Honorary Degree Recipients

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

Judge Edward Warren Hines - Doctor of Laws

William Dixon Weaver - Doctor of Laws

Edwin P. Morrow - Doctor of Laws

John James Tigert - Doctor of Laws

Robert W. Bingham - Doctor of Laws

Edwin E. Slosson - Doctor of Laws

William Boyce Thompson - Doctor of Laws

George Colvin - Doctor of Laws

Ellen Churchill Semple - Doctor of Laws

T. Coleman Dupont - Doctor of Laws

Sophonisba 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

Sir Leslie McKenzie - Doctor of Laws

Edgar Erskine Hume - Doctor of Laws

William Henry Townsend - Doctor of Laws

Joel Irvine Lyle - Doctor of Laws

Mattison Boyd Jones - Doctor of Laws

Herman Lee Donovan - Doctor of Laws

John Howard Payne - Doctor of Laws

James Howell Richmond - Doctor of Laws

Hon. Albert Benjamin Chandler - Doctor of Laws

William Carpenter MacCarty - Doctor of Science

William James Hutchins - Doctor of Laws

Lena Madesin Phillips - Doctor of Laws

Gov. Keen Johnson - Doctor of Laws

Stanley Forman Reed - Doctor of Laws

Frank LeRond McVey - Doctor of Laws

Frances Jewell McVey - Doctor of Laws

Bishop 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]

Frederick Moore Vinson - Doctor of Laws

Francis Stephenson Hutchins - Doctor of Laws

Simeon Slavens Willis - Doctor of Laws

Jesse Hilton Stuart - Doctor of Letters

Margaret Voorhies Haggin - Doctor of Laws

Eli Lilly - Doctor of Laws

William Henry McAdams - Doctor of Science

Sarah 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

Barry Bingham - Doctor of Laws

John B. Hutson - Doctor of Laws

John Winston Coleman, Jr. - Doctor of Letters

Gov. 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

James 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

Alexander 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

Albert 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

Arthur 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

Joseph Manuel Hartfield - Doctor of Laws

Stephen Augustus Rapier - Doctor of Laws

James 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

Heber Holbrook Rice - Doctor of Laws

Arthur Krock - Doctor of Letters

Curtis C. Benjamin - Doctor of Laws

Margaret Ingels - Doctor of Laws

Omer Carmichael - Doctor of Laws

Robert Penn Warren - Doctor of Letters

Howard Hanson - Doctor of Laws

Agnes Ernst Meyer - Doctor of Laws

Turner Catledge - Doctor of Laws

William 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

W. Hugh Peal - Doctor of Laws

Phillip Edwards - Doctor of Science

Allen Tate - Doctor of Letters

William L. Clayton (declined) - Doctor of Laws

Bert Thomas Combs - Doctor of Laws

I. Forest Huddleson - Doctor of Science

Raden O. Kosasih (declined)

Hon. 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

Cleanth Brooks - Doctor of Letters

Thomas Merton (Father M. Louis) - Doctor of Letters

William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr. - Doctor of Science

P. J. Conkwright - Doctor of Letters

Thomas Arthur Spragens - Doctor of Laws

Erwin Walter Straus - Doctor of Laws

James Stephen Watkins - Doctor of Laws

Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson Doctor of Laws

Edward 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.

Hugo 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

William 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

Philip 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)

Thomas Dionysious Clark - Doctor of Laws

Russell Ellsworth Teague - Doctor of Laws

Whitney Moore Young, Jr. - Doctor of Laws

Louis 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

Harry 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

John 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

Gov. 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

Elizabeth 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

Smith 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

Gov. 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

Holman Hamilton - Doctor of Letters

Edmund D. Pellegrino - Doctor of Science

Earl D. Wallace - Doctor of Laws

Thomson R. Bryant, Sr. - Doctor of Letters

James A. King - Doctor of Letters

Robert T. McCowan - Doctor of Laws

Lyman T. Johnson - Doctor of Letters

Carl D. Perkins - Doctor of Laws

S. M. Shah - Doctor of Science

James Still - Doctor of Letters

John S. Knight, Doctor of Letters

Edward F. Prichard, Jr. - Doctor of Laws

Harriette L. S. Arnow - Doctor of Letters

Stephen Diachun - Doctor of Science

John Y. Brown, Jr. - Doctor of Laws

James C. Bowling - Doctor of Laws

Lewis Cochran - Doctor of Science

Lucille Markey - Doctor of Laws

Thomas Wicker - Doctor of Letters

Jean Ritchie - Doctor of Letters

Alexander Heard - Doctor of Letters

Forrest Pogue - Doctor of Letters

Warren Rosenthal - Doctor of Letters

F. Story Musgrave - Doctor of Science

Carl B. Cone - Doctor of Letters

Tim 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

Wendell Erdman Berry - Doctor of Letters

William B. Sturgill - Doctor of Laws

Kewal Singh - Doctor of Laws

Benjamin Roach - Doctor of Science

John Gaines - Doctor of Letters

Mary Marvin Breckinridge Patterson - Doctor of Letters

Joseph A. Boyd - Doctor of Science

Robert D. Bell - Doctor of Laws

Hilary 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

Albert 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

Guy M. Davenport, Jr. - Doctor of Letters

Claire Louise Caudill - Doctor of Science

James E. Bassett III - Doctor of Laws

William T. Young - Doctor of Laws

William Augustus Jones, Jr. - Doctor of Humanities

Ralph G. Anderson - Doctor of Engineering

Bobbie Ann Mason - Doctor of Letters

Phillip Allen Sharp - Doctor of Science

Otis A. Singletary, Jr. - Doctor of Humanities

Jean Weis Calvert - Doctor of Humanities

John R. Hall - Doctor of Science

John Henry - Doctor of Arts

Gerald L. Baliles – Doctor of Laws

David M. Lawrence – Doctor of Science

John 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)

Carol Martin Gatton – Doctor of Letters

Robert J. Shepherd – Doctor of Science

Louis W. Sullivan – Doctor of Science

Ward 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