North Carolina:

Governor Pat McCrory: Catawba College
Senator Kay Hagan: Wake Forest
Senator Richard Burr: Wake Forest
AG Roy Cooper: North Carolina
Lt Gov Dan Forest: UNC Charlotte

Pennsylvania:

Governor Tom Corbett: Lebanon Valley College
Senator Bob Casey Jr: Catholic University
Senator Pat Toomey: Harvard
AG Kathleen Lane: Temple
Lt Gov Jim Cawley: Temple

Connecticut:

Governor Dannel Malloy: Boston College
Senator Chris Murphy: Oxford
Senator Richard Blumenthal: Yale
AG George Jepsen: Dartmouth
Lt Gov Nancy Wyman: Long Island College Hospital

Ohio:

Governor John Kasich: Ohio State
Senator Rob Portman: Michigan
Senator Sherrod Brown: Ohio State
AG Mike DeWine: Ohio Northern
Lt Gov Mary Taylor: Akron

Florida:

Governor Rick Scott: SMU
Senator Bill Nelson: UVA
Senator Marco Rubio: Miami
AG Pam Bondi: Stetson
Lt Gov Carlos López-Cantera: Miami

Louisiana:

Governor Bobby Jindal: Tulane
Senator Mary Landrieu: LSU
Senator David Vitter: Tulane
AG Buddy Caldwell: Tulane
Lt Gov Jay Darenne: LSU

Tennessee:

Governor Bill Haslem: Emory
Senator Bob Corker: Tennessee
Senator Lamar Alexander: Vanderbilt
AG Robert Cooper: Yale
Lt Gov Ron Ramsey: East Tennessee State

Texas:

Governor Rick Perry: Texas A&M
Senator John Cornyn: UVA
Senator Ted Cruz: Harvard
AG Greg Abbott: Vanderbilt
Lt Gov David Dewhurst: Arizona

Oklahoma:

Governor Mary Fallin: Oklahoma State
Senator Jim Inhofe: Tulsa
Senator Tom Coburn: Oklahoma State
AG Scott Pruitt: Tulsa
Lt Gov Todd Lamb: Oklahoma State

Maryland:

Governor Martin O'Malley: Maryland
Senator Ben Cardin: Maryland
Senator Barbara Mikulski: Maryland
AG Doug Gansler: UVA
Lt Gov Anthony Brown: Fordham

I'm currently attending Governor Corbett's alma mater. Of course, Corbett might (sadly) lose his reelection. If so, his opponent Tom Wolf attended Dartmouth.

Perhaps, Lebanon Valley College (LVC) could join the AAC? Our football team went to the playoffs last year and we deliver the Annville media market with the Amish fan base!

SMU law school grad Dan Branch is chairman of the Texas Higher Education Committee and is most likely going to be the next Texas attorney general. He did his undergrad at Oklahoma Christian University

Good information collection, NBPirate. Did you also happen to come across info that listed where the governors and senators went for graduate and/or professional school? Most people tend to throw their allegiances to their undergraduate alma mater, but some folks are supportive of the athletic programs where they earned their Master's/Ph.D./J.D./MD.

Tulane and Tulsa carry hefty political weight in their respective states

District--Name---------Undergrad>Grad school----Local influence

District 1: G.K. Butterfield----NCCU-----------ECU heavy
District 2: Renee Ellmers-----Oakland U-------Lots of P5 Alumni
District 3: Walter B Jones----Barton C.--------ECU dominant district
District 4: David Price-------Mars>UNC>Yale---P5 heavy district
District 5: Virginia Foxx------UNC>UNCG-------App/NC State/Wake
District 6: Howard Coble-----Guilford>UNC------P5 heavy district
District 7: Mike McIntyre----UNC--------------Heavy P5, G5, Non-fbs.
District 8:Richard Hudson----Charlotte---------Charlotte, P5, App and ECU
District 9:Robert Pittenger---Texas ----------- see above
District 10:Patrick McHenry---Belmont Abbey----see above
District 11:Mark Meadows----USF ----------------App state
District 12:Vacant ------------------------------- See district 9
District 13: George Holding---Wake Forest-----------ECU/NC State

Here's the best spin I can do on our congressmen. I think ECU is the most popular in district 7 (especially outside of ILM) but I'd like an outside opinion.

A few of our congressmen and women are beyond retirement age.... not sure how long this set up will last.

(08-12-2014 02:16 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  SMU law school grad Dan Branch is chairman of the Texas Higher Education Committee and is most likely going to be the next Texas attorney general. He did his undergrad at Oklahoma Christian University

The Lt Governor in Texas is probably more powerful than the governor. David Dewhurst, the current Lt Gov, graduated from the University of Arizona and lives in Houston. Dan Patrick (who beat Dewhurst in the runoff) will likely be the next Lt Gov of Texas. He graduated from the University of Maryland and lives in Houston (the Cypress area to be specific). He has been pretty supportive of UH. Interestingly, Patrick actually came to Houston doing TV sports for the local CBS affiliate in 1970's. He went on to own a couple of sports bars (went bankrupt) and later took over a radio station (became very successful) and did sports talk for a decade. He is a very knowledgeable observer of sports--pretty funny too. I used to listen to his show all the time.

Senators don't really have that much power over state institutions in a ton of states

FWIW, Rob Portman's brother (William "Wym" Portman) sits on the Board of Trustees at UC.

The Speaker of the House, John Boehner, is a Cincinnati native and his district is located here. However, his alma mater is rival Xavier University.

(08-12-2014 02:09 PM)NBPirate Wrote:  North Carolina:

Governor Pat McCrory: Catawba College
Senator Kay Hagan: Wake Forest
Senator Richard Burr: Wake Forest
AG Roy Cooper: North Carolina
Lt Gov Dan Forest: UNC Charlotte

Pennsylvania:

Governor Tom Corbett: Lebanon Valley College
Senator Bob Casey Jr: Catholic University
Senator Pat Toomey: Harvard
AG Kathleen Lane: Temple
Lt Gov Jim Cawley: Temple

Connecticut:

Governor Dannel Malloy: Boston College
Senator Chris Murphy: Oxford
Senator Richard Blumenthal: Yale
AG George Jepsen: Dartmouth
Lt Gov Nancy Wyman: Long Island College Hospital

Ohio:

Governor John Kasich: Ohio State
Senator Rob Portman: Michigan
Senator Sherrod Brown: Ohio State
AG Mike DeWine: Ohio Northern
Lt Gov Mary Taylor: Akron

Florida:

Governor Rick Scott: SMU
Senator Bill Nelson: UVA
Senator Marco Rubio: Miami
AG Pam Bondi: Stetson
Lt Gov Carlos López-Cantera: Miami

Louisiana:

Governor Bobby Jindal: Tulane
Senator Mary Landrieu: LSU
Senator David Vitter: Tulane
AG Buddy Caldwell: Tulane
Lt Gov Jay Darenne: LSU

Tennessee:

Governor Bill Haslem: Emory
Senator Bob Corker: Tennessee
Senator Lamar Alexander: Vanderbilt
AG Robert Cooper: Yale
Lt Gov Ron Ramsey: East Tennessee State

Texas:

Governor Rick Perry: Texas A&M
Senator John Cornyn: UVA
Senator Ted Cruz: Harvard
AG Greg Abbott: Vanderbilt
Lt Gov David Dewhurst: Arizona

Oklahoma:

Governor Mary Fallin: Oklahoma State
Senator Jim Inhofe: Tulsa
Senator Tom Coburn: Oklahoma State
AG Scott Pruitt: Tulsa
Lt Gov Todd Lamb: Oklahoma State

Maryland:

Governor Martin O'Malley: Maryland
Senator Ben Cardin: Maryland
Senator Barbara Mikulski: Maryland
AG Doug Gansler: UVA
Lt Gov Anthony Brown: Fordham

Hopefully, for CT's sake, we vote out the clown show (or a$$hat show, if you will) that is our Gov. and Lt. Gov. in November. Apologies for the political slant of the post, but CT really f***ed up electing those 2.