Bob Dole, presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, former British Prime Minister John Major, Tony Blair, and Winston S. Churchill, Grandson of the former British Prime Minister. Union Forum Union's Forum is an annual speaker series that has brought several national figures to Union, including Peggy Wehmeyer, William Kristol, Michael Medved, Robert Novak, Stephen Carter, Morton Kondracke, Clarence Page, Juan Williams, and Margaret Carlson. Notable people Alumni Bob Agee, executive director for the International Association of Baptist Colleges and Universities, and President Emeritus, Oklahoma Baptist University. Milton Brown (politician) (W) - U.S. Representative and co-founder of Southwestern University (now Union University) and Lambuth University both located in Jackson, Tennessee. Joshua F. Drake - Musicologist and hymnist at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania. Steve Gaines - Pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee. President of the Southern Baptist Convention. Pauline LaFon Gore - mother of United States Vice President Albert Gore, attended Union and was awarded an honorary degree. J. D. Grey (Bachelor's degree, 1929), Southern Baptist pastor and convention president from 1952 to 1954 George H. Guthrie - Professor of New Testament, Regent College; former Benjamin W. Perry Professor of Bible and chair of the School of Christian Studies, Union University; one of the English Standard Version (ESV) Bible Translation Review Scholars. An expert in Greek Exegesis and writer known for his analysis and expertise on the Epistle to the Hebrews. Eli Shelby Hammond - federal judge John L. Head (attended)- basketball coach John W. Holland - federal judge Howell Edmunds Jackson - United States Supreme Court Justice William Hicks Jackson - Confederate general, brother of Justice Howell Edmonds Jackson Jim Jones - American football player Chad McMahan, Mississippi state senator. Charles N. Millican - founding President for the University of Central Florida. Gaylon Moore - professional basketball player Jimmy Moore (baseball) - Major League baseball player Tom J. Murray (D) - U.S. Representative from Tennessee from 1943 to 1966 David Alexander Nunn - U.S. Representative and Tennessee Secretary of State Luis Ortiz (baseball) - Major League baseball player Josephine Owino - basketball player for the Washington Mystics Joseph B. Palmer - Confederate general and lawyer Herron C. Pearson (D) - U.S. Representative from Tennessee Jeanette Brooks Priebe - Director of the Louisville Civil Service Board in Kentucky Chris Rice - Christian recording artist Eugene Rice - United States federal judge (Eastern District of Oklahoma) R. R. Sneed -