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 of the Strategic Air Command from 1968 to 1972.

Jesse Samuel Cottrell (1901) was U.S. minister to Bolivia and Washington correspondent and editor for the Knoxville News Sentinel and the Knoxville Journal.

Philander P. Claxton Sr. graduated from UT in 1882. He was U.S. commissioner of education from 1911 to 1921. In 1909, Claxton accepted membership on the national Hook Worm Commission, a body of leading scientists and educators formed to expend John D. Rockefeller’s gift of $1,000,000 for the purpose of eradicating Hook Worm disease. [...]

Philander Priestly Claxton Jr. (1934) held high positions in the U.S. State Department, from which he retired in 1975. He was president of the World Population Society from 1975 to 1985.

Clifton B. Cates (1916) was an aide to President Woodrow Wilson and later commandant of the Marine Corps Schools. He was commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps from 1948 to 1955.

Robert Emmet Callan attended UT Knoxville from 1888 to 1891. He was a major general in the U.S. Army and assistant chief of staff in the War Department from 1931 to 1935.

Marion Speed Boyd (1921) was U.S. district judge for the western district of Tennessee from 1940 to 1961 and chief judge from 1961 to 1966.

George White Baxter graduated from East Tennessee University (UT’s predecessor) in 1871. He was governor of the Wyoming Territory in 1886 and was the Democratic nominee for governor of Wyoming in the state’s first election in 1890.

John Austin Armitage (1940) was chief of the European branch of Voice of America, first secretary in the U.S. Embassy in Teheran, counselor in the U.S. Embasssy in Moscow, director of the Office of United Nations Political Affairs, and assistant secretary of state for European affairs. He is a former diplomat in residence at the [...]

Colonel Hank Hartsfield Jr., former NASA astronaut and U.S. Air Force pilot, will be the keynote speaker at an event on Sept. 15.