University of Nashville - Notable Alumni

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.

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