Prominent Alumni
Lerone Bennett Jr. '49
Former Executive editor of Ebony magazine
Sanford D. Bishop Jr.
'68
U.S. congressman (Georgia)
Nathaniel Hawthorne Bronner
'40*
Founder of Bronner Brothers Beauty Cosmetics
Calvin O.
Butts III '72
Pastor, Abyssinian Baptist Church, New York, NY; President,
SUNY Old Westbury Campus
Herman Cain '67
Founder and CEO, T.H.E. New Voice, Inc.
(The Hermanator Experience, a motivational program for
corporations and non-profits); Former Chairman of Godfather's Pizza Inc.
Peter Chatard '56
Distinguished plastic surgeon;
Founder of the Chatard Plastic Surgery Center and the
Aesteem Outpatient Surgery Center, Seattle, Washington
Don
Clendenon '56
New York Mets outfielder; 1969 World Series MVP
Julius
Coles '64
Professor, Political Science, Morehouse College; Director,
Andrew Young Center for International Affairs, Morehouse
College; former U.S. Ambassador to Senegal
Samuel Dubois
Cook '48
Former President, Dillard University; former member of
the National Council on Humanities
Chester A. Davenport
'63
Managing Director, Georgetown Partners; Chairman, GTE
Consumer Services Corp.
Robert C. Davidson, Jr. '67
Chairman and CEO, Surface Protection Industries; Member,
Morehouse College Board of Trustees
Abraham Davis '61
Professor of Political Science, Morehouse College; author
Harold A. Dawson Sr. '63
Chairman, Harold A. Dawson Construction
Ralph B. Everett, Esq. '73
President and CEO, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
Henry
W. Foster Jr. '54
Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Meharry Medical
School; physician; U.S. presidential advisor
Robert Michael Franklin '75
President, Morehouse College; Presidential fellow and professor, Emory University, former president of the Interdenominational Theological Seminary (ITC)
Hugh M. Gloster
Sr. '31
President Emeritus, Morehouse College 1967–1987
George W. Haley
'49
U.S. Ambassador to Gambia, Africa; former U.S. Postal
Rate Commissioner
Lt. Gen. James R. Hall '57, USA (Ret.)
Retired Lt. General U.S. Army; former Vice President
for Campus Operations, Morehouse College
Earl F. Hilliard
'64
U.S. Congressman (Alabama)
Donald R. Hopkins Sr. '62
Senior Consultant, Carter Presidential Center; Director,
Guinea Worm Eradication Program
M. William Howard Jr.
'68
Pastor, Bethany Baptist Church; (retired) President,
New York Theological Seminary
Maynard H. Jackson '56*
first African-American mayor of Atlanta
Samuel L. Jackson
'72
Academy Award nominee, stage and
film actor
Howard E. Jeter '70
U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria; former U.S. Ambassador
to Botswana
Arthur E. Johnson '68
President and COO, Lockheed Martin Information Services
Sector
Jeh Johnson '79
General Counsel, U.S. Dept. of Defense
Mordecai Johnson '11*
Former President, Howard University, Washington, D.C.,
(first African-American to serve in this position)
Robert
E. Johnson '48
Former Executive Editor and Associate Publisher, JET
magazine
Leroy Keith Jr. '61
Chairman of the Board, Carson Products; former President,
Morehouse College
Thomas Kilgore Jr. '31
Pastor Emeritus, Second Baptist Church
Martin Luther King
Jr. '48*
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and civil rights leader
Shelton "Spike" Lee
'79
Filmmaker and President, 40 Acres & A Mule
Reginald C. Lindsay '67
U.S. federal judge, Massachusetts
Michael L. Lomax '68
President, Dillard University; former President, The
National Faculty
Robert L. Mallett '79
Former deputy secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce; senior vice
president, Pfizer Corporation; president, Pfizer Foundation
Walter E. Massey '58
Former President, Morehouse College; former Director,
National Science Foundation; former Dean, College at
Brown University; former Provost, University of California
System
Richard
I. McKinney '31
Former President, Storer College; Chairman, Philosophy
Department, Morgan State University
Charles David "C.D." Moody '78
President and CEO, Moody Construction
Edwin C. Moses '78
Olympic gold medalist and financial consultant
Otis Moss
Jr. '56
Pastor, Olivet Institutional Baptist Church, Cleveland,
Ohio; Chairman, Morehouse College Board of Trustees
James
M. Nabrit '23*
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; second
African-American president of Howard University
Samuel
M. Nabrit '25
Former member, Atomic Energy Commission; former president
of Texas Southern University, first African American
to receive the Ph.D. from Brown University
Bill G. Nunn
III '76
stage and film actor
Major R. Owens '56
Retired U.S. congressman (New York)
Roderic I. Pettigrew '72
Physician and nuclear physicist, National Institutes of Health
David Satcher '63
Director, National Center for Primary Care, Morehouse
School of Medicine; former U.S. Surgeon General; former president, Meharry and the Morehouse School of Medicine
Maceo
K. Sloan '71
Chairman and CEO, Sloan Financial Group Inc.
Louis W.
Sullivan '54
Founder and former president, Morehouse School of Medicine; former U.S.
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Howard Thurman '23*
internationally known theologian and author
Nima A. Warfield
'94
First African-American Rhodes Scholar from a historically
black college or university
Charles Vert Willie '48
Distinguished Professor of Education and Urban Studies,
Harvard University
* deceased
