University of Memphis people

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 52. Chapters: University of Memphis alumni, University of Memphis faculty, Fred Thompson, Steve Cohen, Robert Bernasconi, John Shelton Wilder, Dixie Carter, Madonna Constantine, David Carson Berry, Larry Porter, Stu Grimson, Roger Duke, Larry Riley, Gail Robinson, Richard Barrett, John Ford, Bill Wallace, William R. Lucas, John Barnhill, John Bensko, Wink Martindale, Jay Busbee, John Dye, Michael Jeter, William Sanderson, Milton H. Hamilton, Jr, List of University of Memphis people, Béla Bollobás, Clare Grant, Joe Gray Taylor, Tracey Baker-Simmons, Eric Jerome Dickey, Randall Auxier, Dave Aron, V. Lane Rawlins, Omar Jarun, Tony Backhouse, Dayton O'Brien, Andrew McClurg, Robert Kozma, Hagop S. Akiskal, Andrew D. Holt, William Fones, Blaine A. Brownell, Carol Chumney, James A. Graham, Bill Beall, LD Beghtol, Jim Kyle, Bernice B. Donald, Sidney A. McPhee, C. Pat Taylor, Rodney K. Smith, Lloyd Rowland, Ralph Faudree, James Brasfield, Ulysses Jones, Jr., Reginald Tate, Claude Wilkinson, M. M. Buckner, Stanley Booth, Mark Dunn, Curtis S. Person, Jr., Herbert Herff, Chester M. Morgan, Martha Shoffner, Johnny Taylor, Barbara Jo Walker, Steve Ross, Ronald E. Carrier, Carlos Singleton, James Dale Todd, Steve McDaniel, Jarrett Grube, Stan Bronson, Jr., Cecil C. Rousseau, Xiangen Hu. Excerpt: Fred Dalton Thompson (born Freddie Dalton Thompson; August 19, 1942), is an American politician, actor, attorney, lobbyist, columnist, and radio host. He served as a Republican U.S. Senator from Tennessee from 1994 through 2003. Thompson served as chairman of the International Security Advisory Board at the United States Department of State, was a member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a Visiting Fellow with the American Enterprise Institute, specializing in national security and intelligence. As an actor, Thompson has appeared in a large number of movies and television shows. He has frequently portrayed governmental figures. In the final months of his U.S. Senate term in 2002, Thompson joined the cast of the long-running NBC television series Law & Order, playing Manhattan District Attorney Arthur Branch. In May 2007 he took a break from acting in order to run for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. In 2009 he returned to acting with a guest appearance on television series; and is co-starring with Brian Dennehy in the movie Alleged, about the Scopes Monkey Trial. Thompson was born in Sheffield, Alabama, the son of Ruth Inez (née Bradley, living in 2007 in Franklin, Tennessee) and Fletcher Session Thompson (born Lauderdale County, Alabama, August 26, 1919, died Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, May 27, 1990), who was an automobile salesman. He attended public school in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, graduating from Lawrence County High School. Thereafter, he worked days in the local post office, and nights at the Murray bicycle assembly plant. Thompson then entered Florence State College (now the University of North Alabama), becoming the first member of his family to go to university. He later transferred to Memphis State University, now the University of Memphis, where he earned a double degree in philosophy and political science in 1964, as well as scholarships to both Tulane and Vanderbilt