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)
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“Our family talked a lot at table, and only two subjects were taboo: politics and personal troubles. The first was sternly avoided because Father ran a nonpartisan daily in a small town, with some success, and did not wish to express his own opinions in public, even when in private.”
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