Colgate Whitehead Darden, Jr. (February 11 1897 June 9 1981) was a congressman from Virginia (1933-37, 1939-41), Virginia governor (1942-46), and president of the University of Virginia (1947-59). He was a Democrat. He is the namesake of the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration. He graduated from Columbia Law School in 1923. He was born on a farm near Franklin, Virginia served in the French Army and the United States Marine Corps Air Service during World War I and attended the University of Virginia before going on to Columbia Law School and then Oxford University. Before entering politics he was a lawyer. He was a member of the Virginia state house of delegates from 1930 to 1933. He was a delegate for the United States to the United Nations general assembaly in 1955. He died at his home in Norfolk, Virginia.