List of University of Mount Union people

This is a list of people associated with University of Mount Union. The University of Mount Union is a 4-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? and also nominated, on several occasions, for Best Supporting Actress in the movie Gone Girl
• DW (Dave) Drouillard - vocalist, songwriter and musician
• 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 Iowa State Cyclones 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. Currently resides in Chula Vista, California
• 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 (American football) - 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
• Lenny Reich - longtime sports information director and 2022 CoSIDA Hall of Fame inductee
• Jay Sawvel - American football coach and the current head football coach 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 - American football the current head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles
• 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
• Michael Cluse- Former Golfer and PGA Professional Golfer

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 - American 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; he is the co-inventor of the world's first implantable artificial kidney

Politics and Law

• Thomas H. Anderson - United States federal judge
• James R. Knepp II - United States District 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
• 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 - the 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

• Angela Neal-Barnett - First African American tenured professor in the department of psychology at Kent State University
• Mary Jobe Akeley - 1897 graduate of Scio College, explorer, photographer, and author of several books about her expeditions
• 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 - an American book editor who founded and lead the children's division, young adult, and science fiction imprints at Atheneum Books; she oversaw/edited books that won 2 Caldecott medals and 5 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
• Sydney Powell - convicted murderer
• Christopher (CJ) “The Ross” Coughlin - podcast host, conspiracy theorist, and social media personality

Notable faculty

• De Scott Evans, noted 19th-century artist, former head of Mount Union art department

External links

• Mount Union official site