Centre College

Centre College is an accredited, private, four-year liberal arts college located in Danville, Kentucky, USA, a community of about 15,000 located in Boyle County, approximately 35 miles (56.3 km) south of Lexington, KY. Centre was founded by Presbyterian leaders in 1819 and ranks 41st nationally among top liberal arts schools in the 2006 US News & World Report list, and is the highest-ranking private Kentucky institution. The 115-acre campus has 60 buildings, 13 of which are included on the National Register of Historic Places.

Alumni

Centre ranks first in the country for the percentage of former students making gifts, reaching 75.1% participation among the alumni contributing to the College's annual fund. Centre is thus known as the college with "America's Most Loyal Alumni". Centre alumni have figured prominently in U.S. history. They include two U.S. vice presidents, one Chief Justice of the United States, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, 13 U.S. Senators, 43 U.S. Representatives, 10 moderators of the General Assemblies of the Presbyterian Church, and 11 governors. Others have become leaders in teaching, business, medicine, law and journalism. Among the most notable:

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U.S. vice presidents - Chief Justice of the United States - Supreme Court - U.S. Senators - U.S. Representatives - Presbyterian Church

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• Joshua Fry Bell: The first alumnus to serve in Congress.
  
• John Cabell Breckinridge, 1838: Vice President of the United States under James Buchanan; candidate for President in 1860; Confederate general.
  
• John Marshall Harlan, 1850: Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States for 34 years. Harlan cast the lone dissenting vote in Plessy v. Ferguson 1896; the text of his dissent became the basis for Brown v. Board of Education in 1954.
  
• Adlai E. Stevenson, 1859: Vice President of the United States under Grover Cleveland.
  
• Frederick M. Vinson, 1909, 1911-Law: Chief Justice of the United States.