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  • Glenn Close

    Ms. Close attended William & Mary where she was involved in campus theatrical productions through the Dept. of Theatre, Speech, and Dance and the Common Glory.
  • Granville Smith

    Granville Smith born circa 1758 and died in 1811. He was a student at William & Mary in 1775/76. He left the College to enter the Revolutionary War. On August 11, 1777, he was commissioned first lieutenant of a company of militia formed from the student body of William & Mary for service…
  • Harriet Nachman Storm

    Harriet Nachman Storm, William & Mary class of 1964, was president of the Alumni Association in 1978-1979. Storm was a member of the William & Mary Board of Visitors in 1979-1988. She served as the Secretary of the Board in 1987-1988. Storm received the Alumni Medallion in 1981. Storm…
  • Henry Marshall Ashby

    Henry Marshall Ashby was a student at William & Mary in 1853-1854.1
  • Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848)

    Biographical Sketch From the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (1774- Present). Henry St. George Tucker. Accessed March 8, 2017.
  • Herbert Lee Bridges

    Herbert Lee Bridges was a student at William & Mary in 1888-1893. His career at William & Mary included: Instructor of Pedagogics, 1881-1892; Instructor in History; Acting Librarian, 1892-1893; Assistant in American History and Politics, 1907-1909; Assistant in Politics and Economics, 1909-…
  • Hunter B. Andrews

    Hunter B. Andrews graduated from the William & Mary in 1942 with a bachelor's degree in Economics. He received a law degree in 1948 from the University of Virginia and attained an honorary degree from William & Mary in 1993. Mr. Andrews served as a Virginia State Senator for 32 years and…
  • J. Wilfred Lambert

    J. Wilfred Lambert (23 August 1906-11 May 1986) graduated from William & Mary earning a BA in 1927 and later returned as an instructor in psychology. He was a popular teacher and administrator throughout his 50 year career at William & Mary. He received the Thomas Jefferson Award in 1973.…
  • James Branch Cabell (1879-1958)

    Biographical Sketch James Branch Cabell was born April 14, 1879 in Richmond, Virginia to Robert Gamble Cabell (1847-1922) and Ann Harris Branch Cabell (1859-1915). 1
  • James E. Jenkins

    James E. Jenkins was a student at William & Mary in 1844-1846 according to the Provisional List of Alumni. A researcher provided the following information:
  • James Innes (1754-1798)

    James Innes (1754-1798) was the son of the Rev. Robert Innes, an Anglican minister and a graduate of King's College in Aberdeen. Innes grew up on what amounted to a small, isolated farm, the glebe of Drysdale Parish, more than 20 miles southwest of Tappahannock (Hobbes Hole), Virginia.
  • James McClurg (1726-1823)

    Dr. James McClurg was the first Chair of Anatomy and Medicine at William & Mary, serving from 1779 to 1784, when he left to go into private practice. He attended William and Mary in 1762 and went on to attended the University of Edinburgh, graduating with a degree in medicine in 1770.
  • James Monroe (1758-1831)

    James Monroe (1758-1831) was the 5th President of the United States, completing a two-term presidency (1817-1825) that capped a long political career at the state and national levels. Monroe’s primary connection to the William & Mary campus was as a student. Monroe arrived in Williamsburg from…
  • James N. Stubbs

    Major James N. Stubbs (James New Stubbs) attended William & Mary (1858-1860), was a member of its Board of Visitors (1888-1919, Vice-President 1890-1906, Vice-Rector 1906-1919), was trained as a lawyer, served as a major in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, and was a member of the…
  • Janet Haldane Coleman Kimbrough (1902-1992)

    Dr. Janet Coleman Kimbrough was born in Minnesota on February 21, 1902, the daughter of Mary Haldane Begg Coleman (1875-1967) and George Preston Coleman,1 mayor of Williamsburg.
  • Jay Winston Johns Jr.

    Jay Winston Johns, Jr. was a coal industrialist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who moved to Virginia and became a leader in preserving homes of renowned Virginians. He married Helen Lambert (1881-1964). Johns became blind in the late 1950's. He and his wife owned "Ash Lawn," Albemarle County,…
  • Jeffrey B. Trammell

    Jeffrey B. Trammell was elected as Rector of William & Mary's Board of Visitors from 2011-2013, serving as the first openly gay board chair of a major university in the United States. Trammell attended William & Mary on a basketball scholarship, graduating in 1973 with a B.A. in history.
  • John Boyd Bentley

    John Boyd Bentley was born in Hampton, Virginia 9 February 1896. He attended William & Mary and served in the U. S. Field Artillery in World War I. Bentley attended the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia He served as an Episcopal clergyman in Alaska and in Williamsburg. He…
  • John Brown

    John Brown was born in Staunton, Virginia in 1757 and attended Princeton College until the British took the city in 1777 during the American Revolution. In 1778, Brown came to William & Mary and studied Natural Science under William & Mary President James Madison as well as law under Thomas…
  • John Coalter

    John Coalter (1769-1838), was born in 1769 to parents Michael Coalter and Elizabeth Moore. After brief schooling, he became a tutor and attended lectures at William & Mary under Bishop James Madison and George Wythe. He also studied law under St. George Tucker, receiving his law license in 1790.
  • John Compton Freeman

    John Compton Freeman attended William & Mary in 1904-1909 according to The Catalogue of Alumni. His hometown is listed as Arcola, Loudoun County and his then home was on Tilly Ave. in Jamaica, Long Island, New York in the Catalogue, which was published in 1932. A photo is in the 1909 Colonial…
  • John E. Molnar

    John Edgar "Jed" Molnar, 66, of Farmville, died Saturday, June 20, 2009. He was born in Ohio, the son of the late John William Molnar and Bonnie Hanna Ford. He is survived by a sister, Mary Collins of Alabama. Mr. Molnar received a A.B. (High Honors in History), William & Mary, 1964; A.M.L.S.,…
  • John Hartwell Cocke (1780-1866)

    John Hartwell Cocke was born in Surry County, Virginia in 1780. He attended the College of William & Mary from 1794-1799 . He married Ann Blaus Barraud of Norfolk on December 25, 1802. After serving in the War of 1812, he returned to his home, Bremo, a plantation in Fluvanna County, Virginia,…
  • John Lesslie Hall, Jr.

    John Lesslie Hall, Jr. (11. April 1891 - March 1978) was an admiral of the United States Navy during World War II and the son of Professor J. Lesslie Hall. Hall was a native of Williamsburg, Virginia, and attended William & Mary for three years before transferring to the U.S. Naval Academy…
  • John M. Gregory II

    Governor John Munford Gregory, oldest son of John Munford Gregory and Letitia Power Graves, was born in Charles City County, VA, on the 8th of July, 1804. He taught school in James City County before entering William & Mary in 1828. In 1830, he graduated with a law degree and was elected to the…

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