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Winston Hall at Hampden-Sydney College. The top floor facing Via Sacra Road was previously inhabited by the Union-Philanthropic Society.
Historically, the Society has met in both Cushing Hall and McIlwaine (Memorial) Hall

The Union-Philanthropic (Literary) Society (UPLS) is a college literary society at Hampden-Sydney College in Hampden-Sydney, Virginia founded in 1789. The Union-Philanthropic Society currently meets in Schaeffer Hall, named after noted alumnus Francis Schaeffer, at 6 p.m. on Sundays.

For over two centuries, the Union-Philanthropic Society has offered Hampden-Sydney a unique forum for discussion. Whether debating the ethics of slavery (1810) or discussing the various views of the historical Jesus (1996) the Society has continually provided the College with an unparalleled source for the oratorical and literary improvement of her sons.

The oldest student organization at the College and the second-oldest debating society in the United States, the Union-Philanthropic dates from 1789. Edward Henry, the son of Virginia's greatest orator, and William Henry Harrison, the ninth president of the United States, were among its early members. Yet the Society has never been simply a student organization, and its influence has never stopped at the College gates. Men from all backgrounds, from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to Robert E. Lee, were awarded and accepted honorary membership.

Membership in the Society is an honor which is bestowed upon gentlemen who demonstrate an interest in public discussion, a thirst for learning, a friendly manner, and a good character. A reception for prospective members is held each term, followed by several public meetings; all students are cordially invited to attend and are strongly encouraged to participate. The Society summons several men to become members each term, and no previous experience in speech or debate is required.[1]

An example of a regular meeting is available online.[2]

White house with a sign in the front reading "Union-Philanthropic Literary Society"
Schaeffer House is the current home of the Union-Philanthropic Society

Notable Alumni and Honorary Members

  • Samuel Stanhope Smith (Hon. Union, 1790), first President of Hampden-Sydney College and President of Princeton University[3]
  • William Henry Harrison (Union, 1790), Ninth President of the United States[4]
  • Edward Henry (Union, 1793), lawyer, son of Patrick Henry[5]
  • Patrick Henry (Hon. Union, 1794), founding trustee of Hampden-Sydney College, Governor of Virginia[6]
  • Joseph Carrington Cabell (Union, 1796), co-founder of the University of Virginia[7]
  • Archibald Alexander (Hon. Union, 1800), President of Hampden-Sydney College and founder of Princeton Theological Seminary[8]
  • William Cabell Rives (Philanthropic, 1811) United States House of Representatives, Minister to France, United States Senate, Confederate States House of Representatives[9]
  • John Peter Mettauer (Philanthropic, 1811), eminent surgeon and founder of the Randolph-Macon Medical School[10]
  • Powhatan Ellis (Union, 1816), justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi, United States Senator, Minister to Mexico[11]
  • Andrew Hunter (Union, 1822), commonwealth’s attorney that prosecuted John Brown for the raid at Harper’s Ferry, member of the Confederate House of Representatives, staff of General Robert E. Lee[12]
  • William Ballard Preston (Philanthropic, 1824), United States House of Representatives, Secretary of the Navy, Secession Convention of South Carolina[13]
  • Hugh A. Garland (Philanthropic, 1825), Professor of Greek, United States House of Representatives, Clerk of the United States House of Representatives[14]
  • Hugh Rose Pleasants (Union, 1826), founding editor of the Richmond Dispatch (now the Richmond Times-Dispatch)[15]
  • Landon C. Garland (Philanthropic, 1829), president of Randolph-Macon College and the University of Alabama, chancellor of Vanderbilt University[16]
  • Thomas Watkins Ligon (Union, 1830), United States House of Representatives, Governor of Maryland[17]
  • Sterling Price (Philanthropic, 1830), United States House of Representatives, Military Governor of Chihuahua during the Mexican War, Governor of Missouri, MajorGeneral in the Confederate States Army[18]
  • John Tyler (Hon. Philanthropic, 1830), Vice President of the United States, Tenth President of the United States, member of the Confederate House of Representatives[19]
  • Edgar Allen Poe (Hon. Philanthropic, 1830), author and editor of the Southern Literary Messenger[20]
  • John W. Stevenson (Union, 1832), Governor of Kentucky[21]
  • John C. Calhoun (Hon. Union, 1834), United States Senator, Vice President of the United States[22]
  • Thomas Salem Bocock (Philanthropic, 1838), United States House of Representatives, Speaker of the Confederate House of Representatives[23]
  • Robert Lewis Dabney (Philanthropic, 1840), chaplain in Confederate Army and chief of staff to General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson[24]
  • Henry Clay (Hon. Union, 1842), United States Senator and presidential candidate[25]
  • Roger Atkinson Pryor (Union, 1846), Minister to Greece, United States House of Representatives, aided in firing the first shot at Fort Sumter, Associate Justice of Supreme Court of New York[26]
  • Louis Phillip d’Orléans (Hon. Philanthropic, 1848), King of the French[27]
  • James Buchanan (Hon. Philanthropic, 1848), United States Senator, Fifteenth President of the United States[28]
  • Philip Watkins McKinney (Philanthropic, 1851), Governor of Virginia[29]
  • Richard A. McIlwaine (Philanthropic, 1853), President of Hampden-Sydney College and Delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention[30]
  • Franklin Pierce (Hon. Philanthropic, 1853), Fourteenth President of the United States[31]
  • Stephen A. Douglas (Hon. Philanthropic, 1853), United States Senator, 1860 Democratic nominee for President[32]
  • William Makepeace Thackeray (Hon. Philanthropic, 1854), Author of Vanity Fair and The Virginians[33]
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Hon. Philanthropic, 1854), poet and Professor of Greek at Harvard University[34]
  • Jefferson Davis (Hon. Philanthropic, 1854), United States Senator, Secretary of War, and President of the Confederate States of America[35]
  • Robert E. Lee (Hon. Philanthropic, 1861), Commander-in-Chief of the Army of Northern Virginia, president of Washington College (later Washington and Lee University)[36]
  • P. G. T. Beauregard (Hon. Philanthropic, 1861), major-general of the Confederate Army of the Carolinas[37]
  • Alexander Lee Bondurant (Philanthropic, 1884), Superintendent of the Mississippi State Board of Education, Professor of Latin at the University of Mississippi[38]
  • Alfred J. Morrison (Philanthropic, 1895), Assistant Librarian of Congress[39]
  • Graves Haydon Thompson (Philanthropic, 1927), Professor of Latin at Hampden-Sydney College and longest-serving professor in the College’s history (54 years)[40]
  • Francis August Schaeffer (Union-Philanthropic, 1935), American evangelical theologian, philosopher, and Presbyterian pastor[41]
  • Adlai Stevenson (Hon. Union-Philanthropic, 1952), Governor of Illinois and 1952 Democratic Party Candidate for President[42]
  • John Luster Brinkley (Union-Philanthropic, 1959), Rhodes Scholar, Associate Professor of Classics at Hampden-Sydney College, College Historian Esther Thomas[43]
  • “Mrs. P.T.” Atkinson (Hon. Union-Philanthropic, 1968), Founder of the Esther Thomas Atkinson Museum of Hampden-Sydney College[44]
  • Samuel Vaughan Wilson (Hon. Union-Philanthropic, 1982), lieutenant general, United States Army, Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Professor and President of Hampden-Sydney College[45]
  • George F. Will (Hon. Union-Philanthropic, 1986), columnist and commentator[46]
  • Thomas P. O’Neill (Hon. Union-Philanthropic, 1986), Speaker of the United States House of Representatives[47]
  • Kemp L. Chester (Hon. Union-Philanthropic, 2016), Drug Czar of the United States[48]
  • Anita Garland (Hon. Union-Philanthropic), Dean of Admissions of Hampden-Sydney College[49]
  • Larry Stimpert (Hon. Union-Philanthropic, 2022), 25th President of Hampden-Sydney College[50]

References

  1. ^ "Clubs & Organizations". www.hsc.edu. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
  2. ^ UPLS | Query: What is Western Culture?, retrieved 2023-03-21
  3. ^ Brinkley, John Luster (1994). On this hill : a narrative history of Hampden-Sydney College, 1774-1994. Hampden-Sydney [Va.]: [Hampden-Sydney College]. ISBN 1-886356-06-8. OCLC 32407235.
  4. ^ Brinkley, John Luster (1994). On this hill : a narrative history of Hampden-Sydney College, 1774-1994. Hampden-Sydney [Va.]: [Hampden-Sydney College]. ISBN 1-886356-06-8. OCLC 32407235.
  5. ^ Brinkley, John Luster (1994). On this hill : a narrative history of Hampden-Sydney College, 1774-1994. Hampden-Sydney [Va.]: [Hampden-Sydney College]. ISBN 1-886356-06-8. OCLC 32407235.
  6. ^ Brinkley, John Luster (1994). On this hill : a narrative history of Hampden-Sydney College, 1774-1994. Hampden-Sydney [Va.]: [Hampden-Sydney College]. ISBN 1-886356-06-8. OCLC 32407235.
  7. ^ Brinkley, John Luster (1994). On this hill : a narrative history of Hampden-Sydney College, 1774-1994. Hampden-Sydney [Va.]: [Hampden-Sydney College]. ISBN 1-886356-06-8. OCLC 32407235.
  8. ^ Brinkley, John Luster (1994). On this hill : a narrative history of Hampden-Sydney College, 1774-1994. Hampden-Sydney [Va.]: [Hampden-Sydney College]. ISBN 1-886356-06-8. OCLC 32407235.
  9. ^ Brinkley, John Luster (1994). On this hill : a narrative history of Hampden-Sydney College, 1774-1994. Hampden-Sydney [Va.]: [Hampden-Sydney College]. ISBN 1-886356-06-8. OCLC 32407235.
  10. ^ Brinkley, John Luster (1994). On this hill : a narrative history of Hampden-Sydney College, 1774-1994. Hampden-Sydney [Va.]: [Hampden-Sydney College]. ISBN 1-886356-06-8. OCLC 32407235.
  11. ^ Brinkley, John Luster (1994). On this hill : a narrative history of Hampden-Sydney College, 1774-1994. Hampden-Sydney [Va.]: [Hampden-Sydney College]. ISBN 1-886356-06-8. OCLC 32407235.
  12. ^ Brinkley, John Luster (1994). On this hill : a narrative history of Hampden-Sydney College, 1774-1994. Hampden-Sydney [Va.]: [Hampden-Sydney College]. ISBN 1-886356-06-8. OCLC 32407235.
  13. ^ Brinkley, John Luster (1994). On this hill : a narrative history of Hampden-Sydney College, 1774-1994. Hampden-Sydney [Va.]: [Hampden-Sydney College]. ISBN 1-886356-06-8. OCLC 32407235.
  14. ^ Brinkley, John Luster (1994). On this hill : a narrative history of Hampden-Sydney College, 1774-1994. Hampden-Sydney [Va.]: [Hampden-Sydney College]. ISBN 1-886356-06-8. OCLC 32407235.
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  19. ^ Brinkley, John Luster (1994). On this hill : a narrative history of Hampden-Sydney College, 1774-1994. Hampden-Sydney [Va.]: [Hampden-Sydney College]. ISBN 1-886356-06-8. OCLC 32407235.
  20. ^ Brinkley, John Luster (1994). On this hill : a narrative history of Hampden-Sydney College, 1774-1994. Hampden-Sydney [Va.]: [Hampden-Sydney College]. ISBN 1-886356-06-8. OCLC 32407235.
  21. ^ Brinkley, John Luster (1994). On this hill : a narrative history of Hampden-Sydney College, 1774-1994. Hampden-Sydney [Va.]: [Hampden-Sydney College]. ISBN 1-886356-06-8. OCLC 32407235.
  22. ^ Brinkley, John Luster (1994). On this hill : a narrative history of Hampden-Sydney College, 1774-1994. Hampden-Sydney [Va.]: [Hampden-Sydney College]. ISBN 1-886356-06-8. OCLC 32407235.
  23. ^ Brinkley, John Luster (1994). On this hill : a narrative history of Hampden-Sydney College, 1774-1994. Hampden-Sydney [Va.]: [Hampden-Sydney College]. ISBN 1-886356-06-8. OCLC 32407235.
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  28. ^ Brinkley, John Luster (1994). On this hill : a narrative history of Hampden-Sydney College, 1774-1994. Hampden-Sydney [Va.]: [Hampden-Sydney College]. ISBN 1-886356-06-8. OCLC 32407235.
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  31. ^ Brinkley, John Luster (1994). On this hill : a narrative history of Hampden-Sydney College, 1774-1994. Hampden-Sydney [Va.]: [Hampden-Sydney College]. ISBN 1-886356-06-8. OCLC 32407235.
  32. ^ Brinkley, John Luster (1994). On this hill : a narrative history of Hampden-Sydney College, 1774-1994. Hampden-Sydney [Va.]: [Hampden-Sydney College]. ISBN 1-886356-06-8. OCLC 32407235.
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  49. ^ Brinkley, John Luster (1994). On this hill : a narrative history of Hampden-Sydney College, 1774-1994. Hampden-Sydney [Va.]: [Hampden-Sydney College]. ISBN 1-886356-06-8. OCLC 32407235.
  50. ^ Brinkley, John Luster (1994). On this hill : a narrative history of Hampden-Sydney College, 1774-1994. Hampden-Sydney [Va.]: [Hampden-Sydney College]. ISBN 1-886356-06-8. OCLC 32407235.
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