• Source: List of Cumberland University people

This is a list of notable current and former faculty members, administrators, alumni, and attendees of Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee.




Notable alumni






= Academia

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University presidents

James S. Buchanan, 4th President of the University of Oklahoma, 1923-1925
Fontaine Richard Earle, President of Cane Hill College; president of Arkansas Cumberland College (now the University of the Ozarks)
Ira Landrith, President of Belmont College (now University), 1904-1912
David E. Mitchell, 5th President of Cumberland University, 1902-1906
Laban Lacy Rice, 14th President of Cumberland University, 1941–1946



Professors

John William Burgess, Founder and dean of Columbia University's School of Political Science, 1880-1912
J. P. Carnahan, Professor of mathematics
George Abram Miller, Mathematics professor and early group theorist




= Activists

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Dan Jack Combs, Advocate for the legalization of marijuana
Cody Fowler, Civil rights activist, lawyer
Myles Horton, Civil rights activist, educator
Josephine Pearson, Anti-suffragist activist
Byron Sigcho-Lopez, Community activist




= Art, education, literature, and humanities

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John William Burgess, Author of influential works on political science
Wendell Mayes, Playwright, screenwriter
William O'Steele, Award-winning author
Cale Young Rice, Playwright, poet
Laban Lacy Rice, Writer




= Athletics

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Dave Aaron, Head football coach at Austin Peay State College (now University), 1946–1954; Head basketball coach at Austin Peay State College (now University), 1946-1962
George E. Allen, Head football coach of the 1916 Cumberland University team that lost 0–222 to Georgia Tech
Marvin O. Bridges, Head football coach at the University of Florida at Lake City, a predecessor institution to the University of Florida
A.J. Harmon, Professional football player for the Columbus Lions
Rebecca Holloway, Professional soccer player
Daniel Jackson, Professional soccer player
Maylee Atthin-Johnson, Captain of the Trinidad and Tobago women's national soccer team, 2008
Jack Farmer, Second baseman for the Pittsburgh Pirates, 1916, and the Cleveland Indians, 1918
Luis Martinez, Catcher for the San Diego Padres, 2011, and Texas Rangers, 2012
Ryan Sullivan, Professional cyclist
Walt Wells, Head football coach at Eastern Kentucky University, 2020–present
Craig Wight, Professional soccer player and manager
Aaron Wilkerson, Pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers, 2017-2019




= Business and economics

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John Edgerton, President, National Association of Manufacturers, 1921-1931
William H. Hardy, Founder of three Mississippi cities: Gulfport, Hattiesburg, and Laurel
Francis Ikome, Founder and president, Cameroonian American Chamber of Commerce (CAMAM)
Oscar Goodbar Johnston, President, Delta & Pine Land Company of Mississippi




= Entertainment

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Chloe Kohanski, Singer-songwriter
Wendell Mayes, Oscar-nominated screenwriter
Jordan Taylor, Co-creator of Blimey Cow




= Government and politics

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U.S. Cabinet members


Cordell Hull, Secretary of State under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933–1944



U.S. diplomats

Edward Albright, U. S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Finland, 1933–1937; U.S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Costa Rica, 1937
Sam P. Gilstrap, Consul in Hong Kong and Macau, 1961; Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Malawi, 1964-1965
James D. Porter, United States Minister to Chile, 1893-1894
James D. Tillman, U.S. Minister to Ecuador, 1895-1897



U.S. governors

James V. Allred, 33rd Governor of Texas, 1935-1939
William B. Bate, 23rd Governor of Tennessee, 1883-1887
James T. Blair Jr., 44th Governor of Missouri, 1957-1961
Gordon Weaver Browning, 38th Governor of Tennessee, 1937-1939 and 1949-1953
Sidney Johnston Catts, 22nd Governor of Florida, 1917-1921
Frank G. Clement, 41st Governor of Tennessee, 1954–1959 and 1963–1967

LeRoy Collins, 33rd Governor of Florida, 1955-1961
Jeff Davis, 20th Governor of Arkansas, 1901-1907
Edward H. East, Acting Governor of Tennessee, 1865
Murphy J. Foster, 31st Governor of Louisiana, 1892-1900
William J. Holloway, 8th Governor of Oklahoma, 1929-1931
James B. McCreary, 27th and 37th Governor of Kentucky, 1875-1879 and 1911-1915
James D. Porter, 20th Governor of Tennessee, 1875-1879
Park Trammell, 21st Governor of Florida, 1913-1917



U.S. lieutenant governors

Hugh C. Anderson, Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee, 1915
James T. Blair Jr., 35th Lieutenant Governor of Missouri, 1949-1957
Sam Lumpkin, Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi, 1948-1952
Milton H. Mabry, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Florida, 1885-1889



Members of the U.S. Senate

Joseph W. Bailey Sr., U.S. Senator from Texas, 1891-1913
William B. Bate, U.S. Senator from Tennessee, 1887-1905
Jeff Davis, U.S. Senator from Arkansas, 1907-1913
Murphy J. Foster, U.S. Senator from Louisiana, 1901-1913
Thomas P. Gore, U.S. Senator from Oklahoma, 1907–1921 and 1931–1937
Carl Hatch, U.S. Senator from New Mexico, 1933-1949
Cordell Hull, U.S. Senator from Tennessee, 1931-1933
Howell Edmunds Jackson, U.S. Senator from Tennessee, 1881-1886
William F. Kirby, U.S. Senator from Arkansas, 1916-1921
Joshua B. Lee, U.S. Senator from Oklahoma, 1937-1943
James B. McCreary, U.S. Senator from Kentucky, 1903-1909
Bert H. Miller, U.S. Senator from Idaho, 1949
Tom Stewart, U.S. Senator from Tennessee, 1938-1949
Park Trammell, U.S. Senator from Florida, 1917-1936



Members of the U.S. House of Representatives

Thomas G. Abernethy, U.S. Representative from Mississippi, 1943–1973
Joseph H. Acklen, U.S. Representative from Louisiana, 1878-1881
Clifford Allen, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1975-1978
John Mills Allen, U.S. Representative from Mississippi, 1885-1901
Orland K. Armstrong, U.S. Representative from Missouri, 1951-1953
Richard Merrill Atkinson, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1937-1939
Risden Tyler Bennett, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1883-1887

Maecenas Eason Benton, U.S. Representative from Missouri, 1897–1905; also father of famous painter, Thomas Hart Benton
Eugene Black, U.S. Representative from Texas, 1915-1929
Foster V. Brown, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1895-1897
Joseph Edgar Brown, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1921-1923
Gordon Weaver Browning, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1923-1935
Omar Truman Burleson, U.S. Representative from Texas, 1947-1978
Mounce Gore Butler, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1905-1907
Robert R. Butler, U.S. Representative from Oregon, 1928-1933
Adam M. Byrd, U.S. Representative from Mississippi, 1903-1911
Robert Porter Caldwell, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1871-1873
William Parker Caldwell, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1875-1879
Samuel Caruthers, U.S. Representative from Missouri, 1853-1859
Frank Chelf, U.S. Representative from Kentucky, 1945-1967
Judson C. Clements, U.S. Representative from Georgia, 1881-1891
Wynne F. Clouse, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1921-1923
Jere Cooper, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1929-1957
Nicholas N. Cox, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1891-1901
William E. Cox, U.S. Representative from Indiana, 1907–1919.
William Ruffin Cox, U.S. Representative from North Carolina, 1881-1887
William Benjamin Craig, U.S. Representative from Alabama, 1907-1911
Reese C. De Graffenreid, U.S. Representative from Texas, 1897-1902
Dudley M. DuBose, U.S. Representative from Georgia, 1871-1873
John Duncan Sr., U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1965-1988
Harold Earthman, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1945-1947
Benjamin A. Enloe, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1887-1895
Joe L. Evins, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1947-1977
Lewis P. Featherstone, U.S. Representative from Arkansas, 1890-1891
Antonio M. Fernández, U.S. Representative from New Mexico, 1943-1956
Morgan Cassius Fitzpatrick, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1903-1905
Aaron L. Ford, U.S. Representative from Mississippi, 1935–1943
Lucien C. Gause, U.S. Representative from Arkansas, 1875-1879
Brady P. Gentry, U.S. Representative from Texas, 1953–1957
Edward Isaac Golladay, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1871-1873
Isaac Herschel Goodnight, U.S. Representative from Kentucky, 1889-1895
George Washington Gordon, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1907-1911
Wharton J. Green, U.S. Representative from North Carolina, 1883-1887
William Voris Gregory, U.S. Representative from Kentucky, 1927-1936
John Edward Halsell, U.S. Representative from Kentucky, 1883-1887
Oren Harris, U.S. Representative from Arkansas, 1953–1966; U.S. district judge
Robert H. Hatton, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1859-1861
Goldsmith W. Hewitt, U.S. Representative from Alabama, 1875–1879, 1881-1885
Wilson S. Hill, U.S. Representative from Mississippi, 1903-1909
John Ford House, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1875-1883
George Huddleston, U.S. Representative from Alabama, 1915–1937
Cordell Hull, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1907–1921, 1923-1931
Luther Alexander Johnson, U.S. Representative from Texas, 1923-1946
Abraham Kazen Jr., U.S. Representative from Texas, 1967-1985
Wade H. Kitchens, J.D., U.S. Representative from Arkansas, 1937-1941
John C. Kyle, U. S. Representative from Mississippi, 1891-1897
William Bailey Lamar, U.S. Representative from Florida, 1903-1909
Joshua B. Lee, U. S. Representative from Oklahoma, 1935-1937
Joseph Carlton Loser, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1957-1963
James B. McCreary, U.S. Representative from Kentucky, 1885-1897
Samuel Davis McReynolds, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1923-1939
John Ridley Mitchell, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1931-1939
Morgan M. Moulder, U.S. Representative from Missouri, 1948–1962
Henry Lowndes Muldrow, U. S. Representative from Mississippi, 1877-1885
Tom J. Murray, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1943-1966
David Alexander Nunn, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1867–1869, 1873-1875
William Allan Oldfield, U.S. Representative from Arkansas, 1909-1928
Wright Patman, U.S. Representative from Texas, 1929–1976
Herron C. Pearson, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1935-1943
Andrew Price, U.S. Representative from Louisiana, 1889-1897
B. Carroll Reece, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1921–1931, 1933–1947, 1951-1961
Haywood Yancey Riddle, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1875-1879
James Edward Ruffin, U.S. Representative from Missouri, 1933-1935
William Charles Salmon, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1923-1925
Lon A. Scott, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1921-1923
Thetus W. Sims, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1897-1921
Thomas U. Sisson, U.S. Representative from Mississippi, 1909-1923
William Ferguson Slemons, U.S. Representative from Arkansas, 1875-1881
John H. Smithwick, U.S. Representative from Florida, 1919-1927
Henry C. Snodgrass, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1891-1895
John Hall Stephens, U.S. Representative from Texas, 1897-1917
James Patrick Sutton, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1949-1955
Fletcher B. Swank, U.S. Representative from Oklahoma, 1921-1929
Charles Swindall, U.S. Representative from Oklahoma, 1920-1921
Anthony F. Tauriello, U.S. Representative from New York, 1949-1951
John May Taylor, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1883-1887
J. Will Taylor, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1919-1939
Zachary Taylor, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1885-1887
William Wirt Vaughan, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1871-1873
William W. Venable, U.S. Representative from Mississippi, 1916-1921
Richard Warner, U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1881-1885
John T. Watkins, U.S. Representative from Louisiana, 1905–1921
Charles K. Wheeler, U.S. Representative from Kentucky, 1897-1903
Daniel B. Wright, U.S. Representative from Mississippi, 1853-1857



U.S. territorial delegates

John Wilkins Whitfield, Territorial delegate to the U.S. Congress representing the Kansas Territory, 1854-1856



U.S. judicial officials




= U.S. Supreme Court justices
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Howell Edmunds Jackson, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1893–1895
Horace Harmon Lurton, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1910–1914



= Other federal judges
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Benjamin Franklin Cameron, Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 1955-1964
Sidney Lee Christie, Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia, 1964-1974
Harry E. Claiborne, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada, 1980-1986
Charles Dickens Clark, Judge of the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee and the U. S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, 1895-1908
Leslie Rogers Darr, Judge of the U. S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, 1939–1940; Judge of the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, 1939-1967
Frederick Alvin Daugherty, Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma, and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, 1961-2006
Frank Gray Jr., Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, 1961-1978
William Voris Gregory, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky, 1919-1923
Eli Shelby Hammond, Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, 1878-1904
Carl Hatch, Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico, 1949-1963
Xenophon Hicks, Judge of the U. S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, 1923–1928; Judge of the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, 1923–1928; Circuit Judge of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1928-1952
Tillman Davis Johnson, Judge of the U. S. District Court for the District of Utah, 1915-1953
Charles Gelbert Neese, Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, 1961-1989
Harry Phillips, Circuit Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1963-1985
John William Ross, Judge of the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, 1921-1925
Roy Mahlon Shelbourne, Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, 1946-1974
David Davie Shelby, Judge of the U.S. Circuit Courts for the Fifth Circuit, 1899–1911; Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 1899-1914
John A. Tyson, Justice of the United States Tax Court, 1935-1950



= State judges
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Theodore M. Brantley, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Montana, 1899–1922
Burrill B. Battle, Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, 1885-1910
Chester C. Chattin, Justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, 1965-1974
James Waddey Clark, Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, 1925-1933
Dan Jack Combs, Justice of the Supreme Court of Kentucky, 1989-1993
Ross W. Dyer, Justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, 1961-1974 (Chief Justice, 1969–1974)
Reuben R. Gaines, Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, 1886-1911 (Chief Justice, 1894–1911)
Charles Galbreath, Justice of the Tennessee Court of Appeals, 1968-1978
Grafton Green, Justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, 1910-1947 (Chief Justice, 1923–1947)
Carleton Harris, Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, 1957-1980
Fred L. Henley, Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri, 1964-1978
Joseph Morrison Hill, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, 1904-1909
James Edwin Horton, Jr., Circuit Judge of the Eighth Circuit Court in Alabama. Presided over the retrial of Haywood Patterson, one of the Scottsboro Boys
Allison B. Humphreys, Justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, 1967-1974
Napoleon B. Johnson, Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, 1948-1965
Roy Noble Lee, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, 1987-1993
Benjamin Horsley Littleton, Judge of the United States Court of Claims, 1929-1966
Robert Martin Lusk, Justice of the Superior Court of Texas, 1888-1889
Milton H. Mabry, Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida, 1891-1903
A.B. Neil, Justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, 1942-1960
Horace Elmo Nichols, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, 1975-1980
Charles H. O'Brien, Justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, 1987-1994
William Y. Pemberton, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Montana, 1893-1899
Paine Page Prim, 6th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Oregon, 1864–1866, 1870–1872, 1876-1878
Robert M. Rainey, Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, 1917-1921
Henry A. Sharpe, Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, 1898-1904
Griffin Smith Sr., Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, 1937-1955
Henderson M. Somerville, Member of the Board of General Appraisers, 1890-1915 (President, 1910–1914)
Charles Swindall, Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, 1929-1934
William Glenn Terrell, Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida, 1923-1964
Collin S. Tarpley, Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, 1851
Weldon B. White, Justice of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, 1961-1967
Samuel Franklin Wilson, Justice of the Tennessee Court of Chancery Appeals, 1895-1901



State legislators

A.M. Aikin Jr., Member of the Texas Legislature, 1933-1979
Tommy Burnett, Majority Leader of the Tennessee House of Representatives
Scotty Campbell, Member of the Tennessee House of Representatives, 2010–2012, 2020–present
Stuart B. Carter, Member of the Virginia General Assembly, 1950-1960
Glenn Freeman, Member of the Kentucky General Assembly, 1970–1971, 1974–1977, 1996-2000
Absolom Gant Jr., Member of the Texas Texas House of Representatives, 1871-1873
Tommy Head, Member of the Tennessee House of Representatives, 1986–2004; brother of coach Pat Summitt
J. F. Henley, Member of the Arkansas House of Representatives, 1891–1895, 1901-1903
Edmund B. Jenks, Member of the New York State Assembly, 1917-1932
James Sloan Kuykendall, Member of the West Virginia House of Delegates, 1907–1908, 1919-1920
John Marks Moore, member of the Texas House of Representatives, 1883–85, Secretary of State of Texas, 1887–1891
A. K. Montgomery, Member of the New Mexico Senate, 1937-1941
Mark Pody, Member of the Tennessee General Assembly, 2011–present
E. Ray Reed, Member of the West Virginia Legislature, 1932–1936, 1940–1944, 1950-1954
Edgar Bright Wilson, Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives, 1901-1903



Mayors

Hugh C. Anderson, Mayor of Jackson, Tennessee, 1884-1900
Beverly Briley, 1st Mayor of Metropolitan Nashville, 1963-1975
John Jay Good, 18th Mayor of Dallas, Texas, 1880-1881
George Blackmore Guild, Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee, 1891-1895
Henry D. Lindsley, 32nd Mayor of Dallas, Texas 1915-1917
Milton H. Mabry, Mayor of Tupelo, Mississippi
George B. Ward, 16th Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, 1905-1908
Ben West, Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee, 1951–1963



Other

George E. Allen, Advisor to President Harry Truman
Ambrose B. Broadbent, Speaker of the Tennessee Senate, 1931–33; Tennessee Secretary of State, 1937–1941
J. P. Carnahan, Populist Party gubernatorial candidate in Arkansas, 1892
Judson C. Clements, Member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, 1892–1917 (chairman, 1910–12)
Read Fletcher, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, 1856–57
Stephen F. Hale, Deputy to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from Alabama, 1861–62
Sam Houston Johnson, Aide to his older brother, U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson
Ira Landrith, Vice-presidential nominee for the Prohibition Party, 1916
Crawford Martin, 44th Attorney General of Texas, 1967–1972
Richard M. Milburn, 21st Attorney General of Indiana, January 1915 — November 1915
Joseph Turner Patterson, 34th Attorney General of Mississippi, 1956–1969
James D. Porter, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, 1885–87




= Journalism

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Nat Caldwell, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the Nashville Tennessean, 1934-1985
Daniel M. Grissom, St. Louis, Missouri, journalist
Abb Landis, Owner of the Nashville Banner, 1884-1885




= Military

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Alexander William Campbell, Confederate States general
John C. Carter, Confederate States general
William Ruffin Cox, Confederate States general
Dudley M. DuBose, Confederate States general
George Washington Gordon, Confederate States general
Robert H. Hatton, Confederate States general
George Doherty Johnston, Confederate States general; superintendent of The Citadel (military college)
David R. Ray, Medal of Honor recipient, Vietnam War
Cadmus M. Wilcox, Confederate States general




= Other

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Rosa Gerhardt, President of the Mobile Bar Association, 1948
Napoleon B. Johnson, 1st President of the National Congress of American Indians, 1944-1952
Graynella Packer, the first female radiotelegraph (wireless) operator to make overnight voyages on an ocean-going vessel




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