George Caldwell Taylor (1908) was U.S. attorney for the eastern district of Tennessee and U.S. district judge. The UT College of Law is named for him.
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Government and Military
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Andrew K. Stern (2001) died in Iraq in 2004, possibly the first UT graduate to give his life in Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was a first lieutenant in the U.S. …
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Austin C. Shofner (1937) was a general in the U.S. Marine Corps. He was captured by the Japanese during World War II on the island of Corregidor but gained his …
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Milton Shaw (1944) was a mechanical and nuclear engineer who helped develop the reactor plant system for the world’s first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, launched in 1954, as well …
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Kenneth Rush (1930) was U.S. ambassador to West Germany and France. He also served as deputy secretary of defense from 1972 to 1973 and deputy secretary of state from 1973 …
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George W. Ochs (1880) was mayor of Chattanooga and general manager of the Chattanooga Times. He was also editor and publisher of the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
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Ridley McLean attended UT in Knoxville from 1888 to 1890. He was a rear admiral in the U.S. Navy and wrote the Bluejacket’s Manual, which is still used to teach …
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William G. McAdoo Jr. attended UT in Knoxville from 1879 to 1882. He was U.S. secretary of the treasury from 1913 to 1918 and senator from California from 1933 to …
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Bruce Holloway attended UT in Knoxville from 1929 to 1931. He was commander in chief of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe from 1965 to 1966 and commander in chief …
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Jesse Samuel Cottrell (1901) was U.S. minister to Bolivia and Washington correspondent and editor for the Knoxville News Sentinel and the Knoxville Journal.