The Union-Philanthropic Society is a college literary and debating society at Hampden–Sydney College in Hampden Sydney, Virginia. It was formed by the merger of the Union Literary Society and the Philanthropic Literary Society in 1928.[1] [2] The society has both collegiate and honorary members.[3] [4] Following are some of its notable members.
| Name | Society membership and year | Notability | References | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Archibald Alexander | Hon. Union, 1800 | President of Hampden–Sydney College and founder of Princeton Theological Seminary | ||
| Mrs. P. T. Atkinson | Hon. Union-Philanthropic, 1968 | Founder of the Esther Thomas Atkinson Museum of Hampden–Sydney College | ||
| P. G. T. Beauregard | Hon. Philanthropic, 1861 | Major-General of the Confederate States Army | ||
| James Buchanan | Hon. Philanthropic, 1848 | United States Senator and President of the United States | ||
| John C. Calhoun | Hon. Union, 1834 | United States Senator and Vice President of the United States | ||
| Henry Clay | Hon. Union, 1842 | United States Senator and presidential candidate | ||
| Hon. Philanthropic, 1854 | United States Senator, United States Secretary of War, and President of the Confederate States of America | |||
| Stephen A. Douglas | Hon. Philanthropic, 1853 | United States Senator and 1860 Democratic nominee for President | ||
| Hon. | President of the United States | |||
| Anita Garland | Hon. Union-Philanthropic | Dean of Admissions of Hampden–Sydney College | [9] [10] [11] | |
| Hon. | Classical scholar and author | |||
| Patrick Henry | Hon. Union, 1794 | Founding Father of the United States, Governor of Virginia, and founding trustee of Hampden–Sydney College | ||
| John Johns | Hon. | Episcopal Bishop and president of College of William & Mary | ||
| Robert E. Lee | Hon. Philanthropic, 1861 | Commander-in-Chief of the Army of Northern Virginia and president of Washington College (later Washington and Lee University) | ||
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Hon. Philanthropic, 1854 | Poet and professor of Greek at Harvard University | ||
| Louis Philippe I | Hon. Philanthropic, 1848 | King of France | ||
| James Madison | Hon. | President of the United States | ||
| Hon. Union-Philanthropic, 1986 | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | |||
| Franklin Pierce | Hon. Philanthropic, 1853 | President of the United States | ||
| Edgar Allan Poe | Hon. Philanthropic, 1830 | Author and editor of the Southern Literary Messenger | ||
| Samuel Stanhope Smith | Hon. Union, 1790 | President of Princeton University and the first President of Hampden–Sydney College | ||
| Adlai Stevenson | Hon. Union-Philanthropic, 1952 | Governor of Illinois and 1952 Democratic Party candidate for president | ||
| William Makepeace Thackeray | Hon. Philanthropic, 1854 | novelist | ||
| John Tyler | Hon. Philanthropic, 1830 | President of the United States, Vice President of the United States, and Confederate House of Representatives | ||
| George F. Wil | Hon. Union-Philanthropic, 1986 | The Washington Post columnist and political commentator for NBC News and MSNBC | ||
| Samuel Vaughan Wilson | Hon. Union-Philanthropic, 1982 | Lieutenant general in the United States Army, Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and President of Hampden–Sydney College |