Home | About Us | News | Links | Contact | Calendar Search | Chaplain | Videos | Books Notable members of the SCV . Trace Adkins, Country music star . Ellis Arnall, Governor of Georgia . Gresham Barrett, South Carolina Congressman . Gordon L. Baum, CEO, Council of Conservative Citizens . W. Tate Brady, Founder, Tulsa, Oklahoma . Paul "Bear" Bryant, University of Alabama football coach . Phil Bryant, Governor of Mississippi . Patrick J. Buchanan, Commentator, politician . Robert Gregg Cherry, Governor of North Carolina . John E. Courson, South Carolina State Senator . Charlie Daniels, Country music star . Thomas DiLorenzo, Author . Hugh Manson Dorsey, Governor of Georgia . Clint Eastwood, Actor, director, producer . H. K. Edgerton, NAACP chapter president, Southern heritage activist . James Edwards, Radio talk show host . Charles Farnsley, Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky Congressman . Orval E. Faubus, US Army intelligence officer, Arkansas governor . Murphy J. Foster, Jr., Louisiana governor . MacDonald Gallion, Alabama attorney general . R. Michael Givens, Film director . Virgil Goode, Virginia Congressman . Samuel Marvin Griffin, Governor of Georgia . Dorsey B. Hardeman, Member of both houses of the Texas State Legislature; mayor of San Angelo . Harry Bartow Hawes Missouri Congressman . Jesse Helms, U.S. Senator . James Hylton, NASCAR driver . John A. Lejeune, 13th Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps . Trent Lott, U.S. Senator . Creighton Lovelace, Baptist pastor . Lester Maddox, Governor of Georgia . Larry Mendte, TV host, journalist . William David McCain, Head of the SCV (1953– ), president of Southern Mississippi State University, Major-General of Mississippi National Guard . Glenn McConnell, South Carolina Lieutenant Governor . Charley Reese, Syndicated columnist . Absalom Willis Robertson, Virginia Congressman . Joe Rollins, Houston lawyer . Richard Russell, Jr., Governor of Georgia, U.S. Senator . John Marshall Slaton, Governor of Georgia . Floyd Spence, South Carolina legislator, Congressman . Herman Eugene Talmadge, Governor of Georgia, U.S. Senator . Strom Thurmond, U.S. Senator . William Munford Tuck, Governor of Virginia, legislator . Harry S. Truman, U.S. President . Samuel Ernest Vandiver, Jr., Governor of Georgia . Danny Verdin, South Carolina state Senator . R. Lee Ware, Virginia House of Delegates . Alexander Wilbourne Weddell, Ambassador-Argentina and Spain . Guinn Williams, Congressman, Texas . Hank Williams, Jr., Country music star . Joe Wilson, Congressman, South Carolina . Ron Wilson, Member of the South Carolina Board of Education . Nelson W. Winbush, African-American educator, Civil War historian and lecturer