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
- John Jeremiah Sullivan, writer and editor, author of Pulphead
- Allen Tate, assistant editor, 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]
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
- 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 and Judge of United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- Thorn Lord, lawyer and Democratic politician from New Jersey
- 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)
- William Alexander Percy, lawyer and author
Military
- Archibald Butt (1865–1912), journalist, military advisor
- William Crawford Gorgas (1854–1920), Surgeon General of the US Army
- Frank Kelso (1933–2013), admiral, USN, Chief of Naval Operations (CNO)
- Leonidas Polk, Episcopal bishop and Confederate general; founder of the University of the South
- Bill Studeman, admiral, USN
Business
- Robert Ivy, FAIA, Chief Executive Officer of the American Institute of Architects[3]
Politics
- Ellis Arnall, former governor of Georgia
- Richard Walker Bolling, Democratic congressman from Missouri
- Harry P. Cain, Republican Senator from Washington
- Tucker Eskew, Republican political consultant
- 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[4]
- Luke Lea, Democratic Senator from Tennessee
- Peter O'Donnell, Republican state party chairman in Texas during the 1960s; Dallas investor and philanthropist[5]
- Vail M. Pittman, 19th Governor of Nevada[6]
- Albert J. Pullen, member of the Wisconsin State Senate
- Steve Schale, State Director for the 2008 Barack Obama campaign in Florida
- Armistead Inge Selden, Jr., Democratic congressman from Alabama
- Ralph T. Troy (Class of 1957), mayor of Monroe, Louisiana, 1972–1976[7][8]
- 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, bishop of Atlanta and dean of the School of Theology of The University of the South
- John Maury Allin, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church
- Harry Brown Bainbridge III, Bishop of Idaho, President of Province VIII, Chair of Episcopal Relief & Development[9]
- Foley Beach, archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America
- Theodore DuBose Bratton, Bishop of the Episcopal Church and chaplain general of the United Confederate Veterans[10][11]
- Edmond Browning, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church
- Charles Judson Child, Jr., bishop of Atlanta
- William Stirling Claiborne (1872–1933), priest
- Carl P. Daw Jr., executive director of the Hymn Society
- William Porcher DuBose, dean and priest
- Leopold Frade, Episcopal bishop
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Gene Robinson, bishop of New Hampshire
- Becca Stevens, Episcopal priest
- Hudson Stuck, Anglican Archdeacon who organized the first ascent of Mount McKinley
- John Moore Walker, Jr., bishop of Atlanta
References
- Butler, Buck (Summer 2009). "Johnny Rook" (PDF). Sewanee Magazine: 18–27. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
- https://ew.com/music/2018/07/31/amanda-shires-to-the-sunset-interview/
- http://www.aia.org/about/structure/AIAB099628
- "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.
- https://episcopalchurch.org/library/article/former-idaho-bishop-harry-brown-bainbridge-dies-70
- "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.
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