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James A. Knight, psychiatrist, theologian, and medical ethicist; first dean of the Texas A&M School of Medicine
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Craig Melvin, journalist
Wendi Nix, journalist
Ellison Barber, journalist
=== Politics, law, and public service ===
Paul S. Atkins, commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Ibra C. Blackwood, governor of South Carolina (1931–1935)
Adam Bowling, member of the Kentucky House of Representatives
Michael J. Copps, former commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission
Samuel Dibble, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and the first graduate of Wofford College (Class of 1856)
Henry F. Floyd, judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Donald Fowler, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee
Clyde H. Hamilton, judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Joseph C. Hutchinson, lieutenant general in the Florida National Guard and Chairman of the Seminole County Commission in 1960-1964
Olin D. …
