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                                  Famous Alumni | 
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- Benjamin Mays, Class of 1920, President of Morehouse College (1940-1967)
 
- Edmund Muskie, Class of 1936, Governor of Maine (1955-1959), U.S.
Senator from Maine (1959-1980) and U.S. Secretary of State
(1980-1981)
 
- William
Stringfellow, Class of 1949, peace activist, human rights lawyer, theologian
 
- Bryant Gumbel, Class of 1970, American television personality
 
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