completing the drawn challenge. Orations and Declamations Once a year in early April, the Society hosts a program dedicated to presenting orations and declamations, speeches that are originally written by the presenter and those not written by the presenter, respectively. Members may compete in each category of prepared speech for an award of one speaker's point. The Judicial Council judges the orations and declamations and declares the winners at the following meeting. Intersociety Debate Each spring, the Demosthenian and the Phi Kappa Literary Societies hold a debate to highlight the oratory skills of the societies' best speakers. Due to a change in relations between the two societies, the 2020 Intersociety Debate is being held between the Demosthenian Literary Society and the Georgia Debate Union. Debate is usually held in the Hatton-Lovejoy courtroom at the University of Georgia School of Law. Judges are randomly selected for the debate from a pool of nominations submitted by members of both societies. Notable alumni Rachel Aaron, fantasy and science fiction author William Yates Atkinson, Governor of Georgia John Barrow, U.S. Congressman Pope Barrow, U.S. Senator Robert Benham, first African-American chief justice, Georgia Supreme Court William Tapley Bennett Jr., diplomat D. W. Brooks, founder of Gold Kist John A. Campbell, U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Ragsdale Cannon, American United Methodist bishop Augustin Clayton, Statesman, Judge, U.S. Congressman from Georgia Hugh M. Dorsey, Governor of Georgia Tim Echols, Georgia Public Service Commissioner Joel Furr, first person to refer to junk e-mail as "spam" Benjamin Harvey Hill, U.S. and Confederate States Senator Arthur Hinds, member of the Celtic/Pagan band Emerald Rose Phil Kent, political consultant Jack Kingston, U.S. Congressman Crawford Long, Physician, best known for the first use of inhaled sulfuric ether as an anesthetic, first obstetric anesthetist Eugene Patterson- Civil Rights activist, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and publisher of the Pentagon Papers Count Emilio Pucci, fashion designer Ralph Reed, political consultant Charles Henry Smith, better known as writer Bill Arp Herman E. Talmadge, U.S. Senator and former governor of Georgia Robert Toombs, first Secretary of State of the Confederate States of America, U.S. Senator and Congressman Beth Shapiro, Rhodes Scholar and recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant" Emory Speer, Post-civil war equal rights advocate and federal judge A.E. Stallings, poet & translator (recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant") Bob Trammell, former Minority Leader of the Georgia House of Representatives See also Other Historic American Debate