Skull and Bones - Brochure

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SKULL & BONES

ABRIDGED BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY OFPROMINENT MEMBERS & MEMBERSHIP LIST

By William P. Litynski


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(Source: Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Powerby Alexandra Robbins)

Skull & Bones presidential candidates U.S. Senator John Kerry (left) and President George W. Bush (right) in 2004

My senior year I joined Skull and Bones, a secret society, so secret I cant say anything more. George W. Bush, fromA Charge to Keep


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Members of Skull and Bones Class of 1878. Members of this class include former U.S. President William Howard Taft.

Members of Skull & Bones Class of 1948. George H.W. Bush stands to the left of the clock.


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Unidentified members of Skull & Bones wear black hoods over their heads on Tap Day in 1937.

Lawrence Morgan Kelley (S&B 1937, left) taps John Edwin Ecklund Jr. (S&B 1938, right) on Tap Day in 1937. Kelley wasawarded the Heisman Trophy in 1936. Ecklund was the Treasurer of Yale University from 1966 to 1978.


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Skull & Bones membership roster for the Class of 1948


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Skull & Bones membership roster for the Class of 1878


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The Taft Brothers stand together for a group portrait. From left to right: Henry Waters Taft, William Howard Taft, CharlesPhelps Taft, and Horace Dutton Taft. Everyone except for Charles Phelps Taft was a member of Skull & Bones. Charles PheTaft was William Howard Tafts half-brother. All four men were the sons of Alphonso Taft, who was one of the original

members of Skull & Bones. The Order of Skull & Bones was established by Dr. William Huntington Russell, M.D., in 1832.

The Order of Skull & Bones was incorporated in Connecticut as Russell Trust Association and later RTA Incorporated.

(Time Life photo)


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Members of the Yale Corporation in April 1968

Front row, left to right:Joseph Irwin Miller(Chairman of the board of Cummins Engine Co.), John Hay Whitney (former U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain),Edwin Foster Blair, Kingman Brewster Jr. (President of Yale University), The Reverend Gardiner Mumford Day, Joseph Richardson Dilwo(Chairman of the board of Rockefeller Center, Inc.), and Harold Howe II (U.S. Commissioner of Education).

Back row, left to right:William Warren Scranton, The Right Reverend Paul Moore Jr., John Vliet Lindsay (Mayor of New York City), William McChesney Martin J(Chairman of the Federal Reserve), William Putnam Bundy (Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs), CarylParker Haskins (President of Carnegie Institution of Washington), Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr., William Horowitz, and Spencer DumareMoseley. Absent: Arthur Kittredge Watson (Chairman of IBM World Trade Corporation).

Edwin Foster Blair, Joseph Richardson Dilworth, Harold Howe II, William Putnam Bundy, Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr., and SpencerDumaresq Moseley were members ofSkull & Bones. John Hay Whitney and John Vliet Lindsay were members ofScroll & Key. The RigReverend Paul Moore Jr. was a member ofWolfs Head.


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Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. partners (from left to right) E. Roland Harriman, Prescott S. Bush, Knight Woolley, and Robert A. Lovett meprivately at the Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. office in New York City on July 28, 1964. The Gulf of Tonkin incident occurred during the fiweek of August 1964. All four men were members of Skull & Bones. E. Roland Harriman and Prescott S. Bush were directors of UnionBanking Corporation, a bank in New York City that stored Nazi German financier Fritz Thyssens asset of $3,000,000 in 1941.

The Bush family, from left to right: Barbara Bush, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Dorothy Walker Bush, and Prescott S. Bush. GeorW. Bush, George H.W. Bush, and Prescott S. Bush are (or were) members of Skull & Bones.


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Reichsbank President and Nazi German Economics Minister Hjalmar Schacht (left), former U.S. President Herbert Hoover (center), andAmerican Ambassador to Nazi Germany Hugh Robert Wilson (right) dress for the occasion at a reception held in Berlin on March 8, 1938.Hugh Robert Wilson was a member of Skull & Bones at Yale University. (Austrian Archives/CORBIS)

W. Averell Harriman (second from left), the Chairman of the board of Union Pacific Railroad and Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.sits next to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (left) and Soviet Commissar Josef Stalin in 1942. Soviet Foreign Minister VyacheslavMolotov is seated on the far right. W. Averell Harriman was a member of Skull & Bones at Yale University.


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Benito Mussolini (left), the dictator of Fascist Italy, rides in a motorboat with U.S. Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson in Italy in January 193Henry L. Stimson was a member of Skull & Bones at Yale University. (Photo by New York Times Co./Getty Images)

Former President George H.W. Bush visits Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) terrorist Yasser Arafat (center) and his assistant HananAshrawi (left) at a hotel in Washington, D.C. on September 13, 1993. George H.W. Bush is a member of Skull & Bones at Yale University.(Maher Attar/CORBIS SYGMA)


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President George W. Bush meets with Communist Vietnams President Nguyen Minh Triet in the former palace of the French governor genof Indochina in Hanoi, Communist Vietnam on November 17, 2006. George W. Bush is a member of Skull & Bones at Yale University.(Kham/Reuters)

President George H.W. Bush celebrates on Tiananmen Square in Beijing [Peking], Communist China on February 25, 1989. The TiananmSquare Massacre occurred in Beijing on June 4, 1989. George H.W. Bush is a member of Skull & Bones at Yale University. Yale Universiestablished an organization called Yale-in-China in Changsha, China in the early 1900s; Mao Tse-tung once lived in Changsha, China.
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President George H.W. Bush and King Fahd of Saudi Arabia are seen laughing inside the Royal Palace in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Novem21, 1990, less than two months before the beginning of the Persian Gulf War. (Photo: George Bush Presidential Library)

sraels Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (left) and President George W. Bush laugh together during their press conference in the Rose Garden athe White House on July 29, 2003, approximately four months after President George W. Bush authorized Americas invasion and occupatioof Iraq. Ariel Sharon was a member of the Likud Party at the time this photo was taken. George W. Bush is a member of Skull & Bones atYale University. (White House photo by Paul Morse)
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George H.W. Bush (second from right) appears with CIA Director Porter Goss and seven other former CIA directors on August 16, 2005. Lto right: Porter Goss, John Deutch, Robert Gates, William Webster, Stansfield Turner, R. James Woolsey, James Schlesinger, George H.WBush, and George Tenet. George H.W. Bush is a member of Skull & Bones at Yale University. (Official CIA Photo)

Members of the Warren Commission present their report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy at the White House onSeptember 24, 1964. From Left to right: John McCloy (Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations), J. Lee Rankin (General Counsel), USenator Richard Russell, U.S. Congressman Gerald Ford, Earl Warren (Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court), President Lyndon B.Johnson, former CIA Director Allen Dulles, U.S. Senator John Sherman Cooper, and U.S. Congressman Hale Boggs. John Sherman Coop

was a member of Skull & Bones at Yale University. (Photo: Cecil Stoughton/Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library)


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John McCloy (left), the former Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, chats with Henry R. Luce (right), the founder of Time, Life, and Fortunemagazines, at a dinner in New York City in September 1966. John McCloy was a member of the Warren Commission. Henry R. Luce wasmember of Skull & Bones at Yale University. (Photo by Al Fenn/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Governor of Puerto Rico Luis Munoz Marin (center) watches Nelson Rockefeller (second from left) shake hands with Governor of New YorkAverell Harriman during a meeting in New York City on September 10, 1958. Averell Harriman was a member of Skull & Bones at Yale

University. (Photo:Puerto Rican Heritage Digital Library)
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David Rockefeller (left), the former Chairman and CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank, receives a gift from George H.W. Bush. George H.W. Bs a member of Skull & Bones at Yale University.

nternational banker John Pierpont Morgan (left) shakes hands with Secretary of War William Howard Taft (right) at Yale University in NewHaven, Connecticut in June 1908. William Howard Taft was a member of Skull & Bones at Yale University.


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President-elect Woodrow Wilson (left, Democratic Party) and outgoing President William Howard Taft (right, Republican Party) laugh togethoutside the White House on March 4, 1913 prior to Wilsons inauguration. The 16th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution legalizing the fedencome tax was ratified on February 3, 1913; the Federal Reserve Act was signed by President Woodrow Wilson on December 23, 1913.William Howard Taft was a member of Skull & Bones at Yale University. (Photo: Library of Congress)

Former President George H.W. Bush (left, Republican Party) greets U.S. President Barack Obama (right, Democratic Party) at the Points ofLight forum at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas on October 16, 2009. George H.W. Bush is a member of Skull & Bones at YUniversity. (Reuters)
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Vice President Richard Nixon (2nd from left, Republican Party) greets U.S. Senator Prescott S. Bush (right, Republican Party). Prescott S.Bush was a member of Skull & Bones at Yale University.

President George W. Bush (center, Republican Party) appears with former President George H.W. Bush (left, Republican Party) and formerPresident Bill Clinton (right, Democratic Party) at the White House. George W. Bush and his father George H.W. Bush are members of SkuBones at Yale University.


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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (left) shakes hands with Henry L. Stimson at the White House on July 10, 1940 after the Senateconfirmed his nomination as Secretary of War. Henry L. Stimson was a member of Skull & Bones at Yale University. Franklin DelanoRoosevelts grandfather Warren Delano Jr. was a partner of Russell & Co., an American company that sold opium in China in the early 180(Bettmann/CORBIS)

President George H.W. Bush (center) appears with former presidents (left to right) Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and JimmyCarter in the Oval Office on November 4, 1991. (Photo: George Bush Presidential Library)


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Former President of Yale University Timothy Dwight, U.S. President William Howard Taft, and President of Yale University Arthur TwiningHadley walk together during a commencement at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut on June 21, 1911. All three men were memb

of Skull & Bones. The Wuchang Uprising and the overthrow of the Ching (Manchu) Dynasty occurred in China on October 10, 1911.

William P. Litynski

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:I served in the U.S. Army from 2001 to 2004 as a soldier in the First Armored Division in Germany (1-1 CAV,Budingen); I was deployed to Iraq (near Baghdad) from April 2003 to July 2004. I have traveled to many cities anplaces, including Tokyo, London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Vienna, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt, Milan, Venice,Luxembourg City, Boston, Philadelphia, New York City, Washington D.C., Baltimore, Chicago, San Francisco, SaDiego, Seattle, Denver, Dallas, New Haven (Connecticut), Yale University, Harvard University, Princeton UniversColumbia University, Buckingham Palace, British Parliament, Reichstag, Grand Canyon, Swiss Alps, and the RhiRiver valley. I reside in Pensacola, Florida and lived in Crestview, Florida for several years.E-mail: [email protected]


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PROMINENT MEMBERS OF SKULL & BONES

George H.W. Bush

Full Name: George Herbert Walker Bush (Skull & Bones Class of 1948)

Date of Birth: Born on June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Education: B.A. Yale 1948

Occupations:

President of the United States (1989-1993); Vice President of the United States (1981-1989)

Director of the Council on Foreign Relations (1977-1979)

Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (1976-1977)

U.S. Liaison Officer to Communist China (1974-1975)

Chairman of the Republican National Committee (1973-1974)U.S. Representative to the United Nations (1971-1973)

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Texas, 1967-1971)

Chairman of the board of Zapata Off Shore Co. [in Houston, Texas] (1964-1966)

President of Zapata Off Shore Co. [in Houston, Texas] (1956-1964)

Member of the Bohemian Grove in California; Son of U.S. Senator Prescott S. Bush

Graduated from Phillips Andover Academy [preparatory school in Andover, Massachusetts] in 1942

William Howard Taft

Full Name: William Howard Taft (Skull & Bones Class of 1878)

Date of Birth: Born on September 15, 1857, in Cincinnati, Ohio

Date of Death: Died on March 8, 1930, in Washington, D.C.

Education: B.A. Yale 1878; LL.B. University of Cincinnati College of Law 1880

Occupations:

Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1921-1930)President of the United States (1909-1913); Secretary of War (1904-1908)

Civil Governor of the Philippine Islands (1901-1904)

Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (1892-1900)

Solicitor General of the United States (1890-1892)

Judge of the Superior Court of Ohio (1887-1890)

Professor and Dean, University of Cincinnati (1896-1900)

Kent Professor of Law at Yale University (1913-1921)

President of American Red Cross (1906-1913); Chairman of American Red Cross (1915-1919)

President of the English-Speaking Union of the United States (1921-1930)

President of American Bar Association (1913)

Member of the Bohemian Grove in California

Son of former U.S. Attorney General Alphonso Taft

W. Averell Harriman

Full Name: William Averell Harriman (Skull & Bones Class of 1913)

Date of Birth: Born on November 15, 1891

Date of Death: Died on July 26, 1986, in Yorktown Heights, New York

Education: B.A. Yale 1913; Attended Groton School

Occupations:

Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1946)

Limited Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1946-1986)

Chairman of the board of Union Pacific Railroad Co. (1932-1942)

Chairman of the board of W.A. Harriman & Co. (1920-1931)

Chairman of the board of Merchant Shipbuilding Corp. (1917-1925)

Investor in Soviet Georgian manganese concessions (1925-1928)

Special Representative of the President of the United States to Great Britain (1941-1943)U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1943-1946); U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain (1946)

Secretary of Commerce (1946-1948)

United States Coordinator for the European Recovery Program [Marshall Plan] (1948-1950)

Director of Mutual Security Agency (1951-1953)

Governor of New York (1955-1959)

Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs (1961-1963)

Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1963-1965); Ambassador at Large (1961, 1965-1969)

U.S. Negotiator at the Paris Peace Conference on Vietnam (1968-1969)

Member, United States delegation to Zimbabwe independence ceremonies (1980)

Member of the Council on Foreign Relations (1924-1986)


Son of Union Pacific Railroad chief Edward H. Harriman


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Henry L. Stimson

Secretary of War (May 22, 1911-March 4, 1913; July 10, 1940-September 21, 1945)

Secretary of State (March 28, 1929-March 4, 1933)

Governor General of the Philippines (December 27, 1927-February 23, 1929)

U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (1906-1910)

Counsel of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1891-1906, 1913-1927, 1933-1940, 1945-1950)

President of the New York City Bar Association (1937-1939)

Member of the Council on Foreign Relations (1924-1929, 1934-1950)

B.A. Yale 1888; M.A. Harvard 1889; S&B 1888

graduated from Phillips Andover Academy [preparatory school] in 1883

married Mabel Wellington White, daughter of Charles Atwood White (S&B 1854) and great-great-

granddaughter of Constitution signer Roger Sherman, in 1893Born in New York City on September 21, 1867; Died on October 20, 1950

Robert A. Lovett

Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1940, 1946-1947, 1949-1950, 1953-1986)

U.S. Secretary of Defense (September 17, 1951-January 20, 1953)

Deputy Secretary of Defense (1949-1951)

Under Secretary of State (1947-1949)

Assistant Secretary of War for Air (1941-1945)

Former member of the board of directors of Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)

Former member of the board of directors of New York Life Insurance Company


B.A. Yale 1918; S&B 1918

Born in Huntsville, Texas on September 14, 1895; Died on May 7, 1986

Prescott S. Bush

Member of the U.S. Senate (R-Connecticut, 1952-1963)Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1972)

Former member of the board of directors of Union Banking Corporation, Columbia Broadcasting Sys

(CBS), and Prudential Insurance Co.

Chairman of National War Fund Campaign (1943-1944)

National Campaign Chairman of U.S.O. (1942)

President of U.S. Golf Association (1935)

B.A. Yale 1917; S&B 1917

Married to Dorothy Walker, daughter of businessman George Herbert Walker Sr.

Born in Columbus, Ohio on May 15, 1895; Died in New York City on October 8, 1972

McGeorge Bundy

Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science at Harvard University (1953-1961)

Professor of Government at Harvard University (1954-1961)

National Security Advisor (1961-1966)President of Ford Foundation (1966-1979)

Professor of History at New York University (1979-1989)

Chairman, committee on reducing the nuclear danger at Carnegie Corporation of New York (1990-19

Scholar-in-residence at Carnegie Corporation of New York (1993-1996)


Bilderberg Meetings participant

Son of former Assistant Secretary of State Harvey H. Bundy (S&B 1909)

Brother of William P. Bundy (S&B 1939)

B.A. Yale 1940; S&B 1940

graduated from Groton School [preparatory school in Groton, Massachusetts] in 1936

Born in Boston on March 30, 1919; Died in Boston on September 16, 1996

William P. Bundy

Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1964-1969)Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (1963-1964)

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (1961-1963)

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent (1951-1961)

Editor ofForeign Affairs magazine (1972-1984)



Honorary Bilderberg Meetings Secretary General for the United States (1977-1980)

Son of former Assistant Secretary of State Harvey H. Bundy (S&B 1909)

married to Mary Acheson, daughter of former U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson

B.A. Yale 1939; M.A. Harvard 1940; LL.B. Harvard 1947; S&B 1939

graduated from Groton School [preparatory school in Groton, Massachusetts] in 1935

Born September 24, 1917; Died October 6, 2000


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George Leslie Harrison

Chairman of the board of New York Life Insurance Co. (1948-1954)

President of New York Life Insurance Co. (1941-1948)

President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1936-1940)

Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1928-1936)

Deputy Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1920-1928)

General Counsel of the Federal Reserve Board (1919-1920)

Assistant General Counsel of the Federal Reserve Board (1914-1918)


Member of the Pilgrims Society of the United States

B.A. Yale 1910; LL.B. Harvard 1913; S&B 1910

Born January 26, 1887; Died March 5, 1958

Pierre Jay

Chairman of the board of Fiduciary Trust Company [New York City] (1930-1945)

Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1914-1926)

Deputy Agent General for reparation payments under Dawes Plan (1927-1930)

Vice President of Manhattan Company in New York City (1909-1914)

Bank Commissioner of Massachusetts (1906-1909)


B.A. Yale 1892; S&B 1892

Born in Warwick, New York on May 4, 1870; Died in New York City on November 24, 1949

Great-great-great-grandson of William Livingston (B.A. Yale 1741), signer of the Constitution

Great-great-grandson of John Jay, former Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

Harold Stanley

Partner of Morgan, Stanley & Co. (1941-1955)President of Morgan, Stanley & Co. (1935-1941)

Partner of J.P. Morgan & Co. (1928-1935)

Vice President of Guaranty Trust Co. of New York (1916-1928)


B.A. Yale 1908; S&B 1908

Born October 2, 1885; Died in Philadelphia on May 14, 1963

H.J. Heinz II

Chairman of the board of H.J. Heinz Company (1959-1987)

Chief Executive Officer of H.J. Heinz Company (1941-1966)

President of H.J. Heinz Company (1941-1959)


Bilderberg Meetings participantFather of former U.S. Senator H.J. Heinz III

B.A. Yale 1931; S&B 1931

Born July 10, 1908; Died February 23, 1987

Charles M. Spofford

Member of Davis, Polk & Wardwell [law firm in New York City] (1940-1950, 1952-1973)

Chairman of North Atlantic Council of Deputies and European Coordinating Committee (1950-1952)





Born in St. Louis, Missouri on November 17, 1902; Died March 23, 1991

J. Richardson Dilworth

Senior financial adviser to the Rockefeller family (1958-1981)

Chairman of the board of Rockefeller Center, Inc. (1966-1982)

Partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. [international bank in New York City] (1951-1958)

President of Rockefeller Bros., Inc. (1958-?)

Chairman of the Metropolitan Museum of Art [New York City] (1983-1987)

Director of Chase Manhattan Bank (1958-1981)


Member of the Pilgrims Society of the United States

B.A. Yale 1938; LL.B. Yale 1942; S&B 1938

Born on June 9, 1916; Died in Princeton, New Jersey on December 29, 1997


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E. Roland Harriman

Chairman of the board of Union Pacific Railroad Co. (1946-1969)

Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1978)

Former Director of Union Banking Corporation

Chairman of American Red Cross (1954-1973)

President of American Red Cross (1950-1953)


Son of Union Pacific Railroad chief Edward H. Harriman; Brother of W. Averell Harriman

B.A. Yale 1917; S&B 1917; Graduated from Groton School in 1913

Born in New York City on December 24, 1895; Died February 16, 1978

William H. Donaldson

Chairman of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (2003-2005)

Chairman and CEO of Aetna Insurance Co. (2000-2001)Chairman of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1999-2003)

Chairman of the board of New York Stock Exchange (1991-1995)

Chairman and CEO of Donaldson Enterprises (1980-1990)

Dean of Yale School of Management (1976-1980)

Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance (1973-1974)

Chairman and CEO of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc. [New York City] (1959-1973)

Member of the Council on Foreign Relations (1974-present)

B.A. Yale 1953; M.B.A. Harvard 1958; S&B 1953; Born June 2, 1931

Winston Lord

Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1993-1997)

U.S. Ambassador to Communist China (1985-1989)

President of the Council on Foreign Relations (1977-1985)

Director of State Department Policy Planning Staff (1973-1977)Member of the Council on Foreign Relations (1973-present)

Member of the Trilateral Commission


Son of Oswald Bates Lord (S&B 1926); nephew of former Pillsbury Chairman Philip W. Pillsbury

B.A. Yale 1959; M.A. Tufts University 1960; S&B 1959

Born in New York City on August 14, 1937

David L. Boren

President of the University of Oklahoma (1994-present)

Member of the U.S. Senate (D-Oklahoma, 1979-1994)

Governor of Oklahoma (1975-1979)

Member of the Oklahoma State House of Representatives (1967-1975)

Co-Chairman of the Presidents Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (2009-present)

Trustee of Yale University (1988-1997)Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University


Son of former U.S. Congressman Lyle H. Boren; Father of U.S. Congressman Dan Boren

B.A. Yale 1963; M.A. Oxford 1965; J.D. University of Oklahoma 1968; S&B 1963

Born in Washington, D.C. on April 21, 1941

John Forbes Kerry

Member of the U.S. Senate (D-Massachusetts, 1985-present)

Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1982-1984)

Anti-Vietnam War protester; testified before Congress in Winter Soldier hearings on April 22, 197

Commissioned Officer in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War


Husband of Teresa Heinz, widow of former U.S. Senator H.J. Heinz IIIB.A. Yale 1966; S&B 1966

Born on December 11, 1943

George W. Bush

President of the United States (2001-2009)

Governor of Texas (1994-2000)

Part-Owner of Texas Rangers [Major League Baseball franchise] (1989-1994)

Son of former U.S. President George H.W. Bush

Grandson of former U.S. Senator Prescott S. Bush

B.A. Yale 1968; M.B.A. Harvard 1975; S&B 1968

Graduated from Phillips Andover Academy [preparatory school in Andover, Massachusetts] in 1964

Born on July 6, 1946 in New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.


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Robert A. Taft

Member of the U.S. Senate (R-Ohio, 1939-1953)

Senate Majority Leader (1953)

Member of the Ohio General Assembly (1921-1926)

Member of Ohio State Senate (1931-1932)

Unsuccessful U.S. presidential candidate for the Republican Party (1940, 1948, 1952)

Son of former U.S. President William Howard Taft

Grandson of former U.S. Attorney General Alphonso Taft


Born in Cincinnati, Ohio on September 8, 1889; Died in New York City on July 31, 1953

John Sherman Cooper

Member of the U.S. Senate (R-Kentucky, 1946-1949; 1952-1955; 1956-1973)U.S. Ambassador to India (1955-1956)

U.S. Ambassador to Nepal (1955-1956)

U.S. Ambassador to East Germany (1974-1976)

Member of the Warren Commission (1964)

Member of the Kentucky State House of Representatives (1928-1930)

Judge of Pulaski County, Kentucky (1930-1938)

Member of the board of trustees of the University of Kentucky (1935-1946)


B.A. Yale 1923; S&B 1923

Born August 23, 1901; Died in Washington, D.C. on February 21, 1991

John H. Chafee

Member of the U.S. Senate (R-Rhode Island, 1976-1999)

Secretary of the Navy (1969-1972)Governor of Rhode Island (1963-1969)

Member of Rhode Island State House of Representatives (1956-1963)


Member of the Trilateral Commission


Father of U.S. Senator Lincoln D. Chafee


Born in Providence, Rhode Island on October 22, 1922; Died October 24, 1999

Frederic C. Walcott

Member of the U.S. Senate (R-Connecticut, 1929-1935)

Member of the staff, United States Food Administration (1917-1918)

President of the Connecticut Board of Fisheries and Game (1923-1928)Chairman of the Connecticut Water Commission (1925-1928)

Commissioner of Welfare of Connecticut (1935-1939)

Member of the advisory committee of the Human Welfare Group of Yale University (1920-1948)

Regent of the Smithsonian Institution (1941-1948)


B.A. Yale 1891; S&B 1891

Born February 19, 1869; Died April 27, 1949

Potter Stewart

Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1958-1981)

Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (1954-1958)

Member of Cincinnati City Council (1951-1954)

Ruled in favor of abortion of unborn children in Roe v. Wade (1973)


Son of former Mayor of Cincinnati James Garfield StewartB.A. Yale 1937; LL.B. Yale 1941; S&B 1937

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio on January 23, 1915; Died December 7, 1985

Morrison R. Waite

Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1874-1888)

Member of the Ohio General Assembly (1849-1850)

President of Ohio Constitutional Convention of 1873

B.A. Yale 1837; S&B 1837

Born November 29, 1816; Died in Washington, D.C. on March 23, 1888


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Alphonso Taft

Secretary of War (1876); U.S. Attorney General (1876-1877)

U.S. Minister to Austro-Hungarian Empire (1882-1884)

U.S. Minister to the Russian Empire (1884-1885)

Judge of Superior Court of Cincinnati (1865-1872)

Member of the Common Council of Cincinnati (1847-1849)

Member of the Cincinnati Board of Education; Republican Party candidate for Congress in 1856

B.A. Yale 1833; S&B 1833; Co-Founder of The Order of Skull & Bones

Born in Townshend, Vermont on November 5, 1810; Died in San Diego, California on May 21, 1891

William Maxwell Evarts

U.S. Attorney General (1868-1869)

U.S. Secretary of State (1877-1881)Member of the U.S. Senate (R-New York, 1885-1891)

Special Diplomatic Envoy to Great Britain and France during the Civil War

Grandson of Constitution signer Roger Sherman

B.A. Yale 1837; S&B 1837

Born in Boston on February 6, 1818; Died in New York City on February 28, 1901

William Barrett Washburn

Member of the U.S. Senate (R-Massachusetts, 1874-1875)

Governor of Massachusetts (1872-1874)

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Massachusetts, 1863-1871)

Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1853-1855)

Member of the Massachusetts State Senate (1850)

B.A. Yale 1844, S&B 1844Born January 31, 1820; Died October 5, 1887

Chauncey M. Depew

Member of the U.S. Senate (R-New York, 1899-1911)

President of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Co. (1885-1898)

Second Vice-President of New York Central & Hudson River Railroad (1882-1885)

General Counsel and director of the so-called Vanderbilt System (1876-c.1882)

Attorney for New York Central & Hudson River Railroad (1869-1876)

Attorney for New York & Harlem Railroad (1866-1876)

Colonel and judge advocate of the fifth division of the New York National Guard (1873-1881)

Secretary of State of New York (1864-1865)

Member of the New York State Assembly (1861-1863)Regent of University of the State of New York (1877-1904)

Former Chairman of the board of New York Central Railroad Company

appointed and confirmed United States Minister to Japan in 1865 but declined

B.A. Yale 1856; S&B 1856

Born April 23, 1834; Died April 5, 1928

LeBaron Bradford Colt

Member of the U.S. Senate (R-Rhode Island, 1913-1924)

Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (1884-1913)

Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island (1881-1884)

Member of the Rhode Island State House of Representatives (1879-1881)

Member of Colwell & Colt [law firm in Providence, Rhode Island] (1876-1881)

Member of Palmer & Colt [law firm in Chicago] (1871-1875)

B.A. Yale 1868; LL.B. Columbia 1870; S&B 1868Born June 25, 1846; Died August 18, 1924

William Walter Phelps

U.S. Minister to the German Empire (1889-1893)

U.S. Minister to the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1881-1882)

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-New Jersey, 1873-1875, 1883-1889)

B.A. Yale 1860; LL.B. Columbia 1863; S&B 1860

Born in New York City on August 24, 1839; Died in Englewood, New Jersey on June 17, 1894


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William C. Whitney

Secretary of the Navy (1885-1889)

Corporation Counsel of New York City (1875-1882)

Partner of Whitney & Betts [law firm in New York City] (1871-1876)

Businessman and railway financier in New York City (1889-1902)

B.A. Yale 1863; S&B 1863

Born July 5, 1841; Died February 2, 1904

Franklin MacVeagh

Secretary of the Treasury (1909-1913)

President of Franklin MacVeagh & Company, wholesale grocers (1866-1909, 1915-1932)Director of the Commercial National Bank of Chicago (1880-1909)

President of Chicago Bureau of Charities (1896-1904)

Trustee of University of Chicago (1901-1913)

B.A. Yale 1862; LL.B. Columbia 1864; S&B 1862

Born November 22, 1837; Died in Chicago on July 16, 1934

Brother of former U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Ambassador to Italy Wayne MacVeagh

Gifford Pinchot

Governor of Pennsylvania (1923-1927, 1931-1935)

Chief of the U.S. Forest Service (1905-1910)

Professor of Forestry at Yale University (1903-1936)

President of National Conservation Association (1910-1925)

Member of the council of Yale-in-China (1926-1930)Brother of ACLU Co-Founder Amos Pinchot (S&B 1897)

B.A. Yale 1889; S&B 1889

Born August 11, 1865; Died in New York City on October 4, 1946

Simeon E. Baldwin

Governor of Connecticut (1911-1915)

Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors (1907-1910)

Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors (1893-1910)

President of American Bar Association (1890)

Professor of Law at Yale Law School (1869-1919)

Legal Counsel to the New York and New England Railroad (1871)

Son of former U.S. Senator and Governor of Connecticut Roger Sherman Baldwin

Great-grandson of Constitution signer Roger ShermanB.A. Yale 1861, S&B 1861

Born in New Haven, Connecticut on February 5, 1840; Died in New Haven, CT on January 30, 1927

George Peabody Wetmore

Governor of Rhode Island (1885-1887)

Member of the U.S. Senate (R-Rhode Island, 1895-1907, 1908-1913)

Presidential elector on the Republican ticket in 1880 and 1884

B.A. Yale 1867; LL.B. Columbia 1868; M.A. Yale 1871; S&B 1867

Born in London, England on August 2, 1846; Died in Boston on September 11, 1921

Frank B. Brandegee


Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Connecticut, 1902-1905)

Member of the Connecticut State House of Representatives (1888, 1899)

Corporation Counsel of New London, Connecticut (1889-1893, 1894-1897, 1901-1902)

Delegate to the Republican National Convention (1888, 1892, 1900, 1904)

President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate during the 62nd Congress (1911-1913)

B.A. Yale 1885; S&B 1885

Son of former U.S. Congressman Augustus Brandegee (S&B 1849)

Born in New London, Connecticut on July 8, 1864

Died by suicide in Washington, D.C. on October 14, 1924


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Andrew Dickson White

President of Cornell University (1866-1885)

U.S. Minister to the German Empire (1879-1881, 1897-1902)

U.S. Minister to the Russian Empire (1892-1894)

President of American Historical Association (1884)

Professor of History and English Literature at the University of Michigan (1857-1863)

Member of the New York State Senate (1864)

President of the American Delegation to The Hague Peace Conference (1899)

B.A. Yale 1853; Ph.D. Jena (Germany) 1889; S&B 1853

Born November 7, 1832, Died November 4, 1918

Daniel Coit Gilman

President of Johns Hopkins University (1875-1901)President of University of California at Berkeley (1872-1875)

Librarian of Yale University (1858-1865)

President of the American Oriental Society (1893-1905)

Secretary of Connecticut State Board of Education (1865-1866)

B.A. Yale 1852; S&B 1852

Born July 6, 1831; Died October 13, 1908

Charles Seymour

President of Yale University (1937-1950)

Provost of Yale University (1927-1937)

Professor of History at Yale University (1918-1937)Chief of Austro-Hungarian Division, American Commission to Negotiate Peace, Paris Peace Confere

(1918-1919)

Trustee of the World Peace Foundation (1939-1945)


B.A. Yale 1908; Ph.D. Yale 1911; S&B 1908

Born in New Haven, Connecticut on January 1, 1885; Died August 11, 1963

Arthur Twining Hadley


Professor of Political Economy at Yale University (1891-1899)

Professor of Political Science at Yale University (1886-1891)

Dean of the Graduate School at Yale University (1892-1895)

President of American Economic Association (1899-1900)B.A. Yale 1876; Ph.D. University of Berlin, Germany 1910; S&B 1876

Born in New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A. on April 23, 1856; Died in Kobe, Japan on March 6, 1930

Timothy Dwight


Professor of Sacred Literature at Yale University (1859-1886)

Grandson of former Yale College President Rev. Timothy Dwight (President, 1795-1817)

Great-great-grandson of Reverend Jonathan Edwards (Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God)

B.A. Yale 1849; S&B 1849

Born November 16, 1828; Died in New Haven, Connecticut on May 26, 1916

Cyrus Northrop

President of University of Minnesota (1884-1911)

Professor of English at Yale University (1863-1884)

Collector of the Port of New Haven, Connecticut (1869-1881)

B.A. Yale 1857; LL.B. Yale 1859; S&B 1857

Born September 30, 1834; Died April 3, 1922


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Orris Sanford Ferry



Brigadier General in the United States Volunteers (1862-1865)

Member of the Connecticut State Senate (1855-1856)

B.A. Yale 1844; S&B 1844

Born August 15, 1823; Died November 21, 1875

William Preston Johnston

President of Tulane University (1884-1899)

President of Louisiana State University (1880-1883)

Professor of English Literature, History, and Political Economy at Washington and Lee University

(1867-1877)

Confederate President Jefferson Daviss Aide-de-camp; Colonel in the Confederate Army

Son of Confederate Army Brigadier General Albert Sidney Johnston (killed in action at Battle of Shil

Served as a pallbearer at the funeral of former Confederate General Robert E. Lee

B.A. Yale 1852; LL.B. University of Louisville 1853; S&B 1852

Born in Louisville, Kentucky on January 5, 1831; Died in Lexington, Virginia on July 16, 1899

Henry Rootes Jackson

U.S. Minister to Mexico (1885-1886)

U.S. Minister to the Austrian Empire (1854-1858)

Judge of the Superior Court of Georgia (1849-1853)U.S. District Attorney of Georgia (1843-1849)

President of the Georgia Historical Society (1872-1898)

Major General in the Confederate Army; taken prisoner at the Battle of Nashville in December 1864

Delegate to the Democratic Party Presidential Convention at Charleston, South Carolina in 1860

B.A. Yale 1839; M.A. University of Georgia 1848; S&B 1839

Born in Athens, Georgia on June 24, 1820; Died in Savannah, Georgia on May 23, 1898

Richard Taylor

Member of the Louisiana State Senate (1856-1861)

Commander of the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana (1864-1865)

Commander of [Confederate] Army of Tennessee (1865)

Lieutenant General in the Confederate Army

Owner ofFashion, a sugar plantation in the St. Charles Parish near New Orleans

Son of former U.S. President Zachary TaylorBrother-in-law of former Confederate President Jefferson Davis

B.A. Yale 1845; S&B 1845

Born January 27, 1826; Died April 12, 1879

Daniel H. Chamberlain

Governor of South Carolina (Republican Party, December 1, 1874-December 14, 1876)

Attorney General of South Carolina (1868-1872)

Captain in 5th Massachusetts Colored Infantry (1864-1865)

First Lieutenant in the Fifth Massachusetts Cavalry (1864)

Member of Chamberlain, Carter & Eaton [law firm in New York City] (1877-1881)


Born June 23, 1835; Died April 13, 1907

Henry Champion Deming

U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue (1869-1872)


Provisional Mayor of New Orleans (1862-1863)

Colonel in the 12th Connecticut Volunteers (1861-1863)

Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut (1854-1858, 1860-1862)

Member of the Connecticut State Senate (1851)

Member of the Connecticut State Legislature (1849-1850, 1859-1860)


Born May 23, 1815; Died in Hartford, Connecticut on October 8, 1872


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Wilson S. Bissell

Lawyer in Buffalo, New York (1872-1893, 1895-1903)

Partner of Bass, Cleveland & Bissell (1874-1879)

[Bissells law partner at Bass, Cleveland & Bissell was Grover Cleveland, later President of the U.S.]

President of the Buffalo & Southwestern Railroad (1883-1895)

Postmaster-General of the United States (1893-1895)

Vice Chancellor of the University of Buffalo (1895-1902)

Chancellor of the University of Buffalo (1902-1903)

B.A. Yale 1869; S&B 1869

Born on December 31, 1847; Died in Buffalo, New York on October 6, 1903

Charles Newell Fowler

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-New Jersey, 1895-1911)Chairman, Committee on Banking and Currency in the U.S. House of Representatives (1901-1909)

Prepared and introduced in Congress in 1910 the Federal Reserve Act bill

President of Equitable Mortgage Company (1887-1893)

B.A. Yale 1876; LL.B. Chicago Law School 1878; S&B 1876

Born November 2, 1852; Died May 27, 1932

Thomas D. Thacher

Partner of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett [law firm in New York City] (1914-1925, 1933-1943)

Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (1907-1910)

Member of the American Red Cross Commission to Russia (1917-1918)

Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1925-1930)

Solicitor General of the U.S. (1930-1933)President of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (1933-1935)

Corporation Counsel of New York City (1943)

Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals (1943-1948)


B.A. Yale 1904; S&B 1904

Born September 10, 1881; Died in New York City on November 12, 1950

Hugh Robert Wilson

U.S. Ambassador to Nazi Germany (March 3, 1938-November 16, 1938)

U.S. Minister to Switzerland (1927-1937)

Assistant U.S. Secretary of State (1937-1938)

Secretary General, Conference for Limitation of Naval Armaments in Geneva (1927)

Counsellor of the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Japan (1921-1923)

Counsellor of the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, Germany (1920-1921)


B.A. Yale 1906; S&B 1906

Born January 29, 1886; Died December 29, 1946

J. Quigg Newton Jr.

Mayor of Denver, Colorado (1947-1955)

Vice President of Ford Foundation (1956)

President of University of Colorado (1956-1963)

President of The Commonwealth Fund (1963-1975)


B.A. Yale 1933, LL.B. Yale 1936, S&B 1933

Attended Phillips Andover Academy (preparatory school in Andover, Massachusetts)

Born in Denver on August 3, 1911; Died in Denver on April 4, 2003

Charles S. Whitehouse

U.S. Ambassador to Thailand (1975-1978)

U.S. Ambassador to Laos (1973-1975)

Deputy U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam (1972-1973)

Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1956-1959)

CIA agent (1947-1956)

Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict (1988-1989)


B.A. Yale 1947; S&B 1947

Son of former U.S. Ambassador to Colombia E. Sheldon Whitehouse (S&B 1905)

Born in Paris on November 5, 1921; Died June 25, 2001


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Evan G. Galbraith

U.S. Ambassador to France (1981-1985)

Managing Director of Dillon, Read & Co. (1975-1981)

Chairman of Bankers Trust International (1969-1975)

Vice President of Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. (1961-1969)

Special Assistant to the Secretary of Commerce (1960-1961)

Former Chairman of the board ofNational Review magazine

U.S. Dept. of Defense representative in Europe and defense advisor to the U.S. mission to NATO (20



Born in Toledo, Ohio on July 2, 1928; Died in New York City on January 21, 2008

Frederick W. Smith

Chairman, CEO, and Founder of Federal Express [FedEx Corp.] (1975-present)


B.A. Yale 1966; S&B 1966

Born in Memphis, Tennessee on August 11, 1944

Stephen A. Schwarzman

Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of The Blackstone Group (1985-present)

Managing Director of Lehman Brothers (1978-1984)

Chairman of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts [Washington, D.C.] (2004-present


B.A. Yale 1969; M.B.A. Harvard 1972; S&B 1969

Born in Philadelphia on February 14, 1947

Thomas Cochran

Partner of J.P. Morgan & Co. (1917-1936)

Director of Bankers Trust Company (1916-1936)

Chairman of the board of Bankers Trust Company (1936)

Vice President of Astor Trust Company (1906-1914)

President of Liberty National Bank of New York (1914-1916)

B.A. Yale 1894; S&B 1894

Born March 20, 1871; Died October 29,1936

Fairfax Harrison

President of Southern Railway Company (1913-1937)

President of Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Company [in Chicago] (1910-1913)

Vice President of Southern Railway Company (1906-1910)

Solicitor for Southern Railway Company (1896-1903)

Assistant to the President of Southern Railway Company (1903-1906)

Member of the board of directors of Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Company

Member of the board of directors of Washington Southern Railway Company

B.A. Yale 1890; M.A. Columbia 1891; S&B 1890

Born in New York City on March 13, 1869; Died in Baltimore on February 2, 1938

Brother of former U.S. Congressman Francis B. Harrison (S&B 1895)

Son of Burton Norvell Harrison (S&B 1859), Jefferson Daviss private secretary during the Civil Wa

Henry Waters Taft

Partner of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft [law firm in New York City] (1899-1945)

President of The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (1923-1925)

President of the Japan Society of New York (1922-1928, 1934-1941)


Member of the Pilgrims Society of the U.S.

B.A. Yale 1880; S&B 1880

Born in Cincinnati on May 27, 1859; Died in New York City on August 11, 1945

Son of former Secretary of War Alphonso Taft (S&B 1833)

Brother of former U.S. President William Howard Taft (S&B 1878)


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Irving Fisher

Professor of Political Economy at Yale University (1898-1935)

Founder and inaugural President of American Eugenics Society (1923-1926)

President of American Economic Association (1918)

Vice President of the U.S. Third International Congress of Eugenics and National Conference on Rac

Betterment (1914)

Member of the organizing committee of International Congress on Hygiene and Demography

Member of the organizing committee of First International Congress on Mental Hygiene (1930)

B.A. Yale 1888; Ph.D. Yale 1891; S&B 1888

Born February 27, 1867; Died in New York City on April 29, 1947

William Henry Welch

Dean of the Medical Faculty at Johns Hopkins University (1893-1898)Director of School of Hygiene and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University (1916-1926)

President of Maryland State Board of Health (1898-1922)

Professor of Pathology at Johns Hopkins University (1884-1916)

President of the board of directors of Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1901-1934)

President of American Medical Association (1910)

B.A. Yale 1870; M.D. Columbia University (College of Physicians and Surgeons) 1875; S&B 1870

Born April 8, 1850; Died April 30, 1934

Stanhope Bayne-Jones

Dean of Yale School of Medicine (1935-1940)

President of Joint Administration Board of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center (1947-1953)

Professor of Bacteriology at University of Rochester School of Medicine (1923-1932)Professor of Bacteriology at Yale School of Medicine (1932-1947)

Deputy Chief, Preventive Medical Service at the Office of the Surgeon General (1942-1946)

Scientific Director of International Health Division at the Rockefeller Foundation (1939-1941)

Member of Surgeon Generals Commission on Smoking and Health, U.S. Public Health Service (196

c.1966); Brigadier General of the U.S. Army during World War II

B.A. Yale 1910; M.D. Johns Hopkins University 1914; S&B 1870

Born in New Orleans on November 6, 1888; Died in Washington, D.C. on February 20, 1970

Henry R. Luce

Editor-in-Chief of Time, Inc. (1923-1964)

Founder ofTime (1923),Fortune (1930),Life (1936), and Sports Illustrated(1954) magazines


Married to former U.S. Ambassador to Italy and U.S. Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce

B.A. Yale 1920; S&B 1920

Graduated from Hotchkiss School [preparatory school in Lakeville, Connecticut] in 1916

Born in China on April 3, 1898; Died in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A. on February 28, 1967

William F. Buckley Jr.

Editor-in-Chief ofNational Review magazine (1955-1990)

Host of television showFiring Line (1966-1999)

nationally syndicated newspaper columnist; Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent (1951-1953)




Brother of former U.S. Senator James L. Buckley (S&B 1944)B.A. Yale 1950; S&B 1950

Born in New York City on November 24, 1925; Died February 27, 2008

Archibald MacLeish

Librarian of Congress (1939-1944)

Assistant Secretary of State for Public and Cultural Relations (1944-1945)

Chairman, American delegation to the First General Conference of UNESCO, Paris (1946)

Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University (1949-1962)

Editor ofFortune magazine (1929-1938)

Pulitzer Prize for American Poetry in 1933 and 1953; Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1959

Member of the Council on Foreign Relations


Born May 7, 1892; Died in Boston on April 20, 1982


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OTHER PROMINENT MEMBERS OF SKULL & BONES

Thomas F. Bayard Jr., James L. Buckley, Francis Burton Harrison, Anthony Higgins, James W. Wadsworth Jr.

Jonathan B. Bingham, Henry S. Graves, Eugene Schuyler, Charles Phelps Taft II, John Martin Vorys

Victor H. Ashe, Robert D. McCullum Jr., John H.F. Shattuck, David H. Thorne, George Herbert Walker III

William Chauvenet, Carroll Cutler, Francis M. Finch, James O. Putnam, Charles J. Stille

William Sloane Coffin Jr., Morris Hadley, John William Sterling, F. Trubee Davison, Henry Artemus L. Gates


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PROMINENT MEMBERS OF SKULL & BONES

Government Officials:

Executive Branch of the U.S. Government (President, Vice President, and Cabinet Members):William Howard Taft (S&B 1878) President of the United States (1909-1913); Secretary of War (1904-1908)George H.W. Bush (S&B 1948) President of the United States (1989-1993); Vice President of the U.S. (1981-1989)George W. Bush (S&B 1968) President of the United States (2001-2009)William M. Evarts (S&B 1837) U.S. Attorney General (1868-1869); U.S. Secretary of State (1877-1881)Alphonso Taft (S&B 1833) Secretary of War (1876); U.S. Attorney General (1876-1877)William C. Whitney (S&B 1863) Secretary of the Navy (1885-1889)Wilson Shannon Bissell (S&B 1869) Postmaster General of the United States (1893-1895)

Franklin MacVeagh (S&B 1862) Secretary of the Treasury (1909-1913)Henry L. Stimson (S&B 1888) Secretary of War (1911-1913, 1940-1945); U.S. Secretary of State (1929-1933)W. Averell Harriman (S&B 1913) Secretary of Commerce (1946-1948)Robert A. Lovett (S&B 1918) Secretary of Defense (1951-1953)

Bureaucrats:Henry Champion Deming (S&B 1836) U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue (1869-1872)Ellis Henry Roberts (S&B 1850) Treasurer of the United States (1897-1905)John Sammis Seymour (S&B 1875) U.S. Commissioner of Patents (1893-1897)William Howard Taft (S&B 1878) Solicitor General of the U.S. (1890-1892); Civil Governor of the Philippine Islands (1901-1904)Lloyd Wheaton Bowers (S&B 1879) Solicitor General of the U.S. (1909-1910)Henry L. Stimson (S&B 1888) Governor General of the Philippines (1927-1929)Gifford Pinchot (S&B 1889) Chief of the U.S. Forest Service (1905-1910)Henry S. Graves (S&B 1892) Chief of the U.S. Forest Service (1910-1920)Thomas Lee McClung (S&B 1892) Treasurer of the United States (1909-1912)

Francis Burton Harrison (S&B 1895) Governor General of the Philippines (1913-1921)Thomas D. Thacher (S&B 1904) Solicitor General of the U.S. (1930-1933)James J. Wadsworth (S&B 1927) Member of the Federal Communications Commission (1965-1969)McGeorge Bundy (S&B 1940) National Security Advisor (1961-1966)Harold Howe II (S&B 1940) U.S. Commissioner of Education (1965-1968)John H. Chafee (S&B 1947) Secretary of the Navy (1969-1972)George H.W. Bush (S&B 1948) Director of Central Intelligence Agency (1976-1977)John M. Steadman (S&B 1952) General Counsel of the Department of the Air Force (1968-1970)Gaspard dAndelot Belin (S&B 1939) General Counsel of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (1963-1965)William H. Bill Donaldson (S&B 1953) Chairman of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (2003-2005)Andrew Downey Orrick (S&B 1940) Commissioner of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (1955-1960)William D. Nordhaus (S&B 1963) Member of the Council of Economic Advisers (1977-1979)Austan Goolsbee (S&B 1991) Member of the Council of Economic Advisers (2009-present)

Ambassadors and Diplomats:Alphonso Taft (S&B 1833) U.S. Minister to the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1882-1884); U.S. Minister to Russian Empire (1884-1885)Henry Rootes Jackson (S&B 1839) U.S. Minister to the Austrian Empire (1854-1858); U.S. Minister to Mexico (1885-1886)James O. Putnam (S&B 1839) U.S. Minister to Belgium (1880-1882)Andrew D. White (S&B 1853) U.S. Minister to the German Empire (1879-1881, 1897-1902); U.S. Minister to the Russian Empire (1892-18John Thomas Croxton (S&B 1857) U.S. Minister to Bolivia (1872-1874)Eugene Schuyler (S&B 1859) U.S. Minister to Romania (1881-1884); U.S. Minister to Serbia (1882-1884); U.S. Minister to Greece (1883-William Walter Phelps (S&B 1860) U.S. Minister to the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1881-1882); U.S. Minister to Germany (1889-1893)Stanford Newel (S&B 1861) U.S. Minister to the Netherlands (1897-1905)Watson R. Sperry (S&B 1871) U.S. Minister to the Persia (1893)Eben Alexander (S&B 1873) U.S. Minister to Greece (1893-1897); U.S. Minister to Romania (1894-1897); U.S. Minister to Serbia (1894-9E. Sheldon Whitehouse (S&B 1905) U.S. Minister to Guatemala (1930-1933); U.S. Minister to Colombia (1933-1934)Hugh R. Wilson (S&B 1906) U.S. Ambassador to Nazi Germany (1938); U.S. Minister to Switzerland (1927-1937)W. Averell Harriman (S&B 1913) U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1943-1946); U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain (1946)Stanley Woodward (S&B 1922) U.S. Ambassador to Canada (1950-1953)

John Sherman Cooper (S&B 1923) U.S. Ambassador to East Germany (1974-1976); U.S. Ambassador to India (1955-1956)Richard Anthony Moore (S&B 1936) U.S. Ambassador to Ireland (1989-1992)Charles S. Whitehouse (S&B 1947) U.S. Ambassador to Laos (1973-1975); U.S. Ambassador to Thailand (1975-1978)Evan Griffith Galbraith (S&B 1950) U.S. Ambassador to France (1981-1985)Paul C. Lambert (S&B 1950) U.S. Ambassador to Ecuador (1990-1992)George Herbert Walker III (S&B 1953) U.S. Ambassador to Hungary (2003-2006)Winston Lord (S&B 1959) U.S. Ambassador to Communist China (1985-1989)John H.F. Shattuck (S&B 1965) U.S. Ambassador to Czech Republic (1998-2000)David Hoadley Thorne (S&B 1966) U.S. Ambassador to Italy (2009-present)Victor H. Ashe (S&B 1967) U.S. Ambassador to Poland (2004-2009); Mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee (1987-2003)Roy L. Austin (S&B 1968) U.S. Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago (2001-2009)Robert D. McCallum Jr. (S&B 1968) U.S. Ambassador to Australia (2006-2009)John OLeary (S&B 1969) U.S. Ambassador to Chile (1998-2001); Mayor of Portland, Maine (1980-1981)James J. Wadsworth (S&B 1927) U.S. Representative to the United Nations (1960-1961)George H.W. Bush (S&B 1948) U.S. Representative to the United Nations (1971-1973)

Amos Parker Wilder (S&B 1884) U.S. Consul-General in Hong Kong (1906-1909); U.S. Consul-General in Shanghai (1909-1914)


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Members of Congress:William M. Evarts (S&B 1837) U.S. Senator (R-New York, 1885-1891)Orris Sanford Ferry (S&B 1844) U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut, 1867-1875)William Barrett Washburn (S&B 1844) U.S. Senator (R-Massachusetts, 1874-1875)Chauncey M. Depew (S&B 1856) U.S. Senator (R-New York, 1899-1911)Anthony Higgins (S&B 1861) U.S. Senator (R-Delaware, 1889-1895)George Peabody Wetmore (S&B 1867) U.S. Senator (R-Rhode Island, 1895-1907, 1908-1913)LeBaron Bradford Colt (S&B 1868) U.S. Senator (R-Rhode Island, 1913-1924)John Patton Jr. (S&B 1875) U.S. Senator (R-Michigan, 1894-1895)Frank Bosworth Brandegee (S&B 1885) U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut, 1905-1924)Thomas Francis Bayard Jr. (S&B 1890) U.S. Senator (D-Delaware, 1922-1929)Frederic C. Walcott (S&B 1891) U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut, 1929-1935)

James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (S&B 1898) U.S. Senator (R-New York, 1915-1927)Robert A. Taft (S&B 1910) U.S. Senator (R-Ohio, 1939-1953) (Senate Majority Leader (1953))Prescott S. Bush (S&B 1917) U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut, 1952-1963)John Sherman Cooper (S&B 1923) U.S. Senator (R-Kentucky, 1946-1949, 1952-1955, 1956-1973); Member of the Warren CommissionJames L. Buckley (S&B 1944) U.S. Senator (Conservative Party-New York, 1971-1977)John H. Chafee (S&B 1947) U.S. Senator (R-Rhode Island, 1976-1999)David L. Boren (S&B 1963) U.S. Senator (D-Oklahoma, 1979-1994)John F. Kerry (S&B 1966) U.S. Senator (D-Massachusetts, 1985-present)

John Wallace Houston (S&B 1834) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Whig-Delaware, 1845-1851)John Hubbard Tweedy (S&B 1834) Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives (Whig-Territory of Wisconsin, 1847-1848)William Henry Washington (S&B 1834) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Whig-North Carolina, 1841-1843)John Edward Seeley (S&B 1835) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-New York, 1871-1873)Henry Champion Deming (S&B 1836) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Connecticut, 1863-1867)Allen Ferdinand Owen (S&B 1837) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Whig-Georgia, 1849-1851)

Richard Dudley Hubbard (S&B 1839) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-Connecticut, 1867-1869)John Perkins Jr. (S&B 1840) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-Louisiana, 1853-1855)William Taylor Sullivan Berry (S&B 1841) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-Mississippi, 1853-1855)John Andrew Peters (S&B 1842) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Maine, 1867-1873)Benjamin Tucker Eames (S&B 1843) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Rhode Island, 1871-1879)Roswell Hart (S&B 1843) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-New York, 1865-1867)Orris Sanford Ferry (S&B 1844) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Connecticut, 1859-1861)William Barrett Washburn (S&B 1844) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Massachusetts, 1863-1871)Constantine C. Esty (S&B 1845) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Massachusetts, 1872-1873)Stephen W. Kellogg (S&B 1846) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Connecticut, 1869-1875)Augustus Brandegee (S&B 1849) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Connecticut, 1863-1867)Ellis Henry Roberts (S&B 1850) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-New York, 1871-1875)Richard J. Haldeman (S&B 1851) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-Pennsylvania, 1869-1873)William Wallace Crapo (S&B 1852) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Massachusetts, 1875-1883)Lowndes Henry Davis (S&B 1860) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-Missouri, 1879-1885)William Walter Phelps (S&B 1860) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-New Jersey, 1873-1875, 1883-1889)Thomas Hedge (S&B 1867) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Iowa, 1899-1907)Edwin F. Sweet (S&B 1871) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-Michigan, 1911-1913)Charles Newell Fowler (S&B 1876) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-New Jersey, 1895-1911)Frank Bosworth Brandegee (S&B 1885) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Connecticut, 1902-1905)William Kent (S&B 1887) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-California, 1911-1917)Percy Hamilton Stewart (S&B 1890) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-New Jersey, 1931-1933)James William Husted (S&B 1892) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-New York, 1915-1923)Francis Burton Harrison (S&B 1895) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-New York, 1903-1905, 1907-1913)James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (S&B 1898) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-New York, 1933-1951)James McDevitt Magee (S&B 1899) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Pennsylvania, 1923-1927)Kenneth F. Simpson (S&B 1917) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-New York, 1941)Howard Malcolm Baldrige (S&B 1918) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Nebraska, 1931-1933)John Martin Vorys (S&B 1918) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Ohio, 1939-1959)

Jonathan Brewster Bingham (S&B 1936) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-New York, 1965-1983)William S. Moorhead Jr. (S&B 1945) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-Pennsylvania, 1959-1981)Thomas William Ludlow Lud Ashley (S&B 1948) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-Ohio, 1955-1981)George H.W. Bush (S&B 1948) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Texas, 1967-1971)

U.S. Attorneys:Asa Palmer French (S&B 1882) U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts (1906-1914)Samuel Knight (S&B 1887) U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California (1894-1898)Henry L. Stimson (S&B 1888) U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (1906-1910)John Trumbull Robinson (S&B 1893) U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut (1908-1912)Samuel Hazard Gillespie Jr. (S&B 1932) U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (1959-1961)David C. Acheson (S&B 1943) U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia (1961-1965)Edward E. McNally (S&B 1979) U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois (2005-2006)


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Judges:Morrison R. Waite (S&B 1837) Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1874-1888)William Howard Taft (S&B 1878) Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1921-1930)Potter Stewart (S&B 1937) Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1958-1981)

LeBaron Bradford Colt (S&B 1868) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (1884-1913)William Kneeland Townsend (S&B 1871) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1902-1907)William Howard Taft (S&B 1878) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (1892-1900)Wilbur Franklin Booth (S&B 1884) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (1925-1932)Potter Stewart (S&B 1937) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (1954-1958)James L. Buckley (S&B 1944) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1985-1996)

Leonard Eugene Wales (S&B 1845) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware (1884-1897)Rensselaer Russell Nelson (S&B 1846) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota (1858-1896)George Chandler Holt (S&B 1866) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1903-1914)LeBaron Bradford Colt (S&B 1868) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island (1881-1884)William Kneeland Townsend (S&B 1871) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (1892-1902)Wilbur Franklin Booth (S&B 1884) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota (1914-1925)Thomas D. Thacher (S&B 1904) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1925-1930)William H. Orrick Jr. (S&B 1937) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (1974-1985)Charles Sherman Haight Jr. (S&B 1952) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1976-1995)Douglas P. Woodlock (S&B 1969) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (1986-present)

Governors:William Barrett Washburn (S&B 1844, Republican) Governor of Massachusetts (1872-1874)Daniel H. Chamberlain (S&B 1862, Republican) Governor of South Carolina (1874-1876) [Reconstruction]Richard Dudley Hubbard (S&B 1839, Democrat) Governor of Connecticut (1878-1879)

Henry B. Harrison (S&B 1846, Republican) Governor of Connecticut (1885-1887)George Peabody Wetmore (S&B 1867, Republican) Governor of Rhode Island (1885-1887)Luzon B. Morris (S&B 1854, Democrat) Governor of Connecticut (1893-1895)Edward Curtis Smith (S&B 1875, Republican) Governor of Vermont (1898-1900)Simeon E. Baldwin (S&B 1861, Democrat) Governor of Connecticut (1911-1915)Gifford Pinchot (S&B 1889, Republican) Governor of Pennsylvania (1923-1927, 1931-1935)W. Averell Harriman (S&B 1913, Democrat) Governor of New York (1955-1959)John H. Chafee (S&B 1947, Republican) Governor of Rhode Island (1963-1969)David L. Boren (S&B 1963, Democrat) Governor of Oklahoma (1975-1979)George W. Bush (S&B 1968, Republican) Governor of Texas (1994-2000)

Mayors:Henry Champion Deming (S&B 1836) Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut (1854-1858, 1860-1862)William Waldo Hyde (S&B 1876) Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut (1892-1894)Charles P. Taft II (S&B 1918) Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio (1955-1957)J. Quigg Newton Jr. (S&B 1933) Mayor of Denver, Colorado (1947-1955)Victor H. Ashe (S&B 1967) Mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee (1987-2003)John OLeary (S&B 1969) Mayor of Portland, Maine (1980-1981)

Other State and Local Offices:John F. Kerry (S&B 1966) Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1982-1984)Timothy L. Woodruff (S&B 1879) Lieutenant Governor of New York (1896-1902)George G. Sill (S&B 1852) Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (1873-1877)John Wallace Houston (S&B 1834) Secretary of State of Delaware (1841-1844)Chauncey M. Depew (S&B 1856) Secretary of State of New York (1864-1865)John Andrew Peters (S&B 1842) Attorney General of Maine (1864-1866)Dwight Foster (S&B 1848) Attorney General of Massachusetts (1861-1864)Daniel H. Chamberlain (S&B 1862) Attorney General of South Carolina (1868-1872)George W. Woodruff (S&B 1889) Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1923-1927)

William Law Learned (S&B 1841) Presiding Justice of the Supreme Court of New York (1875-1892)Almet Francis Jenks (S&B 1875) Presiding Justice of the Supreme Court of New York (1911-1921)Simeon E. Baldwin (S&B 1861) Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors (1907-1910)Samuel Oscar Prentice (S&B 1873) Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors (1913-1920)John Andrew Peters (S&B 1842) Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine (1883-1900)Eugene Lamb Richards (S&B 1885) Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York (1914-1917)Pierre Jay (S&B 1892) Bank Commissioner of Massachusetts (1906-1909)Frederick Newton Judson (S&B 1866) President of the Board of Education in St. Louis, Missouri (1880-1882, 1887-1889)Frederick S. Jones (S&B 1884) Chairman of the Connecticut State Board of Education (1919-1935)William Kent (S&B 1887) Member of the Chicago City Council (1895-1897)William C. Whitney (S&B 1863) Corporation Counsel of New York City (1875-1882)


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Bankers:George L. Harrison (S&B 1910) President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1928-1940)Pierre Jay (S&B 1892) Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1914-1926)John Perrin (S&B 1879) Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (1914-1925)Roger B. Shepard (S&B 1908) Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (1940-1953)Walter Seth Logan (S&B 1910) Vice President and General Counsel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1928-1953)

Thomas Cochran (S&B 1894) Partner of J.P. Morgan & Co. (1917-1936)Harry [Henry] P. Davison Jr. (S&B 1920) Partner of J.P. Morgan & Co. (1929-1940)Harold Stanley (S&B 1908) Partner of J.P. Morgan & Co. (1928-1935); President of Morgan, Stanley & Co. (1935-1941)Dean Witter Jr. (S&B 1944) Partner of Dean Witter & Co. (1946-1970)Charles Jacob Stewart (S&B 1918) Partner of Lazard Freres & Co. (1953-1959); Chairman of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. (1964-19

Otto T. Bannard (S&B 1876) Chairman of the board of New York Trust Company (1916-1921)Mortimer Norton Buckner (S&B 1895) Chairman of the board of New York Trust Company (1921-1942)Daniel P. Davison (S&B 1949) Chairman and CEO of U.S. Trust Co. (1982-1989)Stephen A. Schwarzman (S&B 1969) Chairman and CEO of The Blackstone Group (1985-present)Samuel R. Bertron (S&B 1885) President of Bertron, Griscom & Company, Inc., international financiers (1912-1938)Pierre Jay (S&B 1892) Chairman of the board of Fiduciary Trust Co. (1930-1945)

W. Averell Harriman (S&B 1913) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1946)E. Roland Harriman (S&B 1917) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1978)Prescott S. Bush (S&B 1917) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1972)Knight Woolley (S&B 1917) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1982)Ray Morris (S&B 1901) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1956)Robert A. Lovett (S&B 1918) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1940, 1946-1947, 1949-1950, 1953-1986)Stephen Y. Hord (S&B 1921) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1945-1981)John Beckwith Madden (S&B 1941) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1955-1988)

Alexander T. Ercklentz (S&B 1959) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1978-present)

Businessmen:William H. Bill Donaldson (S&B 1953) Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange (1990-1995)Joseph Richardson Dilworth (S&B 1938) Chairman of the board of Rockefeller Center, Inc. (1966-1982)George L. Harrison (S&B 1910) Chairman of the board of New York Life Insurance Co. (1948-1954)Thomas B. Wheeler (S&B 1958) Chairman and CEO of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. (1996-1999)John S. Pillsbury Jr. (S&B 1935) Chairman and CEO of Northwestern National Life Insurance Co. (1969-1977)David D. Holbrook (S&B 1960) Chairman of Marsh & McLennan, Inc. (1995-1998)H. Neil Mallon (S&B 1917) President of Dresser Industries, Inc. (1929-1958)Morehead Patterson (S&B 1920) Chairman of the board of American Machine & Foundry Co. (1943-1962)Robert Guthrie Page (S&B 1922) Chairman of the board of Phelps Dodge Corporation (1967-1970)Henry John Heinz II (S&B 1931) Chairman of the board of H.J. Heinz Company (1959-1987)John Hancock Daniels (S&B 1943) Chairman of the board of Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. (1967-1972)Vernon R. Loucks Jr. (S&B 1957) Chairman and CEO of Baxter International Inc. (1987-1998)Russell W. Meyer Jr. (S&B 1954) Chairman and CEO of Cessna Aircraft Co. (1975-2000, 2002-2003)Frederick W. Smith (S&B 1966) Chairman and CEO of Federal Express [FedEx Corp.] (1975-present)Edward S. Lampert (S&B 1984) Chairman of Sears Holdings Corp. (2005-present); Chairman of K-Mart (2003-2005)Frederick E. Weyerhaeuser (S&B 1896) President of Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. (1937-1945)Charles Christian Haffner Jr. (S&B 1919) Chairman and CEO of R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (1952-1964)Storer B. Lunt (S&B 1921) Chairman of W.W. Norton Co., Inc. (1958-c.1968)William Thompson Lusk (S&B 1924) President of Tiffany & Co. [New York City] (1955-1967)Fairfax Harrison (S&B 1890) President of Southern Railway Company (1913-1937)W. Averell Harriman (S&B 1913) Chairman of the board of Union Pacific Railroad Co. (1932-1946)E. Roland Harriman (S&B 1917) Chairman of the board of Union Pacific Railroad Co. (1946-1969)Chauncey M. Depew (S&B 1856) President of New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Co. (1885-1898)John Manning Hall (S&B 1866) President of New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company (1899-1903)Wilson Shannon Bissell (S&B 1869) President of the Buffalo & Southwestern Railroad (1883-1895)George Herbert Walker, Jr. (S&B 1927) General Partner of G.H. Walker & Co. (1929-1974)

Benjamin Harris Anthony (S&B 1886) Member of the board of directors of The Associated Press (1923-1932)William H. Cowles (S&B 1887) Member of the board of directors of The Associated Press (1912-1944)Artemus L. Gates (S&B 1918) former Member of the board of directors of Abercrombie & Fitch Co.Frank Ford Russell (S&B 1926) Member of the board of directors of Chase Manhattan Bank (1940-1967)Joseph Richardson Dilworth (S&B 1938) Member of the board of directors of Chase Manhattan Bank (1958-1981)William Redmond Cross Jr. (S&B 1941) Member of the board of directors of The New York Times Company (1973-1992)Edward Snover Reid III (S&B 1951) Member of the board of directors of General Mills, Inc. (1974-1989)Vernon R. Loucks Jr. (S&B 1957) Member of the board of directors of Anheuser-BuschDavid L. Boren (S&B 1963) Member of the board of directors of Texas Instruments; Member of the board of directors of American Airlines


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Lawyers:Lansing P. Reed (S&B 1904) Member of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed (1915-1937)Charles M. Spofford (S&B 1924) Member of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1940-1950, 1952-1973)Edward Rogers Wardwell (S&B 1927) Member of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1946-c.1972)Samuel Hazard Gillespie Jr. (S&B 1932) Member of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1948-present)Peter O.A. Solbert (S&B 1941) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1957-1989)Edward Snover Reid III (S&B 1951) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1964-1995)Morris Hadley (S&B 1916) Partner of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy (1924-1979)William Eldred Jackson (S&B 1941) Partner of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy (1954-1999)Henry L. Stimson (S&B 1888) Counsel of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1891-1906, 1913-1927, 1933-1940, 1945-1950)Allen T. Klots (S&B 1909) Member of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1921-1965)Hamilton Hadley (S&B 1919) Partner of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1929-1940)

John Baker Jessup (S&B 1942) Partner of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1959-1993)Endicott Peabody Davison (S&B 1945) Partner of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1959-1980)Harold H. Healy Jr. (S&B 1943) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1959-1989)Thomas Thacher (S&B 1871) Co-Founder and Member of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett (1875-1919)Thomas D. Thacher (S&B 1904) Partner of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett (1933-1943)Philip G. Bartlett (S&B 1881) Partner of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett (1890-1931)William Milo Barnum (S&B 1877) Co-Founder and former Partner of Simpson, Thacher & BartlettThomas Mills Day (S&B 1886) Member of Simpson, Thacher & Barnum (later Bartlett) (1898-1917)Henry Waters Taft (S&B 1880) Partner of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft (1899-1945)William Lloyd Kitchel (S&B 1892) Partner of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft (1914-1945)John William Sterling (S&B 1864) Co-Founder and Member of Shearman & Sterling (1873-1918)Howard Mansfield (S&B 1871) Member of Lord, Day & Lord (1901-1938)Henry DeForest Baldwin (S&B 1885) Member of Lord, Day & Lord (1900-1947)Sherman Baldwin (S&B 1919) Member of Lord, Day & Lord (1929-1969)Alfred Ogden (S&B 1932) Partner of Alexander & Green (1955-1975)

Jonathan C. Rose (S&B 1963) Partner of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue [law firm in Washington, D.C.] (1977-1981, 1984-present)George Alfred Ranney (S&B 1934) Member of Sidley, Austin, Burgess & Smith [law firm in Chicago] (1939-1962)David Alan Richards (S&B 1967) Partner of Sidley & Austin [law firm in Chicago and New York City] (1982-1999)Donald Etra (S&B 1968) Partner of Sidley & Austin [law firm in Chicago and Los Angeles] (1983-1995)Lloyd Wheaton Bowers (S&B 1879) General Counsel of Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company (1893-1909)Chester Mitchell Dawes (S&B 1876) General Counsel of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company (1909-1917)James Mulford Townsend (S&B 1874) General Counsel of E.I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Company (1903-1913)George J. Dunn (S&B 1957) Senior Vice President and General Counsel of BP America, Inc. and Standard Oil (Ohio) (1974-1998)George Arthur Cheeks (S&B 1987) General Counsel of Music Television [MTV] (2003-2005)

College Presidents, Provosts, and Deans:Timothy Dwight (S&B 1849) President of Yale University (1886-1899)Arthur Twining Hadley (S&B 1876) President of Yale University (1899-1921)Charles Seymour (S&B 1908) President of Yale University (1937-1950)Andrew D. White (S&B 1853) first President of Cornell University (1866-1885)Daniel C. Gilman (S&B 1852) first President of Johns Hopkins University (1875-1901)William Preston Johnston (S&B 1852) first President of Tulane University (1884-1899)Cyrus Northrop (S&B 1857) second President of University of Minnesota (1884-1911)J. Quigg Newton Jr. (S&B 1933) President of University of Colorado (1956-1963)David L. Boren (S&B 1963) President of University of Oklahoma (1994-present)Carroll Cutler (S&B 1854) President of [Case] Western Reserve University (1871-1886)Arthur Howe (S&B 1912) President of Hampton Institute (1931-1940)Charles Janeway Stille (S&B 1839) Provost of University of Pennsylvania (1868-1880)Joseph Gibson Hoyt (S&B 1840) Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis (1858-1862)William Chauvenet (S&B 1840) Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis (1862-1869)James O. Putnam (S&B 1839) Chancellor of University of Buffalo (1895-1902)Wilson Shannon Bissell (S&B 1869) Chancellor of University of Buffalo (1902-1903)McGeorge Bundy (S&B 1940) Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science at Harvard University (1953-1961)William Henry Welch (S&B 1870) Dean of Medical Faculty at Johns Hopkins University (1893-1898)

Stanhope Bayne-Jones (S&B 1910) Dean of Yale School of Medicine (1935-1940)William Thayer Smith (S&B 1860) Dean of Dartmouth Medical School (1896-1909)Francis M. Finch (S&B 1849) Dean of Cornell Law School (1891-1903)William D. Nordhaus (S&B 1963) Provost of Yale University (1986-1988)

College Professors:Timothy Dwight (S&B 1849) Professor of Sacred Literature at Yale University (1859-1886)Simeon Eben Baldwin (S&B 1861) Professor of Law at Yale Law School (1869-1919)William Kneeland Townsend (S&B 1871) Professor of Law at Yale Law School (1881-1907)Theodore S. Woolsey (S&B 1872) Professor of International Law at Yale University (1878-1911)Henry Walcott Farnam (S&B 1874) Professor of Political Economy (1880-1912) and Professor of Economics (1912-1918) at Yale UniversWilliam Howard Taft (S&B 1878) Kent Professor of Law at Yale University (1913-1921)rving Fisher (S&B 1888) Professor of Political Economy at Yale University (1898-1935)Clive Day (S&B 1892) Professor of Economic History at Yale University (1907-1936)Charles Seymour (S&B 1908) Professor of History at Yale University (1918-1937)

William D. Nordhaus (S&B 1963) Professor of Economics at Yale University (1973-present)


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Journalism:Henry R. Luce (S&B 1920) Editor-in-Chief of Time, Inc. (1923-1964); Founder ofTime (1923), Fortune (1930), and Life (1936) magazinesWilliam F. Buckley, Jr. (S&B 1950) Editor-in-Chief ofNational Reviewmagazine (1955-1990)Ralph D. Paine Jr. (S&B 1929) Publisher ofFortune magazine (1953-1967)William H. Cowles (S&B 1887) Publisher ofSpokane Spokesman-Review(1893-1946)Charles Hopkins Clark (S&B 1871) President and Editor-in-Chief ofHartford Courant(1890-1926)Earl G. Graves Jr. (S&B 1984) President and CEO ofBlack Enterprise magazine (2006-present)William P. Bundy (S&B 1939) Editor ofForeign Affairs magazine (1972-1984)Robert W. Kagan (S&B 1980) Columnist forThe Washington PostDana T. Milbank (S&B 1990) Columnist forThe Washington PostDavid R. Leonhardt (S&B 1994) Columnist forThe New York Times

Organizations:Amos Pinchot (S&B 1897) Co-Founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)Francis Eugene Butler (S&B 1857) Co-founder of the Young Mens Christian Association (YMCA)rving Fisher (S&B 1888) Founder and inaugural President of American Eugenics Society (1923-1926)McGeorge Bundy (S&B 1940) President of Ford Foundation (1966-1979)Harvey H. Bundy (S&B 1909) Chairman of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1952-1958)William H. Bill Donaldson (S&B 1953) Chairman of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1999-2003)Morris Hadley (S&B 1916) Chairman of Carnegie Corporation of New York (1955-1966)Winston Lord (S&B 1959) President of the Council on Foreign Relations (1977-1985)E. Roland Harriman (S&B 1917) President of American Red Cross (1950-1953); Chairman of American Red Cross (1954-1973)William Howard Taft (S&B 1878) President of American Red Cross (1906-1913); Chairman of American Red Cross (1915-1919)Henry Hitchcock (S&B 1848) President of American Bar Association (1889)Simeon

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