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This list has been compiled from records in the President's Office, Office of Alumni Relations, and the College archives.

1891     C. E. Dowman     Doctor of Divinity
1908     Henry Elmer Bierly     Doctor of Literature
    James Perdue     Citation
1910     Josephus Anderson     Doctor of Laws
1911     L. W. Moore     Doctor of Divinity
    T. J. Nixon     Doctor of Divinity
    Ira S. Patterson     Doctor of Divinity
    S. M. Sparkman     Doctor of Laws
1926     William Benjamin Beauchamp     Doctor of Divinity
1927     R. Ira Barnett     Doctor of Laws
    Samuel H. G. Burgin     Doctor of Laws
    Elmer Talmadge Clark     Doctor of Laws
    Isaac C. Jenkins     Doctor of Divinity
1928     Bishop Hoyt M. Dobbs     Doctor of Literature
    Ivan Lee Holt     Doctor of Laws
    Leon P. McCord     Doctor of Humanities
    Marvin H. Norton     Doctor of Divinity
1929     Herbert J. Drane     Doctor of Laws
    Lincoln Hulley     Doctor of Education
    William A. Lambeth     Doctor of Literature
    Samuel Emory Thomasson     Doctor of Literature
    Hibbird Austin Tucker     Doctor of Laws
    A. Fred Turner     Doctor of Divinity
1930     Will W. Alexander     Doctor of Laws
    J. H. Daniels     Doctor of Divinity
    Oscar E. Rice     Doctor of Divinity
    Guy Everett Snavely     Doctor of Literature
    Y. C. Yang     Doctor of Laws
1932     Edwin Anderson     Doctor of Divinity
    John Ringling     Doctor of Laws
1933     Winslow S. Anderson     Doctor of Laws
    J. F. Bell     Doctor of Divinity
    Carl S. Cox     Doctor of Education
    H. J. Haeflinger     Doctor of Divinity
    John J. Tigert     Doctor of Literature
1934     Mrs. Roger Babson     Doctor of Education
    J. R. Cason     Doctor of Divinity
    Smith Hardin     Doctor of Divinity
    Bishop Samuel R. Hay     Doctor of Laws
    Harrison E. Howe     Doctor of Laws
    Mrs. J. D. Randall     Doctor of Humanities
    G. S. Roberts     Doctor of Divinity
1935     Paul Wesley Ellis     Doctor of Divinity
    William Preston Few     Doctor of Education
    Felix R. Hill, Jr.     Doctor of Divinity
    A. M. Hughlett     Doctor of Divinity
    John S. Taylor     Doctor of Laws
    B. A. Whitmore     Doctor of Laws
1936     Bowman F. Ashe     Doctor of Literature
    P. M. Boyd     Doctor of Divinity
    H. P. Carpenter     Doctor of Humanities
    Paul A. Fletcher     Doctor of Divinity
    Pat M. Neff     Doctor of Literature
    E. L. Robinson     Doctor of Laws
    James W. Workman     Doctor of Laws
1937     Robert Lee Allen     Doctor of Divinity
    Henry Webster Blackburn     Doctor of Divinity
    Francis Marvin Durrance     Doctor of Laws
    John Colin English     Doctor of Laws
    A. K. Fleming     Doctor of Laws
    Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes     Doctor of Humanities
    John Miller     Doctor of Divinity
    Ralph Washington Sockman     Doctor of Literature
    Alfred H. Wagg     Doctor of Laws
1938     Frederick Bohn Fisher     Doctor of Literature
    Welthy Honsinger Fisher     Doctor of Literature
    William Gregory Fletcher     Doctor of Divinity
    Frank Dreux Jackson     Doctor of Laws
    Curtis Hamilton Muncie     Doctor of Science
    Finley J. Patterson     Doctor of Divinity
    Isaiah Tillman Pearson     Doctor of Education
    Paul Quillian     Doctor of Laws
    Robert Z. Tyler     Doctor of Divinity
1939     Frederick Raymond Chenault     Doctor of Literature
    Henry Hitt Crane     Doctor of Laws
    Elam Carlton Doyle     Doctor of Humanities
    Henry Carter Hardin     Doctor of Divinity
    Harry Henry     Doctor of Divinity
    James D. Hurt     Doctor of Divinity
    Mary Lowe West     Master of Arts
1940     John Warren Branscomb     Doctor of Divinity
    Francis Dana Coman     Doctor of Laws
    George Elbert Farrar     Doctor of Divinity
    Ruel B. Gilbert     Doctor of Humanities
    Sir Wilfred Greenfell    
    John Wallace Hamilton     Doctor of Divinity
    John Louis Horton     Doctor of Divinity
    Paul McNutt     Doctor of Humanities
    Raimundo de Ovies     Doctor of Laws
    Thomas Vernor Smith     Doctor of Laws
1941     M. W. Carothers     Doctor of Laws
    Spessard L. Holland     Doctor of Laws
    Harold D. Meyer     Doctor of Laws
    Arthur J. Moore     Doctor of Laws
    Annie M. Pfeiffer     Doctor of Humanities
    Roy L. Smith     Doctor of Humane Letters
    J. H. Therrell     Doctor of Laws
    C. K. Vliet     Doctor of Divinity
1944     Robert C. Holmes     Doctor of Divinity
    Francis J. McConnell     Doctor of Literature
    Edward Julian Pendergrass     Doctor of Divinity
    T. T. Scott     Doctor of Laws
    Thomas George Walker     Doctor of Laws
    Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney     Doctor of Laws
    G. Floyd Zimmerman     Doctor of Laws
1945     John Kenneth Boulton-Jones     Doctor of Laws
    Millard Fillmore Caldwell     Doctor of Laws
    John Zabud Fletcher     Doctor of Laws
    Rembert Arthur Guy     Doctor of Divinity
    George Franklin Scott     Doctor of Divinity
    Harris Gordon Sims     Doctor of Laws
    Ray V. Sowers     Doctor of Laws
    Vilhjalmur Stefansson     Doctor of Literature
    Shelby Augustus Wilson     Doctor of Divinity
1946     Everett Ross Clinchy     Doctor of Laws
    Emile Emdon Watson     Doctor of Laws
    William Clarence Webster     Citation
    Herbert Edward Wolfe     Doctor of Laws
1947     Juan Jose Arevalo     Doctor of Laws
    Doak Sheridan Campbell     Doctor of Laws
    Jerome Davis     Doctor of Literature
    Benjamin Clifford Douglas Eckardt     Doctor of Laws
    Horace Threston Freeman, Jr.     Doctor of Divinity
    John Owen Gross     Doctor of Literature
    Perry Benjamin James, Jr.     Doctor of Divinity
    Edward Elsworth Johnson     Doctor of Laws
    S. C. Olliff     Doctor of Divinity
    James Hardin Peterson     Doctor of Humanities
    Clifford H. Reason     Citation
    Garland Dee Runnels     Doctor of Laws
1948     Eleanor Steber Bilby     Doctor of Music
    Gordon Peter Campbell     Doctor of Laws
    Earl Evans     Doctor of Music
    William Ewart Gladstone Murray     Doctor of Laws
    Lewis Audubon Raulerson     Doctor of Laws
    William Pearson Tolley     Doctor of Education
1949     Thomas David Bailey     Doctor of Laws
    John Avery Guyton     Doctor of Laws
    Roy Hunter Short     Doctor of Laws
    Thomas John Watson     Doctor of Social Science
1950     Ernest Aubrey Bailey     Doctor of Laws
    Boris Blai     Doctor of Fine Arts
    Frederick W. Coffing     Doctor of Laws
    Thomas L. Dunbar     Doctor of Science
    Michael M. Engle     Citation
    Daniel J. McCarthy     Citation
    Clinton Vane McClurg     Doctor of Laws
    Frank Lloyd Wright     Doctor of Laws
1951     Emile DuBose Anthony, Sr.     Citation
    Henry Styles Bridges     Doctor of Literature
    Bruce Franklin Gannaway     Doctor of Divinity
    Stanley Grumbacher     Citation
    John Howard Hanger     Doctor of Divinity
    John William Horsey     Doctor of Laws
    Cyril Lord     Doctor of Laws
    Daniel Justin McCarthy     Doctor of Laws
    Don H. Murdoch     Doctor of Humanities
    Clifford Hamilton Reason     Doctor of Laws
    Richard Neil Stein     Master of Arts
    Joseph Augustus Tolle     Doctor of Divinity
1952     Alfred Raymond Barrios     Master of Arts
    John Philip Bell     Doctor of Laws
    Charles Francis Coe     Doctor of Laws
    Don Alvin Cooke     Doctor of Divinity
    Michael M. Engel     Doctor of Laws
    R. Barnwell Fuller     Doctor of Laws
    Albert Dale Hagler     Doctor of Divinity
    Nathan Alexander Perilman     Doctor of Laws
1953     Ford Christopher Frick     Doctor of Laws
    Laurel Irvin Geiszler     Master of Arts
    John Granville Stradley     Doctor of Divinity
    Kenneth Dale Wells     Doctor of Laws
1954     Nathan Cummings     Doctor of Laws
    Garfield Evans     Doctor of Divinity
    Joseph Raymond Fazzano     Doctor of Laws
    Sarann Butler Kazanjian     Doctor of Humanities
    James Magurno     Doctor of Humanities
    Kent McKinley     Doctor of Laws
    Lucius Pond Ordway     Doctor of Laws
    Francis Earl Shaw     Citation of Meritorious Service
1955     Clare Marden Cotton     Doctor of Divinity
    Lynn Farnol     Doctor of Laws
    Charles Warren Hawkins     Doctor of Laws
    Joseph Winstead Hicks     Doctor of Laws
    John Edwin Larson     Doctor of Laws
    Laurie Graydon Ray     Doctor of Divinity
    Letcher Frank Roper     Doctor of Laws
1956     Aston Aubra Almand     Doctor of Divinity
    Thomas Leroy Collins     Doctor of Laws
    John Milburn McLeod     Doctor of Divinity
    Thomas Henry Mitchell     Doctor of Laws
    Kenneth Gerald Rogers     Doctor of Divinity
    Hy Jordan Sobiloff     Doctor of Laws
    Lex King Souter     Doctor of Divinity
    Edgar Sullins Vaught     Doctor of Laws
1957     Henry Boris Burns     Doctor of Laws
    Eugene Clayton Calhoun, Jr.     Doctor of Divinity
    Ray Clements     Doctor of Laws
    Millard Carson Cleveland     Doctor of Divinity
    Morris Fishbein     Doctor of Laws
    Claude McEuen Harden, Sr.     Doctor of Laws
    George Washington Jenkins     Doctor of Laws
    David Bernard Steinman     Doctor of Humanities
    Henry Melton Ware     Doctor of Divinity
1958     Ben Hill Griffin     Doctor of Laws
    Sidney Walter Martin     Doctor of Laws
    John Henry Teeter     Doctor of Laws
    Walter Winchell     Doctor of Humanities
1959     Harry Silett     Doctor of Laws
1960     Arthur James Armstrong     Doctor of Divinity
    Ernest Cuneo     Doctor of Laws
    Elizabeth Skinner Jackson     Master of Arts
    Christine McGuire     Master of Music
1961     Farris Bryant     Doctor of Laws
    Stanley Kresge     Doctor of Laws
    Victor Lee Rankin     Doctor of Divinity
1962     Raymond A. Alley     Doctor of Divinity
    Samuel M. Fleming     Doctor of Laws
1963     Gaylon Leon Howe     Doctor of Divinity
    Charles Coolidge Parlin     Doctor of Laws
1964     Milburn Peter Akers     Doctor of Laws
    W. Scott Bozeman     Doctor of Divinity
    John James Rooks     Doctor of Divinity
1965     Richard Holcomb Cooper     Doctor of Laws
    Marjorie Mitchell McKinley     Doctor of Fine Arts
1967     John William Donahoo     Doctor of Laws
    James W. Henley     Doctor of Divinity
    Benjamin Campbell Thornal     Doctor of Laws
1968     Charles Durward McDonell     Doctor of Divinity
    Wendell Phillips     Doctor of Business Administration
1969     Christiaan N. Barnard     Doctor of Science
    Andy Griffith     Doctor of Fine Arts
    Alfred Hedberg     Doctor of Divinity
1970     Lord Caradon     Doctor of Laws
1971     Lawton Mainor Chiles, Jr.     Doctor of Laws
    C. Glenn Mingledorff     Doctor of Divinity
    Mary Duke Semans     Doctor of Fine Arts
1972     Reubin O’Donovan Askew     Doctor of Laws
    Harry J. Heeb     Doctor of Humane Letters
    Walter Nadeem Kalaf     Doctor of Divinity
1973     Howard J. Barnum, Jr.     Doctor of Science
    Bishop Robert M. Blackburn     Doctor of Laws
    Charles C. Edwards     Doctor of Laws
    Edna Hallett Ewerts     Honorary Alumna
    Charles Puryear Hamilton     Doctor of Divinity
    Gordon S. Hodgson     Doctor of Literature
    Bishop Joel D. McDavid     Doctor of Divinity
    Richard Warren Pearce     Doctor of Laws
    T. Terrell Sessums     Doctor of Laws
1974     George Washington English     Doctor of Laws
    James Marvin Sweat, Jr.     Doctor of Divinity
    Eugene Morris Zimmerman     Doctor of Divinity
1975     Frances Langford Evinrude     Honorary Alumna
    Marion McCoy Gibbs     Doctor of Divinity
    Ethel McCullough Gray     Doctor of Humanities
    Paul Lambuth Hartsfield     Doctor of Divinity
    Bob Hope     Doctor of Humanities
    Richard Vernon Moore     Doctor of Laws
    Fletcher Gray Rush     Doctor of Laws
1976     Patrick Wyley McBride, Jr.     Doctor of Divinity
    Ruth Springer Wedgworth     Doctor of Humanities
    Carl Eugene West     Doctor of Divinity
1977     John Lewis Hall     Doctor of Laws
    Thomas Calvin Kelsey     Doctor of Divinity
    James Thomas Laney     Doctor of Divinity
    Cushman Shelton Radebaugh     Doctor of Laws
    Eldon Simmons     Doctor of Divinity
1978     Earl J. McGrath     Doctor of Laws
    James Clayton Rowan     Doctor of Divinity
    Alfred Bryan Vaught     Doctor of Divinity
1979     Bascom W. Carlton     Doctor of Divinity
    Walter Cronkite     Doctor of Humanities
    Monroe C. Hatch     Doctor of Divinity
    William M. Hollis, Jr.     Doctor of Humane Letters
    Sean McBride     Doctor of Humane Letters
1980     Edward Lee Dinkins, Jr.     Doctor of Divinity
    Marcus E. Drewa     Doctor of Science in Commerce
    David G. Hortin     Doctor of Divinity
    James Carlisle Rogers     Doctor of Laws
    James Hunter Williams     Doctor of Laws
    Warren Waite Willis     Doctor of Divinity
1981     Robert Bledsoe     Doctor of Divinity
    Jerome Hines     Doctor of Music
    Bishop Earl Gladstone Hunt, Jr.     Doctor of Divinity
    Nelson C. White     Doctor of Science
1982     Roland Herbert Bainton     Doctor of Humane Letters
    Jameson Jones     Doctor of Divinity
    Prime F. Osborn     Doctor of Laws
    Arnold Palmer     Doctor of Humane Letters
    Carter Durwood Poland, Jr.     Doctor of Commerce
1983     Hugh Anderson     Doctor of Divinity
    John R. Harrison     Doctor of Humane Letters
    Jimmy S. Jones     Doctor of Divinity
    E. Ronal Mudd     Doctor of Divinity
    Edward W. Norman     Doctor of Divinity
    E. Cardon Walker     Doctor of Humane Letters
1984     Gerald R. Ford     Doctor of Laws
    George D. Kennedy     Doctor of Business
    Curtis Peterson     Doctor of Laws
    John Thomas Sofge, Jr.     Doctor of Divinity
    Roland Vanzant     Doctor of Divinity
1985     Terrel H. Bell     Doctor of Laws
    Sayer Loyal Frisbie     Doctor of Letters
    Ann Hammond Hansen     Doctor of Science
    Mark C. Hollis     Doctor of Business Administration
    Nathan Milstein     Doctor of Music
    Thomas Glenn Mitchell     Doctor of Divinity
    Thomas Price     Doctor of Divinity
    Renata Scotto     Doctor of Music
1986     Dennis M. Campbell     Doctor of Divinity
    Thomas Marshall Hahn     Doctor of Laws
    D. Burke Kibler     Doctor of Laws
    Scott Linder     Doctor of Laws
    Thomas S. Monaghan     Doctor of Laws
    Nils M. Schweizer     Doctor of Humane Letters
1987     James Lloyd Knox     Doctor of Divinity
    Terence H. Waite     Doctor of International Laws
Presented in absentia to Canon S. J. Habiby
    James L. Waits     Doctor of Humane Letters
1988     Jack M. Berry     Doctor of Laws
    Harold Hasbrouck Hughes, Jr.     Doctor of Divinity
    Andrew P. Ireland     Doctor of Laws
    Charles Howard Jenkins, Sr.     Doctor of Laws
    John Philip Simon     Doctor of Divinity
1989     Elizabeth B. Castor     Doctor of Laws
    Sam T. Dell     Doctor of Laws
    Emerson Keith Ewing     Doctor of Divinity
    Robert Eugene Fannin     Doctor of Divinity
    Roger W. Ireson     Doctor of Humane Letters
    William Wesley Peters     Doctor of Architecture
    Robert Lawson Shaw     Doctor of Sacred Music
1990     George T. Crutchfield     Doctor of Humane Letters
    Margaret M. O’Shaugnessy Heckler     Doctor of Humanities
    Riley Phillips Short     Doctor of Divinity
1991     Ernest L. Boyer     Doctor of Laws
    Marie M. Miller     Doctor of Aeronautical Science
    Truman W. Miller     Doctor of Aeronautical Science
    Fred R. Millsaps     Doctor of Laws
    John M. Scheb     Doctor of Humane Letters
1992     John Charles Allanson Barrett     Doctor of Divinity
    Charles W. Courtoy     Doctor of Divinity
    Sir John Marks Templeton     Doctor of Humane Letters
1993     David T. Brewer     Doctor of Divinity
    Lynne V. Cheney     Doctor of Liberal Arts
    Arthur Lee Eberly, Jr.     Doctor of Science
1994     Winifred C. “Peggy” Brown     Doctor of Public Service
    Phyllis Davis     Doctor of Music
    Joe Hale     Doctor of Humane Letters
    Andrew H. Hines, Jr.     Doctor of Humane Letters
    Clark Maxwell, Jr.     Doctor of Laws
1995     William S."Bill” Barnes     Doctor of Divinity
    Bob Graham     Doctor of Public Service
    Lanier Upshaw     Doctor of Commerce
1996     Bishop Cornelius L. Henderson     Doctor of Humane Letters
    Donald L. Kerrick     Doctor of Diplomacy
    Burton “Bud” Stone     Doctor of Science, Film Technology
    Dorotha Cunningham Tanner     Doctor of Humanitarian Service
1997     Frank Brogan     Doctor of Public Service
    Eleanor Honeyman Miller     Doctor of Music
    John Raymond Miller II     Doctor of Humane Letters
    Sandra B. Mortham     Doctor of Public Service
    Chris Wallace     Doctor of Humane Letters
1998     Carol Barnett     Doctor of Public Service
    Hoyt R. “Barney” Barnett     Doctor of Public Service
    J. Larry Durrence     Doctor of Public Service
    Gary Mason     Doctor of Divinity
    Eleanor Searle Whitney McCollum     Citation
    George T. Miller     Doctor of Commerce
    James Robert Waller     Citation
    Charles E. Wilhelm     Doctor of Public Service
1999     Lawrence H. Fuchs     Doctor of Commerce
    Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.     Citation
    E. Vane McClurg     Doctor of Laws
    Marjorie H. Roberts     Doctor of Public Service
    Robert R. Sharp     Doctor of Business
    Richard J. Wills     Doctor of Divinity
2000     Nancy J. Aumann     Citation
    Charles T. Canady     Citation
    Duncan L. Gray     Doctor of Divinity
    R. Fred Lewis     Doctor of Public Service
    Charles W. “Jack” Sahlman     Doctor of Business
    Harold M. “Hal” Smeltzly     Citation
    Robert S. Trinkle     Doctor of Public Service
    Beverly D. Wolff     Doctor of Music
2001     Joan Buccino     Citation
    Hazel Haley     Doctor of Humane Letters
    Dan Johnson     Doctor of Divinity
    Eleanor Honeyman Miller     Citation
    John Raymond Miller II     Citation
    Adam Putnam     Citation
    Robert Arthur Riedel     Doctor of Business
    Chesterfield Smith     Doctor of Public Service
2002     Charles W. Courtoy     Citation
    Jerome King Del Pino     Doctor of Divinity
    Frank H. Furman, Jr.     Doctor of Public Service
    James Lloyd Knox     Citation
    Rodell F. Roberts     Citation
    Emiliano Jose "E. J." Salcines     Doctor of Laws
    Robert L. Ulrich     Citation
    Bishop Timothy W. Whitaker     Doctor of Humane Letters
    William Dean Witten     Doctor of Divinity
2003     Myles Brand     Doctor of Public Service
    James Quinton Rumph     Doctor of Public Service
2004     Marcene H. Christoverson     Doctor of Business
    Millard Fuller     Doctor of Public Service
    Lorraine L. Spivey     Doctor of Public Service
    John V. Verner     Doctor of Public Service
    Sally Prosser Verner     Doctor of Public Service

11.08.2005