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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. The society has both collegiate and honorary members. Following are some of its notable members.

Collegiate members

Name Society membership and year Notability References
James Waddel Alexander Presbyterian minister and theologian
Thomas Salem Bocock Philanthropic, 1838 United States House of Representatives and Speaker of the Confederate House of Representatives
Alexander Lee Bondurant Philanthropic, 1884 Superintendent of the Mississippi Board of Education and professor at the University of Mississippi
John Luster Brinkley Union-Philanthropic, 1959 Professor of classics and historian at Hampden–Sydney College
Joseph Carrington Cabell Union, 1796 Co-founder of the University of Virginia
Robert Lewis Dabney Philanthropic, 1840 Christian theologian, biographer, and chief of staff to General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson
John Early Methodist Bishop who helped found Randolph–Macon College
Powhatan Ellis Union, 1816 United States Senator, justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, United States district judge, and Charge d'affaires to Mexico
John Floyd Union,1797 Governor of Virginia
Hugh A. Garland Philanthropic, 1825 United States House of Representatives, Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, Greek professor
Landon C. Garland Philanthropic, 1829 President of Randolph–Macon College, president of University of Alabama, and chancellor of Vanderbilt University
William Henry Harrison Union, 1790 President of the United States
Edward Henry Union, 1793 lawyer and son of Patrick Henry
Andrew Hunter Union, 1822) Commonwealth Attorney who prosecuted John Brown, Confederate State Congress, member of the staff of General Robert E. Lee
Thomas Watkins Ligon Union, 1830 Governor of Maryland and United States House of Representatives
Richard A. McIlwaine Philanthropic, 1853 President of Hampden–Sydney College and minister
Philip Watkins McKinney Philanthropic, 1851 Governor of Virginia
John Peter Mettauer Philanthropic, 1811 Surgeon and founder of the Randolph-Macon Medical School
William Ballard Preston Philanthropic, 1824 United States House of Representatives, United States Secretary of the Navy
Sterling Price Philanthropic, 1830 United States House of Representatives, Governor of Missouri, and Major General in the Confederate States Army
Roger Atkinson Pryor Union, 1846 United States House of Representatives, Associate Justice of the New York Supreme Court, Confederate States House of Representatives, Brigadier General in the Confederate State Army, and Diplomat to Greece
William Cabell Rives Philanthropic, 1811 United States House of Representatives, United States Senate, Confederate States House of Representatives, and U.S. Minister to France
Francis August Schaeffer Union-Philanthropic, 1935 Presbyterian pastor, evangelical theologian, and philosopher
John W. Stevenson Union, 1832 Governor of Kentucky

Honorary 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
Jefferson Davis 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
Millard Fillmore Hon. President of the United States
Anita Garland Hon. Union-Philanthropic Dean of Admissions of Hampden–Sydney College
Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve 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
Thomas P. O’Neill 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. Will 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

References

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