Washington Curran Whitthorne (1843) was a U.S. senator from Tennessee in 1886-87 and a U.S. representative. He also was speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
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Herbert S. “Hub” Walters, who attended UTK from 1915 to 1918, served in the Tennessee House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate from 1963 to 1964. He endowed the Walters …
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Lawrence D. Tyson graduated from UT in Knoxville in 1894. He was a brigadier general, speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives, and U.S. senator from 1925 to 1929.
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Estes Kefauver (1924) served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1939 to 1949 and in the Senate from 1949 to 1963. He was the Democratic party’s vice presidential nominee …
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Albert Gore Sr. attended UT in Knoxville from 1926 to 1928. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1939 to 1953 and the U.S. Senate from 1953 to …
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James B. Frazier, who graduated in 1878, was governor of Tennessee from 1903 to 1905 and U.S. senator from 1905 to 1911.
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Clement C. Clay received one of the first degrees granted by East Tennessee College (now UT) in 1807. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives, as a U.S. senator …
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James R. “Jim” Sasser attended UT from 1954 to 1955. He was a U.S. senator from Tennessee, serving from 1977 to 1995. He also was ambassador to China.
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James DeMint (1973) was elected U.S. senator from South Carolina in 2004. He formerly represented South Carolina’s fourth congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Saxby Chambliss was elected in 2002 as a U.S. senator from Georgia. He is a 1968 UT law graduate.