Notable Alumni of Cumberland University

John Bell 1796–1869

Tennessee politician, 1860 presidential candidate

Thomas Gore 1870–1949

One of Oklahoma's first two US senators

James B. McCreary 1838–1918

Governor of Kentucky

Also attended: Centre College

Cave Johnson 1793–1866

12th US Postmaster General and Tennessee congressman

James Allred 1899–1959

33rd Governor of Texas and federal judge

Also attended: Rice University

LeRoy Collins 1909–1991

33rd governor of Florida

Bert H. Miller 1879–1949

Idaho Democratic politician, judge and lawyer

Attended until 1902

Also attended: Brigham Young University-Provo

John Duncan 1919–1988

Tennessee congressman and attorney

Also attended: The University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Luther Alexander Johnson 1875–1965

US Congressman from Texas, lawyer and jurist

Morgan M. Moulder 1904–1976

U.S. representative from Missouri

Bachelor of Laws · Class of 1927

Also attended: University of Missouri-Columbia

John Mills Allen 1846–1917

Mississippi congressman and Confederate soldier

Also attended: University of Mississippi

Charles K. Wheeler 1863–1933

Former U.S. representative from Kentucky

Also attended: Rhodes College

Oren Harris 1903–1997

US Representative from Arkansas and federal judge

Juris Doctor · Class of 1930

Also attended: Henderson State University

William J. Holloway 1888–1970

8th Governor of Oklahoma

Also attended: University of Chicago

James Patrick Sutton 1915–2005

US representative from Tennessee

Also attended: Middle Tennessee State University

Jere Cooper 1893–1957

Former U.S. representative from Tennessee

Juris Doctor · Class of 1914

Sidney Johnston Catts 1863–1936

22nd Governor of Florida

Omar Truman Burleson 1906–1991

U.S. Representative from Texas and former FBI agent

Attended until 1929

Also attended: Samford University, Abilene Christian University, Hardin-Simmons University

John Edgerton 1879–1938

Industrialist, president of National Association of Manufacturers

Also attended: Vanderbilt University

John Burgess 1844–1931

Political scientist who founded Columbia's political science graduate school

Also attended: Amherst College

Spouse: Ruth Payne Burgess (Barnard College)

George Abram Miller 1863–1951

Mathematician and early group theorist

Doctor · Class of 1892

Also attended: Franklin and Marshall College, Muhlenberg College

Cale Young Rice 1872–1943

Poet, dramatist and English professor

Also attended: Harvard University

Jack Farmer 1892–1970

Major League Baseball second baseman

Myles Horton 1905–1990

Educator, co-founder of Highlander Folk School

Also attended: Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York

Spouse: Zilphia Horton (University of the Ozarks)