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]
Amanda Shires, singer/songwriter, violin player^[2]

Television and film

Julian Adams, film producer, actor, and screenwriter
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
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
Walter D. Givhan, United States Air Force Major General
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

Conrad Bandoroff, Godolphin Flying Start graduate and Vice President of Denali Stud in Kentucky^[3]
Robert Ivy, FAIA, Chief Executive Officer of the American Institute of Architects^[4]

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^[5]
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^[6]
Luke Lea, Democratic Senator from Tennessee
Peter O'Donnell, Republican state party chairman in Texas during the 1960s; Dallas investor and philanthropist^[7]
Vail M. Pittman, 19th Governor of Nevada^[8]
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^[9]^[10]
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
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^[11]^[12]
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
Gretchen Rehburg, bishop of the Spokane Diocese
Gene Robinson, bishop of New Hampshire, first openly gay Episcopal bishop
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/
↑ "Bandoroff - Godolphin Flying Start". Godolphin Flying Start. Retrieved 2017-06-28.
↑ http://www.aia.org/about/structure/AIAB099628
↑ "Joseph Barton Elam, Jr". lahistory.org. Retrieved July 10, 2014.
↑ "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". archive.org. Retrieved July 10, 2013.
↑ "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. (Registration required (help)).

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

[2] ttps://ew.com/music/2018/07/31/amanda-shires-to-the-sunset-interview/

[3] "Bandoroff - Godolphin Flying Start". Godolphin Flying Start. Retrieved 2017-06-28.

[4] ttp://www.aia.org/about/structure/AIAB099628

[5] "Joseph Barton Elam, Jr". lahistory.org. Retrieved July 10, 2014.

[6] "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.

[7] "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.

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

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

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

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

[12] "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. (Registration required (help)).