College of William and Mary - Colonial Echo Yearbook (Williamsburg, VA)

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defeat ol Braddock to the surrender at Appomattox. Situated in a political ceii. ter, William and Mary was a seminary of history and politics, and with a Faculty which lias been from time to time adorned with the names ol such men as James Blair, Samuel Henley, Hugh Jones, Rev. Gronow Owen, William Small, William Stitb, Thomas R. Hew, Madison, Wythe, Rogers, Holmes, Wilmer, and others ol equal merit, it was nothing but natural that it should have sent forth an ana ol unrivaled lawyers, statesmen, and divines. Among those whom it furnished to the American Revolution were Benjamin Harrison, Carter Braxton, Thomas Nelson, and George Wythe, signers 01 the Declaration; Peyton Randolph, President of the first American Congress; Edmund Randolph, draftsman of the Constitution of the United States; John Marshall, Chief Justice ; Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe, Presidents ol the United States, not to mention others of almost equal merit. During the first half of the present century it sent forth John Tyler, President ot the United States ; Littleton W. Tazewell, William B. Giles, John Randolph, Spencer Roane, Bushrod Washington, James Breckinridge, Archibald Stewart, William Brockenbrough, James P. Preston, Robert B. Taylor, George M. Bibb, William T. Barry, Philip P. Barbour, Benjamin Watkins Leigh, William H. Cabell, Briscoe G. Baldwin, H. St. George Tucker, John T. Dornax, John Kelson, William S. Archer, John J. Crittenden, Winfield Scott, William C. Rives, and others of national and state service. Notwithstanding the fact that she has suffered two fires since 1S57, and was forced to discontinue lectures during twelve years of the time, William and Mary in the interval since has kept pace with her former history, and sent forth scores of men who have occupied and are now occupying the highest places in their respective professions. The catalogues show the names of over five hundred others who have reached a high degree of eminence. To enumerate these is beyond the scope of this sketch, and so we shall simply quote the summary made in the present catalogue: Her alumni gave to the Federal bar two eminent Attorney-Generals of the United States ; to the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, over sixty members ; to the Senate of the United States, twenty-nine Senators ; to Virginia and other States, twenty-five Governors ; to the country one historian, and numberless eminent law and other writers ; to the State and the United States, thirty-seven judges ; to the Revolution, twenty-seven of her sons ; to the army of the United States, a Uieuteuant-General (Winfield Scott), and a score of principal and subordinate officers ; to the United States navy, a list of paladins of the sea headed by Warreuton and Thomas Ap. Catesby Jones ; to the Colleges and Universities, numerous professors ; to the Union three Presidents (Jefferson, Monroe, and Tyler) ; to the Federal judiciary, its most eminent Chief-Justice (John Marshall) ; to the Federal executive, nine cabinet officers, and to the con- vention which framed the Constitution of the United States, its chief author and draftsman, Edmund Randolph. 18