List of University of Tennessee People - Politics and Law

Politics and Law

• Ali Abu al-Ragheb, former Jordanian Prime Minister
• Lamar Alexander, former Tennessee Governor, UT President and current US Senator
• John Justin Armitage, diplomat
• Victor Ashe, U.S. ambassador to Poland, former mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee
• John DeWitt Clinton Atkins, member of House of Representatives
• Richard W. Austin, member of House of Representatives
• Brett Carter, U.S. House of Representatives Candidate
• Howard Baker, Ambassador and former Senate Majority Leader
• Howard Baker, Sr., member of House of Representatives
• William M. Barker, Chief Justice to Tennessee Supreme Court
• George White Baxter, Governor of Wyoming territory
• Marion Speed Boyd, former U.S. district and Chief judge for Tennessee
• John Lafayette Camp, politician and Civil War veteran
• Saxby Chambliss, U.S. Senator
• Walter Chandler, former mayor of Memphis, Tennessee.
• Philander Priestly Claxton Jr., alumnus '34; U.S. State Department official; president of the World Population Society from 1975 to 1985
• Clement Comer Clay, former Governor of Alabama
• Bob Corker, former mayor of Chattanooga, U.S. Senator
• John Hervey Crozier, member of House of Representatives
• Arthur B. Culvahouse, Jr., former White House Counsel
• Lincoln Davis, member of House of Representatives
• Jim DeMint, South Carolina U.S. Senator
• Lurita Doan, current Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration
• John Duncan, Sr., member of House of Representative
• Jimmy Duncan, member of House of Representatives
• Winfield Dunn, former Governor of Tennessee
• James B. Frazier, former Governor of Tennessee and U.S. Senator
• Ronnie Greer, U.S. District judge for eastern Tennessee
• Albert Gore, Sr., member of House of Representatives and U.S. Senator
• Bart Gordon, member of House of Representatives
• Bill Hendon, former member of U.S. House of Representatives
• Van Hilleary, U. S. Congressman
• John C. Houk, former member of U.S. House of Representatives
• Thomas G. Hull, former member of U.S. House of Representatives
• Ray Jenkins, Senate counsel during the Army-McCarthy Hearings
• William L. Jenkins, member of U.S. House of Representatives
• Ed Jones, former member of U.S. House of Representatives
• Joel A. Katz, Entertainment lawyer (UT College of Law)
• Estes Kefauver, former U.S. Senator
• Alvan Lafargue, M.D. 1910, Louisiana physician and mayor of Sulphur from 1926-1932
• Arthur Larson, politician
• Dan Lipinski, U.S. Congressman (D-IL) and former professor
• William Gibbs McAdoo, former United States Secretary of the Treasury
• John E. McCall, former member of U.S. House of Representatives
• Jimmy Naifeh, Speaker of the House, Tennessee House of Representatives
• John Randolph Neal, Jr., Scopes Trial attorney
• Thomas Amos Rogers Nelson, former member of U.S. House of Representatives
• George W. Ochs, former Mayor of Chattanooga
• Hector Ormachea-Penaranda, Bolivian former Minister of Defense and national Senator
• Michael C. Polt, U.S. Ambassador to Serbia
• Percy Priest, former member of U.S. House of Representatives
• Glenn Reynolds, UT law professor and author of the Instapundit political weblog
• Mercer Reynolds, former U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland
• Kathryn Dee Robinson, former U.S. Ambassador to Ghana
• Madeline Rogero, first female mayor of Knoxville
• Kenneth Rush, former U.S. Ambassador to Germany
• Edward Terry Sanford, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice
• Jim Sasser, former U.S. Senator
• Amadou Scattred Janneh, former Secretary of State for Communication, Information and Technology The Gambia
• Ronald L. Schlicher, former U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus
• Heath Shuler, U.S. Representative from North Carolina, former NFL player
• Scott Simmons, U.S. Representative from Idaho
• Paul Summers, former Attorney General of State of Tennessee
• John S. Tanner, member of House of Representatives
• Deborah Tate, United States Federal Communications Commission Commissioner
• George Caldwell Taylor, former U.S. district judge
• David Duvall Thomas, former deputy administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration
• Lawrence Tyson, former U.S. Senator
• Gary R. Wade, Tennessee Supreme Court appointee, as of 2006
• Herbert S. Walters, former U.S. Senator
• Zach Wamp, member of House of Representatives
• Allen West, U.S. Representative from Florida
• Washington C. Whitthorne former U.S. Senator
• Al Gore, Jr., former Vice President of the United States, US Congressman, US Senator, Professor, and Environmentalist, recipient Honorary Doctorate 2010 (he actually attended Vanderbilt University)