1886
Benjamin Forsythe Buckner - Doctor of Laws
1887
James Garrard White - Master of Arts
Francois Maria Helveti - Master of Arts
1894
William S. Pryor - Doctor of Laws
1896
Walter Kennedy Patterson - Arts Master
Maurice Kirby - Doctor of Laws
1899
John Henry Neville - Doctor of Laws
John Shackelford - Doctor of Laws
James Wilson - Doctor of Laws
1900
William H. Holt - Doctor of Laws
1902
W. H. Bartholomew - Doctor of Laws
1904
John Todd Shelby - Doctor of Laws
1906
Thomas Volney Munson - Doctor of Science
Charles Joseph Norwood - Master of Science
Masillon Alexander Cassidy - Arts Master
1907
Augustus Owsley Stanley - Arts Master
James Campbell Lewis - Arts Master
James Marshall Graham - Doctor of Engineering
James Franklin Bell - Doctor of Laws
1908
William Thornton Lafferty - Arts Master
Augustus Everett Willson - Doctor of Laws
Henry Stites Barker - Doctor of Laws
1909
Edward Clay O'Rear - Doctor of Laws
Cassius Marcellus Clay - Doctor of Laws
Elmore Warner Settle - Doctor of Laws
Joshua Bowles Garrett - Doctor of Laws
William David Moffett - Doctor of Laws
William Benjamin Smith - Doctor of Laws
C. A. Collins - Master of Arts
1910
Joseph Levering Jones - Doctor of Laws
W. W. Finley - Doctor of Laws
Alex P. Humphreys - Doctor of Laws
Henry Clews - Doctor of Laws
John Blair MacAfee - Doctor of Engineering
1911
Ellsworth Regenstein - Doctor of Laws
Henry Hardin Cherry - Doctor of Laws
Thomas Jefferson Nunn - Doctor of Laws
John Grant Crabbe - Doctor of Laws
John Peyton Hobson - Doctor of Laws
John Rowan Allen - Doctor of Laws
1912
James Bennett McCreary - Doctor of Laws
Reuben Post Halleck - Doctor of Laws
Shackelford Miller - Doctor of Laws
John Maurice Lassing - Doctor of Laws
Robert Hines Winn - Doctor of Laws
Ernest Pitney Chapin - Doctor of Science
Harrison Garman - Doctor of Science
Anna Jackson Hamilton - Master of Arts
Edwin Regur Sweetland - Mster of Laws
Wilbur Rush Smith, Jr. - Master of Laws
John Mason Brown - Master of Laws
1913
Alfred Fairhurst - Doctor of Science
Alfred Meredith Peter - Doctor of Science
Eugene Davenport - Doctor of Laws
William Gibson - Doctor of Laws
Lincoln McConnell - Doctor of Laws
Edward John McDermott - Doctor of Laws
Francis Trevelyan Miller - Doctor of Laws
Richard Charles Stoll - Doctor of Laws
1914
Andres McConnell J. Cochran - Doctor of Laws
Charles Evans - Doctor of Laws
Barksdale Hamlett - Doctor of Laws
George Herbert Harries - Doctor of Laws
Edward Lindsay Powell - Doctor of Laws
George Burgess Carey - Master of Engineering
1915
Bennett Henderson Young - Doctor of Laws
Aquilla Webb - Doctor of Laws
Frederick Scheetz Jones - Doctor of Laws
Henry Skillman Breckinridge - Doctor of Laws
David Francis Crawford - Doctor of Engineering
1916
Augustus Owsley Stanley - Doctor of Laws
David Spence Hill - Doctor of Laws
Charles Robert Brock - Doctor of Laws
George Walter Stevens - Doctor of Laws
Thomas Hunt Morgan - Doctor of Laws
Charles William Dabney - Doctor of Laws
Ferdinand Brossart - Doctor of Laws
James Kennedy Patterson - Doctor of Laws
Richard Henry Crossfield - Doctor of Laws
William Arthur Ganfield - Doctor of Laws
Maldon Browning Adams - Doctor of Laws
William Goodell Frost - Doctor of Laws
James Levan Clark - Doctor of Laws
John Letcher Patterson - Doctor of Letters
Henry Watterson - Doctor of Letters
1917
Benjamin Ide Wheeler - Doctor of Laws
James Lane Allen - Doctor of Letters
June 1919 CommencementJudge Edward Warren Hines - Doctor of Laws
William Dixon Weaver - Doctor of Laws
June 1921 CommencementEdwin P. Morrow - Doctor of Laws
John James Tigert - Doctor of Laws
June 1922 CommencementRobert W. Bingham - Doctor of Laws
Edwin E. Slosson - Doctor of Laws
June 1923 CommencementWilliam Boyce Thompson - Doctor of Laws
George Colvin - Doctor of Laws
Ellen Churchill Semple - Doctor of Laws
T. Coleman Dupont - Doctor of Laws
May 1925 CommencementSophonisba Preston Breckinridge - Doctor of Laws
Percy Hampton Johnston - Doctor of Laws
Louis Wiley - Doctor of Laws
June 1927 Commencement
Vincent Massey - Doctor of Laws
Rainey Thornton Wells - Doctor of Laws
Cale Young Rice - Doctor of Laws
June 1928 CommencementSir Leslie McKenzie - Doctor of Laws
June 1930 CommencementEdgar Erskine Hume - Doctor of Laws
William Henry Townsend - Doctor of Laws
June 1932 CommencementJoel Irvine Lyle - Doctor of Laws
Mattison Boyd Jones - Doctor of Laws
May 1933 CommencementHerman Lee Donovan - Doctor of Laws
John Howard Payne - Doctor of Laws
James Howell Richmond - Doctor of Laws
May 1937 CommencementHon. Albert Benjamin Chandler - Doctor of Laws
William Carpenter MacCarty - Doctor of Science
May 1939 CommencementWilliam James Hutchins - Doctor of Laws
Lena Madesin Phillips - Doctor of Laws
June 1940 CommencementGov. Keen Johnson - Doctor of Laws
Stanley Forman Reed - Doctor of Laws
Frank LeRond McVey - Doctor of Laws
Frances Jewell McVey - Doctor of Laws
May 1942 CommencementBishop Henry Pryor Almon Abbott - Doctor of Laws
Sen. Alben William Barkley - Doctor of Laws
James Wilson Carnahan - Doctor of Laws
Judge Hiram Church Ford - Doctor of Laws
Gen. Allen Wyant Gullion - Doctor of Laws
Mary Breckinridge - Doctor of Laws
Raymond Francis McLain - Doctor of Laws
Rabbi Joseph Rauch - Doctor of Laws
Rogers Clark Ballard Thruston - Doctor of Laws
Charles Whitefield Welch - Doctor of Laws
Judge Samuel Mackay Wilson - Doctor of Laws
Alfred Leland Crabb - Doctor of Letters
Willie Snow Ethridge - Doctor of Letters
John Calvin Metcalf - Doctor of Letters
Irvin Abell - Doctor of Letters
Frederick Wharton Rankin - Doctor of Letters
Irwin S. Cobb - Doctor of Letters [did not attend Exercise; degree not awarded; source: pencil note on program in Special Collections]
June 1944 CommencementFrederick Moore Vinson - Doctor of Laws
Francis Stephenson Hutchins - Doctor of Laws
Simeon Slavens Willis - Doctor of Laws
Jesse Hilton Stuart - Doctor of Letters
February 1945 Founders Day ProgramMargaret Voorhies Haggin - Doctor of Laws
June 1945 CommencementEli Lilly - Doctor of Laws
William Henry McAdams - Doctor of Science
June 1946 CommencementSarah Gibson Blanding - Doctor of Laws
Green Haywood Hackworth - Doctor of Laws
William Henry Rees - Doctor of Laws
Mervin Joe Kelly - Doctor of Science
Neal Trimble McKee - Doctor of Science
June 1947 CommencementBarry Bingham - Doctor of Laws
John B. Hutson - Doctor of Laws
John Winston Coleman, Jr. - Doctor of Letters
June 1948 CommencementGov. Earle C. Clements - Doctor of Laws
Judge Charles I. Dawson - Doctor of
Hal Price Headley - Doctor of Laws
Judge Wiley B. Rutledge - Doctor of Laws
Don Whitehead - Doctor of Laws
June 1949 CommencementJames Ditto Shouse - Doctor of Laws
Osso Willis Stanley - Doctor of Laws
Thomas Rust Underwood - Doctor of Laws
John Theodore Faig - Doctor of Science
Eger Vaughan Murphree - Doctor of Science
May 1950 CommencementAlexander Bonnyman - Doctor of Laws
John Sherman Cooper - Doctor of Laws
Henry Harrington Hill - Doctor of Laws
John Davis Williams - Doctor of Laws
William Embry Wrather - Doctor of Science
Hardin Craig - Doctor of Letters
June 1951 CommencementAlbert Kocourek - Doctor of Laws
Fred B. Wachs - Doctor of Laws
Emmet Field Horine - Doctor of Science
Murray Raney - Doctor of Science
May 1952 Commencement
Paul Garrett Blazer - Doctor of Laws
John E. Brown - Doctor of Laws
Lucius Dubois Clay - Doctor of Laws
Mark Foster Ethridge - Doctor of Laws
Lawrence W. Wetherby - Doctor of Laws
David Morton - Doctor of Letters
Louis Ware - Doctor of Science
June 1953 CommencementArthur Andrew Hauck - Doctor of Laws
Marvin Bertie Holifield - Doctor of Laws
Hugh Meglone Milton II - Doctor of Laws
William Maxwell Reed - Doctor of Laws
Jesse Washington Tapp - Doctor of Laws
Rev. Monsignor Charles Ambrose Towell - Doctor of Laws
June 1954 CommencementJoseph Manuel Hartfield - Doctor of Laws
Stephen Augustus Rapier - Doctor of Laws
May 1955 CommencementJames William Cammack - Doctor of Laws
Hovey Duncan Palmore - Doctor of Laws
Robert Wickliffe Woolley - Doctor of Laws
Harlan Hatcher - Doctor of Letters
Tom Wallace - Doctor of Letters
Henry Wisdom Cave - Doctor of Science
Brig. Gen. Elbert DeCoursey - Doctor of Science
May 1956 CommencementHeber Holbrook Rice - Doctor of Laws
Arthur Krock - Doctor of Letters
May 1957 CommencementCurtis C. Benjamin - Doctor of Laws
Margaret Ingels - Doctor of Laws
Omer Carmichael - Doctor of Laws
Robert Penn Warren - Doctor of Letters
September 1957Howard Hanson - Doctor of Laws
Agnes Ernst Meyer - Doctor of Laws
Turner Catledge - Doctor of Laws
May 1958 CommencementWilliam Arnold Hanger - Doctor of Laws
Stith Thompson - Doctor of Letters
Samuel M. Cassidy - Doctor of Science
Joseph Kastle Roberts - Doctor of Science
William Davis Salmon - Doctor of Science
August 1958 Commencement
Bishop William Theodore Mulloy - Doctor of Laws
Bishop William Turner Watkins - Doctor of Laws
Walter Pearson Kelley - Doctor of Science
June 1959 CommencementW. Hugh Peal - Doctor of Laws
Phillip Edwards - Doctor of Science
May 1960 CommencementAllen Tate - Doctor of Letters
William L. Clayton (declined) - Doctor of Laws
June 1961 CommencementBert Thomas Combs - Doctor of Laws
I. Forest Huddleson - Doctor of Science
Raden O. Kosasih (declined)
June 1962 CommencementHon. Elvis J. Stahr, Jr. - Doctor of Laws
Robert Burgess Stewart - Doctor of Laws
Edward Harold Kass - Doctor of Science
Robert Charles McDowell - Doctor of Science
June 1963 CommencementCleanth Brooks - Doctor of Letters
Thomas Merton (Father M. Louis) - Doctor of Letters
William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr. - Doctor of Science
May 1964 CommencementP. J. Conkwright - Doctor of Letters
Thomas Arthur Spragens - Doctor of Laws
Erwin Walter Straus - Doctor of Laws
James Stephen Watkins - Doctor of Laws
February 1965 Founders Day ProgramPres. Lyndon B. Johnson Doctor of Laws
May 1965 CommencementEdward T. Breathitt - Doctor of Laws
Phillip Grant Davidson, Jr. - Doctor of Laws
Harry Best - Doctor of laws
James Walter Martin - Doctor of Laws
Amry Vandenbosch - Doctor of Laws
William Dorney Valleau - Doctor of Science
*William C. Friday
*Approved by University Faculty and Board of
Trustees - to be conferred at later date.
November 1965Hugo Theorell - Doctor of Laws
Chief Justice Earl Warren - Doctor of Laws
May 1966 Commencement
Philip E. Blackerby - Doctor of Laws
Leo M. Chamberlain - Doctor of Laws
Carl M. Hill - Doctor of Laws
John Mason Brown - Doctor of Letters
Louis Gordon - Doctor of Science
End of Centennial Year - Arthur Goldberg
May 1967 CommencementWilliam Bolling Arthur - Doctor of Laws
Donald C. Cook - Doctor of Laws
Allan Mitchell Trout - Doctor of Laws
Robert Sutton Whitney - Doctor of Laws
Francis Milton Massie - Doctor of Science
Morris Scherago - Doctor of Science
May 1968 CommencementPhilip David Sang - Doctor of Laws
Bell Irvin Wiley - Doctor of Laws
Clarence Robertson Yeager - Doctor of Laws
Robert Henry Baker - Doctor of Science
James Augustine Shannon - Doctor of Science
Whitney Young (declined)
May 1969 CommencementThomas Dionysious Clark - Doctor of Laws
Russell Ellsworth Teague - Doctor of Laws
Whitney Moore Young, Jr. - Doctor of Laws
May 1970 CommencementLouis Broady Nunn - Doctor of Laws
Frank G. Dickey - Doctor of Laws
Ralph J. Angelucci - Doctor of Laws
William Clyde Friday - Doctor of Laws
Floyd H. Wright - Doctor of Laws
William Clement Eaton - Doctor of Laws
William Thomas Woodson - Doctor of Laws
May 1971 CommencementHarry M. Caudill - Doctor of Laws
Thurston B. Morton - Doctor of Laws
Logan Wilson - Doctor of Laws
David C. Scott - Doctor of Science
Lyle R. Dawson - Doctor of Science
May 1972 CommencementJohn August Moser - Doctor of Laws
Samuel Milton Nabrit - Doctor of Laws
Peter A. B. Widener III - Doctor of Laws
Robert Randall Dawson - Doctor of Science
John Clifford Greene - Doctor of Science
Karl Otto Lange - Doctor of Science
May 1973 CommencementGov. Wendell Ford - Doctor of Laws
Hecht Lackey, Sr. - Doctor of Laws
Berkeley Davis - Doctor of Science
William Robert Parks - Doctor of Science
John Jacob Niles - Doctor of Letters
May 1974 CommencementElizabeth Hardwick Lowell - Doctor of Letters
William Willard - Doctor of Science
Ivan Jett - Doctor of Laws
Ervin Nutter - Doctor of Laws
Frank Stanley - Doctor of Laws
May 1975 CommencementSmith D. Broadbent, Jr. - Doctor of Laws
Juanita M. Kreps - Doctor of Laws
Benjamin Hudson Milner - Doctor of Laws
Whitney M. Young, Sr. - Doctor of Laws
Thomas B. Stroup - Doctor of Literature
May 1976 CommencementGov. Julian M. Carroll - Doctor of Laws
James S. Hudnall - Doctor of Laws
Herbert P. Riley - Doctor of Science
Harry M. Young, Jr. - Doctor of Laws
May 1977 CommencementHolman Hamilton - Doctor of Letters
Edmund D. Pellegrino - Doctor of Science
Earl D. Wallace - Doctor of Laws
May 1978 CommencementThomson R. Bryant, Sr. - Doctor of Letters
James A. King - Doctor of Letters
Robert T. McCowan - Doctor of Laws
May 1979 CommencementLyman T. Johnson - Doctor of Letters
Carl D. Perkins - Doctor of Laws
S. M. Shah - Doctor of Science
James Still - Doctor of Letters
May 1980 CommencementJohn S. Knight, Doctor of Letters
Edward F. Prichard, Jr. - Doctor of Laws
May 1981 CommencementHarriette L. S. Arnow - Doctor of Letters
Stephen Diachun - Doctor of Science
John Y. Brown, Jr. - Doctor of Laws
James C. Bowling - Doctor of Laws
May 1982 CommencementLewis Cochran - Doctor of Science
Lucille Markey - Doctor of Laws
Thomas Wicker - Doctor of Letters
May 1983 CommencementJean Ritchie - Doctor of Letters
Alexander Heard - Doctor of Letters
Forrest Pogue - Doctor of Letters
May 1984 CommencementWarren Rosenthal - Doctor of Letters
F. Story Musgrave - Doctor of Science
Carl B. Cone - Doctor of Letters
May 1985 CommencementTim Lee Carter - Doctor of Laws
Martha Layne Collins - Doctor of Laws
M. Stanley Wall - Doctor of Laws
William S. Monroe - Doctor of Letters
Desmond M. Tutu - Doctor of Letters
Eslie Asbury - Doctor of Science
May 1986 CommencementWendell Erdman Berry - Doctor of Letters
William B. Sturgill - Doctor of Laws
May 1987 CommencementKewal Singh - Doctor of Laws
Benjamin Roach - Doctor of Science
John Gaines - Doctor of Letters
May 1988 CommencementMary Marvin Breckinridge Patterson - Doctor of Letters
Joseph A. Boyd - Doctor of Science
Robert D. Bell - Doctor of Laws
May 1989 CommencementHilary J. Boone, Jr. - Doctor of Letters
John H. Gray - Doctor of Laws
Daniel Oduber - Doctor of Laws
Georgia Powers- Doctor of Laws
Douglas W. Schwartz- Doctor of Letters
Shoichiro Toyoda - Doctor of Science
May 1990 CommencementAlbert G. Clay - Doctor of Laws
Thomas Marshall Hahn - Doctor of Laws
John W. Oswald - Doctor of Laws
Blyden Jackson - Doctor of Letters
Warren H. Proudfoot - Doctor of Science
Loman Trover - Doctor of Science
May 1992 CommencementGuy M. Davenport, Jr. - Doctor of Letters
Claire Louise Caudill - Doctor of Science
May 1993 CommencementJames E. Bassett III - Doctor of Laws
William T. Young - Doctor of Laws
William Augustus Jones, Jr. - Doctor of Humanities
May 1994 CommencementRalph G. Anderson - Doctor of Engineering
Bobbie Ann Mason - Doctor of Letters
Phillip Allen Sharp - Doctor of Science
May 1995 CommencementOtis A. Singletary, Jr. - Doctor of Humanities
May 1996 CommencementJean Weis Calvert - Doctor of Humanities
John R. Hall - Doctor of Science
John Henry - Doctor of Arts
May 1997 CommencementGerald L. Baliles – Doctor of Laws
David M. Lawrence – Doctor of Science
May 1998 CommencementJohn Hope Franklin – Doctor of Letters
James Francis Glenn – Doctor of Science
Cawood Ledford – Doctor of Humanities
Lucille Caudill Little – Doctor of Arts
Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh – Doctor of Letters (presented at Library dedication)
May 1999 CommencementCarol Martin Gatton – Doctor of Letters
Robert J. Shepherd – Doctor of Science
Louis W. Sullivan – Doctor of Science
May 2000 CommencementWard O. Griffen Jr. – Doctor of Science
James F. Hardymon – Doctor of Letters
May 2001 Commencement
Frank X Walker – Doctor of Humanities
Linda Challis Gill – Doctor of Letters
Peter Palliser Bosomworth – Doctor of Science
May 2002 Commencement
Fujio Cho- Doctor of Science (awarded January 29, 2002)
Sister Rosemary Howarth-Doctor of Letters
Loretta Lynn-Doctor of Arts (awarded March 9, 2002)
Sanford T. Roach-Doctor of Humanities
Wimberly C. Royster-Doctor of Science
May 2003 Commencement
Mary Sue Coleman - Doctor of Science
William S. Farish - Doctor of Laws
Michael Lee Mullins - Doctor of Letters
May 2004 Commencement
John D. Baxter - Doctor of Science
James W. Stuckert - Doctor of Letters
George Carlton Wright - Doctor of Letters
May 2005 Commencement
Stanley Platek – Doctor of Science
Raymond Betts - Doctor of Humanities
Abby Marlatt - Doctor of Letters
Seamus Heaney - Doctor of Letters
Congresswoman Louise Slaughter - Doctor of Letters
May 2007 Commencement
Nicholas J. (Nick) Clooney - Doctor of Letters
Juanita W. Fleming - Doctor of Letters
Virginia Gaines Fox- Doctor of Letters