List of Hampden–Sydney College alumni

This is a list of notable alumni of Hampden–Sydney College, including graduates and non-graduates. Individuals are sorted by category and alphabetized within each category. The Alumni Association of Hampden–Sydney College considers all former students to be members, whether they graduated or not, and does not generally differentiate between graduates and non-graduates when identifying alumni. Currently, Hampden-Sydney has an estimated 8,000 living alumni.

Arts and entertainment

William H. Armstrong: teacher, author of the Newbery Medal-winning Sounder; Class of 1936
Tyler Barstow: co-founder of Vinyl Me, Please;^[1] Class of 2010
Stephen Colbert: comedian, host of The Late Show on CBS; studied philosophy for two years before transferring to Northwestern University and graduating in 1986^[2]
Scott Cooper: actor, writer, producer of films, Gods and Generals, Broken Trail; directed and wrote screenplay for the Academy-Award-winning film Crazy Heart; Class of 1992 ^[3]
J. Tayloe Emery: producer, journalist, writer, photographer, director; One by One Global AIDS/HIV PSA; in 2005 produced the Emmy-nominated anti-poverty commercial for Bono's ONE Campaign; Class of 1992
William Hoffman: author of Tidewater Blood, winner of the O. Henry Prize and the Dashiell Hammett Award; Class of 1949
Michael Knight: author of short stories, novels, and screenplays; winner of the Playboy Fiction Writing Contest; Class of 1992
Thomas B. Mason: U.S. attorney; actor, Mississippi Burning, Crimes of the Heart and Gods and Generals; Class of 1940
John Phillips: musician, member of The Mamas & the Papas; attended but did not graduate; Class of 1956
Robert Porterfield: founder of the Barter Theatre, attended, did not graduate, but received honorary degree of Doctor of Letters for his work in the theatre in 1948
William Smithers: actor, TV and film, Dallas, Papillion, Scorpio, Star Trek;^[4] attended 1946-1948 before transferring to Catholic University to study acting; Class of 1950
Skipp Sudduth: actor, Third Watch, Ronin; Class of 1979^[5]

Business

Robert Citrone: billionaire hedge fund manager of Discovery Capital Management; part owner of Pittsburgh Steelers; Class of 1987^[6]
James Cook: senior vice president of The U.S. Russia Investment Fund (TUSRIF) and Delta Capital Management; co-founder of Aurora Russia Limited^[7]
Steven T. Huff: Chairman of TF Concrete Forming Systems; owner of Pensmore; Class of 1973^[8]
Maurice Jones: Rhodes Scholar; Secretary of Commerce and Trade for the State of Virginia; Class of 1986^[9]
Alphonso O'Neil-White: first African-American student at the college; Chairman of the Board (retired) of Blue Cross/Blue Shield; Class of 1972^[10]

Education

Willis Henry Bocock: first dean of The University of Georgia Graduate School, 1910–1928; prominent professor of Classics; Class of 1884
Charles William Dabney: president of University of Cincinnati and University of Tennessee; Class of 1873
George H. Denny: president of Washington and Lee University 1899-1911; president of the University of Alabama 1911-1936, and interim president in 1941; the on-campus football stadium at Alabama was named after him (named Denny Stadium when it opened in 1929; renamed Bryant–Denny Stadium in 1975 to honor coach Paul W. Bryant), as was the centerpiece of the campus's quadrangle, Denny Chimes; Class of 1891
Landon Garland: president of Randolph-Macon College, president of the University of Alabama, and founding Chancellor of Vanderbilt University; Class of 1829
George Wilson McPhail: president of Lafayette College and Davidson College
Paul S. Trible, Jr.: president of Christopher Newport University; former U.S. Senator and U.S. Representative from Virginia; Class of 1968
Moses Waddel: fifth President of the University of Georgia, 1819-1829; prominent educators of his time (many southern leaders studied under Waddel, including John C. Calhoun); Class of 1791

Law and politics

George M. Bibb: Chief Justice of Kentucky; U.S. Senator from Kentucky; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury; Class of 1791
Thomas S. Bocock: Speaker of the Confederate House; Class of 1838
William Henry Brodnax: general of Virginia militia during the Nat Turner Rebellion; Virginia legislator
Archibald C. Buchanan: Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (1946–1969); author of Lucy v. Zehmer, a case involving mutual assent in contract known to first-year law school students
Joseph C. Cabell: member of the Virginia General Assembly; Jefferson's "co-adjutor" in founding the University of Virginia; Class of 1800
William H. Cabell: Governor of Virginia; judge on Virginia Supreme Court; Class of 1789
Stokely G. Caldwell, Jr.: attorney for NASCAR drivers and sponsors; Class of 1978
Judge Jeremiah Watkins Clapp (1814–1898), lawyer, planter and Confederate politician
William Daniel (judge): Virginia House of Delegates; judge of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals; Class of 1826
Clement C. Dickinson: United States Representative from Missouri
John Wayles Eppes: United States Representative and Senator; Class of 1786
John A. Field, Jr.: United States Federal Judge; Class of 1932
Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy: West Virginia State Senator and lawyer; Class of 1868
Thomas S. Flournoy: United States Representative and Confederate cavalry colonel in the Civil War
Hamilton Rowan Gamble: Missouri state legislator; presiding judge in state supreme court; provisional (Unionist) governor of Missouri
William Branch Giles: member of both houses of Congress; Governor of Virginia; Class of 1791
Henry Bell Gilkeson: West Virginia Senator, West Virginia House of Delegates member, and Principal of the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind
Jim Harrell: North Carolina legislator
William Henry Harrison: 9th president of the United States; Class of 1791
Eugene Hickok: U.S. Under Secretary of Education; Acting Deputy Secretary of Education; former Secretary of Education of Pennsylvania; founding member and former chairman of the Education Leaders Council; Class of 1972
Charles Hurt: D.C. bureau chief for the New York Post; former Capitol Hill Bureau Chief for the Washington Times; Class of 1995
Robert Hurt: Congressman for Virginia's Fifth Congressional District; former member of the Virginia Senate and the Virginia House of Delegates; Class of 1991
Thomas M. Jackson, Jr.: president of the Virginia Board of Education; former member of the Virginia House of Delegates; Class of 1979
James M. Jordan, Jr.: former campaign manager for presidential candidate John Kerry; Class of 1983
John Thornton Knight: Brigadier General; Commandant of Cadets at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute; Chief Quartermaster, A.E.F; Class of 1880
Thomas W. Ligon: Maryland delegate; U.S. Representative; Governor of Maryland; Class of 1830
Jonathan L. Martin: the national political correspondent for the New York Times ; Class of 1999^[11]
Charles V. McPhillips: partner and Aattorney with the Law Firm of Kaufman and Canoles; National Alumni Association President; Class of 1982
Elisha E. Meredith: Virginia state senator; United States Representative
Harvey B. Morgan: retired pharmacist; member of the Virginia House of Delegates; Class of 1952
Rod O'Connor: EVP Europe for AEG Facilities; Chief of Staff for the U.S. Department of Energy; CEO of the 2000 and 2004 Democratic National Conventions; political aide to Vice President Gore; trustee of X Prize Foundation; Class of 1992
Chris Peace: member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 97th District; Class of 1998
William Ballard Preston: U.S. Secretary of the Navy, 1849–1850; U.S. House of Representatives, 1847–1849; author of the "Preston Resolution", the bill of Virginia's secession; Class of 1824
Sterling Price: aka "Old Pap," Governor of Missouri; Major General in Confederate Army; leader of Confederate Colony in Vera Cruz, Mexico; Class of 1830
Roger Atkinson Pryor: U.S. Representative from Virginia; Brigadier General CSA; Justice of the New York Supreme Court; Class of 1845
Samuel B. Pryor: first mayor of Dallas, Texas, 1856-1857; physician; Class of 1844
Paul Reiber: Chief Justice of the Vermont State Supreme Court; Class of 1970
Robert Christian Rickers: Treasurer of Lunenburg County Virginia; Class of 1999
Alexander Rives: Judge of the Virginia Supreme Court; Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia; Class of 1825
William Cabell Rives: U.S. Representative from Virginia; U.S. Senator; Minister to France; Confederate Representative; attended but did not graduate
William Prescott Mills Schwind: attorney; partner at Fulbright & Jaworski; Class of 1993
W. Sydnor Settle: retired partner at Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett; Class of 1955
Julious P. Smith Jr.: CEO of Williams Mullen; Class of 1965
William B. Spong, Jr.: U.S. Senator from Virginia; Class of 1941
Robert Strange: U.S. Senator from North Carolina; author of Eoneguski ("the first North Carolina novel"); Class of 1814
John Leighton Stuart: U.S. Ambassador to China, 1946–1949; President, Yenching University, Beijing, 1919–1946; Class of 1896
Paul S. Trible, Jr.: former U.S. Senator and U.S. Representative from Virginia; current president of Christopher Newport University; Class of 1968
Lee Trinkle: Governor of Virginia 1922-26; Class of 1896
Abraham B. Venable: United States representative and senator from Virginia, first president of the First National Bank of Virginia
Leighton D. Yates, Jr.: partner at Holland and Knight (Orlando); Class of 1968
James R. Young: North Carolina insurance commissioner
W. James Young: attorney; Staff Attorney, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Inc.; Class of 1986^[12]

Others

MSG Matt Eversmann: Army Ranger who fought in the Battle of Mogadishu; portrayed by Josh Hartnett in the film Black Hawk Down; Class of 1988 (did not graduate due to enlistment in the Army, but was awarded an honorary degree in August 2000)^[13]
Devin Galligan: cancer survivor and philanthropist; founder of "Strain the Brain" to help cancer patients in Nashville, Tennessee; Class of 1994 (completed degree at Fordham University)
Robert E. Livingston Jr.: the Adjutant General of South Carolina ; Class of 1978
John S. Mosby: the "Gray Ghost"; Confederate colonel in charge of 43rd Battalion Virginia Cavalry known as Mosby's Raiders; Class of 1851 (did not graduate)
John S. Preston: Confederate general in the American Civil War; South Carolina state senator; Class of 1824

Religion

Thomas Atkinson: third Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina; one of the ten bishops who joined to found the University of the South: Sewanee; founder of Saint Augustine's University; Class of 1825^[14]
Robert Lewis Dabney: theologian; Chief of Staff for Stonewall Jackson; biographer of Jackson; Confederate Army Chaplain; attended circa 1835-1836, graduated from the University of Virginia
Edward Baptist: reverend; one of the co-founders and first instructor of University of Richmond; Class of 1813^[15]
Henry H. "Chip" Edens III: Rector of Christ Church Episcopal, Charlotte, North Carolina; Class of 1992
William Henry Foote: Presbyterian minister and historian; Doctor of Divinity from Hampden–Sydney College in 1847; served on its Board of Trustees 1851-1870^[16]
Robert Atkinson Gibson: sixth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia (1902–1919)
Nimrod Hughes: theologian, pamphleteer, land speculator; published sensationalist visions of an apocalyptic event in June 1812 which was discussed in the correspondence of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and John Taylor of Caroline; Class of 1794^[17]^[18]^[19]
A. Heath Light: fourth Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Southwest Virginia; Class of 1951
Frank Clayton "Clay" Matthews: Bishop for the Office of Pastoral Development for the Episcopal Church, formerly Suffragan Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia; Class of 1970
William R. Moody: third Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Lexington; founder of the Washington School of Religion; Class of 1922.
Charles Clifton Penick: Missionary Bishop of the Episcopal Church; Bishop of Cape Palmas, West Africa (1825–1914)
J. Dwight Pentecost: Christian theologian known for his book Things to Come; Distinguished Professor of Bible Exposition, Emeritus, Dallas Theological Seminary, 1955-2014; Class of 1937
Francis A. Schaeffer: theologian, philosopher, Presbyterian pastor; known for writings and establishing the L'Abri community in Switzerland; author of A Christian Manifesto; Class of 1935
Spenser C.D. Simrill: Dean of St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Class of 1970

Science and medicine

W. Randolph Chitwood Jr., MD: pioneered robotic cardiac surgery in the US for minimally invasive heart surgery; Class of 1968
John Peter Mettauer: first plastic surgeon in US; Class of 1807
Thomas D. Mütter, MD: surgeon; benefactor of Philadelphia tourist attraction Mütter Museum; Class of 1830^[20]
John Armstrong Shackelford, MD: Johns Hopkins University; surgeon, Shackelford Hospital;^[21] surgeon-in-chief, Martinsville General Hospital, Martinsville, Virginia; Class of 1914^[22]

Sports

Griff Aldrich: head men's basketball coach, Longwood University; Class of 1996
James C. Hickey III: member of Fly Fishing Team USA; Class of 1993
Bob Humphreys: pro baseball player; Class of 1958
Tom Miller: NFL player; assistant GM of Green Bay Packers; member of Packers' Hall of Fame; Class of 1943
Ryan Odom: head men's basketball coach, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Class of 1996
Ryan Silverfield: member, assistant coach, Minnesota Vikings; Class of 2002
Russell D. Turner: men's basketball head coach of UC Irvine; former assistant coach of the Golden State Warriors; Class of 1992

References

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↑ Holland, David F. Sacred Borders: Continuing Revelation and Canonical Restraint in Early America. New York: OUP, 2011. Pages 95-101.
↑ Helms, Bari. "Apocalypse Not." The Library of Virginia. Out of the Box: Notes from the Archives @ The Library of Virginia, January 9, 2013. http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/2013/01/09/apocalypse-not: accessed February 19, 2014.
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[1] "Resurrecting the lost treasure of vinyl with Matt Fiedler of Vinyl Me, Please". Rverie. Retrieved October 20, 2015.

[2] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on January 9, 2009. Retrieved 2008-11-14.

[3] Scott Cooper on IMDb

[4] William Smithers on IMDb

[5] Skipp Sudduth on IMDb

[6] "Robert Citrone". Forbes.com. January 1, 1970. Retrieved April 30, 2017.

[7] "James Bernard Cook". Bloomberg. Retrieved October 22, 2016.

[8] "Insulated Concrete Forms Leadership Team | TFSystem.Com | ICF". TFSystem.Com. September 27, 2012. Retrieved April 30, 2017.

[9] Walzer, Phil (April 3, 2008). "New publisher for Virginian-Pilot takes over at uncertain time | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com". HamptonRoads.com. Retrieved April 30, 2017.

[10] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 23, 2015. Retrieved 2013-02-22.

[11] "Jonathan Martin". Politico.Com. June 28, 2013. Retrieved April 30, 2017.

[12] "National Right to Work Foundation » The Foundation's Litigators". Nrtw.org. Retrieved April 30, 2017.

[13] "Matt Eversmann". Oplionclaws.com. Retrieved April 30, 2017.

[14] "Thomas Atkinson, D87 - Wilmington, NC - North Carolina Historical Markers on". Waymarking.com. Retrieved April 30, 2017.

[15] "Kaleidoscope". Archive.org. July 21, 2010. Retrieved April 30, 2017.

[16] "Trustees of Hampden-Sidney College". Virginia Magazine. 6 (3): 293. January 1899. JSTOR 4242166. (Registration required (help)).

[17] Juster, Susan. "A Rogues Gallery: Richard Brothers and Nimrod Hughes." Doomsayers: Anglo-American Prophecy in the Age of Revolution. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Pages 178-215.

[18] Holland, David F. Sacred Borders: Continuing Revelation and Canonical Restraint in Early America. New York: OUP, 2011. Pages 95-101.

[19] Helms, Bari. "Apocalypse Not." The Library of Virginia. Out of the Box: Notes from the Archives @ The Library of Virginia, January 9, 2013. http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/2013/01/09/apocalypse-not: accessed February 19, 2014.

[20] "Thomas D. Mutter". Nndb.com. Retrieved April 30, 2017.

[21] Administrator posted on (October 8, 2009). "The Doctors Shackelford and the Shackelford Hospital > Martinsville Henry County Historical Society". Mhchistoricalsociety.com. Archived from the original on March 14, 2017. Retrieved April 30, 2017.

[22] Administrator posted on (October 6, 2009). "John Armstrong Shackelford, MD 1893-1956 > Martinsville Henry County Historical Society". Mhchistoricalsociety.com. Archived from the original on March 14, 2017. Retrieved April 30, 2017.