Notable SCV Members

Notable members

Trace Adkins,[33] musician Ellis Arnall,[34] Governor of Georgia Gresham Barrett, South Carolina Congressman Gordon L. Baum CEO, Council of Conservative Citizens Paul "Bear" Bryant, University of Alabama football coach Phil Bryant,[35] Mississippi Lt. Governor Patrick J. Buchanan,[34] commentator, politician Robert Gregg Cherry,[34] Governor of North Carolina John E. Courson,[36] South Carolina State Senator Charlie Daniels, musician Bobby DeLaughter,[37] Mississippi prosecutor, judge, and author Thomas DiLorenzo, author Hugh Manson Dorsey, Governor of Georgia Clint Eastwood,[37] actor, director/producer H. K. Edgerton,[38] Southern heritage activist James Edwards, radio talk show host Charles Farnsley,[34] mayor of Louisville, Kentucky Congressman Orval E. Faubus,[34] US Army intelligence officer, Arkansas governor Murphy J. Foster, Jr., former Louisiana governor MacDonald Gallion,[34] Alabama attorney general R. Michael Givens,[39] film director Virgil Goode, Virginia Congressman Samuel Marvin Griffin, Governor of Georgia Harry Bartow Hawes[34] Missouri Congressman Jesse Helms,[40] US Senator James Hylton,[41] NASCAR driver John A. Lejeune, 13th Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps Trent Lott,[34] U.S. Senator Creighton Lovelace, Baptist Pastor Lester Maddox, Governor of Georgia Larry Mendte, TV host, journalist William David McCain,[42] head of the SCV (1953– ), president of Southern Mississippi State University, Major-General of Mississippi National Guard Glenn McConnell,[43] South Carolina state senator Charley Reese,[37] syndicated columnist Absalom Willis Robertson,[34] Virginia Congressman Joe Rollins,[44] Houston lawyer Richard Brevard Russell, Jr, Governor of Georgia, U.S. Senator John Marshall Slaton, Governor of Georgia Floyd Spence,[34] South Carolina governor, legislator Eugene Talmadge, Governor of Georgia Herman Eugene Talmadge, Governor of Georgia, U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond,[40] US Senator William Munford Tuck,[34] Governor of Virginia, legislator Harry S. Truman,[37] U.S. President Samuel Ernest Vandiver, Jr, Governor of Georgia Danny Verdin,[45] South Carolina state Senator R. Lee Ware, Virginia House of Delegates Alexander Wilbourne Weddell,[34] Ambassador-Argentina & Spain Guinn Williams,[34] Congressman, Texas Hank Williams, Jr., Country music star Joe Wilson, Congressman,[46] South Carolina Ron Wilson,[47] former South Carolina Board of Education Nelson W. Winbush,[48] African American educator, Civil War Historian/lecturer, SCV member