List of Centre College people

Here follows a list of notable people associated with Centre College in Danville, Kentucky.

Notable graduates

Selected Centre College Alumni
Justice John Marshall Harlan, 1850: Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court for 34 years; cast the lone dissenting vote in Plessy v. Ferguson; the text of his dissent became the basis for Brown v. Board of Education.
John C. Breckinridge, 1838: Vice President of U.S. under James Buchanan; candidate for President in 1860; and Confederate General.
Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, 1909, Law 1911: Chief Justice of the United States from 1946 to 1953; Secretary of the Treasury under Harry S. Truman; and U.S. Congressman for Kentucky
Adlai E. Stevenson, 1859: U.S. Vice President under Grover Cleveland and U.S.Congressman for Illinois

Joshua Fry Bell, 1828: first Centre alumnus to serve in Congress
John C. Breckinridge, 1838: Vice President of U.S. under James Buchanan
John Y. Brown, Sr., U.S. Congressman for Kentucky; lawyer; first sponsor of sales tax and civil rights legislation in the Kentucky House of Representatives; and father of John Young Brown, Jr.
John Sherman Cooper, 1922: U.S. Senator (R), U.S. Ambassador to India, Nepal, and the German Democratic Republic; Centre College trustee emeritus
Claude Matthews, 1867: 23rd governor of Indiana
Augustus Stanley, 1889: 38th governor of Kentucky; grandfather of famous LSD chemist Owsley Stanley
Adlai E. Stevenson, 1859: U.S. Vice President under Grover Cleveland and U.S. Congressman for Illinois
John T. Stuart, 1826: U.S. Congressman; lawyer; law partner of Abraham Lincoln
Gu, Prince Imperial Hoeun, 1952: Prince Imperial of Korea, grandson of Emperor Gojong
General Joseph Holt, 1824: United States Commissioner of Patents, United States Postmaster General, United States Secretary of War and Judge Advocate General of the United States Army; leading judge in the trials of the Abraham Lincoln assassination

Stephen Rolfe Powell, 1974: internationally acclaimed glass blower and art professor

Raymond Burse, 1973: Rhodes Scholar; General Counsel for General Electric; former president of Kentucky State University; the first African-American to compete in the Oxford v. Cambridge rugby match
Clarence Wyatt, 1978: 14th president of Monmouth College; Fulbright fellow to Vietnam in 2012; author of Paper Soldiers: The American Press and the Vietnam War; co-chair of Centre's 2000 and 2012 Vice Presidential Debates^[1]

Isaac Tigrett, 1970: founder of the Hard Rock Cafe and the House of Blues
Julian "Pappy" Van Winkle, Sr., 1893: owner of the Stitzel Weller distillery and the eponym for Pappy Van Winkle's Family Reserve^[2]

Rev. Samuel D. Burchard, 1837: clergyman whose "Rum, Romanism and rebellion" speech may have cost James G. Blaine the 1884 presidential election
Charles Carpenter (Lt. Col.): highly decorated Second World War artillery observation pilot nicknamed "Bazooka Charlie"; destroyed several German armored vehicles in his bazooka-equipped L-4 Grasshopper light observation aircraft, christened "Rosie the Rocketeer"^[3]^[4]
Lewis Craig Humphrey, 1896: editor of the Centre College newspaper The Cento; chief editor of the Louisville Evening Post and the Louisville Herald
E Patrick Doyle was attending Centre College in 1848 when he helped lead the largest slave uprising in Kentucky, ending with Doyle's capture and imprisonment.

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↑ Proffitt, Doug (November 21, 2014). "Pappy Van Winkle: How 1 photo changed course of bourbon industry". WHAS11. Retrieved 31 December 2014.
↑ What's New in Aviation: Piper Cub Tank Buster, Popular Science, Vol. 146 No. 2 (February 1945) p. 84
↑ Carpenter, Leland F., Piper L-4J Grasshopper, Aviation Enthusiast Corner, retrieved 21 October 2011

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