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

Fine arts

• Stephen Alvarez, National Geographic photographer

Literature

• Franklin Burroughs, author
• H.T. Kirby-Smith, author and poet
• Thomas Lakeman, author
• Andrew Nelson Lytle, author
• Aaron McCollough, poet
• Allen Tate, assistant to Andrew Nelson Lytle, supra, in editing Sewanee Review in the 1940s and 1950s
• Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Class of 1953, historian, author, and professor
• John Jeremiah Sullivan, writer and editor, author of Pulphead

Music

• Radney Foster, singer/songwriter
• Jonathan Meiburg, lead singer for Shearwater

Television and film

• Julian Adams, film producer, actor, and screenwriter
• Paul Harris Boardman, film producer and screenwriter
• John Swasey, voice actor
• Jean Yarbrough, film and television director

Performing arts

• Anson Mount, stage, film, and television actor "Hell on Wheels (TV Series)"

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
• Delmas Gooch
• Jenks Gillem
• 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

• Benjamin B. Dunlap, president of Wofford College
• John V. Fleming, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University
• Richard Mitchell, "The Underground Grammarian"
• Walter Nance, professor of Human Genetics at Virginia Commonwealth University
• 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
• Richard Tillinghast, English teacher and poet

Journalism

• Clarence Faulk, publisher of Ruston Daily Leader; owner of radio station KRUS; diversified businessman in Ruston, Louisiana
• 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, 1902, lawyer of Grey Gardens fame
• Stuart Bowen, lawyer currently serving as the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction
• Robert L. Brown, Associate Justice Arkansas Supreme Court
• Alexander Campbell King, Solicitor General of the United States
• Thorn Lord, lawyer and Democratic politician from New Jersey
• 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)
• William Alexander Percy, lawyer and author

Military

• Archibald Butt, military advisor to Presidents Roosevelt and Taft; victim of the sinking of the RMS Titanic
• William Crawford Gorgas, Surgeon General of the US Army
• Frank Kelso, former Chief of Naval Operations (CNO); former Admiral of the Navy; member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Admiral (retired) Bill Studeman

Business

• Robert Ivy, FAIA, Chief Executive Officer of the American Institute of Architects^[1]

Politics

• Ellis Arnall, former governor of Georgia
• Richard Walker Bolling, Democratic congressman from Missouri
• Harry P. Cain, Republican Senator from Washington
• Joseph Barton Elam, Jr., mayor of Mansfield, Louisiana, 1914–1920; editor of The Mansfield Enterprise; secretary of the Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association; chairman of the Louisiana Democratic State Central Committee^[2]
• Tucker Eskew, Republican political consultant
• Jason W. Forrester, Director of Policy Veterans for America
• Robert C. Frasure, first United States Ambassador to Estonia after regaining independence from the Soviet Union
• William Pike Hall, Sr., state senator for Caddo and DeSoto parishes, Louisiana, 1924–1932; Shreveport attorney^[3]
• Luke Lea, Democratic Senator from Tennessee
• Peter O'Donnell, Republican state party chairman in Texas during the 1960s; Dallas investor and philanthropist^[4]
• Vail M. Pittman, 19th Governor of Nevada^[5]
• Albert J. Pullen, member of the Wisconsin State Senate
• Armistead Inge Selden, Jr., Democratic congressman from Alabama
• Ralph T. Troy (Class of 1957), mayor of Monroe, Louisiana, 1972–1976^[6][7]
• Shannon R. Valentine, member of the Virginia House of Delegates

Religion

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

• J. Neil Alexander, IX bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta and current Dean of the School of Theology of The University of the South
• John Maury Allin, XXIII Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church
• Foley Beach, II Archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America
• Edmond Browning, XXIV Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church
• Charles Judson Child, Jr., VII bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta
• Carl P. Daw Jr., Executive Director of the Hymn Society
• William Porcher DuBose, dean and priest
• Leopold Frade, Episcopal bishop
• Campbell Gray, Episcopal bishop
• Marion J. Hatchett, liturgical scholar and one of the key framers of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer.
• George Nelson Hunt, III, 11th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island.
• Edwin M. Leidel, Jr., VI bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Eau Claire
• C. Brinkley Morton, second Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego
• Henry N. Parsley, X bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama, former Chancellor of The University of the South
• Charles Todd Quintard, Episcopal bishop
• Gene Robinson, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire, first openly gay Episcopal bishop
• Becca_Stevens_(priest), Episcopal priest
• Hudson Stuck, (Anglican) Archdeacon who organized the first ascent of Mount McKinley
• John Moore Walker, Jr., 3rd bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta

Technology

• Brian Reynolds, computer game designer

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