to Greece William McKendree Robbins (1850), U.S. Representative from North Carolina. James I. Robertson Jr., author and scholar on the American Civil War and a professor at Virginia Tech Jim Sanborn (1968), American sculptor, created the unsolved sculpture Kryptos in 1990 Hugh Scott, Republican U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania Matt Shaheen, Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from Plano, Texas Andrew Sledd, first president of the University of Florida, noted New Testament scholar at the Candler School of Theology Greg Smith, a child prodigy who attended the college at age 10. Howard Stevens, professional football player Claude A. Swanson, U.S. Senator, Governor of Virginia, U.S. Secretary of the Navy under President Franklin D. Roosevelt Walter Leak Steele, U.S. Congressman Nader Talebzadeh, film director David W. Taylor (1881), rear admiral, U.S. Navy, and Chief Constructor of the Navy during World War I. Syd Thrift, Major League Baseball player, scout, and general manager Rev. Edward Wadsworth (1841), president of LaGrange University in Alabama from 1847 to 1852. President of the Southern University in Greensboro. In 1872, he was involved in obtaining the charter of the Methodist college that later became Vanderbilt University Joshua Soule Zimmerman (1892), American lawyer, politician, and orchardist in the U.S. state of West Virginia. In the early years of the 20th century, Zimmerman served as the Prosecuting Attorney for Hampshire County and as a Democratic member of the West Virginia House of Delegates. Notable faculty Dave Brat: former Republican Congressman for Virginia's 7th congressional district U.S. House of Representatives seat. In 2014, he defeated House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in the GOP primary and went on to defeat Democratic candidate Jack Trammell (also a member of the faculty) in the November general election. In 2018, he was defeated by Democratic candidate Abigail Spanberger William E. Dodd, American Ambassador to Germany 1933-1937 David Seth Doggett, a professor in the 1860s and later a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South Theodore Henley Jack, president of Randolph-Macon College from 1933 through 1964 Nathaniel Thomas Lupton (1830–1893), a professor of chemistry in 1856 Debra Rodman, associate professor of anthropology and women's studies and director of Women's Studies and elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in November 2017 for District 73 Jack Trammell, the 2014 Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Virginia's 7th congressional district Seth Clabough, American novelist, English professor References External links Official