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Centre College
Centre College is a private, four-year liberal arts college located in Danville, Kentucky, USA, a community of about 16,000 in Boyle County, approximately 35 miles (56 km) south of Lexington, KY. Centre was founded by Presbyterian leaders in 1819.
Centre College received its charter from the...
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Emmet O'Neal
Emmet O'Neal (April 14, 1887 - July 18, 1967) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky and an ambassador to the Philippines. A member of the Centre College Athletic Hall of Fame. Brother of former Louisville Mayor Joseph T. O'Neal.
O'Neal was born in...
Augustus O. Stanley
Augustus Owsley Stanley (May 21, 1867 – August 12, 1958) was a politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky. A Democrat, he served as the thirty-eighth governor of Kentucky and also represented the state in both the U.S. House of Representatives and...
Fred M. Vinson
Frederick Moore Vinson (January 22, 1890 – September 8, 1953) served the United States in all three branches of government and was the most prominent member of the Vinson political family. In the legislative branch, he was an elected member of the...
Adlai E. Stevenson
Adlai Ewing Stevenson I (October 23, 1835 – June 14, 1914) was a Congressman from Illinois. He was Assistant Postmaster General of the United States during Grover Cleveland's first administration and 23rd Vice President of the United States during...
Ernie Croot
Ernest S. Croot III is a mathematician and Associate Professor at the School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology. He is principally known for his solution of the Erdős–Graham conjecture.
Ernest Croot attended Centre College at Danville,...
John T. Stuart
John Todd Stuart (November 10, 1807 - November 23, 1885) was a lawyer and a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Born near Lexington, Kentucky, Stuart graduated from Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, in 1826. He then studied law, was admitted to the...
Cawood Ledford
Cawood Ledford (April 24, 1926 – September 5, 2001) was a Hall of Fame and longtime radio play-by-play announcer for the University of Kentucky basketball and football teams. Ledford's style and professionalism endeared himself to many sports fans...
Stephen Rolfe Powell
Stephen Rolfe Powell was born in 1951 in Birmingham, Alabama. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Painting and Ceramics at Centre College, Powell went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics at Louisiana State University. It was while at LSU,...
Bo McMillin
Alvin Nugent "Bo" McMillin (January 12, 1895 - March 31, 1952) was a Hall-of-Fame college football player, and later successful head coach, who served at both the collegiate and professional levels but who achieved his greatest success at the...
John Y. Brown, Sr.
John Young Brown, Sr. (1 February 1900–16 June 1985) was a state representative for nearly three decades, serving one term as speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives and as majority floor leader during the term of Gov. Edward T. Breathitt....
Edgar Diddle
Edgar Allen Diddle (March 12, 1895 in Gradyville, Kentucky, United States - January 2, 1970) was a college men's basketball coach. He is known for coaching at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky from 1922 to 1964. Diddle became...
Isaac Tigrett
Isaac Tigrett (born 1947) of Jackson, Tennessee is a businessman best known as founder of Hard Rock Café and House of Blues.
Tigrett belonged to a well-to-do business family. He was raised in Tennessee until the age of fifteen. He is an alumnus of...
Joshua Fry Bell
Joshua Fry Bell (November 26, 1811 – August 17, 1870) was a Kentucky political figure.
Bell was born in Danville, Kentucky, where he attended public schools and then Centre College, from which he was graduated in 1828. He then studied law in...
Joseph Holt
General Joseph Holt (January 6, 1807 – August 1, 1894) was a leading member of the Buchanan administration and was Judge Advocate General in the United States Army, most notably during the Lincoln assassination trials.
Born in Breckinridge County,...
John Marshall Harlan
John Marshall Harlan (June 1, 1833 – October 14, 1911) was an American Supreme Court associate justice and Union Army officer. He is most notable as the lone dissenter in the infamous Civil Rights Cases (1883), and Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which,...
John C. Breckinridge
John Cabell Breckinridge (January 16, 1821 – May 17, 1875) was an American lawyer and politician. He served as a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Kentucky and was the 14th Vice President of the United States, to date the youngest vice...
Rev. Samuel D. Burchard
Rev Samuel Dickerson Burchard (September 6, 1812 – September 25, 1891) was a nineteenth century clergyman from New York.
Born in Steuben, New York, Burchard moved to Kentucky with his parents in 1830, attended Centre College and graduated in 1837....
Sandford Sellers
Sandford Sellers (1854 - 1938) served as Principal, Superintendent and President of Wentworth Military Academy from 1880 to 1935.
Sandford Sellers was born in Kentucky in 1854, but was raised on a ranch in eastern Texas. As a young boy, he worked in...
James Breathitt, Jr.
James Breathitt, Jr. was an American politician from Kentucky.
Breathitt was born on December 14, 1890 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.
Breathitt was educated at Centre College.
Breathitt served in the Kentucky State Senate and then later as the...
Samuel H. Woodson
Samuel Hughes Woodson (October 24, 1815 - June 23, 1881) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri, son of Samuel H. Woodson (Kentucky).
Born near Nicholasville, Kentucky, Woodson attended the public schools.He was graduated from Centre College,...
James S. Jackson
James Streshly Jackson (September 27, 1823 – October 8, 1862) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky and a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Born in Fayette County, Kentucky, Jackson pursued classical studies at...
Anthony Thornton
Anthony Thornton (November 9, 1814 - September 10, 1904) was an American attorney who served as a U.S. Representative from Illinois and a Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court.
Born near Paris, Kentucky, Thornton attended the common schools and...
King Swope
King Swope (August 10, 1893 - April 23, 1961) was a United States Representative from Kentucky. He was born in Danville, Kentucky. He attended the common schools and was graduated from Centre College, Danville, Kentucky in 1914 and from the law...
James M. Birney
James M. Birney (June 17, 1817 – 1888) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Birney was born in Danville, Kentucky, the eldest son of Agatha (McDowell) and James Gillespie Birney, who was a presidential candidate for the Liberty Party in...
Frank Chelf
Frank Leslie Chelf (September 22, 1907 – September 1, 1982) was a United States Representative from Kentucky. He was born on a farm near Elizabethtown, Kentucky. He attended the public schools as well as Centre College at Danville, Kentucky and St....
Caleb Powers
Caleb Powers (February 1, 1869 – July 25, 1932) was a United States Representative from Kentucky and the first Secretary of State of Kentucky convicted as an accessory to murder.
He was born near Williamsburg, Kentucky. He attended the public...
Boyd Winchester
Boyd Winchester (September 23, 1836 - May 18, 1923) was a United States Representative from Kentucky. He was born in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. He pursued preparatory studies and then attended Centre College in Danville, Kentucky and the...
Asa Grover
Asa Porter Grover (February 18, 1818 - July 20, 1887) was a United States Representative from Kentucky. He was born near Phelps, New York where he attended the common schools before moving to Kentucky in 1837. He attended Centre College in Danville,...
William Clayton Anderson
William Clayton Anderson (December 26, 1826 – December 23, 1861) was a United States Representative from Kentucky.
William C. Anderson was a son of Simeon H. Anderson and nephew of Albert G. Talbott. He was born in Lancaster, Kentucky, were he...
Robert Charles Wickliffe
Robert Charles Wickliffe (May 1, 1874 – June 11, 1912), (grandson of Charles A. Wickliffe and cousin of John Crepps Wickliffe Beckham) was a U.S. Representative from Louisiana; born in Bardstown, Kentucky, while his parents were visiting relatives;...
Jeff Hoover
Jeff Hoover (born January 18, 1960, Albany, Kentucky) is currently a Republican member of the Kentucky House of Representatives representing the 83rd district where he has served since 1996. Hoover was selected to serve as House Minority Caucus...
George W. Harkins
George W. Harkins (1810 - 1890) was a prominent chief of the Choctaw tribe during the Indian removals. His "Farewell Letter to the American People", denouncing the removal of the Choctaws, was widely published in the United States. It is still...
Ed Hatchett
Edward Hatchett was born and raised in Glasgow, Kentucky. Hatchett received his bachelor's degree from Centre College and Juris Doctor from the University of Louisville. A Democrat, Hatchett was the elected State Auditor in Kentucky from 1995-2003....
Fushimi Hiroaki
Fushimi Hiroaki (伏見宮 博明王, Fushimi-no-miya Hiroaki-ō , born January 26, 1932) is the only son of Prince Fushimi Hiroyoshi (1900-1937), and 25th head of the Fushimi-no-miya shinnōke (collateral branch of the Imperial Family of Japan).
Fushimi Hiroaki...
Madison A. "Matty" Bell
Madison A. “Matty” Bell (February 22, 1899 – June 30, 1983) was a college football head coach inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1955 in recognition of his coaching success during a 26-year career. Bell played end at Centre College...
William Campbell Preston Breckinridge
William Campbell Preston Breckinridge (August 28, 1837 – November 18, 1904) was a Democratic U.S. Representative from Kentucky, a Member of the Masonic Lodge, and a Member of the Knights Templar. He was the first cousin of Vice President of the...
Joshua Bullitt
Joshua Fry Bullitt (February 22, 1821 – February 16, 1898) was a justice on the Kentucky Court of Appeals.
Bullitt attended Centre College and studied law at the University of Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in 1844, and served as Louisville's...
John Y. Brown
John Young Brown (June 28, 1835 – January 11, 1904) was a U.S. Representative and Governor of Kentucky. A gifted orator, his criticism of the Know-Nothing Party drew death threats against him early in his career. Later, the U.S. House of...
Thomas H. Paynter
Thomas Hanson Paynter (December 9, 1851 – March 8, 1921) was a United States Senator and Representative from Kentucky.
Born on a farm near Vanceburg, Kentucky, Paynter attended the common schools, Rand's Academy, and Centre College. There he studied...
George B. Martin
George Brown Martin (August 18 1876 – November 12 1945), a Democrat, served as a member of the United States Senate from Kentucky.
Born in Prestonsburg, Kentucky, Martin moved with his parents to Catlettsburg, Kentucky, in 1877. He attended the...
James B. Milliken
James B. Milliken (August 7, 1900 – August 11, 1988) was an American jurist and Democratic politician who served as a judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals for 24 years from 1951 to 1975. He served three terms as chief justice, 1956-57, 1963-64 and...
Thomas C. McCreery
Thomas Clay McCreery (December 12, 1816 – July 10, 1890) was a Democratic U.S. Senator from Kentucky.
Born near Owensboro, Kentucky, McCreery graduated from Centre College, in Danville, Kentucky, in 1837. He studied law, passed the bar, and...
John M. Robsion
John Marshall Robsion (January 2, 1873 - February 17, 1948), a Republican, represented Kentucky in both the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
Robsion was born in Bracken County, Kentucky. He attended National...
James B. McCreary
James Bennett McCreary (July 8, 1838 – October 8, 1918) was a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Kentucky. He also served as the state's twenty-seventh and thirty-seventh governor. He was the only Kentucky governor to serve from both the Old...
Glover H. Cary
Glover H. Cary (May 1, 1885 – December 5, 1936) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky.
He was born in Calhoun, McLean County, Kentucky in 1885. He attended public and private schools and Centre College in Danville,...
Beriah Magoffin
Beriah Magoffin (April 18, 1815 – February 28, 1885) was the twenty-first governor of Kentucky, serving during the early part of the Civil War. Personally, Magoffin adhered to a states' rights position, including the right of a state to secede from...
Elijah Hise Norton
Elijah Hise Norton was a Representative from Missouri.
He was born in Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky, November 21, 1821 and attended the public schools and Centre College, Danville, Kentucky He graduated from the law department of Transylvania...
Richard P. Ernst
Richard Pretlow Ernst (February 28, 1858 – April 13, 1934) was a U.S. Senator from Kentucky who served from 1921 to 1927. He was a Republican. Ernst graduated from Centre College in 1878 and got his law degree from the Cincinnati Law School in 1880....
John Lloyd Dorsey, Jr.
John Lloyd Dorsey, Jr. (August 10, 1891 - March 22, 1960) was a Representative from the U.S. state of Kentucky. He was born in Henderson, Kentucky, August 10, 1891; educated in the public schools and at Bethel College, Russellville, Kentucky. He...
Gu, Prince Imperial Hoeun
Gu, Prince of Korea (aka Yi Ku, I Gu, Lee Gu) ( 29 December 1931 – 16 July 2005) was a claimant to the throne of Korea, contested twenty-ninth head of the Korean Imperial family, and the grandson of Gojong of the Korean Joseon Dynasty.
Gu was born...
Nathan L. Bachman
Nathan Lynn Bachman (August 8, 1878 – April 23, 1937) was a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1933 until his death. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Bachman was born in East Tennessee. He attended several colleges, including the...
Mathew Ector
Mathew Duncan Ector (February 28, 1822 – October 29, 1879) was an American legislator, Texas jurist, and a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
Ector was born in Putnam County, Georgia, to Hugh and Dorothy Ector. The...
George Graham Vest
George Graham Vest (December 6, 1830–August 9, 1904) was a U.S. politician. Born in Frankfort, Kentucky, he was known for his skills in oration and debate. Vest, a lawyer as well as a politician, served as a Missouri Congressman, a Confederate...
Jim German
James H. German (November 6, 1917 – August 8, 1945) was an American football quarterback in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins and the Chicago Cardinals. He played college football at Centre College and was drafted in the...
Teel Bruner
Jack Casteel "Teel" Bruner (born February 16, 1964) was an American football Safety. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1999.
