Notable Alumni
- José Andrés Coronado Alvarado (1895-1975), Costa Rican diplomat who served as head of Latin American relations while at the university.
- William Barksdale, U. S. Congressman and Civil War General, killed at Gettysburg (July 3, 1863).
- John Bell (1797–1869), Tennessee senator and presidential candidate (graduate of Cumberland College)
- Rufus Columbus Burleson, second president of Baylor University, Baptist preacher.
- Sam Davis, boy hero of the Confederacy.
- George Maney, Confederate general and U.S. diplomat to several South American countries.
- Albert A. Murphree, (1870–1927), president of Florida State College for Women (1897–1909) and the University of Florida (1909–1927).
- Gideon Johnson Pillow, (1806-78), United States Army general and lawyer.
- Peter Pitchlynn, 1806-1881), chief of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (1864-1866), liaison to the US government.
- William Walker (1824–1860), U.S. filibuster. Executed in Honduras in 1860.
Read more about this topic: University Of Nashville
Famous quotes containing the word notable:
“In one notable instance, where the United States Army and a hundred years of persuasion failed, a highway has succeeded. The Seminole Indians surrendered to the Tamiami Trail. From the Everglades the remnants of this race emerged, soon after the trail was built, to set up their palm-thatched villages along the road and to hoist tribal flags as a lure to passing motorists.”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)