|
Year |
|
Recipient |
Degree |
| 2007 |
|
Tom Cousins |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2007 |
|
Shirley Franklin |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2007 |
|
Monica Pearson |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2006 |
|
Pat Mitchell |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2006 |
|
Michelle Nunn |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2006 |
|
Sam Nunn |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2005 |
|
Jack Guynn |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2004 |
|
Garland F. Pinholster |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2004 |
|
Janice Ann Galleshaw '75 |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2003 |
|
Myles Brand |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2002 |
|
Samuel F. Pickering |
Doctor of Letters |
| 2001 |
|
Max Cleland |
Doctor of Laws |
| 2000 |
|
Joel Goldberg |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 2000 |
|
Louis W. Sullivan M.D. |
Doctor of Letters |
| 1999 |
|
David C. Garrett, Jr. |
Doctor of Commerce |
| 1999 |
|
Donald S. Stanton |
Doctor of Letters |
| 1998 |
|
Franklin Leigh Burke '66 |
Doctor of Commerce |
| 1998 |
|
Zell Miller |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1997 |
|
S. Truett Cathy |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1997 |
|
Vincent Sherman '25 |
Doctor of Fine Arts |
| 1997 |
|
Yoel Levi |
Doctor of Fine Arts |
| 1996 |
|
Karl Haas |
Doctor of Letters |
| 1996 |
|
Sir Keith Vivian Thomas PBA |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1995 |
|
Elmo Israel Ellis |
Doctor of Letters |
| 1995 |
|
J. Mack Robinson |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1995 |
|
Joseph West Jones |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1995 |
|
Paula Pimlott Brownlee |
Doctor of Letters |
| 1995 |
|
Sir Robin Renwick |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1994 |
|
Daniel Joseph Boorstin |
Doctor of Letters |
| 1994 |
|
Lu Thomasson Garrett '52 |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1994 |
|
Manning Mason Pattillo, Jr. |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1993 |
|
Chuck Jones |
Doctor of Fine Arts |
| 1993 |
|
Ruth Beebe Hill |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1992 |
|
John Ackerman Conant |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1992 |
|
Mack Albert Rikard '37 |
Doctor of Commerce |
| 1992 |
|
Miriam H. Conant |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1992 |
|
Nisaburo Takanashi |
Doctor of Commerce |
| 1991 |
|
Anne Rivers Siddons |
Doctor of Letters |
| 1991 |
|
Charles Longstreet Weltner '48 |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1991 |
|
Hideo Ohki |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1991 |
|
William Porter Payne |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1990 |
|
Andrew Young |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1989 |
|
James LaFayette Dickey III |
Litterarum Doctor |
| 1988 |
|
Michael J. Bowers |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1986 |
|
John Brooks Fuqua |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1986 |
|
Stephen John Schmidt '40 |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1984 |
|
Harry Jack Gray |
Doctor of Engineering |
| 1983 |
|
Anne Cox Chambers |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1982 |
|
William Franklin Harrington |
Doctor of Sacred Theology |
| 1981 |
|
William A. Strozier |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1980 |
|
Earl Blackwell |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1978 |
|
George C. Seward |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1978 |
|
Marvin B. Perry, Jr. |
Doctor of Letters |
| 1977 |
|
Donald Charles Agnew |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1977 |
|
Robert Lawson Shaw |
Doctor of Humanities |
| 1977 |
|
Samuel Reid Spencer, Jr. |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1976 |
|
Cleanth Brooks |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1976 |
|
Sanford Soverhill Atwood |
Doctor of Science |
| 1976 |
|
Wendell H. Brown |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1975 |
|
Lawrence Wendell Bottoms |
Doctor of Divinity |
| 1975 |
|
Thomas L. Camp |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1975 |
|
William A. Egerton |
Doctor of Commerce |
| 1974 |
|
Benjamin B. Blackburn III |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1974 |
|
John R. Bertrand |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1974 |
|
John Randolph Taylor |
Doctor of Divinity |
| 1974 |
|
Tetsuo Fukaishi |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1973 |
|
Charles L. Towers |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1973 |
|
Sylvan Meyer |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1973 |
|
Vernon S. Broyles, Jr. |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1972 |
|
Arthur Howell |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1972 |
|
Jim David Cherry |
Doctor of Science in Education |
| 1972 |
|
Richard Emmett Deems |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1972 |
|
Virgil W. Milton |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1971 |
|
Rev. Harry A. Fiefield |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1971 |
|
Roy N. Goslin |
Doctor of Science |
| 1971 |
|
Sam Massell |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1970 |
|
Franklin Miller Garrett |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1969 |
|
Herman Eugene Talmadge |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1969 |
|
Robert L. Foreman |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1968 |
|
Harry Maxwell Dobson |
Doctor of Music |
| 1968 |
|
John Usher Monro |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1966 |
|
Eugene Patterson |
Doctor of Letters |
| 1965 |
|
Shirley A. Johnson, Jr. |
Doctor of Science |
| 1964 |
|
Merriman Smith |
Doctor of Humane Letters |
| 1961 |
|
William B. Hartsfield |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1956 |
|
Margaret Davis Cate |
Master of Arts |
| 1956 |
|
Pope Furman Brock |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1955 |
|
Murray Marcus Copeland, M.D. |
Doctor of Science |
| 1954 |
|
James Saxon Childers |
Doctor of Letters |
| 1952 |
|
Irving S. Ingram, M.D. |
Doctor of Education |
| 1951 |
|
Elliott Evans Cheatham |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1951 |
|
Hughes Spalding |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1950 |
|
Ira Jarrell |
Doctor of Education |
| 1950 |
|
John A. Sibley |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1947 |
|
Eric H. Hansen |
Doctor of Humanities |
| 1943 |
|
Gen. Lewis B. Hershey |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1941 |
|
Archibald Rutledge |
Doctor of Letters |
| 1941 |
|
Ernest E. Cole |
Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 1941 |
|
Eugene Talmadge |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1941 |
|
Fitzgerald Hall |
Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1941 |
|
Francis Lloyd F. Wood |
Doctor of Divinity |
| 1941 |
|
Jesse Holman Jones |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1941 |
|
Joseph P. Kennedy |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1941 |
|
Thomas J. Pancoast |
Doctor of Public Service |
| 1940 |
|
Albert Hamilton Collins |
Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 1940 |
|
Albert R. Stuart |
Doctor of Divinity |
| 1940 |
|
Glenn Stewart |
Doctor of Public Service |
| 1940 |
|
Ivan E. Allen, Sr. |
Doctor of Public Service |
| 1940 |
|
James A. Farley |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1940 |
|
Robert M. Nelson |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1940 |
|
Thomas K. Peters |
Doctor of Public Service |
| 1939 |
|
Charles R. Hook |
Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1939 |
|
Frank E. Gannett |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1939 |
|
Frank N.D. Buchman |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1939 |
|
John M. Slaton |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1939 |
|
Judge Stirling P. Gilbert |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1939 |
|
Preston Herbert |
Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1939 |
|
Rufus W. Oakey |
Doctor of Divinity |
| 1939 |
|
Sidney B. Hall |
Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 1939 |
|
Thomas J. Watson |
Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1938 |
|
Charles J. Haden |
Doctor of Public Service |
| 1938 |
|
Colin English |
Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 1938 |
|
David Sarnoff |
Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1938 |
|
Frank Richardson Kent |
Doctor of Letters |
| 1938 |
|
J. Robert Rubin |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1938 |
|
James Adams Colby |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1938 |
|
James B. Murphy |
Doctor of Science |
| 1938 |
|
John Oliver LaGorce |
Doctor of Science |
| 1938 |
|
Robert Whitehall Burns |
Doctor of Divinity |
| 1937 |
|
George L. Shearer |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1937 |
|
John Golden |
Doctor of Public Service |
| 1937 |
|
John H. Kellogg |
Doctor of Public Service |
| 1937 |
|
Joseph Patrick Kennedy |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1937 |
|
Joseph R. Murphy |
Master of Commercial Science |
| 1937 |
|
Marion Smith |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1937 |
|
William W. Ball |
Doctor of Letters |
| 1936 |
|
Charles E. Little |
Doctor of Letters |
| 1936 |
|
Clayton S. Cooper |
Doctor of Letters |
| 1936 |
|
John Francis Neylan |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1936 |
|
Margaret A. Barnes |
Doctor of Letters |
| 1936 |
|
Orson DeSaix Munn |
Doctor of Science |
| 1936 |
|
Robert H. Baker |
Doctor of Science |
| 1936 |
|
Thomas J. Lance |
Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 1936 |
|
Thomas S. Stribling |
Doctor of Letters |
| 1935 |
|
Amelia Earhart |
Doctor of Public Service |
| 1935 |
|
Annie Jump Cannon |
Doctor of Science |
| 1935 |
|
Caroline G. O'Day |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1935 |
|
Caroline Miller |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1935 |
|
Clara M. Thompson |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1935 |
|
Cora Smith Gould |
Doctor of Public Service |
| 1935 |
|
Florence R. Sabin |
Doctor of Science |
| 1935 |
|
Helen Rogers Reid |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1935 |
|
Josephine A. Roche |
Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1935 |
|
Martha M. Berry |
Doctor of Public Service |
| 1935 |
|
Mrs. Sidney Lanier, Jr. |
Doctor of Public Service |
| 1935 |
|
Ruth Blair |
Master of Public Service |
| 1935 |
|
Thomas J. Small, M.D. |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1934 |
|
Cator Woolford |
Master of Public Service |
| 1934 |
|
Charles H. Herty |
Doctor of Science |
| 1934 |
|
Francis G. Pease |
Doctor of Science |
| 1934 |
|
Henry Bedinger Rust |
Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1934 |
|
Homer Cummings |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1934 |
|
Samuel H. Sibley |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1934 |
|
Walter E. Hopper |
Master of Public Service |
| 1934 |
|
Walter Lippmann |
Doctor of Letters |
| 1934 |
|
William Green |
Doctor of Public Service |
| 1933 |
|
Albert R. Rogers |
Master of Public Service |
| 1933 |
|
Amos A. Ettinger |
Doctor of Letters |
| 1933 |
|
Archibald Henderson |
Doctor of Letters |
| 1933 |
|
Bernard M. Baruch |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1933 |
|
Edwin W. Kemmerer |
Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1933 |
|
Gov. Herbert H. Lehman |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1933 |
|
M. D. Collins |
Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 1933 |
|
Paul Block |
Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1933 |
|
Philip Weltner |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1932 |
|
Archibald W. Taylor |
Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1932 |
|
Claude G. Bowers |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1932 |
|
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1932 |
|
Wilfred J. Funk |
Doctor of Letters |
| 1931 |
|
Albert E. Smith |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1931 |
|
Barron Collier |
Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1931 |
|
Elizabeth M. Gilmer |
Doctor of Letters |
| 1931 |
|
Fowler McCormick |
Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1931 |
|
Harlow Shapley |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1931 |
|
Ivy Ledbetter Lee |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1931 |
|
Rev. Joseph Terrell Dendy |
Doctor of Divinity |
| 1930 |
|
Benjamin N. Duke |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1930 |
|
Homer Thompson |
Doctor of Divinity |
| 1930 |
|
Lamartine G. Hardman |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1930 |
|
Lenix C. Sleesman |
Doctor of Science |
| 1930 |
|
Percy S. Strauss |
Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1930 |
|
Rev. Wilburn A. Cleveland |
Doctor of Divinity |
| 1930 |
|
Theodore Swann |
Doctor of Science |
| 1930 |
|
Victor H. Hansen |
Doctor of Letters |
| 1930 |
|
Zadock D. Harrison |
Bachelor of Arts |
| 1929 |
|
Bishop H. J. Mikell |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1929 |
|
Louie D. Newton |
Doctor of Divinity |
| 1929 |
|
Mark Burrows |
Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 1929 |
|
Mrs. Joseph M. High |
Doctor of Letters |
| 1929 |
|
Nathan Haskell Dole |
Doctor of Letters |
| 1929 |
|
Rev. Russell H. Stafford |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1929 |
|
Richard B. Russell |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1929 |
|
Rudolph S. Heclit |
Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1928 |
|
Clark Howell |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1928 |
|
Crichton Clarke |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1928 |
|
Haynes McFadden |
Master of Commercial Science |
| 1928 |
|
Hoke Smith |
Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1928 |
|
John K. Ottley |
Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1928 |
|
Morris Brandon |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1928 |
|
Royal S. Copeland |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1928 |
|
Thomas R. Preston |
Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1928 |
|
William James Bailey |
Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1927 |
|
E. A. Pound |
Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 1927 |
|
Lawton B. Evans |
Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 1927 |
|
Roselle M. Montgomery |
Doctor of Letters |
| 1927 |
|
Warren K. Morehead |
Doctor of Science |
| 1927 |
|
William R. Hearst |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1926 |
|
Harry Putnam Hermance |
Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1926 |
|
Henry M. Atkinson |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1926 |
|
Rev. Henry W. Bloch |
Doctor of Divinity |
| 1926 |
|
Rev. John F. Preston |
Doctor of Divinity |
| 1926 |
|
Rev. Meredith A. Jones |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1926 |
|
William A. Law |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1925 |
|
Charles Edwin Mitchell |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1925 |
|
Williard N. Holmes |
Doctor of Science |
| 1924 |
|
Carlton B. Gibson |
Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 1924 |
|
Gutzon Borglum |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1924 |
|
Harold R. Berry |
Doctor of Science |
| 1924 |
|
John G. Bowman |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1924 |
|
Mary Brent Whiteside |
Doctor of Letters |
| 1923 |
|
Benjamin P. Gaillard |
Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 1923 |
|
Charles A. Sheldon, Jr. |
Doctor of Music |
| 1923 |
|
Joel Hunter |
Doctor of Commercial Science |
| 1923 |
|
Nathaniel P. Pratt |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1923 |
|
Rev. George L. Petrie |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1923 |
|
Willis A. Sutton |
Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 1922 |
|
Michael Hoke |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1922 |
|
Nanette Hopkins |
Doctor of Pedagogy |
| 1922 |
|
Rev. Charles A. Campbell |
Doctor of Divinity |
| 1922 |
|
Rev. J. W. Bachman |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1921 |
|
Bishop Thomas F. Gailor |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1921 |
|
Corra May Harris |
Doctor of Letters |
| 1921 |
|
J. T. Lupton |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1921 |
|
Thomas J. Smull |
Doctor of Civil Engineering |
| 1920 |
|
Rev. Clarence W. Rouse |
Doctor of Laws |
| 1920 |
|
Rev. Henry D. Phillips |
Doctor of Divinity |
| 1920 |
|
Rev. I. C. Stacy |
Doctor of Divinity |
| 1920 |
|
T. Woodrow Wilson |
Doctor of Laws |
