List of Skull and Bones Members
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Skull and Bones
Skull and Bones is an undergraduate senior or secret society at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. It is a traditional peer society to Scroll and Key and Wolf's Head, as the three senior class 'landed societies' at Yale....
, a secret society
Secret society
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at Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
, was founded in 1832. Until 1971, the organization published annual membership rosters, which were kept at Yale's library
Sterling Memorial Library
Sterling Memorial Library is the largest library at Yale University, containing over 4 million volumes. It is an example of Gothic revival architecture, designed by James Gamble Rogers, adorned with thousands of panes of stained glass created by G. Owen Bonawit.The Library has 15 levels, each with...
. In this list of notable Bonesmen, the number in parentheses represents the cohort year of Skull and Bones, as well as their graduation year.
There are no official rosters published after 1982 and membership for later years is speculative. Some news organizations refer to them as a power elite
Power elite
A power elite or The Grand Elite, in political and sociological theory, is a small group of people who control a disproportionate amount of wealth, privilege, and access to decision-making of global consequence. The term was coined by C...
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Founding members (1832–1833 academic year)
- Frederick Ellsworth MatherFrederick Ellsworth MatherFrederick Ellsworth Mather was an American military officer, lawyer and philanthropist-Early life:The son of Ellsworth and Laura Mather, he was born in Windsor, Connecticut. He was a lineal descendant of the nonconformist, Rev...
(1833), Democratic member of the New York State Assembly (1854–1857) - Phineas Timothy MillerPhineas Timothy MillerPhineas Timothy Miller Was an American physician and a founding member of Yale's Skull and Bones Society.-Early life:...
, (1833) American physician - William Huntington RussellWilliam Huntington RussellWilliam Huntington Russell was an American businessman, educator, and politician. He was the founder of the Yale University secret society Skull and Bones. He was a descendant of several old New England families, including those of Pierpont, Hooker, Willett, Bingham, and Russell. His ancestor Rev...
(1833), Connecticut State Legislator, Major General - Alphonso TaftAlphonso TaftAlphonso Taft was the Attorney General and Secretary of War under President Ulysses S. Grant and the founder of an American political dynasty. He was the father of U.S...
(1833), U.S. Attorney General (1876–1877), Secretary of WarUnited States Secretary of WarThe Secretary of War was a member of the United States President's Cabinet, beginning with George Washington's administration. A similar position, called either "Secretary at War" or "Secretary of War," was appointed to serve the Congress of the Confederation under the Articles of Confederation...
(1876), Ambassador to Austria-HungaryAustria-HungaryAustria-Hungary , more formally known as the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of Saint Stephen, was a constitutional monarchic union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in...
(1882) and RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
(1884–1885), father of William Howard TaftWilliam Howard TaftWilliam Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States... - George Ingersoll WoodGeorge Ingersoll WoodGeorge Ingersoll Wood , was an American clergyman and a founding member of Yale's Skull and Bones Society.Rev. George Ingersoll Wood was born in Stamford, CT. He was the son of Hon. Joseph Wood and Frances Ellsworth....
(1833), American clergyman
1830s
- John Wallace Houston (1834), Secretary of State of Delaware (1841–1844), associate judge Delaware Superior Court (1855–1893)
- John Hubbard TweedyJohn Hubbard TweedyJohn Hubbard Tweedy was a delegate to the United States Congress from Wisconsin Territory from September 1847 to June 1848 being elected from the Whig Party.-Career:Tweedy was born in Danbury, Connecticut...
(1834), delegate to the United States Congress from Wisconsin Territory (1847–1848) - William Henry WashingtonWilliam Henry WashingtonWilliam Henry Washington was a Whig U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1841 and 1843.Born near Goldsboro, North Carolina, he graduated from Yale College in 1834, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. He then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1835. Washington practiced law in...
(1834), Whig U.S. Congressman from North Carolina (1841–1843) - John Edward Seeley (1835), US Representative from New York
- Thomas Anthony ThacherThomas Anthony ThacherThomas Anthony Thacher, , classicist and college administrator.-Early life:Thomas A. Thacher was born in Hartford, Conn., the son of Peter and Anne Thacher...
(1835), Professor of Latin at YaleYALERapidMiner, formerly YALE , is an environment for machine learning, data mining, text mining, predictive analytics, and business analytics. It is used for research, education, training, rapid prototyping, application development, and industrial applications...
University (1842–1886) - Henry Champion Deming (1836), U.S. Representative from Connecticut
- William Maxwell EvartsWilliam M. EvartsWilliam Maxwell Evarts was an American lawyer and statesman who served as U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Senator from New York...
(1837), U.S. Secretary of State, Attorney General, Senator, grandson of Roger ShermanRoger ShermanRoger Sherman was an early American lawyer and politician, as well as a founding father. He served as the first mayor of New Haven, Connecticut, and served on the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence, and was also a representative and senator in the new republic... - Chester Smith Lyman (1837), astronomer, Yale professor of Industrial Mechanics and Physics
- Allen Ferdinand OwenAllen Ferdinand OwenAllen Ferdinand Owen was an American politician and lawyer who served in the United States Congress.Owen was born near the Yadkin River in Wilkes County, North Carolina. He graduated from Franklin College at the University of Georgia in Athens where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society...
(1837), US Representative from Georgia - Benjamin Silliman, Jr. (1837), Yale professor of chemistry
- Morrison Remmick Waite (1837), Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
- Joseph B. Varnum, Jr.Joseph B. Varnum, Jr.Joseph Bradley Varnum, Jr. was an American lawyer and politician.-Life:He was a grandson of Joseph Bradley Varnum...
(1838), Speaker of the New York State AssemblySpeaker of the New York State AssemblyThe Speaker of the New York State Assembly is the highest official in the New York State Assembly, customarily elected from the ranks of the majority party.... - Richard Dudley Hubbard (1839), Governor of Connecticut, US Representative
1840s
- James Mason HoppinJames Mason HoppinJames Mason Hoppin was an American educator and writer. He was born at Providence, Rhode Island; graduated from Yale in 1840 , from Harvard Law School in 1842, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1845; studied for some time abroad; and was pastor of a Congregational church at Salem, Mass.,...
(1840), Professor emeritus at YaleYALERapidMiner, formerly YALE , is an environment for machine learning, data mining, text mining, predictive analytics, and business analytics. It is used for research, education, training, rapid prototyping, application development, and industrial applications... - John Perkins, Jr.John Perkins, Jr.John Perkins, Jr. was an antebellum U.S. Representative from Louisiana, and then a senator in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War....
(1840), U.S. Representative from LouisianaLouisianaLouisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties...
, and then a senator in the Confederate States Congress - William Taylor Sullivan BarryWilliam T. S. BarryWilliam Taylor Sullivan Barry was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.Born in Columbus, Mississippi, Barry was graduated from Yale Law School in 1841 and was initiated into Skull and Bones. Society in his last year. Barry was admitted to the bar in 1844 and then practiced law in Columbus, Ohio...
(1841), U.S. Representative from Mississippi - John Andrew Peters (1842), US Representative from Maine
- Benjamin Tucker Eames (1843), US Representative from Rhode Island
- Roswell HartRoswell HartRoswell Hart was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Rochester, he completed preparatory studies and was graduated from Yale College in 1843, where he was a member of Skull and Bones...
(1843), US Representative from New York - Henry Stevens (1843), bibliographerBibliographer"A bibliographer is a person who describes and lists books and other publications, with particular attention to such characteristics as authorship, publication date, edition, typography, etc. The result of this endeavor is a bibliography...
- Orris Sanford Ferry (1844), US Senator, US Representative, US Brigadier General
- William Barrett Washburn (1884), US Senator, Governor of MassachusettsGovernor of MassachusettsThe Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the executive magistrate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States. The current governor is Democrat Deval Patrick.-Constitutional role:...
. - Constantine Canaris Esty (1845), US Representative from Massachusetts
- Richard TaylorRichard Taylor (general)Richard Taylor was a Confederate general in the American Civil War. He was the son of United States President Zachary Taylor and First Lady Margaret Taylor.-Early life:...
(1845), Confederate General, Louisiana State Senator - Leonard Eugene WalesLeonard Eugene WalesLeonard Eugene Wales was a United States federal judge in Delaware.Born in Wilmington, Delaware, Wales graduated from Yale University in 1845, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and then read law to enter the bar in 1848...
(1845), US District Court judge - Henry Baldwin HarrisonHenry Baldwin HarrisonHenry Baldwin Harrison was a Republican politician and the 52nd Governor of Connecticut.Harrison was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale College in 1846, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and studied at Yale Law School. He was a member of Connecticut Sons of the American...
(1846), Governor of Connecticut - Stephen Wright KelloggStephen Wright KelloggStephen Wright Kellogg was an American politician, attorney, and judge.He worked on his father's farm until he was twenty, in the winter attending or teaching school...
(1846), US Representative from Connecticut - Rensselaer Russell NelsonRensselaer Russell NelsonRensselaer Russell Nelson was a United States federal judge. He was the son of U.S. Supreme Court justice Samuel Nelson....
(1846), US District Court judge - John Donnell SmithJohn Donnell SmithCaptain John Donnell Smith of Baltimore, Maryland was a biologist and taxonomist. He was also an officer in the Confederate army.He was a graduate of Yale in 1847, where he was a member of Skull and Bones....
(1847), botanical researcher, Captain in the Confederate Army - Dwight Foster (1848), Massachusetts Attorney General (1861–1864), and a justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1866–1869)
- Augustus BrandegeeAugustus BrandegeeAugustus Brandegee was an American lawyer and politician who served in the House of Representatives for Connecticut....
(1849), US Representative from Connecticut. - Timothy Dwight VTimothy Dwight VTimothy Dwight V was an American academic, an educator, a Congregational minister, and president of Yale College...
(1849), Yale President (1886–1899) - Francis Miles FinchFrancis Miles FinchFrancis Miles Finch was an American judge, poet, and academic associated with the early years of Cornell University. One of his poems, "The Blue and the Gray", is frequently reprinted to this day.-Biography:...
(1849), New York Court of AppealsNew York Court of AppealsThe New York Court of Appeals is the highest court in the U.S. state of New York. The Court of Appeals consists of seven judges: the Chief Judge and six associate judges who are appointed by the Governor to 14-year terms...
judge, Cornell UniversityCornell UniversityCornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
professor
1850s
- Ellis Henry Roberts (1850), US Representative from New York
- Richard Jacobs HaldemanRichard Jacobs HaldemanRichard Jacobs Haldeman was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Richard J. Haldeman was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He pursued an academic course, and was graduated from Yale College in 1851. While at Yale, he was a member of the Skull and Bones...
(1851), Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from PennsylvaniaPennsylvaniaThe Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
- William Wallace Crapo (1852), US Representative from Massachusetts
- Daniel Coit GilmanDaniel Coit GilmanDaniel Coit Gilman was an American educator and academician, who was instrumental in founding the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale College, and who subsequently served as one of the earliest presidents of the University of California, the first president of Johns Hopkins University, and as...
(1852), president of the University of CaliforniaUniversity of CaliforniaThe University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...
, Johns Hopkins UniversityJohns Hopkins UniversityThe Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
, and the Carnegie Institution, founder of the Russell Trust AssociationRussell Trust AssociationThe Russell Trust Association is the business name for the New Haven, Connecticut, based Skull and Bones society, incorporated in 1856.The Russell Trust was incorporated by William Huntington Russell as its president, and Daniel Coit Gilman as its first treasurer... - George Griswold Sill (1852), Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut
- Andrew Dickson WhiteAndrew Dickson WhiteAndrew Dickson White was a U.S. diplomat, historian, and educator, who was the co-founder of Cornell University.-Family and personal life:...
(1853), co-founder and first President of Cornell UniversityCornell UniversityCornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions... - Luzon Buritt Morris (1854), Governor of Connecticut
- William DeWitt AlexanderWilliam DeWitt AlexanderWilliam DeWitt Alexander was an educator, author and linguist in the Kingdom of Hawaii and Republic of Hawaii.He then constructed maps for the Territory of Hawaii.-Life:...
(1855), educator, linguist, and surveyor of HawaiiHawaiiHawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of... - Chauncey DepewChauncey DepewChauncey Mitchell Depew was an attorney for Cornelius Vanderbilt's railroad interests, president of the New York Central Railroad System, and a United States Senator from New York from 1899 to 1911.- Biography:...
(1856), VanderbiltCornelius VanderbiltCornelius Vanderbilt , also known by the sobriquet Commodore, was an American entrepreneur who built his wealth in shipping and railroads. He was also the patriarch of the Vanderbilt family and one of the richest Americans in history...
railroad attorney,, U.S. Senator - Eli Whitney Blake, Jr.Eli Whitney Blake, Jr.Eli Whitney Blake, Jr. was an American scientist. His father and namesake was an inventor and partner of the Blake Brothers manufacturing firm...
(1857), American scientist and educator, great-nephew of Eli WhitneyEli WhitneyEli Whitney was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South... - John Thomas Croxton (1857), Civil War Brigadier General, United States Ambassador to BoliviaUnited States Ambassador to BoliviaThe following is a list of United States Ambassadors, or other Chiefs of Mission, to Bolivia. The title given by the United States State Department to this position is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.-See also:...
- Moses Coit TylerMoses Coit TylerMoses Coit Tyler was an American author and professor of American history.-Biography:He was born in Griswold, Connecticut. At an early age he removed with his parents to Detroit, Michigan...
(1857), professor of history at Cornell University - Burton Norvell Harrison (1859), private secretary to Jefferson DavisJefferson DavisJefferson Finis Davis , also known as Jeff Davis, was an American statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, serving as President for its entire history. He was born in Kentucky to Samuel and Jane Davis...
- Eugene SchuylerEugene SchuylerEugene Schuyler was a nineteenth-century American scholar, writer, explorer and diplomat. Schuyler was of the first three Americans to earn a Ph.D. from an American university; and the first American translator of Ivan Turgenev and Lev Tolstoi...
(1859), US Ambassador, author and translator,
1860s
- Lowndes Henry DavisLowndes Henry DavisLowndes Henry Davis was an American politician who served the state of Missouri in the U.S. House of Representatives between 1879 and 1885. He was born on December 13, 1836 in Jackson, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. He graduated from Yale College in 1860, where he was a member of Skull and...
(1860), US Representative from Missouri - William Walter PhelpsWilliam Walter PhelpsWilliam Walter Phelps , the son of John Jay Phelps, a successful New York City merchant and financier, was born in Dundaff, Pennsylvania. During his successful banking career in Manhattan, he settled in Teaneck, New Jersey, across the Hudson River...
(1860), US Representative from New Jersey - Simeon Eben BaldwinSimeon Eben BaldwinSimeon Eben Baldwin , jurist, law professor and the 50th Governor of Connecticut, was the son of jurist, Connecticut governor and U.S. Senator Roger Sherman Baldwin and Emily Pitkin Perkins...
(1861), Governor and Chief Justice of the State of Connecticut, son of Roger Sherman BaldwinRoger Sherman BaldwinRoger Sherman Baldwin was an American lawyer involved in the Amistad case, who later became the 17th Governor of Connecticut and a United States Senator.-Early life:... - Anthony HigginsAnthony HigginsAnthony C. Higgins was a lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a veteran of the Civil War and a member of the Republican, who served as United States Senator from Delaware....
(1861), US Senator - Edward Rowland SillEdward Rowland SillEdward Rowland Sill , American poet and educator, was born in Windsor, Connecticut.He graduated from Yale in 1861, where he was Class Poet and a member of Skull and Bones. He engaged in business in California, and entered the Harvard Divinity School in 1867 but soon left it for a position on the...
(1861), poet, professor at the University of CaliforniaUniversity of CaliforniaThe University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University... - Daniel Henry ChamberlainDaniel Henry ChamberlainDaniel Henry Chamberlain was a planter, lawyer, author and the 76th Governor of South Carolina from 1874 until 1877....
(1862), Governor of South CarolinaGovernor of South CarolinaThe Governor of the State of South Carolina is the head of state for the State of South Carolina. Under the South Carolina Constitution, the Governor is also the head of government, serving as the chief executive of the South Carolina executive branch. The Governor is the ex officio... - Franklin MacVeaghFranklin MacVeaghFranklin MacVeagh was an American banker and Treasury Secretary.Born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, he graduated from Yale University in 1858, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. He graduated from Columbia Law School in 1864. He worked as a wholesale grocer and lawyer...
(1862), US Secretary of the Treasury - Henry Farnum DimockHenry F. DimockHenry F. Dimock was a lawyer in New York City who was closely associated with the Whitney family business interests.Dimock was born in South Coventry, Connecticut, the son of Timothy and Laura F. Dimock...
(1863), Whitney familyWhitney familyThe Whitney family is an American family notable for their social prominence, wealth, business enterprises and philanthropy, founded by John Whitney who came from London, England to Watertown, Massachusetts in 1635.-Rise to prominence:...
attorney, Director of the Yale CorporationYale CorporationThe Yale Corporation, sometimes, and more formally, known as The President and Fellows of Yale College, is the governing body of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.The Corporation comprises 19 members:... - William Collins Whitney (1863), US Secretary of the Navy
- Charles Fraser MacLeanCharles Fraser MacLeanCharles Fraser MacLean was an American jurist.Born in New Hartford, New York, he began attending Yale University as a junior in 1862. He graduated in 1864 and was a member of Skull and Bones. In 1866, he was the first person to be awarded a PhD in philosophy from an American institution...
(1864), New York Supreme CourtNew York Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court of the State of New York is the trial-level court of general jurisdiction in thestate court system of New York, United States. There is a supreme court in each of New York State's 62 counties, although some smaller counties share judges with neighboring counties...
judge - John William SterlingJohn William SterlingJohn William Sterling was a corporate attorney and major benefactor to Yale University.-Biography:John William Sterling was born in Stratford, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in 1864 and was a member of Skull and Bones. He was admitted to the bar three years later. He...
(1864), lawyer, co-founder Shearman & SterlingShearman & SterlingShearman & Sterling LLP is a law firm headquartered in New York City with 20 offices located in major financial centers around the world founded in 1873. It is well known for both its litigation and transactional capabilities, especially in International Arbitration, Capital Markets, Finance, and... - George Chandler HoltGeorge Chandler HoltGeorge Chandler Holt was a United States federal judge.Born in Mexico, New York, Holt received an A.B. from Yale College in 1866, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and an LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1869. He was in private practice in New York City from 1869 to 1898. He was a Referee...
(1866), US District Court Judge - Henry Morton DexterHenry Morton DexterHenry Morton Dexter was an American clergyman, historian, and editor, born in Manchester, New Hampshire, son of Henry Martyn Dexter...
(1867), clergyman, editor, author - Albert Elijah DunningAlbert Elijah DunningAlbert Elijah Dunning was an American theologian.Born in Brookfield, Connecticut, he attended the Fort Edward Institute , and graduated from Bryant & Stratton College , Yale University , where he was Phi Beta Kappa and a member of Skull and Bones, Andover Theological Seminary , and Beloit College ...
(1867), American theologian and author - Thomas HedgeThomas HedgeThomas Hedge was a four-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 1st congressional district, in southeastern Iowa.Born in Burlington, Iowa Territory, Hedge attended the common schools and Denmark Academy....
(1867), US Representative from Iowa - George Peabody Wetmore (1867), US Senator and Governor of Rhode Island
- Chauncey Bunce BrewsterChauncey Bunce BrewsterThe Right Reverend Chauncey Bunce Brewster was the fifth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut.He was consecrated as Bishop Coadjutor on October 28, 1897, and served as diocesan bishop from 1899 to 1928.-External link:...
(1868), Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of ConnecticutEpiscopal Diocese of ConnecticutThe Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut is a diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, encompassing the entire state of Connecticut. It is one of the nine original dioceses of the Episcopal Church and one of seven New England dioceses that make up Province 1.Its first bishop,... - LeBaron Bradford Colt (1868), US Senator and Circuit Court Judge
- Wilson Shannon Bissell (1869), Postmaster GeneralUnited States Postmaster GeneralThe United States Postmaster General is the Chief Executive Officer of the United States Postal Service. The office, in one form or another, is older than both the United States Constitution and the United States Declaration of Independence...
1870s
- William H. WelchWilliam H. WelchWilliam Henry Welch, M.D. was an American physician, pathologist, and medical school administrator. He was one of the "Big Four" founding professors at Johns Hopkins Hospital. William Henry Welch, M.D. (April 8, 1850 - April 30, 1934) was an American physician, pathologist, and medical school...
(1870), Dean of Johns Hopkins UniversityJohns Hopkins UniversityThe Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States... - Frederick CollinFrederick CollinFrederick Collin was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Life:Frederick Collin born in Benton, New York, the third son of Henry Clark Collin and Maria Louise Collin. He graduated from Yale University in 1871, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and subsequently started a legal...
(1871), judge, mayor of Elmira, New YorkElmira, New YorkElmira is a city in Chemung County, New York, USA. It is the principal city of the 'Elmira, New York Metropolitan Statistical Area' which encompasses Chemung County, New York. The population was 29,200 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Chemung County.The City of Elmira is located in... - Edwin Forrest Sweet (1871), US Representative from Michigan
- Thomas ThacherThomas ThacherThomas Thacher was a descendant of the Rev. Peter Thacher, the rector of St. Edmonds, Salisbury, England; and of his son, Thomas Thacher, who came to America in 1635, settled in Salem, Massachusetts, and later became the first minister of the Old South Church in Boston. His father, Thomas Anthony...
(1871), lawyer - William Kneeland TownsendWilliam Kneeland TownsendWilliam Kneeland Townsend was a federal judge in the United States.A native of New Haven, Connecticut, Townsend attended both Yale College, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and Yale Law School. He worked for several years as a lawyer in private practice in New Haven, including as an...
(1871), US Appeals Court judge - George Foot MooreGeorge Foot MooreGeorge Foot Moore He graduated from Yale University in 1872, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. He was awarded the highest theological qualifiction – the D.D....
(1872), author, Professor of theology at Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country... - Theodore Salisbury WoolseyTheodore Salisbury WoolseyTheodore Salisbury Woolsey was an United States legal scholar, born at New Haven, Connecticut, son of Theodore Dwight Woolsey. He graduated at Yale in 1872 and at Yale Law School . In 1872 he was an initiate into The Skull and Bones Society...
(1872), co-founder of the Yale Review, professor of international law - Eben AlexanderEben AlexanderEben Alexander was an American scholar, educator, dean and ambassador.Alexander attended the University of Tennessee for two years, entered Yale in 1869, and graduated from Yale in 1873 with an A.B. He was initiated into Yale's Skull and Bones in 1873...
(1873), American scholar, educator, dean and ambassador - Samuel Oscar Prentice (1873), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut
- Frank Bigelow TarbellFrank Bigelow TarbellFrank Bigelow Tarbell PhD was a professor of Classic Studies at the University of Chicago from 1893 until 1918. He was also an associate professor of Greek at that institution...
(1873), classicist, professor of Greek and history at Yale, Harvard, and the University of ChicagoUniversity of ChicagoThe University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890... - Almet Francis JenksAlmet Francis JenksAlmet Francis Jenks was an American lawyer and politician from New York.-Life:He graduated from Yale University in 1875, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and earned an Bachelor of Laws from Columbia University in 1877...
(1875), Justice of the New York Supreme CourtNew York Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court of the State of New York is the trial-level court of general jurisdiction in thestate court system of New York, United States. There is a supreme court in each of New York State's 62 counties, although some smaller counties share judges with neighboring counties... - John Patton, Jr.John Patton, Jr.John Patton, Jr. was a U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan.Patton, the son of John Patton and the brother of Charles Emory Patton, was born in Curwensville, Pennsylvania...
(1875), US Senator - Edward Curtis SmithEdward Curtis SmithEdward Curtis Smith was an American politician from the US state of Vermont. He was a Republican. He was married to Anna Bailey James, the granddaughter of Amaziah Bailey James on October 3, 1888, and they had four children; James Gregory, Edward Fairchild, Curtis Ripley and Anna Dorothea...
(1875), Governor of VermontGovernor of VermontThe Governor of Vermont is the governor of the U.S. state of Vermont. The governor is elected in even numbered years by direct voting for a term of two years; Vermont and bordering New Hampshire are the only states to hold gubernatorial elections every two years, instead of every four... - Walker BlaineWalker Blaine-Biography:Walker Blaine was born in Augusta, Maine on May 8, 1855, the son of James G. Blaine and Harriet Blaine. In 1876, he graduated from Yale College, where he was a member of Skull and Bones....
(1876), United States Department of StateUnited States Department of StateThe United States Department of State , is the United States federal executive department responsible for international relations of the United States, equivalent to the foreign ministries of other countries...
official - Charles Newell Fowler (1876), US Representative from New Jersey
- Arthur Twining HadleyArthur Twining HadleyArthur Twining Hadley was an economist who served as President of Yale University from 1899 to 1921.-Biography:...
(1876), Yale President 1899–1921 - Roger Sherman Baldwin FosterRoger Sherman Baldwin FosterRoger Sherman Baldwin Foster was an American lawyer.He was the son of Dwight Foster and Henrietta Perkins Baldwin, daughter of US Senator Roger Sherman Baldwin. He attended Boston Latin School, the University of Marburg , and graduated from Yale University , where he was a member of Skull and...
(1878), lawyer and author - Tudor Storrs Jenks (1878), author
- William Howard TaftWilliam Howard TaftWilliam Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States...
(1878), 27th President of the United States, Chief Justice of the United States, Secretary of War - Edward Baldwin WhitneyEdward Baldwin Whitney-Life:Edward Baldwin Whitney was born August 16, 1857. His father was linguist William Dwight Whitney of the new England Dwight family. His mother was Elizabeth Wooster Baldwin, daughter of US Senator and Governor of Connecticut Roger Sherman Baldwin....
(1878), New York Supreme CourtNew York Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court of the State of New York is the trial-level court of general jurisdiction in thestate court system of New York, United States. There is a supreme court in each of New York State's 62 counties, although some smaller counties share judges with neighboring counties...
justice - Lloyd Wheaton BowersLloyd Wheaton BowersLloyd Wheaton Bowers was an American lawyer.Bowers was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, the son of Samuel Dwight and Martha Wheaton Bowers...
(1879), Solicitor General of the United States - Ambrose TigheAmbrose TigheAmbrose Tighe was an American lawyer, politician, and academic from Minnesota. He was one of the five co-founders of William Mitchell College of Law.-Early life:...
(1879), member Minnesota House of RepresentativesMinnesota House of RepresentativesThe Minnesota House of Representatives is the lower house in the Minnesota State Legislature. There are 134 members elected to two-year terms, twice the number of members in the Minnesota Senate. Each senate district is divided in half and given the suffix A or B... - Timothy Lester Woodruff (1879), Lieutenant Governor of New YorkLieutenant Governor of New YorkThe Lieutenant Governor of New York is a constitutional office in the executive branch of the government of New York State. It is the second highest ranking official in state government. The lieutenant governor is elected on a ticket with the governor for a four year term...
1880s
- Walter CampWalter CampWalter Chauncey Camp was an American football player, coach, and sports writer known as the "Father of American Football". With John Heisman, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Pop Warner, Fielding H. Yost, and George Halas, Camp was one of the most accomplished persons in the early history of American football...
(1880), father of American footballAmerican footballAmerican football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
and exercise proponent - Sidney Catlin PartridgeSidney Catlin PartridgeSidney Catlin Partridge was the first Bishop of Kyoto and the second Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of West Missouri ....
(1880) Bishop of Kyoto, Japan, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of West MissouriEpiscopal Diocese of West MissouriThe Episcopal Diocese of West Missouri, is the diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America with jurisdiction over western Missouri. It is in Province 7 and its cathedral, Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral, is in Kansas City, Missouri, as are the diocesan offices.-Bishops of West... - Henry Waters Taft (1880), lawyer, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
- Edwin Edgerton Aiken (1881), missionary
- Thomas Burr OsborneThomas Burr Osborne (chemist)Thomas Burr Osborne was a biochemist and co-discoverer of Vitamin A. he was the son of laywer Arthur Dimon Osborne and the grandson of US Representative Thomas Burr Osborne....
(1881), chemist, co-discoverer of Vitamin AVitamin AVitamin A is a vitamin that is needed by the retina of the eye in the form of a specific metabolite, the light-absorbing molecule retinal, that is necessary for both low-light and color vision... - Benjamin Brewster (1882), BishopBishopA bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...
of MaineEpiscopal Diocese of MaineThe Episcopal Diocese of Maine is a diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America and encompasses the entire State of Maine. It is part of the Province of New England - Province I of the ECUSA...
and Missionary Bishop of Western ColoradoEpiscopal Diocese of Western ColoradoThe Episcopal Diocese of Western Colorado was a diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America from 1892 to 1898 and from 1907 to 1919.... - William Phelps EnoWilliam Phelps EnoWilliam Phelps Eno was an American businessman responsible for many of the earliest innovations in road safety and traffic control...
(1882), traffic planner called the "Father of Traffic Safety" - Elihu Brintnal Frost (1883), lawyer, president of several early submarineSubmarineA submarine is a watercraft capable of independent operation below the surface of the water. It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability...
companies - Eliakim Hastings MooreE. H. MooreEliakim Hastings Moore was an American mathematician.-Life:Moore, the son of a Methodist minister and grandson of US Congressman Eliakim H. Moore, discovered mathematics through a summer job at the Cincinnati Observatory while in high school. He learned mathematics at Yale University, where he was...
(1883), mathematician, namesake of the Moore–Penrose pseudoinverse - Joseph Robinson Parrott (1883), president of the Florida East Coast RailwayFlorida East Coast RailwayThe Florida East Coast Railway is a Class II railroad operating in the U.S. state of Florida; in the past, it has been a Class I railroad.Built primarily in the last quarter of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century, the FEC was a project of Standard Oil principal Henry Morrison...
- Horace Dutton TaftHorace Dutton TaftHorace Dutton Taft was an American educator, and the founder of The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut, United States.He was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, the younger brother of William Howard Taft of the powerful Taft family...
(1883), educator, founder of the Taft School - Wilbur Franklin BoothWilbur Franklin BoothWilbur Franklin Booth was a United States federal judge.Booth received an A.B. from Yale University in 1884, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and an LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1888. He was in private practice in Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota from 1888 to 1890, and with some...
(1884), US federal judge - Maxwell EvartsMaxwell EvartsMaxwell Evarts, , youngest of the twelve children of Hon. William Maxwell Evarts and Helen Minerva Evarts. He was fitted for college at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire. He graduated from Yale College, 1884, where he was a member of Skull and Bones...
(1884), member of the Vermont House of Representatives, attorney for E. H. HarrimanE. H. HarrimanEdward Henry Harriman was an American railroad executive.-Early years:Harriman was born in Hempstead, New York, the son of Orlando Harriman, an Episcopal clergyman, and Cornelia Neilson... - Frank Bosworth Brandegee (1885), US Representative and Senator
- Alfred Cowles, Jr.Alfred Cowles, Jr.Alfred Cowles, Jr. He was the son of Alfred Cowles, Sr. and Sarah Hutchinson Cowles. His father was an incorporator along with John S. Scripps of the Chicago Tribune. Alfred Junior was graduated from Yale University in 1886, where he was a member of Skull and Bones...
(1886), lawyer, director Chicago TribuneChicago TribuneThe Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" , it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is... - Edward Johnson PhelpsEdward Johnson PhelpsEdward Johnson Phelps family had been settled in Massachusetts from the earliest times and are alleged to be of noble descent. Edward's father, the Rev. Austin Phelps was a graduated of the University of Pennsylvania and studied for a year at the Yale Divinity School...
(1886), president Northern Trust Safe Deposit Company - Clinton Larue Hare (1887), lawyer, college football coach
- George Griswold Haven, Jr. (1887), businessman
- Oliver Gould JenningsOliver Gould JenningsOliver Gould Jennings was a financier. He served in Connecticut House of Representatives. He was on the boards of Bethlehem Steel, United States Industrial Alcohol Company, McKesson & Robbins, Kingsport Press, Signature Company, National Fuel Gas, and Grocery Store Products.-Biography:He was born...
(1887), financier, member of Connecticut House of Representatives - William KentWilliam Kent (U.S. Congressman)William Kent was an American who served as a United States Congressman representing the State of California. He spearheaded the movement to create the Muir Woods National Monument by donating land to the Federal Government for the Monument.Kent was born in Chicago, Illinois...
(1887), United States Congressman for California - Irving FisherIrving FisherIrving Fisher was an American economist, inventor, and health campaigner, and one of the earliest American neoclassical economists, though his later work on debt deflation often regarded as belonging instead to the Post-Keynesian school.Fisher made important contributions to utility theory and...
(1888), economist and eugenicist - Richard Melancthon HurdRichard Melancthon HurdRichard Melancthon Hurd was a pioneer real estate economist and political activist.Hurd was born in New York City and attended St. Paul's School. He graduated from Yale University in 1888, where he was a member of Skull and Bones and editor of the Yale record. He headed the mortgage department of...
(1888), real estate executive - Amos Alonzo StaggAmos Alonzo StaggAmos Alonzo Stagg was an American athlete and pioneering college coach in multiple sports, primarily American football...
(1888), college footballCollege footballCollege football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...
Hall of Fame coach - Charles Otis Gill (1888), clergyman, author, college football coach
- Henry L. StimsonHenry L. StimsonHenry Lewis Stimson was an American statesman, lawyer and Republican Party politician and spokesman on foreign policy. He twice served as Secretary of War 1911–1913 under Republican William Howard Taft and 1940–1945, under Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt. In the latter role he was a leading hawk...
(1888), Governor-General of the Philippines, US Secretary of War, US Secretary of State - Gifford PinchotGifford PinchotGifford Pinchot was the first Chief of the United States Forest Service and the 28th Governor of Pennsylvania...
(1889), First Chief of U.S. Forest Service - George Washington WoodruffGeorge Washington WoodruffNote: Before 1936, national champions were determined by historical research and retroactive ratings and polls. 1894 Poll Results = Penn: Parke H. Davis, Princeton: Houlgate, Yale: Billingsley, Helms, National Championship Foundation, Parke H. Davis1895 Poll Results = Penn: Billingsley, Helms,...
(1889), College Hall of Fame football coach, Acting Secretary of the InteriorUnited States Secretary of the InteriorThe United States Secretary of the Interior is the head of the United States Department of the Interior.The US Department of the Interior should not be confused with the concept of Ministries of the Interior as used in other countries...
and Pennsylvania Attorney GeneralPennsylvania Attorney GeneralThe Pennsylvania Attorney General is the chief law enforcement officer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It became an elected office in 1980. Currently, the office is held by Linda Kelly.- Authority and Responsibilities :...
1890s
- Thomas F. Bayard, Jr.Thomas F. Bayard, Jr.Thomas Francis Bayard, Jr. was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, who served two terms as U.S. Senator from Delaware.-Early life and family:...
(1890), US Senator - Fairfax HarrisonFairfax HarrisonFairfax Harrison was an American lawyer, businessman, and writer. The son of the secretary to the Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Harrison studied law at Yale University and Columbia University before becoming a lawyer for the Southern Railway Company in 1896...
(1890), president Southern Railway Company - Percy Hamilton StewartPercy Hamilton StewartPercy Hamilton Stewart was a Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1931-1933....
(1890), US Representative from New Jersey - Frederic Collin Walcott (1891), US Senator
- Hugh Aiken BayneHugh Aiken BayneHugh Aiken Bayne was the son of Thomas Levingston Bayne, a lawyer who fought in the Civil War. His grandfather, John Gayle was a Congressman and Governor of Alabama....
(1892), laywer Strong & Cadwalader, Adjutant General's Office and War Department during World War IWorld War IWorld War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918... - Howell CheneyHowell CheneyHowell Cheney was a member of the Cheney manufacturing dynasty. The Cheneys had long been the first family of South Manchester....
(1892), manufacturer, founded Howell Cheney Technical High SchoolHowell Cheney Technical High SchoolHowell Cheney Technical High School is a high school in Manchester, Connecticut. It was established in 1915 by Howell Cheney as a textile school, in order to provide training for those wishing to work at the local silk mills.- History :In 1915, the school moved into the nearby Franklin Building... - Benjamin Lewis Crosby, Jr. (1892), law student and football coach
- Clive DayClive DayClive Hart Day was an American college professor and writer on economics history, born at Hartford, Conn. He was chief of the Balkan Division of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace ....
(1892), Professor of economic history at Yale - Henry S. GravesHenry S. GravesHenry Solon Graves was a forest administrator in the United States. He founded the Yale School of Forestry in 1900, the oldest continuous forestry school in the United States...
(1892), co-founder and first Dean of Yale School of ForestryYale School of Forestry & Environmental StudiesThe Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies is one of the graduate professional schools of Yale University. Founded to train foresters, it now trains leaders and creates new knowledge that will sustain and restore the health of the biosphere and the well-being of its people...
, 2nd chief of the U.S. Forest ServiceUnited States Forest ServiceThe United States Forest Service is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 155 national forests and 20 national grasslands, which encompass...
, founding member and 4th president of the Society of American ForestersSociety of American ForestersThe Society of American Foresters is a scientific and educational 501 non-profit organization, representing the forestry profession in the United States of America... - James William Husted, Jr. (1892), US Representative
- Pierre JayPierre JayPierre Jay was the first chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.He graduated from Yale University in 1892, and was a member of Skull and Bones, one of the best known of the secret societies based at Yale University...
(1892), first chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New YorkFederal Reserve Bank of New YorkThe Federal Reserve Bank of New York is one of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks of the United States. It is located at 33 Liberty Street, New York, NY. It is responsible for the Second District of the Federal Reserve System, which encompasses New York state, the 12 northern counties of New Jersey,... - Thomas Lee McClung (1892), Treasurer of the United StatesTreasurer of the United StatesThe Treasurer of the United States is an official in the United States Department of the Treasury that was originally charged with the receipt and custody of government funds, though many of these functions have been taken over by different bureaus of the Department of the Treasury...
, College Football Hall of FameCollege Football Hall of FameThe College Football Hall of Fame is a hall of fame and museum devoted to college football. Located in South Bend, Indiana, it is connected to a convention center and situated in the city's renovated downtown district, two miles south of the University of Notre Dame campus. It is slated to move...
player - Edson Fessenden GallaudetEdson Fessenden GallaudetEdson Fessenden Gallaudet was a pioneer in the field of aviation, being the first person to experiment with warped wings in 1896. In 1898, he built a warping-wing kite to test his invention of a warping-wing mechanism; this kite survives and is on display in the National Air and Space Museum in...
(1893), aviation pioneer - Thomas Cochran (1894), partner in J.P. Morgan & Company
- Ralph Delahaye Paine (1894), journalist and author
- Harry Payne WhitneyHarry Payne WhitneyHarry Payne Whitney was an American businessman, thoroughbred horsebreeder, and member of the prominent Whitney family.- Early years :...
(1894), investment banker, husband of Gertrude Vanderbilt WhitneyGertrude Vanderbilt WhitneyGertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was an American sculptor, art patron and collector, and founder in 1931 of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City... - Frank Seiler ButterworthFrank Butterworth-External links:...
(1895), member Connecticut State Senate, All-American football player and coach - Francis Burton HarrisonFrancis Burton HarrisonFrancis Burton Harrison was an American statesman who served in the United States House of Representatives and appointed Governor-General of the Philippines by President of the United States Woodrow Wilson...
(1895), US Representative from New York, Governor-General of the PhilippinesGovernor-General of the PhilippinesThe Governor-General of the Philippines was the title of the government executive during the colonial period of the Philippines, governed mainly by Spain and the United States, and briefly by Great Britain, from 1565 to 1935.... - Frank Augustus Hinkey (1895), zinc smelting business, College Football Hall of Fame player and coach
- Jules Henri de SibourJules Henri de SibourJules Gabriel Henri de Sibour was a French architect.Born in Paris, France to Vicomte Gabriel de Sibour and Mary Louisa Johnson of Belfast, Maine, he came to the United States as a child and attended St. Paul's School in New Hampshire. He received a degree from Yale University in 1896, where he...
(1896), architect - Anson Phelps StokesAnson Phelps Stokes (philanthropist)Anson Phelps Stokes , was an American educator, clergyman, author, philanthropist and civil rights activist.Stokes was one of three men of the same name; his father was multimillionaire banker Anson Phelps Stokes, and his son was the Bishop Anson Phelps Stokes, III, an Episcopal bishop.He was born...
(1896), clergyman and Secretary of Yale University (1899–1921) - Samuel Brinckerhoff Thorne (1896), mining engineer and executive, College Football Hall of Fame
- Henry Sloane CoffinHenry Sloane CoffinHenry Sloane Coffin was president of the Union Theological Seminary, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church USA, and one of the most famous ministers in the U.S...
(1897), president of the Union Theological SeminaryUnion Theological Seminary in the City of New YorkUnion Theological Seminary in the City of New York is a preeminent independent graduate school of theology, located in Manhattan between Claremont Avenue and Broadway, 120th to 122nd Streets. The seminary was founded in 1836 under the Presbyterian Church, and is affiliated with nearby Columbia... - Clarence Mann Fincke (1897), All-America football player
- Amos Richards Eno Pinchot (1897), Progressive leader
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr.James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr.James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. was a U.S. Republican politician from New York. He was the son of New York State Comptroller James Wolcott Wadsworth, Sr., and the grandson of Union General James Samuel Wadsworth, Sr.-Biography:...
(1898), U.S. Senator from New YorkNew YorkNew York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east... - William Payne Whitney (1898), Whitney familyWhitney familyThe Whitney family is an American family notable for their social prominence, wealth, business enterprises and philanthropy, founded by John Whitney who came from London, England to Watertown, Massachusetts in 1635.-Rise to prominence:...
businessman and philanthropist - James McDevitt MageeJames McDevitt MageeJames McDevitt Magee was an aviator and a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Biography:James M. Magee was born in Evergreen, Pennsylvania...
(1899), US Representative from Pennsylvania - Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt I (1899), member of the Vanderbilt familyVanderbilt familyThe Vanderbilt family is an American family of Dutch origin prominent during the Gilded Age. It started off with the shipping and railroad empires of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and expanded into various other areas of industry and philanthropy...
1900s
- Frederick Baldwin AdamsFrederick Baldwin AdamsFrederick Baldwin Adams was an American businessman and philanthropist.Adams was born in Toledo, Ohio, the son of a bank cashier. His father had moved to Ohio from New England. Frederick was sent east to attend St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, at the age of fourteen. From St. Paul's,...
(1900), railroad executive - John Walter Cross (1900), architect
- Ashley Day LeavittAshley Day LeavittRev. Dr. Ashley Day Leavitt was a Yale-educated Congregational minister who led the State Street Church in Portland, Maine, and later the Harvard Congregational Church in Brookline, Massachusetts...
(1900), CongregationalCongregational churchCongregational churches are Protestant Christian churches practicing Congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs....
minister, Harvard Congregational Church, Brookline, MassachusettsBrookline, MassachusettsBrookline is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States, which borders on the cities of Boston and Newton. As of the 2010 census, the population of the town was 58,732.-Etymology:...
, frequent lecturer and public speaker - Percy Rockefeller (1900), director of Brown Brothers Harriman, Standard OilStandard OilStandard Oil was a predominant American integrated oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company. Established in 1870 as a corporation in Ohio, it was the largest oil refiner in the world and operated as a major company trust and was one of the world's first and largest multinational...
, and Remington ArmsRemington ArmsRemington Arms Company, Inc. was founded in 1816 by Eliphalet Remington in Ilion, New York, as E. Remington and Sons. It is the oldest company in the United States which still makes its original product, and is the oldest continuously operating manufacturer in North America. It is the only U.S.... - Charles Edward Adams (1904), director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New YorkFederal Reserve Bank of New YorkThe Federal Reserve Bank of New York is one of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks of the United States. It is located at 33 Liberty Street, New York, NY. It is responsible for the Second District of the Federal Reserve System, which encompasses New York state, the 12 northern counties of New Jersey,...
- Russell CheneyRussell CheneyRussell Cheney was an American painter. He graduated from Yale in 1904, where he was a member of the Skull and Bones secret society....
(1904), American painter and noted portrait artist. - Thomas Day Thacher (1904), US District Court judge, Solicitor GeneralUnited States Solicitor GeneralThe United States Solicitor General is the person appointed to represent the federal government of the United States before the Supreme Court of the United States. The current Solicitor General, Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 6, 2011 and sworn in on June...
- Edwin Sheldon Whitehouse (1905), U.S. Foreign Service Officer, father of Charles S. WhitehouseCharles S. WhitehouseCharles Sheldon Whitehouse was an American career Foreign Service Officer. He was U.S. Ambassador to Laos and Thailand in the 1970s.-Early life:...
- John Gillespie Magee (1906), Yale Chaplain, documenter of the Rape of Nanking
- Foster RockwellFoster RockwellFoster Haven Rockwell was an All-American football player and hotelier. A native of Vermont, Rockwell played football at Yale University and was selected as the quarterback on the 1902 College Football All-America Team and was a member of Skull and Bones...
(1906), All-America football player and coach - William McCormick Blair (1907), American financier, heir to the McCormick reaper fortune
- Hugh Smith Knox (1907), All-America football player
- Samuel Finley Brown MorseSamuel Finley Brown MorseSamuel Finley Brown Morse was an environmental conservationist and the developer of Pebble Beach. He was known as the Duke of Del Monte and ran his company from the 1919 until his death in 1969...
(1907), developer and conservationist, All-America football player - Lucius Horatio Biglow (1908), All-America football player and coach
- Charles SeymourCharles SeymourCharles Seymour was an American academic, historian and President of Yale University from 1937 to 1951.-Early life:...
(1908), President of Yale (1937–1951), founding member of The Council on Foreign RelationsCouncil on Foreign RelationsThe Council on Foreign Relations is an American nonprofit nonpartisan membership organization, publisher, and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs... - Harold StanleyHarold StanleyHarold Stanley was an American businessman and one of the founders of Morgan Stanley in 1935. He ran Morgan Stanley until 1955....
(1908), co-founder of Morgan StanleyMorgan StanleyMorgan Stanley is a global financial services firm headquartered in New York City serving a diversified group of corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals. Morgan Stanley also operates in 36 countries around the world, with over 600 offices and a workforce of over 60,000.... - Harvey Hollister BundyHarvey Hollister BundyHarvey Hollister Bundy Sr., , was an American lawyer, Special Assistant to the Secretary of War during the second World War, and father of McGeorge Bundy. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to McGeorge Bundy, a lawyer, he was grandson to Solomon Bundy, a lawyer and New York Congressman...
(1909), Assistant Secretary of State (1931–1933) - Allen Trafford KlotsAllen T. KlotsAllen T. Klots was a New York City lawyer and president of the New York City Bar Association.-Early life and education:Allen T. Klots was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1889...
(1909), New York City lawyer and president of the New York City Bar Association, partner at Winthrop & Stimson
1910s
- Edward Harris Coy (1910), College Football Hall of Fame player
- Albert DeSilverAlbert DeSilverAlbert DeSilver was a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union .DeSilver graduated from Yale in 1910, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and then earned a law degree at Columbia Law School...
(1910), co-founder American Civil Liberties UnionAmerican Civil Liberties UnionThe American Civil Liberties Union is a U.S. non-profit organization whose stated mission is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States." It works through litigation, legislation, and... - George Leslie Harrison (1910), President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
- Robert Alphonso Taft (1910), US Senator from Ohio
- Robert Abbe Gardner (1912), two-time U.S. Amateur-winning golfer
- Gerald Clery Murphy (1912), painter
- Alfred Cowles III (1913), economist, founder of the Cowles Commission
- Averell Harriman (1913), businessman, founding partner in Harriman Brothers & CompanyHarriman Brothers & CompanyHarriman Brothers & Company was an investment bank and brokerage firm founded by brothers W. Averell Harriman and E. Roland Harriman in 1927. In 1931, the firm merged with Brown Bros. & Co. to form Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.-History:...
and later Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. is an American investment bank and securities firm, founded in 1818, it is the oldest and largest private bank in the United States. Brown Brothers Harriman serves clients globally in three main businesses: Investment Banking & Advisory, Wealth Management, Commercial...
, U.S. Ambassador and Secretary of Commerce, Governor of New York, Chairman and CEO of the Union Pacific Railroad, Brown Brothers & Harriman, and the Southern Pacific Railroad - Henry Holman Ketcham (1914), College Football Hall of Fame
- Edwin Arthur Burtt (1915), philosopher
- Archibald MacLeishArchibald MacLeishArchibald MacLeish was an American poet, writer, and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the Modernist school of poetry. He received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.-Early years:...
(1915), poet and diplomat - Wesley Marion Oler, Jr. (1916), American baseball player and track and field athlete, competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics1912 Summer OlympicsThe 1912 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden, between 5 May and 27 July 1912. Twenty-eight nations and 2,407 competitors, including 48 women, competed in 102 events in 14 sports...
- Howard Phelps Putnam (1916), poet
- Donald Ogden StewartDonald Ogden StewartDonald Ogden Stewart was an American author and screenwriter.-Life:His hometown was Columbus, Ohio. He graduated from Yale University, where he became a brother to the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity , in 1916 and was in the Naval Reserves in World War I.After the war he started to write and found...
(1916), author and screenwriter, Academy Award-winner for The Philadelphia Story - Prescott BushPrescott BushPrescott Sheldon Bush was a Wall Street executive banker and a United States Senator, representing Connecticut from 1952 until January 1963. He was the father of George H. W. Bush and the grandfather of George W...
(1917), founding partner in Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. is an American investment bank and securities firm, founded in 1818, it is the oldest and largest private bank in the United States. Brown Brothers Harriman serves clients globally in three main businesses: Investment Banking & Advisory, Wealth Management, Commercial...
, US Senator from Connecticut - E. Roland HarrimanE. Roland HarrimanE. Roland Harriman was a financier and philanthropist...
(1917), co-founder Harriman Brothers & CompanyHarriman Brothers & CompanyHarriman Brothers & Company was an investment bank and brokerage firm founded by brothers W. Averell Harriman and E. Roland Harriman in 1927. In 1931, the firm merged with Brown Bros. & Co. to form Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.-History:... - Harry William LeGore (1917), All-America college football player
- H. Neil Mallon (1917), CEO of Dresser IndustriesDresser IndustriesDresser Industries was a multinational corporation headquartered in Dallas, Texas, United States, which provided a wide range of technology, products, and services used for developing energy and natural resources...
- Kenneth Farrand Simpson (1917), member of the United States House of RepresentativesUnited States House of RepresentativesThe United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...
from New YorkNew YorkNew York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east... - Howard Malcolm BaldrigeHoward M. BaldrigeHoward Malcolm Baldrige or H. Malcolm Baldrige was a Nebraska Republican politician.-Early life and ancestors:He was born on June 23, 1894 at Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, the son of Nebraska state senator Howard Hammond Baldrige and Letitia Blanche Coffey and died on January 19, 1985, in...
(1918), US Representative from Nebraska - F. Trubee DavisonF. Trubee DavisonFrederick Trubee Davison , usually known as F. Trubee Davison, or Trubee Davison, was an American World War I aviator, Assistant US Secretary of War, Director of Personnel for the Central Intelligence Agency, and President of the American Museum of Natural History.Davison was the brother-in-law of...
(1918), WWI aviator, Assistant US Secretary of War, New York State Representative, Director of Personnel at the CIA - John Chipman FarrarJohn Chipman FarrarJohn Chipman Farrar was an American editor, writer and publisher. Farrar founded of two publishing companies — Farrar & Rinehart and Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He also conceived and founded the Breadloaf Writers' Conference in 1926.-Life:Farrar was born in Burlington, Vermont...
(1918), publisher, founder of Farrar & RinehartFarrar & RinehartFarrar & Rinehart was a United States book publishing company founded in New York. Farrar & Rinehart enjoyed success with both nonfiction and novels, notably, the landmark Rivers of America Series and the first ten books in the Nero Wolfe corpus of Rex Stout...
and Farrar, Straus and GirouxFarrar, Straus and GirouxFarrar, Straus and Giroux is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger W. Straus, Jr. and John C. Farrar. Known primarily as Farrar, Straus in its first decade of existence, the company was renamed several times, including Farrar, Straus and Young and Farrar, Straus and Cudahy... - Artemus Lamb Gates (1918), businessman, US Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air
- Robert A. LovettRobert A. LovettRobert Abercrombie Lovett was the fourth United States Secretary of Defense, serving in the cabinet of President Harry S. Truman from 1951 to 1953 and in this capacity, directed the Korean War. Promoted to the position from deputy secretary of defense Domhoff described Lovett as a "Cold War...
(1918), US Secretary of Defense - Charles Phelps Taft IICharles Phelps Taft IICharles Phelps Taft II was a U.S. Republican Party politician and member of the Taft family. From 1955 to 1957, he served as Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio. Like other members of his family, Taft was a Republican for the purposes of state-wide elections. However, when running for municipal office in...
(1918), son of President William Howard TaftWilliam Howard TaftWilliam Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States...
, Mayor of Cincinnati, OhioCincinnati, OhioCincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio. Cincinnati is the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located to north of the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border, near Indiana. The population within city limits is 296,943 according to the 2010 census, making it Ohio's... - John Martin Vorys (1918), US Representative from Ohio
- Alexander Agnew McCormick, Jr. (1919), US Navy officer, namesake of the USS McCormick (DD-223)USS McCormick (DD-223)USS McCormick was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was named for Lieutenant, junior grade Alexander McCormick, Jr....
1920s
- Lewis Greenleaf AdamsLewis Greenleaf AdamsLewis Greenleaf Adams, AIA, , was an American architect based in New York City who practiced in mid- to late-twentieth-century New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, as part of the firms Mamfeldt, Adams & Prentice, Adams & Prentice , Mamfeldt, Adams & Woodbridge, Adams & Woodbridge Lewis Greenleaf...
(1920), architect - Briton HaddenBriton HaddenBriton Hadden was the co-founder of Time magazine with his Yale classmate Henry Luce. He was Time's first editor and the inventor of its revolutionary writing style, known as Timestyle...
(1920), co-founder of Time-Life Enterprises - Francis Thayer Hobson (1920), chair of William MorrowWilliam Morrow and CompanyWilliam Morrow and Company is an American publishing company founded by William Morrow in 1926. The company was acquired by Scott Foresman in 1967, and sold to Hearst Corporation in 1981. It was sold along to the News Corporation in 1999...
- David Sinton IngallsDavid Sinton IngallsDavid Sinton Ingalls, DSC and DFC was the only United States Navy Flying Ace of World War I, with six credited victories; thus he was the first ace in U. S. Navy history. He was the son of Albert S. Ingalls; his mother, Jane Taft, was the niece of President William Howard Taft...
(1920), WWI Navy Flying AceFlying aceA flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down several enemy aircraft during aerial combat. The actual number of aerial victories required to officially qualify as an "ace" has varied, but is usually considered to be five or more...
, Ohio State Representative, Assistant Secretary of the NavyAssistant Secretary of the NavyAssistant Secretary of the Navy is the title given to certain civilian senior officials in the United States Department of the Navy.... - Henry LuceHenry LuceHenry Robinson Luce was an influential American publisher. He launched and closely supervised a stable of magazines that transformed journalism and the reading habits of upscale Americans...
(1920), co-founder of Time-Life Enterprises - Charles Harvey Bradley, Jr. (1921), businessman
- Stanley WoodwardStanley WoodwardStanley Woodward, Sr. was the White House Chief of Protocol under Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. He was a favorite social companion of FDR...
(1922), US Foreign Service officer, State Department Chief of Protocol, US Ambassador to CanadaCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean... - John Sherman Cooper (1923), US Senator from Kentucky
- Russell Wheeler Davenport (1923), editor of FortuneFortune (magazine)Fortune is a global business magazine published by Time Inc. Founded by Henry Luce in 1930, the publishing business, consisting of Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated, grew to become Time Warner. In turn, AOL grew as it acquired Time Warner in 2000 when Time Warner was the world's largest...
magazine; created Fortune 500Fortune 500The Fortune 500 is an annual list compiled and published by Fortune magazine that ranks the top 500 U.S. closely held and public corporations as ranked by their gross revenue after adjustments made by Fortune to exclude the impact of excise taxes companies collect. The list includes publicly and...
list - F. O. MatthiessenF. O. MatthiessenFrancis Otto Matthiessen was an educator, scholar and literary critic influential in the fields of American literature and American studies.-Scholarly work:...
(1923), historian, literary critic - Edwin Foster Blair (1924), lawyer
- Walter Edwards Houghton (1924), historian of Victorian literature, compiler of The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824–1900
- Charles Merville Spofford (1924), lawyer and NATO official
- John Allen Miner ThomasJohn Allen Miner ThomasJohn Allen Miner Thomas was an American author.He graduated from Yale University in 1922, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. His only novel was Dry Martini , an account of Americans in Paris. It was adapted into a 1928 film starring Mary Astor. Thomas died as a result of alcoholism....
(1924), author - Marvin Allen Stevens (1925), orthopedic surgeon, College Football Hall of Fame player and coach
- James Jeremiah WadsworthJames Jeremiah WadsworthJames Jeremiah "Jerry" Wadsworth was a U.S. diplomat. A member of the prominent Genesee Valley Wadsworths, he was a direct descendant of pioneer William Wadsworth, a founder of Hartford, Connecticut....
(1927), diplomat, US Ambassador to the UN - George Herbert Walker, Jr.George Herbert Walker, Jr.George Herbert Walker, Jr. , an American businessman and the uncle of President George H. W. Bush. He was an original owner of the New York Mets, a team which he co-founded in 1960 with Joan Whitney Payson....
(1927), financier and co-founder of the New York MetsNew York MetsThe New York Mets are a professional baseball team based in the borough of Queens in New York City, New York. They belong to Major League Baseball's National League East Division. One of baseball's first expansion teams, the Mets were founded in 1962 to replace New York's departed National League...
; uncle to President George Herbert Walker BushGeorge H. W. BushGeorge Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to... - John Rockefeller PrenticeJohn Rockefeller PrenticeJohn Rockefeller Prentice was born to Chicago lawyer Ezra Parmalee Prentice and Alta Rockefeller Prentice in New York. Prentice's maternal grandfather is the Standard Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller ....
(1928), laywer and cattle breeder - Lanny RossLanny RossLanny Ross was an American singer, pianist and songwriter.-Biography:Lancelot Patrick Ross was born in Seattle, Washington. He graduated from Yale University in 1928, where he was a member of Zeta Psi and Skull and Bones. He later studied classical vocal technique at the Juilliard School of...
(1928), singer. - Granger Kent Costikyan (1929), partner Brown Brothers Harriman
- George Crile, Jr.George Crile, Jr.George Washington "Barney" Crile, Jr. was an American surgeon. He was a significant influence on how breast cancer is treated and was a visible and controversial advocate for alternative procedures....
(1929), surgeon - Ralph Delahaye Paine, Jr. (1929), editor and publisher (FortuneFortune (magazine)Fortune is a global business magazine published by Time Inc. Founded by Henry Luce in 1930, the publishing business, consisting of Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated, grew to become Time Warner. In turn, AOL grew as it acquired Time Warner in 2000 when Time Warner was the world's largest...
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1930s
- Charles Alderson Janeway (1930), Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical SchoolHarvard Medical SchoolHarvard Medical School is the graduate medical school of Harvard University. It is located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts....
- H. J. Heinz IIH. J. Heinz IIHenry John Heinz II , best known as Jack Heinz, was an American business executive and CEO of the H. J. Heinz Company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA....
(1931), Heir to H. J. Heinz Company; father of H. John Heinz IIIH. John Heinz IIIHenry John Heinz III was an American politician from Pennsylvania, a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate .-Early life:... - John Mercer Walker, Sr. (1931), physician, investment banker
- Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr.Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr.Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr. was an American bibliophile and the director of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City from 1938–1969....
(1932), bibliophile, director of the Pierpont Morgan Library - Samuel Hazard Gillespie Jr. (1932), U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New YorkU.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New YorkThe U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York is the chief federal law enforcement officer in eight New York counties: New York , Bronx, Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, Orange, Dutchess, and Sullivan. Preet Bharara, who was appointed by Barack Obama in 2009 is the U.S. Attorney for the...
, senior counsel at Davis Polk & WardwellDavis Polk & WardwellDavis Polk & Wardwell LLP is an international law firm. The firm employs more than 800 attorneys worldwide and is headquartered in New York City. The firm represents many of the world's largest companies and leading financial institutions, and is best known for its corporate and litigation... - Tex McCraryTex McCraryJohn Reagan McCrary , better known as Tex McCrary, was an American journalist and public relations specialist who invented the talk show genre for television and radio, and appeared on radio and TV with his wife, Jinx Falkenburg.Born in Calvert, Texas, McCrary graduated from the Phillips Exeter...
(1932), journalist, public relations and political strategist to President Eisenhower - Eugene O'Neill, Jr.Eugene O'Neill, Jr.Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, Jr. was an American professor of Greek literature.O'Neill was son of Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill and the elder O'Neill's first wife, Kathleen Jenkins. The couple divorced in 1912. O'Neill once said he did not even meet his father until age 12...
(1932), professor of Greek literature, son of Eugene O'NeillEugene O'NeillEugene Gladstone O'Neill was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into American drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish... - Francis Judd CookeFrancis Judd CookeFrancis Judd Cooke was an American composer, organist, cellist, pianist, conductor, choir director, and professor.-Life:...
(1933), composer - Samuel Carnes CollierSamuel Carnes CollierSamuel "Sam" Carnes Collier was an American advertising entrepreneur. He made his fortune in streetcar advertising.-Early life:...
(1935), advertising, racecar driver - Lyman SpitzerLyman SpitzerLyman Strong Spitzer, Jr. was an American theoretical physicist and astronomer best known for his research in star formation, plasma physics, and in 1946, for conceiving the idea of telescopes operating in outer space...
(1935), theoretical physicist and namesake of the NASANASAThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
Spitzer Space TelescopeSpitzer Space TelescopeThe Spitzer Space Telescope , formerly the Space Infrared Telescope Facility is an infrared space observatory launched in 2003... - Sonny TuftsSonny TuftsSonny Tufts was a United States film actor....
(1935), actor - Jonathan Brewster BinghamJonathan Brewster BinghamJonathan Brewster Bingham was an American politician and diplomat...
(1936), U.S. Representative (D-New York) - Brendan GillBrendan GillBrendan Gill wrote for The New Yorker for more than 60 years. He also contributed film criticism for Film Comment and wrote a popular book about his time at the New Yorker magazine.-Biography:...
(1936), author and New YorkerThe New YorkerThe New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
contributor - John HerseyJohn HerseyJohn Richard Hersey was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer and journalist considered one of the earliest practitioners of the so-called New Journalism, in which storytelling devices of the novel are fused with non-fiction reportage...
(1936), author - John Merrill Knapp (1936), musicologist, professor at Princeton UniversityPrinceton UniversityPrinceton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
- William Horsley Orrick, Jr. (1937), United States federal judge, brother of Andrew Downey Orrick
- Potter StewartPotter StewartPotter Stewart was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. During his tenure, he made, among other areas, major contributions to criminal justice reform, civil rights, access to the courts, and Fourth Amendment jurisprudence.-Education:Stewart was born in Jackson, Michigan,...
(1937), U.S. Supreme Court Justice - J. Richardson DilworthJ. Richardson DilworthJ. Richardson Dilworth was a leading businessman best known for being laywer for the Rockefeller family.-Early life and career:...
(1938), Rockefeller familyRockefeller familyThe Rockefeller family , the Cleveland family of John D. Rockefeller and his brother William Rockefeller , is an American industrial, banking, and political family of German origin that made one of the world's largest private fortunes in the oil business during the late 19th and early 20th...
lawyer - Clinton Frank (1938), advertising, College Football Hall of Fame and Heisman TrophyHeisman TrophyThe Heisman Memorial Trophy Award , is awarded annually to the player deemed the most outstanding player in collegiate football. It was created in 1935 as the Downtown Athletic Club trophy and renamed in 1936 following the death of the Club's athletic director, John Heisman The Heisman Memorial...
-winning player - Albert Hessberg II (1938), lawyer, first Jewish member of Skull and Bones
- William P. Bundy (1939), State Department liaison for the Bay of Pigs invasion, brother of McGeorge BundyMcGeorge BundyMcGeorge "Mac" Bundy was United States National Security Advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson from 1961 through 1966, and president of the Ford Foundation from 1966 through 1979...
- William Welch KelloggWilliam Welch KelloggWilliam Welch Kellogg was an American meteorologist and climatologist. He served as Associate director and senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research...
(1939), climatologist, associate director National Center for Atmospheric ResearchNational Center for Atmospheric ResearchThe National Center for Atmospheric Research has multiple facilities, including the I. M. Pei-designed Mesa Laboratory headquarters in Boulder, Colorado. NCAR is managed by the nonprofit University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and sponsored by the National Science Foundation...
1940s
- McGeorge BundyMcGeorge BundyMcGeorge "Mac" Bundy was United States National Security Advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson from 1961 through 1966, and president of the Ford Foundation from 1966 through 1979...
(1940), Special Assistant for National Security Affairs; National Security Advisor; Professor of History, brother of William BundyWilliam BundyWilliam Putnam "Bill" Bundy was a member of the CIA and foreign affairs advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He had a key role in planning the Vietnam War. After leaving government service he became a historian.-Early years:Raised in Boston, Massachusetts he came from a... - Andrew Downey Orrick (1940), acting chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission
- Barry ZorthianBarry ZorthianBarry Zorthian was an American diplomat, most notably press officer for years during the Vietnam war, media executive and lobbyist. "By his own reckoning, Zorthian was the last surviving member of the original cadre of U.S...
(1941), American diplomat, most notably press officer in Saigon for 4-1/2 years during Vietnam War - David AchesonDavid AchesonDavid Campion Acheson is an American lawyer and the son of former US Secretary of State Dean Acheson.David Acheson was born in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Yale University, where he was President of the Yale Political Union and a member of Skull and Bones, with a B.A. in 1942. After serving...
(1943), author, lawyer, son of Dean AchesonDean AchesonDean Gooderham Acheson was an American statesman and lawyer. As United States Secretary of State in the administration of President Harry S. Truman from 1949 to 1953, he played a central role in defining American foreign policy during the Cold War... - Harold Harris Healy, Jr. (1943), lawyer, partner Debevoise & PlimptonDebevoise & PlimptonDebevoise & Plimpton LLP is a prominent international law firm based in New York City. Founded in 1931 by Eli Whitney Debevoise and William Stevenson, Debevoise has been a long established leader in corporate litigation and large financial transactions. In recent years, its practice has taken on an...
- James L. BuckleyJames L. BuckleyJames Lane Buckley is a retired judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and previously served as a United States Senator from the state of New York as a member of the Conservative Party of New York from January 3, 1971 to January 3, 1977...
(1944), U.S. Senator (R-New York 1971–1977) and brother of William F. Buckley, Jr. - John Bannister Goodenough (1944), solid-state physicist at the University of Texas at AustinUniversity of Texas at AustinThe University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...
- Townsend Walter Hoopes II (1944), historian, Under Secretary of the Air Force (1967–69)
- William Singer Moorhead (1944), US Representative from Pennsylvania
- James WhitmoreJames WhitmoreJames Allen Whitmore, Jr. was an American film and stage actor.-Early life:Born in White Plains, New York, to Florence Belle and James Allen Whitmore, Sr., a park commission official, Whitmore attended Amherst Central High School in Snyder, New York, before graduating from The Choate School in...
(1944), actor - John ChafeeJohn ChafeeJohn Lester Hubbard Chafee was an American politician. He served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps, as the 66th Governor of Rhode Island, as the Secretary of the Navy, and as a United States Senator.-Early life and family:...
(1947), U.S. Senator, Secretary of the Navy and Governor of Rhode Island, father of Lincoln ChafeeLincoln ChafeeLincoln Davenport Chafee is an American politician who has been the 74th Governor of Rhode Island since January 2011. Prior to his election as governor, Chafee served in the United States Senate as a Republican from 1999 until losing his Senate re-election bid in 2006 to Democrat Sheldon... - Josiah Augustus Spaulding (1947), lawyer, partner Bingham Dana & Gould
- Charles S. WhitehouseCharles S. WhitehouseCharles Sheldon Whitehouse was an American career Foreign Service Officer. He was U.S. Ambassador to Laos and Thailand in the 1970s.-Early life:...
(1947), CIA Agent (1947–1956), U.S. Ambassador to LaosLaosLaos Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ Sathalanalat Paxathipatai Paxaxon Lao, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic, is a landlocked country in Southeast Asia, bordered by Burma and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south and Thailand to the west...
and ThailandThailandThailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
in the 1970s. - Thomas William Ludlow Ashley (1948), US Representative from Ohio
- George H. W. BushGeorge H. W. BushGeorge Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to...
(1948), 41st President of the United States, 11th Director of Central Intelligence, son of Prescott BushPrescott BushPrescott Sheldon Bush was a Wall Street executive banker and a United States Senator, representing Connecticut from 1952 until January 1963. He was the father of George H. W. Bush and the grandfather of George W...
, father of George W. BushGeorge W. BushGeorge Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
. His Skull and Bones nickname was "Magog". - William Sloane CoffinWilliam Sloane CoffinWilliam Sloane Coffin, Jr. was an American liberal Christian clergyman and long-time peace activist. He was ordained in the Presbyterian church and later received ministerial standing in the United Church of Christ....
(1949), CIA agent (1950–1953), clergyman and peace activist - Daniel Pomeroy Davison (1949), banker, president United States Trust Corporation
- Tony LavelliTony LavelliAnthony Lavelli, Jr. was an American basketball player and musician. He averaged 6.9 points per game during his two year NBA career while also providing half-time entertainment with his accordion performances....
(1949), basketball player - David McCord LippincottDavid McCord LippincottDavid McCord Lippincott was an American composer and lyricist.-Education:David McCord Lippincott wrote music and lyrics from an early age. The first evidence of that is a musical revue he wrote while attending the Hotchkiss School called "Little Boy Blue"...
(1949), novelist and composer - Charles Edwin Lord II (1949), banker, Vice-Chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United StatesExport-Import Bank of the United StatesThe Export-Import Bank of the United States is the official export credit agency of the United States federal government. It was established in 1934 by an executive order, and made an independent agency in the Executive branch by Congress in 1945, for the purposes of financing and insuring...
1950s
- William F. Buckley, Jr.William F. Buckley, Jr.William Frank Buckley, Jr. was an American conservative author and commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, hosted 1,429 episodes of the television show Firing Line from 1966 until 1999, and was a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist. His writing was noted for...
(1950), founder of National ReviewNational ReviewNational Review is a biweekly magazine founded by the late author William F. Buckley, Jr., in 1955 and based in New York City. It describes itself as "America's most widely read and influential magazine and web site for conservative news, commentary, and opinion."Although the print version of the...
, former CIA officer - William Henry Draper IIIWilliam Henry Draper IIIWilliam Henry Draper III is a prominent American venture capitalist.-Early life and career:Draper was born in White Plains, New York, the son of Katherine and banker and diplomat William Henry Draper, Jr. He attended Yale University with George H. W. Bush, graduated in 1950, the year after George...
(1950), Chair of United Nations Development Programme and Export-Import Bank of the United StatesExport-Import Bank of the United StatesThe Export-Import Bank of the United States is the official export credit agency of the United States federal government. It was established in 1934 by an executive order, and made an independent agency in the Executive branch by Congress in 1945, for the purposes of financing and insuring... - Evan G. GalbraithEvan G. GalbraithEvan Griffith Galbraith was the United States Ambassador to France from 1981 to 1985 under Ronald Reagan and the Secretary of Defense Representative in Europe under Donald Rumsfeld from 2002 to 2007....
(1950), US Ambassador to France; managing director of Morgan Stanley - Thomas Henry Guinzburg (1950), president Viking PressViking PressViking Press is an American publishing company owned by the Penguin Group, which has owned the company since 1975. It was founded in New York City on March 1, 1925, by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim...
- Victor William Henningsen, Jr. (1950), president Henningsen Foods Inc.
- Raymond PriceRay Price (speechwriter)Raymond K. "Ray" Price, Jr was the chief speechwriter of U.S. President Richard Nixon, working on both inaugural addressess, his resignation speech, and Gerald Ford's pardon speech....
(1951), speechwriter for Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Bush. - Fergus Reid Buckley (1952), author and public speaker
- Charles Sherman Haight, Jr. (1952), Connecticut District CourtUnited States District Court for the District of ConnecticutThe United States District Court for the District of Connecticut is the Federal district court whose jurisdiction is the state of Connecticut. The court has offices in Bridgeport, Hartford and New Haven. Appeals from the court are heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit...
judge - Jonathan James Bush (1953), banker, son of Prescott Bush
- William H. DonaldsonWilliam H. DonaldsonWilliam Henry Donaldson was the 27th Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission , serving from February 2003 to June 2005...
(1953), appointed chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission by George W. Bush; founding dean of Yale School of ManagementYale School of ManagementThe Yale School of Management is the graduate business school of Yale University and is located on Hillhouse Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. The School offers Master of Business Administration and Ph.D. degree programs. As of January 2011, 454 students were enrolled in its MBA...
; co-founder of DLJ investment firm - John Birnie Marshall (1953), OlympicOlympic GamesThe Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...
medal-winning swimmer - James Price McLane (1953), Olympic medal-winning swimmer
- George Herbert Walker IIIGeorge Herbert Walker IIIGeorge Herbert Walker III , commonly known as Bert Walker, is a former U.S. ambassador to Hungary and the first cousin of former President George Herbert Walker Bush....
(1953), US Ambassador to HungaryHungaryHungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The... - David McCulloughDavid McCulloughDavid Gaub McCullough is an American author, narrator, historian, and lecturer. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian award....
(1955), U.S. historian; two-time Pulitzer PrizePulitzer PrizeThe Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
winner - Caldwell Blakeman Esselstyn, Jr. (1956), Olympic medal-winning rower, physician, author
- Jack Edwin McGregor (1956), Pennsylvania State Senator, founder Pittsburgh PenguinsPittsburgh PenguinsThe Pittsburgh Penguins are a professional ice hockey team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The franchise was founded in 1967 as one of the first expansion teams during the league's original...
- R. Inslee Clark, Jr.R. Inslee Clark, Jr.Russell Inslee "Ink" Clark, Jr. was an educator, administrator, and a key player in the transition of the Ivy League into co-education in the 1960s.-Personal life:Clark was born in 1935 and graduated from Garden City High School in 1953....
(1957), former Director of Undergraduate Admissions for Yale College; former Headmaster of Horace Mann SchoolHorace Mann SchoolHorace Mann School is an independent college preparatory school in New York City, New York, United States founded in 1887 known for its rigorous course of studies. Horace Mann is a member of the Ivy Preparatory School League, educating students from all across the New York tri-state area from... - Linden Stanley Blue (1958), aviation executive
- Robert Willis Morey, Jr. (1958), Olympic medal-winning rower
- Stephen AdamsStephen Adams (business)Stephen Adams is an American businessman and private equity investor. His current holdings include Affinity Group, Inc., a national publishing, retail stores, and member-based direct marketing organization directed toward owners of recreational vehicles and Adams Outdoor Advertising, an operator...
(1959), American businessman, founder Adams Outdoor - Winston LordWinston LordWinston Lord is a United States diplomat and leader of non-governmental foreign policy organizations...
(1959), Chairman of Council on Foreign RelationsCouncil on Foreign RelationsThe Council on Foreign Relations is an American nonprofit nonpartisan membership organization, publisher, and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs...
; Ambassador to China; Assistant U.S. Secretary of State
1960s
- David George Ball (1960), Assistant US Secretary of Labor
- Eugene Lytton Scott (1960), tennis player, founder Tennis WeekTennis WeekTennis Week was an American sports magazine owned by media conglomerate IMG covering the world of tennis.-History:Founded in 1974 by Eugene L. Scott, a former US Davis Cup player who was ranked within the world top 15....
- Michael Johnson Pyle (1960), National Football LeagueNational Football LeagueThe National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
player - John Joseph Walsh, Jr. (1961), art historian, director J. Paul Getty MuseumJ. Paul Getty MuseumThe J. Paul Getty Museum, a program of the J. Paul Getty Trust, is an art museum. It has two locations, one at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, and one at the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California...
- William HamiltonWilliam Hamilton (cartoonist)William Hamilton is an American cartoonist and playwright. He is most closely associated with the magazine The New Yorker.-Biography:...
(1962), New YorkerThe New YorkerThe New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
cartoonist - David L. BorenDavid L. BorenDavid Lyle Boren is an academic leader and American politician from the state of Oklahoma. A Democrat, he served as the 21st Governor of Oklahoma from 1975 to 1979 and in the United States Senate from 1979 to 1994. He is currently president of the University of Oklahoma. He was the longest serving...
(1963), Governor of Oklahoma, U.S. Senator, President of the University of OklahomaUniversity of OklahomaThe University of Oklahoma is a coeducational public research university located in Norman, Oklahoma. Founded in 1890, it existed in Oklahoma Territory near Indian Territory for 17 years before the two became the state of Oklahoma. the university had 29,931 students enrolled, most located at its... - Michael Gates Gill (1963), advertising executive, author
- William Dawbney Nordhaus (1963), Sterling ProfessorSterling ProfessorA Sterling Professorship is the highest academic rank at Yale University, awarded to a tenured faculty member considered one of the best in his or her field...
of Economics at Yale University - Orde Musgrave Coombs (1965), author, editor, first black member of Skull and Bones
- John ShattuckJohn ShattuckJohn Shattuck is an international legal scholar and human rights leader, became the fourth President and Rector of Central European University in August 2009. CEU is a global institution of graduate education in the social sciences, the humanities, law, business, environmental studies, government...
(1965), US diplomat and ambassador, university administrator - John Forbes Kerry (1966), U.S. Senator (D-Massachusetts 1985–present); Lieutenant Governor of MassachusettsLieutenant Governor of MassachusettsThe Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts is the first in the line to discharge the powers and duties of the office of governor following the incapacitation of the Governor of Massachusetts...
1983–1985; 2004 Democratic Presidential nominee - David RumseyDavid RumseyDavid Rumsey is a map collector and the founder of the David Rumsey Map Collection. He is also the president of Cartography Associates.Rumsey has a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University and was a founding member of Yale Research Associates in the Arts...
(1966), founder of the David Rumsey Map Collection and president of Cartography Associates - Frederick Wallace Smith (1966), founder of FedExFedExFedEx Corporation , originally known as FDX Corporation, is a logistics services company, based in the United States with headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee...
- David ThorneDavid ThorneDavid Thorne is an American businessman and diplomat who serves as United States Ambassador to Italy and Ambassador to San Marino. He was nominated by President Barack Obama and sworn in August 17, 2009....
(1966), United States Ambassador to ItalyUnited States Ambassador to ItalySince 1840, the United States has had diplomatic representation in the Italian Republic and its predecessor nation, the Kingdom of Italy, with a break in relations from 1941 to 1944 while Italy and the U.S. were at war during World War II. The U.S. Mission to Italy is headed by the Embassy of the... - Victor AsheVictor AsheVictor Henderson Ashe II is the former United States Ambassador to Poland. From 1987 to 2003, he was mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee. Ashe is a Republican. Ambassador Ashe concluded his service as Ambassador to Poland on February 6, 2009....
(1967), Tennessee State Senator and Representative, Mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee, US Ambassador to Poland - Roy Leslie Austin (1968), appointed ambassador to Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...
by George W. Bush - George W. BushGeorge W. BushGeorge Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
(1968), grandson of Prescott BushPrescott BushPrescott Sheldon Bush was a Wall Street executive banker and a United States Senator, representing Connecticut from 1952 until January 1963. He was the father of George H. W. Bush and the grandfather of George W...
; son of George H. W. BushGeorge H. W. BushGeorge Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to...
; 46th Governor of Texas; 43rd President of the United States. His nickname was "Temporary" since he failed to choose a name. - Rex William Cowdry (1968), Acting Director National Institute of Mental HealthNational Institute of Mental HealthThe National Institute of Mental Health is one of 27 institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health...
(1994–96) - Robert McCallum, JrRobert McCallum, Jr.Robert D. McCallum. Jr. was the United States Ambassador to Australia. He was sworn into this position on 21 July 2006, after his appointment by President George W. Bush was confirmed by the United States Senate. He arrived in Australia on 18 August and presented his credentials to the...
(1968), Ambassador to Australia - Don SchollanderDon SchollanderDonald Arthur Schollander is a former Olympic swimmer for the United States. He won total of five gold medals and one silver medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics...
(1968), developer; author; US Olympic Hall of Fame inductee; four-time Olympic Gold medallist swimmer - Brian John Dowling (1969), National Football League player, inspiration for B.D. in DoonesburyDoonesburyDoonesbury is a comic strip by American cartoonist Garry Trudeau, that chronicles the adventures and lives of an array of characters of various ages, professions, and backgrounds, from the President of the United States to the title character, Michael Doonesbury, who has progressed from a college...
- Stephen Allen Schwarzman (1969), co-founder of The Blackstone GroupBlackstone GroupThe Blackstone Group L.P. is an American-based alternative asset management and financial services company that specializes in private equity, real estate, and credit and marketable alternative investment strategies, as well as financial advisory services, such as mergers and acquisitions ,...
- Douglas Preston WoodlockDouglas Preston WoodlockDouglas Preston Woodlock is a United States federal judge.Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Woodlock received a B.A. from Yale University in 1969, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1975. He was a law clerk, Hon. Frank J. Murray, U.S....
(1969), US federal judge
1970s
- Charles Herbert Levin (1971), actor
- George LewisGeorge Lewis (trombonist)George E. Lewis is a trombone player, composer, and scholar in the fields of jazz and experimental music. He has been a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians since 1971, and is a pioneer of computer music.- Biography :Lewis graduated from Yale University with a...
(1974), trombonist and composer - Christopher Taylor Buckley (1975), author, editor, chief speechwriter for Vice President George H. W. BushGeorge H. W. BushGeorge Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to...
1980s
- Robert William KaganRobert KaganRobert Kagan is an American historian and foreign policy commentator.-Early life and education:Kagan graduated from Yale University in 1980 where he was tapped by Skull and Bones, studied history, and founded the Yale Political Monthly. He later earned an MPP from the John F...
(1980), co-founder of the Project for the New American CenturyProject for the New American CenturyThe Project for the New American Century was an American think tank based in Washington, D.C. that lasted from 1997 to 2006. It was co-founded as a non-profit educational organization by neoconservatives William Kristol and Robert Kagan... - Michael CerverisMichael CerverisMichael Cerveris is an American singer, guitarist and actor. He has performed in many stage musicals and plays, including in several Stephen Sondheim musicals: Assassins, Sweeney Todd, Road Show, and Passion...
(1983), American singer, guitarist and actor - Earl G. Graves, Jr.Earl G. Graves, Jr.Earl Gilbert "Butch" Graves, Jr. is an American businessman and retired basketball player. He is a Scarsdale High School graduate....
(1984), president of Black EnterpriseBlack EnterpriseBlack Enterprise is a monthly U.S. magazine which describes itself as "the premier business news and investment resource for African Americans" and claims a readership of 3.7 million. It was founded in 1970 by Earl G. Graves, Sr.. The publication is known for its annual listing of the largest... - Edward S. LampertEdward LampertEdward S. "Eddie" Lampert is an American businessman and investor. He is the chairman of Sears Holdings Corporation and founder, chairman, and CEO of ESL Investments. Until May, 2007 he was a director of AutoNation, Inc. He previously served as a director of AutoZone, Inc...
(1984), founder of ESL InvestmentsESL InvestmentsESL Investments is a privately owned hedge fund based in Greenwich, Connecticut and estimated to be worth over $9 billion as of 2004. ESL Investments are not associated with ESL International, the stock market investment technology company. The fund is managed by Edward Lampert, who found it in...
; chairman of Sears Holdings CorporationSears Holdings CorporationSears Holdings Corporation is a retail conglomerate formed in 2005 by the merger of Sears, Roebuck and Co., of Hoffman Estates, Illinois, with Kmart Holdings Corporation, of Troy, Michigan... - James Emanuel Boasberg (1985), judge, United States District Court for the District of ColumbiaUnited States District Court for the District of ColumbiaThe United States District Court for the District of Columbia is a federal district court. Appeals from the District are taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit The United States District Court for the District of Columbia (in case citations, D.D.C.) is a...
- James A. Wade Woodbury (1986), Entrepreneur, Canadian Entrepreneur, Economist
- Paul GiamattiPaul GiamattiPaul Edward Valentine Giamatti is an American actor. Giamatti began his career as a supporting actor in several films produced during the 1990s including Private Parts, The Truman Show, Saving Private Ryan, The Negotiator, and Man on the Moon, before earning lead roles in several projects in the...
(1989), Academy Award-nominated American actor
1990s to present
- Dana MilbankDana Milbank-Biography:He is a graduate of Yale University, where he was a member of Trumbull College, the Progressive Party of the Yale Political Union and the secret society Skull and Bones. He is a graduate of Sanford H. Calhoun High School in Merrick, New York...
(1990), political reporter for The Washington PostThe Washington PostThe Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation... - Austan GoolsbeeAustan GoolsbeeAustan Dean Goolsbee is an American economist, formerly serving as the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and the youngest member of the cabinet of President Barack Obama. Goolsbee is from the University of Chicago where he is the Robert P...
(1991), staff director to and chief economist of President Barack ObamaBarack ObamaBarack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...
's Economic Recovery Advisory Board - Maginious Farley/Maginious Eugene (1992), Political Science Cambridge University
- Catherine Moira. SharkeyCatherine SharkeyCatherine Moira Sharkey is a professor of law at the New York University School of Law. Her scholarship focuses torts, punitive damages, class actions, remedies, products liability, and empirical legal studies....
(1992), Law professor New York University School of LawNew York University School of LawThe New York University School of Law is the law school of New York University. Established in 1835, the school offers the J.D., LL.M., and J.S.D. degrees in law, and is located in Greenwich Village, in the New York City borough of Manhattan....
, clerked for Justice David H. Souter of the United States Supreme Court
Further reading
- Millegan, Kris, ed. Fleshing Out Skull and Bones: Investigations into America's Most Powerful Secret Society. Walterville, OR: Trine Day, 2003. ISBN 0-9720207-2-1
- Sutton, Antony C. America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones. Walterville, OR: Trine Day, 2003. ISBN 0-9720207-0-5