Notable Alumni of Washington and Lee University [Sorted List]

1. Alex S. Jones

1946-. (aged 80)

journalist

Alex S. Jones is an American journalist who was director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government from July 1, 2000, until June 2015. He won a Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 1987.

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2. T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr

1948-. (aged 78)

politician

Troy Kenneth "Ken" Cribb Jr. is a former presidential advisor to President Ronald Reagan.

3. William Lindsay Brandon

1801-1890 (aged 89)

politician physician

William Lindsay Brandon was a medical doctor, state legislator, planter and military officer best known for having served as a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Brandon was born c. 1801–1802, though his exact birthdate is indeterminate.

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4. W. Stanley Proctor

1939-. (aged 87)

sculptor

W. Stanley "Sandy" Proctor is an American painter and sculptor in Florida who makes bronze figures. He was inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame in 2006.

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5. Edolo J. Giorgi

1921-1993 (aged 72)

politician

Edolo J. "Zeke" Giorgi was an American politician.

6. William Y. Smith

1925-2016 (aged 91)

military officer

William Young Smith was a United States Air Force four-star general who served as Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (COFS SHAPE) from 1979 to 1981 and as Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command (DCINCEUR) from 1981 until his retirement from military service in 1983.

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7. Isaac S. Pennybacker

1805-1847 (aged 42)

lawyer judge politician

Isaac Samuels Pennybacker was a United States representative and a United States senator from Virginia and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia.

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8. William Jackson Humphreys

1862-1949 (aged 87)

atmospheric physicist meteorologist

William Jackson Humphreys was an American physicist and atmospheric researcher.

9. Henry D. Flood

1865-1921 (aged 56)

lawyer politician

Henry De La Warr Flood was a representative from the Commonwealth of Virginia to the United States House of Representatives, brother of U.S. Representative Joel West Flood and uncle of U.S. Senator Harry Flood Byrd.

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10. William T. Poague

1835-1914 (aged 79)

military personnel treasurer

William Thomas Poague was a Confederate States Army officer serving in the artillery during the American Civil War. He later served as Treasurer of the Virginia Military Institute.

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11. Lon Vest Stephens

1858-1923 (aged 65)

politician

Lawrence "Lon" Vest Stephens was an American politician, newspaper editor, and banker from Missouri. He served as State Treasurer of Missouri from 1890 to 1897, and as the 29th Governor of Missouri from 1897 to 1901.

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12. William H. Smathers

1891-1955 (aged 64)

lawyer judge politician

William Howell Smathers was a Democratic United States Senator from New Jersey, serving from 1937 to 1943.

13. John Haldeman

1855-1899 (aged 44)

journalist baseball player

John Avery Haldeman was a journalist who played one game for Major League Baseball's Louisville Grays in the 1877 season.

14. Anthony R. Ierardi

1960-. (aged 66)

Anthony Robert Ierardi retired from military service as a United States Army lieutenant general on 1 August 2019. Over the course of his career, he served in a uniquely diverse set of Army and Joint command and staff assignments in operational and institutional units and organizations. Ierardi's concluding assignment was as the Joint Staff's Director for Force Structure, Resources, Assessments,...

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15. George Earle Chamberlain

1854-1928 (aged 74)

lawyer politician

George Earle Chamberlain Sr. was an American attorney, politician, and public official in Oregon. A native of Mississippi and member of the Democratic Party, Chamberlain's political achievements included appointment followed by election as the first attorney general of Oregon, a stint as the state's 11th governor, and two terms in the United States Senate in Washington, D.C.

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16. Duncan Clinch Heyward

1864-1943 (aged 79)

politician

Duncan Clinch Heyward was the 88th governor of South Carolina from January 20, 1903, to January 15, 1907.

17. John Otho Marsh, Jr

1926-2019 (aged 93)

lawyer politician

John Otho Marsh Jr. was an American politician and an adjunct professor at George Mason University School of Law. He served as the United States Secretary of the Army from 1981 to 1989, and as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia from 1963 to 1971.

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18. Walter H. Kansteiner, III

1955-. (aged 71)

Walter H. Kansteiner III is an American businessman and politician who served as the United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from June 2001 until November 2003.

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19. Jay Fant

1968-. (aged 58)

politician

Julian E. "Jay" Fant is a Republican politician who formerly served as a member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 15th District, which includes parts of downtown Jacksonville in southern Duval County, from 2014 to 2018.

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20. William Swan Plumer

1802-1880 (aged 78)

Christian minister

William Swan Plumer was an American clergyman, theologian and author who was recognized as an intellectual leader of the Presbyterian Church in the 1800s.

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21. George Washington Hays

1863-1927 (aged 64)

lawyer politician

George Washington Hays was an American politician who served as the 24th governor of Arkansas from 1913 to 1917.

22. James Breckinridge

1763-1833 (aged 70)

lawyer politician

James Breckinridge was a Virginia lawyer and politician and a member of the Breckinridge family. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates, as well as the U.S. House of Representatives. He also fought in the American Revolutionary War and served as a brigadier-general during the War of 1812.

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23. Homer A. Holt

1898-1975 (aged 77)

lawyer politician

Homer Adams Holt was an American lawyer and conservative politician who served as the 20th governor of West Virginia from 1937 to 1941. Born in Lewisburg, West Virginia, he attended the Greenbrier Military School there and then went on to graduate from Washington and Lee University in 1918, where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. After...

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24. Jackson Morton

1794-1874 (aged 80)

politician

Jackson Morton was an American politician. A member of the Whig Party, he represented Florida as a U.S. Senator from 1849 to 1855. He also served as a Deputy from Florida to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1862.

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25. Miles Benjamin McSweeney

1855-1909 (aged 54)

politician publisher

Miles Benjamin McSweeney was the 87th governor of South Carolina from June 2, 1899, to January 20, 1903.

26. Peter Early

1773-1817 (aged 44)

lawyer judge politician

Peter Early was an American lawyer, jurist and politician who served as governor of Georgia and as a two-term U.S. congressman during the early 19th century.

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27. James H. Monroe

1944-1967 (aged 23)

combat medic

James Howard Monroe was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration of honor the Medal of Honor, for his actions as a combat medic in the Vietnam War.

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28. James Brown

1920-1992 (aged 72)

actor television actor tennis player film actor musician

James Brown was an American lawyer, planter, diplomat and politician who served as a Secretary of State for the new state of Kentucky, and later as U.S. Senator from Louisiana, and Minister to France (1823–1829) before his retirement and death in Philadelphia.

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29. William C. Preston

1794-1860 (aged 66)

lawyer politician

William Campbell Preston was a senator from the United States and a member of the Nullifier, and later Whig Parties. He was also the cousin of William Ballard Preston, William Preston and Angelica Singleton Van Buren. He first married Maria Eliza Coalter in 1819, then Louisa Penelope Davis after Maria's death. Preston was a slaveowner and vocal opponent of abolitionism.

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30. Kenn George

1948-. (aged 78)

husbandry worker businessperson politician

Kenneth Suggeet George II is an American businessman, politician and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Uruguay from September 2, 2019 to January 20, 2021.

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31. James Hardy Dillard

1856-1940 (aged 84)

educator promoter

James Hardy Dillard, also known as J. H. Dillard, was an educator from Virginia. The son of slaveholders, Dillard was educated at Washington and Lee University and held a variety of teaching positions. In 1891, Dillard was named a professor at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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32. Rodney Mims Cook, Sr

1924-2013 (aged 89)

politician

Rodney Mims Cook was an American politician who served for over twenty years as Atlanta alderman and member of the Georgia House of Representatives.

33. Alex Hitz

1969-. (aged 57)

chef philanthropist cookbook writer columnist

Alex Hitz is an American celebrity chef, author of two cookbooks, philanthropist, socialite, columnist. Founder of the food product line The Beverly Hills Kitchen. Former food editor of House Beautiful.

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34. John Thomas Lewis Preston

1811-1890 (aged 79)

military officer

John Thomas Lewis Preston was an American educator and military officer from Virginia. He was a primary founder and organizer of the Virginia Military Institute, and was one of its first two faculty members. He also served in the Confederate military during the American Civil War.

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35. Stephen F. Brauer

1945-. (aged 81)

businessperson

Stephen F. Brauer is an American businessman, philanthropist, and former U.S. Ambassador to Belgium (2001–2003). Brauer is currently chairman of Hunter Engineering Company, a manufacturer of automotive service equipment and technology that is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.

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36. Charles Allen

1977-. (aged 49)

politician

Charles Allen is an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, Allen has served on the Council of the District of Columbia for Ward 6 since January 2, 2015. Allen initially won office in the 2014 general election, and was re-elected in 2018 and again in 2022.

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37. William Wallace Barron

1911-2002 (aged 91)

lawyer politician

William Wallace Barron was an American Democratic politician in West Virginia. He was the state's 26th governor of West Virginia from 1961 to 1965.

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38. Jerome Turner

1942-2000 (aged 58)

lawyer judge

Jerome Turner was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee.

39. Kate Cordsen

1964-. (aged 62)

photographer model

Kate Cordsen is an American photographer and contemporary artist. Cordsen lives in New York City.

40. George Lynn

1906-1964 (aged 58)

actor television actor

Peter George Lynn was an American actor and writer.

41. Christopher Burnham

1956-. (aged 70)

military officer businessperson politician

Christopher Bancroft Burnham is an American business executive, public servant, and politician. He is the chairman and chief executive officer of Cambridge Global Capital, LLC and chairman of the board of EN+ Group. He has served as Under Secretary General for Management of the United Nations, Assistant Secretary of State for Resource Management and chief financial officer of the U.S....

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42. Charles Gaines

1942-. (aged 84)

actor writer outdoor enthusiast bodybuilder screenwriter

Charles Latham Gaines, Jr. is an American writer and outdoorsman, notable for numerous works in both the fiction and non-fiction genres. His writing most typically concerns the outdoors sports of fishing in general and fly fishing in particular, as well as upland bird hunting and mountaineering, often with an intellectual and philosophical bent, and an eye towards the various cultures...

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43. Charles P. Snyder

1879-1964 (aged 85)

military officer

Charles Philip Snyder was a four-star admiral in the United States Navy who served as the U.S. Navy's first Naval Inspector General during World War II.

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44. David Freed

1970-. (aged 56)

lawyer

David Joseph Freed is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania from 2017 to 2021. Prior to assuming that role, he was the District Attorney of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.

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45. Louis Dubin

1963-. (aged 63)

businessperson

Louis Myerberg Dubin is a fourth-generation real estate developer who develops upscale condominiums, typically in large east-coast United States cities. He is a founding partner of Redbrick LMD, an opportunistic real estate investment and developments company headquartered in Washington, D.C. His former New York based firm Athena often sold condominiums to middle and upper-middle class buyers. His firm converted landmark...

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46. Jason Sorens

assistant professor

Jason Sorens is an American political scientist and a conservative libertarian activist. He founded the Free State Project in 2001.

47. Powhatan Ellis

1790-1863 (aged 73)

lawyer diplomat judge politician

Powhatan Ellis was a justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court, United States senator from Mississippi, and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Mississippi.

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48. James McDowell

1795-1851 (aged 56)

politician

James McDowell was the 29th Governor of Virginia from 1843 to 1846 and was a U.S. Congressman from 1846 to 1851.

49. J. P. Boulee

1971-. (aged 55)

lawyer judge

Jean-Paul "J. P." Boulee is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

50. Chapman Revercomb

1895-1979 (aged 84)

lawyer politician

William Chapman Revercomb was an American politician and lawyer. A Republican, he served two separate terms in the United States Senate representing the state of West Virginia.

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51. Robert Latham Owen

1856-1947 (aged 91)

lawyer politician

Robert Latham Owen Jr. was one of the first two U.S. senators from Oklahoma. He served in the Senate between 1907 and 1925.

52. Eddie Cameron

1902-1988 (aged 86)

basketball coach American football coach basketball player sports executive American football player

Edmund McCullough Cameron was an American football and basketball player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head basketball coach at Washington and Lee University for one season in 1924–25 and at Duke University from 1928 to 1942, compiling a career college basketball record of 234–104. Cameron was also the head football coach at Duke University from 1942...

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53. H. F. Lenfest

1930-2018 (aged 88)

lawyer entrepreneur

Harold FitzGerald "Gerry" Lenfest was an American lawyer, media executive, and philanthropist. Lenfest, along with his wife Marguerite, were among the most prominent Philadelphia-based philanthropists in his last two decades, donating more than $1.3 billion to 1,100 groups, supporting various educational, artistic, journalistic, and healthcare causes.

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54. G. William Whitehurst

1925-. (aged 101)

university teacher politician

George William Whitehurst is an American retired politician, journalist and academic from Virginia who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 1987. He began his career as a professor at the Norfolk campus of the College of William & Mary, which became Old Dominion University in 1962 and he served as dean of...

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55. Meredith Attwell Baker

1968-. (aged 58)

civil servant

Meredith Attwell Baker is an American businesswoman who served as the president and chief executive officer of CTIA, an industry trade group that represents the international wireless telecommunications industry from June 2014 until April 2025. Her successor is Ajit Pai. From 2009 to 2011, Baker was a member of the United States Federal Communications Commission, nominated by U.S. President Barack...

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56. G. David Low

1956-2008 (aged 52)

astronaut engineer

George David Low was an American aerospace executive and a NASA astronaut. With undergraduate degrees in physics and mechanical engineering and a master's degree in aeronautics and astronautics, he worked in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at the California Institute of Technology in the early 80's, before being picked as an astronaut candidate by NASA in 1984. In addition to...

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57. Clifton Rodes Breckinridge

1846-1932 (aged 86)

diplomat banker politician

Clifton Rodes Breckinridge was an American politician who served as a Democratic Party alderman, U.S. representative, diplomat, and businessman. He also served in both the Confederate States Army and Confederate States Navy in the American Civil War. He was a member of the prominent Breckinridge family, the son of Vice President of the United States and Confederate general John C....

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58. Thomas Todd

1765-1826 (aged 61)

lawyer judge

Thomas Todd was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1807 to 1826. Raised in the Colony of Virginia, he studied law and later participated in the founding of Kentucky, where he served as a clerk, judge, and justice. He was married twice and had a total of eight children. Todd joined the U.S. Supreme...

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59. Henry S. Foote

1804-1880 (aged 76)

lawyer writer politician

Henry Stuart Foote was a United States Senator from Mississippi and the chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations from 1847 to 1852. He was the Unionist Governor of Mississippi from 1852 to 1854.

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60. Julia Tutwiler

1841-1916 (aged 75)

botanist poet botanical collector writer activist

Julia Strudwick Tutwiler was an advocate for education and prison reform in Alabama. She served as co-principal of the Livingston Female Academy, and then the first (and only) woman president of Livingston Normal College (now the University of West Alabama). She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1971.

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61. Thomas Nelson Page

1853-1922 (aged 69)

novelist writer lawyer diplomat poet

Thomas Nelson Page was an American lawyer, politician, and writer. He served as the U.S. ambassador to Italy from 1913 to 1919 under the administration of President Woodrow Wilson during World War I.

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62. James Oscar Davis III

1957-. (aged 69)

lawyer politician

James Oscar Davis III is an Democratic politician and attorney from the U.S. state of Florida. He is a Democrat. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1997 to 2007, representing Florida's 11th congressional district. He was the Democratic nominee for governor of Florida in the 2006 election, but was defeated by Republican Charlie Crist.

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63. Archibald Alexander

1772-1851 (aged 79)

minister university teacher theologian writer pastor

Archibald Alexander was an American Presbyterian theologian and professor at the Princeton Theological Seminary. He served for 9 years as the President of Hampden–Sydney College in Virginia and for 39 years as Princeton Theological Seminary's first professor from 1812 to 1851.

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64. Walt Michaels

1929-2019 (aged 90)

American football coach American football player

Walter Edward Michaels was an American professional football player and coach who was best remembered for his six-year tenure as head coach of the National Football League (NFL)'s New York Jets from 1977 to 1982. In 1977, Michaels was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame, the National Polish American Sports Hall of Fame and into the Suffolk Sports...

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65. Ruby Laffoon

1869-1941 (aged 72)

lawyer judge Democratic Party

Ruby Laffoon was an American attorney and politician who served as the 43rd governor of Kentucky from 1931 to 1935. A Kentucky native, at age 17, Laffoon moved to Washington, D.C., to live with his uncle, U.S. Representative Polk Laffoon. He developed an interest in politics and returned to Kentucky, where he compiled a mixed record of victories and defeats...

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66. Rob Ashford

1959-. (aged 67)

choreographer film director dancer television director

Rob Ashford is an American stage director and choreographer. He is a Tony Award, Olivier Award, Emmy Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award winner.

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67. Matthew M. Graves

lawyer prosecutor

Matthew Michael Graves is an American lawyer who served as the United States attorney for the District of Columbia from 2021 to 2025.

68. J. Bennett Johnston

1932-2025 (aged 93)

lawyer lobbyist politician

John Bennett Johnston Jr. was an American attorney, politician, and later lobbyist from Louisiana who served as member of the United States Senate from 1972 to 1997. He had previously served in both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature representing Caddo Parish, Louisiana as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1964 to 1968 and as a member...

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69. Joe Wilson

1947-. (aged 79)

military officer lawyer politician

Addison Graves "Joe" Wilson Sr. is an American politician and attorney serving as the U.S. representative for South Carolina's 2nd congressional district since 2001. A member of the Republican Party, his district stretches from Columbia to the Georgia–South Carolina border. He served as the South Carolina state senator from the 23rd district from 1985 to 2001.

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70. John Breckinridge

1760-1806 (aged 46)

lawyer politician

John Breckinridge was an American politician, militia officer, planter, and lawyer. He served several terms in the state legislatures of Virginia and Kentucky before being elected to the United States Senate. Breckinridge also served as the United States Attorney General during the second term of President Thomas Jefferson. He was the progenitor of Kentucky's Breckinridge family and the namesake of...

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71. Courtney Simmons Elwood

1968-. (aged 58)

politician

Courtney Simmons Elwood is an American attorney who served as the general counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the Trump administration between 2017 and 2021.

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72. A. Linwood Holton, Jr

1923-2021 (aged 98)

lawyer politician

Abner Linwood Holton Jr. was an American politician and attorney. He served as the 61st governor of Virginia, from 1970 to 1974, and was the first elected Republican governor of Virginia of the 20th century, as well as the first Republican governor since the Reconstruction era. He was known for supporting civil rights, integration, and public investment.

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73. Elisha Franklin Paxton

1828-1863 (aged 35)

lawyer

Elisha Franklin Paxton was an American lawyer and soldier who served as a Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War. He died while leading the “Stonewall Brigade“ during the Battle of Chancellorsville.

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74. Austin Peay

1876-1927 (aged 51)

lawyer politician

Austin Peay was an American politician who served as the 35th governor of Tennessee from 1923 to 1927. He was the state's first governor since the Civil War to win three consecutive terms and the first to die in office. Prior to his election as governor, he served two terms in the Tennessee House of Representatives (1901–1905).

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75. Joseph L. Goldstein

1940-. (aged 86)

university teacher biologist geneticist biochemist physician

Joseph Leonard Goldstein ForMemRS is an American biochemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1985, along with fellow University of Texas Southwestern researcher, Michael Brown, for their studies regarding cholesterol. They discovered that human cells have low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptors that remove cholesterol from the blood and that when LDL receptors are not present in sufficient...

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76. Robert Mosbacher

1927-2010 (aged 83)

businessperson politician

Robert Adam Mosbacher Sr. was an American businessman, accomplished yacht racer, and a Republican politician. A longtime friend and political ally of George H. W. Bush, Mosbacher served in Bush's Cabinet as Secretary of Commerce from 1989 to 1992.

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77. Sarah Feinberg

1977-. (aged 49)

executive official civil servant

Sarah Elizabeth Feinberg is an American civic employee who previously served as the Interim President of the New York City Transit Authority from 2020 to 2021, and a former Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration. She was nominated for the role of MTA Chairperson but was ultimately not selected for the position. Her background is mostly in communications.

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78. Neal Dunn

1953-. (aged 73)

banker urologist politician

Neal Patrick Dunn is an American surgeon and Republican Party politician serving as the U.S. representative for Florida's 2nd congressional district since 2017.

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79. Gilbert Shelton

1940-. (aged 86)

draftsperson caricaturist comics artist visual artist illustrator

Gilbert Shelton is an American cartoonist and a key member of the underground comix movement. He is the creator of the iconic underground characters The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Fat Freddy's Cat, and Wonder Wart-Hog.

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80. Rebecca Makkai

1978-. (aged 48)

novelist educator writer

Rebecca Makkai is an American novelist and short story writer. She is best known for writing The Great Believers (2018) and I Have Some Questions for You (2023), which have been positively received by critics and won awards such as the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and the Libby Book...

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81. James L. Kemper

1823-1895 (aged 72)

lawyer soldier politician

James Lawson Kemper was an American lawyer, a Confederate general in the American Civil War, and the 37th Governor of Virginia. He was the youngest brigade commander and only non-professional general officer in the division that led Pickett's Charge, during which he was severely wounded.

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82. Bill Brock

1930-2021 (aged 91)

politician

William Emerson Brock III was an American politician from Tennessee who served in both chambers of the United States Congress as a member of the United States House of Representatives for four terms representing Tennessee's 3rd congressional district from 1963 to 1971 and as a member of the United States Senate for one term from 1971 to 1977. He later...

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83. Marc Short

1970-. (aged 56)

political staffer political adviser

Marc T. Short is an American political advisor who was chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence. Prior to holding this role, Short was the director of legislative affairs at the White House from 2017 to 2018. He became chief of staff for Pence in March 2019. He was a senior fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs,...

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84. Michael Norell

1937-2023 (aged 86)

television actor screenwriter

Michael Alden Norell was an American screenwriter, actor, and executive producer who starred as Captain Henry "Hank" Stanley on the television series Emergency!, produced by Jack Webb from 1972 to 1978.

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85. Jack Goldsmith

1962-. (aged 64)

university teacher jurist lawyer

Jack Landman Goldsmith III is an American legal scholar. He serves as the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he has written extensively in the fields of international law, civil procedure, federal courts, conflict of laws, and national security law. Writing in The New York Times, Jeffrey Rosen described him as being "widely considered one of...

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86. Roger Mudd

1928-2021 (aged 93)

television presenter news presenter journalist

Roger Harrison Mudd was an American broadcast journalist who was a correspondent and anchor for CBS News and NBC News. He also worked as the primary anchor for the History Channel. Previously, Mudd was weekend and weekday substitute anchor for CBS Evening News, co-anchor of the weekday NBC Nightly News, and host of the NBC-TV's Meet the Press and American...

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87. John William Davis

1873-1955 (aged 82)

diplomat lawyer politician

John William Davis was an American politician, diplomat and lawyer. He served under President Woodrow Wilson as the Solicitor General of the United States and the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom. He was the Democratic nominee for president in 1924, losing to Republican incumbent Calvin Coolidge.

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88. Glenn Kirschner

analyst lawyer

Glenn Louis Kirschner is an American attorney, a former U.S. Army prosecutor, a former assistant U.S. Attorney in the office of the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia and a former NBC News/MSNBC legal analyst.

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89. John J. Crittenden

1787-1863 (aged 76)

lawyer politician

John Jordan Crittenden was an American statesman and politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky. He represented the state in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate and twice served as United States Attorney General in the administrations of William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore. He was also the 17th governor of Kentucky and served in...

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90. Philippe Labro

1936-2025 (aged 89)

film director writer autobiographer radio personality news presenter

Philippe Labro was a French author, journalist and film director. He worked for RTL, Paris Match, TF1, and Antenne 2. He received the Prix Interallié for his autobiography L'Étudiant étranger in 1986.

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91. Lewis F. Powell Jr

1907-1998 (aged 91)

lawyer judge politician

Lewis Franklin Powell Jr. was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1972 to 1987.

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92. J. Michael Luttig

1954-. (aged 72)

lawyer judge

John Michael Luttig is an American lawyer and jurist who served as a U.S. circuit judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1991 to 2006. Luttig resigned his judgeship in 2006 to become the general counsel of Boeing, a position he held until 2019.

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93. Jesse Evans

1853-. (aged 173)

cowboy

Jesse Evans was an American outlaw and gunman of the Old West, and the leader of the Jesse Evans Gang. He received some attention due to his disappearance in 1882, after which he was never seen or heard from again. Commentators speculated that Evans was living in Florida under the name Joe Hines in 1948, though no definitive proof was...

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94. Pat Robertson

1930-2023 (aged 93)

Christian minister entrepreneur military officer presenter televangelist

Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson was an American media mogul, televangelist, political commentator, presidential candidate, and charismatic minister. Robertson advocated a conservative Christian ideology and was known for his involvement in Republican Party politics. He was associated with the Charismatic movement within Protestant evangelicalism. He served as head of Regent University and of the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN).

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95. John Warner

1927-2021 (aged 94)

military officer politician lawyer jurist farmer

John William Warner III was an American politician and lawyer who served as a United States senator from Virginia from 1979 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the U.S. secretary of the Navy from 1972 to 1974. Warner is both the longest serving Republican Senator from Virginia, and the second longest serving Senator from...

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96. Mike Henry

1965-. (aged 61)

television actor actor television producer voice actor film producer

Michael Robert Henry is an American voice actor, comedian, writer, and animator. He is known for his work on Family Guy, where he was a writer, producer, and the voice actor of Cleveland Brown (until 2021), Herbert, Bruce, Consuela, the Greased-up Deaf Guy, and others. He co-created and starred in the spin-off The Cleveland Show (2009–13), for which he voiced...

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97. Matt Bevin

1967-. (aged 59)

businessperson politician

Matthew Griswold Bevin is an American businessman and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 62nd governor of Kentucky from 2015 to 2019, losing re-election in 2019 to Democrat Andy Beshear. He is currently the CEO of Neuronetrix Solutions, LLC.

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98. Tom Wolfe

1930-2018 (aged 88)

journalist non-fiction writer writer reporter prose writer

Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques. Much of Wolfe's work is satirical and centers on the counterculture of the 1960s and issues related to class, social status, and the lifestyles of...

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99. George C. Peery

1873-1952 (aged 79)

lawyer politician

George Campbell Peery was a Virginia lawyer, school principal and Democratic politician, who served as the 52nd governor of Virginia from 1934 to 1938, after serving three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as on the State Corporation Commission. Sometimes called the second governor selected (at least partially), by the soon to be very powerful Byrd Organization,...

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100. John Letcher

1813-1884 (aged 71)

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John Letcher was an American lawyer, journalist, and politician. He served as a Representative in the United States Congress, was the 34th Governor of Virginia during the American Civil War, and later served in the Virginia General Assembly. He was also active on the Board of Visitors of Virginia Military Institute.

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