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Skull and Bones Brochure
Skull and Bones Brochure
Skull and Bones Brochure
By William P. Litynski
(Source: Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power by Alexandra Robbins)
Skull & Bones presidential candidates U.S. Senator John Kerry (left) and President George W. Bush (right) in 2004
“My senior year I joined Skull and Bones, a secret society, so secret I can’t say anything more.”
– George W. Bush, from A Charge to Keep
Members of Skull and Bones Class of 1878. Members of this class include former U.S. President William Howard Taft.
Members of Skull & Bones Class of 1948. George H.W. Bush stands to the left of the clock.
Unidentified members of Skull & Bones wear black hoods over their heads on “Tap Day” in 1937.
Lawrence Morgan Kelley (S&B 1937, left) taps John Edwin Ecklund Jr. (S&B 1938, right) on “Tap Day” in 1937. Kelley was
awarded the Heisman Trophy in 1936. Ecklund was the Treasurer of Yale University from 1966 to 1978.
Skull & Bones membership roster for the Class of 1948
Skull & Bones membership roster for the Class of 1878
The Taft Brothers stand together for a group portrait. From left to right: Henry Waters Taft, William Howard Taft, Charles
Phelps Taft, and Horace Dutton Taft. Everyone except for Charles Phelps Taft was a member of Skull & Bones. Charles Phelps
Taft was William Howard Taft’s half-brother. All four men were the sons of Alphonso Taft, who was one of the original
members of Skull & Bones. The Order of Skull & Bones was established by Dr. William Huntington Russell, M.D., in 1832.
The Order of Skull & Bones was incorporated in Connecticut as “Russell Trust Association” and later “RTA Incorporated”.
(Time Life photo)
Members of the Yale Corporation in April 1968
Edwin Foster Blair, Joseph Richardson Dilworth, Harold Howe II, William Putnam Bundy, Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr., and Spencer
Dumaresq Moseley were members of Skull & Bones. John Hay Whitney and John Vliet Lindsay were members of Scroll & Key. The Right
Reverend Paul Moore Jr. was a member of Wolf’s Head.
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. partners (from left to right) E. Roland Harriman, Prescott S. Bush, Knight Woolley, and Robert A. Lovett meet
privately at the Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. office in New York City on July 28, 1964. The Gulf of Tonkin incident occurred during the first
week of August 1964. All four men were members of Skull & Bones. E. Roland Harriman and Prescott S. Bush were directors of Union
Banking Corporation, a bank in New York City that stored Nazi German financier Fritz Thyssen’s asset of $3,000,000 in 1941.
The Bush family, from left to right: Barbara Bush, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Dorothy Walker Bush, and Prescott S. Bush. George
W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, and Prescott S. Bush are (or were) members of Skull & Bones.
Reichsbank President and Nazi German Economics Minister Hjalmar Schacht (left), former U.S. President Herbert Hoover (center), and
American Ambassador to Nazi Germany Hugh Robert Wilson (right) dress for the occasion at a reception held in Berlin on March 8, 1938.
Hugh Robert Wilson was a member of Skull & Bones at Yale University. (Austrian Archives/CORBIS)
W. Averell Harriman (second from left), the Chairman of the board of Union Pacific Railroad and Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.,
sits next to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (left) and Soviet Commissar Josef Stalin in 1942. Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav
Molotov is seated on the far right. W. Averell Harriman was a member of Skull & Bones at Yale University.
Benito Mussolini (left), the dictator of Fascist Italy, rides in a motorboat with U.S. Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson in Italy in January 1931.
Henry L. Stimson was a member of Skull & Bones at Yale University. (Photo by New York Times Co./Getty Images)
Former President George H.W. Bush visits Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) terrorist Yasser Arafat (center) and his assistant Hanan
Ashrawi (left) at a hotel in Washington, D.C. on September 13, 1993. George H.W. Bush is a member of Skull & Bones at Yale University.
(Maher Attar/CORBIS SYGMA)
President George W. Bush meets with Communist Vietnam’s President Nguyen Minh Triet in the former palace of the French governor general
of Indochina in Hanoi, Communist Vietnam on November 17, 2006. George W. Bush is a member of Skull & Bones at Yale University.
(Kham/Reuters)
President George H.W. Bush celebrates on Tiananmen Square in Beijing [Peking], Communist China on February 25, 1989. The Tiananmen
Square Massacre occurred in Beijing on June 4, 1989. George H.W. Bush is a member of Skull & Bones at Yale University. Yale University
established an organization called “Yale-in-China” in Changsha, China in the early 1900s; Mao Tse-tung once lived in Changsha, China.
President George H.W. Bush and King Fahd of Saudi Arabia are seen laughing inside the Royal Palace in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on November
21, 1990, less than two months before the beginning of the Persian Gulf War. (Photo: George Bush Presidential Library)
Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (left) and President George W. Bush laugh together during their press conference in the Rose Garden at
the White House on July 29, 2003, approximately four months after President George W. Bush authorized America’s invasion and occupation
of Iraq. Ariel Sharon was a member of the Likud Party at the time this photo was taken. George W. Bush is a member of Skull & Bones at
Yale University. (White House photo by Paul Morse)
George H.W. Bush (second from right) appears with CIA Director Porter Goss and seven other former CIA directors on August 16, 2005. Left
to right: Porter Goss, John Deutch, Robert Gates, William Webster, Stansfield Turner, R. James Woolsey, James Schlesinger, George H.W.
Bush, and George Tenet. George H.W. Bush is a member of Skull & Bones at Yale University. (Official CIA Photo)
Members of the Warren Commission present their report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy at the White House on
September 24, 1964. From Left to right: John McCloy (Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations), J. Lee Rankin (General Counsel), U.S.
Senator Richard Russell, U.S. Congressman Gerald Ford, Earl Warren (Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court), President Lyndon B.
Johnson, former CIA Director Allen Dulles, U.S. Senator John Sherman Cooper, and U.S. Congressman Hale Boggs. John Sherman Cooper
was a member of Skull & Bones at Yale University. (Photo: Cecil Stoughton/Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library)
John McCloy (left), the former Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, chats with Henry R. Luce (right), the founder of Time, Life, and Fortune
magazines, at a dinner in New York City in September 1966. John McCloy was a member of the Warren Commission. Henry R. Luce was a
member of Skull & Bones at Yale University. (Photo by Al Fenn/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Governor of Puerto Rico Luis Munoz Marin (center) watches Nelson Rockefeller (second from left) shake hands with Governor of New York
Averell Harriman during a meeting in New York City on September 10, 1958. Averell Harriman was a member of Skull & Bones at Yale
University. (Photo: Puerto Rican Heritage Digital Library)
David Rockefeller (left), the former Chairman and CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank, receives a gift from George H.W. Bush. George H.W. Bush
is a member of Skull & Bones at Yale University.
International banker John Pierpont Morgan (left) shakes hands with Secretary of War William Howard Taft (right) at Yale University in New
Haven, Connecticut in June 1908. William Howard Taft was a member of Skull & Bones at Yale University.
President-elect Woodrow Wilson (left, Democratic Party) and outgoing President William Howard Taft (right, Republican Party) laugh together
outside the White House on March 4, 1913 prior to Wilson’s inauguration. The 16th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution legalizing the federal
income tax was ratified on February 3, 1913; the Federal Reserve Act was signed by President Woodrow Wilson on December 23, 1913.
William Howard Taft was a member of Skull & Bones at Yale University. (Photo: Library of Congress)
Former President George H.W. Bush (left, Republican Party) greets U.S. President Barack Obama (right, Democratic Party) at the Points of
Light forum at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas on October 16, 2009. George H.W. Bush is a member of Skull & Bones at Yale
University. (Reuters)
Vice President Richard Nixon (2nd from left, Republican Party) greets U.S. Senator Prescott S. Bush (right, Republican Party). Prescott S.
Bush was a member of Skull & Bones at Yale University.
President George W. Bush (center, Republican Party) appears with former President George H.W. Bush (left, Republican Party) and former
President Bill Clinton (right, Democratic Party) at the White House. George W. Bush and his father George H.W. Bush are members of Skull &
Bones at Yale University.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (left) shakes hands with Henry L. Stimson at the White House on July 10, 1940 after the Senate
confirmed his nomination as Secretary of War. Henry L. Stimson was a member of Skull & Bones at Yale University. Franklin Delano
Roosevelt’s grandfather Warren Delano Jr. was a partner of Russell & Co., an American company that sold opium in China in the early 1800s.
(Bettmann/CORBIS)
President George H.W. Bush (center) appears with former presidents (left to right) Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Jimmy
Carter in the Oval Office on November 4, 1991. (Photo: George Bush Presidential Library)
Former President of Yale University Timothy Dwight, U.S. President William Howard Taft, and President of Yale University Arthur Twining
Hadley walk together during a commencement at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut on June 21, 1911. All three men were members
of Skull & Bones. The Wuchang Uprising and the overthrow of the Ching (Manchu) Dynasty occurred in China on October 10, 1911.
Full Name: William Howard Taft (Skull & Bones Class of 1878)
Date of Birth: Born on September 15, 1857, in Cincinnati, Ohio
Date of Death: Died on March 8, 1930, in Washington, D.C.
Education: B.A. Yale 1878; LL.B. University of Cincinnati College of Law 1880
Occupations:
Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1921-1930)
President of the United States (1909-1913); Secretary of War (1904-1908)
Civil Governor of the Philippine Islands (1901-1904)
Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (1892-1900)
Solicitor General of the United States (1890-1892)
Judge of the Superior Court of Ohio (1887-1890)
Professor and Dean, University of Cincinnati (1896-1900)
Kent Professor of Law at Yale University (1913-1921)
William Howard Taft President of American Red Cross (1906-1913); Chairman of American Red Cross (1915-1919)
President of the English-Speaking Union of the United States (1921-1930)
President of American Bar Association (1913)
Member of the Bohemian Grove in California
Son of former U.S. Attorney General Alphonso Taft
Full Name: William Averell Harriman (Skull & Bones Class of 1913)
Date of Birth: Born on November 15, 1891
Date of Death: Died on July 26, 1986, in Yorktown Heights, New York
Education: B.A. Yale 1913; Attended Groton School
Occupations:
Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1946)
Limited Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1946-1986)
Chairman of the board of Union Pacific Railroad Co. (1932-1942)
Chairman of the board of W.A. Harriman & Co. (1920-1931)
Chairman of the board of Merchant Shipbuilding Corp. (1917-1925)
Investor in Soviet Georgian manganese concessions (1925-1928)
Special Representative of the President of the United States to Great Britain (1941-1943)
W. Averell Harriman U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1943-1946); U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain (1946)
Secretary of Commerce (1946-1948)
United States Coordinator for the European Recovery Program [Marshall Plan] (1948-1950)
Director of Mutual Security Agency (1951-1953)
Governor of New York (1955-1959)
Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs (1961-1963)
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1963-1965); Ambassador at Large (1961, 1965-1969)
U.S. Negotiator at the Paris Peace Conference on Vietnam (1968-1969)
Member, United States delegation to Zimbabwe independence ceremonies (1980)
Member of the Council on Foreign Relations (1924-1986)
Director of the Council on Foreign Relations (1950-1955)
Son of Union Pacific Railroad chief Edward H. Harriman
Secretary of War (May 22, 1911-March 4, 1913; July 10, 1940-September 21, 1945)
Secretary of State (March 28, 1929-March 4, 1933)
Governor General of the Philippines (December 27, 1927-February 23, 1929)
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (1906-1910)
Counsel of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1891-1906, 1913-1927, 1933-1940, 1945-1950)
President of the New York City Bar Association (1937-1939)
Member of the Council on Foreign Relations (1924-1929, 1934-1950)
B.A. Yale 1888; M.A. Harvard 1889; S&B 1888
graduated from Phillips Andover Academy [preparatory school] in 1883
married Mabel Wellington White, daughter of Charles Atwood White (S&B 1854) and great-great-
granddaughter of Constitution signer Roger Sherman, in 1893
Henry L. Stimson Born in New York City on September 21, 1867; Died on October 20, 1950
Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1940, 1946-1947, 1949-1950, 1953-1986)
U.S. Secretary of Defense (September 17, 1951-January 20, 1953)
Deputy Secretary of Defense (1949-1951)
Under Secretary of State (1947-1949)
Assistant Secretary of War for Air (1941-1945)
Former member of the board of directors of Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)
Former member of the board of directors of New York Life Insurance Company
Member of the Council on Foreign Relations (1927-1931, 1938-1940)
Robert A. Lovett B.A. Yale 1918; S&B 1918
Born in Huntsville, Texas on September 14, 1895; Died on May 7, 1986
Member of the U.S. Senate (R-Connecticut, 1952-1963)
Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1972)
Former member of the board of directors of Union Banking Corporation, Columbia Broadcasting System
(CBS), and Prudential Insurance Co.
Chairman of National War Fund Campaign (1943-1944)
National Campaign Chairman of U.S.O. (1942)
President of U.S. Golf Association (1935)
B.A. Yale 1917; S&B 1917
Married to Dorothy Walker, daughter of businessman George Herbert Walker Sr.
Prescott S. Bush Born in Columbus, Ohio on May 15, 1895; Died in New York City on October 8, 1972
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science at Harvard University (1953-1961)
Professor of Government at Harvard University (1954-1961)
National Security Advisor (1961-1966)
President of Ford Foundation (1966-1979)
Professor of History at New York University (1979-1989)
Chairman, committee on reducing the nuclear danger at Carnegie Corporation of New York (1990-1993)
Scholar-in-residence at Carnegie Corporation of New York (1993-1996)
Member of the Council on Foreign Relations (1947-1995)
Bilderberg Meetings participant
Son of former Assistant Secretary of State Harvey H. Bundy (S&B 1909)
Brother of William P. Bundy (S&B 1939)
McGeorge Bundy B.A. Yale 1940; S&B 1940
graduated from Groton School [preparatory school in Groton, Massachusetts] in 1936
Born in Boston on March 30, 1919; Died in Boston on September 16, 1996
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1964-1969)
Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (1963-1964)
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (1961-1963)
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent (1951-1961)
Editor of Foreign Affairs magazine (1972-1984)
Member of the Council on Foreign Relations (1960-2000)
Director of the Council on Foreign Relations (1964-1974)
Honorary Bilderberg Meetings Secretary General for the United States (1977-1980)
Son of former Assistant Secretary of State Harvey H. Bundy (S&B 1909)
married to Mary Acheson, daughter of former U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson
B.A. Yale 1939; M.A. Harvard 1940; LL.B. Harvard 1947; S&B 1939
William P. Bundy graduated from Groton School [preparatory school in Groton, Massachusetts] in 1935
Born September 24, 1917; Died October 6, 2000
Chairman of the board of New York Life Insurance Co. (1948-1954)
President of New York Life Insurance Co. (1941-1948)
President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1936-1940)
Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1928-1936)
Deputy Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1920-1928)
General Counsel of the Federal Reserve Board (1919-1920)
Assistant General Counsel of the Federal Reserve Board (1914-1918)
Member of the Council on Foreign Relations (1929-1953)
Member of the Pilgrims Society of the United States
B.A. Yale 1910; LL.B. Harvard 1913; S&B 1910
George Leslie Harrison Born January 26, 1887; Died March 5, 1958
Chairman of the board of Fiduciary Trust Company [New York City] (1930-1945)
Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1914-1926)
Deputy Agent General for reparation payments under Dawes Plan (1927-1930)
Vice President of Manhattan Company in New York City (1909-1914)
Bank Commissioner of Massachusetts (1906-1909)
Member of the Council on Foreign Relations (1931-1940, 1945-1947)
B.A. Yale 1892; S&B 1892
Born in Warwick, New York on May 4, 1870; Died in New York City on November 24, 1949
Great-great-great-grandson of William Livingston (B.A. Yale 1741), signer of the Constitution
Pierre Jay Great-great-grandson of John Jay, former Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
Charles M. Spofford
Senior financial adviser to the Rockefeller family (1958-1981)
Chairman of the board of Rockefeller Center, Inc. (1966-1982)
Partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. [international bank in New York City] (1951-1958)
President of Rockefeller Bros., Inc. (1958-?)
Chairman of the Metropolitan Museum of Art [New York City] (1983-1987)
Director of Chase Manhattan Bank (1958-1981)
Member of the Council on Foreign Relations (1954-1992)
Member of the Pilgrims Society of the United States
B.A. Yale 1938; LL.B. Yale 1942; S&B 1938
J. Richardson Dilworth Born on June 9, 1916; Died in Princeton, New Jersey on December 29, 1997
Chairman of the board of Union Pacific Railroad Co. (1946-1969)
Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1978)
Former Director of Union Banking Corporation
Chairman of American Red Cross (1954-1973)
President of American Red Cross (1950-1953)
Member of the Council on Foreign Relations (1933-1969)
Son of Union Pacific Railroad chief Edward H. Harriman; Brother of W. Averell Harriman
B.A. Yale 1917; S&B 1917; Graduated from Groton School in 1913
E. Roland Harriman Born in New York City on December 24, 1895; Died February 16, 1978
Chairman of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (2003-2005)
Chairman and CEO of Aetna Insurance Co. (2000-2001)
Chairman of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1999-2003)
Chairman of the board of New York Stock Exchange (1991-1995)
Chairman and CEO of Donaldson Enterprises (1980-1990)
Dean of Yale School of Management (1976-1980)
Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance (1973-1974)
Chairman and CEO of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc. [New York City] (1959-1973)
William H. Donaldson Member of the Council on Foreign Relations (1974-present)
B.A. Yale 1953; M.B.A. Harvard 1958; S&B 1953; Born June 2, 1931
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1993-1997)
U.S. Ambassador to Communist China (1985-1989)
President of the Council on Foreign Relations (1977-1985)
Director of State Department Policy Planning Staff (1973-1977)
Member of the Council on Foreign Relations (1973-present)
Member of the Trilateral Commission
Bilderberg Meetings participant
Son of Oswald Bates Lord (S&B 1926); nephew of former Pillsbury Chairman Philip W. Pillsbury
B.A. Yale 1959; M.A. Tufts University 1960; S&B 1959
Born in New York City on August 14, 1937
Winston Lord
President of the University of Oklahoma (1994-present)
Member of the U.S. Senate (D-Oklahoma, 1979-1994)
Governor of Oklahoma (1975-1979)
Member of the Oklahoma State House of Representatives (1967-1975)
Co-Chairman of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (2009-present)
Trustee of Yale University (1988-1997)
Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University
Member of the Council on Foreign Relations (1989-present)
Son of former U.S. Congressman Lyle H. Boren; Father of U.S. Congressman Dan Boren
David L. Boren B.A. Yale 1963; M.A. Oxford 1965; J.D. University of Oklahoma 1968; S&B 1963
Born in Washington, D.C. on April 21, 1941
Morrison R. Waite
Secretary of War (1876); U.S. Attorney General (1876-1877)
U.S. Minister to Austro-Hungarian Empire (1882-1884)
U.S. Minister to the Russian Empire (1884-1885)
Judge of Superior Court of Cincinnati (1865-1872)
Member of the Common Council of Cincinnati (1847-1849)
Member of the Cincinnati Board of Education; Republican Party candidate for Congress in 1856
B.A. Yale 1833; S&B 1833; Co-Founder of The Order of Skull & Bones
Born in Townshend, Vermont on November 5, 1810; Died in San Diego, California on May 21, 1891
Alphonso Taft
U.S. Attorney General (1868-1869)
U.S. Secretary of State (1877-1881)
Member of the U.S. Senate (R-New York, 1885-1891)
Special Diplomatic Envoy to Great Britain and France during the Civil War
Grandson of Constitution signer Roger Sherman
B.A. Yale 1837; S&B 1837
Born in Boston on February 6, 1818; Died in New York City on February 28, 1901
William C. Whitney
Secretary of the Treasury (1909-1913)
President of Franklin MacVeagh & Company, wholesale grocers (1866-1909, 1915-1932)
Director of the Commercial National Bank of Chicago (1880-1909)
President of Chicago Bureau of Charities (1896-1904)
Trustee of University of Chicago (1901-1913)
B.A. Yale 1862; LL.B. Columbia 1864; S&B 1862
Born November 22, 1837; Died in Chicago on July 16, 1934
Brother of former U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Ambassador to Italy Wayne MacVeagh
Franklin MacVeagh
Governor of Pennsylvania (1923-1927, 1931-1935)
Chief of the U.S. Forest Service (1905-1910)
Professor of Forestry at Yale University (1903-1936)
President of National Conservation Association (1910-1925)
Member of the council of Yale-in-China (1926-1930)
Brother of ACLU Co-Founder Amos Pinchot (S&B 1897)
B.A. Yale 1889; S&B 1889
Born August 11, 1865; Died in New York City on October 4, 1946
Gifford Pinchot
Governor of Connecticut (1911-1915)
Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors (1907-1910)
Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors (1893-1910)
President of American Bar Association (1890)
Professor of Law at Yale Law School (1869-1919)
Legal Counsel to the New York and New England Railroad (1871)
Son of former U.S. Senator and Governor of Connecticut Roger Sherman Baldwin
Great-grandson of Constitution signer Roger Sherman
B.A. Yale 1861, S&B 1861
Simeon E. Baldwin Born in New Haven, Connecticut on February 5, 1840; Died in New Haven, CT on January 30, 1927
Timothy Dwight
President of University of Minnesota (1884-1911)
Professor of English at Yale University (1863-1884)
Collector of the Port of New Haven, Connecticut (1869-1881)
B.A. Yale 1857; LL.B. Yale 1859; S&B 1857
Born September 30, 1834; Died April 3, 1922
Cyrus Northrop
Member of the U.S. Senate (R-Connecticut, 1867-1875)
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Connecticut, 1859-1861)
Brigadier General in the United States Volunteers (1862-1865)
Member of the Connecticut State Senate (1855-1856)
B.A. Yale 1844; S&B 1844
Born August 15, 1823; Died November 21, 1875
Daniel H. Chamberlain
U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue (1869-1872)
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Connecticut, 1863-1867)
Provisional Mayor of New Orleans (1862-1863)
Colonel in the 12th Connecticut Volunteers (1861-1863)
Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut (1854-1858, 1860-1862)
Member of the Connecticut State Senate (1851)
Member of the Connecticut State Legislature (1849-1850, 1859-1860)
B.A. Yale 1836; LL.B. Harvard 1839; S&B 1836
Born May 23, 1815; Died in Hartford, Connecticut on October 8, 1872
Henry Champion Deming
Lawyer in Buffalo, New York (1872-1893, 1895-1903)
Partner of Bass, Cleveland & Bissell (1874-1879)
[Bissell’s law partner at Bass, Cleveland & Bissell was Grover Cleveland, later President of the U.S.]
President of the Buffalo & Southwestern Railroad (1883-1895)
Postmaster-General of the United States (1893-1895)
Vice Chancellor of the University of Buffalo (1895-1902)
Chancellor of the University of Buffalo (1902-1903)
B.A. Yale 1869; S&B 1869
Born on December 31, 1847; Died in Buffalo, New York on October 6, 1903
Wilson S. Bissell
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-New Jersey, 1895-1911)
Chairman, Committee on Banking and Currency in the U.S. House of Representatives (1901-1909)
Prepared and introduced in Congress in 1910 the Federal Reserve Act bill
President of Equitable Mortgage Company (1887-1893)
B.A. Yale 1876; LL.B. Chicago Law School 1878; S&B 1876
Born November 2, 1852; Died May 27, 1932
Frederick W. Smith
Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of The Blackstone Group (1985-present)
Managing Director of Lehman Brothers (1978-1984)
Chairman of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts [Washington, D.C.] (2004-present)
Member of the Council on Foreign Relations (1992-present)
B.A. Yale 1969; M.B.A. Harvard 1972; S&B 1969
Born in Philadelphia on February 14, 1947
Stephen A. Schwarzman
Partner of J.P. Morgan & Co. (1917-1936)
Director of Bankers Trust Company (1916-1936)
Chairman of the board of Bankers Trust Company (1936)
Vice President of Astor Trust Company (1906-1914)
President of Liberty National Bank of New York (1914-1916)
B.A. Yale 1894; S&B 1894
Born March 20, 1871; Died October 29,1936
Thomas Cochran
President of Southern Railway Company (1913-1937)
President of Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Company [in Chicago] (1910-1913)
Vice President of Southern Railway Company (1906-1910)
Solicitor for Southern Railway Company (1896-1903)
Assistant to the President of Southern Railway Company (1903-1906)
Member of the board of directors of Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Company
Member of the board of directors of Washington Southern Railway Company
B.A. Yale 1890; M.A. Columbia 1891; S&B 1890
Fairfax Harrison Born in New York City on March 13, 1869; Died in Baltimore on February 2, 1938
Brother of former U.S. Congressman Francis B. Harrison (S&B 1895)
Son of Burton Norvell Harrison (S&B 1859), Jefferson Davis’s private secretary during the Civil War
Partner of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft [law firm in New York City] (1899-1945)
President of The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (1923-1925)
President of the Japan Society of New York (1922-1928, 1934-1941)
Member of the Council on Foreign Relations (1921-1940)
Member of the Pilgrims Society of the U.S.
B.A. Yale 1880; S&B 1880
Born in Cincinnati on May 27, 1859; Died in New York City on August 11, 1945
Son of former Secretary of War Alphonso Taft (S&B 1833)
Brother of former U.S. President William Howard Taft (S&B 1878)
Henry Waters Taft
Professor of Political Economy at Yale University (1898-1935)
Founder and inaugural President of American Eugenics Society (1923-1926)
President of American Economic Association (1918)
Vice President of the U.S. Third International Congress of Eugenics and National Conference on Race
Betterment (1914)
Member of the organizing committee of International Congress on Hygiene and Demography
Member of the organizing committee of First International Congress on Mental Hygiene (1930)
B.A. Yale 1888; Ph.D. Yale 1891; S&B 1888
Born February 27, 1867; Died in New York City on April 29, 1947
Irving Fisher
Dean of the Medical Faculty at Johns Hopkins University (1893-1898)
Director of School of Hygiene and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University (1916-1926)
President of Maryland State Board of Health (1898-1922)
Professor of Pathology at Johns Hopkins University (1884-1916)
President of the board of directors of Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1901-1934)
President of American Medical Association (1910)
B.A. Yale 1870; M.D. Columbia University (College of Physicians and Surgeons) 1875; S&B 1870
Born April 8, 1850; Died April 30, 1934
Henry R. Luce
Editor-in-Chief of National Review magazine (1955-1990)
Host of television show Firing Line (1966-1999)
nationally syndicated newspaper columnist; Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent (1951-1953)
Member of the Council on Foreign Relations (1974-2003)
Member of the Bohemian Grove in California
Bilderberg Meetings participant
Brother of former U.S. Senator James L. Buckley (S&B 1944)
B.A. Yale 1950; S&B 1950
William F. Buckley Jr. Born in New York City on November 24, 1925; Died February 27, 2008
Thomas F. Bayard Jr., James L. Buckley, Francis Burton Harrison, Anthony Higgins, James W. Wadsworth Jr.
Jonathan B. Bingham, Henry S. Graves, Eugene Schuyler, Charles Phelps Taft II, John Martin Vorys
Victor H. Ashe, Robert D. McCullum Jr., John H.F. Shattuck, David H. Thorne, George Herbert Walker III
William Chauvenet, Carroll Cutler, Francis M. Finch, James O. Putnam, Charles J. Stille
William Sloane Coffin Jr., Morris Hadley, John William Sterling, F. Trubee Davison, Henry Artemus L. Gates
PROMINENT MEMBERS OF SKULL & BONES
Government Officials:
Executive Branch of the U.S. Government (President, Vice President, and Cabinet Members):
William Howard Taft (S&B 1878) – President of the United States (1909-1913); Secretary of War (1904-1908)
George H.W. Bush (S&B 1948) – President of the United States (1989-1993); Vice President of the U.S. (1981-1989)
George W. Bush (S&B 1968) – President of the United States (2001-2009)
William M. Evarts (S&B 1837) – U.S. Attorney General (1868-1869); U.S. Secretary of State (1877-1881)
Alphonso Taft (S&B 1833) – Secretary of War (1876); U.S. Attorney General (1876-1877)
William C. Whitney (S&B 1863) – Secretary of the Navy (1885-1889)
Wilson Shannon Bissell (S&B 1869) – Postmaster General of the United States (1893-1895)
Franklin MacVeagh (S&B 1862) – Secretary of the Treasury (1909-1913)
Henry L. Stimson (S&B 1888) – Secretary of War (1911-1913, 1940-1945); U.S. Secretary of State (1929-1933)
W. Averell Harriman (S&B 1913) – Secretary of Commerce (1946-1948)
Robert A. Lovett (S&B 1918) – Secretary of Defense (1951-1953)
Bureaucrats:
Henry Champion Deming (S&B 1836) – U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue (1869-1872)
Ellis Henry Roberts (S&B 1850) – Treasurer of the United States (1897-1905)
John Sammis Seymour (S&B 1875) – U.S. Commissioner of Patents (1893-1897)
William Howard Taft (S&B 1878) – Solicitor General of the U.S. (1890-1892); Civil Governor of the Philippine Islands (1901-1904)
Lloyd Wheaton Bowers (S&B 1879) – Solicitor General of the U.S. (1909-1910)
Henry L. Stimson (S&B 1888) – Governor General of the Philippines (1927-1929)
Gifford Pinchot (S&B 1889) – Chief of the U.S. Forest Service (1905-1910)
Henry S. Graves (S&B 1892) – Chief of the U.S. Forest Service (1910-1920)
Thomas Lee McClung (S&B 1892) – Treasurer of the United States (1909-1912)
Francis Burton Harrison (S&B 1895) – Governor General of the Philippines (1913-1921)
Thomas D. Thacher (S&B 1904) – Solicitor General of the U.S. (1930-1933)
James J. Wadsworth (S&B 1927) – Member of the Federal Communications Commission (1965-1969)
McGeorge Bundy (S&B 1940) – National Security Advisor (1961-1966)
Harold Howe II (S&B 1940) – U.S. Commissioner of Education (1965-1968)
John H. Chafee (S&B 1947) – Secretary of the Navy (1969-1972)
George H.W. Bush (S&B 1948) – Director of Central Intelligence Agency (1976-1977)
John M. Steadman (S&B 1952) – General Counsel of the Department of the Air Force (1968-1970)
Gaspard d’Andelot Belin (S&B 1939) – General Counsel of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (1963-1965)
William H. “Bill” Donaldson (S&B 1953) – Chairman of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (2003-2005)
Andrew Downey Orrick (S&B 1940) – Commissioner of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (1955-1960)
William D. Nordhaus (S&B 1963) – Member of the Council of Economic Advisers (1977-1979)
Austan Goolsbee (S&B 1991) – Member of the Council of Economic Advisers (2009-present)
John Wallace Houston (S&B 1834) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Whig-Delaware, 1845-1851)
John Hubbard Tweedy (S&B 1834) – Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives (Whig-Territory of Wisconsin, 1847-1848)
William Henry Washington (S&B 1834) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Whig-North Carolina, 1841-1843)
John Edward Seeley (S&B 1835) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-New York, 1871-1873)
Henry Champion Deming (S&B 1836) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Connecticut, 1863-1867)
Allen Ferdinand Owen (S&B 1837) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Whig-Georgia, 1849-1851)
Richard Dudley Hubbard (S&B 1839) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-Connecticut, 1867-1869)
John Perkins Jr. (S&B 1840) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-Louisiana, 1853-1855)
William Taylor Sullivan Berry (S&B 1841) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-Mississippi, 1853-1855)
John Andrew Peters (S&B 1842) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Maine, 1867-1873)
Benjamin Tucker Eames (S&B 1843) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Rhode Island, 1871-1879)
Roswell Hart (S&B 1843) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-New York, 1865-1867)
Orris Sanford Ferry (S&B 1844) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Connecticut, 1859-1861)
William Barrett Washburn (S&B 1844) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Massachusetts, 1863-1871)
Constantine C. Esty (S&B 1845) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Massachusetts, 1872-1873)
Stephen W. Kellogg (S&B 1846) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Connecticut, 1869-1875)
Augustus Brandegee (S&B 1849) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Connecticut, 1863-1867)
Ellis Henry Roberts (S&B 1850) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-New York, 1871-1875)
Richard J. Haldeman (S&B 1851) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-Pennsylvania, 1869-1873)
William Wallace Crapo (S&B 1852) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Massachusetts, 1875-1883)
Lowndes Henry Davis (S&B 1860) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-Missouri, 1879-1885)
William Walter Phelps (S&B 1860) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-New Jersey, 1873-1875, 1883-1889)
Thomas Hedge (S&B 1867) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Iowa, 1899-1907)
Edwin F. Sweet (S&B 1871) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-Michigan, 1911-1913)
Charles Newell Fowler (S&B 1876) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-New Jersey, 1895-1911)
Frank Bosworth Brandegee (S&B 1885) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Connecticut, 1902-1905)
William Kent (S&B 1887) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-California, 1911-1917)
Percy Hamilton Stewart (S&B 1890) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-New Jersey, 1931-1933)
James William Husted (S&B 1892) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-New York, 1915-1923)
Francis Burton Harrison (S&B 1895) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-New York, 1903-1905, 1907-1913)
James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (S&B 1898) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-New York, 1933-1951)
James McDevitt Magee (S&B 1899) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Pennsylvania, 1923-1927)
Kenneth F. Simpson (S&B 1917) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-New York, 1941)
Howard Malcolm Baldrige (S&B 1918) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Nebraska, 1931-1933)
John Martin Vorys (S&B 1918) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Ohio, 1939-1959)
Jonathan Brewster Bingham (S&B 1936) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-New York, 1965-1983)
William S. Moorhead Jr. (S&B 1945) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-Pennsylvania, 1959-1981)
Thomas William Ludlow “Lud” Ashley (S&B 1948) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-Ohio, 1955-1981)
George H.W. Bush (S&B 1948) – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Texas, 1967-1971)
U.S. Attorneys:
Asa Palmer French (S&B 1882) – U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts (1906-1914)
Samuel Knight (S&B 1887) – U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California (1894-1898)
Henry L. Stimson (S&B 1888) – U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (1906-1910)
John Trumbull Robinson (S&B 1893) – U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut (1908-1912)
Samuel Hazard Gillespie Jr. (S&B 1932) – U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (1959-1961)
David C. Acheson (S&B 1943) – U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia (1961-1965)
Edward E. McNally (S&B 1979) – U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois (2005-2006)
Judges:
Morrison R. Waite (S&B 1837) – Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1874-1888)
William Howard Taft (S&B 1878) – Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1921-1930)
Potter Stewart (S&B 1937) – Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1958-1981)
LeBaron Bradford Colt (S&B 1868) – Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (1884-1913)
William Kneeland Townsend (S&B 1871) – Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1902-1907)
William Howard Taft (S&B 1878) – Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (1892-1900)
Wilbur Franklin Booth (S&B 1884) – Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (1925-1932)
Potter Stewart (S&B 1937) – Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (1954-1958)
James L. Buckley (S&B 1944) – Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1985-1996)
Leonard Eugene Wales (S&B 1845) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware (1884-1897)
Rensselaer Russell Nelson (S&B 1846) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota (1858-1896)
George Chandler Holt (S&B 1866) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1903-1914)
LeBaron Bradford Colt (S&B 1868) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island (1881-1884)
William Kneeland Townsend (S&B 1871) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (1892-1902)
Wilbur Franklin Booth (S&B 1884) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota (1914-1925)
Thomas D. Thacher (S&B 1904) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1925-1930)
William H. Orrick Jr. (S&B 1937) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (1974-1985)
Charles Sherman Haight Jr. (S&B 1952) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1976-1995)
Douglas P. Woodlock (S&B 1969) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (1986-present)
Governors:
William Barrett Washburn (S&B 1844, Republican) – Governor of Massachusetts (1872-1874)
Daniel H. Chamberlain (S&B 1862, Republican) – Governor of South Carolina (1874-1876) [Reconstruction]
Richard Dudley Hubbard (S&B 1839, Democrat) – Governor of Connecticut (1878-1879)
Henry B. Harrison (S&B 1846, Republican) – Governor of Connecticut (1885-1887)
George Peabody Wetmore (S&B 1867, Republican) – Governor of Rhode Island (1885-1887)
Luzon B. Morris (S&B 1854, Democrat) – Governor of Connecticut (1893-1895)
Edward Curtis Smith (S&B 1875, Republican) – Governor of Vermont (1898-1900)
Simeon E. Baldwin (S&B 1861, Democrat) – Governor of Connecticut (1911-1915)
Gifford Pinchot (S&B 1889, Republican) – Governor of Pennsylvania (1923-1927, 1931-1935)
W. Averell Harriman (S&B 1913, Democrat) – Governor of New York (1955-1959)
John H. Chafee (S&B 1947, Republican) – Governor of Rhode Island (1963-1969)
David L. Boren (S&B 1963, Democrat) – Governor of Oklahoma (1975-1979)
George W. Bush (S&B 1968, Republican) – Governor of Texas (1994-2000)
Mayors:
Henry Champion Deming (S&B 1836) – Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut (1854-1858, 1860-1862)
William Waldo Hyde (S&B 1876) – Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut (1892-1894)
Charles P. Taft II (S&B 1918) – Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio (1955-1957)
J. Quigg Newton Jr. (S&B 1933) – Mayor of Denver, Colorado (1947-1955)
Victor H. Ashe (S&B 1967) – Mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee (1987-2003)
John O’Leary (S&B 1969) – Mayor of Portland, Maine (1980-1981)
Thomas Cochran (S&B 1894) – Partner of J.P. Morgan & Co. (1917-1936)
Harry [Henry] P. Davison Jr. (S&B 1920) – Partner of J.P. Morgan & Co. (1929-1940)
Harold Stanley (S&B 1908) – Partner of J.P. Morgan & Co. (1928-1935); President of Morgan, Stanley & Co. (1935-1941)
Dean Witter Jr. (S&B 1944) – Partner of Dean Witter & Co. (1946-1970)
Charles Jacob Stewart (S&B 1918) – Partner of Lazard Freres & Co. (1953-1959); Chairman of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. (1964-1965)
Otto T. Bannard (S&B 1876) – Chairman of the board of New York Trust Company (1916-1921)
Mortimer Norton Buckner (S&B 1895) – Chairman of the board of New York Trust Company (1921-1942)
Daniel P. Davison (S&B 1949) – Chairman and CEO of U.S. Trust Co. (1982-1989)
Stephen A. Schwarzman (S&B 1969) – Chairman and CEO of The Blackstone Group (1985-present)
Samuel R. Bertron (S&B 1885) – President of Bertron, Griscom & Company, Inc., international financiers (1912-1938)
Pierre Jay (S&B 1892) – Chairman of the board of Fiduciary Trust Co. (1930-1945)
W. Averell Harriman (S&B 1913) – Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1946)
E. Roland Harriman (S&B 1917) – Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1978)
Prescott S. Bush (S&B 1917) – Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1972)
Knight Woolley (S&B 1917) – Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1982)
Ray Morris (S&B 1901) – Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1956)
Robert A. Lovett (S&B 1918) – Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1940, 1946-1947, 1949-1950, 1953-1986)
Stephen Y. Hord (S&B 1921) – Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1945-1981)
John Beckwith Madden (S&B 1941) – Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1955-1988)
Alexander T. Ercklentz (S&B 1959) – Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1978-present)
Businessmen:
William H. “Bill” Donaldson (S&B 1953) – Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange (1990-1995)
Joseph Richardson Dilworth (S&B 1938) – Chairman of the board of Rockefeller Center, Inc. (1966-1982)
George L. Harrison (S&B 1910) – Chairman of the board of New York Life Insurance Co. (1948-1954)
Thomas B. Wheeler (S&B 1958) – Chairman and CEO of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. (1996-1999)
John S. Pillsbury Jr. (S&B 1935) – Chairman and CEO of Northwestern National Life Insurance Co. (1969-1977)
David D. Holbrook (S&B 1960) – Chairman of Marsh & McLennan, Inc. (1995-1998)
H. Neil Mallon (S&B 1917) – President of Dresser Industries, Inc. (1929-1958)
Morehead Patterson (S&B 1920) – Chairman of the board of American Machine & Foundry Co. (1943-1962)
Robert Guthrie Page (S&B 1922) – Chairman of the board of Phelps Dodge Corporation (1967-1970)
Henry John Heinz II (S&B 1931) – Chairman of the board of H.J. Heinz Company (1959-1987)
John Hancock Daniels (S&B 1943) – Chairman of the board of Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. (1967-1972)
Vernon R. Loucks Jr. (S&B 1957) – Chairman and CEO of Baxter International Inc. (1987-1998)
Russell W. Meyer Jr. (S&B 1954) – Chairman and CEO of Cessna Aircraft Co. (1975-2000, 2002-2003)
Frederick W. Smith (S&B 1966) – Chairman and CEO of Federal Express [FedEx Corp.] (1975-present)
Edward S. Lampert (S&B 1984) – Chairman of Sears Holdings Corp. (2005-present); Chairman of K-Mart (2003-2005)
Frederick E. Weyerhaeuser (S&B 1896) – President of Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. (1937-1945)
Charles Christian Haffner Jr. (S&B 1919) – Chairman and CEO of R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (1952-1964)
Storer B. Lunt (S&B 1921) – Chairman of W.W. Norton Co., Inc. (1958-c.1968)
William Thompson Lusk (S&B 1924) – President of Tiffany & Co. [New York City] (1955-1967)
Fairfax Harrison (S&B 1890) – President of Southern Railway Company (1913-1937)
W. Averell Harriman (S&B 1913) – Chairman of the board of Union Pacific Railroad Co. (1932-1946)
E. Roland Harriman (S&B 1917) – Chairman of the board of Union Pacific Railroad Co. (1946-1969)
Chauncey M. Depew (S&B 1856) – President of New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Co. (1885-1898)
John Manning Hall (S&B 1866) – President of New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company (1899-1903)
Wilson Shannon Bissell (S&B 1869) – President of the Buffalo & Southwestern Railroad (1883-1895)
George Herbert Walker, Jr. (S&B 1927) – General Partner of G.H. Walker & Co. (1929-1974)
Benjamin Harris Anthony (S&B 1886) – Member of the board of directors of The Associated Press (1923-1932)
William H. Cowles (S&B 1887) – Member of the board of directors of The Associated Press (1912-1944)
Artemus L. Gates (S&B 1918) – former Member of the board of directors of Abercrombie & Fitch Co.
Frank Ford Russell (S&B 1926) – Member of the board of directors of Chase Manhattan Bank (1940-1967)
Joseph Richardson Dilworth (S&B 1938) – Member of the board of directors of Chase Manhattan Bank (1958-1981)
William Redmond Cross Jr. (S&B 1941) – Member of the board of directors of The New York Times Company (1973-1992)
Edward Snover Reid III (S&B 1951) – Member of the board of directors of General Mills, Inc. (1974-1989)
Vernon R. Loucks Jr. (S&B 1957) – Member of the board of directors of Anheuser-Busch
David L. Boren (S&B 1963) – Member of the board of directors of Texas Instruments; Member of the board of directors of American Airlines
Lawyers:
Lansing P. Reed (S&B 1904) – Member of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed (1915-1937)
Charles M. Spofford (S&B 1924) – Member of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1940-1950, 1952-1973)
Edward Rogers Wardwell (S&B 1927) – Member of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1946-c.1972)
Samuel Hazard Gillespie Jr. (S&B 1932) – Member of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1948-present)
Peter O.A. Solbert (S&B 1941) – Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1957-1989)
Edward Snover Reid III (S&B 1951) – Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1964-1995)
Morris Hadley (S&B 1916) – Partner of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy (1924-1979)
William Eldred Jackson (S&B 1941) – Partner of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy (1954-1999)
Henry L. Stimson (S&B 1888) – Counsel of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1891-1906, 1913-1927, 1933-1940, 1945-1950)
Allen T. Klots (S&B 1909) – Member of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1921-1965)
Hamilton Hadley (S&B 1919) – Partner of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1929-1940)
John Baker Jessup (S&B 1942) – Partner of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1959-1993)
Endicott Peabody Davison (S&B 1945) – Partner of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1959-1980)
Harold H. Healy Jr. (S&B 1943) – Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1959-1989)
Thomas Thacher (S&B 1871) – Co-Founder and Member of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett (1875-1919)
Thomas D. Thacher (S&B 1904) – Partner of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett (1933-1943)
Philip G. Bartlett (S&B 1881) – Partner of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett (1890-1931)
William Milo Barnum (S&B 1877) – Co-Founder and former Partner of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett
Thomas Mills Day (S&B 1886) – Member of Simpson, Thacher & Barnum (later Bartlett) (1898-1917)
Henry Waters Taft (S&B 1880) – Partner of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft (1899-1945)
William Lloyd Kitchel (S&B 1892) – Partner of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft (1914-1945)
John William Sterling (S&B 1864) – Co-Founder and Member of Shearman & Sterling (1873-1918)
Howard Mansfield (S&B 1871) – Member of Lord, Day & Lord (1901-1938)
Henry DeForest Baldwin (S&B 1885) – Member of Lord, Day & Lord (1900-1947)
Sherman Baldwin (S&B 1919) – Member of Lord, Day & Lord (1929-1969)
Alfred Ogden (S&B 1932) – Partner of Alexander & Green (1955-1975)
Jonathan C. Rose (S&B 1963) – Partner of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue [law firm in Washington, D.C.] (1977-1981, 1984-present)
George Alfred Ranney (S&B 1934) – Member of Sidley, Austin, Burgess & Smith [law firm in Chicago] (1939-1962)
David Alan Richards (S&B 1967) – Partner of Sidley & Austin [law firm in Chicago and New York City] (1982-1999)
Donald Etra (S&B 1968) – Partner of Sidley & Austin [law firm in Chicago and Los Angeles] (1983-1995)
Lloyd Wheaton Bowers (S&B 1879) – General Counsel of Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company (1893-1909)
Chester Mitchell Dawes (S&B 1876) – General Counsel of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company (1909-1917)
James Mulford Townsend (S&B 1874) – General Counsel of E.I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Company (1903-1913)
George J. Dunn (S&B 1957) – Senior Vice President and General Counsel of BP America, Inc. and Standard Oil (Ohio) (1974-1998)
George Arthur Cheeks (S&B 1987) – General Counsel of Music Television [MTV] (2003-2005)
College Professors:
Timothy Dwight (S&B 1849) – Professor of Sacred Literature at Yale University (1859-1886)
Simeon Eben Baldwin (S&B 1861) – Professor of Law at Yale Law School (1869-1919)
William Kneeland Townsend (S&B 1871) – Professor of Law at Yale Law School (1881-1907)
Theodore S. Woolsey (S&B 1872) – Professor of International Law at Yale University (1878-1911)
Henry Walcott Farnam (S&B 1874) – Professor of Political Economy (1880-1912) and Professor of Economics (1912-1918) at Yale University
William Howard Taft (S&B 1878) – Kent Professor of Law at Yale University (1913-1921)
Irving Fisher (S&B 1888) – Professor of Political Economy at Yale University (1898-1935)
Clive Day (S&B 1892) – Professor of Economic History at Yale University (1907-1936)
Charles Seymour (S&B 1908) – Professor of History at Yale University (1918-1937)
William D. Nordhaus (S&B 1963) – Professor of Economics at Yale University (1973-present)
Journalism:
Henry R. Luce (S&B 1920) – Editor-in-Chief of Time, Inc. (1923-1964); Founder of Time (1923), Fortune (1930), and Life (1936) magazines
William F. Buckley, Jr. (S&B 1950) – Editor-in-Chief of National Review magazine (1955-1990)
Ralph D. Paine Jr. (S&B 1929) – Publisher of Fortune magazine (1953-1967)
William H. Cowles (S&B 1887) – Publisher of Spokane Spokesman-Review (1893-1946)
Charles Hopkins Clark (S&B 1871) – President and Editor-in-Chief of Hartford Courant (1890-1926)
Earl G. Graves Jr. (S&B 1984) – President and CEO of Black Enterprise magazine (2006-present)
William P. Bundy (S&B 1939) – Editor of Foreign Affairs magazine (1972-1984)
Robert W. Kagan (S&B 1980) – Columnist for The Washington Post
Dana T. Milbank (S&B 1990) – Columnist for The Washington Post
David R. Leonhardt (S&B 1994) – Columnist for The New York Times
Organizations:
Amos Pinchot (S&B 1897) – Co-Founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Francis Eugene Butler (S&B 1857) – Co-founder of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA)
Irving Fisher (S&B 1888) – Founder and inaugural President of American Eugenics Society (1923-1926)
McGeorge Bundy (S&B 1940) – President of Ford Foundation (1966-1979)
Harvey H. Bundy (S&B 1909) – Chairman of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1952-1958)
William H. “Bill” Donaldson (S&B 1953) – Chairman of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1999-2003)
Morris Hadley (S&B 1916) – Chairman of Carnegie Corporation of New York (1955-1966)
Winston Lord (S&B 1959) – President of the Council on Foreign Relations (1977-1985)
E. Roland Harriman (S&B 1917) – President of American Red Cross (1950-1953); Chairman of American Red Cross (1954-1973)
William Howard Taft (S&B 1878) – President of American Red Cross (1906-1913); Chairman of American Red Cross (1915-1919)
Henry Hitchcock (S&B 1848) – President of American Bar Association (1889)
Simeon E. Baldwin (S&B 1861) – President of American Bar Association (1890)
William H. Welch (S&B 1870) – President of American Medical Association (1910)
William H. Draper III (S&B 1950) – Administrator of United Nations Development Programme [UNDP] (1986-1993)
William P. Bundy (S&B 1939) – Honorary Bilderberg Meeting Secretary General for the United States (1977-1980)
Thomas F. Davies (S&B 1853) – Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Diocese of Michigan (1889-1905)
Charles F. Robertson (S&B 1859) – Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Diocese of Missouri (1868-1886)
Chauncey B. Brewster (S&B 1868) – Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Diocese of Connecticut (1899-1928)
Sidney C. Partridge (S&B 1880) – Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Diocese of Western Missouri (1911-1930)
Benjamin Brewster (S&B 1882) – Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Diocese of Maine (1916-1941)
Thomas F. Davies (S&B 1894) – Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Diocese of Western Massachusetts (1911-1936)
Henry W. Hobson (S&B 1914) – Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Diocese of Southern Ohio (1931-1959)
Anson Phelps Stokes Jr. (S&B 1927) – Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Diocese of Massachusetts (1956-1970)
August Sidney Lovett (S&B 1913) – Chaplain of Yale University (1932-1958)
William Sloane Coffin Jr. (S&B 1949) – Chaplain of Yale University (1958-1976)
Reuben A. Holden (S&B 1940) – President of Yale-in-China Association (1966-1972)
Amos Parker Wilder (S&B 1884) – Trustee of Yale-in-China (1918-1930)
Samuel Clarke Bushnell (S&B 1874) – Trustee of Yale-in-China (1921-1930)
Lansing P. Reed (S&B 1904) – Trustee of Yale-in-China (1928-1937)
Miscellaneous:
John Perkins Jr. (S&B 1840) – Member of the Confederate House of Representatives [Louisiana] (1864-1865)
William T. S. Barry (S&B 1841) – Chairman of the Mississippi Secession Convention in 1861
Burton Norvell Harrison (S&B 1859) – Private Secretary to Confederate President Jefferson Davis
Richard Taylor (S&B 1845) – Lieutenant General in the Confederate Army; Commander of the [Confederate] Army of Tennessee (1865)
Henry Rootes Jackson (S&B 1839) – Major General in the Confederate Army; prisoner-of-war near the end of the Civil War
William Preston Johnston (S&B 1852) – Colonel; Jefferson Davis’s aide-de-camp; Served as a pallbearer at Gen. Robert E. Lee’s funeral
Orris Sanford Ferry (S&B 1844) – Brigadier General in the United States Volunteers (1862-1865)
William Huntington Russell (S&B 1833) – Major General in the Militia of the State of Connecticut (1862-1870)