Fred Thompson
Lawyer
Successful Law & Order actor who went on to serve as a U.S. Senator from 1994 to 2003.
He earned his law degree from Vanderbilt back in 1967.
He played Arthur Branch on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
He divorced his first wife, Sarah Elizabeth Lindsey, in 1985. He married Jeri Kehn seventeen years later.
He was the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, and he was succeeded by the great Joe Lieberman.