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{{Short description|Private Baptist university in Richmond, Virginia, US}}
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{{Infobox university
 | name                   = Virginia Union University
 | image_name             = Seal of Virginia Union.jpg
 | image_size             = 150 
 | former_names           = Colver Institute (1865–1886)<ref>{{cite web |title=Nathaniel Colver |url=https://encyclopediavirginia.org/10189-c764a3d149657bf/ |website=encyclopediavirginia.org |publisher=Encyclopedia Virginia |access-date=December 14, 2022 |archive-date=December 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221214125949/https://encyclopediavirginia.org/10189-c764a3d149657bf/ |url-status=live }}</ref><br />[[Richmond Theological Institute]] (1886–1899)<br />[[Wayland Seminary]] (1865–1899)<br />[[Hartshorn Memorial College]] (1883–1932)
 | motto                  = The Lord Will Provide
 | established            = {{start date and age|1865}}
 | type                   = [[Private university|Private]] [[Historically black colleges and universities|historically black university]]
 | calendar               = 
 | endowment              = $29 million
 | president              = [[Hakim Lucas]]
 | students               = 1,700
 | city                   = [[Richmond, Virginia|Richmond]]
 | state                  = Virginia
 | country                = United States
 | coor                   = {{Coord|37|33|45|N|77|27|4|W|type:edu_region:US-VA|display=inline,title}}
 | campus                 = [[Urban area|Urban]]
 | campus_size            = {{cvt|84|acre|ha|0}}
 | colors                 = [[Maroon (color)|Maroon]] and [[Grey|Steel]]<br>{{color box|#800000}} {{color box|#a7a8aa}}
 | nickname               = [[Virginia Union Panthers|Panthers]]
 | athletics_affiliations = [[NCAA Division II]] –&nbsp;[[Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association|CIAA]]
 | website                = {{url|https://vuu.edu}}
 | logo                   = Virginia union univ full logo.png
 | logo_size              = 200
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 |name                           = Virginia Union University
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 |designated_other1              = Virginia Landmarks Register
 |designated_other1_date         = June 16, 1981<ref name=register>{{cite web |title=Virginia Landmarks Register |url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm |publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources |access-date=March 19, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053819/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm |archive-date=September 21, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
 |designated_other1_number       = 127-0354
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 |location                       = 1500 N. Lombardy St., [[Richmond, Virginia]], United States
 |built                          = 1899
 |architect                      = John H. Coxhead
 |architecture                   = Richardsonian Romanesque
 |added                          = July 26, 1982
 |area                           = {{cvt|11|acre|sigfig=2}}
 |refnum                         = 82004590<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2009a}}</ref>
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}}

'''Virginia Union University''' is a [[Private university|private]] [[Historically black colleges and universities|historically black]] university in [[Richmond, Virginia]].

==History==
[[File:Pickford Hall, Virginia Union University.JPG|thumb|Pickford Hall, Virginia Union University]]

The [[American Baptist Home Mission Society]] (ABHMS) founded the school as [[Richmond Theological Institute]] in 1865 shortly after Union troops took control of [[Richmond, Virginia]], at the end of the [[American Civil War]], for [[African-American]] [[freedmen]] to enter into the ministry.<ref> Raymond Pierre Hylton, ''Virginia Union University'', Arcadia Publishing, USA, 2014, p. 7</ref> The college had the first academic library at a historically black college or university (HBCU), building the library in 1865 which was the same year the college was established.<ref>Wheeler, Maurice, et al. “A Brief History of Library Service to African Americans.” American Libraries, vol. 35, no. 2, 2004, pp. 42–45. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25649066</ref>

Its mission was soon expanded to offer courses and programs at college, high school, and preparatory levels, to both men and women.<ref name="blackpast.org">{{cite encyclopedia |title=Virginia Union University (1865– ) |url=http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aah/virginia-union-university-1865 |encyclopedia=Online Encyclopedia of Significant People and Places in African American History |date=January 10, 2010 |publisher=Blackpast.org |access-date=May 12, 2012 |archive-date=May 31, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120531110442/http://blackpast.org/?q=aah/virginia-union-university-1865 |url-status=live }}</ref> This effort was the beginning of Virginia Union University. Separate branches of the National Theological Institute were set up in [[Washington, D.C.]], and Richmond, Virginia, with classes beginning in 1867. In Washington, the school became known as [[Wayland Seminary]], named in commemoration of [[Francis Wayland]], former president of [[Brown University]] and a leader in the anti-slavery struggle. The first and only president there was [[George Mellen Prentiss King]], who administered Wayland for thirty years (1867–1897). Famous students there included [[Booker T. Washington]] and [[Adam Clayton Powell, Sr.]]<ref name="blackpast.org"/>

Beginning in 1867, Colver Institute was housed in a building long known as Lumpkin's Jail, a former "[[slave pen|slave jail]]" owned by [[Mary Lumpkin|Mary Ann Lumpkin]], the African-American widow of the deceased white owner. It became [[Richmond Theological Institute]] (formerly Colver) and joined with Wayland Seminary of Washington in 1899 to form Virginia Union University at Richmond.<ref> William H. Brackney, ''Congregation and Campus: Baptists in Higher Education'', Mercer University Press, USA, 2008, p. 174</ref>

In 1932, the [[Women's colleges in the Southern United States#Historically black colleges (HBCU)|women's college]] [[Hartshorn Memorial College]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/vuu/virvu00002.document |title=A Guide to the Hartshorn Memorial College Reunion Collection 1976–1980 |publisher=L. Douglas Wilder Library Archives |date=February 7, 1980 |access-date=November 30, 2013 |archive-date=October 9, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141009211528/http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/vuu/virvu00002.document |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwedo/archweek/2007/gallery.asp?inst=12 |title=Virginia Archives Month October 2007: Images in Celebration |publisher=Library of Virginia Archives |access-date=November 30, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090103082229/http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwedo/archweek/2007/gallery.asp?inst=12 |archive-date=January 3, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> established in Richmond in 1883, became a part of Virginia Union University. [[Storer College]], a historically black [[Baptist]] college in [[West Virginia]] founded in 1867, merged its endowment with Virginia Union in 1964.<ref name=Hylton>{{cite web |last=Hylton |first=Raymond |title=University History |url=http://www.vuu.edu/about_vuu/history.aspx |work=About Virginia Union |publisher=Virginia Union University |access-date=May 26, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120512103226/http://www.vuu.edu/about_vuu/history.aspx |archive-date=May 12, 2012}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|+ List of presidents
|-
! scope="col" | Name
! scope="col" | Term
|-
! scope="row" | [[Malcolm MacVicar]]
|1899–1904
|-
! scope="row" | [[George Rice Hovey]]
|1904–1918
|-
! scope="row" | [[William John Clark]]
|1919–1941
|-
! scope="row" | [[John Malcus Ellison]]*
|1941–1955
|-
! scope="row" | [[Samuel DeWitt Proctor|Samuel Dewitt Proctor]]
|1955–1960
|-
! scope="row" | [[Thomas Howard Henderson]]
|1960–1970
|-
! scope="row" | [[Allix Bledsoe James]]
|1970–1979
|-
! scope="row" | [[David Thomas Shannon]]
|1979–1985
|-
! scope="row" | [[S. Dallas Simmons]]
|1985–1999
|-
! scope="row" | [[Bernard Wayne Franklin]]
|1999–2003
|-
! scope="row" | [[Belinda C. Anderson]]
|2003–2008
|-
! scope="row" | [[Claude G. Perkins]]
|2009–2016
|-
! scope="row" | [[Joseph F. Johnson]]
|2016–2017 (acting)
|-
! scope="row" | [[Hakim J. Lucas]]
|2017–present
|-
|colspan="2"|<small>*''first alumnus and African-American to serve as president of the university''</small>
|}

==Academics==
The university is divided into four main schools:<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.vuu.edu/academics/schools.aspx |title=Virginia Union University &#124; Schools |access-date=September 12, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905054542/http://www.vuu.edu/academics/schools.aspx |archive-date=September 5, 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

* Evelyn Reid Syphax School of Education and Interdisciplinary Studies
* School of Arts and Sciences
* Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology
* Sydney Lewis School of Business

===Theology program===
Virginia Union University's Theological training program is called The [[Samuel DeWitt Proctor]] School of Theology. [[James Henry Harris]], the early American civil rights advocate, was a graduate. The school is a member of the [[Washington Theological Consortium]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.washtheocon.org/members.html |title=Member Institutions |publisher=[[Washington Theological Consortium]] |access-date=September 1, 2009 |archive-date=June 22, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090622070350/http://www.washtheocon.org/members.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Student activities==
There are over 20 student organizations, including several fraternities and sororities.

==Athletics==
{{main|Virginia Union Panthers}}
[[File:VUUCheerleaders.jpg|thumb|Panthers Cheer Squad]]
Virginia Union competes in the [[NCAA Division II]] in the Eastern Division of the [[Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association]]. The school has varsity teams in men's basketball, football, cross country, golf, tennis and track and field, and in women's basketball, bowling, cross country, tennis and track and field, softball and volleyball.<ref>{{cite web |title=Men's Sports / Women's Sports |work=Virginia Union University Athletics website |url=http://www.vuusports.com/ |access-date=November 30, 2013 |archive-date=March 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220317074501/http://www.vuusports.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2018, both Virginia Union University's DII Men & Women's Basketball Teams won the CIAA Championship.<ref>{{Cite web |title=VUU men's, women's basketball teams win CIAA Championship |url=https://www.nbc12.com/story/37642056/vuu-mens-and-womens-basketball-teams-win-ciaa-championship |access-date=February 4, 2021 |website=www.nbc12.com |date=March 4, 2018 |language=en-US |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117175705/https://www.nbc12.com/story/37642056/vuu-mens-and-womens-basketball-teams-win-ciaa-championship/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
Virginia Union plays basketball and volleyball in the Barco-Stevens Hall, built as the [[Belgian Building]] for the [[1939 New York World's Fair]]. The building, which has stone reliefs depicting the [[Belgian Congo]], was one of thirteen facilities designated as "unique" by ''NCAA News'' in 2005. The building was awarded to the university in 1941 and moved to its present location in 1943. The basketball team began using the facility in early 1947.<ref>{{cite web |title=Facilities: Barco-Stevens Hall |work=Virginia Union University Athletics website |url=http://vuusports.com/sports/2008/4/9/GEN_0409081653.aspx |access-date=November 30, 2013 |archive-date=December 3, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203011917/http://vuusports.com/sports/2008/4/9/GEN_0409081653.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref>

== Affiliations ==
It is affiliated with the [[American Baptist Churches USA]].<ref>American Baptist Home Mission Societies, [https://abhms.org/ministries/developing-leaders/education-scholarships/colleges-universities/ Colleges and Universities] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211026164804/https://abhms.org/ministries/developing-leaders/education-scholarships/colleges-universities/ |date=October 26, 2021 }}, abhms.org, USA, retrieved October 22, 2022</ref>

==Notable alumni==
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File:Charles S. Johnson.jpg|[[Charles S. Johnson]]
File:Robinson spotswood.jpg|[[Spottswood William Robinson III]]
File:Douglas Wilder 2003 NIH.jpg|[[Douglas Wilder]]
File:BenWallaceCloseup.jpg|[[Ben Wallace (basketball)|Ben Wallace]]
File:Donald McEachin portrait 116th Congress (cropped).jpg|[[Donald McEachin]]
</gallery>
{{AlumniStart}}
{{Alum|name=[[Roger Anderson]]|year=|nota=NFL player|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[James Atkins (defensive tackle)|James Atkins]]|year=2002|nota=Former NFL player|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Mamye BaCote]]|year=1961|nota=[[Virginia House of Delegates]] (2004-2016)|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Darius Bea]]|year=attended two years|nota=[[Negro league]] [[outfielder]] and [[pitcher]]|ref=<ref>[[Matt Zabitka|Zabitka, Matt]] (July 30, 1952). [https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=80223181 "UC's Doc Bea Shoots Pool to Sharpen Batting Eye; Triple Off Satchel Paige Brought Words of Warning"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625143108/https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=80223181 |date=June 25, 2021 }}. ''Chester Times''. p.&nbsp;16. Retrieved June 25, 2021.</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=[[Bessye J. Bearden]]|year=1900s|nota=[[Journalist]] and [[social activist]]; mother of artist [[Romare Bearden]]|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Leslie Garland Bolling]]|year=1924|nota=Early 20th century wood carver|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Simeon Booker]]|year=1941|nota=award-winning [[journalist]] and the first African-American [[reporter]] for ''[[The Washington Post]]''|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Mike Brim|Michael Brim]]|year=1988|nota=former [[National Football League]] player|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Roslyn M. Brock]]|year=1987|nota=Chairman of the [[National Association for the Advancement of Colored People]] ([[NAACP]])|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Homer S. Brown]]|year=|nota=judge, civil rights leader, and state representative in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Henry Allen Bullock]]|year=1928|nota=Historian, winner of the [[Bancroft Prize]]|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Tamarat Makonnen]]|year=1994|nota=Film director, producer and writer|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Emmett C. Burns, Jr.]]|year=|nota=[[Maryland House of Delegates]] (1995–2006)|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Terry Davis (basketball)|Terry Davis]]|year=1989|nota=Former NBA player|ref=<ref name="baskref">{{cite web |url=http://www.basketballreference.com/players/bycollege.htm?sch=Virginia+Union+University |title=NBA/ABA Players who attended Virginia Union University |publisher=DataBase Sports |access-date=June 17, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060920223343/http://www.basketballreference.com/players/bycollege.htm?sch=Virginia+Union+University |archive-date=September 20, 2006 |url-status=dead}}</ref> }}
{{Alum|name=[[Robert Prentiss Daniel]]|year=1924 |nota=President of [[Shaw University|Shaw]] and [[Virginia State University|Virginia State]] universities for more than 30 years in total|ref= <ref>{{cite book |last1=Guthrie |first1=R.V. |title=Production of Black Psychologists in America: 'Even the Rat Was White' |year=1998 |publisher=Allyn and Bacon |edition=2nd |location=Boston |pages=155–212}}</ref>
}}
{{Alum|name=[[Will Downing]]|year=attended|nota=R&B Singer|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[AJ English]]|year=1990|nota=former Professional Basketball Player|ref=<ref name="baskref" /> }}
{{Alum|name=[[Walter Fauntroy]]|year=1955|nota=Civil rights leader, minister, former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, from Washington, D.C.'s At-large district and was a candidate for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Anderson J. Franklin]]|year=|nota=Professor of Psychology at the School of Education at [[Boston College]]|ref=<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/franklin.html |title=Anderson J Franklin Boston College |publisher=Boston College, Lynch School of Education |access-date=November 30, 2013 |archive-date=December 3, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203064823/http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/franklin.html |url-status=live }}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=[[Samuel Lee Gravely, Jr.]]|year=1948|nota=first [[African-American]] to reach the rank of admiral in the [[United States Navy]]|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Abram Lincoln Harris]]|year=1922|nota=[[Economist]]; chair, Economics Dept. [[Howard University]] (1936–1945); professor, [[University of Chicago]]|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Nat Horne]]|year=1951|nota=Dancer, choreographer, theatre director and educator|ref=<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Profiles_of_African_American_Stage_Perfo/bOLEEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Walter+Ballet+Company+Nat+Horne&pg=PA128&printsec=frontcover|chapter=Horne, Nat (Nathaniel A. Horne)|title=Profiles of African American Stage Performers and Theatre People, 1816-1960|first=Bernard L.|last=Peterson Jr.|year=2000|pages=127-128|publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]]|isbn=9780313065033}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=[[Pete Hunter]]|year=2002|nota=former [[National Football League]] player|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Cornelius Johnson (offensive lineman)|Cornelius Johnson]]|year=1967|nota=Former NFL player|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Eugene Kinckle Jones]]|year=1906|nota=Member of the [[Black Cabinet]] under President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and a founder of [[Alpha Phi Alpha]] fraternity|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Dwight Clinton Jones]]|year=1967|nota=Mayor of [[Richmond, Virginia]] (2009–2016)|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Charles Spurgeon Johnson]]|year=1916|nota=first black president of [[Fisk University]]|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Lyman T. Johnson]]|year=1930|nota=integrated the [[University of Kentucky]]|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Leontine T. Kelly]]|year=1960|nota=a [[bishop]] of the [[United Methodist Church]]|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Henry L. Marsh]]|year=1956|nota=first African-American [[mayor]] of [[Richmond, Virginia]] and member of the Virginia Senate from the 16th district|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Benjamin Mays]]|year=1916-1917, transferred to [[Bates College]]|nota=President of [[Morehouse College]], mentor to Martin Luther King, Jr.|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Bai T. Moore]]|year=|nota=Liberian author and poet|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Delores McQuinn]]|year=1976|nota=[[Virginia House of Delegates]] (2009-present)|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Charles Oakley]]|year=|nota=Professional basketball Player|ref=<ref name="baskref" /> }}
{{Alum|name=[[Chandler Owen]]|year=1913|nota= Writer, editor and early member of the Socialist Party of America.|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Wendell H. Phillips]]|year=|nota=member, [[Maryland House of Delegates]] (1979–1987)|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Samuel DeWitt Proctor]]|year=1942|nota=President of VUU and president of [[North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University]], where he made close acquaintance with then student body president [[Jesse Jackson]]|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Randall Robinson]]|year=|nota=Attorney; founder of [[TransAfrica]]|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[James R. Roebuck, Jr.]]|year=1966|nota=member of [[Pennsylvania House of Representatives, District 188]]|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Spottswood William Robinson III]]|year=1937|nota=Prominent civil rights attorney, dean of Howard University Law School, first African American to be appointed to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Frank S. Royal]]|year=1961|nota=chairman of VUU's board; director of public companies; former president of the National Medical Association|ref=<ref>{{cite news |title=Meharry board chair to retire after 30 years |url=https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/people/article/20848527/meharry-board-chair-to-retire-after-30-years |access-date=May 22, 2018 |work=Nashville Post |date=January 10, 2017 |archive-date=May 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180523011247/https://www.nashvillepost.com/business/people/article/20848527/meharry-board-chair-to-retire-after-30-years |url-status=live }}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=[[Herbert Scott (American football)|Herbert Scott]]|year=1974|nota=[[National Football League]] player, 2-time [[All-Pro]], 3-time [[Pro Bowl]]; [[Dallas Cowboys]]|ref=<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dallascowboys.com/news/news.cfm?id=9E47AE63-D58B-121F-CE421BAF60859E42 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120531233435/http://www.dallascowboys.com/news/news.cfm?id=9E47AE63-D58B-121F-CE421BAF60859E42 |title=The Ultimate 53: Herb Scott Can't Be Forgotten |last=Ellis |first=Josh |publisher=Dallas Cowboys.com |date=May 30, 2012 |archive-date=May 31, 2012}}</ref>}}
{{alum|name=[[Charles Sherrod]]|year=1958|nota=[[SNCC]] organizer and co-founder of the [[Albany Movement]]|ref=<ref>{{cite web |title=Charles Sherrod |url=https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/sherrod-charles-1937/ |website=BlackPast |access-date=2025-10-09}}</ref>}}

{{Alum|name=[[Clarence L. Townes Jr.]]|year=1948|nota=businessperson, politician, and civic activist from Richmond, Virginia|ref=<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hylton |first=Dr Raymond Pierre |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BIGNBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA91 |title=Virginia Union University |date=2014 |publisher=[[Arcadia Publishing]] |isbn=978-1-4671-2248-1 |pages=91 |language=en |access-date=March 30, 2024 |archive-date=March 30, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240330015011/https://books.google.com/books?id=BIGNBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA91 |url-status=live }}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=[[Wyatt T Walker]]|year=|nota=Activist, civil rights motivator, musician, Theologian who gave letter to Martin Luther King from Coretta; close confidant and preacher|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Ben Wallace (basketball)|Ben Wallace]]|year=1996|nota=Professional Basketball Player, [[NBA]] Defensive Player of the Year, [[NBA Champion]], Member of [[Basketball Hall of Fame]]; [[Detroit Pistons]]|ref=<ref name="baskref" /> }}
{{Alum|name=[[Douglas Wilder]]|year=1951|nota=first African-American [[governor]] of Virginia (1990–1994) and Mayor of Richmond (2005–2009)|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[N. Scott Phillips]]|year=1983|nota=member, [[Maryland House of Delegates]]|ref=}}
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==References==
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==External links==
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