This is a list of people associated with University of Mount Union, a four-year, private, coeducational, liberal arts college in Alliance, Ohio.
Alumni Arts Carrie Coon - Tony-nominated actress for her role on Broadway in the Steppenwolf revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; also nominated for Best Supporting Actress in the movie Gone Girl DW (Dave) Drouillard - vocalist, songwriter and musician David Dusing - tenor, composer, arranger, and conductor Agnes Thomas Morris - Shakespeare promoter, president of War Mothers of America Will Lamartine Thompson - writer and composer of "Softly and Tenderly, Jesus is Calling"
Athletics Jim Ballard - former Mount Union quarterback; member of the College Football Hall of Fame; quarterback in the Arena Football League, Canadian Football League, and NFL Europe; Commissioner of the American Indoor Football League Paul Bixler - former head football coach at Ohio State University and Colgate University Zac Bruney - head football coach for Wheeling Cardinals football Kevin Burke - running backs coach for UC Davis Aggies football Matt Campbell - head football coach of Penn State Nittany Lions football Jason Candle - head football coach of Toledo Rockets football Dom Capers - former defensive back of the Mount Union Purple Raiders; former NFL head coach for the Carolina Panthers and Houston Texans; current defensive assistant for the Jacksonville Jaguars Matt Caponi - defensive coordinator for North Texas Mean Green football Dick Crum - head football coach for Miami University, North Carolina and Kent State University Sean Donnelly - post-collegiate / professional hammer thrower Brett Ekkens - head football coach for Tiffin Dragons football Wilmer Fleming - halfback for the NFL's Canton Bulldogs Pierre Garçon - American football wide receiver, drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the 2008 NFL draft, 205th overall; FA signed to Washington Redskins 2012 Alex Grinch - safeties coach for Wisconsin Badgers football Mike Hallett - co-offensive coordinator and offensive line coach for Toledo Rockets football Bill Herman - professional basketball player for the Denver Nuggets Charlie Joachim - basketball player Larry Kehres - highest winning percentage as a head coach in college football (all divisions) - 303-23-3/.925 Vince Kehres - defensive coordinator for Toledo Rockets football Nate Kmic - American football running back, all-time NCAA rushing leader with 8,074 yards Frank Lauterbur - head football coach for the University of Toledo Ron Lynn - assistant football coach, Stanford University Tom Manning - tight ends coach for the Indianapolis Colts Harry March - NFL executive; second American Football League founder; medical doctor for the pre-NFL Canton Bulldogs; New York Giants executive; professional football historian and promoter; author of Pro Football: Its Ups and Downs Erik Raeburn - head football coach at Gannon University Jay Sawvel - American football coach; current head football coach of the University of Wyoming Cecil Shorts III - football wide receiver, drafted by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the 2011 NFL draft, 114th overall Mike Sirianni - head football coach for Washington & Jefferson Presidents football Nick Sirianni - current head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles; Super Bowl LIX champion LeRoy Sprankle - high school sports coach and athletics advocate in Eastern Tennessee and South Florida; the "father of East Tennessee sports" E. J. Stewart - former college football coach' professional football player-coach' general manager and founder of the Ohio League's Massillon Tigers Ed Warinner - run game coordinator for Florida Atlantic Owls football
Business Vincent Marotta - business executive and co-creator of Mr. Coffee Susan McGalla - former president of American Eagle Outfitters; former chief executive officer of Wet Seal
Communication Antonietta "Toni" Gonzalez-Collins - SportsCenter news anchor for ESPN Raymond C. Hoiles - newspaper publisher Chip Mosher - newspaper columnist; high school "Educator of Distinction;" poet Jeff Shreve - public address announcer and broadcaster
Education Bowman Foster Ashe - first president of the University of Miami Victor Boschini - current chancellor of Texas Christian University Henry Solomon Lehr - founder, Ohio Northern University
Medical Charles Armstrong - virologist, physician in the U.S. Public Health Service Richard Drake - professor of surgery Cleveland Clinic, Lerner College of Medicine Shuvo Roy - Bangladeshi-American scientist and engineer; co-inventor of the world's first implantable artificial kidney
Politics and law Thomas H. Anderson - United States federal judge De Witt C. Badger - U.S. congressman from Ohio Christopher A. Boyko - United States federal judge Allen Foster Cooper - U.S. congressman from Pennsylvania Larry Cox - former executive director of Amnesty International USA David Hollingsworth - U.S. congressman from Ohio; an organizer of the Ohio State bar association, serving as its chairman in 1908 Lyman U. Humphrey - 11th governor of Kansas Samuel Austin Kendall - U.S. congressman from Pennsylvania James R. Knepp II - United States district judge Philander Knox - attorney general of the United States in the cabinets of Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt; senator of Pennsylvania; United States secretary of state for President William Howard Taft William McKinley - 25th president of the United States C. Ellis Moore - U.S. congressman from Ohio Miner G. Norton - U.S. congressman from Ohio Scott Oelslager - U.S. congressman from Ohio Ralph Regula - U.S. congressman from Ohio Tim Schaffer - U.S. congressman from Ohio Brian L. Stafford - 20th director of the United States Secret Service W. Aubrey Thomas - U.S. congressman from Ohio
Religion James Midwinter Freeman - clergyman and writer John William Hamilton - bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church Francis Enmer Kearns - bishop of the Methodist Church and the United Methodist Church Charles Bayard Mitchell - bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church Wesley Matthias Stanford - bishop of the United Evangelical Church
Science Mary Jobe Akeley - 1897 graduate of Scio College, explorer, photographer, and author of several books about her expeditions Angela Neal-Barnett - first African-American tenured professor in the department of psychology at Kent State University Shuvo Roy - professor, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Science, University of California, San Francisco; director, the Kidney Project Lorin B. Sebrell - Goodyear research director noted for his work on organic accelerators for vulcanization
Writing Jean E. Karl - book editor who founded and led the children's division, young adult, and science fiction imprints at Atheneum Books; oversaw/edited books that won two Caldecott medals and five Newbery Medals Joseph Amasa Munk - wrote about the history of Arizona; works included Arizona Sketches (1905), Arizona Bibliography: Private Collection of Arizoniana (1908), Southwest Sketches (1920), Activities of a Lifetime (1924), History of Arizona Literature (1925), and Story of the Munk Library of Arizoniana (1927)
Other Annie W. Clark - temperance activist Ed Fishel - National Security Agency
Notable faculty De Scott Evans - 19th-century artist, former head of Mount Union art department
References
External links Mount Union official site
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