Notable Alumni
The school's alumni include more than eight congressmen and thirty college presidents.
- Cordell Hull, Secretary of State under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt from 1933 to 1944.
- Howell Edmunds Jackson, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1893–1895
- Thomas P. Gore, United States Senator from Oklahoma, 1907–1921; 1931–1937
- Horace Harmon Lurton, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1910–1914
- Frank G. Clement, Governor of Tennessee, 1954–1959; 1963–1967
- Chris Smith, MLB Baltimore Orioles 2001 1st round draft pick pitcher
- Oren Harris, U.S. Representative from Arkansas, 1953-1966; thereafter a U.S. District Judge based in El Dorado
- Wright Patman, U.S. Representative from Texas, 1929–1976
- George E. Allen, head coach of the 1916 football team that lost 0-222 to Georgia Tech, later an advisor to President Harry Truman
- Cale Young Rice, playwright and poet.
- Laban Lacy Rice, noted educator and writer, former president of Cumberland University.
- Thomas G. Abernethy, U.S. Representative from Mississippi, 1943–1973
- Morgan M. Moulder, U.S. Representative from Missouri, 1948–1962
- Theodore M. Brantley 1881 - longest-serving Chief Justice of the Montana Supreme Court, serving for 23 years (1899-1922)
- Jeff Davis (Arkansas governor), Democratic United States Senator from Arkansas and the 20th Governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas
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