William H. Hastie
Politician
Civil rights activist and politician, most remembered as the first Governor of the United States Virgin Islands.
He matriculated -- magna cum laude -- from Amherst College.
He also taught Law at Howard University, where one of his students was future supreme court justice, Thurgood Marshall.
He was born in Knoxville, Tennessee.
He and first lady, Michelle Obama, both studied at Harvard's prestigious law school.