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Thomas Woodrow Wilson James Madison* James Monroe* Edith FAMOUS MEMBERS OF THE JEFFERSON SOCIETY PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Thomas Woodrow Wilson James Madison∗ James Monroe∗ FIRST LADIES OF THE UNITED STATES Edith Bolling Galt Wilson∗ PRIME MINISTERS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM Margaret H. Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher∗ SPEAKERS OF THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter UNITED STATES SENATORS Oscar W. Underwood, Senate Minority Leader, Alabama Hugh Scott, Senate Minority Leader, Pennsylvania Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, Virginia Willis P. Bocock, Virginia John S. Barbour Jr., Virginia Harry F. Byrd Jr., Virginia John Warwick Daniel, Virginia Claude A. Swanson, Virginia Charles J. Faulkner, West Virginia John Sharp Williams, Mississippi John W. Stevenson, Kentucky Robert Toombs, Georgia Clement C. Clay, Alabama Louis Wigfall, Texas Charles Allen Culberson, Texas William Cabell Bruce, Maryland Eugene J. McCarthy, Minnesota∗ James Monroe, Virginia∗ MEMBERS OF THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Oscar W. Underwood, House Majority Leader, Alabama John Sharp Williams, House Minority Leader, Mississippi Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, Virginia Richard Parker, Virginia Robert A. Thompson, Virginia Thomas H. Bayly, Virginia Richard L. T. Beale, Virginia William Ballard Preston, Virginia John S. Caskie, Virginia Alexander H. H. Stuart, Virginia James Alexander Seddon, Virginia John Randolph Tucker, Virginia Roger A. Pryor, Virginia John Critcher, Virginia Colgate W. Darden, Virginia Claude A. Swanson, Virginia John S. Barbour Jr., Virginia William L. Wilson, West Virginia Wharton J. Green, North Carolina William Waters Boyce, South Carolina Hugh Scott, Pennsylvania Joseph Chappell Hutcheson, Texas John W. Stevenson, Kentucky Robert Toombs, Georgia Thomas W. Ligon, Maryland Augustus Maxwell, Florida William Henry Brockenbrough, Florida Eugene J. McCarthy, Minnesota∗ James Madison, Virginia∗ GOVERNORS Colgate W. Darden, Virginia Frederick W. M. Holliday, Virginia Albertis Sydney Harrison, Virginia Claude A. Swanson, Virginia James Gilmore III, Virginia Thomas Woodrow Wilson, New Jersey Richard I. Manning III, South Carolina Thomas H. Watts, Alabama Thomas W. Ligon, Maryland John W. Stevenson, Kentucky Charles Allen Culberson, Texas James Monroe, Virginia∗ MEMBERS OF THE UNITED STATES CABINET Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., Secretary of State and First Ambassador to the United Nations Alexander H. H. Stuart, Secretary of the Interior William Ballard Preston, Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson, Secretary of the Navy William L. Wilson, Postmaster General James Monroe, Secretary of State and Secretary of War* James Madison, Secretary of State* NOTABLE JURISTS James Keith, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia William Daniel, Judge of the Supreme Court of Virginia George H. Lee, Judge of the Supreme Court of Virginia William J. Robertson, Judge of the Supreme Court of Virginia Daniel B. Lucas, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of West Virginia Richard Morris, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of Texas Samuel J. Douglas, Judge of the Supreme Court of Florida William B. Napton, Judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri Barbara M. Lynn, Judge, Federal District Court, First Female Member of the Society John W. Brockenbrough, Judge, Federal District Court James Madison, Author of the Constitution and Bill of Rights* The Marquis de Lafayette, Author of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen∗ Gordon Slynn, Baron Slynn of Hadley, European Court of Justice∗ NOTABLE ACADEMICS Colgate W. Darden, President of the University of Virginia John T. Casteen, III., President of the University of Virginia Thomas Woodrow Wilson, President of Princeton University Lyon Gardiner Tyler, President of the College of William and Mary John Stewart Bryan, President of the College of William and Mary Robert Saunders, Jr., President of the College of William and Mary William L. Wilson, President of Washington and Lee University Charles W. Dabney, President of the University of Cincinnati, President of the University of Tennessee James H. French, President of Concord University Tiberius G. Jones, President of the University of Richmond Benjamin B. Minor, President of the University of Missouri Charles E. Taylor, President of Wake Forest University Wesley Harris, Associate Provost, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, First African American Member of the Society Paul B. Barringer, President of Virginia Polytechnic Institute* Ernest Campbell Mead, Professor Emeritus of Music, Recipient Thomas Jefferson Award∗ James Madison, President of the College of William and Mary∗ Edwin A. Alderman, President of the University of Virginia, Tulane, and University of North Carolina∗ Edgar F. Shannon, President of the University of Virginia* John L. Newcomb, President of the University of Virginia* NOTABLE LITERARY FIGURES Edgar Allen Poe Virginius Dabney, Pulitzer Prize winning author William Cabell Bruce, Pulitzer Prize winning author James S. Wilson, Founder and Editor, Virginia Quarterly Review James Hay Jr., author of “The Honor Men” Phillip Alexander Bruce, Noted Virginia Historian Thomas Nelson Page, noted Southern Author Armistead C. Gordon, noted Southern Author William F. Ritchie, Editor, Richmond Inquirer Joseph Bryan, Editor, Richmond Times Dispatch John R. Thompson, Editor, Southern Literary Messenger W. S. Gilman, Editor, Richmond Whig William Faulkner∗ George Will, Pulitzer Prize-winning Author and Journalist∗ .
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