Confederate States of America; transferred to West Point in 1823 Jesse D. Bright, U.S. senator Solomon W. Downs, U.S. Senator, graduated 1823 Edward A. Hannegan, U.S. Representative and Senator Albert Sidney Johnston, Confederate General David Rice Atchison, U.S. Senator from Missouri, graduated 1825 Landaff Andrews, United States Representative from Kentucky, graduate 1826 John Calvin McCoy, founder of Kansas City, Missouri, studied 1826–1827 William M. Gwin, U.S. Senator, graduated with medical degree in 1828 George W. Johnson, Confederate "governor" of Kentucky and Kentucky State Representative, received three degrees from Transylvania University: an A.B. in 1829, an LL.B. in 1832, and an M.A. in 1833 Levi Boone, mayor of Chicago, graduated from medical school 1829 Stevens T. Mason (1811–1843), Governor of Michigan 1835–1840, attended circa 1830 Wilson Shannon, 14th and 16th Governor of Ohio Cassius Marcellus Clay, abolitionist, state legislator, and ambassador to Russia, graduated in 1831 William Alexander Richardson (1811–1875), U.S. Senator from Illinois, graduated 1831 James Speed, Attorney General under Abraham Lincoln, graduated 1833 Thomas Burton Hanly, Arkansas state legislator and judge, CSA Congressman, graduated 1834 James S. Rollins, Missouri politician, "Father of the University of Missouri", graduated 1834 Jerome B. Robertson, Confederate General, Texas politician, graduated 1835 Samuel Freeman Miller, Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court; graduated with medical degree in 1838 Beriah Magoffin, Governor of Kentucky, earned law degree in 1838 Francis Preston Blair, Jr., soldier and Missouri representative in the House of Representatives and the Senate, studied law in 1841 Malcolm D. Graham, US Congressman, CSA Congressman, Texas State Senate, Texas Attorney General, Colonel in Confederate States Army John C. Breckinridge, Vice President, United States; Secretary of War, Confederate States of America, graduated 1841 Ethelbert Ludlow Dudley, prominent physician and Union military commander in Civil War, graduated in 1842 and joined the staff of the Medical School Thomas James Churchill, Confederate major general during the American Civil War and the 13th Governor of the state of Arkansas, studied law at Transylvania University at some time between 1844 and 1846. B. Gratz Brown, 20th Governor of Missouri, graduated 1845 Joseph O. Shelby, Confederate major general during the American Civil War, graduated 1850 John Marshall Harlan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, graduated in 1853, and was first justice to have earned a modern law degree. George Graham Vest, U.S. Senator from Missouri, Confederate, US Congressman, Senator, and prominent lawyer, graduated in 1853. General Basil Duke, graduated the school of law