Famous Members
- Colgate Darden, former president of the University of Virginia and Governor of Virginia.
- Deidre Downs, Miss America 2005
- Edgar Allan Poe
- James Madison (accepted honorary membership)
- James Monroe (accepted honorary membership)
- Jim Gilmore, Virginia Governor
- John Casteen, Former President of the University of Virginia
- Margaret Thatcher (accepted honorary membership)
- Woodrow Wilson
- Gordon Slynn, Baron Slynn of Hadley (accepted honorary membership)
- Gilbert du Motier (accepted honorary membership)
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or members:
“Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.”
—Maureen Dowd, U.S. journalist. The New York Times, “Giant Puppet Show,” (September 10, 1995)
“It took six weeks of debate in the Senate to get the Arms Embargo Law repealed—and we face other delays during the present session because most of the Members of the Congress are thinking in terms of next Autumn’s election. However, that is one of the prices that we who live in democracies have to pay. It is, however, worth paying, if all of us can avoid the type of government under which the unfortunate population of Germany and Russia must exist.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)