Brief Illness". The Shreveport Times. December 17, 1945. pp. 1, 6. Retrieved March 26, 2015.

[6] "Ralph K.M. Haurwitz, UT's 'Mr. Anonymous' a force behind research: Peter O'Donnell, Jr., wife have given more than $135 million for science, engineering efforts, July 4, 2010". Austin American-Statesman. Retrieved September 12, 2013.

[7] "Nevada Governor Vail Montgomery Pittman". National Governors Association. Retrieved October 6, 2012.

[8] Gordon E. Harvey, Historic Ouachita Parish: An Illustrated History. San Antonio, Texas: Historical Publishing Network. 2007. p. 45. ISBN 9781893619708. Retrieved July 9, 2013.

[9] "Sewanee Alumni News (1958); List of 1957 graduates". Retrieved July 10, 2013.

[10] "George Townshend – Bahai Chronicles". Retrieved 2021-08-15.

[11] "Homepage".

[12] "Bratton, Theodore DuBose". The Episcopal Church. Retrieved July 29, 2015.

[13] "Rev. Theodore D. Bratton Is Given U. C. V. Post". The Owensboro Messenger. December 10, 1929. p. 5. Retrieved May 1, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.

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