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Location: <a href="/geo/115/000110782/" class=proflink>Davidson, NC</a> Founding Date: 1837Motto: Alenda Lux Ubi Orta LibertasTeam: WildcatsEnrollment: 1700Official Website: <a href="http://www.davidson.edu/">http://www.davidson.edu/</a>STUDENTS <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_student"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/445/000119088/">Graham T. Allison</a></td> <td><center>Scholar</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Mar-1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Kennedy School of Government</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/116/000205498/">Whit Ayres</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1949</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>North Star Opinion Research</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/056/000167552/">Kenneth B. Bell</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Apr-1956</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Justice, Florida Supreme Court</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/401/000168894/">G. Alex Bernhardt</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Bernhardt Furniture Company</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/156/000178619/">John W. Chidsey</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1963</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of Burger King</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/794/000044662/">Patricia Cornwell</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jun-1956</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Crime novelist, Postmortem</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/383/000168876/">Edward E. Crutchfield</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of First Union Corporation, 1984-2000</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/167/000346126/">Steph Curry</a></td> <td><center>Basketball</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Mar-1988</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Golden State Warriors</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/438/000168931/">Clayton C. Daley, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1951</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Vice Chairman of Procter & Gamble</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/089/000169579/">Ervin S. Duggan</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jun-1939</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of PBS, 1994-99</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/520/000206899/">William A. Emerson, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Feb-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Aug-2009</tt></td> <td>Editor, Saturday Evening Post, 1965-69</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/029/000028942/">Vince Foster</a></td> <td><center>Attorney</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Jan-1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Jul-1993</tt></td> <td>Deputy White House Counsel for Clinton</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/712/000121349/">Wyche Fowler, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Oct-1940</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, 1996-2001</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/127/000366026/">Anthony Foxx</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Apr-1971</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Secretary of Transportation</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/213/000169703/">William J. Haynes II</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Mar-1958</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>DOD General Counsel, 2001-08</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/492/000170979/">Earl J. Hesterberg</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1953</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of Group 1 Automotive</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/639/000056471/">Jim Hodges</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Nov-1956</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Governor of South Carolina, 1999-2003</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/712/000120352/">James Holshouser</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Oct-1934</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jun-2013</tt></td> <td>Governor of North Carolina, 1973-77</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/195/000172676/">Stephen P. MacMillan</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1964</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of Stryker</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/955/000208331/">Boyce F. Martin, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Oct-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>6th Circuit Court of Appeals</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/711/000120351/">James G. Martin</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Dec-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Governor of North Carolina, 1985-93</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/314/000129924/">Larry McDonald</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Apr-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Sep-1983</tt></td> <td>Congressman from Georgia, 1975-83</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/806/000126428/">Mackey J. McDonald</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Nov-1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of VF Corporation, 1996-2008</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/373/000128986/">Southwood J. Morcott</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of Dana, 1990-99</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/287/000129897/">Carl C. Perkins</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Aug-1954</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Congressman from Kentucky, 1984-93</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/861/000180321/">Leonidas LaFayette Polk</a></td> <td><center>Agriculturalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Apr-1837</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jun-1892</tt></td> <td>Agrarian reformer</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/705/000399505/">Julius W. Pratt</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Feb-1888</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Jan-1983</tt></td> <td>Expansionists of 1812 and 1898</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/408/000210775/">Charles G. Rose</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Aug-1939</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Sep-2012</tt></td> <td>Congressman from North Carolina, 1973-97</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/527/000056359/">Dean Rusk</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Feb-1909</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Dec-1994</tt></td> <td>US Secretary of State, 1961-69</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/279/000170766/">Robert C. Skaggs, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1954</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of NiSource</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/735/000171222/">E. Follin Smith</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1959</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Former EVP at Constellation Energy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/917/000044785/">Tony Snow</a></td> <td><center>Government</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Jun-1955</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Jul-2008</tt></td> <td>Fox News pundit, White House press secretary</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/513/000040393/">John Spratt</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Nov-1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Congressman from South Carolina, 1983-2011</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/009/000022940/">William Styron</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jun-1925</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Oct-2006</tt></td> <td>The Confessions of Nat Turner</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/972/000208348/">William B. Traxler, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-May-1948</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>4th Circuit Court of Appeals</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/422/000169912/">Robert F. Vagt</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1947</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>President of Davidson College, 1997-2007</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/068/000161582/">William W. Wilkins, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Mar-1942</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>4th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1986-2007</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/333/000024261/">Woodrow Wilson</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Dec-1856</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Feb-1924</tt></td> <td>28th US President, 1913-21</td> </tr> </table> TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_teacher"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/711/000120351/">James G. Martin</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Dec-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Governor of North Carolina, 1985-93</td> </tr> </table> ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_administrator"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/401/000168894/">G. Alex Bernhardt</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Bernhardt Furniture Company</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/586/000119229/">Kenneth L. Brown</a></td> <td><center>Diplomat</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Dec-1936</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>US Ambassador to Ghana, 1992-95</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/156/000178619/">John W. Chidsey</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1963</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of Burger King</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/383/000168876/">Edward E. Crutchfield</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1941</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of First Union Corporation, 1984-2000</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/712/000120352/">James Holshouser</a></td> <td><center>Politician</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Oct-1934</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jun-2013</tt></td> <td>Governor of North Carolina, 1973-77</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/955/000208331/">Boyce F. Martin, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Judge</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Oct-1935</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>6th Circuit Court of Appeals</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/373/000128986/">Southwood J. Morcott</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>CEO of Dana, 1990-99</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/588/000178054/">A. Alexander Porter, Jr.</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Porter Orlin</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/735/000171222/">E. Follin Smith</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1959</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Former EVP at Constellation Energy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/947/000168443/">Isaiah Tidwell</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>EVP at Wachovia, 1996-2005</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/422/000169912/">Robert F. 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