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By William P. Litynski
Prominent Yale University Graduates
John C. Calhoun (B.A. 1804) U.S. House of Representative from South Carolina (1811-1817), Secretary of War (1817-1825), Vice President
of the U.S. (1825-1832), U.S. Senator from South Carolina (1832-1843, 1845-1850), U.S. Secretary of State (1844-1845)
George H.W. Bush (B.A. 1948, S&B 1948) President of the United States (1989-1993); Vice President of the U.S. (1981-1989); Director of
Central Intelligence Agency (1976-1977); U.S. Representative to the United Nations (1971-1973); U.S. Congressman (1967-1971)
William Howard Taft (B.A. 1878, S&B 1878) President of the United States (1909-1913); Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (19211930); Secretary of War (1904-1908); Civil Governor of the Philippine Islands (1901-1904); Solicitor General of the U.S. (1890-1892)
Alphonso Taft (B.A. 1833, S&B 1833) 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)
W. Averell Harriman (B.A. 1913, S&B 1913) U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1943-1946); U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain (1946);
Governor of New York (1955-1958); Secretary of Commerce (1946-1948); Chairman of Union Pacific Railroad (1932-1946); Partner of Brown
Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1946); U.S. Negotiator at the Paris Peace Conference on Vietnam (1968-1969)
Henry L. Stimson (B.A. 1888, S&B 1888) U.S. Secretary of War (1911-1913, 1940-1945); U.S. Secretary of State (1929-1933)
Robert A. Lovett (B.A. 1918, S&B 1918) U.S. Secretary of Defense (1951-1953); Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
Robert A. Taft (B.A. 1910, S&B 1910) U.S. Senator (1939-1953); Senate Majority Leader (1953)
Prescott S. Bush (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917) U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut, 1952-1963); Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1972)
George W. Bush (B.A. 1968, S&B 1968) President of the United States (2001-2009); Governor of Texas (1995-2000)
John Forbes Kerry (B.A. 1966, S&B 1966) U.S. Secretary of State (2013-present); U.S. Senator (D-Massachusetts, 1985-2013)
Ellsworth Bunker (B.A. 1916) U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam (1967-1973)
Stanley R. Resor (B.A. 1939, LL.B. 1946, S&K 1939) Secretary of the Army (1965-1971)
Walt W. Rostow (B.A. 1936, Ph.D. 1940) National Security Advisor (1966-1969)
William McChesney Martin Jr. (B.A. 1928) Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1951-1970)
Cyrus R. Vance (B.A. 1939, LL.B. 1942, S&K 1939) U.S. Secretary of State (1977-1980); Secretary of the Army (1962-1964)
William P. Bundy (B.A. 1939; S&B 1939) Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1965-1969)
McGeorge Bundy (B.A. 1940, S&B 1940) National Security Advisor (1961-1966); President of Ford Foundation (1966-1979)
James Jesus Angleton (B.A. 1941) Chief of CIA Counterintelligence Staff (1954-1974)
William Sloane Coffin Jr. (B.A. 1949; S&B 1949) Chaplain of Yale University (1958-1976)
John D. Negroponte (B.A. 1960) Deputy Secretary of State (2007-2009); Director of National Intelligence (2005-2007); U.S. Representative
to the United Nations (2001-2004); U.S. Ambassador to Iraq (2004-2005); U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines (1993-1996); U.S. Ambassador
to Mexico (1989-1993); U.S. Ambassador to Honduras (1981-1985); U.S. Consul General at Thessaloniki, Greece (1975-1977)
John Sherman Cooper (B.A. 1923; S&B 1923) U.S. Senator (1946-1949; 1952-1955; 1956-1973); U.S. Ambassador to East Germany (19741976); U.S. Ambassador to India (1955-1956); member of the Warren Commission
Eugene Meyer (B.A. 1895) Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1930-1933); President of the World Bank (1946); Chairman of the board of
The Washington Post Co. (1947-1959); Publisher of The Washington Post (1933-1946)
Russell C. Leffingwell (B.A. 1899) Chairman of J.P. Morgan & Co. (1948-1950); Chairman of Council on Foreign Relations (1946-1953)
John Hay Whitney (B.A. 1926; S&K 1926) U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain (1957-1961)
Robert Maynard Hutchins (B.A. 1921) Dean of Yale Law School (1927-1929); President of University of Chicago (1929-1945); Chancellor of
University of Chicago (1945-1951); Associate Director of Ford Foundation (1951-1954); President (1954-1969) and Chairman (1969-1974) of
the Fund For The Republic; Chairman (1959-1974) and President (1975-1977) of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions
Dean G. Acheson (B.A. 1915, S&K 1915) U.S. Secretary of State (1949-1953)
Nicholas F. Brady (B.A. 1952) Secretary of the Treasury (1988-1993); Chairman and CEO of Dillon, Read & Co. (1982-1988)
Hugh R. Wilson (B.A. 1906, S&B 1906) U.S. Ambassador to Nazi Germany (1938); U.S. Minister to Switzerland (1927-1937)
Archibald MacLeish (B.A. 1915, S&B 1915) Librarian of Congress (1939-1944)
(Gen.) Richard Taylor (B.A. 1845, S&B 1845) Commander of the [Confederate] Army of Tennessee (1865); son of U.S. Pres. Zachary Taylor
(Gen.) Henry Rootes Jackson (B.A. 1839, S&B 1839) U.S. Minister to the Austrian Empire (1854-1858); Confederate Army general
William M. Evarts (B.A. 1837, S&B 1837) U.S. Attorney General (1868-1869); Secretary of State (1877-1881); U.S. Senator (1885-1891)
William Barrett Washburn (B.A. 1844, S&B 1844) U.S. Senator (1874-1875); U.S. Congressman (1863-1871); Governor of Massachusetts
(1872-1874)
George Kendall Sharp (B.A. 1957) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida (1983-2000)
William Charles Lee (B.A. 1959) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana (1981-2003)
James Knoll Gardner (B.A. 1962) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (2002-present)
John G. Murtha (B.A. 1963) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont (1995-2009)
Allen Joe Fish (B.A. 1965; LL.B. 1968) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas (1983-2007)
John W. Lungstrum (B.A. 1967) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas (1991-present)
Mark Lawrence Wolf (B.A. 1968) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (1985-2013)
Myron Herbert Thompson (B.A. 1969, J.D. 1972) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama (1980-present)
Douglas P. Woodlock (B.A. 1969, S&B 1969) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (1986-present)
Carlos R. Moreno (B.A. 1970) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1998-2001)
Denise Page Hood (B.A. 1974) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (1994-present)
Dora L. Irizarry (B.A. 1976) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (2004-present)
James O. Browning (B.A. 1978) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico (2003-present)
Richard G. Seeborg (B.A. 1978) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (2010-present)
James Emanuel Boasberg (B.A. 1985, J.D. 1990, S&B 1985) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (2011-present)
Robert Michael Dow Jr. (B.A. 1987) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (2007-present)
Gary Scott Feinerman (B.A. 1987) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (2010-present)
Kevin Charles McNulty (B.A. 1976) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (2012-present)
Jesus Gilberto Bernal (B.A. 1986) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (December 12, 2012-present)
Raymond Paul Moore (B.A. 1975, J.D. 1978) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado (2013-present)
William Horsley Orrick III (B.A. 1976) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (2013-present)
Christopher Reid Cooper (B.A. 1988) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (March 28, 2014-present)
Leo Theodore Sorokin (B.A. 1983) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (2014-present)
Geoffrey William Crawford (B.A. 1977) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont (2014-present)
William Josiah Tilson (B.A. 1894) Judge of the U.S. Customs Court (1928-1949)
Chief Judges of the U.S. District Courts:
Carroll Clark Hincks (B.A. 1911) Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (1948-1953)
John Joseph Smith (B.A. 1925, LL.B. 1927) Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (1953-1960)
Robert Palmer Anderson (B.A. 1927) Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (1960-1964)
Peter C. Dorsey (B.A. 1953) Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (1994-1998)
Samuel Pailthorpe King (B.S. 1937; LL.B. 1940) Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii (1974-1984)
Charles Mengel Allen (B.A. 1941) Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky (1977-1985)
Alexander Harvey II (B.A. 1947) Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (1986-1991)
Thomas Collier Platt Jr. (B.A. 1947) Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (1988-1995)
Joseph Edward Stevens Jr. (B.A. 1949) Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri (1992-1995)
William Charles Lee (B.A. 1959) Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana (1997-2003)
John G. Murtha (B.A. 1963) Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont (1995-2002)
Allen Joe Fish (B.A. 1965; LL.B. 1968) Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas (2002-2007)
John W. Lungstrum (B.A. 1967) Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas (2001-2007)
Mark Lawrence Wolf (B.A. 1968) Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (2006-2013)
Myron Herbert Thompson (B.A. 1969, J.D. 1972) Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama (1991-1998)
U.S. Attorneys:
Stephen Jacob (B.A. 1778) U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont (1791)
Jared Ingersoll (B.A. 1766) U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1800-1801)
Asher Robbins (B.A. 1782) U.S. Attorney for the District of Rhode Island (1812)
William Bristol (B.A. 1798) U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut (1812)
Henry Carleton (B.A. 1806) U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana (1832)
George Edward Hand (B.A. 1829) U.S. Attorney for the District of Michigan (1853-1857)
William Pitt Lynde (B.A. 1838) U.S. Attorney for the Territory of Wisconsin (1845)
George Goundry Munger (B.A. 1848, S&K 1848) U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York (1866-1867)
Calvin Goddard Child (B.A. 1855, S&K 1855) U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut (1870-1880)
Channing Richards (B.A. 1858) U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio (1877-1883)
Anthony Higgins (B.A. 1861, S&B 1861) U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware (1869-1876)
Morgan Hawley Beach (B.A. 1882, S&K 1882) U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia (1903-1905)
Asa Palmer French (B.A. 1882, S&B 1882) U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts (1906-1914)
Samuel Knight (B.A. 1887, S&B 1887) U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California (1894-1898)
John Fuller Appleton Merrill (B.A. 1889) U.S. Attorney for the District of Maine (1915-1922)
John Trumbull Robinson (B.A. 1893, S&B 1893) U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut (1908-1912)
Lyman Metcalfe Bass (B.A. 1897, S&K 1897) U.S. Attorney for Western District of New York (1906-1908)
Edward Laurence Smith (B.A. 1897) U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut (1920-1923)
William Marvel (B.A. 1932, S&K 1932) U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware (1948-1953)
David Campion Acheson (B.A. 1942, S&B 1943) U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia (1961-1965)
Robert C. Zampano (B.A. 1951; LL.B. 1954) U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut (1961-1964)
Robert B. Fiske, Jr. (B.A. 1952) U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (1976-1980)
Gilbert Stroud Merritt Jr. (B.A. 1957) U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee (1966-1969)
William Charles Lee (B.A. 1959) U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana (1970-1973)
Paul Edward Coggins (B.A. 1973) U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas (1993-2001)
U.S. Senators:
William Samuel Johnson (B.A. 1744) U.S. Senator (F-Connecticut, 1789-1791)
Stephen R. Bradley (B.A. 1775) U.S. Senator (DR-Vermont, 1791-1795; 1801-1813)
Stephen M. Mitchell (B.A. 1763) U.S. Senator (F-Connecticut, 1793-1795)
Theodore Sedgwick (B.A. 1765) U.S. Senator (F-Massachusetts, 1796-1799)
Uriah Tracy (B.A. 1778) U.S. Senator (F-Connecticut, 1796-1807)
James Hillhouse (B.A. 1773) U.S. Senator (F-Connecticut, 1796-1810)
Ray Greene (B.A. 1784) U.S. Senator (F-Rhode Island, 1797-1801)
Nathaniel Chipman (B.A. 1777) U.S. Senator (F-Vermont, 1797-1803)
John S. Hobart (B.A. 1757) U.S. Senator (F-New York, 1798)
James Watson (B.A. 1776) U.S. Senator (F-New York, 1798-1800)
Abraham Baldwin (B.A. 1772) U.S. Senator (DR-Georgia, 1799-1807)
Simeon Olcott (B.A. 1761) U.S. Senator (F-New Hampshire, 1801-1805)
Christopher Ellery (B.A. 1787) U.S. Senator (DR-Rhode Island, 1801-1805)
Israel Smith (B.A. 1781) U.S. Senator (R-Vermont, 1803-1807)
Chauncey Goodrich (B.A. 1776) U.S. Senator (F-Connecticut, 1807-1813)
Return J. Meigs, Jr. (B.A. 1785) U.S. Senator (DR-Ohio, 1808-1810)
Stanley Griswold (B.A. 1786) U.S. Senator (DR-Ohio, 1809)
Samuel W. Dana (B.A. 1775) U.S. Senator (F-Connecticut, 1810-1821)
Jeremiah Mason (B.A. 1788) U.S. Senator (F-New Hampshire, 1813-1817)
David Daggett (B.A. 1783) U.S. Senator (F-Connecticut, 1813-1819)
James Lanman (B.A. 1788) U.S. Senator (DR-Connecticut, 1819-1825)
John Elliott (B.A. 1794) U.S. Senator (DR-Georgia, 1819-1825)
Horatio Seymour (B.A. 1797) U.S. Senator (AJ-Vermont, 1821-1833)
Elias Kent Kane (B.A. 1813) U.S. Senator (D-Illinois, 1825-1835)
Asher Robbins (B.A. 1782) U.S. Senator (W-Rhode Island, 1825-1839)
Samuel Augustus Foot (B.A. 1797) U.S. Senator (AJ-Connecticut, 1827-1833)
John M. Clayton (B.A. 1815) U.S. Senator (AJ-Delaware, 1829-1836; W-Delaware, 1845-1849; O-Delaware 1853-1856)
Gideon Tomlinson (B.A. 1802) U.S. Senator (AJ-Connecticut, 1831-1837)
John C. Calhoun (B.A. 1804) U.S. Senator (D-South Carolina, 1832-1843, 1845-1850)
John Davis (B.A. 1812, 1787-1854) U.S. Senator (W/NR-Massachusetts, 1835-1841, 1845-1853)
Thaddeus Betts (B.A. 1807) U.S. Senator (W-Connecticut, 1839-1840)
Samuel S. Phelps (B.A. 1811) U.S. Senator (W-Vermont, 1839-1851, 1853-1854)
Jabez Williams Huntington (B.A. 1806) U.S. Senator (W-Connecticut, 1840-1847)
Isaac Chapman Bates (B.A. 1802) U.S. Senator (W-Massachusetts, 1841-1845)
George Edmund Badger (B.A. 1813) U.S. Senator (W-North Carolina, 1846-1855)
Roger Sherman Baldwin (B.A. 1811) U.S. Senator (Whig-Connecticut, 1847-1851)
John Wales (B.A. 1801) U.S. Senator (W-Delaware, 1849-1851)
Truman Smith (B.A. 1815) U.S. Senator (W-Connecticut, 1849-1854)
Julius Rockwell (B.A. 1826) U.S. Senator (W-Massachusetts, 1854-1855)
Francis Gillette (B.A. 1829) U.S. Senator (FS-Connecticut, 1854-1855)
Trusten Polk (B.A. 1831) U.S. Senator (D-Missouri, 1857-1862)
Benjamin Gratz Brown (B.A. 1847) U.S. Senator (R-Missouri, 1863-1867)
Orris Sanford Ferry (B.A. 1844) U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut, 1867-1875)
William Barrett Washburn (B.A. 1844) U.S. Senator (R-Massachusetts, 1874-1875)
Allen Taylor Caperton (B.A. 1832) U.S. Senator (D-West Virginia, 1875-1876)
Henry L. Dawes (B.A. 1839) U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut, 1875-1893)
Randall Lee Gibson (B.A. 1853) U.S. Senator (D-Louisiana, 1883-1892)
William M. Evarts (B.A. 1837) U.S. Senator (R-New York, 1885-1891)
Anthony Higgins (B.A. 1861) U.S. Senator (R-Delaware, 1889-1895)
Fred Thomas Dubois (B.A. 1872) U.S. Senator (R, D-Idaho, 1891-1897, 1901-1907)
John Patton Jr. (B.A. 1875) U.S. Senator (R-Michigan, 1894-1895)
George Peabody Wetmore (B.A. 1867) U.S. Senator (R-Rhode Island, 1895-1907, 1908-1913)
Chauncey M. Depew (B.A. 1856) U.S. Senator (R-New York, 1899-1911)
Alfred B. Kittredge (B.A. 1882) U.S. Senator (R-South Dakota, 1901-1909)
Francis Newlands (B.A. 1859) U.S. Senator (D-Nevada, 1903-1917)
Frank Bosworth Brandegee (B.A. 1885) U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut, 1905-1924)
LeBaron Bradford Colt (B.A. 1868) U.S. Senator (R-Rhode Island, 1913-1924)
James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (B.A. 1898) U.S. Senator (R-New York, 1915-1927)
Selden Palmer Spencer (B.A. 1884) U.S. Senator (R-Missouri, 1918-1925)
Truman Newberry (B.A. 1885) U.S. Senator (R-Michigan, 1919-1922)
Joseph M. McCormick (B.A. 1900) U.S. Senator (R-Illinois, 1919-1925)
Thomas Francis Bayard Jr. (B.A. 1890) U.S. Senator (D-Delaware, 1922-1929)
Alva B. Adams (B.A. 1896) U.S. Senator (D-Colorado, 1923-1924, 1932-1941)
Hiram Bingham III (B.A. 1898) U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut, 1924-1933)
Frederic C. Walcott (B.A. 1891) U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut, 1929-1935)
Robert Davis Carey (B.A. 1900) U.S. Senator (R-Wyoming, 1930-1937)
John Anthony Danaher (B.A. 1920) U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut, 1939-1945)
Robert A. Taft (B.A. 1910) U.S. Senator (R-Ohio, 1939-1953); Senate Majority Leader (1953)
John Sherman Cooper (B.A. 1923) U.S. Senator (R-Kentucky, 1946-1949; 1952-1955; 1956-1973)
William Benton (B.A. 1921) U.S. Senator (D-Connecticut, 1949-1953)
Prescott S. Bush (B.A. 1917) U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut, 1952-1963)
Kenneth F. Simpson (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New York, 1941)
Charles S. Dewey (B.A. 1904) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Illinois, 1941-1945)
Richard Pillsbury Gale (B.A. 1922) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Minnesota, 1941-1945)
James C. Auchincloss (B.A. 1908, S&K 1908) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1943-1965)
Thruston B. Morton (B.A. 1929) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Kentucky, 1947-1953)
Edward Tylor Miller (B.A. 1916) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Maryland, 1947-1959)
J. Foster Furcolo (B.A. 1933) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Massachusetts, 1949-1952)
Harmar D. Denny Jr. (B.A. 1908) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Pennsylvania, 1951-1953)
John Jarman (B.A. 1937) U.S. Congressman (Democrat/Republican-Oklahoma, 1951-1977)
Albert W. Cretella (B.A. 1917) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Connecticut, 1953-1959)
William S. Mailliard (B.A. 1939) U.S. Congressman (Republican-California, 1953-1974)
John V. Lindsay (B.A. 1944, S&K 1944) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New York, 1959-1965)
Thomas William Ludlow Lud Ashley (B.A. 1948, S&B 1948) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Ohio, 1955-1981)
William S. Moorhead Jr. (B.A. 1945, S&B 1945) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Pennsylvania, 1959-1981)
Chester B. Bowles (B.A. 1924) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Connecticut, 1959-1961)
Donald Jay Irwin (B.A. 1951, LL.B. 1954) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Connecticut, 1959-1961, 1965-1969)
Peter H. Dominick (B.A. 1937, S&K 1937) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Colorado, 1961-1963)
William Warren Scranton (B.A. 1939; LL.B. 1946) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Pennsylvania, 1961-1963)
Robert Taft, Jr. (B.A. 1939) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Ohio, 1963-1965, 1967-1971)
Rogers C.B. Morton (B.A. 1937) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Maryland, 1963-1971)
Ogden Rogers Reid (B.A. 1949) U.S. Congressman (Republican/Democrat-New York, 1963-1975)
John V. Tunney (B.A. 1956) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-California, 1965-1971)
Jonathan Brewster Bingham (B.A. 1936, S&B 1936) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-New York, 1965-1983)
George H.W. Bush (B.A. 1948, S&B 1948) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Texas, 1967-1971)
Philip Edward Ruppe (B.A. 1948) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Michigan, 1967-1979)
John G. Beall Jr. (B.A. 1950) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Maryland, 1969-1971)
Lowell P. Weicker Jr. (B.A. 1953) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Connecticut, 1969-1971)
James Wadsworth Symington (B.A. 1950) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Missouri, 1969-1977)
Robert Lawrence Coughlin (B.A. 1950) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Pennsylvania, 1969-1993)
Henry John Heinz III (B.A. 1960) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Pennsylvania, 1971-1977)
Stewart Brett McKinney (B.A. 1958) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Connecticut, 1971-1987)
Leslie (Les) Aspin (B.A. 1960) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Wisconsin, 1971-1993)
Raymond Hoyt Thornton Jr. (B.A. 1950) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Arkansas, 1973-1979, 1991-1997)
Gerry Eastman Studds (B.A. 1959) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Massachusetts, 1973-1997)
James M. Jeffords (B.S. 1956) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Vermont, 1975-1989)
Willis David Gradison, Jr. (B.A. 1949) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Ohio, 1975-1993)
Newton Ivan Steers, Jr. (B.A. 1939; J.D. 1948) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Maryland, 1977-1979)
Andrew P. Andy Ireland (B.S. 1952) U.S. Congressman (Democrat/Republican-Florida, 1977-1993)
Clarence William Bill Nelson (B.A. 1965) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Florida, 1979-1991)
Ben Erdreich (B.A. 1960) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Alabama, 1983-1993)
John Jacob Rhodes III (B.A. 1965) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Arizona, 1987-1993)
Porter J. Goss (B.A. 1960) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Florida, 1989-2004)
Richard Swett (B.A. 1979) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-New Hampshire, 1991-1995)
Richard Zimmer (B.A. 1966; LL.B. 1969) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1991-1997)
Gary A. Franks (B.A. 1975) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Connecticut, 1991-1997)
Sherrod Brown (B.A. 1974) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Ohio, 1993-2007)
David Martin McIntosh (B.A. 1980) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Indiana, 1995-2001)
Denise L. Majette (B.A. 1976) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Georgia, 2003-2005)
Tom Perriello (B.A. 1996, J.D. 2001) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Virginia, 2009-2011)
Lamar S. Smith (B.A. 1969) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Texas, 1987-present)
Sheila Jackson-Lee (B.A. 1972) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Texas, 1995-present)
John Yarmuth (B.A. 1969) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Kentucky, 2007-present)
Ronald Dion "Ron" DeSantis (B.A. 2001; J.D. Harvard 2005) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Florida, 2013-present)
John Hubbard Tweedy (B.A. 1834, S&B 1834) U.S. Delegate to Congress (Whig-Territory of Wisconsin, 1847-1848)
Carlos A. Romero-Barcelo (B.A. 1953) U.S. Delegate to Congress (Puerto Rico, 1991-2001)
Theodore Sedgwick (B.A. 1765) Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1799-1801)
State Governors:
Tony Knowles (B.A. 1968) Governor of Alaska (1994-2002)
Henry Huntly Haight (B.A. 1844) Governor of California (1867-1871)
Pete Wilson (B.A. 1956) Governor of California (1991-1999)
Albert W. McIntire (B.A. 1873) Governor of Colorado (1895-1897)
David Sholtz (B.A. 1914) Governor of Florida (1933-1937)
Nathan Brownson (B.A. 1761) Governor of Georgia (1781-1782)
Lyman Hall (B.A. 1747) Governor of Georgia (1783-1784)
Richard B. Ogilvie (B.A. 1947) Governor of Illinois (1969-1973)
Robert D. Orr (B.A. 1940, S&K 1940) Governor of Indiana (1981-1989)
Daniel Rose (B.A. 1791) Governor of Maine (January 2, 1822-January 5, 1822)
John Davis (B.A. 1812) Governor of Massachusetts (1834-1835, 1841-1843)
William Barrett Washburn (B.A. 1844, S&B 1844) Governor of Massachusetts (1872-1874)
J. Foster Furcolo (B.A. 1933) Governor of Massachusetts (1957-1961)
William Grawn Milliken (B.A. 1946) Governor of Michigan (1969-1983)
Mark Dayton (B.A. 1969) Governor of Minnesota (2011-present)
Trusten Polk (B.A. 1831) Governor of Missouri (1857)
Willard P. Hall (B.A. 1839) Governor of Missouri (1864-1865)
Benjamin Gratz Brown (B.A. 1847) Governor of Missouri (1871-1873)
John D. Ashcroft (B.A. 1964 cum laude) Governor of Missouri (1985-1993)
Hugh Gregg (B.A. 1939) Governor of New Hampshire (1953-1955)
William Livingston (B.A. 1741) Governor of New Jersey (1776-1790)
W. Averell Harriman (B.A. 1913, S&B 1913) Governor of New York (1955-1958)
George Pataki (B.A. 1967) Governor of New York (1995-2006)
John "Jack" Dalrymple (B.A. 1970) Governor of North Dakota (2010-present)
Samuel Huntington (B.A. 1785) Governor of Ohio (1808-1810)
Return J. Meigs, Jr. (B.A. 1785) Governor of Ohio (1810-1814)
Seabury Ford (B.A. 1825) Governor of Ohio (1849-1850)
Richard F. Celeste (B.A. 1959) Governor of Ohio (1983-1991)
Bob Taft (B.A. 1963) Governor of Ohio (1999-2007)
David L. Boren (B.A. 1963, S&B 1963) Governor of Oklahoma (1975-1979)
Gifford Pinchot (B.A. 1889, S&B 1889) Governor of Pennsylvania (1923-1927, 1931-1935)
William W. Scranton (B.A. 1939, J.D. 1946) Governor of Pennsylvania (1963-1967)
Dick Thornburgh (B.E. 1954) Governor of Pennsylvania (1979-1987)
William Warner Hoppin (B.A. 1828) Governor of Rhode Island (1854-1857)
George Peabody Wetmore (B.A. 1867, S&B 1867) Governor of Rhode Island (1885-1887)
John H. Chafee (B.A. 1947, S&B 1947) Governor of Rhode Island (1963-1969)
James Hopkins Adams (B.A. 1831) Governor of South Carolina (1854-1856)
Daniel H. Chamberlain (B.A. 1862, S&B 1862) Governor of South Carolina (1874-1876)
George W. Bush (B.A. 1968, S&B 1968) Governor of Texas (1995-2000)
Israel Smith (B.A. 1781) Governor of Vermont (1807-1808)
Edward Curtis Smith (B.A. 1875, S&B 1875) Governor of Vermont (1898-1900)
Mortimer R. Proctor (B.A. 1912, S&K 1912) Governor of Vermont (1945-1947)
Howard B. Dean III (B.A. 1971) Governor of Vermont (1991-2003)
Frederick W.M. Holliday (B.A. 1847) Governor of Virginia (1878-1882); Member of the Confederate Congress (February 1864-April 1865)
Gary Locke (B.A. 1972) Governor of Washington (1997-2005)
Walter J. Kohler Jr. (Ph.B. 1925) Governor of Wisconsin (1951-1957)
Robert Davis Carey (B.A. 1900) Governor of Wyoming (1919-1923)
William Hull (B.A. 1772) Governor of Michigan Territory (1805-1813)
John Green Brady (B.A. 1874) Governor of Territory of Alaska (1897-1906)
Walter F. Frear (B.A. 1885) Governor of Territory of Hawaii (1907-1913)
Carlos A. Romero-Barcelo (B.A. 1953) Governor of Territory of Puerto Rico (1977-1985)
Edmund Fanning (B.A. 1757) former Governor of Prince Edward Island [Canada]
Lieutenant Governors:
Darius Sessions (B.A. 1737) Deputy Governor of Rhode Island (1769-1775)
Jabez Bowen Jr. (B.A. 1757) Deputy Governor of Rhode Island (1778-1780, 1781-1786)
Paul Mumford (B.A. 1754) Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island (1803-1805)
Thomas G. Alvord (B.A. 1828) Lieutenant Governor of New York (1865-1866)
Christopher C. Cox (B.A. 1835) Lieutenant Governor of Maryland (1865-1868)
Willard P. Hall (B.A. 1839) Lieutenant Governor of Missouri (1861-1864)
Timothy L. Woodruff (B.A. 1879; S&B 1879) Lieutenant Governor of New York (1897-1902)
Nathaniel Waite Smith (B.A. 1896) Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island (1925-1927)
Mortimer R. Proctor (B.A. 1912, S&K 1912) Lieutenant Governor of Vermont (1941-1945)
Robert D. Orr (B.A. 1940, S&K 1940) Lieutenant Governor of Indiana (1973-1981)
William Grawn Milliken (B.A. 1946) Lieutenant Governor of Michigan (1965-1969)
Richard F. Celeste (B.A. 1959) Lieutenant Governor of Ohio (1975-1978)
John Forbes Kerry (B.A. 1966; S&B 1966) Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1983-1985)
John "Jack" Dalrymple (B.A. 1970) Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota (2000-2010)
Mayors:
Caleb Smith Woodhull (B.A. 1812) Mayor of New York City (1849-1851)
Robert F. Wagner Jr. (B.A. 1933, S&K 1933) Mayor of New York City (1954-1965)
John V. Lindsay (B.A. 1944, S&K 1944) Mayor of New York City (1966-1973)
Carter Henry Harrison (B.A. 1845, S&K 1845) Mayor of Chicago (1879-1887, 1893)
Joel Jones (B.A. 1817) Mayor of Philadelphia (1849-1850)
Richardson Dilworth (B.A. 1921, S&K 1921) Mayor of Philadelphia (1956-1962)
Walter Thomas Lenox (B.A. 1837) Mayor of Washington, D.C. (1850)
Anthony A. Williams (B.A. 1979) Mayor of Washington, D.C. (1999-2007)
Kurt L. Schmoke (B.A. 1971) Mayor of Baltimore (1987-1999)
Henry Thomas Hunt (B.A. 1900) Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio (1912-1914)
Charles P. Taft II (B.A. 1918, LL.B. 1921; S&B 1918) Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio (1955-1957)
Willis David Gradison, Jr. (B.A. 1949) Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio (1971)
J. Quigg Newton Jr. (B.A. 1933, LL.B. 1936, S&B 1933) Mayor of Denver, Colorado (1947-1955)
Theodore Runyon (B.A. 1842, S&K 1842) Mayor of Newark, New Jersey (1864-1866)
Austin Scott (B.A. 1869) Mayor of New Brunswick, New Jersey (1913-1915)
William Hemphill Jones (B.A. 1831) Mayor of Wilmington, Delaware (1851)
John Ball Brisbrin (B.A. 1846, S&B 1846) Mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota (1857)
William Pitt Lynde (B.A. 1838) Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1860)
Henry Durant (B.A. 1827) Mayor of Oakland, California (1873-1875)
Pete Wilson (B.A. 1956) Mayor of San Diego, California (1971-1983)
James Wadsworth (B.A. 1841) Mayor of Buffalo, New York (1851-1852)
George Sturges Buck (B.A. 1896) Mayor of Buffalo, New York (1917-1921)
Elias W. Leavenworth (B.A. 1824) Mayor of Syracuse, New York (1849-1850, 1859-1860)
Irving Goodwin Vann (B.A. 1863) Mayor of Syracuse, New York (1879-1880)
Charles Henry Clark (B.A. 1841) Mayor of Rochester, New York (1858)
Francis Bloodgood (B.A. 1787) Mayor of Albany, New York (1831, 1833)
James Briggs McEwan (B.A. 1878) Mayor of Albany, New York (1910-1913)
Erastus Corning II (B.A. 1932) Mayor of Albany, New York (1941-1983)
Joseph Kirkland (B.A. 1790) Mayor of Utica, New York (1832-1836)
Carlos A. Romero-Barcelo (B.A. 1953) Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico (1969-1976)
Victor H. Ashe (B.A. 1967, S&B 1967) Mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee (1987-2003)
Tony Knowles (B.A. 1968) Mayor of Anchorage, Alaska (1981-1987)
John OLeary (B.A. 1969, S&B 1969) Mayor of Portland, Maine (1980-1981)
Hugh Q. Parmer (B.A. 1961) Mayor of Fort Worth, Texas (1977-1979); Texas State Senator (1983-1989)
George Harvey Ingalls Sloane (B.A. 1958) Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky (1973-1977, 1982-1986)
Frederick Charles Webster (B.A. 1873) Mayor of Missoula, Montana (1896-1900)
Theobald Mathew Connor (B.A. 1897) Mayor of Northampton, Massachusetts (1905-1906)
William Stewart Gilman (B.A. 1899) Mayor of Sioux City, Iowa (1924-1928)
Corporation Counsel of Major Cities:
Willis Hall (B.A. 1824) Corporation Counsel of New York City (1847-1849)
William C. Whitney (B.A. 1863, S&B 1863) Corporation Counsel of New York City (1875-1882)
George Pierce Andrews (B.A. 1858; S&K 1858) Corporation Counsel of New York City (1882-1884)
Frank Lyon Polk (B.A. 1894, S&K 1894) Corporation Counsel of New York City (1914-1915)
Thomas D. Thacher (B.A. 1904, S&B 1904) Corporation Counsel of New York City (1943)
Charles Henry Tenney (B.A. 1933; LL.B. 1936, S&K 1933) Corporation Counsel of New York City (1958-1961)
Victor A. Kovner (B.A. 1958, J.D. Columbia 1961) Corporation Counsel of New York City (1990-1991); Chairman of the board of Planned
Parenthood of New York City (1970-1971)
Michael David Hess (B.A. 1962, J.D. Harvard 1965) Corporation Counsel of New York City (January 1, 1998-December 31, 2001)
Montgomery Hare (B.A. 1893) Assistant Corporation Counsel of New York City (1901-1906)
Henry Selden Johnston (B.A. 1896) Assistant Corporation Counsel of the City of New York (1902-1920)
Arthur Lehman Goodhart (B.A. 1912) Assistant Corporation Counsel of New York City (1915-1917)
[Augustus] Newbold Morris (B.A. 1925; LL.B. 1928, S&K 1925) Assistant Corporation Counsel of New York City (1934-1937)
Almet Francis Jenks (B.A. 1875, S&B 1875) Corporation Counsel of Brooklyn, New York (1886-1894)
Joseph Arthur Burr (B.A. 1871) Corporation Counsel of Brooklyn, New York (1896-1898)
Arthur Carter Hume (B.A. 1892) Corporation Counsel of Yonkers, New York (1926-1927)
Thomas Hackett Guy (BA. 1891) Corporation Counsel of Troy, New York (1916-1924)
Thorne Baker (B.A. 1903) Corporation Counsel of Scarsdale, New York (1935-1941)
William Townsend (B A. 1871) Corporation Counsel of Utica, New York (1906-1908, 1910)
Charles Morehead Walker (B.A. 1884) Corporation Counsel of Chicago (1899-1903); Alderman of Chicago (1896-1899)
John William Beckwith (B.A. 1889) Corporation Counsel of Chicago (1914-1915); Assistant Corporation Counsel for Chicago (1903-1911)
Morton Starr Cressy (B A. 1900) Assistant Corporation Counsel for Chicago (1916-1917, 1919-1920)
Howard Francis Bishop (B.A. I907; LL.B. 1910) Assistant Corporation Counsel for Chicago (1911-1915)
Alphonso Taft (B.A. 1833, S&B 1833) U.S. Minister to the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1882-1884); U.S. Minister to Russia (1884-1885)
William Howard Taft III (B.A. 1937) U.S. Ambassador to Ireland (1953-1957); U.S. Consul General in Lourenco Marques [present-day
Maputo], Mozambique [Portugal] (1960-1962)
David H. Thorne (B.A. 1966, S&B 1966) U.S. Ambassador to Italy (2009-2013)
Harold H. Tittmann Jr. (B.A. 1916) U.S. Consul-General in Geneva, Switzerland (1939-1940)
Roger Culver Tredwell (B.A. 1907) U.S. Consul-General in Stockholm, Sweden (1932-1933)
Alexander R. Vershbow (B.A. 1974) U.S. Ambassador to Russia (2001-2005)
Robert F. Wagner Jr. (B.A. 1933, S&K 1933) U.S. Ambassador to Spain (1968-1969)
George Herbert Walker III (B.A. 1953, S&B 1953) U.S. Ambassador to Hungary (2003-2006)
Arthur K. Watson (B.A. 1942) U.S. Ambassador to France (1970-1972)
E. Allan Wendt (B.A. 1957) U.S. Ambassador to Slovenia (1993-1995)
Andrew D. White (B.A. 1853, S&B 1853) U.S. Minister to Germany (1879-1881, 1897-1902); U.S. Minister to Russia (1892-1894)
John Hay Whitney (B.A. 1926; S&K 1926) U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain (1957-1961)
C. Howard Wilkins Jr. (B.A. 1960) U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands (1989-1992)
Hugh R. Wilson (B.A. 1906, S&B 1906) U.S. Ambassador to Nazi Germany (1938); U.S. Minister to Switzerland (1927-1937)
Michael M. Wood (B.A. 1969) U.S. Ambassador to Sweden (2006-2009)
Stanley Woodward (B.A. 1922, S&B 1922) U.S. Ambassador to Canada (1950-1953)
Warren Zimmermann (B.A. 1956, S&K 1956) U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia (1989-1992)
Middle East:
Robert Anderson (B.A. 1944) U.S. Ambassador to Morocco (1976-1978)
Philip W. Bonsal (B.A. 1924) U.S. Ambassador to Morocco (1961-1962)
Herbert Wolcott Bowen (B.A. 1878) U.S. Minister to Persia (1899-1901)
Louis Goethe Dreyfus Jr. (B.A. 1910) U.S. Minister to Iran (1940-1943); U.S. Minister to Afghanistan (May 19, 1941-July 2, 1942); U.S.
Ambassador to Afghanistan (1949-1951)
Joseph Adam Ereli (B.A. 1982) U.S. Ambassador to Bahrain (2007-2011)
William L. Eagleton Jr. (B.A. 1948) U.S. Ambassador to Syria (1984-1988); Chief of U.S. Interests Section in Baghdad, Iraq (1980-1984)
John Marshall Evans (B.A. 1970) U.S. Ambassador to Armenia (2004-2006)
John H. Ferguson (B.A. 1936) U.S. Ambassador to Morocco (1962-1964)
Charles W. Freeman Jr. (B.A. 1965?) U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1990-1992)
George Gregg Fuller (B.A. 1910) U.S. Consul General in Tunis, Tunisia (1946-1948)
George McMurtrie Godley (B.A. 1939) U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon (1974-1976)
Gordon Gray III (B.A. 1978) U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia (2009-2012); Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Egypt (2002-2005)
Alexander C. Kirk (B.A. 1909) U.S. Minister to Egypt (1941-1944); U.S. Minister to Saudi Arabia (1942-1943)
Samuel W. Lewis (B.A. 1952) U.S. Ambassador to Israel (1977-1985); Deputy Chief of Mission in Kabul, Afghanistan (1971-1974)
Charles Joseph Little (B.A. 1924, LL.B. Harvard 1930) Deputy Chief of Mission in Kabul, Afghanistan (1953-1957)
Douglas MacArthur II (B.A. 1931) U.S. Ambassador to Iran (1969-1972)
William B. Macomber Jr. (B.A. 1943) U.S. Ambassador to Jordan (1961-1963); U.S. Ambassador to Turkey (1973-1977)
Selah Merrill (attended Yale, 1863) American Consul at Jerusalem (1882-1885, 1891-1893, 1898-1907)
John D. Negroponte (B.A. 1960) U.S. Ambassador to Iraq (2004-2005)
Robert H. Pelletreau Jr. (B.A. 1957) U.S. Ambassador to Egypt (1991-1993); U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia (1987-1991)
Joseph Verner Reed Jr. (B.A. 1961) U.S. Ambassador to Morocco (1981-1985)
Ogden Rogers Reid (B.A. 1949) U.S. Ambassador to Israel (1959-1961)
Thomas W. Simons Jr. (B.A. 1958) U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan (1996-1998)
Watson R. Sperry (B.A. 1871, S&B 1871) U.S. Minister to the Persian Empire [Iran] (1893)
Roscoe S. Suddarth (B.A. 1956) U.S. Ambassador to Jordan (1987-1990)
Charles H. Sherrill (B.A. 1889) U.S. Ambassador to Turkey (1932-1933)
Frederick Vreeland (B.A. 1951) U.S. Ambassador to Morocco (1992-1993)
Latin America/Caribbean:
Robert Anderson (B.A. 1944) U.S. Ambassador to Dominican Republic (1982-1985)
Roy L. Austin (B.A. 1968, S&B 1968) U.S. Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago (2001-2009)
H. Douglas Barclay (B.A. 1955) U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador (2003-2006)
Philip W. Bonsal (B.A. 1924) U.S. Ambassador to Cuba (1959-1960); U.S. Ambassador to Colombia (1955-1957); U.S. Ambassador to
Bolivia (1957-1959)
Herbert Wolcott Bowen (B.A. 1878) U.S. Minister to Venezuela (1901-1905)
Spruille Braden (Ph.B. 1914) U.S. Ambassador to Colombia (1939-1942); U.S. Ambassador to Cuba (1942-1945); U.S. Ambassador to
Argentina (1945)
Ellsworth Bunker (B.A. 1916) U.S. Ambassador to Argentina (1951-1952)
Wymberley DeRenne Coerr (B.A. 1936) U.S. Ambassador to Uruguay (1962-1965); U.S. Ambassador to Ecuador (1965-1967)
Macgrane Coxe (B.A. 1879) U.S. Minister to Guatemala (1896-1897); U.S. Minister to Honduras (1896-1897)
John Thomas Croxton (B.A. 1857, S&B 1857) U.S. Minister to Bolivia (1873-1874)
Paul Clement Daniels (B.A. 1924) U.S. Ambassador to Honduras (1947); U.S. Ambassador to Ecuador (1951-1953)
Robert J. Dieter (B.A. 1968) U.S. Ambassador to Belize (2005-2009)
George Kenneth Donald (B.A. 1912) U.S. Consul General in Guatemala (1928-1932); U.S. Consul General in Windsor, Canada (1941-1945)
James Gadsden (B.A. 1806) U.S. Minister to Mexico (1853-1856)
Arthur Gardner (B.A. 1911?) U.S. Ambassador to Cuba (1953-1957)
David N. Greenlee (B.A. 1965?) U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia (2003-2006); U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay (2000-2003)
R. S. Reynolds Hitt (B.A. 1898) U.S. Minister to Panama (1910); U.S. Minister to Guatemala (1910-1913)
Gideon H. Hollister (B.A. 1840) U.S. Minister to Haiti (1868-1869)
Walter Howe (B.A. 1929) U.S. Ambassador to Chile (1958-1961)
Henry Rootes Jackson (B.A. 1839, S&B 1839) U.S. Minister to Mexico (1885-1886)
Charles S. Whitehouse (B.A. 1947; S&B 1947) U.S. Ambassador to Laos (1973-1975); U.S. Ambassador to Thailand (1975-1978)
Amos Parker Wilder (B.A. 1884; Ph.D. 1892, S&B 1884) U.S. Consul-General in Hong Kong (1906-1909); U.S. Consul-General in Shanghai,
China (1909-1914)
International Organizations:
James J. Wadsworth (B.A. 1927, S&B 1927) U.S. Representative to the United Nations (1960-1961)
George H.W. Bush (B.A. 1948, S&B 1948) U.S. Representative to the United Nations (1971-1973)
William W. Scranton (B.A. 1939, J.D. 1946) U.S. Representative to the United Nations (1976-1977)
John D. Negroponte (B.A. 1960) U.S. Representative to the United Nations (2001-2004)
John R. Bolton (B.A. 1970; J.D. 1974) U.S. Representative to the United Nations (2005-2006)
Samantha Power (B.A. 1992, J.D. Harvard 1999) U.S. Representative to the United Nations (2013-present)
William H. Taft IV (B.A. 1966) U.S. Representative to NATO (1989-1992)
Alexander R. Vershbow (B.A. 1974) U.S. Representative to NATO (1997-2001)
Thomas O. Enders (B.A. 1953, S&K 1953) U.S. Representative to the European Communities (1979-1981)
Ellsworth Bunker (B.A. 1916) U.S. Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS) (1964-1966)
T. Keith Glennan (B.S. 1927) U.S. Representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA] (1970-1973)
Prominent Bankers:
Douglas A. Warner III (B.A. 1968) Chairman and CEO of J.P. Morgan & Co. (1995-2000); Chairman of JP Morgan Chase (2000-2001)
Russell C. Leffingwell (B.A. 1899) Chairman of the board of J.P. Morgan & Co. (1948-1950)
Harold Stanley (B.A. 1908, S&B 1908) President of Morgan, Stanley & Co. (1935-1941); Partner of J.P. Morgan & Co. (1928-1935)
Robert F. Greenhill (B.A. 1958) President of Morgan Stanley (1991-1993); Vice Chairman of Morgan Stanley (1989-1991); former Chairman
and CEO of Smith Barney
Charles S. McCain (B.A. 1904) Chairman of Chase National Bank (1930-1934); Senior Partner of Dillon, Read & Co. (1939-1951)
James Stillman Rockefeller (B.A. 1924) Chairman of National City Bank of New York (Citibank, now called Citigroup) (1959-1967)
George S. Moore (B.S. 1927) Chairman of National City Bank of New York [Citibank] (1967-1970)
Nicholas F. Brady (B.A. 1952) Chairman and CEO of Dillon, Read & Co. (1982-1988)
John I. Howell (B.A. 1939) former Chairman of the board of J. Henry Schroder Banking Corp.
Pierre Jay (B.A. 1892, S&B 1892) Chairman of the board of Fiduciary Trust Company [New York City] (1930-1945)
Thomas Cochran (B.A. 1894) Chairman of the board of Bankers Trust Company (1936); Partner of J.P. Morgan & Co. (1917-1936)
Samuel Sloan Colt (B.A. 1914) Chairman of Bankers Trust Co. (1956-1957); President of Bankers Trust Co. (1931-1957)
Alfred Brittain III (B.A. 1945) Chairman of Bankers Trust Co. (1975-1987)
Otto T. Bannard (B.A. 1876, S&B 1876) Chairman of the board of New York Trust Co. (1916-1921)
Mortimer Norton Buckner (B.A. 1895, S&B 1895) Chairman of the board of New York Trust Co. (1921-1942)
Artemus L. Gates (B.A. 1918, S&B 1918) President of New York Trust Co. (1929-1941)
John E. Bierwirth (B.A. 1917) President of New York Trust Co. (1941-1949)
Hoyt Ammidon (B.A. 1932) Chairman and CEO of U.S. Trust Co. (1962-1974)
Charles Welles Buek (B.A. 1933) President (1962-1974) and Chairman (1974-1976) of U.S. Trust Co. of New York
Stephen A. Schwarzman (B.A. 1969, S&B 1969) Chairman and CEO of The Blackstone Group (1985-present)
Richard P. Cooley (B.S. 1944) President and CEO (1966-1979) and Chairman and CEO (1979-1982) of Wells Fargo Bank
Wilbur Louis Ross Jr. (B.A. 1959) Senior Managing Director of Rothschild, Inc. (1976-2000)
Herbert P. Patterson (B.S. 1948) President of Chase Manhattan Bank (1969-1972)
Robert Van Cleef Lindsay (B.A. 1949) President of Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. [later J.P. Morgan & Co.] (1980-1986)
Robert Lehman (B.A. 1913) Partner of Lehman Brothers (1925-1969)
Joseph Albert Thomas (B.A. 1928, S&K 1928) Partner of Lehman Brothers (1937-1977)
Alfred Ernest Hamill (B.A. 1905) Partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co. (1932-1948)
Arthur G. Altschul (B.A. 1943) Partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co. (1959-1977)
David C. Clapp (B.A. 1960) Partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co. (1978-1994)
Joseph H. Gleberman (B.A. 1980) Partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co. (1990-2011)
Elisha Walker (B.A. 1900) Partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. (1933-1950)
John M. Schiff (B.A. 1925) Partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. (1931-1977)
Frank Altschul (B.A. 1908) Partner of Lazard Freres & Co. (1916-1945)
Dean Witter Jr. (B.A. 1944, S&B 1944) Partner of Dean Witter & Co. (1946-1970)
William Pierson Hamilton (Ph.B. 1891) Member of the firm of J.P. Morgan & Co. (1900-1921); died in May 1950
Thacher M. Brown (B.A. 1897) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1954)
Ray Morris (B.A. 1901, S&B 1901) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1956)
W. Averell Harriman (B.A. 1913, S&B 1913) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1946)
Prescott S. Bush (B.A. 1917; S&B 1917) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1972); U.S. Senator (1952-1963)
E. Roland Harriman (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1978)
Knight Woolley (B.A. 1917; S&B 1917) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1982)
Robert A. Lovett (B.A. 1918, S&B 1918) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1953-1986); Secretary of Defense (1951-1953)
Stephen Y. Hord (B.A. 1921, S&B 1921) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1945-1981)
Thomas McCance (B.A. 1925) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1945-1979)
Moreau Delano Brown (B.A. 1926) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1939-1974)
Granger Kent Costikyan (B.A. 1929, S&B 1929) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1969-1998)
John Beckwith Madden (B.A. 1941, S&B 1941) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1955-1988)
R.L. Ireland III (B.A. 1942) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1960-c.1994)
Laurence Frederick Whittemore (B.A. 1951) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1974-2003)
Alexander T. Ercklentz (B.A. 1959, S&B 1959) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1978-present)
Francis Ward Paine (B.A. 1910) Member of Paine, Webber & Co. [investment banking firm in Boston] (1919-1940)
Federal Reserve:
Eugene Meyer (B.A. 1895) Chairman of the Federal Reserve (September 16, 1930-May 10, 1933)
William McChesney Martin Jr. (B.A. 1928) Chairman of the Federal Reserve (April 2, 1951-January 31, 1970)
David W. Mullins Jr. (B.S. 1968) Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1991-1994); Member of the Federal Reserve Board (1990-1994)
John Raymond Mitchell (Ph.B. 1889) Member of the Federal Reserve Board (1921-1923); Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of
Minneapolis (1924-1933)
Laurence H. Meyer (B.A. 1965) Member of the Federal Reserve Board (1996-2002)
Alfred L. Aiken (B.A. 1891) President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (1914-1917)
George L. Harrison (B.A. 1910) President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1928-1940)
Alfred Hayes (B.A. 1930) President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1956-1975)
Pierre Jay (B.A. 1892, S&B 1892) Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1914-1926)
Robert Ten Broeck Stevens (B.A. 1921) Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1948-1953)
John E. Bierwirth (B.A. 1917) Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1957-1959)
Roswell L. Gilpatric (B.A. 1928, LL.B. 1931) Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1972-1975)
Robert Huntington Knight (B.A. 1940) Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1977-1983)
Cyrus R. Vance (B.A. 1939, LL.B. 1942, S&K 1939) Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1989-1991)
William D. Nordhaus (B.A. 1963, S&B 1963) Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (2014-present); Class B Director of the
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (2010-2011); Class C Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (2012-present)
John Perrin (B.A. 1879, S&B 1879) Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (1914-1925)
John N. Peyton (Ph.B. 1908) Chairman (1933-1936) and President (1936-1952) of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Roger B. Shepard (B.A. 1908, S&B 1908) Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (1940-1953)
Harold D. Hodgkinson (Ph.B. 1912) Chairman (1951-1955) and Class C Director (1947-1955) of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Arthur B. Van Buskirk (B.A. 1918) Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (1957-1961)
Walter Seth Logan (B.A. 1910, S&B 1910) Vice President and General Counsel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1928-1953);
General Counsel of the Federal Reserve Board (1920-1922)
John D. Hawke Jr. (B.A. 1954) General Counsel of the Federal Reserve Board (1975-1978)
Carle C. Conway (B.S. 1899) Class B Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1942-1948)
Samuel Sloan Colt (B.A. 1914, S&K 1914) Class A Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1944-1946)
Charles E. Adams (B.A. 1904, S&B 1904) Class B Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1945-1948)
Kenneth H. Hannan (B.A. 1933, LL.B. 1936) Class B (1960-1965) and Class C (1966-1968) Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New
York; Deputy Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1966-1968)
Thomas Wells Farnam (B.A. 1899, S&K 1899) Class A Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (1917-1919)
Alfred Lawrence Ripley (B.A. 1878, S&K 1878) Class A Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (1923-1937)
Stanford Tappan Crapo (B.A. 1886, S&B 1886) Class B Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (1922-1938)
Edward Byron Smith (B.A. 1932) Class A Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (1970-1975)
Vance C. McCormick (Ph.B. 1893) Class C Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia (1914-1915)
Ross P. Wright (Ph.B. 1896) Class B Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (1917-1949)
Willard Deere Hosford (B.A. 1906) Class B Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (1930-1951)
Eugene Hale Adams (B.A. 1934) Class A Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (1964-1969)
David Marshall (B.A. 1972) Senior Vice President for Financial Markets Group, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (2006-present)
Robert H. Rasche (B.A. 1963) Executive Vice President and senior policy adviser, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (c.2009-present)
Chester Arthur Phillips (B.A. 1908, Ph.D. 1919) Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (1937-1942)
Prominent Businessmen:
Insurance and Investment:
Robert Cushing Winters (B.A. 1953) Chairman and CEO of Prudential Insurance Co. of America (1987-1994)
Edward J. Morton (B.A. 1949) Chairman and CEO of John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. (1987-1991)
Leroy A. Lincoln (B.A. 1902) Chairman of the board of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (1951-1957)
George L. Harrison (B.A. 1910) Chairman of the board of New York Life Insurance Co. (1948-1954)
Dennis Keith Ross (B.E. 1946) Chairman and CEO of New York Life Insurance Co. (1981-1990)
John M. Regan, Jr. (B.A. 1943) Chairman of the board of Marsh & McLennan, Inc. [insurance company] (1972-1986)
Charles B. Johnson (B.A. 1954) Chairman of the board of Franklin Resources, Inc. [now called Franklin Templeton Investments] (1969-pres.)
Herbert M. Allison Jr. (B.A. 1965) Chairman and CEO of TIAA-CREF (2002-2008); CEO of Fannie Mae (2008-2009)
Edmund Fitzgerald (Ph.B. 1916) Chairman of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. (1958-1960)
Thomas B. Wheeler (B.A. 1958, S&B 1958) Chairman and CEO of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. (1996-1999)
William H. Bill Donaldson (B.A. 1953, S&B 1953) Chairman of the board of New York Stock Exchange (1991-1995); Chairman and CEO of
Aetna Insurance Co. (2000-2001)
John Marks Templeton (B.A. 1934) former President of Templeton Growth Fund Canada, Ltd.
James S. Chanos (B.A. 1980) Founder and President of Kynikos Associates [hedge fund investment company] (1985-present)
Industrial:
Irving S. Olds (B.A. 1907) Chairman of the board of United States Steel Corp. (1940-1952)
Stewart Shaw Cort (B.A. 1934) Chairman and CEO of Bethlehem Steel Corp. (1971-1980)
B. Brewster Jennings (B.A. 1920) Chairman of the board of Socony-Mobil Oil Co. (1955-1958)
John F. Akers (B.S. 1956) Chairman and CEO of International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) (1986-1993)
W. James (Jim) McNerney, Jr. (B.A. 1971) Chairman and CEO of Boeing (2005-present); Chairman and CEO of 3M Company (2001-2005)
J. Irwin Miller (B.A. 1931) Chairman of the board of Cummins Engine Co. (1951-1977)
Henry B. Schacht (B.S. 1956) Chairman and CEO of Cummins Engine Co., Inc. (1977-1995); Chairman and CEO of Lucent Technologies
(1995-1997, 2000-2002)
James H. Binger (B.A. 1938) Chairman of the board and CEO of Honeywell, Inc. (1965-1978)
John C. Bierwirth (B.A. 1947) Chairman and CEO of Grumman Corporation (1976-1988) [later Northrop Grumman]
H. Mansfield Horner (B.S. 1926) Chairman and CEO of United Aircraft Corporation (1956-1983)
William W. Boeschenstein (B.S. 1950) Chairman and CEO of Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corp. (1981-1990)
John D. Macomber (B.A. 1950) Chairman and CEO of Celanese Corp. (1980-1987)
Gordon Grand, Jr. (B.A. 1938, S&K 1938) Chairman (1966-1967) and President and CEO (1965-1972) of Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp.
C. William Verity Jr. (B.A. 1939) Chairman of the board of the Armco Steel Company (1971-1982)
Russell W. Meyer Jr. (B.A. 1954, S&B 1954) Chairman and CEO of Cessna Aircraft Co. (1975-2000, 2002-2003)
Thomas Wright Russell Jr. (B.A. 1939) President (1968-1970) and Chairman and CEO (1970) of American Brake Shoe Co. [Abex Corp.]
John Hancock Daniels (B.A. 1943, S&B 1943) Chairman of Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. (1967-1972)
Robert Guthrie Page (B.A. 1922, S&B 1922) Chairman of the board of Phelps Dodge Corporation (1967-1970)
Edwin M. Herr (Ph.B. 1884) President of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. (1911-1929)
H. Neil Mallon (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917) President of Dresser Industries, Inc. (1929-1958)
Francis Gordon Fabian Jr. (B.S. 1937) President of Dresser Industries, Inc. (1962-1965)
Charles Sherwood Munson (B.A. 1912) President of National Carbide Corp. (1919-1941)
Henry Stuart Harrison (B.A. 1932) Chairman of the board of Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co. (1974-1977)
Transportation and Retail:
Lewis Baldwin Parsons (B.A. 1840) President, Treasurer, and Attorney of Ohio and Mississippi Railroad (1854-1874)
W. Averell Harriman (B.A. 1913) Chairman of the Board of Union Pacific Railroad Co. (1932-1946)
E. Roland Harriman (B.A. 1917) Chairman of the Board of Union Pacific Railroad Co. (1946-1969)
Juan Terry Trippe (Ph.B. 1921) Chairman and CEO of Pan American World Airways, Inc. (1964-1968)
Downing Bland Jenks (B.S. 1937) Chairman (1972-1983) and President (1961-1972) of Missouri Pacific Railroad [St. Louis]
John Shedd Reed (B.S. 1939) President (1967-1978), CEO (1968-1982), and Chairman of the board (1973-1983) of Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railway
Gerald Grinstein (B.A. 1954) Chairman (1997-1999) CEO (2004-2007) of Delta Air Lines Inc.; Chairman and CEO of Burlington Northern
Railroad Co. (1990-1995)
Edward S. Lampert (B.A. 1984) Chairman of Sears Holdings Corp. (2005-present); Chairman of K-Mart (2003-2005)
Frederick W. Smith (B.A. 1966) Chairman and CEO of Federal Express [FedEx Corp.] (1975-present)
Charles Christian Haffner Jr. (B.A. 1919, S&B 1919) Chairman and CEO of R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. [Chicago printing firm] (1952-1964)
Gaylord Donnelley (B.A. 1931, S&B 1931) Chairman of the board of R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. [Chicago printing firm] (1964-1975)
Edward Parker Evans (B.A. 1964) Chairman and CEO of Macmillan, Inc. (1979-1989)
William Thompson Lusk (B.A. 1924, S&B 1924) President of Tiffany & Co. [New York City] (1955-1967)
Storer B. Lunt (B.A. 1921, S&B 1921) Chairman of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. (1958-c.1968)
Food and Medicine:
Gilbert Colgate (B.A. 1883) Chairman of the board of Colgate & Company (1925-1928); President of Colgate & Company (1920-1925)
Sidney Morse Colgate (B.A. 1885) Chairman of the board of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. (1928-1930)
Howard Heinz (B.A. 1900) President of H.J. Heinz Co. (1919-1941)
Ellsworth Bunker (B.A. 1916) Chairman of the board of National Sugar Refining Co. (1948-1951)
James A. Folger (B.A. 1922) President of Folger Coffee Co. (1936-1942)
Philip W. Pillsbury (B.A. 1924) Chairman of the board of The Pillsbury Co. (1952-1965)
Henry John Heinz II (B.A. 1931) Chairman of the board of H.J. Heinz Company (1959-1987)
Joseph F. Cullman III (B.A. 1935) Chairman and CEO of Philip Morris Company [i.e. Marlboro cigarettes] (1967-1978)
Charles Denston Dickey, Jr. (B.A. 1940) Chairman and CEO of Scott Paper Co. (1979-1981)
Richard L. Gelb (B.A. 1945) Chairman and CEO of Bristol-Myers Co. (1976-1994)
Roberto C. Goizueta (B.S. 1953) Chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola Co. (1981-1997)
William Wrigley (B.A. 1954) President and CEO of William Wrigley Jr. Co. (1961-c.1996)
Vernon R. Loucks, Jr. (B.A. 1957) Chairman and CEO of Baxter International Inc. (1987-1998)
John E. Pepper Jr. (B.A. 1960) Chairman of the board of Proctor & Gamble Co. (1995-2002)
Kenneth L. Wolfe (B.A. 1961) Chairman and CEO of Hershey Chocolate Co. (1994-2001)
Owsley Brown II (B.A. 1964) Chairman and CEO of Brown-Forman Corporation [i.e. Jack Daniels] (1995-2005)
Journalism and Media:
Jeffrey Bewkes (B.A. 1974) Chairman and CEO of Time Warner (2009-present); Chairman and CEO of Home Box Office (HBO) (1995-2002)
John E. Pepper Jr. (B.A. 1960) Chairman of the board of The Walt Disney Co. (2007-2012)
Eugene Meyer (B.A. 1895) Chairman of the board of The Washington Post Co. (1947-1959)
Whitelaw Reid (B.A. 1936) Chairman of the board of New York Herald Tribune (1955-1958)
Hart Lyman (B.A. 1873, S&K 1873) Editor-in-Chief of New York Tribune (1905-1913)
Joseph Medill Patterson (B.A. 1901, S&K 1901) Co-Editor and Publisher of The Chicago Tribune (1914-1925)
Henry R. Luce (B.A. 1920, S&B 1920) Editor-in-Chief of Time, Inc. (1923-1964); founder of Time and Life magazines
William F. Buckley, Jr. (B.A. 1950, S&B 1950) Editor-in-Chief of National Review magazine (1955-1990)
George Henry Soule Jr. (B.A. 1908) Editor of The New Republic magazine (1924-1947)
William P. Bundy (B.A. 1939, S&B 1939) Editor of Foreign Affairs magazine (1972-1984)
James F. Hoge Jr. (B.A. 1958) Editor of Foreign Affairs magazine (1992-2010); President of New York Daily News (1985-1991)
Gideon Rose (B.A. 1985) Editor of Foreign Affairs magazine (2010-present)
David Kruidenier (B.A. 1946) Chairman and CEO of Des Moines Register and Tribune (1982-1985)
Charles Merz (B.A. 1915) Editor of The New York Times (1938-1961)
Philip L. Geyelin (B.A. 1944) Editorial Page Editor of The Washington Post (1968-1979)
Hugh D.S. Greenway (B.A. 1958) Editorial Page Editor of The Boston Globe (1994-2000)
Walter H. Pincus (B.A. 1954) Washington Post reporter
Bob Woodward (B.A. 1965) Washington Post reporter (1971-present) and best-selling author
Robert Greeley Kaiser (B.A. 1964) Associate Editor and Senior Correspondent at The Washington Post (1998-present)
David A. Laventhol (B.A. 1957) Publisher and CEO of The Los Angeles Times (1989-1993); Publisher and CEO of Newsday (1978-1986)
Scott C. Smith (B.A. 1973) President, Publisher, and CEO of Chicago Tribune Co. (1997-2004, 2006-2008)
Ashton Phelps Jr. (B.A. 1967) President (1979-1997) and Publisher (1979-present) of Times-Picayune [New Orleans]
Peter B. Grose (B.A. 1957) Moscow Bureau Chief (1965-1967) and diplomatic correspondent (1967-1970) for The New York Times
Margaret G. Warner (B.A. 1971) PBS journalist
David Kissinger (B.A. 1983) President of Universal Network Television (1999-2004); Co-President of NBC Universal Television Studio (20042005); son of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
Prominent New York City (Wall Street) Lawyers:
John William Sterling (B.A. 1864, S&B 1864) Co-Founder and Member of Shearman & Sterling (1873-1918)
Allen Wardner Evarts (B.A. 1869) Member of Evarts, Choate & Sherman [and predecessor firms] [New York City] (1874-1939)
Robert Weeks de Forest (B.A. 1870, S&K 1870) Senior Member of deForest Brothers [law firm in New York City] (1893-1931)
Thomas Thacher (B.A. 1871, S&B 1871) Co-Founder and former Member of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett (1875-1919)
Thomas Townsend Sherman (B.A. 1874, LL.B. Columbia 1876) Member of Evarts, Choate & Sherman [and predecessor firms] (1875-1931)
John Anson Garver (B.A. 1875, S&K 1875) Partner (1884-1918) and Senior Partner (1918-1936) of Shearman & Sterling
Henry Wheeler de Forest (B.A. 1876, S&K 1876) Member of deForest Brothers [law firm in New York City] (1893-1932)
Henry Waters Taft (B.A. 1880, S&B 1880) Partner of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft (1899-1945)
Frederick Kingsbury Curtis (B.A. 1884) Member of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle [law firm in New York City] (1889-1926)
Henry L. Stimson (B.A. 1888, S&B 1888) Counsel of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1891-1906, 1913-1927, 1933-1940, 1945-1950)
George Coggill (B.A. 1889, S&K 1889) Member of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft (1918-1935)
Frank L. Polk (B.A. 1894, S&K 1894) Member of Davis, Polk, Wardwell (1914-1943)
Allen Wardwell (B.A. 1895, S&K 1895) Member of Davis, Polk, Wardwell (1909-1953)
Douglas Maxwell Moffat (B.A. 1903, LL.B. Harvard 1907) Partner of Cravath, Swaine & Moore [law firm in New York City] (1913-1956)
Thomas D. Thacher (B.A. 1904, S&B 1904) Partner of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett (1914-1925, 1933-1943)
George Roberts (B.A. 1905, LL.B. Harvard 1908) Partner of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1914-1968)
Walbridge Smith Taft (B.A. 1907) Partner of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft (1917-1951)
Chauncey Brewster Garver (B.A. 1908, S&K 1908) Partner of Shearman & Sterling (1917-1973)
Allen T. Klots (B.A. 1909, S&B 1909) Member of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1921-1965)
Dean G. Acheson (B.A. 1915, S&K 1915) Member of Covington & Burling [Washington, D.C.] (1921-1933, 1934-1941, 1953-1971)
Otis Treat Bradley (B.A. 1915; LL.B. Harvard 1919) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1930-1950)
Morris Hadley (B.A. 1916, S&B 1916) Partner of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy (1924-1979)
Eli Whitney Debevoise (B.A. 1921) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1931-1990)
John Archer Gifford (B.A. 1922, S&K 1922) Partner of White & Case [law firm in New York City] (1937-1972)
Charles M. Spofford (B.A. 1924, S&B 1924) Member of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1940-1950, 1952-1973)
Roswell L. Gilpatric (B.A. 1928, LL.B. 1931) Partner of Cravath, Swaine & Moore (1953-1961, 1964-1977)
Orville H. Schell, Jr. (B.A. 1930) Partner of Hughes, Hubbard & Reed (1942-1987)
Samuel Hazard Gillespie Jr. (B.A. 1932, LL.B. 1936, S&B 1932) Member of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1948-2011)
Lloyd N. Cutler (B.A. 1936) Partner of Wilmer Cutler Pickering (1962-1979, 1981-1990)
Cyrus R. Vance (B.A. 1939, LL.B. 1942, S&K 1939) Partner of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (1956-1961, 1967-1977, 1980-1998)
Stanley R. Resor (B.A. 1939, LL.B. 1946, S&K 1939) Member and Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1946-1965, 1971-1973, 1979-1987)
Robert Huntington Knight (B.A. 1940) Partner of Shearman & Sterling (1955-1958, 1962-1985)
William Eldred Jackson (B.A. 1941, S&B 1941) Partner of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy (1954-1999)
Peter O.A. Solbert (B.A. 1941, S&B 1941) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1957-1963, 1965-1989)
Harold H. Healy Jr. (B.A. 1943, S&B 1943) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1959-1989)
Robert B. von Mehren (B.A. 1943) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1957-1993)
William B. Matteson (B.A. 1950) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1961-1998)
Edward Snover Reid III (B.A. 1951, S&B 1951) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1964-1995)
Robert B. Fiske, Jr. (B.A. 1952) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1964-2010)
Robert S. Rifkind (B.A. 1958) Partner of Cravath, Swaine & Moore (1971-2001)
Alfred D. Youngwood (B.A. 1959) Partner (1970-2008) and Chairman (1999-2008) of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
Donaldson Clark Pillsbury (B.A. 1962, LL.B. 1967, S&K 1962) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell [law firm] (1972-1993)
Other Prominent Lawyers and General Counsels:
Robert Weeks de Forest (B.A. 1870, S&K 1870) General Counsel of Central Railroad of New Jersey (1874-1924)
Edwards Denmore Robbins (B.A. 1874, S&B 1874) General Counsel of New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (1907-1914)
James Mulford Townsend (B.A. 1874, S&B 1874) General Counsel of E.I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Company (1903-1913)
Chester Mitchell Dawes (B.A. 1876, S&B 1876) General Counsel of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company (1909-1917)
Louis Hood (B.A. 1878) General Counsel of Fidelity Mutual Trust Company [Newark, New Jersey] (1914-1932)
Lloyd Wheaton Bowers (B.A. 1879, S&B 1879) General Counsel of Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company (1893-1909)
Nathaniel Taylor Guernsey (B.A. 1881, LL.B 1883) General Counsel of American Telegraph & Telephone Co. [New York City] (1914-1926)
Edward Minott Shelton (B.A. 1890) Vice President and General Counsel of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company (1937-1938)
Leonard Bacon Smith (B.A. 1894) General Counsel of American Can Company (1933-1946)
James Earnest Cooper (B.A. 1895) Vice President and General Counsel of Stanley Works (hardware, tool, steel manufacturers) (1921-1943)
William Southworth Miller (B.A. 1896, S&K 1896) Vice President and General Counsel of Northern Trust Company [Chicago] (1918-1945)
Augustus Wilson Clapp (B.A. 1898) Vice President and General Counsel of Weyerhaeuser Timber Company [Tacoma, WA] (1932-1946)
Darius Edward Peck (B.A. 1898) Vice President and General Counsel of General Electric Company (1929-1944)
Lorenzo Dibble Armstrong (B.A. 1899) General Counsel of West Indies Sugar Corporation (1932-1947)
Samuel Anderson Gilmore (B.A. 1899) General Counsel of West Penn Railways Company (1905-1913)
Samuel Woodson Sawyer (B.A. 1899) General Counsel of Kansas City Terminal Railway Company (1918-1949)
Guy Wellman (B.A. 1899) General Counsel of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey [Exxon] (1935-1941)
Ralph Ernest Rogers (B.A. 1901) General Counsel of Witherbee, Sherman & Company [iron ore and pig iron, New York City] (1917-1926)
Benjamin Robbins Curtis Low (B.A. 1902) General Counsel of Home Life Insurance Company (1928-1941)
Abel Cary Thomas (B.A. 1905) General Counsel and Secretary of Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. (1923-1936)
Roger Benton Hull (B.A. 1907) Managing Director and General Counsel of The National Association of Life Underwriters (1927-1942)
James Benton Grant (B.A. 1909, S&K 1909) Vice President and General Counsel of American Crystal Sugar Company (1932-1947)
Louis S. Weiss (B.A. 1915) General Counsel of Chicago Sun-Times (1941-1948)
Louis Melville Loeb (B.A. 1919) General Counsel of The New York Times Co. (1948-1967)
James Murdock Fulton (B.S. 1935, LL.B. 1938) General Counsel (1961-1974) and Secretary (1970-1976) of Merck & Co.
David C. Acheson (B.A. 1942, S&B 1943) General Counsel of Communications Satellite Corp. (1967-1974)
Burke Marshall (B.A. 1943, LL.B. 1951) General Counsel of IBM Corp. (1965-1969)
Norman Bristol (B.A. 1944) General Counsel of Kellogg Co. [cereal company] (1964-1978)
Brooks Thomas (B.A. 1953) General Counsel of Harper & Row, Publishing, Inc. (1968-1973)
James C. Goodale (B.A. 1955) General Counsel of The New York Times Co. (1967-1973)
Jonathan M. Clark (B.A. 1959) General Counsel of Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. (1993-1997)
Michael S. Wilder (B.A. 1963) General Counsel of The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (1995-2001)
William J. Bowe (B.A. 1964) General Counsel of Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. [Chicago] (1986-present)
Philip R. Lochner, Jr. (B.A. 1964) General Counsel of Time, Inc. (1988-1990)
Carl Krasik (B.A. 1966) General Counsel of Bank of New York Mellon (2007-present)
Stephen F. Gates (B.A. 1968) General Counsel of ConocoPhillips (2003-2007); General Counsel of Amoco Corp. (1995-1998)
Roderick A. Palmore (B.A. 1974) General Counsel of Sara Lee Corp. (1999-2008); General Counsel of General Mills, Inc. (2008-present)
Stephen M. Cutler (B.A. 1982, J.D. 1985) Executive Vice President and General Counsel of JP Morgan Chase & Co. (Feb. 2007-present)
Mansfield Ferry (B.A. 1903) General Counsel of the Alien Property Custodian in Washington, D.C. (January 1, 1919-September 15, 1919)
Joseph Martin Jr. (B.A. 1936; LL.B. 1939) General Counsel of Federal Trade Commission (1970-1971)
Cyrus R. Vance (B.A. 1939, LL.B. 1942, S&K 1939) General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Defense (1961-1962)
Gaspard dAndelot Belin (B.A. 1939; LL.B. 1946, S&B 1939) General Counsel of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (1962-1965)
Robert Huntington Knight (B.A. 1940) General Counsel of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (1961-1962)
John M. Steadman (B.A. 1952, S&B 1952) General Counsel of the Department of the Air Force (1968-1970)
Edward C. Schmults (B.S. 1953) General Counsel of U.S. Treasury Department (1973-1974)
Anthony A. Lapham (B.A. 1958) General Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency (1976-1979)
William H. Taft IV (B.A. 1966) General Counsel of the Department of Defense (1981-1984)
William F. Kroener, III (B.A. 1967) General Counsel of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation [FDIC] (1995-2006)
Elisse B. Walter (B.A. 1971) former General Counsel of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Grover Joseph Rees III (B.A. 1973?) General Counsel of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (1991-1993)
Andrew J. Pincus (B.A. 1977) General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Commerce (1997-2000)
Stephen W. Preston (B.A. 1979) General Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency (2009-2013); General Counsel of the U.S. Department
of Defense (2013-present)
Stevan E. Bunnell (B.A. 1982) General Counsel of U.S. Department of Homeland Security (2013-present)
Neal S. Wolin (B.A. 1983, J.D. 1988) General Counsel of the Treasury Department (1999-2001)
George L. Harrison (B.A. 1910, S&B 1910) General Counsel of the Federal Reserve Board (1919-1920)
John D. Hawke Jr. (B.A. 1954) General Counsel of the Federal Reserve Board (1975-1978)
Walter Seth Logan (B.A. 1910, S&B 1910) General Counsel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1928-1953)
Edward T. Foote II (B.A. 1959) Vice Chancellor and General Counsel of Washington University in St. Louis (1970-1973)
Marvin Krislov (B.A. 1982, J.D. 1988, RS) Vice President and General Counsel of the University of Michigan (1998-2007)
Clayton Chauncey Dorsey (B.A. 1890) lawyer in Denver (1893-1937); general counsel of Union Pacific Railroad Company, First National
Bank of Denver, International Trust Company, Denver City Tramway Company, and Denver Union Terminal Railway Company
Ralph Martin Shaw (B.A. 1890) lawyer in Chicago (1892-1949); general counsel of Chicago River and Indiana Railroad Company, Chicago
Great Western Railway, Chicago Junction Railway Company, Pullman Company, and Chicago Breweries, Ltd.
College Presidents:
Jonathan Dickinson (B.A. 1706) inaugural President of Princeton University (1747)
Rev. Dr. Samuel Johnson (B.A. 1716) inaugural President of Columbia University (1754-1763)
The Rev. Eleazar Wheelock (B.A. 1733) inaugural President of Dartmouth College (1769-1779)
Abraham Baldwin (B.A. 1772) inaugural President of University of Georgia (1786-1800)
Ebenezer Fitch (B.A. 1777, valedictorian) inaugural President of Williams College (1793-1815)
Jeremiah Atwater (B.A. 1793) inaugural President of Middlebury College (1800-1809); President of Dickinson College (1809-1815)
Azel Backus (B.A. 1787) inaugural President of Hamilton College (1812-1816)
John H. Lathrop (B.A. 1819) inaugural President of University of Missouri (1841-1849, 1865-1866); inaugural Chancellor of University of
Wisconsin (1849-1858); President of Indiana University (1859-1860)
Andrew D. White (B.A. 1853, S&B 1853) inaugural President of Cornell University (1866-1885)
Henry Durant (B.A. 1827) inaugural President of University of California at Berkeley (1870-1872)
Daniel C. Gilman (B.A. 1852, S&B 1852) inaugural President of Johns Hopkins University (1875-1901); President of University of California
at Berkeley (1872-1875)
William Preston Johnston (B.A. 1852, S&B 1852) inaugural President of Tulane University (1884-1899)
John Wesley Johnson (B.A. 1862) inaugural President of University of Oregon (1876-1893)
Edmund Asa Ware (B.A. 1863) inaugural President of Atlanta University [Georgia] (1867-1885)
William Rainey Harper (Ph.D. 1875) inaugural President of the University of Chicago (1891-1906)
Aaron Lucius Chapin (B.A. 1837) inaugural President of Beloit College [Wisconsin] (1849-1886)
William Samuel Johnson (B.A. 1744) President of Columbia University (1787-1800)
Frederick A.P. Barnard (B.A. 1828) President of Columbia University (1864-1889); President of University of Mississippi (1856-1858)
Aaron Burr Sr. (B.A. 1735) President of Princeton University (1747-1757)
Jonathan Edwards (B.A. 1720) President of Princeton University (1758)
Ray Lorenzo Heffner, Jr. (B.A. 1945, Ph.D. 1953) President of Brown University (1966-1969)
Bennet Tyler (B.A. 1804) President of Dartmouth College (1822-1828)
William Heathcote DeLancey (B.A. 1817) Provost of University of Pennsylvania (1828-1833)
Charles Janeway Stille (B.A. 1839, S&B 1839) Provost of University of Pennsylvania (1868-1880)
Edward Dorr Griffin (B.A. 1790) President of Williams College (1821-1836)
Harry C. Payne (B.A. 1969, Ph.D. 1973) President of Williams College (1994-1999); President of Hamilton College (1988-1993)
Henry Davis (B.A. 1796) President of Hamilton College (1817-1833); President of Middlebury College (1809-1817)
Sereno Edwards Dwight (B.A. 1803) President of Hamilton College (1833-1835)
Simeon North (B.A. 1825, valedictorian) President of Hamilton College (1839-1857)
Samuel Ware Fisher (B.A. 1835) President of Hamilton College (1858-1866)
Heman Humphrey (B.A. 1805) President of Amherst College (1823-1845)
Tom Gerety (B.A. 1969, J.D. 1976, Ph.D. 1976) President of Amherst College (1994-2003)
Anthony W. Marx (B.A. 1981) President of Amherst College (2003-2011)
Paul Dwight Moody (B.A. 1901) President of Middlebury College (1921-1942)
Martin Kellogg (B.A. 1850) President of University of California at Berkeley (1890-1899)
Robert Maynard Hutchins (B.A. 1921) President of University of Chicago (1929-1945)
Josiah Meigs (B.A. 1778) President of University of Georgia (1801-1810)
Samuel Austin (B.A. 1783) President of University of Vermont (1815-1821)
Daniel Haskel (B.A. 1802) President of University of Vermont (1821-1824)
William Maxwell (B.A. 1802) President of Hampden-Sydney College [Virginia] (1838-1845)
David A. Sherman (B.A. 1802) President of University of Tennessee [formerly East Tennessee College] (1820-1825)
Horace Holley (B.A. 1803) President of Transylvania University [Kentucky] (1818-1827)
Abraham B. Hasbrouck (B.A. 1810) President of Rutgers College (1840-1850)
David Bates Douglass (B.A. 1813) President of Kenyon College (1840-1844)
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (B.A. 1813) President of Emory College [Atlanta, Georgia] (1840-1848); President of University of Mississippi
(1849-1856); President of University of South Carolina (1857-1861)
Nathaniel Sheldon Wheaton (B.A. 1814) President of Trinity College [Hartford, Connecticut] (1831-1837)
George Edmond Pierce (B.A. 1816) President of Western Reserve University [Cleveland, Ohio] (1834-1855)
Thomas M. Smith (B.A. 1816) President of Kenyon College [Ohio] (1850-1854)
Hector Humphreys (B.A. 1818) President of St. Johns College [Annapolis, Maryland] (1831-1857)
Thomas Winthrop Coit (B.A. 1821) President of Transylvania University [Kentucky] (1834-1837)
Julian M. Sturtevant (B.A. 1826) President of Illinois College [Jacksonville, Illinois] (1844-1876)
William Wilson Hudson (B.A. 1827) President of University of Missouri (1856-1859)
Henry Barnard (B.A. 1830) Chancellor of Univ. of Wisconsin (1858-1860); President of St. Johns College [Annapolis, Maryland] (1866-1867)
Henry Lawrence Hitchcock (B.A. 1832) President of Western Reserve University [Cleveland, Ohio] (1855-1871)
George Wilson McPhail (B.A. 1835) President of Davidson College (1866-1871); former President of Lafayette College
George Thacher (B.A. 1840) President of the University of Iowa (1871-1877)
Homer B. Sprague (B.A. 1852, S&K 1852, valedictorian) President of University of North Dakota (1887-1891)
Carroll Cutler (B.A. 1854, S&B 1854) President of Western Reserve University (1871-1886)
Cyrus Northrop (B.A. 1857, LL.B. 1859, S&B 1857) President of University of Minnesota (1884-1911)
Horace Bumstead (B.A. 1863) President of Atlanta University (1888-1907)
Austin Scott (B.A. 1869) President of Rutgers College (1891-1906)
Oscar Henry Cooper (B.A. 1872) President of Baylor University [Waco, Texas] (1899-1902)
Webster Merrifield (B.A. 1877) President of University of North Dakota (1891-1909)
David H. Buel (B.A. 1883) President of Georgetown University (1905-1908)
John Franklin Crowell (B.A. 1883) President of Trinity College [later Duke University] (1887-1894)
David Kinley (B.A. 1884) President of University of Illinois (1920-1930)
Frank Strong (B.A. 1884) President of University of Oregon (1899-1902); Chancellor of University of Kansas (1902-1920)
George E. Vincent (B.A. 1885, S&K 1885) President of University of Minnesota (1911-1917)
Edward Twichell Ware (B.A. 1897) President of Atlanta University (1907-1922)
James L. McConaughy (B.A. 1909) President of Wesleyan University (1925-1943)
Arthur Howe (B.A. 1912, S&B 1912) President of Hampton Institute [later Hampton University, Virginia] (1931-1940)
Robert L. Johnson (B.A. 1918) President of Temple University (1941-1959)
Richard Daniel Weigle (B.A. 1931, Ph.D. 1939) President of St. Johns College [Annapolis, Maryland] (1949-1980)
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall II (B.A. 1932, Ph.D. 1938) President of Smith College (1959-1975)
J. Quigg Newton Jr. (B.A. 1933, LL.B. 1936, S&B 1933) President of University of Colorado (1956-1963)
Douglas M. Knight (B.A 1942) President of Duke University (1963-1969)
Phillip Raymond Shriver (B.A. 1943) President of Miami University [Ohio] (1965-1981)
Homer D. Babbidge, Jr. (B.A. 1945, Ph.D. 1953, S&K 1946) President of the University of Connecticut (1962-1972)
George Dennis OBrien (B.A. 1952) President of Bucknell University (1976-1984); President of University of Rochester (1984-1994)
Richard L. Van Horn (B.S. 1954) President of University of Oklahoma (1989-1994); President of University of Houston (1983-1989)
Edward T. Foote II (B.A. 1959) President of the University of Miami [Florida] (1981-2001)
Douglas M. North (B.A. 1962) President of Alaska Pacific University [Anchorage, Alaska] (1995-2009)
James J. Duderstadt (B.E. 1964) President of University of Michigan (1988-1996)
Russell K. Osgood (B.A. 1969, J.D. 1974) President of Grinnell College (1998-2010)
Dale T. Knobel (B.A. 1971) President of Denison University (1998-2013)
Joseph Gibson Hoyt (B.A. 1840, S&B 1840) Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis (1858-1862)
William Chauvenet (B.A. 1840, S&B 1840) Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis (1862-1869)
Ethan A.H. Shepley (B.A. 1918, S&K 1918) Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis (1953-1961)
James O. Putnam (B.A. 1839, S&B 1839) Chancellor of University of Buffalo (1895-1902)
Wilson Shannon Bissell (B.A. 1869, S&B 1869) Chancellor of University of Buffalo (1902-1903)
David L. Boren (B.A. 1963, S&B 1963) President of University of Oklahoma (1994-present)
Richard H. Brodhead (B.A. 1968, Ph.D. 1972) President of Duke University (2004-present)
Kurt L. Schmoke (B.A. 1971) President of University of Baltimore (2014-present)
Karen R. Lawrence (B.A. 1971) President of Sarah Lawrence College (2007-present)
Steven Knapp (B.A. 1973) President of George Washington University (2007-present)
Marvin Krislov (B.A. 1982, J.D. 1988) President of Oberlin College (2007-present)
Year
1701-1707
1707-1719
1719-1726
1726-1740
1740-1766
1766-1778
1778-1795
1795-1817
1817-1846
1846-1871
1871-1886
1886-1899
1899-1921
1921-1937
1937-1950
1950-1963
1963-1977
1977 [Acting]
1978-1986
1986-1992
1992 [Acting]
1993-2013
2013-present
Degree
B.A. Harvard 1668
B.A. Harvard 1675
B.A. Harvard 1701
B.A. Harvard 1711
B.A. Harvard 1722
B.A. Yale 1748
B.A. Yale 1746
B.A. Yale 1769
B A. Yale 1795
B.A. Yale 1820
B.A. Yale 1831
B.A. Yale 1849
B.A. Yale 1876
B.A. Univ. of Michigan 1890
B.A. Yale 1908; Ph.D. Yale 1911
B.A. Yale 1929; Ph.D. Yale 1933
B.A. Yale 1941
Ph.D. Harvard 1957
B.A. Yale 1960
B.A. Yale 1963
Ph.D. Yale 1951
Ph.D. Yale 1974
Ph.D. Yale 1986
Richard J. Urowsky (B.A. 1967; J.D. 1972) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell [law firm in New York City] (1980-2014)
Bill Clinton (J.D. 1973) President of the United States (1993-2001); Governor of Arkansas (1979-1981, 1983-1992)
Hillary Clinton (J.D. 1973) U.S. Secretary of State (2009-2013); U.S. Senator (2001-2009); First Lady of the United States (1993-2001)
Robert B. Reich (J.D. 1973) U.S. Secretary of Labor (1993-1997)
Richard Blumenthal (J.D. 1973) Attorney General of Connecticut (1991-2011); U.S. Senator (2011-present)
Bruce Andrew Morrison (J.D. 1973) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Connecticut, 1983-1991)
Fred T. Goldberg Jr. (B.A. 1969, J.D. 1973) Commissioner of Internal Revenue Service (1989-1992)
Robert D. McCallum Jr. (B.A. 1968, J.D. 1973, S&B 1968, RS) U.S. Ambassador to Australia (2006-2009)
Samuel H. Mays Jr. (J.D. 1973) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee (2002-present)
Samuel Alito (J.D. 1975) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (2006-present)
Anthony T. Kronman (J.D. 1975) Dean of Yale Law School (1994-2004)
William A. Fletcher (J.D. 1975) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1998-present)
Richard R. Clifton (J.D. 1975) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (2002-present)
Ransey Guy Cole, Jr. (J.D. 1975) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (1995-present)
William Duane Benton (J.D. 1975) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (2004-present)
Michael A. Ponsor (J.D. 1975) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (1994-2011)
Yale Doctorates and Other Graduate Students:
William Rainey Harper (Ph.D. 1875) inaugural President of the University of Chicago (1891-1906)
Morihiro Ichihara (Ph.D. 1892) Mayor of Yokohama, Japan (1903-1906); President of the Bank of Chosen at Seoul, Korea (1909-1915)
Frank LeRond McVey (Ph.D. 1895) President of University of North Dakota (1909-1917); President of University of Kentucky (1917-1940)
Andrew Sledd (Ph.D. 1903) President of University of Florida (1904-1909)
Marion Leroy Burton (Ph.D. 1907) President of University of Minnesota (1917-1920); President of University of Michigan (1920-1925)
Isaiah Bowman (Ph.D. 1908) President of Johns Hopkins University (1935-1948)
Howard B. Jefferson (Ph.D. 1929) President of Clark University (1946-1967)
John Scott Everton (Ph.D. 1938) U.S. Ambassador to Burma (1961-1963)
Raymond L. Garthoff (Ph.D. 1951) U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria (1977-1979)
Francis Sheldon Hackney (Ph.D. 1963) President of University of Pennsylvania (1981-1993); President of Tulane University (1975-1980)
Carol T. Christ (Ph.D. 1970) President of Smith College (2002-present)
Andrew A. Sorensen (Ph.D. 1971) President of University of Alabama (1996-2002); President of University of South Carolina (2002-2008)
Janet L. Yellen (Ph.D. 1971) Chairman of the Federal Reserve (2014-present); Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve (2010-2014);
President of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (2004-2010); Member of the Federal Reserve Board (1994-1997)
Richard C. Levin (Ph.D. 1974) President of Yale University (1993-2013)
Ernesto Zedillo (Ph.D. 1981) President of Mexico (1994-2000)
Peter Salovey (Ph.D. 1986) President of Yale University (2013-present); Provost of Yale University (2008-2013)
John C. Danforth (B.D. 1963) U.S. Representative to the United Nations (2004-2005), U.S. Senator from Missouri (1976-1995)
H.H. Kung (M.A. 1907) Governor of the Central Bank of China (1933-1945); Minister of Finance of the Republic of China (1933-1945)
Members of Wolfs Head
Thacher M. Brown (WH 1897) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1954)
Moreau Delano Brown (WH 1926) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1939-1974)
Thomas McCance (WH 1925) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1945-1979)
R.L. Ireland III (WH 1942) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1960-c.1994)
William Clay Ford Sr. (WH 1948) former Owner of Detroit Lions; Henry Fords grandson
Philip W. Pillsbury (WH 1924) Chairman of the board of The Pillsbury Co. (1952-1965)
John I. Howell (WH 1939) former Chairman of the board of J. Henry Schroder Banking Corp.
William W. Boeschenstein (WH 1950) Chairman and CEO of Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corp. (1981-1990)
Malcolm Baldrige (WH 1944) U.S. Secretary of Commerce (1981-1987)
Rogers C.B. Morton (WH 1937) U.S. Secretary of the Interior (1971-1975); U.S. Secretary of Commerce (1975-1976)
Thruston B. Morton (WH 1929) U.S. Senator (1957-1968); Chairman of Republican National Committee (1959-1961)
Mark Dayton (WH 1969) U.S. Senator (2001-2007)
Edwin A. Merritt (WH 1884) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1912-1914)
Douglas MacArthur II (WH 1931) U.S. Ambassador to Japan (1957-1961); U.S. Ambassador to Iran (1969-1972)
John M. Walker Jr. (WH 1962) Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2000-2006)
Norman S. Paul (WH 1940) Under Secretary of the Air Force (1965-1967)
John B. Rhinelander (WH 1955) Under Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (1975-1977)
John Fuller Appleton Merrill (WH 1889) United States Attorney for the District of Maine (1915-1922)
Kurt Schmoke (WH 1971) Mayor of Baltimore, Maryland (1987-1999)
Erastus Corning II (WH 1932) Mayor of Albany, New York (1941-1983)
Robert M. Hutchins (WH 1921) President of University of Chicago (1929-1945)
A. Whitney Griswold (WH 1929) President of Yale University (1950-1963)
Benno C. Schmidt Jr. (WH 1963) President of Yale University (1986-1992)
Robert B. Fiske, Jr. (WH 1952) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1964-2010); Independent Counsel for Whitewater Investigation (1994);
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (1976-1980)
Rashid I. Khalidi (WH 1970) Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University
William H.T. Bush (WH 1960) George H.W. Bushs brother; President George W. Bushs uncle
Lewis E. Lehrman (WH 1960) President of Rite Aid Corp. (1969-1977)
Paul Moore, Jr. (WH 1941) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of New York (1972-1989)
Yale University Graduates and Their Occupations during Major Events in American and World History
Yale University Graduates and Their Occupation during the Revolutionary War (1775-1781)
Rev. Naphtali Daggett (B.A. 1748) President of Yale University (1766-1778)
Rev. Ezra Stiles (B.A. 1746) President of Yale University (1778-1795)
Rev. Eleazar Wheelock (B.A. 1733) inaugural President of Dartmouth College (1769-1779)
John Trumbull (B.A. 1767) Treasurer of Yale University (1776-1782)
Elihu Spencer (B.A. 1746) Trustee of Princeton University (1752-1784)
Rev. Samuel Hopkins (B.A. 1741) Minister of the First Congregationalist Church in Newport, Rhode Island (1770-1803)
Rev. Elizur Goodrich (B.A. 1752) Pastor of the Congregational Church in Durham, Connecticut (1756-1797); Secretary of Yale University
(1777-1788); father of former U.S. Senator Chauncey Goodrich
Rev. Benjamin Trumbull (B.A. 1759) Pastor of the Congregational Church in North Haven, Connecticut (1760-1820)
Rev. Nathanel Emmons (B.A. 1767) Pastor of the Congregational Church in Franklin, Massachusetts (1773-1827); lifelong Federalist
Jeremiah Leaming (B.A. 1745) Minister of Trinity Church in Newport, Rhode Island (1748-1758); Minister of St. Pauls Church in Norwalk,
Connecticut (1758-1777)
Nathan Hale (B.A. 1773) Continental Army spy; executed by the British Army in New York City on Sunday, September 22, 1776
William Livingston (B.A. 1741) Governor of New Jersey (1776-1790)
Nathan Brownson (B.A. 1761) Governor of Georgia (1781-1782)
Darius Sessions (B.A. 1737) Deputy Governor of Rhode Island (1769-1775)
Jabez Bowen Jr. (B.A. 1757) Deputy Governor of Rhode Island (1778-1780, 1781-1786); Member of Rhode Island General Assembly (1777)
John Morin Scott (B.A. 1746) Secretary of State of New York (1778-1784); Member of New York State Senate (1777-1782)
George Wyllys (B.A. 1729) Secretary of the Colony of Connecticut (1734-1796); Town Clerk of Hartford, Connecticut (1732-1796)
Thomas Seymour (B.A. 1755) Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut (June 18, 1774-May 28, 1812)
Richard Law (B.A. 1751) Chief Judge of New London County Court, Connecticut (1773-1784)
John S. Hobart (B.A. 1757) Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York (1777-1798)
Titus Hosmer (B.A. 1757) Member (1773-1778) and Speaker (1776, 1778) of Connecticut State House of Representatives; Member of
Connecticut State Senate (1778-1780); Judge of the United States Maritime Court of Appeals (1780)
Benjamin Huntington (B.A.1761) Member (1771-1780) and Speaker (1778-1779) of Connecticut State House of Representatives
Andrew Adams (B.A. 1760) Member (1776-1781) and Speaker (1779-1780) of Connecticut State House of Representatives
Joseph Platt Cooke (B.A. 1750) Member of Connecticut State House of Representatives (1776, 1778, 1780-1782, 1784)
Amasa Learned (B.A. 1772) Member of Connecticut State House of Representatives (1779, 1785-1791)
Lewis Morris (B.A. 1746) New York State Senator (1777-1781, 1784-1788)
Philip Livingston (B.A. 1737) Member of New York State Assembly (1776); New York State Senator (1777)
Ezra LHommedieu (B.A. 1754) Member of New York State Assembly (1777-1783)
Signers of the Declaration of Independence (1776):
Philip Livingston (B.A. 1737) Member of New York State Assembly (1776); New York State Senator (1777)
Lewis Morris (B.A. 1746) New York State Senator (1777-1781, 1784-1788)
Lyman Hall (B.A. 1747) Governor of Georgia (1783-1784)
Oliver Wolcott (B.A. 1747) Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (1786-1796); Governor of Connecticut (1796-1797)
Signers of the U.S. Constitution (1787)
William Livingston (B.A. 1741) Governor of New Jersey (1776-1790)
William Samuel Johnson (B.A. 1744) President of Columbia University (1787-1800)
Abraham Baldwin (B.A. 1772) President of University of Georgia (1786-1800)
Members of the Continental Congress (1774-1787):
William Livingston (B.A. 1741) Member of the Continental Congress (New Jersey, July 23, 1774-June 22, 1776); Delegate to the Federal
Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787; Signer of the Constitution
Silas Deane (B.A. 1758) Member of the Continental Congress (Connecticut, 1774-1776); negotiated and signed the treaty between France
and the United States in Paris on February 6, 1778
Eliphalet Dyer (B.A. 1740) Member of the Continental Congress (Connecticut, 1774-1779, 1782-1783)
Lewis Morris (B.A. 1746) Member of the Continental Congress (New York, 1775-1777); Signer of the Declaration of Independence
Philip Livingston (B.A. 1737) Member of the Continental Congress (New York, 1775-1778); Signer of the Declaration of Independence
Lyman Hall (B.A. 1747) Member of the Continental Congress (Georgia, 1775-1777); Signer of the Declaration of Independence
Oliver Wolcott (B.A. 1747) Member of the Continental Congress (Connecticut, 1776-1778, 1780-1783); Signer of the Declaration of
Independence
Nathan Brownson (B.A. 1761) Member of the Continental Congress (Georgia, 1777)
Richard Law (B.A. 1751) Member of the Continental Congress (Connecticut, 1777, 1781-1782)
Titus Hosmer (B.A. 1757) Member of the Continental Congress (Connecticut, 1778)
Andrew Adams (B.A. 1760) Member of the Continental Congress (Connecticut, 1778); Signer of the Articles of Confederation in 1778
Ezra LHommedieu (B.A. 1754) Member of the Continental Congress (New York, 1779-1783, 1788)
Jared Ingersoll (B.A. 1766) Member of the Continental Congress (Pennsylvania, 1780); Member of the United States Constitutional
Convention (1787)
John Morin Scott (B.A. 1746) Member of the Continental Congress (New York, 1780-1782)
Benjamin Huntington (B.A. 1761) Member of the Continental Congress (Connecticut, 1780, 1782, 1783, 1788)
James Wadsworth (B.A. 1748) Member of the Continental Congress (Connecticut, 1784)
Joseph Platt Cooke (B.A. 1750) Member of the Continental Congress (Connecticut, 1784-1785, 1787-1788)
Stephen Mix Mitchell (B.A. 1763) Member of the Continental Congress (Connecticut, 1785-1788)
Abraham Baldwin (B.A. 1772) Member of the Continental Congress (Georgia, 1785, 1787, 1788); Member of the United States Constitutional
Convention (1787)
Yale University Graduates and Their Occupation during the First Barbary War (1801-1805)
Government Officials:
Gideon Granger (B.A. 1787) Postmaster-General of the United States (1801-1814)
Richard Law (B.A. 1751) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (1789-1806)
John S. Hobart (B.A. 1757) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New York (1798-1805)
Uriah Tracy (B.A. 1778) U.S. Senator (Federalist-Connecticut, 1796-1807)
James Hillhouse (B.A. 1773) U.S. Senator (Federalist-Connecticut, 1796-1810)
Stephen R. Bradley (B.A. 1775) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-Vermont, 1791-1795; 1801-1813)
Nathaniel Chipman (B.A. 1777) U.S. Senator (Federalist-Vermont, 1797-1803)
Israel Smith (B.A. 1781) U.S. Senator (Republican-Vermont, 1803-1807); U.S. Congressman (Republican-Vermont, 1791-1797, 1801-1803)
Simeon Olcott (B.A. 1761) U.S. Senator (Federalist-New Hampshire, 1801-1805)
Christopher Ellery (B.A. 1787) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-Rhode Island, 1801-1805)
Abraham Baldwin (B.A. 1772) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-Georgia, 1799-1807)
Roger Griswold (B.A. 1780) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-Connecticut, 1795-1805)
Samuel W. Dana (B.A. 1775) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-Connecticut, 1797-1810)
John Davenport (B.A. 1770) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-Connecticut, 1799-1817)
John Cotton Smith (B.A. 1783) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-Connecticut, 1800-1806)
Benjamin Tallmadge (B.A. 1773) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-Connecticut, 1801-1817)
Elias Perkins (B.A. 1786) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-Connecticut, 1801-1803)
Simeon Baldwin (B.A. 1781) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-Connecticut, 1803-1805)
John Paterson (B.A. 1762) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New York, 1803-1805)
Gaylord Griswold (B.A. 1787) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-New York, 1803-1805)
Henry Walter Livingston (B.A. 1786) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-New York, 1803-1807)
Manasseh Cutler (B.A. 1765) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-Massachusetts, 1801-1805)
John Treadwell (B.A. 1767) Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (1797-1809)
Thomas Seymour (B.A. 1755) Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut (June 18, 1774-May 28, 1812)
Elizur Goodrich (B.A. 1779) Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut (1803-1822); Member of Connecticut State House of Rep. (1795-1802)
Richard Law (B.A. 1751) Mayor of New London, Connecticut (1784-1806)
Asher Miller (B.A. 1778) Mayor of Middletown, Connecticut (1791-1821)
Jonathan Sturges (B.A. 1759) Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut (1793-1805)
Stephen M. Mitchell (B.A. 1763) Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut (1795-1807)
Zephaniah Swift (B.A. 1778) Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut (1801-1814)
John Trumbull (B.A. 1767) Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut (1801-1819)
Jonathan Ogden Moseley (B.A. 1780) States Attorney of Middlesex County, Connecticut (1801-1805)
Lewis Burr Sturges (B.A. 1782) Member of the Connecticut State House of Representatives (1794-1803)
Timothy Pitkin (B.A. 1785) Member of the Connecticut State House of Representatives (1790, 1792, 1794-1805, 1819-1830); Speaker of the
Connecticut State House of Representatives (1803-1805)
Alexander Wolcott (B.A. 1778) Collector of the Port of Middletown, Connecticut (1801-1828)
Paul Mumford (B.A. 1754) Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island (1803-1805)
Jeremiah Mason (B.A. 1788) Attorney General of New Hampshire (1802-1805)
Return J. Meigs, Jr. (B.A. 1785) Chief Judge of the Ohio Supreme Court (1803-1804)
Samuel Huntington (B.A. 1785) Judge of the Ohio Supreme Court (1803-1808)
Stephen Jacob (B.A. 1778) Judge of the Supreme Court of Vermont (1801-1803)
Simeon Strong (B.A. 1756) Judge of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts (1801-1805)
Theodore Sedgwick (B.A. 1765) Judge of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts (1802-1813)
Daniel Lyman (B.A. 1776) Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court (1802-1816)
James Kent (B.A. 1781) Justice of the Supreme Court of New York (1798-1804)
Ezra LHommedieu (B.A. 1754) Member of New York State Senate (1784-1792, 1794-1809); Regent of the University of the State of New
York (1787-1811)
College Presidents and Church Leaders:
Rev. Timothy Dwight (elder) (B.A. 1769) President of Yale University (1795-1817)
Ebenezer Fitch (B.A. 1777, valedictorian) inaugural President of Williams College [Massachusetts] (1793-1815)
Jeremiah Atwater (B.A. 1793) inaugural President of Middlebury College [Vermont] (1800-1809)
Josiah Meigs (B.A. 1778) President of University of Georgia (1801-1810)
Abraham Jarvis (B.A. 1761) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut (1797-1813)
Samuel Hopkins (B.A. 1741) Minister of the First Congregationalist Church in Newport, Rhode Island (1770-1803)
Samuel Austin (B.A. 1783) Pastor of the First Congregational Church in Worcester, Massachusetts (1790-1815)
Abiel Holmes (B.A. 1783) Minister of First [Congregational] Church in Cambridge, Mass. (1792-1829); father of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Rev. Nathanel Emmons (B.A. 1767) Pastor of the Congregational Church in Franklin, Massachusetts (1773-1827)
Rev. Benjamin Trumbull (B.A. 1759) Pastor of the Congregational Church in North Haven, Connecticut (1760-1820)
Others:
Oliver Wolcott Jr. (B.A. 1778) partner of Oliver Wolcott & Company in New York City [involved in the China trade] (1803-1805); Judge of the
U.S. Circuit Court for the Second Circuit [New York City] (February 20, 1801-July 1, 1802)
Eli Whitney (B.A. 1792) inventor of the cotton gin
Note: 7 U.S. Senators and 8 Congressmen at the beginning of the First Barbary War were Yale graduates.
Note: 6 of 7 Congressmen representing Connecticut at the beginning of the First Barbary War in 1801 were Yale graduates.
Yale University Graduates and Their Occupation during the War of 1812 (1812-1815) and Second Barbary War (1815)
Government Officials from Connecticut:
Samuel W. Dana (B.A. 1775) U.S. Senator (F-Connecticut, 1810-1821)
Chauncey Goodrich (B.A. 1776) U.S. Senator (F-Connecticut, 1807-1813); Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut (June 8, 1812-Sept. 9, 1815)
David Daggett (B.A. 1783) U.S. Senator (F-Connecticut, 1813-1819); States Attorney for New Haven County, Connecticut (1811-1813)
John Davenport (B.A. 1770) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (F-Connecticut, 1799-1817)
Benjamin Tallmadge (B.A. 1773) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (F-Connecticut, 1801-1817)
Jonathan Ogden Moseley (B.A. 1780) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (F-Connecticut, 1805-1821)
Lewis Burr Sturges (B.A. 1782) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (F-Connecticut, 1805-1817)
Timothy Pitkin (B.A. 1785) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (F-Connecticut, 1805-1819)
Lyman Law (B.A. 1791) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (F-Connecticut, 1811-1817)
John Cotton Smith (B.A. 1783) Governor of Connecticut (October 25, 1812-May 8, 1817); Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (1811-1812)
Thomas Day (B.A. 1797) Secretary of the State of Connecticut (1810-1835)
Stephen M. Mitchell (B.A. 1763) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut (1807-1814)
Zephaniah Swift (B.A. 1778) Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut (1801-1814)
John Trumbull (B.A. 1767) Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut (1801-1819)
William Edmond (B.A. 1778) Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut (1805-1819)
Jeremiah Gates Brainard (B.A. 1779) Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut (1806-1829); Mayor of New London, Conn. (1806-1828)
Elizur Goodrich (B.A. 1779) Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut (1803-1822)
Asher Miller (B.A. 1778) Mayor of Middletown, Connecticut (1791-1821); Presiding Judge of Middlesex County Court, Conn. (1807-1821)
Samuel Burr Sherwood (B.A. 1786) Member of the Connecticut State House of Representatives (1809-1815)
Nathaniel Terry (B.A. 1786) Member of the Connecticut State House of Representatives (1804-1815); President of Hartford Fire Insurance
Company (1810-1835)
Jonathan Law (B.A. 1803) Postmaster of Hartford, Connecticut (1809-1829)
William Henry Jones (B.A. 1796) Postmaster of New Haven, Connecticut (May 3, 1814-January 18, 1842)
Elias Perkins (B.A. 1786) Chief Justice of the New London County Court [Connecticut] (1807-1825)
Jonathan Brace (B.A. 1779) Judge of Hartford [Connecticut] City Court (1797-1798, 1800-1815)
Robert Fairchild (B.A. 1793) U.S. Marshal for the District of Connecticut (1809-1821)
John Thompson Peters (B.A. 1789) Collector of United States Revenue for the First District of Connecticut [Hartford] (1813)
Abraham Bishop (B.A. 1778) Collector of the Port of New Haven, Connecticut (1803-1829)
Alexander Wolcott (B.A. 1778) Collector of the Port of Middletown, Connecticut (1801-1828)
Federal and State Government Officials:
Stephen R. Bradley (B.A. 1775) U.S. Senator (DR-Vermont, 1791-1795; 1801-1813)
Jeremiah Mason (B.A. 1788) U.S. Senator (F-New Hampshire, 1813-1817)
Uri Tracy (B.A. 1789) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-New York, 1805-1807, 1809-1813)
Ebenezer Sage (B.A. 1778) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-New York, 1809-1815)
Peter B. Porter (B.A. 1791) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-New York, 1809-1813, 1815-1816)
Thomas R. Gold (B.A. 1786) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (F-New York, 1809-1813, 1815-1817)
John Lovett (B.A. 1782) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (F-New York, 1813-1817)
Samuel M. Hopkins (B.A. 1791) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (F-New York, 1813-1815)
Thomas Jackson Oakley (B.A. 1801) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (F-New York, 1813-1815, 1827-1828)
Thomas P. Grosvenor (B.A. 1800) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (F-New York, 1813-1817)
William Ely (B.A. 1787) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (F-Massachusetts, 1805-1815)
Ezekiel Bacon (B.A. 1794) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Massachusetts, 1807-1813); First Comptroller of the United
States Treasury (February 11, 1814-February 28, 1815)
John C. Calhoun (B.A. 1804) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (DR-South Carolina, 1811-1817)
Gideon Granger (B.A. 1787) Postmaster-General of the United States (1801-1814)
Joel Barlow (B.A. 1778) U.S. Minister to France (November 17, 1811-December 26, 1812)
Asher Robbins (B.A. 1782) U.S. Attorney for the District of Rhode Island (1812)
William Bristol (B.A. 1798) U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut (1812)
Matthias Burnett Tallmadge (B.A. 1795) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New York (1806-1814)
Stanley Griswold (B.A. 1786) United States Judge for Illinois Territory (1810-1815)
William Hull (B.A. 1772) Governor of Michigan Territory (March 22, 1805-October 29, 1813)
Return J. Meigs, Jr. (B.A. 1785) Governor of Ohio (December 8, 1810-March 24, 1814)
Jared Ingersoll (B.A. 1766) Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1790-1799, 1811-1817)
James Kent (B.A. 1781) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New York (1804-1814); Chancellor of New York (1814-1823)
Nathaniel Chipman (B.A. 1777) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Vermont (1789-1791, 1796-1797, 1813-1815)
Daniel Farrand (B.A. 1781) Judge of the Supreme Court of Vermont (1813-1814)
Theodore Sedgwick (B.A. 1765) Judge of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts (1802-1813)
Daniel Lyman (B.A. 1776) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island (1812-1816)
Abraham Nott (B.A. 1787) Judge of South Carolina Circuit Court (1810-1824)
Joel Adams (B.A. 1807) Member of South Carolina State House of Representatives (1812-1813, 1832)
John Myers Felder (B.A. 1804) Member of South Carolina State House of Representatives (1812-1816, 1822-1824)
Joseph Barker (B.A. 1771) Member of Massachusetts State House of Representatives (1812-1813)
Chauncey Langdon (B.A. 1787) Member of Vermont State House of Representatives (1813-1814, 1817, 1819-1820, 1822); Trustee of
Middlebury College [Vermont] (1811-1830)
George Tod (B.A. 1795) Ohio State Senator (1810-1814)
Samuel Jones Jr. (B.A. 1790) Member of New York State Assembly [representing New York City] (1812-1814)
Peter William Radcliff (B.A. 1793) New York State Senator (1812-1816); Member of New York State Assembly (January 1812-June 1812)
Josiah Masters (B.A. 1783) Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Rensselaer County, New York (1808-1822)
Edmund Law (B.A. 1806) Member of the Common Council of Washington, D.C. (1812-1814, 1828)
College Presidents and Trustees:
Ebenezer Fitch (B.A. 1777, valedictorian) inaugural President of Williams College [Massachusetts] (1793-1815)
Azel Backus (B.A. 1787) inaugural President of Hamilton College [New York] (1812-1816)
Jeremiah Atwater (B.A. 1793) President of Dickinson College [Pennsylvania] (1809-1815)
Henry Davis (B.A. 1796) President of Middlebury College [Vermont] (1809-1817)
Stephen Jacob (B.A. 1778) Trustee of Dartmouth College (1802-1817)
Timothy Mather Cooley (B.A. 1792) Trustee of Williams College (1812-1859)
Samuel Shepard (B.A. 1793) Trustee of Williams College (1808-1846)
Rev. Timothy Dwight (elder) (B.A. 1769) President of Yale University (1795-1817); Professor of Divinity at Yale University (1795-1817)
James Hillhouse (B.A. 1773) Treasurer of Yale University (1782-1832)
Rev. Jeremiah Day (B A. 1795) Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Yale University (1801-1820)
Benjamin Silliman (B.A. 1796) Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology at Yale University (1802-1864)
James Luce Kingsley (B.A. 1799) Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Languages [Hebrew, Greek and Latin] at Yale Univ. (1805-1817)
Church Leaders:
Abraham Jarvis (B.A. 1761) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut (1797-1813)
Rev. Benjamin Trumbull (B.A. 1759) Pastor of the Congregational Church in North Haven, Connecticut (1760-1820)
Jehu Clark (B.A. 1794) Pastor of the Congregational Church in Newtown, Connecticut (1799-1816)
Dan Huntington (B.A. 1794) Pastor of the First Congregational Church in Middletown, Connecticut (1810-1816)
Andrew Yates (B.A. 1794) Pastor of the Congregational Church in East Hartford, Connecticut (1801-1814)
Lyman Beecher (B.A. 1797) Pastor of First Congregational Church in Litchfield, Connecticut (1810-1826)
David Dudley Field (B.A. 1802) Pastor of the Congregational Church in Haddam, Connecticut (1804-1818, 1837-1844)
Mark Mead (B.A. 1802) Pastor of the Congregational Church in Middlebury, Connecticut (1809-1830)
Samuel Merwin (B.A. 1802) Pastor of the North Church in New Haven, Connecticut (1805-1831)
William Lightbourn Strong (B.A. 1802) Pastor of the Congregational Church in Somers, Connecticut (1805-1829)
Roswell Randall Swan (B.A. 1802) Pastor of the Congregational Church in Norwalk, Connecticut (1807-1819)
Abel McEwen (B.A. 1804) Pastor of the First Congregational Church in New London, Connecticut (1806-1854)
Thomas Punderson (B.A. 1804) Pastor of the Congregational Church in Huntington, Connecticut (1818-1844)
Horace Holley (B.A. 1803) Minister of Hollis Street [South End] Church in Boston (1809-1818)
Joshua Huntington (B.A. 1804) Pastor of Old South Church in Boston (1808-1819)
Rev. Nathanel Emmons (B.A. 1767) Pastor of the Congregational Church in Franklin, Massachusetts (1773-1827); lifelong Federalist
Samuel Austin (B.A. 1783) Pastor of First Congregational Church in Worcester, Massachusetts (1790-1815)
Abiel Holmes (B.A. 1783) Minister of First [Congregational] Church in Cambridge, Mass. (1792-1829); father of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Ezra Witter (B.A. 1793) Pastor of the Congregational Church in Wilbraham, Massachusetts (1797-1814)
Gardiner Spring (B.A. 1805) Pastor of Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City (1810-1873)
Selah Strong Woodhull (B.A. 1802) Pastor of the First Reformed Dutch Church in Brooklyn, New York (1806-1825)
John Chester (B.A. 1804) Pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Hudson, New York (1810-1815)
Moses Gillett (B.A. 1804) Pastor of the First Congregational (later Presbyterian) Church of Rome, New York (1807-1837)
Jonathan Huntting (B.A. 1804) Pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Southold, Long Island, New York (1807-1828)
Christopher Edwards Gadsden (B.A. 1804) Rector of St. Philip's Church in Charleston, South Carolina (1814-1840)
Bankers:
Oliver Wolcott Jr. (B.A. 1778) President of Bank of America (1812-1814); director of the First Bank of the United States (1810-1811)
Stephen Elliott (B.A. 1791) inaugural President of Bank of the State of South Carolina (1812-1830); South Carolina State Senator (1808-12)
Aeneas Munson (B.A. 1780) President of the New Haven Bank in New Haven, Connecticut (1812-1831)
Participants at the Hartford Convention (December 1814):
Chauncey Goodrich (B.A. 1776) U.S. Senator (F-Connecticut, 1807-1813); Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut (1812-1815)
James Hillhouse (B.A. 1773) U.S. Senator (F-Connecticut, 1796-1810); Treasurer of Yale University (1782-1832)
Daniel Lyman (B.A. 1776) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island (1812-1816)
Roger Minott Sherman (B.A. 1792) Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut (1839-1842)
Zephaniah Swift (B.A. 1778) Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut (1801-1814); U.S. Congressman (1793-1797)
John Treadwell (B.A. 1767) Governor of Connecticut (1809-1811); Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (1798-1809)
Note: 3 U.S. Senators and 13 Congressmen at the beginning of the War of 1812 were Yale graduates.
Note: 6 of 7 Congressmen representing Connecticut at the beginning of the War of 1812 were Yale graduates.
Note: U.S. Congress declared war on the British Empire on June 18, 1812; F=Federalist Party; DR=Democratic Republican; R=Republican
Yale University Graduates and Their Occupation during the Panic of 1819
Federal Government Officials:
John C. Calhoun (B.A. 1804) U.S. Secretary of War (1817-1825)
Return J. Meigs, Jr. (B.A. 1785) Postmaster General of the United States (1814-1823)
Samuel W. Dana (B.A. 1775) U.S. Senator (F-Connecticut, 1810-1821)
James Lanman (B.A. 1788) U.S. Senator (DR-Connecticut, 1819-1825)
David Daggett (B.A. 1783) U.S. Senator (F-Connecticut, 1813-1819)
John Elliott (B.A. 1794) U.S. Senator (DR-Georgia, 1819-1825)
Jonathan Ogden Moseley (B.A. 1780) U.S. Congressman (F-Connecticut, 1805-1821)
Samuel Augustus Foot (B.A. 1797) U.S. Congressman (A-Connecticut, 1819-1821, 1823-1825, 1833-1834)
Elisha Phelps (B.A. 1800) U.S. Congressman (R-Connecticut, 1819-1821, 1825-1829)
Henry R. Storrs (B.A. 1804) U.S. Congressman (F-New York, 1817-1821, 1823-1831)
Henry Meigs (B.A. 1799) U.S. Congressman (R-New York, 1819-1821)
John Dean Dickinson (B.A. 1785) U.S. Congressman (F-New York, 1819-1823, 1827-1831)
Henry Baldwin (B.A. 1797) U.S. Congressman (R-Pennsylvania, 1817-1822)
Samuel Lathrop (B.A. 1792) U.S. Congressman (F-Massachusetts, 1819-1827)
Timothy Pitkin (B.A. 1785) U.S. Congressman (F-Connecticut, 1805-1819)
Ebenezer Huntington (B.A. 1775) U.S. Congressman (F-Connecticut, 1810-1811, 1817-1819)
Samuel Burr Sherwood (B.A. 1786) U.S. Congressman (F-Connecticut, 1817-1819)
Nathaniel Terry (B.A. 1786) U.S. Congressman (F-Connecticut, 1817-1819); President of Hartford Fire Insurance Company (1810-1835)
Thomas Scott Williams (B.A. 1794) U.S. Congressman (F-Connecticut, 1817-1819)
Dorrance Kirtland (B.A. 1789) U.S. Congressman (R-New York, 1817-1819)
John P. Cushman (B.A. 1807) U.S. Congressman (F-New York, 1817-1819)
Thomas Hill Hubbard (B.A. 1799) U.S. Congressman (R-New York, 1817-1819, 1821-1823)
Peter Hitchcock (B.A. 1801) U.S. Congressman (R-Ohio, 1817-1819)
State and Local Government Officials:
Oliver Wolcott Jr. (B.A. 1778) Governor of Connecticut (1817-1827)
Jonathan Brace (B.A. 1779) Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut (1815-1824)
Elizur Goodrich (B.A. 1779) Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut (1803-1822)
Stephen Titus Hosmer (B.A. 1782) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut (1819-1833)
Jeremiah Gates Brainard (B.A. 1779) Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut (1806-1829)
John Thompson Peters (B.A. 1789) Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut (1818-1834)
Jonathan Law (B.A. 1803) Postmaster of Hartford, Connecticut (1809-1829)
William Henry Jones (B.A. 1796) Postmaster of New Haven, Connecticut (May 3, 1814-January 18, 1842)
David Plant (B.A. 1804) Member of the Connecticut State House of Representatives (1817-1820)
Elias Perkins (B.A. 1786) Connecticut State Senator (1817-1822)
John Myers Felder (B.A. 1804) South Carolina State Senator (1816-1820, 1840-1851)
Abraham Nott (B.A. 1787) Judge of South Carolina Circuit Court (1810-1824)
Peter Hitchcock (B.A. 1801) Judge of the Ohio Supreme Court (1819-1832)
Joel Doolittle (B.A. 1799) Judge of the Supreme Court of Vermont (1817-1822, 1824)
James Kent (B.A. 1781) Chancellor of New York [equity court] (1814-1823)
Thomas Jackson Oakley (B.A. 1801) Attorney General of New York (1819-1821); Member of New York State Assembly (1816, 1818-1820)
Asher Robbins (B.A. 1782) Member of the Rhode Island State Assembly (1818-1825, 1840-1841)
College Presidents:
Rev. Jeremiah Day (B A. 1795) President of Yale University (1817-1846)
Henry Davis (B.A. 1796) President of Hamilton College (1817-1833)
Samuel Austin (B.A. 1783) President of University of Vermont (1815-1821)
Horace Holley (B.A. 1803) President of Transylvania University (1818-1827)
Church Leaders:
Rev. Benjamin Trumbull (B.A. 1759) Pastor of the Congregational Church in North Haven, Connecticut (1760-1820)
Rev. Nathanel Emmons (B.A. 1767) Pastor of the Congregational Church in Franklin, Massachusetts (1773-1827)
Abiel Holmes (B.A. 1783) Minister of First [Congregational] Church in Cambridge, Mass. (1792-1829); father of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Lyman Beecher (B.A. 1797) Pastor of First Congregational Church in Litchfield, Connecticut (1810-1826)
Abel McEwen (B.A. 1804) Pastor of First Congregational Church in New London, Connecticut (1806-1854)
John Pierpont (B.A. 1804) Minister of Hollis Street Church in Boston (1819-1845)
Gardiner Spring (B.A. 1805) Pastor of Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City (1810-1873)
Businessmen:
Stephen Elliott (B.A. 1791) inaugural President of Bank of the State of South Carolina (1812-1830)
Aeneas Munson (B.A. 1780) President of the New Haven Bank in New Haven, Connecticut (1812-1831)
Lynde Catlin (B.A. 1786) Cashier of the New York branch of the Bank of the United States (1818-1820); President of Merchants Bank [New
York City] (1820-1833)
Yale University Graduates and Their Occupation during the Greek War of Independence (1821-1832)
Federal Government Officials:
John C. Calhoun (B.A. 1804) Secretary of War (1817-1825), Vice President of the United States (1825-1832)
Peter B. Porter (B.A. 1791) Secretary of War (1828-1829)
Henry Baldwin (B.A. 1797) Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1830-1844); U.S. Congressman (R-Pennsylvania, 1817-1822)
William Bristol (B.A. 1798) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (1826-1836)
James Lanman (B.A. 1788) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-Connecticut, 1819-1825)
John Elliott (B.A. 1794) U.S. Senator (Democratic Republican-Georgia, 1819-1825)
Horatio Seymour (B.A. 1797) U.S. Senator (Anti-Jacksonian-Vermont, 1821-1833)
Elias Kent Kane (B.A. 1813) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Illinois, 1825-1835)
Asher Robbins (B.A. 1782) U.S. Senator (Whig-Rhode Island, 1825-1839)
Samuel Augustus Foot (B.A. 1797) U.S. Senator (Anti-Jacksonian-Connecticut, 1827-1833); U.S. Congressman (Adams-Connecticut, 1819-1821,
1823-1825, 1833-1834); Speaker of Connecticut State House of Representatives (1825-1826)
John M. Clayton (B.A. 1815) U.S. Senator (Anti-Jacksonian-Delaware, 1829-1836; Whig-Delaware, 1845-1849; O-Delaware 1853-1856)
Thomas Jackson Oakley (B.A. 1801) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-New York, 1813-1815, 1827-1828); Judge of the Superior Court of New York City
(1828-1847)
Thomas Hill Hubbard (B.A. 1799) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New York, 1817-1819, 1821-1823)
Henry R. Storrs (B.A. 1804) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-New York, 1817-1821, 1823-1831)
Elisha Phelps (B.A. 1800) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Connecticut, 1819-1821, 1825-1829); Connecticut State Senator (1822-1824)
John Dean Dickinson (B.A. 1785) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-New York, 1819-1823, 1827-1831)
Gideon Tomlinson (B.A. 1802) U.S. Congressman (Connecticut, 1819-1827)
Samuel Lathrop (B.A. 1792) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-Massachusetts, 1819-1827); Massachusetts State Senator (1829-1830)
Joseph Kirkland (B.A. 1790) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-New York, 1821-1823)
Micah Sterling (B.A. 1804) U.S. Congressman (Federalist-New York, 1821-1823)
Lemuel Whitman (B.A. 1800) U.S. Congressman (Adams-Clay Republican-Connecticut, 1823-1825)
Justin Dwinell (B.A. 1808) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New York, 1823-1825)
Abraham B. Hasbrouck (B.A. 1810) U.S. Congressman (Adams-New York, 1825-1827)
Ralph I. Ingersoll (B.A. 1808) U.S. Congressman (D-Connecticut, 1825-1833); Speaker of Connecticut State House of Rep. (1824-1825)
John Davis (B.A. 1812) U.S. Congressman (Whig-Massachusetts, 1825-1834)
Phineas Lyman Tracy (B.A. 1806) U.S. Congressman (Anti-Masonic-New York, 1827-1833)
Isaac Chapman Bates (B.A. 1802) U.S. Congressman (Whig-Massachusetts, 1827-1835)
William L. Storrs (B.A. 1814) U.S. Congressman (Anti-Jacksonian-Connecticut, 1829-1833, 1839-1840)
Jabez Williams Huntington (B.A. 1806) U.S. Congressman (Whig-Connecticut, 1829-1834)
William Wolcott Ellsworth (B.A. 1810) U.S. Congressman (Anti-Jacksonian-Connecticut, 1829-1834)
Ebenezer Young (B.A. 1806) U.S. Congressman (Connecticut, 1829-1835); Speaker of Connecticut State House of Rep. (1827-1828)
Frederick Whittlesey (B.A. 1818) U.S. Congressman (Anti-Masonic-New York, 1831-1835)
Thomas Alexander Marshall (B.A. 1815) U.S. Congressman (Anti-Jacksonian-Kentucky, 1831-1835)
John Myers Felder (B.A. 1804) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-South Carolina, 1831-1835)
State and Local Government Officials:
Oliver Wolcott Jr. (B.A. 1778) Governor of Connecticut (1817-1827)
Gideon Tomlinson (B.A. 1802) Governor of Connecticut (1827-1831); U.S. Senator (Anti-Jacksonian-Connecticut, 1831-1837)
David Plant (B.A. 1804) Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (1823-1827); U.S. Congressman (Adams-Connecticut, 1827-1829)
Stephen Titus Hosmer (B.A. 1782) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut (1819-1833)
Jeremiah Gates Brainard (B.A. 1779) Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut (1806-1829)
John Thompson Peters (B.A. 1789) Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut (1818-1834)
Jonathan Brace (B.A. 1779) Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut (1815-1824)
Nathaniel Terry (B.A. 1786) Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut (1824-1831); President of the Hartford Bank in Hartford, Conn. (1819-1828)
George Hoadly (B.A. 1801) Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut (1822-1826)
Simeon Baldwin (B.A. 1781) Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut (1826-1827)
William Bristol (B.A. 1798) Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut (1827-1828)
David Daggett (B.A. 1783) Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut (1828-1830); Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut (1826-1832)
Ralph I. Ingersoll (B.A. 1808) Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut (1830-1831, 1851?)
Dennis Kimberly (B.A. 1812) Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut (1831-1832)
Elias Perkins (B.A. 1786) Mayor of New London, Connecticut (1829-1832)
Samuel W. Dana (B.A. 1775) Mayor of Middletown, Connecticut (1822-1830)
Timothy Pitkin (B.A. 1785) Member of the Connecticut State House of Representatives (1790, 1792, 1794-1805, 1819-1830)
Peter Hitchcock (B.A. 1801) Judge of the Ohio Supreme Court (1819-1832)
John Grant Chapman (B.A. 1817) Member (1824-1832, 1843-1844) and Speaker (1826-1829, 1844) of Maryland State House of Delegates
Littleton Purnell Dennis (B.A. 1803) Member of Maryland State House of Delegates (1815-1816, 1819-1827)
Thomas Smith Grimke (B.A. 1807) South Carolina State Senator (1826-1830); pacifist and Unionist; brother of Sarah Moore Grimke and Angelina
Grimke (Grimke Sisters who freed their slaves in South Carolina)
College Presidents and Businessmen:
Rev. Jeremiah Day (B A. 1795) President of Yale University (1817-1846)
Henry Davis (B.A. 1796) President of Hamilton College (1817-1833)
David A. Sherman (B.A. 1802) President of University of Tennessee [formerly East Tennessee College] (1820-1825)
Daniel Haskel (B.A. 1802) President of University of Vermont (1821-1824)
Horace Holley (B.A. 1803) President of Transylvania University (1818-1827)
Edward Dorr Griffin (B.A. 1790) President of Williams College (1821-1836)
Bennet Tyler (B.A. 1804) President of Dartmouth College (1822-1828)
Heman Humphrey (B.A. 1805) President of Amherst College (1823-1845)
William Heathcote DeLancey (B.A. 1817) Provost of University of Pennsylvania (1828-1833)
Thomas Kimberly Brace (B.A. 1801) President of Aetna Insurance Company (1822-1860)
Yale University Graduates and Their Occupation during the Panic of 1837
Government Officials:
John C. Calhoun (B.A. 1804) U.S. Senator (Democrat-South Carolina, 1832-1843, 1845-1850)
John Davis (B.A. 1812) U.S. Senator (Whig-Massachusetts, 1835-1841, 1845-1853)
Asher Robbins (B.A. 1782) U.S. Senator (Anti-Jacksonian/Whig-Rhode Island, 1825-1839)
Gideon Tomlinson (B.A. 1802) U.S. Senator (Anti-Jacksonian-Connecticut, 1831-1837)
William B. Calhoun (B.A. 1814) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Whig-Massachusetts, 1835-1843)
Francis Granger (B.A. 1811) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Whig-New York, 1835-1837, 1839-1841, 1841-1843)
Graham Hurd Chapin (B.A. 1819) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Jacksonian-New York, 1835-1837)
Thomas Tucker Whittlesey (B.A. 1817) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Democrat-Connecticut, 1836-1839)
Henry Baldwin (B.A. 1797) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1830-1844)
William Henry Jones (B.A. 1796) Postmaster of New Haven, Connecticut (May 3, 1814-January 18, 1842)
William Wolcott Ellsworth (B.A. 1810) Governor of Connecticut (1838-1842)
Royal Ralph Hinman (B.A. 1804) Secretary of State of Connecticut (1835-1842)
Stillman K. Wightman (B.A. 1825) Speaker of the Connecticut State House of Representatives (1837, 1842)
Thomas Scott Williams (B.A. 1794) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut (1834-1847)
Clark Bissell (B.A. 1806) Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut (1829-1839)
Henry Collins Flagg (B.A. 1811) Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut (1834-1839)
Ralph I. Ingersoll (B.A. 1808) Connecticut State's Attorney for New Haven County (1833-1845)
John M. Clayton (B.A. 1815) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware (1837-1839)
Samuel S. Phelps (B.A. 1811) Judge of the Supreme Court of Vermont (1832-1838)
Caleb Smith Woodhull (B.A. 1812) Member of the Common Council of New York City (1836-1844)
Henry Carleton (B.A. 1806) Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana (1837-1839)
William Maxwell (B.A. 1802) Virginia State Senator (1832-1838)
Micah Sterling (B.A. 1804) New York State Senator (1836-1839)
Frederick A. Tallmadge (B.A. 1811) New York State Senator (1837-1840)
Julius Rockwell (B.A. 1826) Member of Massachusetts State House of Representatives (1834-1838)
College Professors:
Rev. Jeremiah Day (B A. 1795) President of Yale University (1817-1846)
Heman Humphrey (B.A. 1805) President of Amherst College (1823-1845)
George Edmond Pierce (B.A. 1816) President of Western Reserve University (1834-1855)
Hector Humphreys (B.A. 1818) President of St. Johns College [Annapolis, Maryland] (1831-1857)
Wyllys Warner (B.A. 1826) Treasurer of Yale University (1833-1852)
Elizur Goodrich (B.A. 1779) Secretary of Yale University (1816-1846)
Edward Dickinson (B.A. 1823) Treasurer of Amherst College (1835-1873); father of poet Emily Dickinson
Samuel Bulkley Ruggles (B.A. 1814) Trustee of Columbia University (1836-1881); Founder of Bank of Commerce [New York City] in 1839
David Daggett (B.A. 1783) Professor of Law at Yale University (1826-1848)
Simeon North (B.A. 1825, valedictorian) Professor of Greek at Hamilton College (1829-1839)
Others:
Thomas Kimberly Brace (B.A. 1801) President of Aetna Insurance Company (1822-1860)
Abel McEwen (B.A. 1804) Pastor of First Congregational Church in New London, Connecticut (1806-1854)
John Pierpont (B.A. 1804) Minister of Hollis Street Church in Boston (1819-1845)
Gardiner Spring (B.A. 1805) Pastor of Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City (1810-1873)
William Theodore Dwight (B.A. 1813) Pastor of Third Congregational Church in Portland, Maine (June 6, 1832-May 4, 1864)
John Cotton Smith (B.A. 1783) President of the American Bible Society (1831-1845)
William Jay (B.A. 1807) Judge of the Court of Westchester County, New York (1818-1843); Founder of New York City Anti-Slavery Society in
1833; son of Federalist Paper co-author and former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Jay
Note: Henry Collins Flagg was born in the parish of St. Thomas, near Charleston, South Carolina on January 5, 1792.
Yale University Graduates and Their Occupation during the Opium War (1839-1842) and Second Seminole War (1835-1842)
U.S. Government Officials:
George Edmund Badger (B.A. 1813) Secretary of the Navy (1841)
Henry L. Ellsworth (B.A. 1810) U.S. Commissioner of Patents (1835-1845)
Henry Baldwin (B.A. 1797) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1830-1844)
Francis Granger (B.A. 1811) Postmaster General of the U.S. (1841); U.S. Congressman (Whig-New York, 1835-1837, 1839-1841, 1841-43)
William Henry Jones (B.A. 1796) Postmaster of New Haven, Connecticut (May 3, 1814-January 18, 1842)
George C. Woodruff (B.A. 1825) Postmaster of Litchfield, Connecticut (January 4, 1832-January 27, 1842, Sept. 2, 1842-Sept. 28, 1846)
John C. Calhoun (B.A. 1804) U.S. Senator (Democrat-South Carolina, 1832-1843, 1845-1850)
Thaddeus Betts (B.A. 1807) U.S. Senator (Whig-Connecticut, 1839-1840)
Jabez Williams Huntington (B.A. 1806) U.S. Senator (Whig-Connecticut, 1840-1847)
Isaac Chapman Bates (B.A. 1802) U.S. Senator (Whig-Massachusetts, 1841-1845)
John Davis (B.A. 1812) U.S. Senator (W/NR-Massachusetts, 1835-1841, 1845-1853); Governor of Massachusetts (1834-1835, 1841-1843)
Samuel S. Phelps (B.A. 1811) U.S. Senator (Whig-Vermont, 1839-1851, 1853-1854)
Asher Robbins (B.A. 1782) U.S. Senator (Anti-Jacksonian/Whig-Rhode Island, 1825-1839); Member of the Rhode Island State Assembly
(1818-1825, 1840-1841); Postmaster of Newport, Rhode Island (1841-1845)
Joseph Trumbull (B.A. 1801) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Whig-Connecticut, 1834-1835, 1839-1843)
William W. Boardman (B.A. 1812) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Whig-Connecticut, 1840-1843)
Truman Smith (B.A. 1815) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Whig-Connecticut, 1839-1843, 1845-1849)
Thomas Burr Osborne (B.A. 1817) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Whig-Connecticut, 1839-1843)
John Hall Brockway (B.A. 1820) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Whig-Connecticut, 1839-1843)
Christopher Morgan (B.A. 1828) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Whig-New York, 1839-1843)
Richard David Davis (B.A. 1818) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Democrat-New York, 1841-1845)
Osmyn Baker (B.A. 1822) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Whig-Massachusetts, 1840-1845)
William B. Calhoun (B.A. 1814) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Whig-Massachusetts, 1835-1843)
William Henry Washington (B.A. 1834, S&B 1834) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Whig-North Carolina, 1841-1843)
Isaac Edward Holmes (B.A. 1815) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Democrat-South Carolina, 1839-1851)
Graham Hurd Chapin (B.A. 1819) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Jacksonian-New York, 1835-1837)
State and Local Government Officials:
William Wolcott Ellsworth (B.A. 1810) Governor of Connecticut (1838-1842)
Charles Hawley (B.A. 1813) Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (1838-1842)
Royal Ralph Hinman (B.A. 1804) Secretary of State of Connecticut (1835-1842)
Ebenezer Learned (B.A. 1798) Connecticut State Bank Commissioner (1839)
Charles Johnson McCurdy (B.A. 1817) Speaker of the Connecticut State House of Representatives (1840-1841, 1844)
Thomas Kimberly Brace (B.A. 1801) Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut (1840-1843); President of Aetna Insurance Company (1822-1860)
Samuel J. Hitchcock (B.A. 1809) Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut (1839-1842)
Ralph I. Ingersoll (B.A. 1808) Connecticut State's Attorney for New Haven County (1833-1845)
Eliphalet Swift (B.A. 1804) Member of Connecticut State House of Representatives (1839-1841, 1844-1845)
Roger Sherman Baldwin (B.A. 1811) Member of Connecticut State House of Representatives (1840-1841)
Abijah Catlin (B.A. 1825) Member of Connecticut State House of Representatives (1837-1839, 1850-1851, 1861-1862, 1865, 1874, 1879)
Thomas Scott Williams (B.A. 1794) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut (1834-1847)
Roger Minott Sherman (B.A. 1792) Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut (1839-1842)
William L. Storrs (B.A. 1814) Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut (1840-1856); Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (AntiJacksonian-Connecticut, 1829-1833, 1839-1840)
Willis Hall (B.A. 1824) Attorney General of New York (1839-1842)
Sumner Ely (B.A. 1804) New York State Senator (1840-1843)
Frederick A. Tallmadge (B.A. 1811) New York State Senator (1837-1840); Recorder of the City of New York (1841-1846)
William Abbott Moseley (B.A. 1816) New York State Senator (1838-1841); Member of New York State Assembly (1835)
Henry Wyllys Taylor (B.A. 1816) Member of New York State Assembly (1836-1839)
John Milton Holley (B.A. 1822) Member of New York State Assembly (1838-1841)
Charles Ezra Clarke (B.A. 1809) Member of New York State Assembly (1839-1840)
Samuel Jones Jr. (B.A. 1790) Chief Judge of the Superior Court of New York City (1828-1847)
Thomas Jackson Oakley (B.A. 1801) Judge of the Superior Court of New York City (1828-1847)
Caleb Smith Woodhull (B.A. 1812) Member of the Common Council of New York City (1836-1844)
Justin Dwinell (B.A. 1808) District Attorney of Madison County, New York [near Syracuse] (1837-1845)
George Ashmun (B.A. 1823) Speaker (1841) and Member (1833, 1835-1836, 1838, 1841) of Massachusetts State House of Representatives
Julius Rockwell (B.A. 1826) Massachusetts State Bank Commissioner (1838-40); Member of Massachusetts State House of Rep. (1834-38)
John Wallace Houston (B.A. 1834, S&B 1834) Secretary of State of Delaware (1841-1844)
John Myers Felder (B.A. 1804) South Carolina State Senator (1816-1820, 1840-1851)
James Hopkins Adams (B.A. 1831) Member of the South Carolina State House of Representatives (1834-1837, 1840-1841, 1848-1849)
Rufus Paine Spalding (B.A. 1817) Member of the Ohio State House of Representatives (1839-1842)
William Jessup (B.A. 1815) Presiding Judge of the 11th Judicial District of Pennsylvania (1838-1851)
William Warner Hoppin (B.A. 1828) Member of the Common Council of Providence, Rhode Island (1838-1842)
College Presidents and Professors:
Rev. Jeremiah Day (B A. 1795) President of Yale University (1817-1846)
Heman Humphrey (B.A. 1805) President of Amherst College (1823-1845)
Simeon North (B.A. 1825, valedictorian) President of Hamilton College (1839-1857); Professor of Greek at Hamilton College (1829-1839)
William Maxwell (B.A. 1802) President of Hampden-Sydney College (1838-1845); Member of Virginia State Senate (1832-1838)
Hector Humphreys (B.A. 1818) President of St. Johns College [Annapolis, Maryland] (1831-1857)
George Edmond Pierce (B.A. 1816) President of Western Reserve University [Cleveland, Ohio] (1834-1855)
Abraham B. Hasbrouck (B.A. 1810) President of Rutgers College (1840-1850)
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (B.A. 1813) President of Emory College [Atlanta, Georgia] (1840-1848)
John H. Lathrop (B.A. 1819) inaugural President of University of Missouri (1841-1849, 1865-1866)
Eleazar Thompson Fitch (B.A. 1810) Professor of Divinity at Yale University (1817-1852)
David Daggett (B.A. 1783) Professor of Law at Yale University (1826-1848)
Josiah Willard Gibbs (B.A. 1809) Professor of Sacred Literature at Yale University (1826-1861); Librarian of Yale University (1824-1843)
Rev. Theodore Dwight Woolsey (B.A. 1820, valedictorian) Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Yale University (1831-1851)
James Luce Kingsley (B.A. 1799) Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Yale University (1831-1851)
William Augustus Larned (B.A. 1826) Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at Yale University (1839-1862)
Chauncey Allen Goodrich (B.A. 1810) Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at Yale University (1817-1839); Professor of Pastoral
Charge at Yale University (1839-1860)
Benjamin Silliman (B.A. 1796) Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology at Yale University (1802-1864)
William Tully (B.A. 1806) Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics at Yale University (1829-1842)
Theodore Strong (B.A. 1812) Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Rutgers College [New Jersey] (1827-1862)
Frederick A.P. Barnard (B.A. 1828) Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at University of Alabama (1838-1849)
Elisha Mitchell (B.A. 1813) Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology at University of North Carolina (1825-1857)
Samuel H. Dickson (B.A. 1814) Professor of Medicine at the Medical College of South Carolina [Charleston] (1833-1847, 1850-1858)
Wyllys Warner (B.A. 1826) Treasurer of Yale University (1833-1852)
Elizur Goodrich (B.A. 1779) Secretary of Yale University (1816-1846)
Edward Dickinson (B.A. 1823) Treasurer of Amherst College (1835-1873); father of poet Emily Dickinson
Joseph Vaill Jr. (B.A. 1811) Trustee of Amherst College (1821-1869)
Samuel Hubbard (B.A. 1802) Trustee of Dartmouth College (1828-1847); Judge of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts (1842-1847)
Zedekiah Smith Barstow (B.A. 1813) Trustee of Dartmouth College (1834-1871)
Samuel Bulkley Ruggles (B.A. 1814) Trustee of Columbia University (1836-1881); Founder of Bank of Commerce [New York City] in 1839
Timothy Mather Cooley (B.A. 1792) Trustee of Williams College (1812-1859); Vice President of Williams College (1846-1859)
Samuel Shepard (B.A. 1793) Vice President of Williams College (1834-1846)
Church Leaders:
William Heathcote DeLancey (B.A. 1817) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York (1839-1865)
Christopher Edwards Gadsden (B.A. 1804) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina (1840-1853)
Gardiner Spring (B.A. 1805) Pastor of Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City (1810-1873)
John Pierpont (B.A. 1804) Minister of Hollis Street Church in Boston (1819-1845)
George Washington Blagden (B.A. 1823) Pastor of Old South Church in Boston (1836-1872); Pastor of Salem Street (Congregational)
Church in Boston (1830-1836)
John Todd (B.A. 1822) Pastor of the First Congregational Church in Philadelphia (1836-1841)
Thomas T. Waterman (B.A. 1822) Pastor of the Fifth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia (1837-1843); Pastor of Richmond Street
Congregational Church in Providence, Rhode Island (1826-1836); Pastor of Fourth Congregational Church in Providence, R.I. (1843-1852)
Richard DeCharms (B.A. 1826) Minister of the New Jerusalem Church in Philadelphia (1839-1844)
Henry Augustus Boardman (B.A. 1829) Pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia (1833-1876)
Nathaniel Sheldon Wheaton (B.A. 1814) Rector of Christ Church in New Orleans, Louisiana (1837-1844)
John Chester Backus (B.A. 1830) Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland (1836-1875)
James Woods McLane (B.A. 1829) Minister of the Madison Street Presbyterian Church in New York City (1836-1844)
Lyman Beecher (B.A. 1797) Minister of Second Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati, Ohio (1832-1850); President of Lane Theological
Seminary [Cincinnati] (1832-1850); father of Harriet Beecher Stowe (author of Uncle Toms Cabin)
William Buell Sprague (B.A. 1815) Minister of Second Presbyterian Church in Albany, New York (1829-1869)
Abel McEwen (B.A. 1804) Pastor of First Congregational Church in New London, Connecticut (1806-1854)
Thomas Punderson (B.A. 1804) Pastor of the Congregational Church in Huntington, Connecticut (1818-1844)
Leonard Bacon (B.A. 1820) Minister of First Congregational Church in New Haven, Connecticut (1825-1866)
Hiram Phelps Arms (B.A. 1824) Pastor of First (Congregational) Church of Norwich, Connecticut (1836-1873)
Horace Bushnell (B.A. 1827) Pastor of North Church in Hartford, Connecticut (1833-1859)
Leverett Griggs (B.A. 1829) Pastor of the Congregational Church in North Haven, Connecticut (1833-1845)
William Bouton Weed (B.A. 1830) Pastor of First Congregational Church in Stratford, Connecticut (1839-1855)
Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater (B.A. 1831) Pastor of First Congregational Church in Fairfield, Connecticut (1835-1854)
Leonard Withington (B.A. 1814) Pastor of First Congregational Church in Newbury, Massachusetts (1816-1858)
Roger Conant Hatch (B.A. 1815) Pastor of the Congregational Church in Warwick, Massachusetts (1836-1852)
Milton Badger (B.A. 1823) Pastor of the South Congregational Church in Andover, Massachusetts (1828-1845)
Charles Rockwell (B.A. 1826) Pastor of the Congregational Church in Chatham, Massachusetts (1839-1845)
John Derby Smith (B.A. 1832) Pastor of the Second Congregational Church in Charlemont, Massachusetts (1839-1844)
William Ives Budington (B.A. 1834) Pastor of First (Congregational) Church in Charlestown, Massachusetts (1840-1854)
John Lord Taylor (B.A. 1835) Pastor of the South Congregational Church in Andover, Massachusetts (1839-1852)
William Theodore Dwight (B.A. 1813) Pastor of Third Congregational Church in Portland, Maine (June 6, 1832-May 4, 1864)
John Maltby (B.A. 1822) Pastor of Hammond Street Church in Bangor, Maine (1834-1860)
Others:
James Gadsden (B.A. 1806) President of Louisville, Cincinnati, & Charleston Railroad (1840-1850)
Thomas Dunlap (B.A. 1812) President of United States Bank of Pennsylvania [formerly Second Bank of the United States] (1839-1841)
Elijah Hubbard (B.A. 1795) President of Middletown Bank in Middletown, Connecticut (1824-1846)
John Cotton Smith (B.A. 1783) President of the American Bible Society (1831-1845)
John Marsh Jr. (B.A. 1804) Secretary of American Temperance Union (1836-1865)
Yale University Graduates and Their Occupation during the Mexican War (1846-1848)
Government Officials:
John C. Calhoun (B.A. 1804) U.S. Senator (Democrat-South Carolina, 1832-1843, 1845-1850)
Roger Sherman Baldwin (B.A. 1811) U.S. Senator (Whig-Connecticut, 1847-1851)
Jabez Williams Huntington (B.A. 1806) U.S. Senator (Whig-Connecticut, 1840-1847)
John Davis (B.A. 1812, b. 1787-d. 1854) U.S. Senator (Whig/National Republican-Massachusetts, 1835-1841, 1845-1853)
John M. Clayton (B.A. 1815) U.S. Senator (Whig-Delaware, 1829-1836; 1845-1849; 1853-1856)
Samuel S. Phelps (B.A. 1811) U.S. Senator (Whig-Vermont, 1839-1851, 1853-1854)
George Edmund Badger (B.A. 1813) U.S. Senator (Whig-North Carolina, 1846-1855)
Truman Smith (B.A. 1815) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Whig-Connecticut, 1839-1843, 1845-1849)
Samuel D. Hubbard (B.A. 1819) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Whig-Connecticut, 1845-1849)
John A. Rockwell (B.A. 1822) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Whig-Connecticut, 1845-1849)
Julius Rockwell (B.A. 1826) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Whig-Massachusetts, 1843-1851)
George Ashmun (B.A. 1823) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Whig-Massachusetts, 1845-1851)
John Grant Chapman (B.A. 1817) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Whig-Maryland, 1845-1849)
Edward H.C. Long (B.A. 1828) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Whig-Maryland, 1845-1847)
William Abbott Moseley (B.A. 1816) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Whig-New York, 1843-1847)
John Milton Holley (B.A. 1822) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Whig-New York, 1847-1848)
W. Garnett Duncan (B.A. 1820) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Whig-Kentucky, 1847-1849)
William Strong (B.A. 1828) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Democrat-Pennsylvania, 1847-1851)
John Wallace Houston (B.A. 1834, S&B 1834) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Whig-Delaware, 1845-1851)
Willard P. Hall (B.A. 1839) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Democrat-Missouri, 1847-1853)
Isaac Edward Holmes (B.A. 1815) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Democrat-South Carolina, 1839-1851)
Clark Bissell (B.A. 1806) Governor of Connecticut (1847-1849)
Noyes Billings (B.A. 1819) Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (1846-1847)
Charles Johnson McCurdy (B.A. 1817) Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (1847-1849)
Henry E. Peck (B.A. 1823) Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut (1846-1850)
Dennis Kimberly (B.A. 1812) Connecticut State's Attorney for New Haven County (1845-1848)
John Myers Felder (B.A. 1804) South Carolina State Senator (1816-1820, 1840-1851)
Thomas Scott Williams (B.A. 1794) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut (1834-1847)
William Wolcott Ellsworth (B.A. 1810) Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut (1847-1861)
Thomas Jackson Oakley (B.A. 1801) Judge of the Superior Court of New York City (1828-1847)
John K. Kane (B.A. 1814) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1846-1858)
Chauncey Bulkley (B.A. 1817) Aldermen of the City of Philadelphia (1845-1850)
John Van Buren (B.A. 1828) Attorney General of New York (1845-1847); son of former U.S. President Martin Van Buren
Willis Hall (B.A. 1824) Corporation Counsel of New York City (1847-1849)
John Wales (B.A. 1801) Secretary of State of Delaware (1845-1849)
Samuel Jones (B.A. 1800) Inspector of the Port of Boston (1845-1849)
Edward Avery (B.A. 1810) Judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio (1847-1851)
Samuel Bulkley Ruggles (B.A. 1814) President of the Board of Canal Commissioners of New York (1840-1858)
College Administrators:
Rev. Theodore Dwight Woolsey (B.A. 1820, valedictorian) President of Yale University (1846-1871)
Simeon North (B.A. 1825, valedictorian) President of Hamilton College (1839-1857)
Abraham B. Hasbrouck (B.A. 1810) President of Rutgers College (1840-1850)
Hector Humphreys (B.A. 1818) President of St. Johns College [Annapolis, Maryland] (1831-1857)
John H. Lathrop (B.A. 1819) inaugural President of University of Missouri (1841-1849, 1865-1866)
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (B.A. 1813) President of Emory College (1840-1848)
Julian M. Sturtevant (B.A. 1826) President of Illinois College [Jacksonville, Illinois] (1844-1876)
Samuel Bulkley Ruggles (B.A. 1814) Trustee of Columbia University (1836-1881); Founder of Bank of Commerce [New York City] in 1839
Edward Dickinson (B.A. 1823) Treasurer of Amherst College (1835-1873); father of poet Emily Dickinson
David Daggett (B.A. 1783) Professor of Law at Yale University (1826-1848)
Church Leaders:
Christopher E. Gadsden (B.A. 1804) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina (1840-1853)
William Heathcote DeLancey (B.A. 1817) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York (1839-1865)
Gardiner Spring (B.A. 1805) Pastor of Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City (1810-1873)
Joseph Parrish Thompson (B.A. 1838, S&B 1838) Pastor of Broadway Tabernacle in New York City (1845-1871)
George Washington Blagden (B.A. 1823) Pastor of Old South Church in Boston (1836-1872)
John Chester Backus (B.A. 1830) Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland (1836-1875)
William Theodore Dwight (B.A. 1813) Pastor of Third Congregational Church in Portland, Maine (June 6, 1832-May 4, 1864)
Abel McEwen (B.A. 1804) Pastor of First Congregational Church in New London, Connecticut (1806-1854)
Leonard Bacon (B.A. 1820) Minister of First Congregational Church in New Haven, Connecticut (1825-1866)
Hiram Phelps Arms (B.A. 1824) Pastor of First (Congregational) Church of Norwich, Connecticut (1836-1873)
Horace Bushnell (B.A. 1827) Pastor of North Church in Hartford, Connecticut (1833-1859)
William Bouton Weed (B.A. 1830) Pastor of First Congregational Church in Stratford, Connecticut (1839-1855)
Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater (B.A. 1831) Pastor of First Congregational Church in Fairfield, Connecticut (1835-1854)
John Lord Taylor (B.A. 1835) Pastor of the South Congregational Church in Andover, Massachusetts (1839-1852)
Leonard Withington (B.A. 1814) Pastor of First Congregational Church in Newbury, Massachusetts (1816-1858)
John Maltby (B.A. 1822) Pastor of Hammond Street Church in Bangor, Maine (1834-1860)
Lyman Beecher (B.A. 1797) Minister of Second Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati, Ohio (1832-1850); President of Lane Theological
Seminary [Cincinnati] (1832-1850); father of Harriet Beecher Stowe (author of Uncle Toms Cabin)
Yale University Graduates and Their Occupation during the Crimean War (1853-1856)
Government Officials:
Henry Rootes Jackson (B.A. 1839, S&B 1839) U.S. Minister to the Austrian Empire (1854-1858)
James Gadsden (B.A. 1806) U.S. Minister to Mexico (1853-1856)
Peter Parker (B.A. 1831) U.S. Commissioner to China (1856-1857)
Samuel D. Hubbard (B.A. 1819) Postmaster General of the United States (1852-1853)
John K. Kane (B.A. 1814) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1846-1858)
John M. Clayton (B.A. 1815) U.S. Senator (Whig-Delaware, 1829-1836, 1845-1849, 1853-1856)
Samuel S. Phelps (B.A. 1811) U.S. Senator (Whig-Vermont, 1839-1851, 1853-1854)
George Edmund Badger (B.A. 1813) U.S. Senator (Whig-North Carolina, 1846-1855)
Truman Smith (B.A. 1815) U.S. Senator (Whig-Connecticut, 1849-1854)
Julius Rockwell (B.A. 1826) U.S. Senator (Whig-Massachusetts, 1854-1855)
Francis Gillette (B.A. 1829) U.S. Senator (Free Soil-Connecticut, 1854-1855)
Trusten Polk (B.A. 1831) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Missouri, 1857-1862); Governor of Missouri (1857)
Gilbert Dean (B.A. 1841) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-New York, 1851-1854)
Origen Storrs Seymour (B.A. 1824) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Connecticut, 1851-1855)
John Perkins Jr. (B.A. 1840, S&B 1840) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Louisiana, 1853-1855)
William Taylor Sullivan Berry (B.A. 1841, S&B 1841) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Mississippi, 1853-1855)
Isaac E. Hiester (B.A. 1842, S&K 1842) U.S. Congressman (Whig-Pennsylvania, 1853-1855)
Edward Dickinson (B.A. 1823) U.S. Congressman (Whig-Massachusetts, 1853-1855); Treasurer of Amherst College (1835-1873); father of
poet Emily Dickinson
James Knox (B.A. 1830) U.S. Congressman (Whig-Illinois, 1853-1857)
Eli Sims Shorter (B.A. 1843, S&K 1843) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Alabama, 1855-1859)
William D. Bishop (B.A. 1849) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Connecticut, 1857-1859)
Henry L. Dawes (B.A. 1839) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Massachusetts, 1857-1875)
Charles Hobby Pond (B.A. 1802) Governor of Connecticut (1853-1854)
Henry Dutton (B.A. 1818) Governor of Connecticut (1854-1855)
William T. Minor (B.A. 1834) Governor of Connecticut (1855-1857)
William Warner Hoppin (B.A. 1828) Governor of Rhode Island (1854-1857)
James Hopkins Adams (B.A. 1831) Governor of South Carolina (1854-1856); South Carolina State Senator (1850-1853)
Henry Champion Deming (B.A. 1836, S&B 1836) Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut (1854-1858, 1860-1862)
Aaron N. Skinner (B.A. 1823) Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut (1850-1854)
Elias W. Leavenworth (B.A. 1824) Secretary of State of New York (1854-1855)
Samuel Church (B.A. 1803) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut (1847-1854)
Henry Matson White (B.A. 1809) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut (1854-1857)
Thomas Slidell (B.A. 1825) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana (1855-1856); brother of Confederate envoy John Slidell
James N. Lea (B.A. 1834; S&B 1834) Justice of Louisiana Supreme Court (1855-1863)
William Strong (B.A. 1828) Judge of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (1857-1868)
Levinus Monson (B.A. 1811) Judge of the Supreme Court of New York (1850-1859)
William Wolcott Ellsworth (B.A. 1810) Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut (1847-1861)
John Christopher Burch (B.A. 1847) Member of Tennessee State Legislature (1855-1856); Tennessee State Senator (1857-1858)
Richard Taylor (B.A. 1845, S&B 1845) Louisiana State Senator (1856-1861)
Henry B. Harrison (B.A. 1846, S&B 1846) Connecticut State Senator (1854-1856)
Orris Sanford Ferry (B.A. 1844, S&B 1844) Connecticut State Senator (1855-1856)
William Barrett Washburn (B.A. 1844, S&B 1844) Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1853-1855)
Augustus Brandegee (B.A. 1849, S&B 1849) Member of Connecticut State House of Representatives (1854-1857, 1859-1861)
College Presidents, Church Leaders, and Businessmen:
Rev. Theodore Dwight Woolsey (B.A. 1820) President of Yale University (1846-1871)
Simeon North (B.A. 1825, valedictorian) President of Hamilton College (1839-1857)
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (B.A. 1813) President of Univ. of Mississippi (1849-1856); President of Univ. of South Carolina (1857-1861)
Frederick A.P. Barnard (B.A. 1828) President of University of Mississippi (1856-1858)
William Wilson Hudson (B.A. 1827) President of University of Missouri (1856-1859)
John H. Lathrop (B.A. 1819) inaugural Chancellor of University of Wisconsin (1849-1858)
George Edmond Pierce (B.A. 1816) President of Western Reserve University (1834-1855)
Henry Lawrence Hitchcock (B.A. 1832) President of Western Reserve University (1855-1871)
Thomas M. Smith (B.A. 1816) President of Kenyon College [Ohio] (1850-1854)
Hector Humphreys (B.A. 1818) President of St. Johns College [Annapolis, Maryland] (1831-1857)
Julian M. Sturtevant (B.A. 1826) President of Illinois College [Jacksonville, Illinois] (1844-1876)
Aaron Lucius Chapin (B.A. 1837) inaugural President of Beloit College [Wisconsin] (1849-1886)
William Heathcote DeLancey (B.A. 1817) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York (1839-1865)
Francis Huger Rutledge (B.A. 1820) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Florida (1851-1866)
Thomas March Clark (B.A. 1831) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island (1854-1903)
Gardiner Spring (B.A. 1805) Pastor of Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City (1810-1873)
Joseph Parrish Thompson (B.A. 1838, S&B 1838) Pastor of Broadway Tabernacle in New York City (1845-1871)
George Washington Blagden (B.A. 1823) Pastor of Old South Church in Boston (1836-1872)
Henry Martyn Dexter (B.A. 1840) Pastor of Pine Street Congregational Church in Boston (1849-1867)
John Chester Backus (B.A. 1830) Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland (1836-1875)
William Theodore Dwight (B.A. 1813) Pastor of Third Congregational Church in Portland, Maine (June 6, 1832-May 4, 1864)
Francis Gillette (B.A. 1829) Chairman of Connecticut State Board of Education (1849-1865)
Pelatiah Perit (B.A. 1802) President of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York (1853-1863)
Charles F. Pond (B.A. 1830) President of the New Haven, Hartford and Springfield Railroad Company (1842-1867)
Lewis Baldwin Parsons (B.A. 1840) President, Treasurer, and Attorney of Ohio and Mississippi Railroad (1854-1874)
Yale University Graduates and Their Occupation during the Second Opium War (1856-1860) and Panic of 1857
Government Officials:
Peter Parker (B.A. 1831) U.S. Commissioner to China (1856-1857)
Trusten Polk (B.A. 1831) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Missouri, 1857-1862); Governor of Missouri (1857)
James Knox (B.A. 1830) U.S. Congressman (Whig-Illinois, 1853-1857)
Eli Sims Shorter (B.A. 1843, S&K 1843) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Alabama, 1855-1859)
William D. Bishop (B.A. 1849) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Connecticut, 1857-1859)
Henry L. Dawes (B.A. 1839) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Massachusetts, 1857-1875)
William Nathan Harrell Smith (B.A. 1834) U.S. Congressman (Opposition Party-North Carolina, 1859-1861)
Orris Sanford Ferry (B.A. 1844, S&B 1844) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Connecticut, 1859-1861)
Jacob K. McKenty (B.A. 1848) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Pennsylvania, 1860-1861)
John K. Kane (B.A. 1814) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1846-1858)
Rensselaer Russell Nelson (B.A. 1846, S&B 1846) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota (1858-1896)
Henry Rootes Jackson (B.A. 1839, S&B 1839) U.S. Minister to the Austrian Empire (1854-1858)
William T. Minor (B.A. 1834) Governor of Connecticut (1855-1857)
William Warner Hoppin (B.A. 1828) Governor of Rhode Island (1854-1857)
James Hopkins Adams (B.A. 1831) Governor of South Carolina (1854-1856)
Henry Champion Deming (B.A. 1836, S&B 1836) Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut (1854-1858, 1860-1862)
Elias W. Leavenworth (B.A. 1824) Mayor of Syracuse, New York (1849-1850, 1859-1860)
John Ball Brisbrin (B.A. 1846, S&B 1846) Mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota (1857)
William Pitt Lynde (B.A. 1838) Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1860)
Henry Matson White (B.A. 1809) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut (1854-1857)
Thomas Slidell (B.A. 1825) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana (1855-1856); brother of Confederate envoy John Slidell
William Wolcott Ellsworth (B.A. 1810) Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut (1847-1861)
Levinus Monson (B.A. 1811) Judge of the Supreme Court of New York (1850-1859)
William Strong (B.A. 1828) Judge of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (1857-1868)
James N. Lea (B.A. 1834; S&B 1834) Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana (1855-1863)
John Wallace Houston (B.A. 1834, S&B 1834) Justice of the Superior Court of Delaware (1855-1893)
Isaac Atwater (B.A. 1844) Judge of the Supreme Court of Minnesota (1857-1864)
John Henry Felder (B.A. 1844, S&B 1844) Member of South Carolina State Legislature (1852-1861)
Richard Taylor (B.A. 1845, S&B 1845) Louisiana State Senator (1856-1861)
John Christopher Burch (B.A. 1847) Member of Tennessee State Legislature (1855-1856); Tennessee State Senator (1857-1858)
Augustus Brandegee (B.A. 1849, S&B 1849) Member of Connecticut State House of Representatives (1854-1857, 1859-1861)
Samuel Augustus Maverick (B.A. 1825) Texas State Senator [San Antonio district] (1855-1859)
William Bennett Fleming (B.A. 1825) Judge of the Superior Court of Chatham County, Georgia [Savannah] (1847-1849, 1853-1868, 1879-81)
Charles Allen (B.A. 1815) Chief Justice of the Suffolk County Superior Court [Boston, Massachusetts] (1859-1867)
Frederick A. Tallmadge (B.A. 1811) Superintendent of the New York City Metropolitan Police [NYPD] (1857-1862)
Elizur Wright (B.A. 1826) Massachusetts Commissioner of Insurance (1858-1866)
Frederick Ellsworth Mather (B.A. 1833, S&B 1833) Member of the Common Council of New York City (1854-1857)
College Presidents:
Rev. Theodore Dwight Woolsey (B.A. 1820) President of Yale University (1846-1871)
Simeon North (B.A. 1825, valedictorian) President of Hamilton College (1839-1857)
Samuel Ware Fisher (B.A. 1835) President of Hamilton College (1858-1866)
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (B.A. 1813) President of University of South Carolina (1857-1861)
William Wilson Hudson (B.A. 1827) President of University of Missouri (1856-1859)
Frederick A.P. Barnard (B.A. 1828) President of University of Mississippi (1856-1858)
Henry Barnard (B.A. 1830) Chancellor of University of Wisconsin (1858-1860)
John H. Lathrop (B.A. 1819) inaugural Chancellor of University of Wisconsin (1849-1858); President of Indiana University (1859-1860)
Joseph Gibson Hoyt (B.A. 1840, S&B 1840) Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis (1858-1862)
Henry Lawrence Hitchcock (B.A. 1832) President of Western Reserve University [Cleveland, Ohio] (1855-1871)
Julian M. Sturtevant (B.A. 1826) President of Illinois College [Jacksonville, Illinois] (1844-1876)
Aaron Lucius Chapin (B.A. 1837) inaugural President of Beloit College [Wisconsin] (1849-1886)
Hector Humphreys (B.A. 1818) President of St. Johns College [Annapolis, Maryland] (1831-1857)
Church Leaders:
William Heathcote DeLancey (B.A. 1817) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York (1839-1865)
Francis Huger Rutledge (B.A. 1820) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Florida (1851-1866)
Thomas March Clark (B.A. 1831) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island (1854-1903)
William Ingraham Kip (B.A. 1831) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of California (1857-1890)
Gardiner Spring (B.A. 1805) Pastor of Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City (1810-1873)
Joseph Parrish Thompson (B.A. 1838, S&B 1838) Pastor of Broadway Tabernacle in New York City (1845-1871)
George Washington Blagden (B.A. 1823) Pastor of Old South Church in Boston (1836-1872)
Henry Martyn Dexter (B.A. 1840) Pastor of Pine Street Congregational Church in Boston (1849-1867)
Henry Augustus Boardman (B.A. 1829) Pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia (1833-1876)
John Chester Backus (B.A. 1830) Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland (1836-1875)
Samuel Wolcott (B.A. 1833) Pastor of High Street Congregational Church in Providence, Rhode Island (1853-1859); Pastor of New England
Church in Chicago (1859-1862)
William Theodore Dwight (B.A. 1813) Pastor of Third Congregational Church in Portland, Maine (June 6, 1832-May 4, 1864)
Hiram Phelps Arms (B.A. 1824) Pastor of First (Congregational) Church of Norwich, Connecticut (1836-1873)
Ray Palmer (B.A. 1830) Pastor of First Congregational Church in Albany, New York (1850-1866)
William Ives Budington (B.A. 1834) Pastor of Clinton Avenue Congregational Church in Brooklyn, New York (1855-1878)
Charles Henry Hall (B.A. 1842) Rector of the Church of the Epiphany in Washington, D.C. (1856-1869)
Edward D. Morris (B.A. 1849, S&B 1849) Pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of Columbus, Ohio (1855-1867)
Businessmen and Miscellaneous:
Charles F. Pond (B.A. 1830) President of the New Haven, Hartford and Springfield Railroad Company (1842-1867)
Lewis Baldwin Parsons (B.A. 1840) President, Treasurer, and Attorney of Ohio and Mississippi Railroad (1854-1874)
Edward Dickinson (B.A. 1823) Treasurer of Amherst College (1835-1873); father of poet Emily Dickinson
Ralph Randolph Gurley (B.A. 1818) Agent, Secretary, Vice President, and Director of American Colonization Society [Liberia] (1822-1872)
James Darrach (B.A. 1827) Superintendent of the New York Hospital in New York City [on Broadway opposite Pearl Street] (1854-1864)
Francis Gillette (B.A. 1829) Chairman of Connecticut State Board of Education (1849-1865)
Pelatiah Perit (B.A. 1802) President of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York (1853-1863)
John Marsh Jr. (B.A. 1804) Secretary of American Temperance Union (1836-1865)
Frederick Adolphus Porcher (B.A. 1828) President of South Carolina Historical Society (1856-1888)
Samuel Rogers Andrew (B.A. 1807) Secretary of Yale University (1846-1858)
Benjamin Silliman (B.A. 1796) Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology at Yale University (1802-1864)
Benjamin Silliman Jr. (B.A. 1837, S&B 1837) Professor of Chemistry at Yale University (1846-1885)
Thomas Anthony Thacher (B.A. 1835, S&B 1835) Professor of Latin at Yale University (1842-1886)
Hubert Anson Newton (B.A. 1850) Professor of Mathematics at Yale University (1855-1890)
Yale University Graduates and Their Occupation during the American Civil War (1861-1865)
Federal and State Government Officials (Union):
Cassius Marcellus Clay (B.A. 1832) U.S. Minister to Russia (1861-1862, 1863-1869)
William T. Minor (B.A. 1834) U.S. Consul General at Havana, Cuba [Spain] (1864-1867)
William M. Evarts (B.A. 1837, S&B 1837) Special Diplomatic Envoy to Great Britain and France
Benjamin Gratz Brown (B.A. 1847) U.S. Senator (R-Missouri, 1863-1867)
Henry L. Dawes (B.A. 1839) U.S. Congressman (R-Massachusetts, 1857-1875)
John Law (B.A. 1814) U.S. Congressman (D-Indiana, 1861-1865)
William Barrett Washburn (B.A. 1844, S&B 1844) U.S. Congressman (R-Massachusetts, 1863-1871)
Henry Champion Deming (B.A. 1836, S&B 1836) U.S. Congressman (R-Connecticut, 1863-1867)
Augustus Brandegee (B.A. 1849, S&B 1849) U.S. Congressman (R-Connecticut, 1863-1867)
George C. Woodruff (B.A. 1825) U.S. Congressman (D-Connecticut, 1861-1863)
Rufus Paine Spalding (B.A. 1817) U.S. Congressman (R-Ohio, 1863-1869)
Willard P. Hall (B.A. 1839) Governor of Missouri (1864-1865); Lieutenant Governor of Missouri (1861-1864)
John Andrew Peters (B.A. 1842; S&B 1842) Attorney General of Maine (1864-1866)
Dwight Foster (B.A. 1848; S&B 1848) Attorney General of Massachusetts (1861-1864)
Chauncey M. Depew (B.A. 1856, S&B 1856) Secretary of State of New York (1864-1865)
William Strong (B.A. 1828) Judge of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (1857-1868)
Isaac Atwater (B.A. 1844) Judge of the Supreme Court of Minnesota (1857-1864)
Charles Allen (B.A. 1815) Chief Justice of the Suffolk County Superior Court [Boston, Massachusetts] (1859-1867)
Frederick A. Tallmadge (B.A. 1811) Superintendent of the New York City Metropolitan Police [NYPD] (1857-1862); Clerk of the New York Court of
Appeals (1862-1865)
Michael Waller Robinson (B.A. 1857) Member of the Missouri State Legislature (1861-1863)
William Huntington Russell (B.A. 1833, S&B 1833) Major-General in the Militia of the State of Connecticut (1862-1870)
Orris Sanford Ferry (B.A. 1844, S&B 1844) Brigadier General in the U.S. Volunteers (1862-1865); U.S. Congressman (R-Conn., 1859-1861)
Joseph Cooke Jackson (B.A. 1857, S&B 1857) brevetted Brigadier General in the 6th New Jersey Volunteers
John Thomas Croxton (B.A. 1857, S&B 1857) Major Gen., Union Army; Commander of Military District of SW Georgia at Macon, Georgia (1865)
Channing Richards (B.A. 1858) Military Mayor of Memphis, Tennessee (November 1864-July 1865)
Rebel Government Officials:
Richard Taylor (B.A. 1845, S&B 1845) Commander of the [Confederate] Army of Tennessee (1865)
Henry Rootes Jackson (B.A. 1839, S&B 1839) Major General in the Confederate Army
John Perkins Jr. (B.A. 1840, S&B 1840) Member of the Confederate House of Representatives (Louisiana, 1864-1865)
William T.S. Barry (B.A. 1841, S&B 1841) Chairman of the Mississippi Secession Convention in 1861; Signer of the Confederate Constitution
William Preston Johnston (B.A. 1852, S&B 1852) Confederate President Jefferson Daviss aide-de-camp
Burton Norvell Harrison (B.A. 1859, S&B 1859) Private Secretary to Confederate President Jefferson Davis
Allen Taylor Caperton (B.A. 1832) Confederate Senator (Virginia, 1861-1865)
William Nathan Harrell Smith (B.A. 1834) Member of the Confederate House of Representatives (North Carolina, 1862-1865)
Frederick W.M. Holliday (B.A. 1847) Member of the Confederate House of Representatives (Virginia, February 1864-April 1865)
William Bennett Fleming (B.A. 1825) Judge of the Superior Court of Chatham County, Georgia [Savannah] (1847-1849, 1853-1868, 1879-81)
Samuel Augustus Maverick (B.A. 1825) Member of Texas State House of Representatives (1853-1855, 1859-1863); Texas State Senator [San
Antonio district] (1855-1859)
College Presidents, College Professors, and Church Leaders:
Rev. Theodore Dwight Woolsey (B.A. 1820) President of Yale University (1846-1871)
Frederick A.P. Barnard (B.A. 1828) President of Columbia University (1864-1889)
Samuel Ware Fisher (B.A. 1835) President of Hamilton College (1858-1866)
Aaron Lucius Chapin (B.A. 1837) inaugural President of Beloit College [Wisconsin] (1849-1886)
Edward Dickinson (B.A. 1823) Treasurer of Amherst College (1835-1873); father of poet Emily Dickinson
Francis Gillette (B.A. 1829) Chairman of Connecticut State Board of Education (1849-1865)
Benjamin Silliman (B.A. 1796) Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology at Yale University (1802-1864)
Benjamin Silliman Jr. (B.A. 1837, S&B 1837) Professor of Chemistry at Yale University (1846-1885)
Hubert Anson Newton (B.A. 1850) Professor of Mathematics at Yale Univeristy (1855-1890)
William Heathcote DeLancey (B.A. 1817) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York (1839-1865)
Francis Huger Rutledge (B.A. 1820) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Florida (1851-1866)
Thomas March Clark (B.A. 1831) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island (1854-1903)
William Ingraham Kip (B.A. 1831) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of California (1857-1890)
Richard Hooker Wilmer (B.A. 1836) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama and Louisiana (1860-1900)
Gardiner Spring (B.A. 1805) Pastor of Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City (1810-1873)
Joseph Parrish Thompson (B.A. 1838, S&B 1838) Pastor of Broadway Tabernacle in New York City (1845-1871)
George Washington Blagden (B.A. 1823) Pastor of Old South Church in Boston (1836-1872)
John Chester Backus (B.A. 1830) Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland (1836-1875)
Samuel Wolcott (B.A. 1833) Pastor of High Street Congregational Church in Providence, Rhode Island (1853-1859); Pastor of New England Church
in Chicago (1859-1862); Pastor of Plymouth Church in Cleveland, Ohio (1862-1874)
Charles Henry Hall (B.A. 1842) Rector of the Church of the Epiphany in Washington, D.C. (1856-1869); Rector of the Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn,
New York (1869-1895)
Ray Palmer (B.A. 1830) Pastor of First Congregational Church in Albany, New York (1850-1866)
Others:
James Darrach (B.A. 1827) Superintendent of the New York Hospital in New York City [on Broadway opposite Pearl Street] (1854-1864)
Charles F. Pond (B.A. 1830) President of the New Haven, Hartford and Springfield Railroad Company (1842-1867)
Josiah Dwight Whitney (B.A. 1839) State Geologist of California (1860-1874); Sturgis-Hooper Professor of Geology at Harvard School of Mines
(1875-1896)
Frederick Adolphus Porcher (B.A. 1828) President of South Carolina Historical Society (1856-1888)
Hugh White Sheffey (B.A. 1835, S&B 1835) Judge of the Superior Court of Virginia (1865-1869)
Albert Pierson Condit (B.A. 1850, S&B 1850) Member (1866-1867, 1871) and Speaker (1871) of the New Jersey State Legislature
George Morris Woodruff (B.A. 1857) Connecticut State Railroad Commissioner (1874-1897); President of the board of the Connecticut State
Railroad Commission (1875-1897); Member of Connecticut State Board of Education (1865-1877)
Elizur Wright (B.A. 1826) Massachusetts Commissioner of Insurance (1858-1866); author of Politics and Mysteries of Life Insurance (1873);
abolitionist; Secretary of New York Anti-Slavery Society (1833)
College Presidents:
Rev. Theodore Dwight Woolsey (B.A. 1820) President of Yale University (1846-1871)
Rev. Noah Porter (B.A. 1831) President of Yale University (1871-1886)
Frederick A.P. Barnard (B.A. 1828) President of Columbia University (1864-1889)
Samuel Ware Fisher (B.A. 1835) President of Hamilton College [New York] (1858-1866)
George Thacher (B.A. 1840) President of the University of Iowa (1871-1877)
John H. Lathrop (B.A. 1819) inaugural President of University of Missouri (1841-1849, 1865-1866)
Andrew D. White (B.A. 1853, S&B 1853) inaugural President of Cornell University [Ithaca, New York] (1866-1885)
Daniel C. Gilman (B.A. 1852, S&B 1852) inaugural President of Johns Hopkins University [Baltimore, Maryland] (1875-1901); President of
University of California at Berkeley (1872-1875)
Henry Durant (B.A. 1827) inaugural President of University of California at Berkeley (1870-1872); Mayor of Oakland, California (1873-1875)
John Wesley Johnson (B.A. 1862) inaugural President of University of Oregon (1876-1893)
Edmund Asa Ware (B.A. 1863) inaugural President of [Clark] Atlanta University [Atlanta, Georgia] (1867-1885)
Henry Lawrence Hitchcock (B.A. 1832) President of [Case] Western Reserve University [Cleveland, Ohio] (1855-1871)
Carroll Cutler (B.A. 1854, S&B 1854) President of [Case] Western Reserve University [Cleveland, Ohio] (1871-1886)
George Wilson McPhail (B.A. 1835) President of Davidson College (1866-1871); former President of Lafayette College
Julian M. Sturtevant (B.A. 1826) President of Illinois College [Jacksonville, Illinois] (1844-1876)
Charles Janeway Stille (B.A. 1839, S&B 1839) Provost of University of Pennsylvania (1868-1880)
William Chauvenet (B.A. 1840, S&B 1840) Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis (1862-1869)
Henry Barnard (B.A. 1830) President of St. Johns College [Annapolis, Maryland] (1866-1867); U.S. Commissioner of Education (1867-1870)
State and Local Educators:
William Torrey Harris (B.A. 1858) Superintendent of Schools of St. Louis, Missouri (1868-1880)
Ariel Parish (B.A. 1835) Superintendent of Schools of New Haven, Connecticut (1865-1881)
Charles Daniel Hine (B.A. 1871, S&B 1871) Superintendent of Schools of Saginaw, Michigan (1871-1874)
Thomas Anthony Thacher (B.A. 1835, S&B 1835) Member of Connecticut State Board of Education (1865-1877)
Constantine C. Esty (B.A. 1845, S&B 1845) Member of Massachusetts State Board of Education (1871-1879); U.S. Congressman
Joseph Burbeen Walker (B.A. 1844, S&B 1844) Member of the Board of Education of Concord, New Hampshire (1859-1870)
Horace Day (B.A. 1836) Secretary of Board of Education of New Haven, Connecticut (1868-1902)
[John] Wager Swayne (B.A. 1856, S&K 1856) Member of the Board of Education of Toledo, Ohio (1872-1876)
Isaac Atwater (B.A. 1844) Member of the Board of Education of Minneapolis, Minnesota (1868-1878)
Samuel Chester Gale (B.A. 1854) Member of the Board of Education of Minneapolis, Minnesota (1871-1880)
Church Leaders:
Thomas March Clark (B.A. 1831) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island (1854-1903)
William Ingraham Kip (B.A. 1831) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of California (1857-1890)
Richard Hooker Wilmer (B.A. 1836) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama and Louisiana (1860-1900)
Charles F. Robertson (B.A. 1859, S&B 1859) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri (1868-1886)
Gardiner Spring (B.A. 1805) Pastor of Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City (1810-1873)
Joseph Parrish Thompson (B.A. 1838, S&B 1838) Pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle in New York City (1845-1871)
Joseph Augustine Benton (B.A. 1842, S&B 1842) Pastor of Plymouth Congregational Church in San Francisco (1863-1869)
Edward D. Morris (B.A. 1849, S&B 1849) Pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of Columbus, Ohio (1855-1867)
William Eves Moore (B.A. 1847, S&B 1847) Pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of Columbus, Ohio (1872-1894)
James Gardiner Vose (B.A. 1851, S&B 1851) Pastor of the Beneficent Church in Providence, Rhode Island (1866-1901)
William Henry Fenn (B.A. 1854, S&B 1854) Pastor of High Street Congregational Church of Portland, Maine (1866-1904)
Alexander S. Twombly (B.A. 1854, S&B 1854) Pastor of Winthrop (Congregational) Church in Boston (1872-1891)
Samuel W. Duffield (B.A. 1863) Pastor of 8th Presbyterian Church in Chicago (1874-1876); Pastor of the Kenderton Presbyterian Church in
Philadelphia (1867-1870)
Charles Henry Hall (B.A. 1842) Rector of the Church of the Epiphany in Washington, D.C. (1856-1869); Rector of the Holy Trinity Church in
Brooklyn, New York (1869-1895)
Samuel Wolcott (B.A. 1833) Pastor of High Street Congregational Church in Providence, Rhode Island (1853-1859); Pastor of New England
Church in Chicago (1859-1862); Pastor of Plymouth Church in Cleveland, Ohio (1862-1874)
George Washington Blagden (B.A. 1823) Pastor of Old South Church in Boston (1836-1872)
Henry Martyn Dexter (B.A. 1840) Pastor of Pine Street Congregational Church in Boston (1849-1867)
Henry Augustus Boardman (B.A. 1829) Pastor of Tenth Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia (1833-1876)
John Chester Backus (B.A. 1830) Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland (1836-1875); Trustee of Princeton
University (1860-1872)
Hiram Phelps Arms (B.A. 1824) Pastor of First (Congregational) Church of Norwich, Connecticut (1836-1873)
William Ives Budington (B.A. 1834) Pastor of Clinton Avenue Congregational Church in Brooklyn, New York (1855-1878)
Lawyers:
John William Sterling (B.A. 1864, S&B 1864) Co-Founder and Member of Shearman & Sterling [law firm in New York City] (1873-1918)
Thomas Thacher (B.A. 1871, S&B 1871) Co-Founder and Member of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett [law firm in New York City] (1875-1919)
Robert Weeks de Forest (B.A. 1870, S&K 1870) General Counsel of Central Railroad of New Jersey (1874-1924)
Yale University Graduates and Their Occupation during the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895)
Federal Government Officials:
Francis Eben Woodruff (B.A. 1864, S&B 1864) Commissioner of Imperial Maritime Customs Service of China (1865-1897)
Wilson Shannon Bissell (B.A. 1869, S&B 1869) Postmaster General of the United States (March 6, 1893-March 1, 1895); President of the
Buffalo & Southwestern Railroad (1883-1895)
John S. Seymour (B.A. 1875, LL.B. 1878, S&B 1875) U.S. Commissioner of Patents (1893-1897)
Samuel Knight (B.A. 1887, S&B 1887) U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California (1894-1898)
Andrew D. White (B.A. 1853, S&B 1853) U.S. Minister to Russia (November 7, 1892-October 1, 1894)
Theodore Runyon (B.A. 1842, S&K 1842) U.S. Ambassador to Germany (June 4, 1893-January 27, 1896); died in office
Isaac Wayne MacVeagh (B.A. 1853) U.S. Ambassador to Italy (March 11, 1894-March 4, 1897)
Eben Alexander (B.A. 1873, S&B 1873) U.S. Minister to Greece (1893-1897); U.S. Minister to Romania (1894-1897); U.S. Minister to Serbia
(1894-1897)
Charles Augustus de Kay (B.A. 1868) U.S. Consul-General at Berlin, Germany (1894-1897)
Herbert Wolcott Bowen (B.A. 1878) U.S. Consul-General in Barcelona, Spain (1890-1898)
Inajiro Taneka Tajiri (B.A. 1878) Vice-Minister of Finance of Japan (1892-1897, 1898-1901)
Anthony Higgins (B.A. 1861) U.S. Senator (Republican-Delaware, 1889-1895)
Fred Thomas Dubois (B.A. 1872) U.S. Senator (Republican, Democrat-Idaho, 1891-1897, 1901-1907)
John Patton Jr. (B.A. 1875) U.S. Senator (Republican-Michigan, May 5, 1894-January 14, 1895)
George Peabody Wetmore (B.A. 1867) U.S. Senator (Republican-Rhode Island, 1895-1907, 1908-1913)
Charles A. Russell (B.A. 1873) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Connecticut, 1887-1902)
John Dalzell (B.A. 1865, S&K 1865) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Pennsylvania, 1887-1913)
Robert Elliott [Griswold] DeForest (B.A. 1867) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Connecticut, 1891-1895)
James P. Pigott (B.A. 1878) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Connecticut, 1893-1895)
Charles Phelps Taft (B.A. 1864) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Ohio, 1895-1897)
Francis Henry Wilson (B.A. 1867) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New York, 1895-1897)
Fred Churchill Leonard (B.A. 1883, S&K 1883) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Pennsylvania, 1895-1897)
Charles Frederick Joy (B.A. 1874) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Missouri, 1895-1903)
Charles Newell Fowler (B.A. 1876, S&B 1876) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1895-1911)
David Josiah Brewer (B.A. 1856) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1889-1910)
Henry Billings Brown (B.A. 1856) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1891-1906)
George Shiras Jr. (B.A. 1853, S&K 1853) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1892-1903)
LeBaron Bradford Colt (B.A. 1868, S&B 1868) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit [Boston] (1884-1913)
Nathaniel Shipman (B.A. 1848) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [New York City] (1892-1902)
William Howard Taft (B.A. 1878, S&B 1878) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit [Cincinnati] (1892-1900)
Rensselaer Russell Nelson (B.A. 1846, S&B 1846) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota (1858-1896)
Leonard Eugene Wales (B.A. 1845, S&B 1845) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware (1884-1897)
William Kneeland Townsend (B.A. 1871, S&B 1871) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (1892-1902)
John B. Rector (B.A. 1859) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas (1892-1898)
State and Local Government Officials:
Luzon B. Morris (B.A. 1854, S&B 1854) Governor of Connecticut (1893-1895)
Albert W. McIntire (B.A. 1873) Governor of Colorado (1895-1897)
John Reed Nicholson (B.A. 1870) Attorney General of Delaware (1892-1895)
Benjamin D. Magruder (B.A. 1856) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois (1891-1901)
Albert Francis Judd (B.A. 1862) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii (1881-1900)
John Andrew Peters (B.A. 1842, S&B 1842) Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine (1883-1900)
Charles Francis Brown (B.A. 1866; S&K 1866) Justice of the Supreme Court of New York (1883-1896)
George Pierce Andrews (B.A. 1858; S&K 1858) Justice of the Supreme Court of New York (1884-1902)
Benjamin D. Magruder (B.A. 1856, S&B 1856) Justice of Illinois Supreme Court (1885-1906)
Simeon E. Baldwin (B.A. 1861, S&B 1861) Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors (1893-1910)
George Wakeman Wheeler (B.A. 1881, LL.B. 1883) Judge of Superior Court of Connecticut (1893-1910)
Charles Henry Leeds (B.A. 1854, S&K 1854) Mayor of Stamford, Connecticut (1894-1895)
William Kent (B.A. 1887, S&B 1887) Member of the Chicago City Council (1895-1897)
Cornelius Thomas Driscoll (B.A. 1869, LL.B 1871) Corporation Counsel of New Haven (1883-1889, 1891-1895)
Frank Bosworth Brandegee (B.A. 1885, S&B 1885) Corporation Counsel of New London, Connecticut (1889-1893, 1894-1897, 1901-1902)
Lawyers:
Robert Weeks de Forest (B.A. 1870, S&K 1870) General Counsel of Central Railroad of New Jersey (1874-1924)
Lloyd Wheaton Bowers (B.A. 1879, S&B 1879) General Counsel of Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company (1893-1909)
John William Sterling (B.A. 1864, S&B 1864) Co-Founder and Member of Shearman & Sterling [law firm in New York City] (1873-1918)
John Anson Garver (B.A. 1875, S&K 1875) Partner (1884-1918) and Senior Partner (1918-1936) of Shearman & Sterling
Thomas Thacher (B.A. 1871, S&B 1871) Co-Founder and Member of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett [law firm in New York City] (1875-1919)
Philip G. Bartlett (B.A. 1881, S&B 1881) Partner of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett (1890-1931)
Frederick Kingsbury Curtis (B.A. 1884) Member of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle [law firm in New York City] (1889-1926)
Allen Wardner Evarts (B.A. 1869) Member of Evarts, Choate & Sherman [and predecessor firms] [law firm in New York City] (1874-1939)
Thomas Townsend Sherman (B.A. 1874, LL.B. Columbia 1876) Member of Evarts, Choate & Sherman [and predecessor firms] (1875-1931)
Henry L. Stimson (B.A. 1888, S&B 1888) Counsel of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1891-1906, 1913-1927, 1933-1940, 1945-1950)
Payson Merrill (B.A. 1865, S&B 1865) Member of Merrill, Rogers, Gifford & Woody [law firm in New York City] (1883-1924)
Organization Executives:
Thomas March Clark (B.A. 1831) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island (1854-1903); Presiding Bishop of
the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States (1899-1903)
Richard Hooker Wilmer (B.A. 1836) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama and Louisiana (1860-1900)
Thomas F. Davies (B.A. 1853, S&B 1853) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan (1889-1905)
Cortlandt Whitehead (B.A. 1863) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1882-1922); Grand
Chaplain of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania Free and Accepted Masons (1883-1921)
Sereno Dwight Nickerson (B.A. 1845, S&B 1845) Recording Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts (1881-1908)
Theodore Thornton Munger (B.A. 1851) Pastor of United Church in New Haven, Connecticut (1885-1901)
George Shipman Payson (B.A. 1866) Pastor of Mount Washington Church in New York City (1874-1920)
David James Burrell (B.A. 1867, S&K 1867) Pastor of Marble Collegiate Church in New York City (1891-1926)
Henry Albert Stimson (B.A. 1865, S&B 1865) Pastor of Manhattan Church in New York City (1896-1917)
Joseph D. Burrell (B.A. 1881, S&B 1881) Pastor of Classon Avenue Church in Brooklyn [New York City] (1892-1919)
Charles Augustus Lewis Richards (B.A. 1849, S&K 1849) Rector of St. Johns Church in Providence, Rhode Island (1869-1901)
College Administrators, Professors, and Educators:
Rev. Timothy Dwight (B.A. 1849, S&B 1849) President of Yale University (1886-1899)
Daniel C. Gilman (B.A. 1852, S&B 1852) President of Johns Hopkins University (1875-1901)
William Preston Johnston (B.A. 1852, S&B 1852) President of Tulane University (1884-1899)
Cyrus Northrop (B.A. 1857, LL.B. 1859, S&B 1857) President of University of Minnesota (1884-1911)
Martin Kellogg (B.A. 1850) President of University of California at Berkeley (1890-1899)
Frank Strong (B.A. 1884) President of University of Oregon (1899-1902)
William Rainey Harper (Ph.D. 1875) President of the University of Chicago (1891-1906)
Austin Scott (B.A. 1869) President of Rutgers College (1891-1906)
Horace Bumstead (B.A. 1863) President of Atlanta University (1888-1907)
Webster Merrifield (B.A. 1877) President of University of North Dakota (1891-1909)
James O. Putnam (B.A. 1839, S&B 1839) Chancellor of University of Buffalo (1895-1902)
Franklin B. Dexter (B.A. 1861, S&B 1861) Secretary of Yale University (1869-1899)
Morris Franklin Tyler (B.A. 1870, LL.B. 1873) Treasurer of Yale University (1899-1904)
Addison Van Name (B.A. 1858, S&B 1858) Librarian of Yale University (1865-1905)
William Thayer Smith (B.A. 1860, S&B 1860) Dean of Dartmouth Medical School (1896-1909)
Nathan Davis Abbott (B.A. 1877, S&K 1877) Dean of Stanford University Law School (1894-1907)
Francis M. Finch (B.A. 1849, S&B 1849) Dean of Cornell Law School (1891-1903)
George Chase (B.A. 1870, valedictorian) Dean of New York Law School (1891-1924)
Henry Hulbert Ingersoll (B.A. 1863) Dean of the Law School at University of Tennessee (1891-1915)
William Henry Welch (B.A. 1870, S&B 1870) Dean of the Medical Faculty at Johns Hopkins University (1893-1898)
William Stewart Halsted (B.A. 1874) Surgeon-in-Chief of Johns Hopkins Hospital at Baltimore (1890-1922)
George Dutton Watrous (B.A. 1879, LL.B. 1883) Professor of Law at Yale Law School (1895-1920)
Edward Salisbury Dana (B.A. 1870, S&K 1870) Professor of Physics at Yale University (1890-1917)
John Louis Ewell (B.A. 1865, S&B 1865) Professor of Church History and Hebrew Exegesis at Howard University (1891-1910)
Daniel Bonbright (B.A. 1850, S&K 1850) Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Northwestern Univ. [Evanston, Illinois] (1858-1912)
Henry Herbert Donaldson (B.A. 1879, S&K 1879) Professor of Neurology at University of Chicago (1892-1906)
James Woods McLane (B.A. 1861) Dean of the Medical Faculty at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University (18911903); President of Roosevelt Hospital in New York City (1905-1912)
William Torrey Harris (B.A. 1858) U.S. Commissioner of Education (1889-1906)
William Henry Hurlbut (B.A. 1860, S&K 1860) Member of the New York City Board of Education (1895-1898)
Henry Waters Taft (B.A. 1880, S&B 1880) Member of New York City Board of Education (1896-1899)
Otto T. Bannard (B.A. 1876, S&B 1876) Member of New York City Board of Education (1897-1898)
Charles Noyes Chadwick (B.A. 1870) Member of Brooklyn Board of Education (1896-1898)
Samuel St. John McCutchen (B.A. 1870) Member of the New Jersey State Board of Education (1896-1911)
Charles Daniel Hine (B.A. 1871, S&B 1871) Secretary of Connecticut State Board of Education (1883-1920)
Edwards Denmore Robbins (B.A. 1874, S&B 1874) Member of Connecticut State Board of Education (1884-1919)
Andrew Frink Gates (B.A. 1887; LL.B. 1889) Superintendent of Schools of Board of Education of Hartford, Connecticut (1895-1898)
Eli Whitney, Jr. (B.A. 1869, S&K 1869) President of the Board of Education of New Haven, Connecticut (1897-1909)
Horace Day (B.A. 1836) Secretary of Board of Education of New Haven, Connecticut (1868-1902)
David Farnum Read (B.A. 1883) Member of the Board of Education of Bridgeport, Connecticut (1891-1907)
Roger Butler Williams (B.A. 1868) President of the Board of Education of Ithaca, New York (1890-1915)
Edwin F. Sweet (B.A. 1871, S&B 1871) Member of the Board of Education of Grand Rapids, Michigan (1899-1906, 1923-1926)
Gardiner Lathrop (B.A. 1869) Member of the Board of Education of Kansas City, Missouri (1882-1893, 1899-1905)
Chester Mitchell Dawes (B.A. 1876, S&B 1876) Member of Chicago Board of Education (1899-1902, 1907-1909)
Yale University Graduates and Their Occupation during the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
Government Officials:
William Howard Taft (B.A. 1878, S&B 1878) U.S. Secretary of War (February 1, 1904-June 30, 1908)
Henry M. Hoyt, Jr. (B.A. 1878, S&K 1878) Solicitor General of the United States (1903-1909)
Ellis Henry Roberts (B.A. 1850, S&B 1850) Treasurer of the United States (1897-1905)
William Torrey Harris (B.A. 1858) U.S. Commissioner of Education (1889-1906)
Herbert Knox Smith (B.A. 1891) U.S. Deputy Commissioner of Corporations, U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor (1903-1907)
John Green Brady (B.A. 1874) Governor of the Territory of Alaska (1897-1906)
Victor H. Metcalf (LL.B. 1876) U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Labor (1904-1906); U.S. Congressman (R-California, 1899-1904)
Irwin B. Laughlin (B.A. 1893, S&K 1893) Second Secretary of the American Legation at Tokyo, Japan (1905-1906); Private Secretary to the
U.S. Minister to Japan (1903-1905)
Herbert Wolcott Bowen (B.A. 1878) U.S. Minister to Venezuela (1901-1905)
William Harrison Bradley (B.A. 1872, S&K 1872) U.S. Consul in Manchester, England (1903-1905)
William Williams (B.A. 1884) U.S. Commissioner of Immigration for the Port of New York at Ellis Island (1902-1905, 1909-1913)
Morgan Hawley Beach (B.A. 1882, S&K 1882) U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia (1903-1905)
Fred Thomas Dubois (B.A. 1872, S&K 1872) U.S. Senator (R, D-Idaho, 1891-1897, 1901-1907)
George Peabody Wetmore (B.A. 1867, S&B 1867) U.S. Senator (R-Rhode Island, 1895-1907, 1908-1913)
Chauncey M. Depew (B.A. 1856, S&B 1856) U.S. Senator (R-New York, 1899-1911)
Alfred B. Kittredge (B.A. 1882, LL.B. 1885) U.S. Senator (R-South Dakota, 1901-1909)
Francis Newlands (B.A. 1859) U.S. Senator (D-Nevada, 1903-1917)
John Dalzell (B.A. 1865, S&K 1865) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Pennsylvania, 1887-1913)
Thomas Hedge (B.A. 1867, S&B 1867) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Iowa, 1899-1907)
Charles Newell Fowler (B.A. 1876, S&B 1876) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-New Jersey, 1895-1911)
John R. Thayer (B.A. 1869) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-Massachusetts, 1899-1905)
Frank Bosworth Brandegee (B.A. 1885, S&B 1885) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Connecticut, 1902-1905)
Francis Burton Harrison (B.A. 1895, S&B 1895) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-New York, 1903-1905, 1907-1913)
David Josiah Brewer (B.A. 1856) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1889-1910)
Henry Billings Brown (B.A. 1856) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1891-1906)
LeBaron Bradford Colt (B.A. 1868, S&B 1868) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit [Boston] (1884-1913)
William Kneeland Townsend (B.A. 1871, S&B 1871) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [New York City] (1902-1907)
George Chandler Holt (B.A. 1866, S&B 1866) Judge of U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York [New York City] (1903-1914)
James Perry Platt (B.A. 1873, S&K 1873) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (1902-1913)
Elmer Bragg Adams (B.A. 1865) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri (1895-1905)
Edward G. Bradford II (B.A. 1868) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware (1897-1918)
Edward Beers Thomas (B.A. 1870) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (1898-1906)
Robert W. Archbald (B.A. 1871, S&K 1871) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania (1901-1911)
Henry Clay McDowell (B.A. 1884, S&K 1884) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia (1901-1931)
Charles Fraser MacLean (B.A. 1864, S&B 1864) Justice of the Supreme Court of New York (1896-1909)
Almet Francis Jenks (B.A. 1875, S&B 1875) Justice of the Supreme Court of New York (1898-1924)
John Proctor Clarke (B.A. 1878) Justice of the Supreme Court of New York (1901-1926)
Joseph Arthur Burr (B.A. 1871) Justice of the Supreme Court of New York (1904-1915)
John Albert Matthewman (B.A. 1894) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii (1904-1919)
Irving Goodwin Vann (B.A. 1863) Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals (1895-1912)
Leonard Mayhew Daggett (B.A. 1884, LL.B 1887) Corporation Counsel of New Haven, Connecticut (1901-1908)
Arthur Leffingwell Shipman (B.A. 1886, LL.B. 1888, S&B 1886) Corporation Counsel of Hartford, Connecticut (1904-1908, 1910-1912)
John Prescott Kellogg (B.A. 1882, S&K 1882) Corporation Counsel of City of Waterbury, Connecticut (1896-1909, 1911-1912)
Montgomery Hare (B.A. 1893) Assistant Corporation Counsel for New York City (1901-1906)
John William Beckwith (B.A. 1889) Assistant Corporation Counsel for Chicago (1903-1911)
Robert Rutherford McCormick (B.A. 1903, S&K 1903) Member of Chicago City Council (1904-1906); President of Sanitary District of Chicago
(1905-1910); Editor and Publisher of The Chicago Tribune
James Everett Wheeler (B.A. 1892, LL.B. 1894) Member of City Council of New Haven, Connecticut (1900-1904)
John Payne Studley (LL.B. 1875) Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut (1901-1908)
Homer S. Cummings (Ph.B. 1891, LL.B. 1893) Mayor of Stamford, Connecticut (1900-1902, 1904-1906)
Edwin F. Sweet (B.A. 1871, S&B 1871) Mayor of Grand Rapids, Michigan (1904-1906)
Morihiro Ichihara (Ph.D. 1892) Mayor of Yokohama, Japan (1903-1906); President of the Bank of Chosen at Seoul, Korea (1909-1915)
Inajiro Taneka Tajiri (B.A. 1878) President of the Imperial Board of Auditors (1902-1918)
Mun-Yew Chung (B.A. 1883) Imperial Chinese Consul General in the Philippine Islands (1904-1905)
Lawyers:
James Mulford Townsend (B.A. 1874, S&B 1874) General Counsel of E.I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Company (1903-1913)
Robert Weeks de Forest (B.A. 1870, S&K 1870) General Counsel of Central Railroad of New Jersey (1874-1924)
Lloyd Wheaton Bowers (B.A. 1879, S&B 1879) General Counsel of Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company (1893-1909)
Thomas Thacher (B.A. 1871, S&B 1871) Co-Founder and Member of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett [law firm in New York City] (1875-1919)
Philip G. Bartlett (B.A. 1881, S&B 1881) Partner of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett (1890-1931)
Thomas Mills Day (B.A. 1886, LL.B. 1888, S&B 1886) Member of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett (1898-1917)
Henry Waters Taft (B.A. 1880, S&B 1880) Partner of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft [law firm in New York City] (1899-1945)
John William Sterling (B.A. 1864, S&B 1864) Co-Founder and Member of Shearman & Sterling [law firm in New York City] (1873-1918)
John Anson Garver (B.A. 1875, S&K 1875) Partner (1884-1918) and Senior Partner (1918-1936) of Shearman & Sterling
Henry DeForest Baldwin (B.A. 1885, S&B 1885) Member of Lord, Day & Lord [law firm in New York City] (1900-1947)
Charles Wheeler Pierson (B.A. 1886, S&B 1886) Member of Alexander & Green [law firm in New York City] (1900-1929)
Frederick Kingsbury Curtis (B.A. 1884) Member of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle [law firm in New York City] (1889-1926)
Herbert Parsons (B.A. 1890, S&K 1890) Member of Parsons, Closson & Mcllvaine [law firm in New York City] (1895-1925)
Charles P. Howland (B.A. 1891) Member of Murray, Prentice & Howland [law firm in New York City] (1900-1921)
Henry Fletcher (B.A. 1898) Member of Fletcher, Sillcocks & Leahy [law firm in New York City] (1902-1920)
Allen Wardner Evarts (B.A. 1869) Member of Evarts, Choate & Sherman [and predecessor firms] [New York City] (1874-1939)
Thomas Townsend Sherman (B.A. 1874, LL.B. Columbia 1876) Member of Evarts, Choate & Sherman [and predecessor firms] (1875-1931);
great-grandson of Roger Sherman
Businessmen and Journalists:
Otto T. Bannard (B.A. 1876, S&B 1876) President of New York Trust Company (1904-1916)
Elbridge Clinton Cooke (B.A. 1877; S&B 1877) President of Minneapolis Trust Company (1903-1920)
Robert Macy Gallaway (B.A. 1858) President of Merchants National Bank [New York City] (1892-1917)
John Smith Cravens (B.A. 1893) President of Southwestern National Bank of Los Angeles (1901-1906)
Robert W. Huntington Jr. (B.A. 1889, S&K 1889) President of Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. (1901-1936)
Harry Payne Whitney (B.A. 1894, S&B 1894) Member of the board of directors of Guaranty Trust Co. of New York (1899-1930)
Charles Marshall Brown (B.A. 1891) Secretary and Treasurer of Colonial Steel Company [Pittsburgh] (1901-1917)
Charles Hopkins Clark (B.A. 1871, S&B 1871) President and Editor-in-Chief of Hartford Courant (1890-1926)
William H. Cowles (B.A. 1887, S&B 1887) Publisher of Spokane Spokesman-Review (1893-1946)
Edward Anthony Bradford (B.A. 1873, S&K 1873) Member of the staff of The New York Times (1874-1928)
College Administrators and Professors:
Arthur Twining Hadley (B.A. 1876, S&B 1876) President of Yale University (1899-1921)
Kenjiro Yamagawa (Ph.B. 1875) President of Tokyo Imperial University (1901-1905, 1913-1920); Member of House of Peers (1904-1923)
William Rainey Harper (Ph.D. 1875) President of the University of Chicago (1891-1906)
Cyrus Northrop (B.A. 1857, LL.B. 1859, S&B 1857) President of University of Minnesota (1884-1911)
Austin Scott (B.A. 1869) President of Rutgers College (1891-1906)
Horace Bumstead (B.A. 1863) President of Atlanta University (1888-1907)
Webster Merrifield (B.A. 1877) President of University of North Dakota (1891-1909)
Frank Strong (B.A. 1884) Chancellor of University of Kansas (1902-1920)
George W. Kirchwey (B.A. 1879) Dean of Columbia Law School (1901-1910)
George Chase (B.A. 1870, valedictorian) Dean of New York Law School (1891-1924)
Nathan Davis Abbott (B.A. 1877, S&K 1877) Dean of Stanford University Law School (1894-1907)
William Thayer Smith (B.A. 1860, S&B 1860) Dean of Dartmouth Medical School (1896-1909)
George Dutton Watrous (B.A. 1879, LL.B. 1883) Professor of Law at Yale Law School (1895-1920)
Henry Walcott Farnam (B.A. 1874, S&B 1874) Professor of Political Economy at Yale University (1880-1912)
Irving Fisher (B.A. 1888, Ph.D. 1891, S&B 1888) Professor of Political Economy at Yale University (1893-1935)
Gustav Gruener (B.A. 1884, S&B 1884) Professor of German at Yale University (1892-1928)
Robert Nelson Corwin (B.A. 1887, S&B 1887) Professor of German at Yale University (1899-1933)
Horatio McLeod Reynolds (B.A. 1880) Talcott Professor of the Greek Language and Literature at Yale University (1893-1922)
Charlton M. Lewis (B.A. 1886, S&B 1886) Emily Sanford Professor of English at Yale University (1899-1923)
James W. Ingersoll (B.A. 1892, S&B 1892) Professor of Latin at Yale University (1897-1921)
Charles Foster Kent (B.A. 1889, Ph.D. 1891) Woolsey Professor of Biblical Literature at Yale University (1901-1925)
Edward Salisbury Dana (B.A. 1870, S&K 1870) Professor of Physics at Yale University (1890-1917)
Dwight Whitney Learned (B.A. 1870, Ph.D. 1873, S&B 1870) Professor of Chinese History, Biblical Theology, and Greek at Doshisha College
in Kyoto, Japan (1876-1928)
Henry Taylor Terry (B.A. 1869) Professor of English Law at University of Tokyo (1894-1912)
John Trumbull Swift (B.A. 1884) Lecturer on the English language in Tokyo Imperial University (1900-1927)
William Stewart Halsted (B.A. 1874) Surgeon-in-Chief of Johns Hopkins Hospital at Baltimore (1890-1922)
John Louis Ewell (B.A. 1865, S&B 1865) Professor of Church History and Hebrew Exegesis at Howard University [Wash., D.C.] (1891-1910)
Warren Austin Adams (B.A. 1886, Ph.D. 1895) Professor of German at Dartmouth College (1904-1944)
John Seymour Thacher (B.A. 1877, S&B 1877) Professor of Clinical Medicine at Columbia University (1903-1918)
George E. Vincent (B.A. 1885, S&K 1885) Professor of Sociology at University of Chicago (1904-1911)
Henry Herbert Donaldson (B.A. 1879, S&K 1879) Professor of Neurology at University of Chicago (1892-1906)
Organization Executives:
Franklin Augustus Gaylord (B.A. 1876) General Secretary of the Russian YMCA in St. Petersburg, Russia (1899-1917)
Thomas F. Davies (B.A. 1853, S&B 1853) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan (1889-1905)
Boyd Vincent (B.A. 1867, S&K 1867) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio (1904-1929)
Chauncey B. Brewster (B.A. 1868, S&B 1868) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut (1899-1928)
Edwin Stevens Lines (B.A. 1872, S&K 1872) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Newark, New Jersey (1903-1927)
Frederic W. Keator (B.A. 1880, LL.B. 1882, S&K 1880) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia, Wa. (1902-1924)
Cortlandt Whitehead (B.A. 1863) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1882-1922); Grand
Chaplain of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania Free and Accepted Masons (1883-1921)
Sereno Dwight Nickerson (B.A. 1845, S&B 1845) Recording Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts (1881-1908)
William H. Welch (B.A. 1870, S&B 1870) President of the board of directors of Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1901-1934)
Daniel Coit Gilman (B.A. 1852, S&B 1852) President of Carnegie Institution of Washington (1902-1905); President of the National Civil
Service Reform League (1901-1907)
David James Burrell (B.A. 1867, S&K 1867) Pastor of Marble Collegiate Church in New York City (1891-1926)
Henry Albert Stimson (B.A. 1865, S&B 1865) Pastor of Manhattan Church in New York City (1896-1917)
Joseph D. Burrell (B.A. 1881, S&B 1881) Pastor of Classon Avenue Church in Brooklyn [New York City] (1892-1919)
Yale University Graduates and Their Occupation during the Chinese Revolution of 1911 (Wuchang Uprising; October 10, 1911)
Government Officials:
William Howard Taft (B.A. 1878, S&B 1878) President of the United States (1909-1913)
Franklin MacVeagh (B.A. 1862, S&B 1862) Secretary of the Treasury (1909-1913)
Henry L. Stimson (B.A. 1888, S&B 1888) Secretary of War (May 22, 1911March 4, 1913)
Amos Parker Wilder (B.A. 1884, Ph.D. 1892, S&B 1884) U.S. Consul-General in Shanghai, China (1909-1914); Vice-President of Yale-in-China
(1910-1913)
Thomas Lee McClung (B.A. 1892, S&B 1892) Treasurer of the United States (1909-1912)
Henry S. Graves (B.A. 1892, S&B 1892) Chief of the U.S. Forest Service (1910-1920)
Huntington Wilson (B.A. 1897) Assistant Secretary of State (1909-1913)
Benjamin S. Cable (B.A. 1895, S&B 1895) Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Labor (1909-1913)
Chandler P. Anderson (B.A. 1887, S&K 1887) State Department Counselor (1910-1913); Legal Adviser for U.S. Department of State (1914-1915)
Herbert Knox Smith (B.A. 1891) U.S. Commissioner of Corporations, U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor (1907-1912)
Asa Palmer French (B.A. 1882, S&B 1882) U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts (1906-1914)
John Trumbull Robinson (B.A. 1893, S&B 1893) U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut (1908-1912)
William Williams (B.A. 1884) U.S. Commissioner of Immigration for the Port of New York at Ellis Island (1902-1905, 1909-1913)
George Peabody Wetmore (B.A. 1867, S&B 1867) U.S. Senator (R-Rhode Island, 1895-1907, 1908-1913)
Frank Bosworth Brandegee (B.A. 1885, S&B 1885) U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut, 1905-1924)
Edwin F. Sweet (B.A. 1871, S&B 1871) U.S. Congressman (D-Michigan, 1911-1913)
William Kent (B.A. 1887, S&B 1887) U.S. Congressman (R-California, 1911-1917)
Francis Burton Harrison (B.A. 1895, S&B 1895) U.S. Congressman (D-New York, 1903-1905, 1907-1913)
LeBaron Bradford Colt (B.A. 1868, S&B 1868) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit [Boston] (1884-1913)
Robert W. Archbald (B.A. 1871, S&K 1871) Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Court [Philadelphia] (Jan. 31, 1911-Jan. 13, 1913)
George Chandler Holt (B.A. 1866, S&B 1866) Judge of U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York [New York City] (1903-1914)
Thomas Chatfield (B.A. 1893) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (1907-1922)
James Perry Platt (B.A. 1873, S&K 1873) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (1902-1913)
Edward G. Bradford II (B.A. 1868) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware (1897-1918)
Simeon E. Baldwin (B.A. 1861, S&B 1861) Governor of Connecticut (Democrat, January 4, 1911-January 6, 1915)
Edward Laurence Smith (B.A. 1897) Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut (1910-1912); U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut (1920-1923)
Arthur Leffingwell Shipman (B.A. 1886, LL.B. 1888, S&B 1886) Corporation Counsel of Hartford, Connecticut (1904-1908, 1910-1912)
Walter F. Frear (B.A. 1885) Governor of Territory of Hawaii (1907-1913)
John Albert Matthewman (B.A. 1894) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii (1904-1919)
Almet Francis Jenks (B.A. 1875, S&B 1875) Justice of the Supreme Court of New York (1898-1924)
John Proctor Clarke (B.A. 1878) Justice of the Supreme Court of New York (1901-1926)
Hong Yen Chang [Kang-jen Chang] (B.A. 1883) Chinese Consul at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (1910-1913)
Lawyers, Businessmen, and Professors:
Thomas Thacher (B.A. 1871, S&B 1871) Co-Founder and Member of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett [law firm in New York City] (1875-1919)
Philip G. Bartlett (B.A. 1881, S&B 1881) Partner of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett (1890-1931)
Thomas Mills Day (B.A. 1886, LL.B. 1888, S&B 1886) Member of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett (1898-1917)
Henry Waters Taft (B.A. 1880, S&B 1880) Partner of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft [law firm in New York City] (1899-1945)
John William Sterling (B.A. 1864, S&B 1864) Co-Founder and Member of Shearman & Sterling [law firm in New York City] (1873-1918)
John Anson Garver (B.A. 1875, S&K 1875) Partner (1884-1918) and Senior Partner (1918-1936) of Shearman & Sterling
Howard Mansfield (B.A. 1871, S&B 1871) Senior Partner of Lord, Day & Lord (1908-1938)
Henry DeForest Baldwin (B.A. 1885, S&B 1885) Member of Lord, Day & Lord [law firm in New York City] (1900-1947)
Charles Wheeler Pierson (B.A. 1886, S&B 1886) Member of Alexander & Green [law firm in New York City] (1900-1929)
Frederick Kingsbury Curtis (B.A. 1884) Member of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle [law firm in New York City] (1889-1926)
James Mulford Townsend (B.A. 1874, S&B 1874) General Counsel of E.I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Company (1903-1913)
Otto T. Bannard (B.A. 1876, S&B 1876) President of New York Trust Company (1904-1916)
Pierre Jay (B.A. 1892, S&B 1892) Vice President of Manhattan Company [New York City] (1909-1914)
Thomas Cochran (B.A. 1894, S&B 1894) Vice President of Astor Trust Company (1906-1914)
Robert W. Huntington Jr. (B.A. 1889, S&K 1889) President of Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. (1901-1936)
Harry Payne Whitney (B.A. 1894, S&B 1894) Member of the board of directors of Guaranty Trust Co. of New York (1899-1930)
Marshall Jewell Dodge (B.A. 1898, S&K 1898) Partner of Bertron, Griscom & Company, Inc., international financiers (1907-1930)
Charles Hopkins Clark (B.A. 1871, S&B 1871) President and Editor-in-Chief of Hartford Courant (1890-1926)
Arthur Twining Hadley (B.A. 1876, S&B 1876) President of Yale University (1899-1921)
George E. Vincent (B.A. 1885, S&K 1885) President of University of Minnesota (1911-1917)
Anson Phelps Stokes (B.A. 1896, S&B 1896) Secretary of Yale University (1899-1921)
George Dutton Watrous (B.A. 1879, LL.B. 1883) Professor of Law at Yale Law School (1895-1920)
Henry Walcott Farnam (B.A. 1874, S&B 1874) Professor of Political Economy at Yale University (1880-1912)
Irving Fisher (B.A. 1888, Ph.D. 1891, S&B 1888) Professor of Political Economy at Yale University (1893-1935)
Clive Day (B.A. 1892, Ph.D. 1899, S&B 1892) Professor of Economic History at Yale University (1907-1936)
George Chase (B.A. 1870, valedictorian) Dean of New York Law School (1891-1924)
James W. Williams (B.A. 1908, S&B 1908) member of faculty of Yale-in-China at Changsha, China (1916-1922)
Edward Hicks Hume (B.A. 1897, M.D. Johns Hopkins Univ. 1901) Senior Physician of Yale Hospital in Changsha, China (1906-1923)
[Charles] Brownell Gage (B.A. 1898, Ph.D. 1924) Dean of Yali [Yale] Collegiate School in Changsha, China (1906-1914)
Edward Bliss Reed (B.A. 1894, Ph.D. 1896) Trustee of Yale-in-China (1910-1930)
Lewis Sheldon Welch (B.A. 1889, S&K 1889) Member of the council of Yale-in-China (1908-1934)
Cortlandt Whitehead (B.A. 1863) Grand Chaplain of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania Free and Accepted Masons (1883-1921)
Chauncey B. Brewster (B.A. 1868, S&B 1868) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut (1899-1928)
Frederic W. Keator (B.A. 1880, LL.B. 1882, S&K 1880) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia, Washington (1902-1924)
Sidney C. Partridge (B.A. 1880, S&B 1880) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Western Missouri (1911-1930)
Dwight Huntington Day (B.A. 1899, S&B 1899) Treasurer, Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (1906-1924)
Andrew D. White (B.A. 1853, S&B 1853) Trustee of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1910-1918)
Yale University Graduates and Their Occupation during World War I (1914-1918) and Bolshevik Revolution (1917-1919)
Government Officials:
Frank L. Polk (B.A. 1894, S&K 1894) Counselor of U.S. State Department (1915-1919); Corporation Counsel of New York City (1914-1915)
Russell C. Leffingwell (B.A. 1899) Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (1917-1920)
Edwin F. Sweet (B.A. 1871, S&B 1871) Assistant Secretary of Commerce (1913-1921)
Henry S. Graves (B.A. 1892, S&B 1892) Chief of the U.S. Forest Service (1910-1920)
William Kent (B.A. 1887, S&B 1887) Member of U.S. Tariff Commission (1917-1920); U.S. Congressman (R-California, 1911-1917)
Gifford Pinchot (B.A. 1889, S&B 1889) Member, Commission for Relief in Belgium (1914-15); Member of U.S. Food Administration (1917-19)
Frederic C. Walcott (B.A. 1891, S&B 1891) Member of the staff, United States Food Administration (1917-1918)
Francis Burton Harrison (B.A. 1895, S&B 1895) Governor General of the Philippines (1913-1921)
William Harrison Bradley (B.A. 1872, S&K 1872) U.S. Consul-General in Montreal (1907-1917)
William Holt Gale (Ph.B. 1885) U.S. Consul-General in Athens (1910-1914), Munich (1915-1917), and Copenhagen, Denmark (1917)
Irwin B. Laughlin (B.A. 1893, S&K 1893) Secretary (1912-1917) and Counselor (1916-1919) of the U.S. Embassy in London
E. Sheldon Whitehouse (B.A. 1905, S&B 1905) First Secretary of the American Embassy in Petrograd, Russia (1916-1917)
Hugh R. Wilson (B.A. 1906, S&B 1906) Second Secretary of American Legation at Berlin, Germany (1916-1917)
Albert Billings Ruddock (B.A. 1907) Secretary of American Legation at Berlin, Germany (1912-1916) and Brussels, Belgium (1917)
Gardner Richardson (B.A. 1905, S&B 1905) U.S. Army officer (Captain) assigned to Intelligence Section, General Headquarters, U.S. Army
(1917-1918); Member, Commission for Relief in Belgium, in charge of Province of Antwerp and District of Valenciennes, France (1915-1917)
Bert Hanson (B.A. 1890) Assistant U.S Attorney General in charge of customs cases (1914-1921)
Ernest Knaebel (B.A. 1894, LL.B. 1896) Assistant U.S. Attorney General (May 9, 1911-October 31, 1916); U.S. Supreme Court Reporter of
Decisions (1916-1944)
John Fuller Appleton Merrill (B.A. 1889) United States Attorney for the District of Maine (1915-1922)
LeBaron Bradford Colt (B.A. 1868, S&B 1868) U.S. Senator (R-Rhode Island, 1913-1924)
Frank Bosworth Brandegee (B.A. 1885, S&B 1885) U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut, 1905-1924)
James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (B.A. 1898, S&B 1898) U.S. Senator (R-New York, 1915-1927)
Selden Palmer Spencer (B.A. 1884) U.S. Senator (R-Missouri, November 6, 1918-May 16, 1925); captain in the Missouri Home Guard and
chairman of the draft board (1917-1918)
John Q. Tilson (B.A. 1891) U.S. Congressman (R-Connecticut, 1909-1913, 1915-1932)
Ira Clifton Copley (B.A. 1887) U.S. Congressman (R-Illinois, 1911-1923)
James William Husted (B.A. 1892, S&B 1892) U.S. Congressman (R-New York, 1915-1923)
Merrill Moores (B.A. 1878) U.S. Congressman (R-Indiana, 1915-1925)
Frederick Reimold Lehlbach (B.A. 1897) U.S. Congressman (R-New Jersey, 1915-1937)
Thomas Woodnutt Miller (Ph.B. 1908) U.S. Congressman (R-Delaware, 1915-1917); Secretary of State of Delaware (1913-1915)
Joseph Medill McCormick (B.A. 1900, S&K 1900) U.S. Congressman (R-Illinois, 1917-1919); U.S. Senator (R-Illinois, 1919-1925)
Schuyler Merritt (B.A. 1873, S&K 1873) U.S. Congressman (R-Connecticut, 1917-1931, 1933-1937)
Edward G. Bradford II (B.A. 1868) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware (1897-1918)
Howard C. Hollister (B.A. 1878, S&K 1878) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio (1910-1919)
William Irwin Grubb (B.A. 1883) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama (1909-1935)
Wilbur Franklin Booth (B.A. 1884, LL.B. 1888, S&B 1884) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota (1914-1925)
Henry Clay McDowell (B.A. 1884, S&K 1884) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia (1901-1931)
Thomas Chatfield (B.A. 1893) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (1907-1922)
Eugene Lamb Richards (B.A. 1885, S&B 1885) Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York (1914-1917)
Almet Francis Jenks (B.A. 1875, S&B 1875) Justice of the Supreme Court of New York (1898-1924)
John Proctor Clarke (B.A. 1878) Justice of the Supreme Court of New York (1901-1926)
John Albert Matthewman (B.A. 1894) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii (1904-1919)
Samuel Oscar Prentice (B.A. 1873, S&B 1873) Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors (1913-1920)
George Wakeman Wheeler (B.A. 1881, LL.B. 1883) Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors (1910-1920)
Lucien F. Burpee (B.A. 1879; S&B 1879) Judge of the Superior Court of Connecticut (1909-1921)
Gardiner Greene (B.A. 1873) Judge of the Superior Court of Connecticut (1910-1921)
Howard Junior Curtis (B.A. 1881, LL.B. 1883) Judge of the Superior Court of Connecticut (1907-1920)
Joseph Parsons Tuttle (B.A. 1889) Judge of the Superior Court of Connecticut (1913-1917)
Charles Daniel Hine (B.A. 1871, S&B 1871) Secretary of Connecticut State Board of Education (1883-1920)
Edwards Denmore Robbins (B.A. 1874, S&B 1874) Member of Connecticut State Board of Education (1884-1919)
Howell Cheney (B.A. 1892, S&B 1892) Member of the Connecticut State Board of Education (1909-1919)
John Wesley Wescott (B.A. 1872, LL.B. 1876) Attorney General of New Jersey (1914-1919)
William Nelson Runyon (B.A. 1892, S&K 1892) Member of New Jersey State Senate (1918-1922) and New Jersey House of Rep. (1915-17)
George Augustus Sanderson (B.A. 1885) Justice of Superior Court of Massachusetts (1907-1924)
Franklin Atkins Lord (B.A. 1898, S&B 1898) Deputy Police Commissioner of New York City (1915-1918)
Frederic Kernochan (B.A. 1898, S&B 1898) Chief Justice of Court of Special Sessions of New York City (1916-1937)
Henry Hastings Curran (B.A. 1898) Alderman of New York City (1911-1917)
Francis Patrick Garvan (B.A. 1897) Manager of New York City office of Alien Property Custodian (November 1917-March 1919)
Mansfield Ferry (B.A. 1903) General Counsel of the Alien Property Custodian in Washington, D.C. (January 1, 1919-September 15, 1919)
Frank Lincoln Woodward (B.A. 1888, LL.B. 1890, S&K 1888) Deputy Food Administrator for Colorado (October 1917-March 1919)
Richard Steere Aldrich (B.A. 1906) Member of Rhode Island House of Representatives (1914-1916); Rhode Island State Senator (1916-18)
George Cromwell (B.A. 1883) New York State Senator (1915-1918)
Arthur Lehman Goodhart (B.A. 1912) Assistant Corporation Counsel of New York City (1915-1917); Captain, Ordnance, U.S. Army (1917-19)
Henry Smith Mathewson (B.A. 1890) Surgeon in U.S. Public Health Service stationed at Portland, Maine (1913-1917) and Boston (1917-19)
James Avery Draper (B.A. 1895) Member of Delaware State Board of Health (1915-1920); director of Equitable Trust Company of
Wilmington (1907-1925)
Clifford Butler Allen (B.A. 1885, S&K 1885) Member of board of examiners of Supreme Court of Missouri (1912-1924)
Charles Morehead Walker (B.A. 1884) Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois [Chicago] (1903-1920)
John William Beckwith (B.A. 1889) Corporation Counsel of Chicago (1914-1915)
Eugene Rockwell Pike (B.A. 1890) City Comptroller of Chicago (1915-1919)
George Sturges Buck (B.A. 1896) Mayor of Buffalo, New York (1917-1921)
Bankers:
Pierre Jay (B.A. 1892, S&B 1892) Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1914-1926)
John Perrin (B.A. 1879, S&B 1879) Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (1914-1925)
Alfred L. Aiken (B.A. 1891) President [Governor] of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (1914-1917)
Otto T. Bannard (B.A. 1876, S&B 1876) Chairman of the board of New York Trust Company (1916-1921)
Mortimer Norton Buckner (B.A. 1895, S&B 1895) President of New York Trust Company (1916-1921)
Thomas Cochran (B.A. 1894, S&B 1894) Partner of J.P. Morgan & Co. (1917-1936); President, Liberty National Bank of New York (1914-16)
Alfred Lawrence Ripley (B.A. 1878, S&K 1878) President of Merchants National Bank of Boston (1917-1929)
Harry Payne Whitney (B.A. 1894, S&B 1894) Member of the board of directors of Guaranty Trust Co. of New York (1899-1930)
Marshall Jewell Dodge (B.A. 1898, S&K 1898) Partner of Bertron, Griscom & Company, Inc., international financiers (1907-1930)
Samuel R. Bertron (B.A. 1885, S&B 1885) President of Bertron, Griscom & Company, Inc., international financiers [New York City] (19121938); Member of the Special Diplomatic Mission to Russia [The Root Mission] (May 1917)
Elbridge Clinton Cooke (B.A. 1877; S&B 1877) President of Minneapolis Trust Company (1903-1920)
Frank Altschul (B.A. 1908) Partner of Lazard Freres & Co. (1916-1945)
John Smith Cravens (B.A. 1893) Vice President of First National Bank of Los Angeles [California] (1906-1929)
Businessmen:
Fairfax Harrison (B.A. 1890, S&B 1890) President of Southern Railway Co. (1913-1937)
Ashbel Barney Newell (B.A. 1890, S&K 1890) President of Toledo Terminal Railroad Company (1914-1950)
Arthur Lawrence Greer (B.A. 1893, S&K 1893) President of Western Maryland Railway Company (April 3, 1918-January 15, 1919)
Louis Warren Hill (Ph.B. 1893) Chairman of the board of Great Northern Railway [St. Paul, Minnesota] (1912-1929)
Robert W. Huntington Jr. (B.A. 1889, S&K 1889) President of Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. (1901-1936)
W. Averell Harriman (B.A. 1913, S&B 1913) Chairman of the board of Merchant Shipbuilding Corp. (1917-1925)
Edwin M. Herr (Ph.B. 1884) President of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. (1911-1929)
Charles Davies Jones (B.A. 1893, S&K 1893) President of Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company (1915-1928)
Charles Hopkins Clark (B.A. 1871, S&B 1871) President and Editor-in-Chief of Hartford Courant (1890-1926)
William H. Cowles (B.A. 1887, S&B 1887) Publisher of Spokane Spokesman-Review (1893-1946)
Joseph Medill Patterson (B.A. 1901, S&K 1901) Co-Editor and Publisher of The Chicago Tribune (1914-1925)
Henry Fletcher (B.A. 1898) Chairman of the board of Swan & Finch Co. (Standard Oil subsidiary) (1915-1922)
Gilbert Colgate (B.A. 1883) First Vice President of Colgate & Company (1908-1920)
Solomon Albert Smith (B.A. 1899) President of Northern Trust Co. of Chicago (1914-1957)
Charles Marshall Brown (B.A. 1891) Secretary and Treasurer of Colonial Steel Company [Pittsburgh] (1901-1917)
Clarence Clifford Harmstad (B.A. 1893) Treasurer of Title, Guarantee & Trust Company [business firm in New York City] (1916-1924)
George Arthur Hurd (B.A. 1890) President of The Mortgage-Bond Company of New York [business firm in New York City] (1910-1929)
Lawyers:
John William Sterling (B.A. 1864, S&B 1864) Co-Founder and Member of Shearman & Sterling (1873-1918)
John Anson Garver (B.A. 1875, S&K 1875) Partner (1884-1918) and Senior Partner (1918-1936) of Shearman & Sterling
Chauncey Brewster Garver (B.A. 1908, S&K 1908) Partner of Shearman & Sterling (1917-1973)
Henry Waters Taft (B.A. 1880, S&B 1880) Partner of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft (1899-1945)
Philip G. Bartlett (B.A. 1881, S&B 1881) Partner of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett (1890-1931)
Charles Brown Eddy (B.A. 1893) Partner of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett (1905-1918); Asst. General Counsel of U.S. Railroad Adm. (1918)
Graham Sumner (B.A. 1897, S&B 1897) Member of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett (1904-1946)
Thomas D. Thacher (B.A. 1904, S&B 1904) Partner of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett (1914-1925, 1933-1943)
Alfred Beaumont Thacher (B.A. 1874) Member of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett
Howard Mansfield (B.A. 1871, S&B 1871) Senior Partner of Lord, Day & Lord (1908-1938)
Henry DeForest Baldwin (B.A. 1885, S&B 1885) Member of Lord, Day & Lord (1900-1947)
Allen Wardwell (B.A. 1895, S&K 1895) Member of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1909-1953)
Lansing P. Reed (B.A. 1904, S&B 1904) Member of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed (1915-1937)
Henry L. Stimson (B.A. 1888, S&B 1888) Counsel of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts; U.S. Army Colonel during World War I
George Roberts (B.A. 1905, LL.B. Harvard 1908) Partner of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1914-1968)
Douglas Maxwell Moffat (B.A. 1903, LL.B. Harvard 1907) Partner of Cravath, Swaine & Moore [law firm in New York City] (1913-1956)
Charles Wheeler Pierson (B.A. 1886, S&B 1886) Member of Alexander & Green [law firm in New York City] (1900-1929)
Henry Wheeler de Forest (B.A. 1876, S&K 1876) Member of deForest Brothers [law firm in New York City] (1893-1932)
Howard Thayer Kingsbury (B.A. 1891) Member of Coudert Brothers [law firm in New York City]
Frederick Kingsbury Curtis (B.A. 1884) Member of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle [law firm in New York City] (1889-1926)
Harris Dunscomb Colt (B.A. 1884, LL.B. Columbia 1886) Member of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost & Colt [law firm in New York City]; died in 1959
Allen Wardner Evarts (B.A. 1869) Member of Evarts, Choate & Sherman [and predecessor firms] (1874-1939)
Thomas Townsend Sherman (B.A. 1874, LL.B. Columbia 1876) Member of Evarts, Choate & Sherman [and predecessor firms] (1875-1931);
great-grandson of Roger Sherman
Henry Burrall Anderson (B.A. 1885, S&K 1885) Partner of Anderson & Anderson [law firm in New York City] (1898-1928)
James Rockwell Sheffield (B.A. 1887, S&K 1887) Senior Partner of Sheffield and Betts [law firm in New York City] (1911-1938)
Herbert Parsons (B.A. 1890, S&K 1890) Member of Parsons, Closson & Mcllvaine [law firm in New York City] (1895-1925)
Charles P. Howland (B.A. 1891) Member of Murray, Prentice & Howland [law firm in New York City] (1900-1921)
Henry Burr Barnes, Jr. (B.A. 1893, S&K 1893) Partner of Moen & Dwight [law firm in New York City] (1911-1928)
Henry Fletcher (B.A. 1898) Member of Fletcher, Sillcocks & Leahy [law firm in New York City] (1902-1920)
Benjamin Robbins Curtis Low (B.A. 1902) Partner of Low, Miller & Low [law firm in New York City] (1909-1923)
Henry S. Hooker (B.A. 1902, S&K 1902) Member of Marvin, Hooker & [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt [law firm in New York City] (1910-1918)
John Rogers Halsey, Jr. (B.A. 1884, S&K 1884) Member of Halsey, Kiernan & OKeeffe [law firm in New York City] (1914-1928)
Nicholas Minor Goodlett (B.A. 1886) Member of Redding, Greeley & Goodlett [law firm in New York City] (1913-1919)
Ashbel Parmelee Fitch (B.A. 1898) Member of Fitch, Mott & Grant [law firm in New York City] (1904-1926)
Walter Frederick Carter (B.A. 1895, S&B 1895) Member of Hughes, Schurman & Dwight [law firm in New York City] (1898-1936)
John Loomer Hall (B.A. 1894, LL.B. 1896, S&B 1894) Member of Choate, Hall & Stewart [law firm in Boston] (1904-1960)
William Frederick Poole (B.A. 1891, S&B 1891) Partner of Curtin, Poole & Allen [law firm in Boston] (1915-1926)
Edward Brooks, Jr. (B.A. 1890, S&K 1890) Partner of Geiger & Brooks [law firm in Philadelphia] (1898-1918)
Charles Humphrey Hamill (B.A. 1890, S&K 1890) Member of Rosenthal, Hamill & Wormser [law firm in Chicago] (1906-1941)
Nathaniel Taylor Guernsey (B.A. 1881, LL.B 1883) General Counsel of American Telegraph & Telephone Co. [New York City] (1914-1926)
Chester Mitchell Dawes (B.A. 1876, S&B 1876) General Counsel of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company (1909-1917)
Robert Weeks de Forest (B.A. 1870, S&K 1870) General Counsel of Central Railroad of New Jersey (1874-1924)
Louis Hood (B.A. 1878) General Counsel of Fidelity Mutual Trust Company [Newark, New Jersey] (1914-1932)
George L. Harrison (B.A. 1910, S&B 1910) Assistant General Counsel of the Federal Reserve Board (1914-1918)
Charles Cook Paulding (B.A. 1889) Solicitor of New York Central Railroad Co. (1908-1921)
Organization Executives:
Andrew D. White (B.A. 1853, S&B 1853) Trustee of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1910-1918)
William Howard Taft (B.A. 1878, S&B 1878) Chairman of American Red Cross (1915-1919); President of the U.S. (1909-1913)
George E. Vincent (B.A. 1885, S&K 1885) President of The Rockefeller Foundation (1917-1929); President of Univ. of Minnesota (1911-17)
Edwin R. Embree (B.A. 1906) Secretary of The Rockefeller Foundation (1917-1923)
Harvey Williams Cushing (B.A. 1891, S&K 1891) Surgeon-in-Chief of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital [Boston] (1912-1932)
Gifford Pinchot (B.A. 1889, S&B 1889) President of National Conservation Association (1910-1925)
William H. Welch (B.A. 1870, S&B 1870) President of the board of directors of Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1901-1934)
Franklin Augustus Gaylord (B.A. 1876) General Secretary of the Russian YMCA in St. Petersburg, Russia (1899-1917)
Frederick Wells Williams (B.A. 1879) Chairman of the board of trustees of Yale-in-China (1917-1928)
James Bronson Reynolds (B.A. 1884) Counsel of American Social Hygiene Association (1913-1916)
Howard Chandler Robbins (B.A.1899) Dean of Cathedral of St. John the Divine [New York City] (1917-1929)
Harry Sargeant Scarborough (B.A. 1895) Pastor of South Park Church in Hartford, Connecticut (1914-1919)
Wolff Willner (B.A. 1885, M.A. 1887) Rabbi of Adath Yeshurun Congregation in Houston, Texas (1907-1923)
Chauncey B. Brewster (B.A. 1868, S&B 1868) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut (1899-1928)
Frederic W. Keator (B.A. 1880, LL.B. 1882, S&K 1880) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia, Wa. (1902-1924)
Sidney C. Partridge (B.A. 1880, S&B 1880) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Western Missouri (1911-1930)
Thomas F. Davies (B.A. 1894, S&B 1894) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts (1911-1936)
Benjamin Brewster (B.A. 1882, S&B 1882) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Maine (1916-1941)
Boyd Vincent (B.A. 1867, S&K 1867) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio (1904-1929)
Edwin Stevens Lines (B.A. 1872, S&K 1872) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Newark, New Jersey (1903-1927)
Cortlandt Whitehead (B.A. 1863) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1882-1922); Grand
Chaplain of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania Free and Accepted Masons (1883-1921)
Daniel Trumbull Huntington (B.A. 1892) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Anking, China (1912-1940)
David James Burrell (B.A. 1867, S&K 1867) Pastor of Marble Collegiate Church in New York City (1891-1926)
George Redington Montgomery (B.A. 1892, LL.B. 1894, Ph.D. 1901) Assistant Minister of Madison Square Presbyrtarian Church in New York
City (1905-1916); Special Assistant to the American ambassador at Constantinople [Turkey] (1916)
College Administrators and Professors:
Arthur Twining Hadley (B.A. 1876, S&B 1876) President of Yale University (1899-1921)
Thomas Walter Swan (B.A. 1900) Dean of Yale Law School (1916-1927)
George Parmly Day (B.A. 1897, S&K 1897) Treasurer of Yale University (1910-1942)
Edward Twichell Ware (B.A. 1897) President of Atlanta University (1907-1922)
George Chase (B.A. 1870, valedictorian) Dean of New York Law School (1891-1924)
David Kinley (B.A. 1884) Dean of the Graduate School at University of Illinois (1906-1919); Vice President of Univ. of Illinois (1914-1919)
Herbert Cushing Tolman (B.A. 1888, Ph.D. 1890) Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Vanderbilt University (1914-1923)
Nathan Davis Abbott (B.A. 1877, S&K 1877) Professor of Law at Columbia University (1907-1922)
Irving Fisher (B.A. 1888, Ph.D. 1891, S&B 1888) Professor of Political Economy at Yale University (1893-1935)
Gustav Gruener (B.A. 1884, S&B 1884) Professor of German at Yale University (1892-1928)
Robert Nelson Corwin (B.A. 1887, S&B 1887) Professor of German at Yale University (1899-1933)
Charlton M. Lewis (B.A. 1886, S&B 1886) Emily Sanford Professor of English at Yale University (1899-1923)
Henry Hallam Tweedy (B.A. 1891, S&B 1891) Professor of Practical Theology at Yale Divinity School (1909-1937)
James W. Ingersoll (B.A. 1892, S&B 1892) Professor of Latin at Yale University (1897-1921)
Horatio McLeod Reynolds (B.A. 1880) Talcott Professor of the Greek Language and Literature at Yale University (1893-1922)
Charles Foster Kent (B.A. 1889, Ph.D. 1891) Woolsey Professor of Biblical Literature at Yale University (1901-1925)
Warren Austin Adams (B.A. 1886, Ph.D. 1895) Professor of German at Dartmouth College (1904-1944)
John Seymour Thacher (B.A. 1877, S&B 1877) Professor of Clinical Medicine at Columbia University (1903-1918)
Walter Belknap James (B.A. 1879, S&B 1879) Professor of Clinical Medicine at Columbia University (1909-1918)
Alfred Newton Richards (B.A. 1897, Ph.D. Columbia 1901) Professor of Pharmacology at University of Pennsylvania (1910-1946)
Charles Cheney Hyde (B.A. 1895) Professor of Law at Northwestern University Law School (1907-1925)
George Washington Patterson III (B.A. 1884) Professor of Engineering Mechanics at University of Michigan (1915-1930)
Lucius Hudson Holt (B.A. 1902, M.A. 1904, Ph.D. 1905) Professor of English and History at U.S. Military Academy [West Point] (1910-1919);
Professor of Economics, Government, and History at U.S. Military Academy (1919-1930) [taught with rank of lieutenant colonel and colonel]
Miscellaneous:
Inajiro Taneka Tajiri (B.A. 1878) Mayor of Tokyo, Japan (1918-1919); President of the Imperial Board of Auditors (1902-1918)
Elisha Francis Riggs (B.A. 1909, S&K 1909) Military Attach at American Embassy in Petrograd, Russia (1916-1918)
Gordon Auchincloss (B.A. 1908, S&K 1908) Secretary to Colonel Edward M. House during the Paris Peace Conference
Eugene Meyer (B.A. 1895) Member of the War Industries Board (1917); Member of the National Committee for War Savings (1917); Director
of War Finance Corporation (1918-1920)
Charles Seymour (B.A. 1908, Ph.D. 1911, S&B 1908) Professor of History at Yale University (1918-1937); Chief of Austro-Hungarian
Division, American Commission to Negotiate Peace, Paris Peace Conference (1918-1919)
Clive Day (B.A. 1892, Ph.D. 1899, S&B 1892) Professor of Economic History at Yale University (1907-1936); Chief of the Balkan Division,
American Commission to Negotiate Peace at the Paris Peace Conference (1918-1919)
Brig. Gen. Preston Brown (B.A. 1892) Chief of Staff, 2nd Division, U.S. Army near Verdun at Chateau Thierry and St. Mihiel (April-Sept. 1918);
Commanding General of 3rd Division, U.S. Army at Battle of the Meuse-Argonne (Oct. 1918)
Paul Dwight Moody (B.A. 1901) Chaplain of the 103rd U.S. Infantry (1917-1918); General Headquarters (GHQ) chaplain of the Allied
Expeditionary Forces (AEF) (1918-1919)
Thomas Wells Farnam (B.A. 1899, S&K 1899) Class A Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (1917-1919); Assistant U.S. Food
Administrator for Connecticut (October 1917-September 1918); American Red Cross Commissioner to Serbia (1918-1919)
John Franklin Crowell (B.A. 1883) Member of the editorial staff of The Wall Street Journal (1906-1915); executive officer of the Chamber of
Commerce of the State of New York (1915-1917); economist and financial statistician, Internal Revenue Office in Washington, D.C. (1918)
Edward Anthony Bradford (B.A. 1873, S&K 1873) Member of the staff of The New York Times (1874-1928)
Daniel Davenport (B.A. 1873, S&K 1873) General Counsel of American Anti-Boycott Association [League for Industrial Rights] (1908-1930)
George Marsh Judd (B.A. 1881) Secretary and Assistant General Counsel for American Brake Shoe & Foundry Company (1914-1932)
Ralph Ernest Rogers (B.A. 1901) Secretary, Treasurer, and General Counsel of Witherbee, Sherman & Company [iron ore and pig iron, New
York City] (1917-1926)
Morton Starr Cressy (B A. 1900) Assistant Corporation Counsel of Chicago (1916-1917, 1919-1920)
Gustaf Birger Carlson (B.A. 1895) Corporation Counsel of Middletown, Connecticut (1908-1922)
James Earnest Cooper (B.A. 1895) Corporation Counsel of New Britain, Connecticut (1909-1921)
James Norman Hill (B.A. 1893) Director of Northern Pacific Railway Company (1904-1922); Director of Chase National Bank of New York
[later Chase Manhattan Bank] (1916-1932), director of The Texas Company [Texaco] (1913-1932)
William Williams (B.A. 1884; LL.B. Harvard 1888) Commissioner of the New York City Department of Water Supply, Gas, and Electricity
(1914-1917)
Albert Lee (B.A. 1891) Managing Editor of Vanity Fair magazine (1915-1919); Manager of foreign editions of Vogue magazine (1919-1933)
Yale University Graduates and Their Occupation during the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich, Germany (November 9, 1923)
Bankers:
Frank Altschul (B.A. 1908) Partner of Lazard Freres & Co. [Jewish banking firm in New York City] (1916-1945)
Russell C. Leffingwell (B.A. 1899) Partner of J.P. Morgan & Co. [banking firm in New York City] (1923-1950)
Thomas Cochran (B.A. 1894) Partner of J.P. Morgan & Co. [banking firm in New York City] (1917-1936)
Mortimer Norton Buckner (B.A. 1895, S&B 1895) Chairman of the board of New York Trust Co. (1921-1942)
Samuel R. Bertron (B.A. 1885, S&B 1885) President of Bertron, Griscom & Company, Inc., international financiers (1912-1938)
Marshall Jewell Dodge (B.A. 1898, S&K 1898) Partner of Bertron, Griscom & Company, Inc., international financiers (1907-1930)
Harold Stanley (B.A. 1908, S&B 1908) Vice President of Guaranty Trust Co. of New York (1916-1928)
Harry Payne Whitney (B.A. 1894, S&B 1894) Member of the board of directors of Guaranty Trust Co. of New York (1899-1930)
Percy Rockefeller (B.A. 1900, S&B 1900) Member of the board of directors of Guaranty Trust Co. of New York (1915-1930)
W. Averell Harriman (B.A. 1913, S&B 1913) Member of the board of directors of Guaranty Trust Co. of New York (1916-1941)
Boylston Adams Tompkins (B.A. 1915, S&K 1915) Vice President of Bankers Trust Co. (1921-1955)
Harry E. Ward (B.A. 1901) President of Irving Trust Co. (1919-1942); Chairman of Irving Trust Co. (1942-1949)
Alfred Lee Loomis (B.A. 1909) Vice President of Bonbright & Co. (1919-1933)
Francis Ward Paine (B.A. 1910) Member of Paine, Webber & Co. [investment banking firm in Boston] (1919-1940)
Alfred L. Aiken (B.A. 1891) Chairman of the board (1923-1924) and President (1918-1923) of National Shawmut Bank in Boston
Wilson Gordon Wing (B.A. 1903) President of Providence Institution for Savings [bank in Providence, Rhode Island] (1922-1944)
John Smith Cravens (B.A. 1893) Vice President of First National Bank of Los Angeles (1906-1929)
Alfred Lawrence Ripley (B.A. 1878, S&K 1878) President of Merchants National Bank of Boston (1917-1929); Class A Director of the Federal
Reserve Bank of Boston (1923-1937)
George L. Harrison (B.A. 1910, S&B 1910) Deputy Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1920-1928)
Pierre Jay (B.A. 1892, S&B 1892) Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1914-1926)
John Perrin (B.A. 1879, S&B 1879) Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (1914-1925)
Stanford Tappan Crapo (B.A. 1886, S&B 1886) Class B Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (1922-1938)
Ross P. Wright (Ph.B. 1896) Class B Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (1917-1949)
Businessmen:
James C. Auchincloss (B.A. 1908, S&K 1908) Member of the board of governor of the New York Stock Exchange (1921-1938)
Edwin M. Herr (Ph.B. 1884) President of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. (1911-1929)
Robert W. Huntington Jr. (B.A. 1889, S&K 1889) President of Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. (1901-1936)
Morgan B. Brainard (B.A. 1900, LL.B. 1903) President of Aetna Life Insurance Co. [Hartford, Connecticut] (1922-1957)
Gilbert Colgate (B.A. 1883) President of Colgate & Company (1920-1925)
Howard Heinz (B.A. 1900) President of H.J. Heinz Co. (1919-1941)
Fairfax Harrison (B.A. 1890, S&B 1890) President of Southern Railway Co. (1913-1937)
Ashbel Barney Newell (B.A. 1890, S&K 1890) President of Toledo Terminal Railroad Company (1914-1950)
Louis Warren Hill (Ph.B. 1893) Chairman of the board of Great Northern Railway [St. Paul, Minnesota] (1912-1929)
Charles Davies Jones (B.A. 1893, S&K 1893) President of Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company (1915-1928)
Solomon Albert Smith (B.A. 1899) President of Northern Trust Co. of Chicago (1914-1957)
Clarence Clifford Harmstad (B.A. 1893) Treasurer of Title, Guarantee & Trust Company [business firm in New York City] (1916-1924)
George Arthur Hurd (B.A. 1890) President of The Mortgage-Bond Company of New York [business firm in New York City] (1910-1929)
Richard M. Hurd (B.A. 1888, S&B 1888) President of Lawyers Mortgage Corporation [company in New York City] (1903-1933)
James Norman Hill (B.A. 1893) Director of Chase National Bank of New York [later Chase Manhattan Bank] (1916-1932), director of The
Texas Company [Texaco] (1913-1932)
Lawyers:
John Anson Garver (B.A. 1875, S&K 1875) Partner (1884-1918) and Senior Partner (1918-1936) of Shearman & Sterling
Chauncey Brewster Garver (B.A. 1908, S&K 1908) Partner of Shearman & Sterling (1917-1973)
Henry Waters Taft (B.A. 1880, S&B 1880) Partner of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft (1899-1945)
George Coggill (B.A. 1889, S&K 1889) Member of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft (1918-1935)
Walbridge Smith Taft (B.A. 1907) Partner of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft (1917-1951)
Philip G. Bartlett (B.A. 1881, S&B 1881) Partner of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett (1890-1931)
Graham Sumner (B.A. 1897, S&B 1897) Member of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett (1904-1946)
Thomas D. Thacher (B.A. 1904, S&B 1904) Partner of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett (1914-1925, 1933-1943)
Howard Mansfield (B.A. 1871, S&B 1871) Senior Partner of Lord, Day & Lord (1908-1938)
Henry DeForest Baldwin (B.A. 1885, S&B 1885) Member of Lord, Day & Lord (1900-1947)
Allen Wardwell (B.A. 1895, S&K 1895) Member of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1909-1953)
Lansing P. Reed (B.A. 1904, S&B 1904) Member of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed (1915-1937)
Henry L. Stimson (B.A. 1888, S&B 1888) Counsel of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1891-1906, 1913-1927, 1933-1940, 1945-1950)
George Roberts (B.A. 1905, LL.B. Harvard 1908) Partner of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1914-1968)
Allen T. Klots (B.A. 1909, S&B 1909) Member of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1921-1965)
Douglas Maxwell Moffat (B.A. 1903, LL.B. Harvard 1907) Partner of Cravath, Swaine & Moore [law firm in New York City] (1913-1956)
Charles Wheeler Pierson (B.A. 1886, S&B 1886) Member of Alexander & Green [law firm in New York City] (1900-1929)
Henry Wheeler de Forest (B.A. 1876, S&K 1876) Member of deForest Brothers [law firm in New York City] (1893-1932)
Frederick Kingsbury Curtis (B.A. 1884) Member of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle [law firm in New York City] (1889-1926)
Harris Dunscomb Colt (B.A. 1884, LL.B. Columbia 1886) Member of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost & Colt [law firm in New York City]; died in 1959
Allen Wardner Evarts (B.A. 1869) Member of Evarts, Choate & Sherman [and predecessor firms] (1874-1939)
Thomas Townsend Sherman (B.A. 1874, LL.B. Columbia 1876) Member of Evarts, Choate & Sherman [and predecessor firms] (1875-1931); greatgrandson of Roger Sherman
Henry Burrall Anderson (B.A. 1885, S&K 1885) Partner of Anderson & Anderson [law firm in New York City] (1898-1928)
James Rockwell Sheffield (B.A. 1887, S&K 1887) Senior Partner of Sheffield and Betts [law firm in New York City] (1911-1938)
Herbert Parsons (B.A. 1890, S&K 1890) Member of Parsons, Closson & Mcllvaine [law firm in New York City] (1895-1925)
Henry Burr Barnes, Jr. (B.A. 1893, S&K 1893) Partner of Moen & Dwight [law firm in New York City] (1911-1928)
John Rogers Halsey, Jr. (B.A. 1884, S&K 1884) Member of Halsey, Kiernan & OKeeffe [law firm in New York City] (1914-1928)
Ashbel Parmelee Fitch (B.A. 1898) Member of Fitch, Mott & Grant [law firm in New York City] (1904-1926)
Walter Frederick Carter (B.A. 1895, S&B 1895) Member of Hughes, Schurman & Dwight [law firm in New York City] (1898-1936)
Vanderbilt Webb (B.A. 1913, S&K 1913) Member of Webb, Patterson & Hadley [law firm in New York City] (1922-1929)
John Loomer Hall (B.A. 1894, LL.B. 1896, S&B 1894) Member of Choate, Hall & Stewart [law firm in Boston] (1904-1960)
William Frederick Poole (B.A. 1891, S&B 1891) Partner of Curtin, Poole & Allen [law firm in Boston] (1915-1926)
Charles Humphrey Hamill (B.A. 1890, S&K 1890) Member of Rosenthal, Hamill & Wormser [law firm in Chicago] (1906-1941)
William Browne Hale (B.A. 1898) Partner of Wilson & McIlvaine [law firm in Chicago] (1919-1944)
Isaac Henry Mayer (B.A. 1884) Senior Member of Mayer, Meyer, Austrian & Platt [law firm in Chicago] (1922-1967)
Frederic Burnham (B.A. 1902) Partner of Mayer, Meyer, Austrian & Platt [law firm in Chicago] (1917-1942)
Robert A. Taft (B.A. 1910, S&B 1910) Member of Taft, Stettinius & Hollister [law firm in Cincinnati, Ohio] (1923-1939)
Dean G. Acheson (B.A. 1915, S&K 1915) Member of Covington & Burling [law firm in Washington, D.C.] (1921-1933, 1934-1941)
Samuel Knight (B.A. 1887, S&B 1887) Member of Christin, Knight, Boland & Chnstin [law firm in San Francisco] (1918-1943)
William Singer Moorhead (B.A. 1906, S&B 1906) Member of Moorhead & Knox [law firm in Pittsburgh] (1917-1952)
Charles P. Howland (B.A. 1891) Member of Rushmore, Bisbee & Stern [law firm in New York City] (1921-1925); Member of the board of directors of
English-Speaking Union of the United States (1920-1925)
Nathaniel Taylor Guernsey (B.A. 1881, LL.B 1883) General Counsel of American Telegraph & Telephone Co. [New York City] (1914-1926)
Robert Weeks de Forest (B.A. 1870, S&K 1870) General Counsel of Central Railroad of New Jersey (1874-1924)
Louis Hood (B.A. 1878) General Counsel of Fidelity Mutual Trust Company [Newark, New Jersey] (1914-1932)
Guy Wellman (B.A. 1899) Associate General Counsel of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey [Exxon] (1921-1935)
George Marsh Judd (B.A. 1881) Secretary and Assistant General Counsel for American Brake Shoe & Foundry Company (1914-1932)
Ralph Ernest Rogers (B.A. 1901) Secretary, Treasurer, and General Counsel of Witherbee, Sherman & Company [iron ore and pig iron, New York
City] (1917-1926)
Government Officials:
William Howard Taft (B.A. 1878, S&B 1878) Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1921-1930); President of the English-Speaking Union of the
United States (1921-1930)
William Irwin Grubb (B.A. 1883) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama (1909-1935)
Wilbur Franklin Booth (B.A. 1884, LL.B. 1888, S&B 1884) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota (1914-1925)
Henry Clay McDowell (B.A. 1884, S&K 1884) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia (1901-1931)
William Nelson Runyon (B.A. 1892, S&K 1892) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (Jan. 16, 1923-Nov. 9, 1931)
John Foster Symes (Ph.B. 1900) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado (1922-1950)
Ernest Knaebel (B.A. 1894, LL.B. 1896) U.S. Supreme Court Reporter of Decisions (1916-1944)
Edward Laurence Smith (B.A. 1897) U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut (1920-1923)
Henry Hastings Curran (B.A. 1898) U.S. Commissioner of Immigration at Ellis Island, New York (1923-1926)
John Ball Osborne (B.A. 1889) U.S. Consul-General in Genoa, Italy (1921-1926)
William Holt Gale (Ph.B. 1885) U.S. Consul General in Hong Kong [British Empire] (1920-1924)
George Kenneth Donald (B.A. 1912) U.S. Consul in Johannesburg, South Africa (1922-1928)
Harold H. Tittmann Jr. (B.A. 1916) Secretary of the U.S. Embassy in Paris, France (1921-1925)
Laurence Harper Norton (B.A. 1910) Third Secretary of the U.S. Embassy in Paris, France (1921-1924)
Garrard B. Winston (B.A. 1904) Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (July 9, 1923-November 19, 1923)
William Warner Hoppin (B.A. 1901) Assistant U.S. Attorney General in charge of customs cases (1921-1925)
Frank Bosworth Brandegee (B.A. 1885) U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut, 1905-1924)
LeBaron Bradford Colt (B.A. 1868) U.S. Senator (R-Rhode Island, 1913-1924)
James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (B.A. 1898) U.S. Senator (R-New York, 1915-1927)
Selden Palmer Spencer (B.A. 1884) U.S. Senator (R-Missouri, 1918-1925)
Joseph M. McCormick (B.A. 1900) U.S. Senator (R-Illinois, 1919-1925)
Thomas Francis Bayard Jr. (B.A. 1890) U.S. Senator (D-Delaware, 1922-1929)
Alva B. Adams (B.A. 1896) U.S. Senator (D-Colorado, May 17, 1923-November 30, 1924, 1932-1941)
John Q. Tilson (B.A. 1891) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Connecticut, 1909-1913, 1915-1932)
Merrill Moores (B.A. 1878) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Indiana, 1915-1925)
Frederick Reimold Lehlbach (B.A. 1897) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1915-1937)
Schuyler Merritt (B.A. 1873, S&K 1873) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Connecticut, 1917-1931, 1933-1937)
William Newell Vaile (B.A. 1898) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Colorado, 1919-1927)
Patrick Brett OSullivan (B.A. 1908) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Connecticut, 1923-1925)
James McDevitt Magee (B.A. 1899, S&B 1899) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Pennsylvania, 1923-1927)
Richard Steere Aldrich (B.A. 1906) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Rhode Island, 1923-1933)
Parker Corning (B.A. 1895) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-New York, 1923-1937)
John Taber (B.A. 1902) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New York, 1923-1963)
Gifford Pinchot (B.A. 1889, S&B 1889) Governor of Pennsylvania (1923-1927, 1931-1935)
George W. Woodruff (B.A. 1889; S&B 1889) Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1923-1927)
Almet Francis Jenks (B.A. 1875, S&B 1875) Justice of the Supreme Court of New York (1898-1924)
John Proctor Clarke (B.A. 1878) Justice of the Supreme Court of New York (1901-1926)
Charles Brown Sears (B.A. 1892; S&K 1892) Justice of the Supreme Court of New York (1918-1940)
Sylvester Baker Sadler (B.A. 1896) Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (1921-1931)
Lucien F. Burpee (B.A. 1879; S&B 1879) Judge of Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors (1921-1924)
George Wakeman Wheeler (B.A. 1881, LL.B. 1883) Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors (1920-1930)
Hiram Bingham III (B.A. 1898) Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (1922-1924)
Alfred N. Phillips (B.A. 1917) Mayor of Stamford, Connecticut (1923-1924, 1927-1928, 1935-1936)
Harrison Hewitt (B.A. 1897) Corporation Counsel of New Haven, Connecticut (February-May 1918, 1923-1925)
John Henry Kirkham (B.A. 1887) Corporation Counsel of New Britain, Connecticut (1921-1933)
John Gardner Talcott (B.A. 1895) Member of Connecticut State Board of Education (1919-1929)
Walter Deyo Hood (B.A. 1894) Member of Connecticut State Board of Education (1919-1935)
Julian Wheeler Curtiss (B.A. 1879, S&K 1879) Member of Connecticut State Board of Education (1919-1937)
Arnon Augustus Ailing (B.A. 1896, LL.B. 1899) Member of New Haven Board of Education (1922-1929)
Francis Parsons (B.A. 1893, S&B 1893) Member of Hartford Board of Education (1907-1908, 1921-1924)
Edwin F. Sweet (B.A. 1871, S&B 1871) Member of the Board of Education of Grand Rapids, Michigan (1899-1906, 1923-1926)
John Baker Hollister (B.A. 1911) Member of Cincinnati Board of Education (1921-1929)
Thomas Warrington Gosling (B.A. 1894) Superintendent of Schools of Madison, Wisconsin (1921-1928)
F. Trubee Davison (B.A. 1918, S&B 1918) Member of the New York State Assembly (1922-1926)
Journalists:
Edward Anthony Bradford (B.A. 1873, S&K 1873) Member of the staff of The New York Times (1874-1928)
Joseph Medill Patterson (B.A. 1901, S&K 1901) Co-Editor and Publisher of The Chicago Tribune (1914-1925)
Henry R. Luce (B.A. 1920, S&B 1920) Editor-in-Chief of Time, Inc. (1923-1964); founder of Time and Life magazines
William H. Cowles (B.A. 1887, S&B 1887) Publisher of Spokane Spokesman-Review (1893-1946)
Charles Hopkins Clark (B.A. 1871, S&B 1871) President and Editor-in-Chief of Hartford Courant (1890-1926)
Albert Lee (B.A. 1891) Manager of foreign editions of Vogue magazine (1919-1933)
Benjamin Harris Anthony (B.A. 1886, S&B 1886) Director of the Associated Press (1923-1932)
Malcolm W. Davis (B.A. 1911) Managing Editor of Our World (1922-1924)
College Professors:
David Kinley (B.A. 1884) President of University of Illinois (1920-1930)
Paul Dwight Moody (B.A. 1901) President of Middlebury College (1921-1942)
George Chase (B.A. 1870, valedictorian) Dean of New York Law School (1891-1924)
William Dick Cutter (B.A. 1899) Dean of New York Post Graduate Medical School (1923-1928)
Warren Austin Adams (B.A. 1886, Ph.D. 1895) Professor of German at Dartmouth College (1904-1944)
Albert Beebe White (B.A. 1893, Ph.D. 1898) Professor of History at University of Minnesota (1907-1940)
Charles Cheney Hyde (B.A. 1895) Professor of Law at Northwestern University Law School (1907-1925)
Nickolaus Louis Engelhardt (B.A. 1903) Professor of Education at Columbia University Teachers College (1921-1942)
George Washington Patterson III (B.A. 1884) Professor of Engineering Mechanics at University of Michigan (1915-1930)
Alfred Newton Richards (B.A. 1897, Ph.D. Columbia 1901) Professor of Pharmacology at University of Pennsylvania (1910-1946)
Howard Brown Woolston (B.A. 1898) Professor of Sociology at University of Washington (1919-1947)
Lucius Hudson Holt (B.A. 1902, M.A. 1904, Ph.D. 1905) Professor of Economics, Government, and History at U.S. Military Academy (1919-1930)
[taught with rank of lieutenant colonel and colonel]
Thomas Walter Swan (B.A. 1900) Dean of Yale Law School (1916-1927)
Henry S. Graves (B.A. 1892, S&B 1892) Dean of Yale School of Forestry (1900-1939)
Wilbur L. Cross (B.A. 1885, Ph.D. 1889) Dean of the Graduate School at Yale University (1916-1930)
George Parmly Day (B.A. 1897, S&K 1897) Treasurer of Yale University (1910-1942)
Thomas Wells Farnam (B.A. 1899, S&K 1899) Associate Treasurer and Comptroller of Yale University (1922-1942)
Charles Seymour (B.A. 1908, Ph.D. 1911, S&B 1908) Professor of History at Yale University (1918-1937)
Clive Day (B.A. 1892, Ph.D. 1899, S&B 1892) Professor of Economic History at Yale University (1907-1936)
Irving Fisher (B.A. 1888, Ph.D. 1891, S&B 1888) Professor of Political Economy at Yale University (1893-1935); Founder and inaugural President of
American Eugenics Society (1923-1926)
Gustav Gruener (B.A. 1884, S&B 1884) Professor of German at Yale University (1892-1928)
Robert Nelson Corwin (B.A. 1887, S&B 1887) Professor of German at Yale University (1899-1933)
Henry Hallam Tweedy (B.A. 1891, S&B 1891) Professor of Practical Theology at Yale Divinity School (1909-1937)
Charles Foster Kent (B.A. 1889, Ph.D. 1891) Woolsey Professor of Biblical Literature at Yale University (1901-1925)
George Dahl (B.A. 1908, S&B 1908) Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature at Yale Divinity School (1914-1929)
Charles Edward Clark (B.A. 1911, LL.B. 1913) Professor of Law at Yale Law School (1919-1929)
Organization Executives:
George E. Vincent (B.A. 1885, S&K 1885) President of The Rockefeller Foundation (1917-1929)
James Rockwell Sheffield (B.A. 1887, S&K 1887) Trustee of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1919-1938)
Robert Weeks de Forest (B.A. 1870, S&K 1870) President of Russell Sage Foundation (1918-1931)
William H. Welch (B.A. 1870, S&B 1870) President of the board of directors of Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1901-1934)
Barry Congar Smith (B.A. 1899) General Director of The Commonwealth Fund (1921-1947)
Daniel Davenport (B.A. 1873, S&K 1873) General Counsel of American Anti-Boycott Association [League for Industrial Rights] (1908-1930)
William H. Welch (B.A. 1870, S&B 1870) President of the board of directors of Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1901-1934)
Amos Pinchot (B.A. 1897, S&B 1897) Co-Founder and Director (1917-1930) of the American Civil Liberties Union
Frederick Wells Williams (B.A. 1879) Chairman of the board of trustees of Yale-in-China (1917-1928)
Edward Bliss Reed (B.A. 1894, Ph.D. 1896) Trustee of Yale-in-China (1910-1930)
Harlan Page Beach (B.A. 1878) Trustee of Yale-in-China (1916-1932)
Robert Haskell Cory (B.A. 1902) Trustee of Yale-in-China (1916-1947)
Amos Parker Wilder (B.A. 1884, Ph.D. 1892, S&B 1884) Trustee of Yale-in-China (1918-1930)
Samuel Clarke Bushnell (B.A. 1874, S&B 1874) Trustee of Yale-in-China (1921-1930)
Charles Franklin Bliss (B.A. 1880) Trustee of Yale-in-China (1922-1942)
Danford Newton Barney (B.A. 1881, S&B 1881) Member of the council of Yale-in-China (1921-1933)
Ellery S. James (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917) Member of the council of Yale-in-China (1923-1932)
Lewis Sheldon Welch (B.A. 1889, S&K 1889) Member of the council of Yale-in-China (1908-1934)
Chauncey B. Brewster (B.A. 1868, S&B 1868) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut (1899-1928)
Frederic W. Keator (B.A. 1880, LL.B. 1882, S&K 1880) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia, Wa. (1902-1924)
Edwin Stevens Lines (B.A. 1872, S&K 1872) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Newark, New Jersey (1903-1927)
Boyd Vincent (B.A. 1867, S&K 1867) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio (1904-1929)
Sidney C. Partridge (B.A. 1880, S&B 1880) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Western Missouri (1911-1930)
Thomas F. Davies (B.A. 1894, S&B 1894) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts (1911-1936)
Benjamin Brewster (B.A. 1882, S&B 1882) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Maine (1916-1941)
David James Burrell (B.A. 1867, S&K 1867) Pastor of Marble Collegiate Church in New York City (1891-1926)
Howard Chandler Robbins (B.A.1899) Dean of Cathedral of St. John the Divine [New York City] (1917-1929)
Dwight Huntington Day (B.A. 1899, S&B 1899) Treasurer, Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (1906-1924)
Eugene Meyer (B.A. 1895) Managing Director of War Finance Corporation (1919-1920, 1921-1927)
Yale University Graduates and Their Occupation during the Reichstag Fire (February 27, 1933)
Government Officials:
*Henry L. Stimson (B.A. 1888, S&B 1888) U.S. Secretary of State (March 28, 1929-March 4, 1933)
*Hugh R. Wilson (B.A. 1906, S&B 1906) U.S. Minister to Switzerland (1927-1937)
Ferdinand Lammot Belin (Ph.B. 1901) U.S. Ambassador to Poland (December 13, 1932-March 4, 1933)
Irwin B. Laughlin (B.A. 1893, S&K 1893) U.S. Ambassador to Spain (December 24, 1929-April 12, 1933)
Charles H. Sherrill (B.A. 1889) U.S. Ambassador to Turkey (May 20, 1932-March 23, 1933)
Charles Montgomery Hathaway Jr. (B.A. 1899, M.A. 1901, Ph.D. 1902) U.S. Consul General in Munich, Germany (1927-1938)
Louis G. Dreyfus Jr. (B.A. 1910) U.S. Consul General in Copenhagen, Denmark (1931-1933)
John Ball Osborne (B.A. 1889) U.S. Consul General in Budapest, Hungary (1931-1933)
Harold H. Tittmann Jr. (B.A. 1916) Secretary of the U.S. Embassy in Rome, Italy (1925-1936)
Gardner Richardson (B.A. 1905, S&B 1905) Commercial Attach at the American Legation in Vienna, Austria (1929-1933)
*Thomas D. Thacher (B.A. 1904, S&B 1904) Solicitor General of the U.S. (1930-1933)
*F. Trubee Davison (B.A. 1918, S&B 1918) Assistant Secretary of War for Air (1926-1933)
*Harvey H. Bundy (B.A. 1909, S&B 1909) Assistant Secretary of State (July 13, 1931-March 4, 1933)
James Grafton Rogers (B.A. 1905) Assistant U.S. Secretary of State (March 10, 1931-March 6, 1933)
George Kenneth Donald (B.A. 1912) U.S. Consul General in St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada (1933-1934)
*Arthur Bliss Lane (B.A. 1916) Counselor of the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, Mexico (1930-1933)
*E. Sheldon Whitehouse (B.A. 1905, S&B 1905) U.S. Minister to Guatemala (March 21, 1930-July 23, 1933)
Brig. Gen. Preston Brown (B.A. 1892) Commanding General of Panama Canal Department (November 24, 1930-November 14, 1933)
John Hall Paxton (B.A. 1922) U.S. Consul in Canton, China (1932-1934)
Howard Donovan (Ph.B. 1920) U.S. Consul in Kobe, Japan (1929-1936)
Alva B. Adams (B.A. 1896) U.S. Senator (D-Colorado, 1923-1924, 1932-1941)
Hiram Bingham III (B.A. 1898) U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut, 1924-1933)
*Frederic C. Walcott (B.A. 1891, S&B 1891) U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut, 1929-1935)
Richard Steere Aldrich (B.A. 1906) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Rhode Island, 1923-1933)
Parker Corning (B.A. 1895) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-New York, 1923-1937)
Percy Hamilton Stewart (B.A. 1890, S&B 1890) U.S. Congressman (Democratic Party-New Jersey, December 1, 1931-March 3, 1933)
Howard Malcolm Baldrige (B.A. 1918, S&B 1918) U.S. Congressman (Republican Party-Nebraska, March 4, 1931-March 3, 1933)
Thomas Walter Swan (B.A. 1900) Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [New York City] (1926-1953)
John Munro Woolsey (B.A. 1898, S&K 1898) Judge of U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1929-1943)
Alfred Conkling Coxe Jr. (B.A. 1901) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1929-1951)
Carroll Clark Hincks (B.A. 1911) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (1931-1953)
William Irwin Grubb (B.A. 1883) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama (1909-1935)
John Foster Symes (Ph.B. 1900) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado (1922-1950)
William Josiah Tilson (B.A. 1894) Judge of the U.S. Customs Court (1928-1949)
Wilbur L. Cross (B.A. 1885, Ph.D. 1889) Governor of Connecticut (1931-1939)
Gifford Pinchot (B.A. 1889, S&B 1889) Governor of Pennsylvania (1923-1927, 1931-1935)
David Sholtz (B.A. 1914) Governor of Florida (January 4, 1933-January 5, 1937)
Charles Brown Sears (B.A. 1892, S&K 1892) Presiding Justice of the Supreme Court of New York (1929-1940)
William M. Maltbie (B.A. 1901, LL.B. 1905) Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors (1930-1950)
Frederic Kernochan (B.A. 1898, S&B 1898) Chief Justice of Court of Special Sessions of New York City (1916-1937)
Businessmen:
Alfred L. Aiken (B.A. 1891) Vice President of New York Life Insurance Co. (1925-1936)
Robert W. Huntington Jr. (B.A. 1889, S&K 1889) President of Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. (1901-1936)
Morgan B. Brainard (B.A. 1900, LL.B. 1903) President of Aetna Life Insurance Co. [Hartford, Connecticut] (1922-1957)
Archibald A. Welch (B.A. 1882) President of Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Co. [Hartford, Connecticut] (1924-1935)
Solomon Albert Smith (B.A. 1899) President of Northern Trust Co. of Chicago (1914-1957)
Fairfax Harrison (B.A. 1890, S&B 1890) President of Southern Railway Co. (1913-1937)
H. Neil Mallon (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917) President of Dresser Industries, Inc. (1929-1958)
*Juan Terry Trippe (Ph.B. 1921) President of Pan American World Airways, Inc. (1927-1964)
George Herbert Walker Jr. (B.A. 1927, S&B 1927) General Partner of G.H. Walker & Co. (1929-1974)
Howard Heinz (B.A. 1900) President of H.J. Heinz Co. (1919-1941); Trustee of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1926-1941)
Andrew Varick Stout, Jr. (B.A. 1926, S&K 1926) Governor of New York Stock Exchange (1930-1936)
Ashbel Barney Newell (B.A. 1890, S&K 1890) President of Toledo Terminal Railroad Company (1914-1950)
Charles Davies Jones (B.A. 1893, S&K 1893) Chairman of the board of Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company (1928-1935)
Henry Wheeler de Forest (B.A. 1876, S&K 1876) Member of the board of directors of The Guaranty Trust Company (1909-1938)
William Mossgrove Beard (B.A. 1896, S&B 1896) Vice President of Union Carbide & Carbon Corporation [chemical company] (1931-1937)
Foster Harry Rockwell (B.A. 1906, S&B 1906) General Partner of Smith, Graham & Rockwell [brokerage firm in New York City] (1926-1936)
James C. Auchincloss (B.A. 1908, S&K 1908) Member of the board of governor of the New York Stock Exchange (1921-1938)
Frank Courtenay Dodd (B.A. 1897) President of Dodd, Mead & Co., Inc. [publishing company in New York City] (1931-1942)
Journalists:
*Henry R. Luce (B.A. 1920, S&B 1920) Editor-in-Chief of Time, Inc. (1923-1964); founder of Time and Life magazines
*Archibald MacLeish (B.A. 1915, S&B 1915) Editor of Fortune magazine (1929-1938)
Harold Phelps Stokes (B.A. 1909, S&B 1909) Member of the Editorial Staff of The New York Times (1926-1937)
William H. Cowles (B.A. 1887, S&B 1887) Publisher of Spokane Spokesman-Review (1893-1946)
Joseph Medill Patterson (B.A. 1901, S&K 1901) Publisher of New York Daily News (1919-1946)
Ogden Mills Reid (B.A. 1904, LL.B. 1907) Editor of New York Herald Tribune (1913-1947)
George Henry Soule Jr. (B.A. 1908) Editor of The New Republic (1924-1947)
Charles Latimer Stillman (B.A. 1926) Treasurer of Time, Inc. [Time magazine] (1930-1960)
Bankers:
*Eugene Meyer (B.A. 1895) Chairman of the Federal Reserve (September 16, 1930-May 10, 1933)
*George L. Harrison (B.A. 1910, S&B 1910) President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1928-1940)
Walter Seth Logan (B.A. 1910, S&B 1910) Vice President and General Counsel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1928-1953)
Stanford Tappan Crapo (B.A. 1886, S&B 1886) Class B Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (1922-1938)
Ross P. Wright (Ph.B. 1896) Class B Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (1917-1949)
Willard Deere Hosford (B.A. 1906) Class B Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (1930-1951)
Alfred Lawrence Ripley (B.A. 1878, S&K 1878) Class A Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (1923-1937); Chairman of the board
of Merchants National Bank of Boston (1929-1943)
*Frank Altschul (B.A. 1908) Partner of Lazard Freres & Co. [Jewish banking firm in New York City] (1916-1945)
Alfred Ernest Hamill (B.A. 1905) Partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co. [Jewish banking firm in New York City] (1932-1948)
*Robert Lehman (B.A. 1913) Partner of Lehman Brothers [Jewish banking firm in New York City] (1925-1969)
*John M. Schiff (B.A. 1925) Partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. [Jewish banking firm in New York City] (1931-1977)
Francis Fitz Randolph (B.A. 1911, S&B 1911) Partner of J&W Seligman & Co. [Jewish banking firm in New York City] (1923-1940)
*Russell C. Leffingwell (B.A. 1899) Partner of J.P. Morgan & Co. (1923-1950); Director of the Council on Foreign Relations (1927-1960)
*Henry P. Davison Jr. (B.A. 1920, S&B 1920) Partner of J.P. Morgan & Co. (1929-1940)
*Harold Stanley (B.A. 1908, S&B 1908) Partner of J.P. Morgan & Co. (1928-1935)
Thomas Cochran (B.A. 1894, S&B 1894) Partner of J.P. Morgan & Co. (1917-1936)
*Charles S. McCain (B.A. 1904) Chairman of the board of Chase National Bank (1930-1934)
*Pierre Jay (B.A. 1892, S&B 1892) Chairman of the board of Fiduciary Trust Company [New York City] (1930-1945)
Mortimer Norton Buckner (B.A. 1895, S&B 1895) Chairman of the board of New York Trust Co. (1921-1942)
*Artemus L. Gates (B.A. 1918, S&B 1918) President of New York Trust Co. (1929-1941)
Samuel Sloan Colt (B.A. 1914, S&K 1914) President of Bankers Trust Co. (1931-1957)
*Boylston Adams Tompkins (B.A. 1915, S&K 1915) Vice President of Bankers Trust Co. (1921-1955)
Thomas Wilson Bowers (B.A. 1910) Vice President of Bank of the Manhattan Company (1930-1942)
Frank P. Shepard (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917) Vice President of Guaranty Trust Co. of New York (1929-1934)
Thacher M. Brown (B.A. 1897) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1954)
*Ray Morris (B.A. 1901, S&B 1901) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1956)
*W. Averell Harriman (B.A. 1913, S&B 1913) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1946); Chairman of the Board of Union Pacific
Railroad Co. (1932-1946)
Prescott S. Bush (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1972)
*E. Roland Harriman (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1978)
*Knight Woolley (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1982)
Laurence G. Tighe (B.A. 1916, S&B 1916) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1934)
*Robert A. Lovett (B.A. 1918, S&B 1918) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1940, 1946-1947, 1949-1950, 1953-1986)
*Samuel R. Bertron (B.A. 1885, S&B 1885) President of Bertron, Griscom & Company, Inc., international financiers (1912-1938)
Wilson Gordon Wing (B.A. 1903) President of Providence Institution for Savings [bank in Providence, Rhode Island] (1922-1944)
Wirt Davis (B.A. 1897) Vice Chairman (1925-1934) and Chairman (1934-1945) of Republic National Bank in Dallas, Texas
Henry Chandler Holt (B.A. 1903, S&B 1903) Vice President of Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. [New York City] (1920-1946)
*Harry E. Ward (B.A. 1901) President of Irving Trust Co. (1919-1942); Chairman of Irving Trust Co. (1942-1949)
Francis Ward Paine (B.A. 1910) Member of Paine, Webber & Co. [investment banking firm in Boston] (1919-1940)
Edward Howard York Jr. (B.A. 1912) Partner of Drexel & Co. [investment bank in Philadelphia] (1931-1935, 1943-1961)
John Smith Cravens (B.A. 1893) Vice President of Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles (1929-1936)
William McChesney Martin Jr. (B.A. 1928) Partner of A.G. Edwards & Sons [St. Louis] (1931-1938); Member of New York Stock Exchange
(1931-1938)
Lawyers:
Howard Mansfield (B.A. 1871, S&B 1871) Senior Partner of Lord, Day & Lord (1908-1938)
*Henry DeForest Baldwin (B.A. 1885, S&B 1885) Member of Lord, Day & Lord (1900-1947)
Allen Evarts Foster (B.A. 1906) Partner of Lord, Day & Lord (1919-c.1970)
Sherman Baldwin (B.A. 1919, S&B 1919) Member of Lord, Day & Lord (1929-1969)
*Frank L. Polk (B.A. 1894, S&K 1894) Member of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed (1914-1943); Director of the Council on Foreign
Relations (1921-1943)
*Allen Wardwell (B.A. 1895, S&K 1895) Member of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed (1909-1953)
Lansing P. Reed (B.A. 1904, S&B 1904) Member of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed (1915-1937)
Otis Treat Bradley (B.A. 1915; LL.B. Harvard 1919) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1930-1950)
*George Roberts (B.A. 1905, LL.B. Harvard 1908) Partner of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1914-1968)
*Allen T. Klots (B.A. 1909, S&B 1909) Member of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1921-1965)
Hamilton Hadley (B.A. 1919, S&B 1919) Partner of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1929-1940)
James William Husted (B.A. 1918) Partner of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1930-1969)
John Anson Garver (B.A. 1875, S&K 1875) Partner (1884-1918) and Senior Partner (1918-1936) of Shearman & Sterling
Chauncey Brewster Garver (B.A. 1908, S&K 1908) Partner of Shearman & Sterling (1917-1973)
*Henry Waters Taft (B.A. 1880, S&B 1880) Partner of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft [law firm in New York City] (1899-1945)
George Coggill (B.A. 1889, S&K 1889) Member of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft (1918-1935)
Walbridge Smith Taft (B.A. 1907) Partner of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft (1917-1951)
Graham Sumner (B.A. 1897, S&B 1897) Member of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett (1904-1946)
Douglas Maxwell Moffat (B.A. 1903, LL.B. Harvard 1907) Partner of Cravath, Swaine & Moore [law firm in New York City] (1913-1956)
James Rockwell Sheffield (B.A. 1887, S&K 1887) Senior Partner of Sheffield and Betts [law firm in New York City] (1911-1938)
Frederick Trowbridge Kelsey (B.A. 1907) Member of Lewis & Kelsey [law firm in New York City] (1913-1940)
Walter Frederick Carter (B.A. 1895, S&B 1895) Member of Hughes, Schurman & Dwight [law firm in New York City] (1898-1936)
Allen Wardner Evarts (B.A. 1869) Member of Evarts, Choate & Sherman [and predecessor firms] [law firm in New York City] (1874-1939)
Louis S. Weiss (B.A. 1915, LL.B. Columbia 1920) Partner of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison [and predecessor firms] (1927-1950)
Dean Sage (B.A. 1897, S&B 1897) Member of Sage, Gray, Todd & Sims [law firm in New York City] (1905-1943)
Lee James Perrin (B.A. 1906, S&B 1906) Partner of Appleton, Perrin & Hoyt [law firm in New York City] (1916-1946)
Edward Bancroft Twombly (B.A. 1912, S&B 1912) Partner of Putney, Twombly, Hall & Skidmore [law firm in New York City] (1919-1966)
Vanderbilt Webb (B.A. 1913, S&K 1913) Member of Milbank, Tweed, Hope & Webb [law firm in New York City] (1931-1938)
John Loomer Hall (B.A. 1894, LL.B. 1896, S&B 1894) Member of Choate, Hall & Stewart [law firm in Boston] (1904-1960)
Marcien Jenckes (B.A. 1921, S&B 1921) Member of Choate, Hall & Stewart [law firm in Boston] (1927-1971)
*Dean G. Acheson (B.A. 1915, S&K 1915) Member of Covington & Burling (1921-1933, 1934-1941); Under Secretary of the Treasury (1933)
Samuel Knight (B.A. 1887, S&B 1887) Member of Christin, Knight, Boland & Chnstin [law firm in San Francisco] (1918-1943)
John Thomas Pigott (B.A. 1908) Partner of McCutchen, Thomas, Matthew, Griffiths & Greene [law firm in San Francisco] (1923-1946)
Robert A. Taft (B.A. 1910, S&B 1910) Member of Taft, Stettinius & Hollister [law firm in Cincinnati, Ohio] (1923-1939)
Isaac Henry Mayer (B.A. 1884) Senior Member of Mayer, Meyer, Austrian & Platt [law firm in Chicago] (1922-1967)
Frederic Burnham (B.A. 1902) Partner of Mayer, Meyer, Austrian & Platt [law firm in Chicago] (1917-1942)
Charles Humphrey Hamill (B.A. 1890, S&K 1890) Member of Rosenthal, Hamill & Wormser [law firm in Chicago] (1906-1941)
William Browne Hale (B.A. 1898) Partner of Wilson & McIlvaine [law firm in Chicago] (1919-1944)
William Southworth Miller (B.A. 1896, S&K 1896) Vice President and General Counsel of Northern Trust Company [Chicago] (1918-1945)
Augustus Wilson Clapp (B.A. 1898) Vice President and General Counsel of Weyerhaeuser Timber Company [Tacoma, Wash.] (1932-1946)
Darius Edward Peck (B.A. 1898) Vice President and General Counsel of General Electric Company (1929-1944)
Lorenzo Dibble Armstrong (B.A. 1899) General Counsel of West Indies Sugar Corporation (1932-1947)
Samuel Woodson Sawyer (B.A. 1899) General Counsel of Kansas City Terminal Railway Company (1918-1949)
*Guy Wellman (B.A. 1899) Associate General Counsel of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (1921-1935)
Benjamin Robbins Curtis Low (B.A. 1902) General Counsel of Home Life Insurance Company (1928-1941)
Abel Cary Thomas (B.A. 1905) General Counsel and Secretary of Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. (1923-1936)
James Benton Grant (B.A. 1909, S&K 1909) Vice President and General Counsel of American Crystal Sugar Company (1932-1947)
Chandler P. Anderson (B.A. 1887, S&K 1887) United States Commissioner on Mixed Claims Commission between United States and
Germany (1923-1936)
Stanley F. Reed (B.A. 1906) General Counsel of Reconstruction Finance Corporation [U.S. government] (1932-1935)
Organization Executives:
James Rockwell Sheffield (B.A. 1887, S&K 1887) Trustee of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1919-1938); Vice President of The
Pilgrims Society (1930-1938)
John Shillito Rogers (B.A. 1898) Treasurer of The Pilgrims of the United States [Pilgrims Society] (1929-1935)
Edwin R. Embree (B.A. 1906) President of Julius Rosenwald Fund (1928-1948)
William H. Welch (B.A. 1870, S&B 1870) President of the board of directors of Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1901-1934)
Barry Congar Smith (B.A. 1899) General Director of The Commonwealth Fund (1921-1947)
Malcolm W. Davis (B.A. 1911) Representative for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Geneva, Swizerland (1931-1935)
Robert Haskell Cory (B.A. 1902) Trustee of Yale-in-China (1916-1947)
Charles Franklin Bliss (B.A. 1880) Trustee of Yale-in-China (1922-1942)
Lansing P. Reed (B.A. 1904, S&B 1904) Trustee of Yale-in-China (1928-1937)
Henry Walcott Farnam (B.A. 1874, S&B 1874) Member of the council of Yale-in-China (1924-1933)
Danford Newton Barney (B.A. 1881, S&B 1881) Member of the council of Yale-in-China (1921-1933)
Lewis Sheldon Welch (B.A. 1889, S&K 1889) Member of the council of Yale-in-China (1908-1934)
Benjamin Brewster (B.A. 1882, S&B 1882) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Maine (1916-1941)
Edward Lambe Parsons (B.A. 1889, S&K 1889) Protestant Episcopalian Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of California (1924-1941)
Thomas F. Davies (B.A. 1894, S&B 1894) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts (1911-1936)
Henry W. Hobson (B.A. 1914, S&B 1914) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio (1931-1959)
College Administrators and Professors:
Robert M. Hutchins (B.A. 1921) President of University of Chicago (1929-1945)
*James L. McConaughy (B.A. 1909) President of Wesleyan University (1925-1943)
Paul Dwight Moody (B.A. 1901) President of Middlebury College (1921-1942)
Arthur Howe (B.A. 1912, S&B 1912) President of Hampton Institute [later Hampton University, Virginia] (1931-1940)
Charles Edward Clark (B.A. 1911, LL.B. 1913) Dean of Yale Law School (1929-1939)
Henry S. Graves (B.A. 1892, S&B 1892) Dean of Yale School of Forestry (1900-1939)
*Charles Seymour (B.A. 1908, Ph.D. 1911, S&B 1908) Provost of Yale University (1927-1937)
George Parmly Day (B.A. 1897, S&K 1897) Treasurer of Yale University (1910-1942)
Thomas Wells Farnam (B.A. 1899, S&K 1899) Associate Treasurer and Comptroller of Yale University (1922-1942)
August Sidney Lovett (B.A. 1913, S&B 1913) Chaplain of Yale University (1932-1958)
Roland George Dwight Richardson (B.A. 1903, Ph.D. 1906) Dean of the Graduate School at Brown University (1926-1948)
George Hoyt Whipple (B.A. 1900) Dean of School of Medicine and Dentistry at University of Rochester (1921-1953)
Irving Fisher (B.A. 1888, Ph.D. 1891, S&B 1888) Professor of Political Economy at Yale University (1893-1935)
Clive Day (B.A. 1892, Ph.D. 1899, S&B 1892) Professor of Economic History at Yale University (1907-1936)
*Arnold Whitridge (B.A. 1913, S&K 1913) Professor of History at Yale University (1932-1942)
*Charles Cheney Hyde (B.A. 1895) Hamilton Fish Professor of International Law and Diplomacy at Columbia University (1925-1945)
Karl N. Llewellyn (B.A. 1915, LL.B. 1918) Betts Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia University (1930-1951)
Warren Austin Adams (B.A. 1886, Ph.D. 1895) Professor of German at Dartmouth College (1904-1944)
Albert Beebe White (B.A. 1893, Ph.D. 1898) Professor of History at University of Minnesota (1907-1940)
Nickolaus Louis Engelhardt (B.A. 1903) Professor of Education at Columbia University Teachers College (1921-1942)
Stanley Morrison (B.A. 1915) Professor of Law at Stanford University (1929-1955); Member of the Bohemian Club in San Francisco
Howard Brown Woolston (B.A. 1898) Professor of Sociology at University of Washington (1919-1947)
Alfred Newton Richards (B.A. 1897, Ph.D. Columbia 1901) Professor of Pharmacology at University of Pennsylvania (1910-1946)
Lewis Hill Weed (B.A. 1908, S&K 1908) Director of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1929-1946)
Senjiro Takagi (B.A. 1907, M.A. 1908, Ph.D. 1910) Professor of Economics at Keio University [Tokyo, Japan] (1917-1934)
*=Member of the Council on Foreign Relations; S&B=Skull & Bones; S&K=Scroll & Key
Yale University Graduates and Their Occupation during Anschluss (March 12, 1938) and Kristallnacht (November 9, 1938)
Government Officials:
*Hugh R. Wilson (B.A. 1906, S&B 1906) U.S. Ambassador to Nazi Germany (March 3, 1938-November 16, 1938)
William Christian Bullitt (B.A. 1912, S&K 1912) U.S. Ambassador to France (1936-1940)
Arthur Bliss Lane (B.A. 1916) U.S. Minister to Yugoslavia (1937-1941)
Charles Montgomery Hathaway Jr. (B.A. 1899, M.A. 1901, Ph.D. 1902) U.S. Consul General in Munich, Germany (1927-1938)
Alexander C. Kirk (B.A. 1909) U.S. Consul General in Moscow, Soviet Union (1938-1939)
George K. Donald (B.A. 1912) U.S. Consul General in Southampton, England (1937-1941)
Howard Donovan (Ph.B. 1920) U.S. Consul in Hong Kong (1936-1939)
Homer S. Cummings (Ph.B. 1891, LL.B. 1893) U.S. Attorney General (1933-1939)
John W. Hanes (B.A. 1915, S&K 1915) Commissioner, Securities and Exchange Commission (1938); Asst. Secretary of the Treasury (1938)
*Wayne Chatfield-Taylor (B.A. 1916, S&K 1916) Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (1936-1939)
Edward John Noble (B.A. 1905) Chairman of Civil Aeronautics Authority (1938-1939)
James Lawrence Houghteling (B.A. 1905) U.S. Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization (1937-1940)
Alva B. Adams (B.A. 1896) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Colorado, 1923-1924, 1932-1941)
John Taber (B.A. 1902) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New York, 1923-1963)
James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (B.A. 1898, S&B 1898) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New York, 1933-1951)
John Joseph Smith (B.A. 1925, LL.B. 1927) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Connecticut, January 3, 1935-November 4, 1941)
James Andrew Shanley (B.A. 1920) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Connecticut, 1935-1943)
Alfred N. Phillips (B.A. 1917) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Connecticut, 1937-1939)
Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis (B.A. 1923) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-California, 1937-1947)
Stanley F. Reed (B.A. 1906) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (January 27, 1938-February 25, 1957)
Thomas Walter Swan (B.A. 1900) Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [New York City] (1926-1953)
John Munro Woolsey (B.A. 1898, S&K 1898) Judge of U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1929-1943)
Alfred Conkling Coxe Jr. (B.A. 1901) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1929-1951)
Carroll Clark Hincks (B.A. 1911) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (1931-1953)
John Foster Symes (Ph.B. 1900) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado (1922-1950)
William Josiah Tilson (B.A. 1894) Judge of the U.S. Customs Court (1928-1949)
Wilbur L. Cross (B.A. 1885, Ph.D. 1889) Governor of Connecticut (1931-1939)
Charles Brown Sears (B.A. 1892, S&K 1892) Presiding Justice of the Supreme Court of New York (1929-1940)
Kenneth OBrien (B.A. 1917) Justice of the Supreme Court of New York (1934-1954)
William M. Maltbie (B.A. 1901, LL.B. 1905) Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors (1930-1950)
Thomas Pierrepont Hazard (B.A. 1915) General Treasurer of the State of Rhode Island (1938-1940)
Charles P. Taft II (B.A. 1918; LL.B. 1921; S&B 1918) Member of the Cincinnati City Council (1938-1942, 1948-1951, 1955-1977)
Bankers:
Alfred Ernest Hamill (B.A. 1905) Partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co. [Jewish banking firm in New York City] (1932-1948)
*Frank Altschul (B.A. 1908) Partner of Lazard Freres & Co. [Jewish banking firm in New York City] (1916-1945)
*Robert Lehman (B.A. 1913) Partner of Lehman Brothers [Jewish banking firm in New York City] (1925-1969)
Joseph Albert Thomas (B.A. 1928, S&K 1928) Partner of Lehman Brothers [Jewish banking firm in New York City] (1937-1977)
*Elisha Walker (B.A. 1900) Partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. [Jewish banking firm in New York City] (1933-1950)
*John M. Schiff (B.A. 1925) Partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. [Jewish banking firm in New York City] (1931-1977)
Francis Fitz Randolph (B.A. 1911, S&B 1911) Partner of J&W Seligman & Co. [Jewish banking firm in New York City] (1923-1940)
*Russell C. Leffingwell (B.A. 1899) Partner of J.P. Morgan & Co. (1923-1950); Director of Council on Foreign Relations (1927-1960)
*Henry P. Davison Jr. (B.A. 1920, S&B 1920) Partner of J.P. Morgan & Co. (1929-1940)
*Harold Stanley (B.A. 1908, S&B 1908) President of Morgan, Stanley & Co. (1935-1941)
Edward Howard York Jr. (B.A. 1912) Vice President and Partner of Morgan, Stanley & Co. (1935-1943)
Thacher M. Brown (B.A. 1897) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1954)
*Ray Morris (B.A. 1901, S&B 1901) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1956)
*W. Averell Harriman (B.A. 1913, S&B 1913) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1946); Chairman of the Board of Union Pacific
Railroad Co. (1932-1946)
Prescott S. Bush (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1972)
*E. Roland Harriman (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1978)
*Knight Woolley (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1982)
Laurence G. Tighe (B.A. 1916, S&B 1916) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1934)
*Robert A. Lovett (B.A. 1918, S&B 1918) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1940, 1946-1947, 1949-1950, 1953-1986)
*George L. Harrison (B.A. 1910, S&B 1910) President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1928-1940)
Walter Seth Logan (B.A. 1910, S&B 1910) Vice President and General Counsel of Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1928-1953)
John N. Peyton (Ph.B. 1908) President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (1936-1952)
Stanford Tappan Crapo (B.A. 1886, S&B 1886) Class B Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (1922-1938)
Ross P. Wright (Ph.B. 1896) Class B Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (1917-1949)
Willard Deere Hosford (B.A. 1906) Class B Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (1930-1951)
Alfred Lawrence Ripley (B.A. 1878, S&K 1878) Class A Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (1923-1937); Chairman of the board
of Merchants National Bank of Boston (1929-1943)
*Pierre Jay (B.A. 1892, S&B 1892) Chairman of the board of Fiduciary Trust Company [New York City] (1930-1945)
Mortimer Norton Buckner (B.A. 1895, S&B 1895) Chairman of the board of New York Trust Co. (1921-1942)
*Artemus L. Gates (B.A. 1918, S&B 1918) President of New York Trust Co. (1929-1941)
Samuel Sloan Colt (B.A. 1914, S&K 1914) President of Bankers Trust Co. (1931-1957)
*Boylston Adams Tompkins (B.A. 1915, S&K 1915) Vice President of Bankers Trust Co. (1921-1955)
Thomas Wilson Bowers (B.A. 1910) Vice President of Bank of the Manhattan Company (1930-1942)
Frank P. Shepard (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917) Vice President of Guaranty Trust Co. of New York (1929-1934)
Robert James Lewis (B.A. 1921) Partner of Estabrook & Co. [banking firm in New York City] (1931-1968)
Edward Starr, Jr. (B.A. 1922, S&K 1922) Partner of Drexel & Co. [investment bank in Philadelphia (1937-c.1966)
Wilson Gordon Wing (B.A. 1903) President of Providence Institution for Savings [bank in Providence, Rhode Island] (1922-1944)
Wirt Davis (B.A. 1897) Chairman of Republic National Bank in Dallas, Texas (1934-1945)
Henry Chandler Holt (B.A. 1903, S&B 1903) Vice President of Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. [New York City] (1920-1946)
Harry E. Ward (B.A. 1901) President of Irving Trust Co. (1919-1942)
Francis Ward Paine (B.A. 1910) Member of Paine, Webber & Co. [investment banking firm in Boston] (1919-1940)
Businessmen:
*Alfred L. Aiken (B.A. 1891) President of New York Life Insurance Co. (1936-1940)
Leroy A. Lincoln (B.A. 1902) President of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (1936-1951)
Morgan B. Brainard (B.A. 1900, LL.B. 1903) President of Aetna Life Insurance Co. [Hartford, Connecticut] (1922-1957)
Robert W. Huntington Jr. (B.A. 1889, S&K 1889) Chairman of the board of Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. (1936-1949)
Henry Wheeler de Forest (B.A. 1876, S&K 1876) Member of the board of directors of The Guaranty Trust Company (1909-1938)
Solomon Albert Smith (B.A. 1899) President of Northern Trust Co. of Chicago (1914-1957)
H. Neil Mallon (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917) President of Dresser Industries, Inc. (1929-1958)
*Juan Terry Trippe (Ph.B. 1921) President of Pan American World Airways, Inc. (1927-1964)
*W. Stuart Symington (B.A. 1923) Chairman of the board of the Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co. (1938-1945)
George Herbert Walker Jr. (B.A. 1927, S&B 1927) General Partner of G.H. Walker & Co. (1929-1974)
Howard Heinz (B.A. 1900) President of H.J. Heinz Co. (1919-1941); Trustee of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1926-1941)
Ashbel Barney Newell (B.A. 1890, S&K 1890) President of Toledo Terminal Railroad Company (1914-1950)
Frederick E. Weyerhaeuser (B.A. 1896, S&B 1896) President of Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. (1937-1945)
Reuben Buck Robertson (B.A. 1900) Executive Vice President of Champion Papers, Inc. (1935-1946)
Henry Eldredge Perry (B.A. 1912) Vice President of Commercial Solvents Corp. [New York City] (1938-1946)
Charles Lanier Lawrance (B.A. 1905) Founder and President of Lawrance Aero Engine Corp. [New York City] (1917-1923); President and
Chief Engineer of Lawrance Engineering & Research Corp. (1930-1944)
Frank Courtenay Dodd (B.A. 1897) President of Dodd, Mead & Co., Inc. [publishing company in New York City] (1931-1942)
Journalists:
*Eugene Meyer (B.A. 1895) Publisher of The Washington Post (1933-1946)
*Henry R. Luce (B.A. 1920, S&B 1920) Editor-in-Chief of Time, Inc. (1923-1964); founder of Time and Life magazines
*Archibald MacLeish (B.A. 1915, S&B 1915) Editor of Fortune magazine (1929-1938)
William H. Cowles (B.A. 1887, S&B 1887) Publisher of Spokane Spokesman-Review (1893-1946)
Joseph Medill Patterson (B.A. 1901, S&K 1901) Publisher of New York Daily News (1919-1946)
Ogden Mills Reid (B.A. 1904, LL.B. 1907) Editor of New York Herald Tribune (1913-1947)
George Henry Soule Jr. (B.A. 1908) Editor of The New Republic (1924-1947)
Charles Latimer Stillman (B.A. 1926) Treasurer of Time, Inc. [Time magazine] (1930-1960)
Lawyers:
*Henry L. Stimson (B.A. 1888, S&B 1888) Counsel of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1891-1906, 1913-1927, 1933-1940, 19451950); President of the New York City Bar Association (1937-1939)
*George Roberts (B.A. 1905, LL.B. Harvard 1908) Partner of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1914-1968)
*Allen T. Klots (B.A. 1909, S&B 1909) Member of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1921-1965)
Hamilton Hadley (B.A. 1919, S&B 1919) Partner of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1929-1940)
*Henry DeForest Baldwin (B.A. 1885, S&B 1885) Member of Lord, Day & Lord (1900-1947)
Allen Evarts Foster (B.A. 1906) Partner of Lord, Day & Lord (1919-c.1970)
Sherman Baldwin (B.A. 1919, S&B 1919) Member of Lord, Day & Lord (1929-1969)
*Frank L. Polk (B.A. 1894, S&K 1894) Member of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed (1914-1943); Director of the Council on Foreign
Relations (1921-1943)
*Allen Wardwell (B.A. 1895, S&K 1895) Member of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed (1909-1953)
Otis Treat Bradley (B.A. 1915; LL.B. Harvard 1919) Partner of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed (1930-1950)
Chauncey Brewster Garver (B.A. 1908, S&K 1908) Partner of Shearman & Sterling (1917-1973)
*Henry Waters Taft (B.A. 1880, S&B 1880) Partner of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft [law firm in New York City] (1899-1945)
Walbridge Smith Taft (B.A. 1907) Partner of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft (1917-1951)
Graham Sumner (B.A. 1897, S&B 1897) Member of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett (1904-1946)
Douglas Maxwell Moffat (B.A. 1903, LL.B. Harvard 1907) Partner of Cravath, Swaine & Moore [law firm in New York City] (1913-1956)
James Rockwell Sheffield (B.A. 1887, S&K 1887) Senior Partner of Sheffield and Betts [law firm in New York City] (1911-1938)
Frederick Trowbridge Kelsey (B.A. 1907) Member of Lewis & Kelsey [law firm in New York City] (1913-1940)
Allen Wardner Evarts (B.A. 1869) Member of Evarts, Choate & Sherman [and predecessor firms] [law firm in New York City] (1874-1939)
Louis S. Weiss (B.A. 1915, LL.B. Columbia 1920) Partner of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison [and predecessor firms] (1927-1950)
Dean Sage (B.A. 1897, S&B 1897) Member of Sage, Gray, Todd & Sims [law firm in New York City] (1905-1943)
Lee James Perrin (B.A. 1906, S&B 1906) Partner of Appleton, Perrin & Hoyt [law firm in New York City] (1916-1946)
Edward Bancroft Twombly (B.A. 1912, S&B 1912) Partner of Putney, Twombly, Hall & Skidmore [law firm in New York City] (1919-1966)
Vanderbilt Webb (B.A. 1913, S&K 1913) Member of Milbank, Tweed, Hope & Webb [law firm in New York City] (1931-1938)
John Loomer Hall (B.A. 1894, LL.B. 1896, S&B 1894) Member of Choate, Hall & Stewart [law firm in Boston] (1904-1960)
*Harvey H. Bundy (B.A. 1909, S&B 1909) Member of Choate, Hall & Stewart [law firm in Boston] (1933-1941, 1945-1963)
Marcien Jenckes (B.A. 1921, S&B 1921) Member of Choate, Hall & Stewart [law firm in Boston] (1927-1971)
Isaac Henry Mayer (B.A. 1884) Senior Member of Mayer, Meyer, Austrian & Platt [law firm in Chicago] (1922-1967)
Frederic Burnham (B.A. 1902) Partner of Mayer, Meyer, Austrian & Platt [law firm in Chicago] (1917-1942)
Charles Humphrey Hamill (B.A. 1890, S&K 1890) Member of Rosenthal, Hamill & Wormser [law firm in Chicago] (1906-1941)
William Browne Hale (B.A. 1898) Partner of Wilson & McIlvaine [law firm in Chicago] (1919-1944)
Richard Bentley (B.A. 1917, S&K 1917) Member of Cassels, Potter & Bentley [law firm in Chicago] (1923-1951)
Samuel Knight (B.A. 1887, S&B 1887) Member of Christin, Knight, Boland & Chnstin [law firm in San Francisco] (1918-1943)
John Thomas Pigott (B.A. 1908) Partner of McCutchen, Thomas, Matthew, Griffiths & Greene [law firm in San Francisco] (1923-1946)
Robert A. Taft (B.A. 1910, S&B 1910) Member of Taft, Stettinius & Hollister [law firm in Cincinnati, Ohio] (1923-1939)
John Herron More (B.A. 1924) Partner of Taft, Stettinius &Hollister [law firm in Cincinnati, Ohio] (1935-1970)
John Bourne Dempsey (B.A. 1911, S&B 1911) Partner of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey [law firm in Cleveland, Ohio] (1935-1963)
Howard Tallmadge Foulkes (B.A. 1911) Partner of Wickham, Borgelt, Skogstad and Powell [law firm in Milwaukee] (1913-1973)
Alvin Huey Lane (B.A. 1915; LL.B. Harvard 1920) Partner of Lane & Savage (and predecessor) [law firm in Dallas, Texas] (1936-1957)
Cornelius E. Lombardi (B.A. 1911, S&B 1911) Partner of Lombardi, Robertson, Fligg & McLean [law firm in Kansas City] (1936-1956)
*Dean G. Acheson (B.A. 1915, S&K 1915) Member of Covington & Burling [law firm in Washington, D.C.] (1921-1933, 1934-1941)
Thomas M. Debevoise (B.A. 1895) Wall Street lawyer; director of Chase National Bank
Edward Minott Shelton (B.A. 1890) Vice President and General Counsel of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company (1937-1938)
Leonard Bacon Smith (B.A. 1894) General Counsel of American Can Company (1933-1946)
James Earnest Cooper (B.A. 1895) Vice President and General Counsel of Stanley Works (hardware, tool, steel manufacturers) (1921-1943)
William Southworth Miller (B.A. 1896, S&K 1896) Vice President and General Counsel of Northern Trust Company [Chicago] (1918-1945)
Augustus Wilson Clapp (B.A. 1898) Vice President and General Counsel of Weyerhaeuser Timber Company [Tacoma, Wash.] (1932-1946)
Darius Edward Peck (B.A. 1898) Vice President and General Counsel of General Electric Company (1929-1944)
Lorenzo Dibble Armstrong (B.A. 1899) General Counsel of West Indies Sugar Corporation (1932-1947)
Samuel Woodson Sawyer (B.A. 1899) General Counsel of Kansas City Terminal Railway Company (1918-1949)
*Guy Wellman (B.A. 1899) General Counsel of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey [Exxon] (1935-1941)
Benjamin Robbins Curtis Low (B.A. 1902) General Counsel of Home Life Insurance Company (1928-1941)
James Benton Grant (B.A. 1909, S&K 1909) Vice President and General Counsel of American Crystal Sugar Company (1932-1947)
Roger Benton Hull (B.A. 1907) Managing Director and General Counsel of The National Association of Life Underwriters (1927-1942)
Organization Executives:
James Rockwell Sheffield (B.A. 1887, S&K 1887) Trustee of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1919-1938); Vice President of
The Pilgrims Society (1930-1938)
Edwin R. Embree (B.A. 1906) President of Julius Rosenwald Fund (1928-1948)
Barry Congar Smith (B.A. 1899) General Director of The Commonwealth Fund (1921-1947)
Edwin Carlyle Lobenstine (B.A. 1895) President of Yale-in-China Association (1935-1944)
Robert Haskell Cory (B.A. 1902) Trustee of Yale-in-China (1916-1947)
Charles Franklin Bliss (B.A. 1880) Trustee of Yale-in-China (1922-1942)
Benjamin Brewster (B.A. 1882, S&B 1882) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Maine (1916-1941)
Edward Lambe Parsons (B.A. 1889, S&K 1889) Protestant Episcopalian Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of California (1924-1941)
Henry W. Hobson (B.A. 1914, S&B 1914) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio (1931-1959)
Edward Huntington Coley (B.A. 1884) Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Central New York (1936-1942)
College Administrators and Professors:
*Charles Seymour (B.A. 1908, Ph.D. 1911, S&B 1908) President of Yale University (1937-1950)
Robert M. Hutchins (B.A. 1921) President of University of Chicago (1929-1945)
*James L. McConaughy (B.A. 1909) President of Wesleyan University (1925-1943)
Paul Dwight Moody (B.A. 1901) President of Middlebury College (1921-1942)
Arthur Howe (B.A. 1912, S&B 1912) President of Hampton Institute [later Hampton University, Virginia] (1931-1940)
Charles Edward Clark (B.A. 1911, LL.B. 1913) Dean of Yale Law School (1929-1939)
Henry S. Graves (B.A. 1892, S&B 1892) Dean of Yale School of Forestry (1900-1939)
Stanhope Bayne-Jones (B.A. 1910, S&B 1910) Dean of Yale School of Medicine (1935-1940)
George Parmly Day (B.A. 1897, S&K 1897) Treasurer of Yale University (1910-1942)
Thomas Wells Farnam (B.A. 1899, S&K 1899) Associate Treasurer and Comptroller of Yale University (1922-1942)
Carl A. Lohmann (B.A. 1910, S&B 1910) Secretary of Yale University (1927-1953)
August Sidney Lovett (B.A. 1913, S&B 1913) Chaplain of Yale University (1932-1958)
*Arnold Whitridge (B.A. 1913, S&K 1913) Professor of History at Yale University (1932-1942)
James Grafton Rogers (B.A. 1905) Professor of Law at Yale University (1935-1942)
Roland George Dwight Richardson (B.A. 1903, Ph.D. 1906) Dean of the Graduate School at Brown University (1926-1948)
George Hoyt Whipple (B.A. 1900) Dean of School of Medicine and Dentistry at University of Rochester (1921-1953)
*Charles Cheney Hyde (B.A. 1895) Hamilton Fish Professor of International Law and Diplomacy at Columbia University (1925-1945)
Karl N. Llewellyn (B.A. 1915, LL.B. 1918) Betts Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia University (1930-1951)
Warren Austin Adams (B.A. 1886, Ph.D. 1895) Professor of German at Dartmouth College (1904-1944)
Albert Beebe White (B.A. 1893, Ph.D. 1898) Professor of History at University of Minnesota (1907-1940)
Nickolaus Louis Engelhardt (B.A. 1903) Professor of Education at Columbia University Teachers College (1921-1942)
Stanley Morrison (B.A. 1915) Professor of Law at Stanford University (1929-1955); Member of the Bohemian Club in San Francisco
Howard Brown Woolston (B.A. 1898) Professor of Sociology at University of Washington (1919-1947)
Alexander Hamilton Frey (B.A. 1919, LL.B. 1921) Professor of Law at University of Pennsylvania Law School (1932-1968)
Alfred Newton Richards (B.A. 1897, Ph.D. Columbia 1901) Professor of Pharmacology at University of Pennsylvania (1910-1946)
Lewis Hill Weed (B.A. 1908, S&K 1908) Director of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1929-1946)
*=Member of the Council on Foreign Relations; S&B=Skull & Bones; S&K=Scroll & Key
Yale University Graduates and Their Occupation during The Great Depression (1929-1939)
Government Officials:
Homer S. Cummings (Ph.B. 1891, LL.B. 1893) U.S. Attorney General (1933-1939)
*Thomas D. Thacher (B.A. 1904, S&B 1904) Solicitor General of the U.S. (1930-1933); Partner of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett (1933-1943)
Stanley F. Reed (B.A. 1906) General Counsel of Federal Farm Board (1929-1932); Solicitor General of the United States (1935-1938)
John W. Hanes (B.A. 1915, S&K 1915) Commissioner of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (1938); Under Secretary of the Treasury
(1938-1939)
James Lawrence Houghteling (B.A. 1905) U.S. Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization (1937-1940); Vice President and Treasurer
of the Chicago Daily News (1926-1931)
Edward John Noble (B.A. 1905) Under Secretary of Commerce (1939-1940); Chairman of Civil Aeronautics Authority (1938-1939)
*Wayne Chatfield-Taylor (B.A. 1916, S&K 1916) Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (1936-1939)
*F. Trubee Davison (B.A. 1918, S&B 1918) Assistant Secretary of War for Air (1926-1933)
David S. Ingalls (B.A. 1920, S&B 1920) Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air (1929-1932)
*Henry L. Stimson (B.A. 1888, S&B 1888) U.S. Secretary of State (1929-1933)
*Harvey H. Bundy (B.A. 1909, S&B 1909) Assistant Secretary of State (1931-1933)
*William Christian Bullitt (B.A. 1912, S&K 1912) U.S. Ambassador to Soviet Union (1933-1936); U.S. Ambassador to France (1936-1940)
*Hugh R. Wilson (B.A. 1906, S&B 1906) U.S. Ambassador to Nazi Germany (1938); U.S. Minister to Switzerland (1927-1937)
*E. Sheldon Whitehouse (B.A. 1905, S&B 1905) U.S. Minister to Guatemala (1930-1933); U.S. Minister to Colombia (1933-1934)
Irwin B. Laughlin (B.A. 1893, S&K 1893) U.S. Ambassador to Spain (1929-1933)
*Arthur Bliss Lane (B.A. 1916) U.S. Minister to Nicaragua (1933-1936); U.S. Minister to Estonia (1936-1937); U.S. Minister to Latvia (19361937); U.S. Minister to Lithuania (1936-1937); U.S. Minister to Yugoslavia (1937-1941)
Charles H. Sherrill (B.A. 1889) U.S. Ambassador to Turkey (1932-1933)
John Ball Osborne (B.A. 1889) U.S. Consul-General in Havre, France (1919-1920); U.S. Consul-General in Genoa, Italy (1921-1926); U.S.
Consul-General in Stockholm, Sweden (1926-1931); U.S. Consul-General in Budapest, Hungary (1931-1933)
Charles Montgomery Hathaway Jr. (B.A. 1899, M.A. 1901, Ph.D. 1902) U.S. Consul General in Dublin, Ireland (1924-1927); U.S. Consul
General in Munich, Germany (1927-1938)
Roger Culver Tredwell (B.A. 1907) U.S. Consul-General in Hong Kong (1925-1930); U.S. Consul-General in Sydney, Australia (1930-1931)
Louis G. Dreyfus Jr. (B.A. 1910) U.S. Consul General in Naples, Italy (1929-1931); U.S. Consul General in Copenhagen, Denmark (19311933); Counselor of U.S. Embassy in Lima, Peru (1933-1939)
George Kenneth Donald (B.A. 1912) U.S. Consul in Johannesburg, South Africa (1922-1928); U.S. Consul General in Guatemala (19281932); U.S. Consul General in Milan, Italy (1934-1937); U.S. Consul General in Southampton, England (1937-1941)
Thomas Irwin Emerson (B.A. 1928, LL.B. 1931) Assistant Counsel, National Recovery Administration (1933-1934); Principal Attorney,
National Labor Relations Board (1934-1936); Principal Attorney, Social Security Board (1936-1937); Associate General Counsel, National
Labor Relations Board (1937-1940)
Brig. Gen. Preston Brown (B.A. 1892) Commanding General of 1st Corps Area (1926-1930); Deputy Chief of Staff of U.S. Army (March 9,
1930-October 10, 1930); Commanding General of Panama Canal Department (November 24, 1930-November 14, 1933); Commanding
General of 2nd Army and 6th Corps Area (1933-1934)
John Hall Paxton (B.A. 1922) Vice Consul in Nanking, China (1925-1929); U.S. Consul in Canton, China (1932-1934); U.S. Consul in
Shanghai, China (1938-1941); U.S. Consul in Tihaw, China (1946-1949); Language Attach at the U.S. Embassy in Peking, China (19291932); Second Secretary at U.S. Embassy in Nanking, China (1936-1937); worked at the U.S. Embassy in Chungking, China (1944-1945) and
Nanking, China (1945-1946)
Harold H. Tittmann Jr. (B.A. 1916) Secretary of U.S. Embassy in Paris, France (1921-1925); Secretary of U.S. Embassy in Rome, Italy
(1925-1936)
Alva B. Adams (B.A. 1896) U.S. Senator (D-Colorado, 1923-1924, 1932-1941)
Hiram Bingham III (B.A. 1898) U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut, 1924-1933)
*Frederic C. Walcott (B.A. 1891, S&B 1891) U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut, 1929-1935)
John Q. Tilson (B.A. 1891) U.S. Congressman (R-Connecticut, 1909-1913, 1915-1932)
Schuyler Merritt (B.A. 1873, S&K 1873) U.S. Congressman (R-Connecticut, 1917-1931, 1933-1937)
Richard Steere Aldrich (B.A. 1906) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Rhode Island, 1923-1933)
Parker Corning (B.A. 1895) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-New York, 1923-1937)
James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (B.A. 1898, S&B 1898) U.S. Congressman (R-New York, 1933-1951)
Percy Hamilton Stewart (B.A. 1890, S&B 1890) U.S. Congressman (D-New Jersey, 1931-1933)
Howard Malcolm Baldrige (B.A. 1918, S&B 1918) U.S. Congressman (R-Nebraska, 1931-1933)
William Howard Taft (B.A. 1878, S&B 1878) Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1921-1930)
Thomas Walter Swan (B.A. 1900) Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [New York City] (1926-1953)
Wilbur Franklin Booth (B.A. 1884, LL.B. 1888, S&B 1884) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit [St. Louis] (1925-1932)
John Munro Woolsey (B.A. 1898, S&K 1898) Judge of U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1929-1943)
Alfred Conkling Coxe Jr. (B.A. 1901) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1929-1951)
William Nelson Runyon (B.A. 1892, S&K 1892) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (1923-1931)
Carroll Clark Hincks (B.A. 1911) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (1931-1953)
Henry Clay McDowell (B.A. 1884, S&K 1884) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia (1901-1931)
William Irwin Grubb (B.A. 1883) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama (1909-1935)
John Foster Symes (Ph.B. 1900) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado (1922-1950)
William Josiah Tilson (B.A. 1894) Judge of the U.S. Customs Court (1928-1949)
Wilbur L. Cross (B.A. 1885, Ph.D. 1889) Governor of Connecticut (1931-1939)
Gifford Pinchot (B.A. 1889, S&B 1889) Governor of Pennsylvania (1923-1927, 1931-1935)
David Sholtz (B.A. 1914) Governor of Florida (1933-1937)
Charles Brown Sears (B.A. 1892, S&K 1892) Presiding Justice of the Supreme Court of New York (1929-1940)
George Augustus Sanderson (B.A. 1885) Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts (1924-1932)
Sylvester Baker Sadler (B.A. 1896) Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (1921-1931)
William M. Maltbie (B.A. 1901, LL.B. 1905) Justice (1925-1930) and Chief Justice (1930-1950) of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors
[Augustus] Newbold Morris (B.A. 1925; LL.B. 1928, S&K 1925) Assistant Corporation Counsel and Member of the Board of Alderman of New
York City (1934-1937); President of the New York City Council (1938-1946)
Harold Armstrong Jones (B.A. 1920) Deputy District Attorney of Los Angeles, California (1929-1931)
Laurence Harper Norton (B.A. 1910) Member of Cleveland Board of Education (1933-1937); Ohio State Senator (1931-1932)
Bankers:
*Eugene Meyer (B.A. 1895) Chairman of the Federal Reserve (Sept. 16, 1930-May 10, 1933); Publisher, The Washington Post (1933-1946)
*George L. Harrison (B.A. 1910, S&B 1910) President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1928-1940)
Walter Seth Logan (B.A. 1910, S&B 1910) Vice President and General Counsel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1928-1953)
Stanford Tappan Crapo (B.A. 1886, S&B 1886) Class B Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (1922-1938)
Ross P. Wright (Ph.B. 1896) Class B Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (1917-1949)
Willard Deere Hosford (B.A. 1906) Class B Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (1930-1951)
*Russell C. Leffingwell (B.A. 1899) Partner of J.P. Morgan & Co. (1923-1950); Director of the Council on Foreign Relations (1927-1960)
*Henry P. Davison Jr. (B.A. 1920, S&B 1920) Partner of J.P. Morgan & Co. (1929-1940)
*Harold Stanley (B.A. 1908, S&B 1908) Partner of J.P. Morgan & Co. (1928-1935); President of Morgan, Stanley & Co. (1935-1941)
Thomas Cochran (B.A. 1894, S&B 1894) Partner of J.P. Morgan & Co. (1917-1936); Chairman of the board of Bankers Trust Co. (1936)
*Frank Altschul (B.A. 1908) Partner of Lazard Freres & Co. [Jewish banking firm in New York City] (1916-1945)
Alfred Ernest Hamill (B.A. 1905) Partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co. [Jewish banking firm in New York City] (1932-1948)
*Robert Lehman (B.A. 1913) Partner of Lehman Brothers [Jewish banking firm in New York City] (1925-1969)
*John M. Schiff (B.A. 1925) Partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. [Jewish banking firm in New York City] (1931-1977)
*Elisha Walker (B.A. 1900) Partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. [Jewish banking firm in New York City] (1933-1950)
Thacher M. Brown (B.A. 1897) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1954)
*Ray Morris (B.A. 1901, S&B 1901) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1956)
*W. Averell Harriman (B.A. 1913, S&B 1913) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1946); Chairman of the Board of Union Pacific
Railroad Co. (1932-1946)
Prescott S. Bush (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1972)
*E. Roland Harriman (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1978)
*Knight Woolley (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1982)
*Ellery S. James (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1932)
Laurence G. Tighe (B.A. 1916, S&B 1916) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1934)
*Robert A. Lovett (B.A. 1918, S&B 1918) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1940, 1946-1947, 1949-1950, 1953-1986)
*Charles S. McCain (B.A. 1904) Chairman of Chase National Bank (1930-1934); President of Chase National Bank (1929-1930)
*Pierre Jay (B.A. 1892, S&B 1892) Chairman of the board of Fiduciary Trust Company [New York City] (1930-1945)
Alfred Lawrence Ripley (B.A. 1878, S&K 1878) Chairman of the board of Merchants National Bank of Boston (1929-1943)
Mortimer Norton Buckner (B.A. 1895, S&B 1895) Chairman of the board of New York Trust Co. (1921-1942)
*Artemus L. Gates (B.A. 1918, S&B 1918) President of New York Trust Co. (1929-1941)
*Harry E. Ward (B.A. 1901) President of Irving Trust Co. (1919-1942)
Wentworth Paul Johnson (Ph.B. 1917) Vice President of Irving Trust Co. (1923-1948)
Samuel Sloan Colt (B.A. 1914, S&K 1914) President of Bankers Trust Co. (1931-1957)
*Boylston Adams Tompkins (B.A. 1915, S&K 1915) Vice President of Bankers Trust Co. (1921-1955)
*Charles Albert Wight (B.A. 1922, S&K 1922) Vice President of Bankers Trust Co. (1936-1948)
Thomas Wilson Bowers (B.A. 1910) Vice President of Bank of the Manhattan Company (1930-1942)
Samuel Albert York (B.A. 1890, LL.B. 1892) Vice President (1923-1925) and President (1925-1931) of Merchants National Bank
Alfred Lee Loomis (B.A. 1909) Vice President of Bonbright & Co. (1919-1933)
Francis Ward Paine (B.A. 1910) Member of Paine, Webber & Co. [investment banking firm in Boston] (1919-1940)
Wilson Gordon Wing (B.A. 1903) President of Providence Institution for Savings [bank in Providence, Rhode Island] (1922-1944)
Wirt Davis (B.A. 1897) Vice Chairman (1925-1934) and Chairman (1934-1945) of Republic National Bank in Dallas, Texas
William McChesney Martin Jr. (B.A. 1928) Partner of A.G. Edwards & Sons [St. Louis] (1931-1938); Member of New York Stock Exchange
(1931-1938); President of New York Stock Exchange (1938-1941)
Edward Howard York Jr. (B.A. 1912) Vice President and Partner of Morgan, Stanley & Co. (1935-1943); Partner of Drexel & Co. [investment
bank in Philadelphia] (1931-1935, 1943-1961)
John Smith Cravens (B.A. 1893) Vice President of First National Bank of Los Angeles (1906-1929); Vice President of Security-First National
Bank of Los Angeles (1929-1936)
Businessmen:
Leroy A. Lincoln (B.A. 1902) President of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (1936-1951)
Robert W. Huntington Jr. (B.A. 1889, S&K 1889) President of Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. (1901-1936)
Morgan B. Brainard (B.A. 1900, LL.B. 1903) President of Aetna Life Insurance Co. [Hartford, Connecticut] (1922-1957)
Archibald A. Welch (B.A. 1882) President of Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Co. [Hartford, Connecticut] (1924-1935)
Fairfax Harrison (B.A. 1890, S&B 1890) President of Southern Railway Co. (1913-1937)
*Henry Wheeler de Forest (B.A. 1876, S&K 1876) Chairman of the board of Southern Pacific Railway (1929-1932)
H. Neil Mallon (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917) President of Dresser Industries, Inc. (1929-1958)
*Juan Terry Trippe (Ph.B. 1921) President of Pan American World Airways, Inc. (1927-1964)
George Herbert Walker Jr. (B.A. 1927, S&B 1927) General Partner of G.H. Walker & Co. (1929-1974)
Frederick Winthrop Allen (B.A. 1900, S&B 1900) Chairman of Dunlop Tire & Rubber Company (1930-1933)
Howard Heinz (B.A. 1900) President of H.J. Heinz Co. (1919-1941); Trustee of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1926-1941)
James A. Folger (B.A. 1922) President of Folger Coffee Co. (1936-1942)
James C. Auchincloss (B.A. 1908, S&K 1908) Member of the board of governor of the New York Stock Exchange (1921-1938)
Andrew Varick Stout, Jr. (B.A. 1926, S&K 1926) Governor of New York Stock Exchange (1930-1936)
Mervin Clark Harvey (B.A. 1899, S&K 1899) President of Cleveland Stock Exchange (1925-1931)
Sidney Morse Colgate (B.A. 1885, S&K 1885) Chairman of the board of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. (1928-1930)
Ashbel Barney Newell (B.A. 1890, S&K 1890) President of Toledo Terminal Railroad Company (1914-1950)
Charles Davies Jones (B.A. 1893, S&K 1893) Chairman of the board of Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company (1928-1935)
William Russell Cone Corson (B.A. 1891) Secretary and Treasurer (1916-1921), President (1927-1945), and Chairman (1942-1945) of
Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Company [Hartford, Connecticut]
Leslie Morgan Johnston (B.A. 1902) Director of Public Works for the City of Pittsburgh (1934-1936); President of Cement Stone Corp.
[Pittsburgh] (1938-1941); President of Insulmastic Corp. of American [New York City] (1941-1944)
Frank Courtenay Dodd (B.A. 1897) President of Dodd, Mead & Co., Inc. [publishing company in New York City] (1931-1942)
Lawyers:
Howard Mansfield (B.A. 1871, S&B 1871) Senior Partner of Lord, Day & Lord [law firm in New York City] (1908-1938)
*Henry DeForest Baldwin (B.A. 1885, S&B 1885) Member of Lord, Day & Lord (1900-1947)
Allen Evarts Foster (B.A. 1906) Partner of Lord, Day & Lord (1919-c.1970)
Sherman Baldwin (B.A. 1919, S&B 1919) Member of Lord, Day & Lord (1929-1969)
*Frank L. Polk (B.A. 1894, S&K 1894) Member of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed [law firm in New York City] (1914-1943)
*Allen Wardwell (B.A. 1895, S&K 1895) Member of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed (1909-1953)
Lansing P. Reed (B.A. 1904, S&B 1904) Member of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed (1915-1937)
Otis Treat Bradley (B.A. 1915; LL.B. Harvard 1919) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1930-1950)
*George Roberts (B.A. 1905, LL.B. Harvard 1908) Partner of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts [law firm in New York City] (1914-1968)
*Allen T. Klots (B.A. 1909, S&B 1909) Member of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1921-1965)
Hamilton Hadley (B.A. 1919, S&B 1919) Partner of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1929-1940)
John Anson Garver (B.A. 1875, S&K 1875) Partner (1884-1918) and Senior Partner (1918-1936) of Shearman & Sterling
Chauncey Brewster Garver (B.A. 1908, S&K 1908) Partner of Shearman & Sterling [law firm in New York City] (1917-1973)
*Henry Waters Taft (B.A. 1880, S&B 1880) Partner of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft [law firm in New York City] (1899-1945)
George Coggill (B.A. 1889, S&K 1889) Member of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft (1918-1935)
Walbridge Smith Taft (B.A. 1907) Partner of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft (1917-1951)
Graham Sumner (B.A. 1897, S&B 1897) Member of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett [law firm in New York City] (1904-1946)
Douglas Maxwell Moffat (B.A. 1903, LL.B. Harvard 1907) Partner of Cravath, Swaine & Moore [law firm in New York City] (1913-1956)
James Rockwell Sheffield (B.A. 1887, S&K 1887) Senior Partner of Sheffield and Betts [law firm in New York City] (1911-1938)
Frederick Trowbridge Kelsey (B.A. 1907) Member of Lewis & Kelsey [law firm in New York City] (1913-1940)
Walter Frederick Carter (B.A. 1895, S&B 1895) Member of Hughes, Schurman & Dwight [law firm in New York City] (1898-1936)
Allen Wardner Evarts (B.A. 1869) Member of Evarts, Choate & Sherman [and predecessor firms] [law firm in New York City] (1874-1939)
Lee James Perrin (B.A. 1906, S&B 1906) Partner of Appleton, Perrin & Hoyt [law firm in New York City] (1916-1946)
Louis S. Weiss (B.A. 1915, LL.B. Columbia 1920) Partner of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison [and predecessor firms] (1927-1950)
Vanderbilt Webb (B.A. 1913, S&K 1913) Member of Milbank, Tweed, Hope & Webb [law firm in New York City] (1931-1938)
Edward Bancroft Twombly (B.A. 1912, S&B 1912) Partner of Putney, Twombly, Hall & Skidmore [law firm in New York City] (1919-1966)
*Jerome S. Hess (B.A. 1903) Member of Hardin, Hess & Eder [law firm in New York City] (1907-1970); Member of Hardin, Hess & Suarez
[law firm in Mexico City] (1921-1970)
John Loomer Hall (B.A. 1894, LL.B. 1896, S&B 1894) Member of Choate, Hall & Stewart [law firm in Boston] (1904-1960)
*Harvey H. Bundy (B.A. 1909, S&B 1909) Member of Choate, Hall & Stewart [law firm in Boston] (1933-1941, 1945-1963)
Marcien Jenckes (B.A. 1921, S&B 1921) Member of Choate, Hall & Stewart [law firm in Boston] (1927-1971)
Isaac Henry Mayer (B.A. 1884) Senior Member of Mayer, Meyer, Austrian & Platt [law firm in Chicago] (1922-1967)
Frederic Burnham (B.A. 1902) Partner of Mayer, Meyer, Austrian & Platt [law firm in Chicago] (1917-1942)
Charles Humphrey Hamill (B.A. 1890, S&K 1890) Member of Rosenthal, Hamill & Wormser [law firm in Chicago] (1906-1941)
William Browne Hale (B.A. 1898) Partner of Wilson & McIlvaine [law firm in Chicago] (1919-1944)
Richard Bentley (B.A. 1917, S&K 1917) Member of Cassels, Potter & Bentley [law firm in Chicago] (1923-1951)
Samuel Knight (B.A. 1887, S&B 1887) Member of Christin, Knight, Boland & Chnstin [law firm in San Francisco] (1918-1943)
John Thomas Pigott (B.A. 1908) Partner of McCutchen, Thomas, Matthew, Griffiths & Greene [law firm in San Francisco] (1923-1946)
Howard Tallmadge Foulkes (B.A. 1911) Partner of Wickham, Borgelt, Skogstad and Powell [law firm in Milwaukee] (1913-1973)
Robert A. Taft (B.A. 1910, S&B 1910) Member of Taft, Stettinius & Hollister [law firm in Cincinnati, Ohio] (1923-1939)
John Bourne Dempsey (B.A. 1911, S&B 1911) Partner of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey [law firm in Cleveland, Ohio] (1935-1963)
*Dean G. Acheson (B.A. 1915, S&K 1915) Member of Covington & Burling [law firm in Washington, D.C.] (1921-1933, 1934-1941); Under
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1933)
Edward Minott Shelton (B.A. 1890) Vice President and General Counsel of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company (1937-1938)
William Southworth Miller (B.A. 1896, S&K 1896) Vice President and General Counsel of Northern Trust Company [Chicago] (1918-1945)
Augustus Wilson Clapp (B.A. 1898) Vice President and General Counsel of Weyerhaeuser Timber Company [Tacoma, WA] (1932-1946)
Darius Edward Peck (B.A. 1898) Vice President and General Counsel of General Electric Company (1929-1944)
Lorenzo Dibble Armstrong (B.A. 1899) General Counsel of West Indies Sugar Corporation (1932-1947)
Samuel Woodson Sawyer (B.A. 1899) General Counsel of Kansas City Terminal Railway Company (1918-1949)
*Guy Wellman (B.A. 1899) General Counsel of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey [Exxon] (1935-1941); associate general counsel of
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (1921-1935); Conducted negotiations leading to formation of Iraq Petroleum Company (1921-1928);
member of the Council on Foreign Relations; Died on July 26, 1941 in New York City
Benjamin Robbins Curtis Low (B.A. 1902) General Counsel of Home Life Insurance Company (1928-1941)
Abel Cary Thomas (B.A. 1905) General Counsel and Secretary of Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. (1923-1936)
James Benton Grant (B.A. 1909, S&K 1909) Vice President and General Counsel of American Crystal Sugar Company (1932-1947)
Thomas M. Debevoise (B.A. 1895) Wall Street lawyer; director of Chase National Bank
Organization Executives:
*Charles P. Howland (B.A. 1891) Trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation (1928-1932)
Anson Phelps Stokes (B.A. 1896, S&B 1896) Trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation (1928-1932)
James Rockwell Sheffield (B.A. 1887, S&K 1887) Trustee of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1919-1938); Vice President of
The Pilgrims Society (1930-1938)
John Shillito Rogers (B.A. 1898) Treasurer of The Pilgrims of the United States [Pilgrims Society] (1929-1935); Secretary of American
Council of St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo, Japan (1913-1918)
Edwin Carlyle Lobenstine (B.A. 1895) President of Yale-in-China Association (1935-1944); Member of the board of directors of University of
Nanking [China] (1912-1935); Secretary of the National Christian Council of China (1922-1935); Chairman, China Medical Board, Inc. [New
York City] (1936-45)
Edward Bliss Reed (B.A. 1894, Ph.D. 1896) Trustee of Yale-in-China (1910-1930)
Harlan Page Beach (B.A. 1878) Trustee of Yale-in-China (1916-1932)
Robert Haskell Cory (B.A. 1902) Trustee of Yale-in-China (1916-1947)
Amos Parker Wilder (B.A. 1884, Ph.D. 1892, S&B 1884) Trustee of Yale-in-China (1918-1930)
Samuel Clarke Bushnell (B.A. 1874, S&B 1874) Trustee of Yale-in-China (1921-1930)
Charles Franklin Bliss (B.A. 1880) Trustee of Yale-in-China (1922-1942)
Lansing P. Reed (B.A. 1904, S&B 1904) Trustee of Yale-in-China (1928-1937)
Henry Walcott Farnam (B.A. 1874, S&B 1874) Member of the council of Yale-in-China (1924-1933)
Danford Newton Barney (B.A. 1881, S&B 1881) Member of the council of Yale-in-China (1921-1933)
*Ellery S. James (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917) Member of the council of Yale-in-China (1923-1932)
Lewis Sheldon Welch (B.A. 1889, S&K 1889) Member of the council of Yale-in-China (1908-1934)
Benjamin Brewster (B.A. 1882, S&B 1882) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Maine (1916-1941)
Edward Huntington Coley (B.A. 1884) Protestant Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Central New York (1936-1942)
Edward Lambe Parsons (B.A. 1889, S&K 1889) Protestant Episcopalian Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of California (1924-1941)
Thomas F. Davies (B.A. 1894, S&B 1894) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts (1911-1936)
Henry W. Hobson (B.A. 1914, S&B 1914) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio (1931-1959)
Robert Weeks de Forest (B.A. 1870, S&K 1870) President of Russell Sage Foundation (1918-1931)
Edwin R. Embree (B.A. 1906) President of Julius Rosenwald Fund (1928-1948)
William H. Welch (B.A. 1870, S&B 1870) President of the board of directors of Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1901-1934)
Barry Congar Smith (B.A. 1899) General Director of The Commonwealth Fund (1921-1947)
College Administrators:
Robert M. Hutchins (B.A. 1921) President of University of Chicago (1929-1945)
*James L. McConaughy (B.A. 1909) President of Wesleyan University (1925-1943)
Arthur Howe (B.A. 1912, S&B 1912) President of Hampton Institute [later Hampton University, Virginia] (1931-1940)
Axel Ebenezer Vestling (B.A. 1903) President of Olivet College (1926-1930)
Charles Edward Clark (B.A. 1911, LL.B. 1913) Dean of Yale Law School (1929-1939)
Henry S. Graves (B.A. 1892, S&B 1892) Dean of Yale School of Forestry (1900-1939)
Stanhope Bayne-Jones (B.A. 1910, S&B 1910) Dean of Yale School of Medicine (1935-1940)
*Charles Seymour (B.A. 1908, Ph.D. 1911, S&B 1908) Provost of Yale University (1927-1937)
Thomas Wells Farnam (B.A. 1899, S&K 1899) Associate Treasurer and Comptroller of Yale University (1922-1942)
George Parmly Day (B.A. 1897, S&K 1897) Treasurer of Yale University (1910-1942)
William Dick Cutter (B.A. 1899) Dean of School of Medicine at University of Southern California (1928-1931)
James Grafton Rogers (B.A. 1905) Dean of Law at University of Colorado (1928-1931, 1933-1935); Professor of Law at Yale University
(1935-1942); Assistant U.S. Secretary of State (March 10, 1931-March 6, 1933)
Albert Beebe White (B.A. 1893, Ph.D. 1898) Professor of History at University of Minnesota (1907-1940)
Nickolaus Louis Engelhardt (B.A. 1903) Professor of Education at Columbia University Teachers College (1921-1942)
Karl N. Llewellyn (B.A. 1915, LL.B. 1918) Betts Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia University (1930-1951)
Stanley Morrison (B.A. 1915) Professor of Law at Stanford University (1929-1955); Member of the Bohemian Club in San Francisco
Howard Brown Woolston (B.A. 1898) Professor of Sociology at University of Washington (1919-1947); Member of Balkan Commission
[Serbia] (1919); Major, American Red Cross and manager of Serbia Relief in France (1918)
Alexander Hamilton Frey (B.A. 1919, LL.B. 1921) Professor of Law at University of Pennsylvania Law School (1932-1968)
Alfred Newton Richards (B.A. 1897, Ph.D. Columbia 1901) Professor of Pharmacology at University of Pennsylvania (1910-1946); Trustee of
the Rockefeller Foundation (1937-1941)
Warren Austin Adams (B.A. 1886, Ph.D. 1895) Professor of German at Dartmouth College (1904-1944)
*Arnold Whitridge (B.A. 1913, S&K 1913) Professor of History at Yale University (1932-1942)
George Henry Nettleton (B.A. 1896, S&K 1896) Professor of English at Yale University (1916-1943)
Journalists:
*Henry R. Luce (B.A. 1920, S&B 1920) Editor-in-Chief of Time, Inc. (1923-1964); founder of Time and Life magazines
William H. Cowles (B.A. 1887, S&B 1887) Publisher of Spokane Spokesman-Review (1893-1946)
Albert Lee (B.A. 1891) Managing Editor of Vanity Fair magazine (1915-1919); Manager of foreign editions of Vogue magazine (1919-1933)
Yale University Graduates and Their Occupation during World War II (1939-1945)
Government Officials:
*Henry L. Stimson (B.A. 1888, S&B 1888) Secretary of War (July 10, 1940-September 21, 1945); U.S. Secretary of State (1929-1933)
Homer S. Cummings (Ph.B. 1891, LL.B. 1893) U.S. Attorney General (1933-1939)
*W. Averell Harriman (B.A. 1913, S&B 1913) U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union (October 23, 1943-January 24, 1946)
*Hugh R. Wilson (B.A. 1906, S&B 1906) U.S. Ambassador to Nazi Germany (March 3, 1938-November 16, 1938); U.S. Minister to
Switzerland (1927-1937)
*William Christian Bullitt (B.A. 1912, S&K 1912) U.S. Ambassador to France (1936-1940); U.S. Ambassador to Soviet Union (1933-1936)
*Spruille Braden (Ph.B. 1914) U.S. Ambassador to Colombia (1939-1942); U.S. Ambassador to Cuba (1942-1945); U.S. Ambassador to
Argentina (1945)
*Arthur Bliss Lane (B.A. 1916) U.S. Minister to Yugoslavia (1937-1941); U.S. Minister to Costa Rica (1941-1942); U.S. Ambassador to
Colombia (1942-1944); U.S. Ambassador to Poland (1944-1947)
Louis Goethe Dreyfus Jr. (B.A. 1910) U.S. Minister to Iran (1940-1943); U.S. Minister to Afghanistan (May 19, 1941-July 2, 1942); U.S.
Minister to Iceland (1944-1946)
Alexander C. Kirk (B.A. 1909) Charg dAffaires ad interim to Nazi Germany (May 1939-Oct 1940); U.S. Minister to Egypt (1941-1944); U.S.
Minister to Saudi Arabia (1942-1943); U.S. Ambassador to Greece (1943); U.S. Ambassador to Italy (1945-1946)
*Robert A. Lovett (B.A. 1918, S&B 1918) Assistant Secretary of War for Air (1941-1945)
*Artemus L. Gates (B.A. 1918, S&B 1918) Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air (1941-1945)
*Harvey H. Bundy (B.A. 1909, S&B 1909) Special Assistant to the Secretary of War (1941-1945)
*Archibald MacLeish (B.A. 1915, S&B 1915) Asst. Sec. of State for Public and Cultural Relations (1944-45); Librarian of Congress (1939-44)
*Dean G. Acheson (B.A. 1915, S&K 1915) Under Secretary of State (1945-1947)
John W. Hanes (B.A. 1915, S&K 1915) Under Secretary of the Treasury (1938-1939)
*Wayne Chatfield-Taylor (B.A. 1916, S&K 1916) Asst. Secretary of the Treasury (1936-1939); Under Secretary of Commerce (1940-1945)
Stanley Woodward (B.A. 1922, S&B 1922) Chief of Protocol for the White House (1944-1950)
Arthur B. Van Buskirk (B.A. 1918) Deputy Administrator of Lend-Lease Administration (1942-1943)
*William Vincent Griffin (B.A. 1912, S&K 1912) Assistant Administrator of Lend-Lease Administration (1942-1944)
Elbridge Durbrow (Ph.B. 1926) Chief of Eastern European Division at the U.S. State Department (1944-1946); Counselor of the U.S.
Embassy in Moscow, Soviet Union (1946-1948)
J. Graham Parsons (B.A. 1929) Vice Consul at U.S. Consulate General in Mukden, Manchuria (1938-1940)
Harold H. Tittmann Jr. (B.A. 1916) Secretary of the U.S. Embassy in Rome, Italy (1925-1936); U.S. Consul-General in Geneva, Switzerland
(1939-1940); State Department Assistant Chief of Division for European Affairs (1936-1939)
George Kenneth Donald (B.A. 1912) U.S. Consul General in Southampton, England (1937-1941); U.S. Consul General in Windsor, Canada
(1941-1945); U.S. Consul General in Lourenco Marques, Mozambique [Portugal] (1945-1946)
Howard Donovan (Ph.B. 1920) U.S. Consul in Kobe, Japan (1929-1936); U.S. Consul in Hong Kong (1936-1939); U.S. Consul in Bombay,
India (1939-1946)
Robert A. Taft (B.A. 1910, S&B 1910) U.S. Senator (R-Ohio, 1939-1953)
John Anthony Danaher (B.A. 1920) U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut, 1939-1945)
John Taber (B.A. 1902) U.S. Congressman (R-New York, 1923-1963)
James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (B.A. 1898, S&B 1898) U.S. Congressman (R-New York, 1933-1951)
James Andrew Shanley (B.A. 1920) U.S. Congressman (D-Connecticut, 1935-1943)
Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis (B.A. 1923) U.S. Congressman (D-California, 1937-1947)
John Martin Vorys (B.A. 1918, S&B 1918) U.S. Congressman (R-Ohio, 1939-1959)
John Crain Kunkel (B.A. 1916) U.S. Congressman (R-Pennsylvania, 1939-1951, 1961-1966)
Charles S. Dewey (B.A. 1904) U.S. Congressman (R-Illinois, 1941-1945)
Richard Pillsbury Gale (B.A. 1922) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Minnesota, 1941-1945)
Stanley F. Reed (B.A. 1906) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1938-1957)
Thomas Walter Swan (B.A. 1900) Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1926-1953)
Charles Edward Clark (B.A. 1911, LL.B. 1913) Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1939-1963)
John Munro Woolsey (B.A. 1898, S&K 1898) Judge of U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1929-1943)
Alfred Conkling Coxe Jr. (B.A. 1901) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1929-1951)
Carroll Clark Hincks (B.A. 1911) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (1931-1953)
John Joseph Smith (B.A. 1925, LL.B. 1927) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (1941-1960)
John Foster Symes (Ph.B. 1900) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado (1922-1950)
William Josiah Tilson (B.A. 1894) Judge of the U.S. Customs Court (1928-1949)
James Lawrence Houghteling (B.A. 1905) U.S. Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization (1937-1940); Division Director of War
Finance Division, U.S. Treasury Department (1941-1946); Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1941)
John Harold Ryan (B.A. 1908) Secretary of The Standard Tube Co. (1928-1961); Assistant Director in charge of broadcasting, U.S. Office of
Censorship (1941-1944); President of National Association of Broadcasters (1944-1945)
Morris Hadley (B.A. 1916, S&B 1916) Deputy Director of Office of War Information (1941-1942)
Richard K. Sutherland (B.A. 1916) U.S. Army Lieutenant General during World War II; Chief of Staff to Gen. Douglas MacArthur (1939-1945)
Ernest Knaebel (B.A. 1894, LL.B. 1896) U.S. Supreme Court Reporter of Decisions (1916-1944)
Prentiss Bailey Gilbert (B.A. 1907) State Department Chief of Division of Western European Affairs (1924-1929); U.S. Consul in Geneva,
Switzerland (1930-1937); Counselor at U.S. Embassy in Berlin, Nazi Germany (1937-1939)
Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis (B.A. 1918, S&K 1918) Chief of information division, Office of Strategic Services (1942-1943)
Thomas Irwin Emerson (B.A. 1928, LL.B. 1931) Associate General Counsel, Office of Price Administration (1941-1943); Deputy Administrator
for Enforcement, Office of Price Administration (1943-1945); General Counsel, Office of Economic Stabilization (April-August 1945); General
Counsel, Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion (August 1945-June 1946)
William M. Maltbie (B.A. 1901, LL.B. 1905) Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors (1930-1950)
Patrick Brett OSullivan (B.A. 1908) Judge of the Connecticut Superior Court (1931-1950)
Kenneth OBrien (B.A. 1917) Justice of the Supreme Court of New York (1934-1954)
Mortimer R. Proctor (B.A. 1912, S&K 1912) Governor of Vermont (1945-1947); Lieutenant Governor of Vermont (1941-1945)
[Augustus] Newbold Morris (B.A. 1925; LL.B. 1928, S&K 1925) President of the New York City Council (1938-1946)
Morgan Bulkeley Brainard Jr. (B.A. 1927) Member (1938-1944) and President (1942-1944) of the Board of Police Commissioners of the City
of Hartford, Connecticut
Robert Moses (B.A. 1909, Ph.D. Columbia 1914) Secretary of State of New York (1927-1928); Member of New York City Planning
Commission (1942-1960)
Businessmen:
*Alfred L. Aiken (B.A. 1891) Chairman of the board (1940-1942) and President (1936-1940) of New York Life Insurance Co.
Morgan B. Brainard (B.A. 1900, LL.B. 1903) President of Aetna Life Insurance Co. [Hartford, Connecticut] (1922-1957)
*Irving S. Olds (B.A. 1907) Chairman of the board of United States Steel Corp. (1940-1952)
*W. Averell Harriman (B.A. 1913, S&B 1913) Chairman of Union Pacific Railroad Co. (1932-1946)
Henry Stuart Hotchkiss (Ph.B. 1900) Chairman of the board of General Latex and Chemical Company (1940-1947)
*Morehead Patterson (B.A. 1920, S&B 1920) Chairman (1943-1962) and Pres. (1941-1943, 1947-1958) of American Machine & Foundry Co.
*W. Stuart Symington (B.A. 1923) Chairman of the board of the Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co. (1938-1945)
H. Neil Mallon (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917) President of Dresser Industries, Inc. (1929-1958)
*Frank Ford Russell (B.A. 1926, S&B 1926) President of National Aviation Corp. (1939-1954)
H. Mansfield Horner (B.S. 1926) President of United Aircraft Corporation (1943-1956)
*Juan Terry Trippe (Ph.B. 1921) President of Pan American World Airways, Inc. (1927-1964)
Leroy A. Lincoln (B.A. 1902) President of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (1936-1951)
*Ellsworth Bunker (B.A. 1916) President of National Sugar Refining Co. (1940-1948)
*Henry John Heinz II (B.A. 1931, S&B 1931) President of H.J. Heinz Company (1941-1959)
Louis F. Watermulder (B.A. 1923) Treasurer of Quaker Oats Co. (1942-1949); Assistant Treasurer of Quaker Oats Co. (1939-1942)
Francis Fitz Randolph (B.A. 1911, S&B 1911) Senior Partner of J&W Seligman & Co. (1940-1973)
George Herbert Walker Jr. (B.A. 1927, S&B 1927) General Partner of G.H. Walker & Co. (1929-1974)
*J. Irwin Miller (B.A. 1931) Executive Vice President of Cummins Engine Co. (1944-1947)
Louis S. Rothschild (Ph.B. 1920) President of Rothschild & Sons, Inc. [Kansas City, Missouri] (1942-1955)
Robert Upjohn Redpath Jr. (B.A. 1928) life underwriter for Lawyers Mortgage Co. [New York City] (1933-1987)
Reuben Buck Robertson (B.A. 1900) Executive Vice President of Champion Papers, Inc. (1935-1946)
Frederick E. Weyerhaeuser (B.A. 1896, S&B 1896) President of Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. (1937-1945)
Robert W. Huntington Jr. (B.A. 1889, S&K 1889) Chairman of the board of Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. (1936-1949)
Ashbel Barney Newell (B.A. 1890, S&K 1890) President of Toledo Terminal Railroad Company (1914-1950)
Walter Paul Paepcke (B.A. 1917) President of Container Corp. of America (1926-1946)
Solomon Albert Smith (B.A. 1899) President of Northern Trust Co. of Chicago (1914-1957)
Howard MacGregor Tuttle (B.A. 1904) President of National Casket Company, Inc. [Boston] (1943-c.1958)
Henry Eldredge Perry (B.A. 1912) Vice President of Commercial Solvents Corp. [New York City] (1938-1946)
Charles Lanier Lawrance (B.A. 1905) Founder and President of Lawrance Aero Engine Corp. [New York City] (1917-1923); President and
Chief Engineer of Lawrance Engineering & Research Corp. (1930-1944)
Carle C. Conway (B.S. 1899) Chairman of the board of Continental Can Company, Inc. during World War II; Class B Director of the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York (1942-1948)
Willard Deere Hosford (B.A. 1906) Vice President and General Manager of John Deere Plow Co. [Omaha, Nebraska] (1906-1950); Class B
Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (1930-1951)
Robert George Wiese (B.A. 1925) Partner of Scudder, Stevens & Clark [investment firm in Boston] (1936-1978)
Allan A. Ryan (B.A. 1924) Director of Royal Typewriter Company, Inc. (1932-1954); New York State Senator (1938-1942)
F. Thatcher Lane (B.A. 1917) President of Seamless Rubber Co. (1933-1954); Vice President of Rexall Drug & Chemical Co., Inc. (1942-54)
Leslie Morgan Johnston (B.A. 1902) President of Cement Stone Corp. [Pittsburgh] (1938-1941); President of Insulmastic Corp. of American
[New York City] (1941-1944)
Frank Courtenay Dodd (B.A. 1897) Chairman of the board of Dodd, Mead & Co., Inc. [publishing company in New York City] (1942-1968);
President of Dodd, Mead & Co., Inc. [publishing company in New York City] (1931-1942)
Bankers:
*Russell C. Leffingwell (B.A. 1899) Partner of J.P. Morgan & Co. (1923-1950)
*Frank Altschul (B.A. 1908) Partner of Lazard Freres & Co. [Jewish banking firm in New York City] (1916-1945)
Alfred Ernest Hamill (B.A. 1905) Partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co. [Jewish banking firm in New York City] (1932-1948)
*Elisha Walker (B.A. 1900) Partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. [Jewish banking firm in New York City] (1933-1950)
*John M. Schiff (B.A. 1925) Partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. [Jewish banking firm in New York City] (1931-1977)
*Robert Lehman (B.A. 1913) Partner of Lehman Brothers [Jewish banking firm in New York City] (1925-1969)
Joseph Albert Thomas (B.A. 1928, S&K 1928) Partner of Lehman Brothers [Jewish banking firm in New York City] (1937-1977)
*George L. Harrison (B.A. 1910, S&B 1910) President of Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1928-1940); President of New York Life
Insurance Co. (1941-1948)
Walter Seth Logan (B.A. 1910, S&B 1910) Vice President and General Counsel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1928-1953)
Roger B. Shepard (B.A. 1908, S&B 1908) Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (1940-1953)
Ross P. Wright (Ph.B. 1896) Class B Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (1917-1949)
Chester Arthur Phillips (B.A. 1908, Ph.D. 1919) Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (1937-1942)
*Harold Stanley (B.A. 1908, S&B 1908) President of Morgan, Stanley & Co. (1935-1941); Partner of J.P. Morgan & Co. (1928-1935)
*Harry [Henry] P. Davison Jr. (B.A. 1920, S&B 1920) Partner (1929-1940) and Vice President (1940-1942) of J.P. Morgan & Co.
*Pierre Jay (B.A. 1892, S&B 1892) Chairman of the board of Fiduciary Trust Company [New York City] (1930-1945)
Mortimer Norton Buckner (B.A. 1895, S&B 1895) Chairman of the board of New York Trust Company (1921-1942)
Samuel Sloan Colt (B.A. 1914, S&K 1914) President of Bankers Trust Co. (1931-1957); Class A Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York (1944-1946)
*Artemus L. Gates (B.A. 1918, S&B 1918) President of New York Trust Co. (1929-1941)
*John E. Bierwirth (B.A. 1917) President of New York Trust Co. (1941-1949)
Charles Jacob Stewart (B.A. 1918, S&B 1918) Vice President of New York Trust Co. (1935-1949)
*Frank P. Shepard (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917) Vice President of Bankers Trust Co. (1934-1960)
*Boylston Adams Tompkins (B.A. 1915, S&K 1915) Vice President of Bankers Trust Co. (1921-1955)
*Charles Albert Wight (B.A. 1922, S&K 1922) Vice President of Bankers Trust Co. (1936-1948)
*Harry E. Ward (B.A. 1901) President of Irving Trust Co. (1919-1942); Chairman of Irving Trust Co. [New York City] (1942-1949)
Wentworth Paul Johnson (Ph.B. 1917) Vice President of Irving Trust Co. (1923-1948)
*W. Averell Harriman (B.A. 1913, S&B 1913) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1946)
*E. Roland Harriman (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1978)
Prescott S. Bush (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1972)
*Knight Woolley (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1982)
*Robert A. Lovett (B.A. 1918, S&B 1918) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1940, 1946-1947, 1949-1950, 1953-1986)
*Ray Morris (B.A. 1901, S&B 1901) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1956)
Thacher M. Brown (B.A. 1897) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1954)
Moreau Delano Brown (B.A. 1926) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1939-1974)
*Charles S. McCain (B.A. 1904) Senior Partner of Dillon, Read & Co. (1939-1951)
James Stillman Rockefeller (B.A. 1924, S&K 1924) Vice President of National City Bank of New York [Citibank] (1940-1948)
Frederic Augustus Potts (B.A. 1926) Vice President of Philadelphia National Bank (1942-1947)
Gardner Dominick Stout (B.A. 1926) Partner of Dominick & Dominick [investment firm in New York City] (1926-1968)
Everett Smith (B.A. 1915) Fiscal agent for Federal Home Loan Banks (1937-1962)
Edward Howard York Jr. (B.A. 1912) Vice President and Partner of Morgan, Stanley & Co. (1935-1943); Partner of Drexel & Co. [investment
bank in Philadelphia] (1931-1935, 1943-1961)
Edward Starr, Jr. (B.A. 1922, S&K 1922) Partner of Drexel & Co. [investment bank in Philadelphia (1937-c.1966)
Robert James Lewis (B.A. 1921) Partner of Estabrook & Co. [banking firm in New York City] (1931-1968)
Wirt Davis (B.A. 1897) Vice Chairman (1925-1934) and Chairman (1934-1945) of Republic National Bank in Dallas, Texas
Edward McCrady Gaillard (B.A. 1919) President of Union & New Haven Trust Co. [bank in New Haven, Connecticut] (1943-1962)
Lawyers:
*Henry Waters Taft (B.A. 1880, S&B 1880) Partner of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft (1899-1945)
*Henry DeForest Baldwin (B.A. 1885, S&B 1885) Member of Lord, Day & Lord (1900-1947)
Allen Evarts Foster (B.A. 1906) Partner of Lord, Day & Lord (1919-c.1970)
Sherman Baldwin (B.A. 1919, S&B 1919) Member of Lord, Day & Lord (1929-1969)
*Frank L. Polk (B.A. 1894, S&K 1894) Member of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed (1914-1943)
*Allen Wardwell (B.A. 1895, S&K 1895) Member of Davis, Polk, & Wardwell (1909-1953)
Otis Treat Bradley (B.A. 1915; LL.B. Harvard 1919) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1930-1950)
Graham Sumner (B.A. 1897, S&B 1897) Member of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett (1904-1946)
*Thomas D. Thacher (B.A. 1904, S&B 1904) Partner of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett (1933-1943)
*George Roberts (B.A. 1905, LL.B. Harvard 1908) Partner of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1914-1968)
*Allen T. Klots (B.A. 1909, S&B 1909) Member of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1921-1965)
James William Husted (B.A. 1918) Partner of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1930-1969)
*Charles M. Spofford (B.A. 1924, S&B 1924) Member of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1940-1950, 1952-1973)
*Douglas Maxwell Moffat (B.A. 1903, LL.B. Harvard 1907) Partner of Cravath, Swaine & Moore [law firm in New York City] (1913-1956)
Chauncey Brewster Garver (B.A. 1908, S&K 1908) Partner of Shearman & Sterling (1917-1973)
Allen Skinner Hubbard (B.A. 1911, S&K 1911) Partner of Hughes, Hubbard & Reed [law firm in New York City] (1937-1981)
John Archer Gifford (B.A. 1922, S&K 1922) Partner of White & Case [law firm in New York City] (1937-1972)
Frederick Trowbridge Kelsey (B.A. 1907) Member of Kelsey, Waldrop & Spalding [law firm in New York City] (1941-1957)
Lee James Perrin (B.A. 1906, S&B 1906) Partner of Appleton, Perrin & Hoyt [law firm in New York City] (1916-1946)
Edward Bancroft Twombly (B.A. 1912, S&B 1912) Partner of Putney, Twombly, Hall & Skidmore [law firm in New York City] (1919-1966)
Sidney Wetmore Davidson (B.A. 1916; J.D. 1918) Member of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn [law firm in New York City] (1929-1945)
*Jerome S. Hess (B.A. 1903) Member of Hardin, Hess & Eder [law firm in New York City] (1907-1970); Member of Hardin, Hess & Suarez
[law firm in Mexico City] (1921-1970); President of American Foreign Law Association (1944-1947)
Isaac Henry Mayer (B.A. 1884) Senior Member of Mayer, Meyer, Austrian & Platt [law firm in Chicago] (1922-1967)
Frederic Burnham (B.A. 1902) Partner of Mayer, Meyer, Austrian & Platt [law firm in Chicago] (1917-1942)
Richard Bentley (B.A. 1917, S&K 1917) Member of Cassels, Potter & Bentley [law firm in Chicago] (1923-1951)
Merrill Shepard (B.A. 1925) Partner of Pope, Ballard, Kennedy, Shepard & Fowle [law firm in Chicago] (1936-c.1986)
Anthony Lee Michel (B.A. 1926, S&B 1926) Partner of Gardner, Carton, Douglas, Chilgren & Waud [law firm in Chicago] (1942-1966)
Norman Waite (B.A. 1927; LL.B. Harvard 1930) Partner of Schiff Hardin & Waite [law firm in Chicago] (1940-c.1976)
George Alfred Ranney (B.A. 1934, LL.B. 1939, S&B 1934) Member of Sidley, Austin, Burgess & Smith [law firm in Chicago] (1939-1962)
John Loomer Hall (B.A. 1894, LL.B. 1896, S&B 1894) Member of Choate, Hall & Stewart [law firm in Boston] (1904-1960)
Marcien Jenckes (B.A. 1921, S&B 1921) Member of Choate, Hall & Stewart [law firm in Boston] (1927-1971)
George Frederick Baer Appel (B.A. 1924, S&B 1924) Partner of Townsend, Elliott & Munson [law firm in Philadelphia] (1938-1970)
John Herron More (B.A. 1924) Partner of Taft, Stettinius &Hollister [law firm in Cincinnati] (1935-1970)
John Bourne Dempsey (B.A. 1911, S&B 1911) Partner of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey [law firm in Cleveland, Ohio] (1935-1963)
Henry Cornick Coke (B.A. 1926, LL.B. 1929, S&B 1926) Member of Coke & Coke [law firm in Dallas, Texas] (1930-1977)
Alvin Huey Lane (B.A. 1915; LL.B. Harvard 1920) Partner of Lane & Savage (and predecessor) [law firm in Dallas, Texas] (1936-1957); CoGeneral Counsel of the Republican Party of Texas (1942-1952)
Cornelius E. Lombardi (B.A. 1911, S&B 1911) Partner of Lombardi, Robertson, Fligg & McLean [law firm in Kansas City] (1936-1956)
Richard Marden Davis (B.A. 1933, S&B 1933) Partner of Davis, Graham & Stubbs [law firm in Denver] (1937-c.1982)
John Thomas Pigott (B.A. 1908) Partner of McCutchen, Thomas, Matthew, Griffiths & Greene [law firm in San Francisco] (1923-1946)
John Caldwell Parsons (B.A. 1922; LL.B. 1926) Partner of Robinson, Robinson & Cole [law firm in Hartford, Connecticut] (1931-1973)
Pomeroy Day (B.A. 1928; LL.B. 1931) Member of Robinson, Robinson & Cole [law firm in Hartford, Connecticut] (1936-1958)
Howard Tallmadge Foulkes (B.A. 1911) Partner of Wickham, Borgelt, Skogstad and Powell [law firm in Milwaukee] (1913-1973)
James Earnest Cooper (B.A. 1895) General Counsel of Stanley Works [hardware, tool, steel manufacturers in New Britain, CT] (1921-1943)
Darius Edward Peck (B.A. 1898) Vice President and General Counsel of General Electric Company (1929-1944)
Roger Benton Hull (B.A. 1907) Managing Director and General Counsel of The National Association of Life Underwriters (1927-1942)
Louis S. Weiss (B.A. 1915, LL.B. Columbia 1920) Partner of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison [and predecessor firms] (1927-1950);
General Counsel of Chicago Sun-Times (1941-1948)
Leonard Bacon Smith (B.A. 1894) General Counsel of American Can Company (1933-1946)
College Administrators and Professors:
*Charles Seymour (B.A. 1908, Ph.D. 1911, S&B 1908) President of Yale University (1937-50); Trustee of World Peace Foundation (1939-45)
Robert M. Hutchins (B.A. 1921) President of University of Chicago (1929-1945)
Robert L. Johnson (B.A. 1918) President of Temple University (1941-1959)
Paul Dwight Moody (B.A. 1901) President of Middlebury College (1921-1942)
Ashbel Green Gulliver (B.A. 1919) Dean of Yale Law School (1940-1946)
August Sidney Lovett (B.A. 1913, S&B 1913) Chaplain of Yale University (1932-1958)
Roland George Dwight Richardson (B.A. 1903, Ph.D. 1906) Dean of the Graduate School at Brown University (1926-1948)
George Hoyt Whipple (B.A. 1900) Dean of the School of Medicine and Dentistry at University of Rochester (1921-1953); Trustee of the
Rockefeller Foundation (1927-1943)
Paul Shipman Andrews (B.A. 1909, LL.B. Columbia 1912) Dean of Syracuse University College of Law (1927-1952)
Ralph Henry Gabriel (B.A. 1913, M.A. 1915, Ph.D. 1919) Professor of History at Yale University (1928-1958)
*Charles Cheney Hyde (B.A. 1895) Hamilton Fish Professor of International Law and Diplomacy at Columbia University (1925-1945)
Karl N. Llewellyn (B.A. 1915, LL.B. 1918) Betts Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia University (1930-1951)
Stanley Morrison (B.A. 1915) Professor of Law at Stanford University (1929-1955); Member of the Bohemian Club in San Francisco
Alexander Hamilton Frey (B.A. 1919, LL.B. 1921) Professor of Law at University of Pennsylvania Law School (1932-1968)
Alfred Newton Richards (B.A. 1897, Ph.D. Columbia 1901) Professor of Pharmacology at University of Pennsylvania (1910-1946)
Walter Freeman (B.A. 1916, M.D. U.Penn. 1920) Professor of Neurology at George Washington University (1927-1954)
Kanichi Asakawa (Ph.D. 1902) Professor of History of Japanese Civilization at Yale University (1937-1942)
Journalists:
*Eugene Meyer (B.A. 1895) Publisher of The Washington Post (1933-1946)
*Henry R. Luce (B.A. 1920, S&B 1920) Editor-in-Chief of Time, Inc. (1923-1964); founder of Time and Life magazines
Charles Latimer Stillman (B.A. 1926) Treasurer (1930-1960) and Vice President (1939-1949) of Time, Inc. [Time magazine]
*Charles Merz (B.A. 1915) Editor of The New York Times (1938-1961)
*Walter Millis (B.A. 1920) staff writer for New York Herald Tribune (1924-1954)
Ogden Mills Reid (B.A. 1904, LL.B. 1907) Editor of New York Herald Tribune (1913-1947)
Joseph Medill Patterson (B.A. 1901, S&K 1901) Publisher of New York Daily News (1919-1946)
William H. Cowles (B.A. 1887, S&B 1887) Publisher of Spokane Spokesman-Review (1893-1946)
George Henry Soule Jr. (B.A. 1908) Editor of The New Republic (1924-1947)
Organization Executives:
*Russell C. Leffingwell (B.A. 1899) President of the Council on Foreign Relations (1944-1946)
*Frank L. Polk (B.A. 1894, S&K 1894) Vice President of the Council on Foreign Relations (1940-1943)
*Percy W. Bidwell (B.A. 1910, Ph.D. 1915) Director of Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (1937-1953)
Edwin R. Embree (B.A. 1906) President of Julius Rosenwald Fund (1928-1948)
Barry Congar Smith (B.A. 1899) General Director of The Commonwealth Fund (1921-1947)
Malcolm W. Davis (B.A. 1911) Director of European Center of Carnegie Endowment in Paris, France (1935-1947)
*Charles Reinold Noyes (B.A. 1905) Vice President (1942-1944); President (1946-1948), and Chairman (1948-1950) of National Bureau of
Economic Research in New York City
John Williams Andrews (B.A. 1920; LL.B. 1926) Chief of Federal State Relations Section at the U.S. Department of Justice (1942-1948)
Walbridge Smith Taft (B.A. 1907) Chairman of the board of Salvation Army Association in New York (1940-1951); member of the national
board of director of United Service Organizations during World War II
Nicholson Joseph Eastman (B.A. 1916) Obstetrician-in-Chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital (1935-1960)
Lewis Hill Weed (B.A. 1908, S&K 1908) Director of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1929-1946); Trustee of Carnegie Institution
of Washington (1935-1952)
Charles Larrabee Street (B.A. 1914) Priest-in-charge of Christ Church in Dallas, Texas (1941-1945)
Warren Wheeler Pickett (B.A. 1917) Pastor of First Church in Detroit (1932-1944)
Edwin Carlyle Lobenstine (B.A. 1895) President of Yale-in-China Association (1935-1944)
Edward V. Gulick (B.A. 1937, M.A. 1942, Ph.D. 1947) English Teacher at Yale-in-China in Changsha, China (1937-1939)
William Payne Roberts (B.A. 1909) Pastor of St. Pauls Church in Nanking, China (1923-1937); Bishop of the Missionary District of Shanghai
of the American Church Mission in China (1937-1950)
William Reginald Wheeler (B.A. 1911) Executive Secretary of Yale-in-China (1947-1949); Secretary of Presbyterian Board of Foreign
Missions (1938-1942); Executive Secretary of Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions (1923-1932)
Y.C. James Yen (B.A. 1918) Founder and General Director of Chinese National Association of Mass Education Movement in Peiping
[Beijing], China (1924-1951)
Albert Billings Ruddock (B.A. 1907) Trustee of Occidental College (1926-1948); President of Pasadena War Chest (1942-1944); Member of
the Bohemian Club in San Francisco, California
Note: *=Member of the Council on Foreign Relations; S&B = Skull & Bones; S&K = Scroll & Key
Yale University Graduates and Their Occupation during the Israeli War of Independence (1948-1949),
Korean War (1950-1953), Second Chinese Civil War (1945-1949), and French Indochina War (1945-1954)
Government Officials:
*Dean G. Acheson (B.A. 1915, S&K 1915) U.S. Secretary of State (1949-1953); Under Secretary of State (1945-1947)
*Robert A. Lovett (B.A. 1918, S&B 1918) U.S. Secretary of Defense (1951-1953); Deputy Secretary of Defense (1949-1951); Under
Secretary of State (1947-1949)
*W. Stuart Symington (B.A. 1923) Secretary of the Air Force (1947-1950); Chairman of National Security Resources Board (1950-1951)
*Roswell L. Gilpatric (B.A. 1928, LL.B. 1931) Under Secretary of the Air Force (1951-1953)
Eugene M. Zuckert (B.A. 1933, LL.B. 1937) Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (1947-1952); Member of the Atomic Energy Commission
(1952-1954)
*John H. Ferguson (B.A. 1936) Deputy Director of Policy Planning Staff at U.S. Department of State (1951-1953)
*F. Trubee Davison (B.A. 1918, S&B 1918) Director of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for Personnel (1951-1952)
*T. Keith Glennan (B.S. 1927) Member of the Atomic Energy Commission (1950-1952)
*W. Averell Harriman (B.A. 1913, S&B 1913) U.S. Secretary of Commerce (1946-1948); Director of Mutual Security Agency (1951-1953)
C. Dickerman Williams (B.A. 1922, LL.B. 1924) General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Commerce (1951-1953)
James Pomeroy Hendrick (B.A. 1923) Assistant to the Administrator of Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA) (1948-1953)
*Richard M. Bissell Jr. (B.A. 1932, Ph.D. 1939) Assistant Administrator for Program at Economic Cooperation Administration (1948-1951);
Staff Member of Ford Foundation (1952-1954)
*Charles M. Spofford (B.A. 1924; S&B 1924) Chairman of the North Atlantic Council of Deputies and European Coordinating Committee
(1950-1952)
Hubert B. Holland (Ph.B. 1925) Assistant U.S. Attorney General (1953-1956)
Charles Ruffin Hook Jr. (B.A. 1937) Deputy Postmaster General of the United States (1953-1955)
*Chester Bowles (B.A. 1924) U.S. Ambassador to India (1951-1953)
*Ellsworth Bunker (B.A. 1916) U.S. Ambassador to Argentina (1951-1952); U.S. Ambassador to Italy (1952-1953)
Louis G. Dreyfus Jr. (B.A. 1910) U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan (1949-1951)
Stanley Woodward (B.A. 1922, S&B 1922) U.S. Ambassador to Canada (1950-1953)
Paul Clement Daniels (B.A. 1924) U.S. Ambassador to Ecuador (1951-1953)
Howard Donovan (Ph.B. 1920) U.S. Consul General in Zurich, Switzerland (1953)
Edward Louis Freers (B.A. 1933) U.S. Consul at Vladivostok, Russia (1947); Counselor at U.S. Embassy in Moscow, Russia (1950-1951);
First Secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Rome, Italy (1951-1955)
Richard Tucker Ewing (B.A. 1940, S&K 1940) Second Secretary of the U.S. Embassy in Taipei, Republic of China [Taiwan] (1951-1956);
Attach at the U.S. Legation in Switzerland (1947-1949)
Roberto Manuel Heurtematte (B.A. 1931, S&K 1931) Ambassador of Panama to the United States (1951-1954); Comptroller General of
Panama (1954-1959)
Robert A. Taft (B.A. 1910, S&B 1910) U.S. Senator (Republican Party-Ohio, 1939-1953); Senate Majority Leader (January 3, 1953-July 31,
1953); died in office
*William Benton (B.A. 1921) U.S. Senator (Democratic Party-Connecticut, 1949-1953)
Prescott S. Bush (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917) U.S. Senator (Republican Party-Connecticut, 1952-1963)
*John Sherman Cooper (B.A. 1923, S&B 1923) U.S. Senator (Republican Party-Kentucky, 1946-1949; 1952-1955; 1956-1973); Member of
the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations (1949-1951)
John Taber (B.A. 1902) U.S. Congressman (Republican Party-New York, 1923-1963)
James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (B.A. 1898, S&B 1898) U.S. Congressman (Republican Party-New York, 1933-1951)
John Martin Vorys (B.A. 1918, S&B 1918) U.S. Congressman (Republican Party-Ohio, 1939-1959)
John Crain Kunkel (B.A. 1916) U.S. Congressman (Republican Party-Pennsylvania, 1939-1951, 1961-1966)
James C. Auchincloss (B.A. 1908, S&K 1908) U.S. Congressman (Republican Party-New Jersey, 1943-1965)
Thruston B. Morton (B.A. 1929) U.S. Congressman (Republican Party-Kentucky, 1947-1953)
Edward Tylor Miller (B.A. 1916) U.S. Congressman (Republican Party-Maryland, 1947-1959)
J. Foster Furcolo (B.A. 1933) U.S. Congressman (Democratic Party-Massachusetts, 1949-1952)
John Jarman (B.A. 1937) U.S. Congressman (Democratic Party-Oklahoma, 1951-1977)
Harmar D. Denny Jr. (B.A. 1908) U.S. Congressman (Republican Party-Pennsylvania, January 3, 1951-January 3, 1953); Member of Civil
Aeronautics Board (April 7, 1953-November 15, 1959)
Stanley F. Reed (B.A. 1906) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1938-1957)
Thomas Walter Swan (B.A. 1900) Chief Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1951-1953)
Charles Edward Clark (B.A. 1911, LL.B. 1913) Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1939-1963)
Edward Jordan Dimock (B.A. 1911) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1951-1961)
Carroll Clark Hincks (B.A. 1911) Chief Judge of U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (1948-1953)
John Joseph Smith (B.A. 1925, LL.B. 1927) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (1941-1960)
Walter Joseph Cummings (B.A. 1937) Solicitor General of the United States (1952-1953)
William Marvel (B.A. 1932, S&K 1932) U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware (1948-1953)
Walter J. Kohler Jr. (Ph.B. 1925) Governor of Wisconsin (1951-1957)
Gordon MacLean Tiffany (B.A. 1935) Attorney General of New Hampshire (1950-1953)
J. Quigg Newton Jr. (B.A. 1933, LL.B. 1936, S&B 1933) Mayor of Denver, Colorado (1947-1955)
Patrick Brett OSullivan (B.A. 1908) Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut (1950-1957)
Kenneth OBrien (B.A. 1917) Justice of the Supreme Court of New York (1934-1954)
Howard S. Cullman (B.A. 1913) Chairman of Port of New York Authority (1945-1955)
Harold Armstrong Jones (B.A. 1920) Member of the Civil Aeronautics Board [Washington, D.C.] (1948-1951)
James Lawrence Houghteling (B.A. 1905) Chairman of the Fair Employment Board, Civil Service Commission (1946-1952)
Edward Harvey Cushing (B.A. 1919, S&K 1919) Assistant Chief Medical Director for Research and Education at Veterans Administration
(1946-1952)
Bankers:
*William McChesney Martin Jr. (B.A. 1928) Chairman of the Federal Reserve (April 2, 1951-January 31, 1970); Assistant U.S. Secretary of
the Treasury for International Affairs (1949-1951)
Robert Ten Broeck Stevens (B.A. 1921) Chairman of Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1948-1953); Secretary of the Army (1953-1955)
Walter Seth Logan (B.A. 1910, S&B 1910) Vice President and General Counsel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1928-1953)
Harold D. Hodgkinson (Ph.B. 1912) Chairman (1951-1955) and Class C Director (1947-1955) of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
*Russell C. Leffingwell (B.A. 1899) Chairman of J.P. Morgan & Co. (1948-1950)
James Stillman Rockefeller (B.A. 1924, S&K 1924) President of National City Bank of New York [Citibank] (1952-1959)
Samuel Sloan Colt (B.A. 1914, S&K 1914) President of Bankers Trust Co. (1931-1957)
Boylston Adams Tompkins (B.A. 1915, S&K 1915) Vice President of Bankers Trust Co. (1921-1955)
Charles Jacob Stewart (B.A. 1918, S&B 1918) President of New York Trust Co. (1949-1952)
*Alfred Hayes (B.A. 1930) Vice President of the New York Trust Co. (1949-1956)
Prescott S. Bush (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1972)
*E. Roland Harriman (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1978)
*Knight Woolley (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1982)
*Ray Morris (B.A. 1901, S&B 1901) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1956)
Thacher M. Brown (B.A. 1897) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1954)
Moreau Delano Brown (B.A. 1926) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1939-1974)
*John M. Schiff (B.A. 1925) Partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. (1931-1977)
*Joseph Richardson Dilworth (B.A. 1938, LL.B. 1942, S&B 1938) Partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. (1951-1958)
*Robert Lehman (B.A. 1913) Partner of Lehman Brothers (1925-1969)
Joseph Albert Thomas (B.A. 1928, S&K 1928) Partner of Lehman Brothers (1937-1977)
*Harold Stanley (B.A. 1908, S&B 1908) Partner of Morgan, Stanley & Co. (1941-1955)
Dean Witter Jr. (B.A. 1944, S&B 1944) Partner of Dean Witter & Co. (1946-1970)
Eliot G. Fitch (B.A. 1918) President of Marine National Exchange Bank of Milwaukee (1942-1992)
Frederic Augustus Potts (B.A. 1926) President of Philadelphia National Bank (1947-1964)
Gardner Dominick Stout (B.A. 1926) Partner of Dominick & Dominick [investment firm in New York City] (1926-1968)
Edward Howard York Jr. (B.A. 1912) Partner of Drexel & Co. [investment bank in Philadelphia] (1931-1935, 1943-1961)
Edward Starr, Jr. (B.A. 1922, S&K 1922) Partner of Drexel & Co. [investment bank in Philadelphia (1937-c.1966)
*William Frederick Machold (Ph.B. 1927) Partner of Drexel & Co. [investment bank in Philadelphia] (1949-1966)
Everett Smith (B.A. 1915) Fiscal agent for Federal Home Loan Banks (1937-1962)
Robert James Lewis (B.A. 1921) Partner of Estabrook & Co. [banking firm in New York City] (1931-1968)
Edward McCrady Gaillard (B.A. 1919) President of Union & New Haven Trust Co. [bank in New Haven, Connecticut] (1943-1962)
Henry Eugene Coe III (B.A. 1946) Assistant Treasurer of Chase Manhattan Bank (1953-1960)
Robert George Wiese (B.A. 1925) Partner of Scudder, Stevens & Clark [investment firm in Boston] (1936-1978)
Roger Conant Damon (B.A. 1929) Senior VIce President (1952-1959) and Vice President (1943-1952) of First National Bank of Boston
Businessmen:
*Irving S. Olds (B.A. 1907) Chairman of the board of United States Steel Corp. (1940-1952)
*E. Roland Harriman (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917) Chairman of the board of Union Pacific Railroad Co. (1946-1969)
Leroy A. Lincoln (B.A. 1902) Chairman of the board of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (1951-1957)
*George L. Harrison (B.A. 1910, S&B 1910) Chairman of the board of New York Life Insurance Co. (1948-1954)
Morgan B. Brainard (B.A. 1900, LL.B. 1903) President of Aetna Life Insurance Co. [Hartford, Connecticut] (1922-1957)
Francis Fitz Randolph (B.A. 1911, S&B 1911) Senior Partner of J&W Seligman & Co. (1940-1973)
George Herbert Walker Jr. (B.A. 1927, S&B 1927) General Partner of G.H. Walker & Co. (1929-1974)
*Morehead Patterson (B.A. 1920, S&B 1920) Chairman of the board of American Machine & Foundry Co. (1943-1962)
*J. Irwin Miller (B.A. 1931) Chairman of the board of Cummins Engine Co. (1951-1977); President of Cummins Engine Co. (1947-1951)
Frederick Glade Wacker Jr. (B.A. 1940) Chairman of the board and President of Ammco Tools, Inc. [North Chicago, Illinois] (1948-1987)
Charles Christian Haffner Jr. (B.A. 1919, S&B 1919) Chairman and CEO of R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. [Chicago printing firm] (1952-1964)
Walter Paul Paepcke (B.A. 1917) Chairman and CEO of Container Corp. of America (1946-1960); Trustee of University of Chicago
*John E. Bierwirth (B.A. 1917) President of National Distillers & Chemical Corp. (1949-1958)
H. Mansfield Horner (B.S. 1926) President of United Aircraft Corporation (1943-1956)
*Juan Terry Trippe (Ph.B. 1921) President of Pan American World Airways, Inc. (1927-1964)
*Henry John Heinz II (B.A. 1931, S&B 1931) President of H.J. Heinz Company (1941-1959)
Gaylord Donnelley (B.A. 1931, S&B 1931) President of R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (1952-1964); Trustee, Univ. of Chicago (1947-1980)
*Frank Ford Russell (B.A. 1926, S&B 1926) President of National Aviation Corp. (1939-1954)
*Robert Guthrie Page (B.A. 1922, S&B 1922) President of Phelps Dodge Corporation (1947-1967)
H. Neil Mallon (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917) President of Dresser Industries, Inc. (1929-1958)
*Walter Hochschild (B.A. 1920) President of The American Metal Co. Ltd. (1950-1957)
*B. Brewster Jennings (B.A. 1920, S&K 1920) President of Socony-Mobil Oil Co. (1944-1955)
*Edmund Fitzgerald (Ph.B. 1916) President of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. (1947-1958)
Thomas Eugene Lovejoy Jr. (Ph.B. 1928) President of Manhattan Life Insurance Co. (1950-1967)
*Charles Shipman Payson (B.A. 1921, S&K 1921) former Chairman of the board of Vitro Corp. of America
Louis S. Rothschild (Ph.B. 1920) President of Rothschild & Sons, Inc. [Kansas City, Missouri] (1942-1955)
Tecumseh Sherman Fitch (B.S. 1931) Chairman of the board of Washington Steel Corp. [Pennsylvania] (1945-1969)
Robert Upjohn Redpath Jr. (B.A. 1928) life underwriter for Lawyers Mortgage Co. [New York City] (1933-1987)
Reuben Buck Robertson (B.A. 1900) Chairman of the board (1950-1960) and President (1946-1950, 1955-1962) of Champion Papers, Inc.
Henry Webb Johnstone (B.A. 1916, S&B 1916) Senior Vice President of Merck & Co., Inc. [pharmaceutical company] (1950-1957)
Henry Stuart Harrison (B.A. 1932) Treasurer of Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co. (1945-1952)
Howard MacGregor Tuttle (B.A. 1904) President of National Casket Company, Inc. [Boston] (1943-c.1958)
Samuel J. Walker (B.A. 1917) President of Chicago Railway Equipment Company (1947-1961)
*Joseph Peter Grace, Jr. (B.A. 1936, S&K 1936) President and CEO of W.R. Grace & Co. (1945-1981)
Horace Havemeyer, Jr. (B.A. 1936, S&K 1936) President of National Sugar Refining Co. [New York City] (1948-1966)
F. Thatcher Lane (B.A. 1917) President of Seamless Rubber Co. (1933-1954); Vice President of Rexall Drug & Chemical Co., Inc. (1942-54)
Pierpont V. Davis (B.A. 1905) Vice President of National City Company (1919-1934); President of Harriman Ripley & Co. (1942-1956)
Walter M. Jeffords Jr. (B.A. 1938) Chairman of Brooklyn Borough Gas Company (1949-1959)
Floyd Wellman Jefferson (B.A. 1902) Partner of Iselin Jefferson Co., Inc. [textile merchant in New York City] (1927-1946); President of Iselin
Jefferson Co., Inc. (1946-1950); Chairman of the board of Iselin Jefferson Co., Inc. (1950-c.1961)
Philip Rogers Mallory (B.A. 1908) Chairman of the board of P.R. Mallory & Co., Inc. [manufacturing company] (1946-1965)
Allan A. Ryan (B.A. 1924) Chairman of the board of Royal Typewriter Company, Inc. (1945-1954)
Samuel A. Smith Jr. (Ph.B. 1921) Treasurer of General Cable Corp. (1950-1953)
Robert Forbes Niven (B.A. 1932) Secretary of Union Oil Co. (1947-1972); Member of the Bohemian Club in San Francisco
William M. Day (B.A. 1927) Vice President of Michigan Bell Telephone Co. [Detroit] (1950-1956)
John M.K. Davis (B.A. 1929) President of Conneciticut Printers Inc. [Hartford, Connecticut] (1952-c.1972)
Frank Courtenay Dodd (B.A. 1897) Chairman of the board of Dodd, Mead & Co., Inc. [publishing company in New York City] (1942-1968)
Edward Howard Dodd Jr. (B.A. 1928) Vice President of Dodd, Mead & Co., Inc. [publishing company in New York City] (1941-1953)
Richard C. Doane (B.A. 1919) Vice President of International Paper Co. [New York City] (1948-1954)
Laurence Harper Norton (B.A. 1910) Director (1928-1960) and Treasurer (1957-1960) of Oglebay, Norton Co. [Cleveland, Ohio]
Horace Ransom Mustard (B.A. 1931) Treasurer of Pittsburgh Coke & Chemical Co. (1944-1964)
Lawyers:
*Allen Wardwell (B.A. 1895, S&K 1895) Member of Davis, Polk, Wardwell [law firm in New York City] (1909-1953)
*George Roberts (B.A. 1905, LL.B. Harvard 1908) Partner of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1914-1968)
*Allen T. Klots (B.A. 1909, S&B 1909) Member of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts [law firm in New York City] (1921-1965)
James William Husted (B.A. 1918) Partner of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1930-1969)
Morris Hadley (B.A. 1916, S&B 1916) Partner of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy (1924-1979)
Daniel Gleason Tenney Jr. (B.A. 1935, LL.B. 1938, S&K 1935) Partner of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy (1948-c.1983)
*Charles M. Spofford (B.A. 1924, S&B 1924) Member of Davis, Polk & Wardwell [law firm in New York City] (1940-1950, 1952-1973)
Charles Hastings Willard (B.A. 1926, S&B 1926) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1950-1973)
Edward Rogers Wardwell (B.A. 1927, S&B 1927) Member of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1946-c.1972)
*Samuel Hazard Gillespie Jr. (B.A. 1932, LL.B. 1936, S&B 1932) Member of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1948-2011)
Allen Evarts Foster (B.A. 1906) Partner of Lord, Day & Lord [law firm in New York City] (1919-c.1970)
Louis Melville Loeb (B.A. 1919) Partner of Lord, Day & Lord (1948-1972); General Counsel of The New York Times Co. (1948-1967)
Sherman Baldwin (B.A. 1919, S&B 1919) Member of Lord, Day & Lord (1929-1969)
John Dorsey Garrison (B.A. 1931, LL.B. 1934) Member of Lord, Day & Lord (1943-1980)
Garrard Wood Glenn (B.A. 1933, S&K 1933) Partner of Lord, Day & Lord (1948-1954, 1958-c.1974)
*Douglas Maxwell Moffat (B.A. 1903, LL.B. Harvard 1907) Partner of Cravath, Swaine & Moore [law firm in New York City] (1913-1956)
Chauncey Brewster Garver (B.A. 1908, S&K 1908) Partner of Shearman & Sterling [law firm in New York City] (1917-1973)
Allen Skinner Hubbard (B.A. 1911, S&K 1911) Partner of Hughes, Hubbard & Reed [law firm in New York City] (1937-1981)
*William S. Gaud (B.A. 1929, LL.B. 1931) Member of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn [law firm in New York City] (1946-1961)
Edward Bancroft Twombly (B.A. 1912, S&B 1912) Partner of Putney, Twombly, Hall & Skidmore [law firm in New York City] (1919-1966)
Frederick P. Haas (B.A. 1935, S&B 1935) Partner of Webster, Sheffield, Fleischmann, Hitchcock & Chrystie [law firm in New York City] (19461965)
Sidney Wetmore Davidson (B.A. 1916; J.D. 1918) Member of Davidson, Dawson & Clark [law firm in New York City] (1949-1974)
*Jerome S. Hess (B.A. 1903) Member of Hardin, Hess & Eder [law firm in New York City] (1907-1970); Member of Hardin, Hess & Suarez
[law firm in Mexico City] (1921-1970); President of American Foreign Law Association (1944-1947)
Gerhard A. Gesell (B.A. 1932) Member of Covington & Burling [law firm in Washington, D.C.] (1941-1967)
Isaac Henry Mayer (B.A. 1884) Senior Member of Mayer, Meyer, Austrian & Platt [law firm in Chicago] (1922-1967)
Merrill Shepard (B.A. 1925) Partner of Pope, Ballard, Kennedy, Shepard & Fowle [law firm in Chicago] (1936-c.1986)
Anthony Lee Michel (B.A. 1926, S&B 1926) Partner of Gardner, Carton, Douglas, Chilgren & Waud [law firm in Chicago] (1942-1966)
Norman Waite (B.A. 1927; LL.B. Harvard 1930) Partner of Schiff Hardin & Waite [law firm in Chicago] (1940-c.1976)
George Alfred Ranney (B.A. 1934, LL.B. 1939, S&B 1934) Member of Sidley, Austin, Burgess & Smith [law firm in Chicago] (1939-1962)
John Loomer Hall (B.A. 1894, LL.B. 1896, S&B 1894) Member of Choate, Hall & Stewart [law firm in Boston] (1904-1960)
*Harvey H. Bundy (B.A. 1909, S&B 1909) Member of Choate, Hall & Stewart [law firm in Boston] (1933-1941, 1945-1963)
Marcien Jenckes (B.A. 1921, S&B 1921) Member of Choate, Hall & Stewart [law firm in Boston] (1927-1971)
Brinley Morgan Hall (B.A. 1934, S&K 1934) Partner of Choate, Hall & Stewart [law firm in Boston] (1951-1962)
Sidney Norwood Towle Jr. (B.A. 1935, LL.B. 1938, S&K 1935) Partner of Withington, Cross, Park & McCann [law firm in Boston] (1947-1959)
George Frederick Baer Appel (B.A. 1924, S&B 1924) Partner of Townsend, Elliott & Munson [law firm in Philadelphia] (1938-1970)
John Herron More (B.A. 1924) Partner of Taft, Stettinius &Hollister [law firm in Cincinnati] (1935-1970)
John Bourne Dempsey (B.A. 1911, S&B 1911) Partner of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey [law firm in Cleveland, Ohio] (1935-1963)
Howard Tallmadge Foulkes (B.A. 1911) Partner of Wickham, Borgelt, Skogstad and Powell [law firm in Milwaukee] (1913-1973)
Olcott Damon Smith (B.A. 1929) Partner of Day, Berry & Howard [law firm in Hartford, Connecticut (1937-1962)
John Caldwell Parsons (B.A. 1922; LL.B. 1926) Partner of Robinson, Robinson & Cole [law firm in Hartford, Connecticut] (1931-1973)
Pomeroy Day (B.A. 1928; LL.B. 1931) Member of Robinson, Robinson & Cole [law firm in Hartford, Connecticut] (1936-1958)
Henry Cornick Coke (B.A. 1926, LL.B. 1929, S&B 1926) Member of Coke & Coke [law firm in Dallas, Texas] (1930-1977)
Alvin Huey Lane (B.A. 1915; LL.B. Harvard 1920) Partner of Lane & Savage (and predecessor) [law firm in Dallas, Texas] (1936-1957); CoGeneral Counsel of the Republican Party of Texas (1942-1952)
Cornelius E. Lombardi (B.A. 1911, S&B 1911) Partner of Lombardi, Robertson, Fligg & McLean [law firm in Kansas City] (1936-1956)
Richard Marden Davis (B.A. 1933, S&B 1933) Partner of Davis, Graham & Stubbs [law firm in Denver] (1937-c.1982)
Joseph Martin Jr. (B.A. 1936; LL.B. 1939) Partner of Wallace, Garrison, Norton & Ray [law firm in San Francisco] (1946-1955)
Charles Dudley Pratt (B.A. 1922, LL.B. 1924) Member of Pratt, Tavares & Cassidy [law firm in Honolulu, Hawaii] (1947-1960)
Lloyd Frank Thanhouser (Ph.B.1923, LL.B. 1926) Vice President and General Counsel of Continental Oil Co. (Conoco) [Houston, Texas]
(1949-c.1966)
Journalists:
*Eugene Meyer (B.A. 1895) Chairman of the board of The Washington Post Co. (1947-1959)
*Whitelaw Reid (B.A. 1936) President of New York Herald Tribune (1952-1955)
*Henry R. Luce (B.A. 1920, S&B 1920) Editor-in-Chief of Time, Inc. (1923-1964)
*Charles Merz (B.A. 1915) Editor of The New York Times (1938-1961)
*Walter Millis (B.A. 1920) staff writer for New York Herald-Tribune (1924-1954)
*August Heckscher (B.A. 1936) Chief Editorial Writer for New York Herald-Tribune (1952-1956)
Charles Latimer Stillman (B.A. 1926) Treasurer (1930-1960) and Executive Vice President (1949-1959) of Time, Inc. [Time magazine]
Organization Executives:
*Russell C. Leffingwell (B.A. 1899) Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations (1946-1953)
*Frank Altschul (B.A. 1908) Vice President of the Council on Foreign Relations (1951-1971)
*Percy W. Bidwell (B.A. 1910, Ph.D. 1915) Director of Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (1937-1953)
*W. Averell Harriman (B.A. 1913, S&B 1913) Director of the Council on Foreign Relations (1950-1955)
*E. Roland Harriman (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917) President of American Red Cross (1950-1953)
*William Vincent Griffin (B.A. 1912, S&K 1912) President of English-Speaking Union of the United States (1947-1957)
The Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill (B.A. 1911) President of the National Council of Churches USA (1950-1952)
Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis (B.A. 1923) Executive Director of the Cooperative League of the United States of America (1947-1967)
Angus Dun (B.A. 1914) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, D.C. (1944-1962)
John Williams Andrews (B.A. 1920; LL.B. 1926) Director of Washington Institute of Mental Hygiene (1951-1952)
William Payne Roberts (B.A. 1909) Pastor of St. Pauls Church in Nanking, China (1923-1937); Bishop of the Missionary District of Shanghai
of the American Church Mission in China (1937-1950)
William Reginald Wheeler (B.A. 1911) Executive Secretary of Yale-in-China (1947-1949); Secretary of Presbyterian Board of Foreign
Missions (1938-1942); Executive Secretary of Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions (1923-1932)
Y.C. James Yen (B.A. 1918) Founder and General Director of Chinese National Association of Mass Education Movement in Peiping
[Beijing], China (1924-1951)
College Administrators and College Professors:
*Alfred Whitney Griswold (B.A. 1929; Ph.D. 1933) President of Yale University (1950-1963)
Laurence G. Tighe (B.A. 1916, S&B 1916) Treasurer of Yale University (1942-1954)
Carl A. Lohmann (B.A. 1910, S&B 1910) Secretary of Yale University (1927-1953)
August Sidney Lovett (B.A. 1913, S&B 1913) Chaplain of Yale University (1932-1958)
Robert L. Johnson (B.A. 1918) President of Temple University (1941-1959)
Richard Daniel Weigle (B.A. 1931, Ph.D. 1939) President of St. Johns College [Annapolis, Maryland] (1949-1980)
Robert Maynard Hutchins (B.A. 1921) Chancellor of University of Chicago (1945-1951); Associate Director of Ford Foundation (1951-1954)
George Hoyt Whipple (B.A. 1900) Dean of the School of Medicine and Dentistry at University of Rochester (1921-1953)
Paul Shipman Andrews (B.A. 1909, LL.B. Columbia 1912) Dean of Syracuse University College of Law (1927-1952)
Shelden D. Elliott (B.A. 1927) Dean of University of Southern California Law School (1948-1952)
Ralph Henry Gabriel (B.A. 1913, M.A. 1915, Ph.D. 1919) Professor of History at Yale University (1928-1958)
Karl N. Llewellyn (B.A. 1915, LL.B. 1918) Betts Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia University (1930-1951); Professor of Law at
University of Chicago (1951-1962)
Stanley Morrison (B.A. 1915) Professor of Law at Stanford University (1929-1955); Member of the Bohemian Club in San Francisco
*Walt W. Rostow (B.A. 1936, Ph.D. 1940) Professor of Economic History at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1950-1960)
Alexander Hamilton Frey (B.A. 1919, LL.B. 1921) Professor of Law at University of Pennsylvania Law School (1932-1968)
Walter Freeman (B.A. 1916, M.D. U.Penn. 1920) Professor of Neurology at George Washington University (1927-1954)
Note: *=Member of the Council on Foreign Relations; S&B = Skull & Bones; S&K = Scroll & Key
Yale University Graduates and Their Occupation during the Suez Canal Crisis (October 29, 1956-November 7, 1956),
Iraq July 14 Revolution (July 14, 1958) and Second Taiwan Strait Crisis (1958)
Government Officials:
*John Hay Whitney (B.A. 1926; S&K 1926) U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain (1957-1961)
William Howard Taft III (B.A. 1937) U.S. Ambassador to Ireland (1953-1957)
*Douglas MacArthur II (B.A. 1931) U.S. Ambassador to Japan (1957-1961)
James Graham Parsons (B.A. 1929) U.S. Ambassador to Laos (1956-1958)
Elbridge Durbrow (Ph.B. 1926) U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam (1957-1961); U.S. Consul-General in Singapore, Malaya (1955-1957)
Homer M. Byington, Jr. (B.A. 1930) U.S. Ambassador to Malaya [Malaysia] (1957-1961)
*Ellsworth Bunker (B.A. 1916) U.S. Ambassador to India (1957-1961); U.S. Ambassador to Nepal (1957-1959)
Charles Joseph Little (B.A. 1924, LL.B. Harvard 1930) Deputy Chief of Mission in Kabul, Afghanistan (1953-1957)
*Philip W. Bonsal (B.A. 1924) U.S. Ambassador to Colombia (1955-1957); U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia (1957-1959)
Arthur Gardner (B.A. 1911?) U.S. Ambassador to Cuba (1953-1957)
Walter Howe (B.A. 1929) U.S. Ambassador to Chile (1958-1961)
Jefferson Patterson (B.A. 1913, LL.B. Harvard 1916) U.S. Ambassador to Uruguay (1956-1958)
Francis White (Ph.B. 1913) U.S. Ambassador to Mexico (1953-1957)
Donald A. Quarles (B.A. 1916) Secretary of the Air Force (1955-1957); Deputy U.S. Secretary of Defense (1957-1959)
Andrew Downey Orrick (B.A. 1940, S&B 1940) Commissioner of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (1955-1960)
*T. Keith Glennan (B.S. 1927) Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (1958-1961)
Daggett Horton Howard (B.A. 1938, LL.B. 1941) General Counsel of Federal Aviation Agency (1958-1962); Associate General Counsel
(1952-1956) and Deputy General Counsel (1956-1958) of the Department of the Air Force
James Jesus Angleton (B.A. 1941) Chief of CIA Counterintelligence Staff (1954-1974)
Sherman Kent (Ph.B. 1926, Ph.D. 1933) Assistant Director of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) (1950-1967)
*William P. Bundy (B.A. 1939; S&B 1939) CIA agent (1951-1961)
*Norman S. Paul (B.A. 1940) CIA agent (1955-1960)
Prescott S. Bush (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917) U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut, 1952-1963); Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1972)
*John Sherman Cooper (B.A. 1923; S&B 1923) U.S. Senator (R-Kentucky, 1946-1949; 1952-1955; 1956-1973)
*W. Stuart Symington (B.A. 1923) U.S. Senator (D-Missouri, 1953-1976)
Thruston B. Morton (B.A. 1929) U.S. Senator (R-Kentucky, 1957-1968)
William Proxmire (B.A. 1938) U.S. Senator (D-Wisconsin, 1957-1989)
John Taber (B.A. 1902) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New York, 1923-1963)
John Martin Vorys (B.A. 1918, S&B 1918) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Ohio, 1939-1959)
James C. Auchincloss (B.A. 1908, S&K 1908) U.S. Congressman (Republican-New Jersey, 1943-1965)
Edward Tylor Miller (B.A. 1916) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Maryland, 1947-1959)
John Jarman (B.A. 1937) U.S. Congressman (Democrat/Republican-Oklahoma, 1951-1977)
Albert W. Cretella (B.A. 1917) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Connecticut, 1953-1959)
William S. Mailliard (B.A. 1939) U.S. Congressman (Republican-California, 1953-1974)
Thomas William Ludlow Lud Ashley (B.A. 1948, S&B 1948) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Ohio, 1955-1981)
Stanley F. Reed (B.A. 1906) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1938-1957)
Potter Stewart (B.A. 1937, LL.B. 1941, S&B 1937) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1958-1981); Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Sixth Circuit (1954-1958)
Charles Edward Clark (B.A. 1911, LL.B. 1913) Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1939-1963)
George Thomas Washington (Ph.B. 1928) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for District of Columbia Circuit (1950-1965)
John A. Danaher (B.A. 1920) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for District of Columbia Circuit (1954-1969)
Edward Jordan Dimock (B.A. 1911) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1951-1961)
John Joseph Smith (B.A. 1925, LL.B. 1927) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (1941-1960)
*W. Averell Harriman (B.A. 1913, S&B 1913) Governor of New York (1955-1958)
J. Foster Furcolo (B.A. 1933) Governor of Massachusetts (1957-1961)
Walter J. Kohler Jr. (Ph.B. 1925) Governor of Wisconsin (1951-1957)
Robert F. Wagner Jr. (B.A. 1933, S&K 1933) Mayor of New York City (1954-1965)
Richardson Dilworth (B.A. 1921, S&K 1921) Mayor of Philadelphia (1956-1962)
Charles P. Taft II (B.A. 1918, LL.B. 1921; S&B 1918) Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio (1955-1957)
Charles Henry Tenney (B.A. 1933; LL.B. 1936, S&K 1933) Corporation Counsel of New York City (1958-1961)
R. Sargent Shriver Jr. (B.A. 1938; LL.B. 1941; S&K 1938) President of Chicago Board of Education (1955-1960)
Bankers:
*William McChesney Martin Jr. (B.A. 1928) Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1951-1970)
*Alfred Hayes (B.A. 1930) President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1956-1975)
John E. Bierwirth (B.A. 1917) Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1957-1959)
Arthur B. Van Buskirk (B.A. 1918) Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (1957-1961)
James Stillman Rockefeller (B.A. 1924, S&K 1924) President of National City Bank of New York [Citibank] (1952-1959)
Samuel Sloan Colt (B.A. 1914) Chairman of Bankers Trust Co. (1956-1957); President of Bankers Trust Co. (1931-1957)
*Knight Woolley (B.A. 1917; S&B 1917) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1982)
*Robert A. Lovett (B.A. 1918, S&B 1918) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1953-1986); Trustee, Rockefeller Foundation (1949-61)
Stephen Y. Hord (B.A. 1921, S&B 1921) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1945-1981)
*Thomas McCance (B.A. 1925) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1945-1979)
Moreau Delano Brown (B.A. 1926) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1939-1974)
John Beckwith Madden (B.A. 1941, S&B 1941) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1955-1988)
*Robert Lehman (B.A. 1913) Partner of Lehman Brothers (1925-1969)
Joseph Albert Thomas (B.A. 1928, S&K 1928) Partner of Lehman Brothers (1937-1977)
*John M. Schiff (B.A. 1925) Partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. (1931-1977)
*Joseph Richardson Dilworth (B.A. 1938, LL.B. 1942, S&B 1938) Partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. (1951-1958)
Charles Jacob Stewart (B.A. 1918) Partner of Lazard Freres & Co. (1953-1959)
Dean Witter Jr. (B.A. 1944, S&B 1944) Partner of Dean Witter & Co. (1946-1970)
Gardner Dominick Stout (B.A. 1926) Partner of Dominick & Dominick [investment firm in New York City] (1926-1968)
Avery Rockefeller Jr. (B.A. 1949) Partner of Dominick & Dominick (1952-1964)
Robert James Lewis (B.A. 1921) Partner of Estabrook & Co. [New York City] (1931-1968)
William Frederick Machold (Ph.B. 1927) Partner of Drexel & Co. [investment bank in Philadelphia] (1949-1966)
Frederic Augustus Potts (B.A. 1926) President of Philadelphia National Bank (1947-1964)
Robert George Wiese (B.A. 1925) Partner of Scudder, Stevens & Clark [investment firm in Boston] (1936-1978)
Roger Conant Damon (B.A. 1929) Senior Vice President of First National Bank of Boston (1952-1959)
Edward Byron Smith (B.A. 1932) President of Northern Trust Company [Chicago] (1957-1963)
Edward McCrady Gaillard (B.A. 1919) President of Union & New Haven Trust Co. [bank in New Haven, Connecticut] (1943-1962)
Ernest Patton (B.A. 1920) Chairman of the board of Peoples National Bank [Greenville, South Carolina] (1948-1969)
Richard Ambler Liggett (Ph.B. 1925) Chairman of the board of First National Bank of Tampa [Florida] (1955-c.1972)
Burt Russell Shurly Jr. (B.A. 1934) Vice President of Detroit Bank & Trust Co. [Detroit, Michigan] (1951-1970)
James Henry Higgins (B.A. 1939) Vice President of Mellon National Bank & Trust Co. [Pittsburgh] (1954-1965)
Henry Eugene Coe III (B.A. 1946) Assistant Treasurer of Chase Manhattan Bank (1953-1960)
Eliot G. Fitch (B.A. 1918) President of Marine National Exchange Bank of Milwaukee (1942-1992)
Businessmen:
Leroy A. Lincoln (B.A. 1902) Chairman of the board of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. [MetLife] (1951-1957)
Joseph F. Cullman III (B.A. 1935) President and CEO of Philip Morris Company [i.e. Marlboro cigarettes] (1957-1966)
*Henry John Heinz II (B.A. 1931, S&B 1931) President of H.J. Heinz Company [ketchup] (1941-1959)
Philip W. Pillsbury (B.A. 1924) Chairman of the board of The Pillsbury Co. [pastry] (1952-1965)
*B. Brewster Jennings (B.A. 1920) Chairman of the board of Socony-Mobil Oil Co. (1955-1958)
Robert Guthrie Page (B.A. 1922, S&B 1922) President of Phelps Dodge Corporation (1947-1967)
George H.W. Bush (B.A. 1948; S&B 1948) President of Zapata Offshore Co. [in Houston, Texas] (1956-1964)
Morehead Patterson (B.A. 1920, S&B 1920) Chairman of the board of American Machine & Foundry Co. (1943-1962)
*J. Irwin Miller (B.A. 1931) Chairman of the board of Cummins Engine Co. (1951-1977)
Henry Smith Richardson Jr. (B.A. 1942) President of Vick Chemical Company [New York City] (1957-1961)
*Juan Terry Trippe (Ph.B. 1921) President of Pan American World Airways, Inc. (1927-1964)
H. Mansfield Horner (B.S. 1926) Chairman and CEO of United Aircraft Corporation (1956-1983)
John Davock Warren (B.A. 1927, S&B 1927) General Partner of G.H. Walker & Co. [firm in New York City] (1944-1974)
George Herbert Walker Jr. (B.A. 1927, S&B 1927) General Partner of G.H. Walker & Co. (1929-1974)
Charles Christian Haffner Jr. (B.A. 1919, S&B 1919) Chairman and CEO of R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. [Chicago] (1952-1964)
Gaylord Donnelley (B.A. 1931, S&B 1931) President of R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. [Chicago] (1952-1964)
William Thompson Lusk (B.A. 1924, S&B 1924) President of Tiffany & Co. [New York City] (1955-1967)
Kempton Dunn (B.S. 1931) CEO of American Brake Shoe Co. [New York City] (1957-1969)
Tecumseh Sherman Fitch (B.S. 1931) Chairman of the board of Washington Steel Corp. [Pennsylvania] (1945-1969)
William Adams Dunbar (B.A. 1929) Comptroller of General Reinsurance Corp. [New York City] (1956-1966)
Robert Upjohn Redpath Jr. (B.A. 1928) life underwriter for Lawyers Mortgage Co. [New York City] (1933-1987)
Henry White Gadsden (B.S. 1933) Executive Vice President of Merck & Co., Inc. [pharmaceutical] (1955-1965)
Andrew Gagarin (B.A. 1937) President of Torrington Manufacturing Co. [Connecticut] (1953-1969)
Philip Rogers Mallory (B.A. 1908) Chairman of the board of P.R. Mallory & Co., Inc. [manufacturing company] (1946-1965)
William M. Day (B.A. 1927) President of Michigan Bell Telephone Co. [Detroit] (1956-1968)
John M.K. Davis (B.A. 1929) President of Conneciticut Printers Inc. [Hartford, Connecticut] (1952-c.1972)
Frank Courtenay Dodd (B.A. 1897) Chairman of the board of Dodd, Mead & Co., Inc. [publishing company in New York City] (1942-1968)
John Ward Seabury (B.S. 1943) Vice President of Marsh & McLennan, Inc. [Chicago] (1956-1976)
Francis Fitz Randolph (B.A. 1911, S&B 1911) Senior Partner of J&W Seligman & Co. (1940-1973)
John C. Farrar (B.A. 1918, S&B 1918) Chairman of the board of Farrar, Straus & Giroux [publishing firm in New York City] (1946-1974)
John Warner Field (B.A. 1937, S&B 1937) President and CEO of Warnaco, Inc. (1957-1974)
Reuel Edward Warriner (B.A. 1933) Vice President for sales at American Metal Climax, Inc. (1954-1968)
James Barton Elliott (B.A. 1935) Secretary of American Sugar Co. [New York City] (1955-1965)
Robert George Wiese (B.A. 1925) Partner of Scudder, Stevens & Clark [investment firm in Boston] (1936-1978)
Gordon Grand, Jr. (B.A. 1938, S&K 1938) Corporate Vice President of Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp. (1955-1963)
Horace Reynolds Moorhead (Ph.B. 1929, S&K 1929) Treasurer of Gulf Oil Corp. (1948-c.1972)
Robert Forbes Niven (B.A. 1932) Secretary of Union Oil Co. (1947-1972); Member of the Bohemian Club in San Francisco
Thaddeus R. Beal Jr. (B.A. 1939, S&K 1939) President of Harvard Trust Co. [Boston] (1957-1969)
Horace Ransom Mustard (B.A. 1931) Treasurer of Pittsburgh Coke & Chemical Co. (1944-1964)
Lloyd Frank Thanhouser (Ph.B.1923, LL.B. 1926) Vice President and General Counsel of Continental Oil Co. (Conoco) [Houston, Texas]
(1949-c.1966)
Lawyers:
*Charles M. Spofford (B.A. 1924; S&B 1924) Member of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1940-1950, 1952-1973)
Edward Rogers Wardwell (B.A. 1927, S&B 1927) Member of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1946-c.1972)
*Peter O.A. Solbert (B.A. 1941, S&B 1941) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1957-1963, 1965-1989)
*Samuel Hazard Gillespie Jr. (B.A. 1932, LL.B. 1936, S&B 1932) Member of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1948-2011)
*Stanley R. Resor (B.A. 1939, LL.B. 1946, S&K 1939) Member and Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1946-1965, 1971-1973, 1979-1987)
*George N. Lindsay (B.A. 1941) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1955-1990)
George Roberts (B.A. 1905, LL.B. Harvard 1908) Partner of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1914-1968)
*Allen T. Klots (B.A. 1909, S&B 1909) Member of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1921-1965)
Chauncey Brewster Garver (B.A. 1908, S&K 1908) Partner of Shearman & Sterling (1917-1973)
William Rockefeller (B.A. 1940, LL.B. Columbia 1947) Partner of Shearman & Sterling (1957-1990)
*Robert Huntington Knight (B.A. 1940) Partner of Shearman & Sterling (1955-1958, 1962-1985)
Louis Melville Loeb (B.A. 1919) Partner of Lord, Day & Lord (1948-1972); General Counsel of The New York Times Co. (1948-1967)
John Dorsey Garrison (B.A. 1931, LL.B. 1934) Member of Lord, Day & Lord (1943-1980)
Garrard Wood Glenn (B.A. 1933, S&K 1933) Partner of Lord, Day & Lord (1948-1954, 1958-c.1974)
Charles R. Walker III (B.A. 1951, LL.B. 1954) Member of Lord, Day & Lord (1956-1994)
*Cyrus R. Vance (B.A. 1939, LL.B. 1942, S&K 1939) Partner of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (1956-1961, 1967-1977, 1980-1998)
*William Eldred Jackson (B.A. 1941, S&B 1941) Partner of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy (1954-1999)
*Alfred Ogden (B.A. 1932, S&B 1932) Partner of Alexander & Green (1955-1975)
Donald Schapiro (B.A. 1944; LL.B. 1949) Partner of Barrett, Smith, Schapiro, Simon & Armstrong [New York City] (1955-1988)
Robert Todd Lang (B.A. 1945) Partner of Weil, Gotshal & Manges [law firm in New York City] (1956-present)
Allen Skinner Hubbard (B.A. 1911, S&K 1911) Partner of Hughes, Hubbard, Blair & Reed [law firm in New York City] (1937-1981)
Edwin Foster Blair (B.A. 1924, S&B 1924) Partner of Hughes, Hubbard, Blair & Reed [law firm in New York City] (1952-1968)
*Jerome S. Hess (B.A. 1903) Member of Hardin, Hess & Eder [law firm in New York City] (1907-1970)
*William S. Gaud (B.A. 1929, LL.B. 1931) Member of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn [law firm in New York City] (1946-1961)
Dean G. Acheson (B.A. 1915; S&K 1915) Member of Covington & Burling [law firm in Washington, D.C.] (1953-1971)
Gerhard A. Gesell (B.A. 1932) Member of Covington & Burling [law firm in Washington, D.C.] (1941-1967)
Isaac Henry Mayer (B.A. 1884) Senior Member of Mayer, Meyer, Austrian & Platt [law firm in Chicago] (1922-1967)
Merrill Shepard (B.A. 1925) Partner of Pope, Ballard, Kennedy, Shepard & Fowle [law firm in Chicago] (1936-c.1986)
Anthony Lee Michel (B.A. 1926, S&B 1926) Partner of Gardner, Carton, Douglas, Chilgren & Waud [law firm in Chicago] (1942-1966)
Norman Waite (B.A. 1927; LL.B. Harvard 1930) Partner of Schiff Hardin & Waite [law firm in Chicago] (1940-c.1976)
George Alfred Ranney (B.A. 1934, LL.B. 1939, S&B 1934) Member of Sidley, Austin, Burgess & Smith [law firm in Chicago] (1939-1962)
John Loomer Hall (B.A. 1894, LL.B. 1896, S&B 1894) Member of Choate, Hall & Stewart [law firm in Boston] (1904-1960)
*Harvey H. Bundy (B.A. 1909, S&B 1909) Member of Choate, Hall & Stewart [law firm in Boston] (1933-1941, 1945-1963)
Marcien Jenckes (B.A. 1921, S&B 1921) Member of Choate, Hall & Stewart [law firm in Boston] (1927-1971)
Brinley Morgan Hall (B.A. 1934, S&K 1934) Partner of Choate, Hall & Stewart [law firm in Boston] (1951-1962)
Sidney Norwood Towle Jr. (B.A. 1935, LL.B. 1938, S&K 1935) Partner of Withington, Cross, Park & McCann [law firm in Boston] (1947-1959)
George Frederick Baer Appel (B.A. 1924, S&B 1924) Partner of Townsend, Elliott & Munson [law firm in Philadelphia] (1938-1970)
Richard Langsdorf Levy (B.A. 1933) Partner of Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish, Kohn & Levy [law firm in Philadelphia] (1949-c.1976)
Howard Tallmadge Foulkes (B.A. 1911) Partner of Wickham, Borgelt, Skogstad and Powell [law firm in Milwaukee] (1913-1973)
Richard Woolsey Cutler (B.A. 1938; LL.B. 1941) Partner of Quarles & Brady [law firm in Milwaukee] (1954-1987)
John Herron More (B.A. 1924) Partner of Taft, Stettinius &Hollister [law firm in Cincinnati] (1935-1970)
John Bourne Dempsey (B.A. 1911, S&B 1911) Partner of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey [law firm in Cleveland, Ohio] (1935-1963)
Henry Cornick Coke (B.A. 1926, LL.B. 1929, S&B 1926) Member of Coke & Coke [law firm in Dallas, Texas] (1930-1977)
Richard Marden Davis (B.A. 1933, S&B 1933) Partner of Davis, Graham & Stubbs [law firm in Denver] (1937-c.1982)
Joseph Martin Jr. (B.A. 1936; LL.B. 1939) Partner of Pettit & Martin [law firm in San Francisco] (1955-1970, 1973-1995)
Lucius Franklin Robinson Jr. (B.A. 1918) Partner of Robinson, Robinson &Cole [law firm in Hartford, Connecticut] (1925-c.1982)
John Caldwell Parsons (B.A. 1922; LL.B. 1926) Partner of Robinson, Robinson & Cole [law firm in Hartford, Connecticut] (1931-1973)
Organization Executives:
*E. Roland Harriman (B.A. 1917; S&B 1917) Chairman of American Red Cross (1954-1973); Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
(1931-1978); Chairman of the board of Union Pacific Railroad Co. (1946-1969)
*Max F. Millikan (B.S. 1935) President of World Peace Foundation (1956-1969)
*Caryl P. Haskins (Ph.B. 1930) President of Carnegie Institution of Washington (1956-1971)
*Frank Altschul (B.A. 1908) Vice President of the Council on Foreign Relations (1951-1971)
*Russell C. Leffingwell (B.A. 1899) Director of the Council on Foreign Relations (1927-1960)
*Morris Hadley (B.A. 1916, S&B 1916) Chairman of Carnegie Corporation of New York (1955-1966)
Ernest Brooks, Jr. (B.A. 1930, S&K 1930) President of Old Dominion Foundation [New York City] (1956-1969)
Robert Maynard Hutchins (B.A. 1921) President of the Fund For The Republic (1954-1969)
*William Vincent Griffin (B.A. 1912, S&K 1912) President of English-Speaking Union of the United States (1947-1957)
Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis (B.A. 1923) Executive Director of the Cooperative League of the United States of America (1947-1967)
*Harvey H. Bundy (B.A. 1909, S&B 1909) Chairman of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1952-1958); Trustee of World Peace
Foundation (1934-1963)
Angus Dun (B.A. 1914) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, D.C. (1944-1962)
Anson Phelps Stokes Jr. (B.A. 1927, S&B 1927) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts (1956-1970)
The Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill (B.A. 1911) Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States (1947-1958); President of the
World Council of Churches (1954-1961)
College Professors:
*Alfred Whitney Griswold (B.A. 1929, Ph.D. 1933) President of Yale University (1950-1963)
*Eugene V. Rostow (B.A. 1933) Dean of Yale Law School (1955-1965)
Reuben A. Holden (B.A. 1940, S&B 1940) Secretary of Yale University (1953-1971)
Charles Stafford Gage (B.A. 1925, S&B 1925) Treasurer of Yale University (1954-1966)
August Sidney Lovett (B.A. 1913, S&B 1913) Chaplain of Yale University (1932-1958)
Grant Gilmore (B.A. 1931, Ph.D. 1936, LL.B. 1942) Professor of Law at Yale University (1946-1965)
Thomas Irwin Emerson (B.A. 1928, LL.B. 1931) Professor of Law at Yale Law School (1946-1976)
Ralph Sharp Brown Jr. (B.A. 1935; LL.B. 1939) Professor of Law at Yale Law School (1953-c.1998)
Ralph Henry Gabriel (B.A. 1913, M.A. 1915, Ph.D. 1919) Professor of History at Yale University (1928-1958)
*J. Quigg Newton Jr. (B.A. 1933, LL.B. 1936, S&B 1933) President of University of Colorado (1956-1963)
Richard Daniel Weigle (B.A. 1931, Ph.D. 1939) President of St. Johns College [Annapolis, Maryland] (1949-1980)
Ethan A.H. Shepley (B.A. 1918, S&K 1918) Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis (1953-1961)
*McGeorge Bundy (B.A. 1940, S&B 1940) Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science at Harvard University (1953-1961)
*Harvey Brooks (B.A. 1937) Dean of Engineering and Applied Physics at Harvard University (1957-1975)
*John N. Hazard (B.A. 1930) Professor of Public Law at Columbia University (1946-1977)
*William L. Cary (B.A. 1931) Professor of Law at Columbia University (1955-1983)
*Henry L. Roberts (B.A. 1938) Professor of History at Columbia University (1956-1967)
Willis Livingston Mesier Reese (B.A. 1935; LL.B. 1938) Charles Evans Hughes Professor of Law at Columbia University (1946-1981)
Allen Tracy Hazen (B.A. 1927, Ph.D. 1935) Professor of English at Columbia University (1948-1971)
Karl N. Llewellyn (B.A. 1915, LL.B. 1918) Professor of Law at University of Chicago (1951-1962)
Alexander Hamilton Frey (B.A. 1919, LL.B. 1921) Professor of Law at University of Pennsylvania Law School (1932-1968)
Charles A. Barker (B.A. 1926, Ph.D. 1932) Professor of American History at Johns Hopkins University (1945-1972)
Robert Stafford Ward (B.A. 1929) Professor of English at the University of Miami [Florida] (1956-1972)
Charles Leslie Stevenson (B.A. 1930) Professor of Philosophy at University of Michigan (1949-1977)
Lyman B. Spitzer Jr. (B.A. 1935, S&B 1935) Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy at Princeton University (1952-1982)
Arthur Stuart Pitt (B.A. 1935, M.A. 1937, Ph.D. 1939) Professor of English at U.S. Naval Academy (1954-1978)
Everard Mott Williams (B.S. 1936, Ph.D. 1939) Professor of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University [Pittsburgh] (1949-1972)
*Walt W. Rostow (B.A. 1936, Ph.D. 1940) Professor of Economic History at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1950-1960)
Benjamin McLane Spock (B.A. 1925, S&K 1925) Professor of Child Development at Western Reserve University [Cleveland] (1955-1967)
Oswald Garrison Villard Jr. (B.A. 1938) Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University (1955-1987); great-grandson of abolitionist
William Lloyd Garrison
Journalists:
*Eugene Meyer (B.A. 1895) Chairman of the board of The Washington Post Co. (1947-1959)
*Henry R. Luce (B.A. 1920; S&B 1920) Editor-in-Chief of Time, Inc. (1923-1964); founder of Time, Life, and Fortune magazines
Charles Latimer Stillman (B.A. 1926) Treasurer (1930-1960) and Executive Vice President (1949-1959) of Time, Inc. [Time magazine]
*John K. Jessup (B.A. 1928) Chief Editorial Writer of Life magazine (1951-1969)
*Ralph D. Paine Jr. (B.A. 1929, S&B 1929) Publisher of Fortune magazine (1953-1967)
*William F. Buckley, Jr. (B.A. 1950; S&B 1950) Editor-in-Chief of National Review magazine (1955-1990)
*Charles Merz (B.A. 1915) Editor of The New York Times (1938-1961)
*Amory Howe Bradford (B.A. 1934, S&B 1934) Vice President of The New York Times Co. (1957-1963)
Jack Rohe Howard (B.A. 1932) President of Scripps-Howard Newspapers (1953-1975)
Whitelaw Reid (B.A. 1936) Chairman of the board of New York Herald Tribune (1955-1958)
Note: *=Member of the Council on Foreign Relations; S&B = Skull & Bones; S&K = Scroll & Key
Yale University Graduates and Their Occupation during Bay of Pigs Invasion (April 17-20, 1961) and Berlin Wall Crisis (August 13, 1961)
Government Officials:
McGeorge Bundy (B.A. 1940; S&B 1940) National Security Advisor (1961-1966)
James Jesus Angleton (B.A. 1941) Chief of CIA Counterintelligence Staff (1954-1974)
Roswell L. Gilpatric (B.A. 1928, LL.B. 1931) Deputy Secretary of Defense (1961-1964)
Eugene M. Zuckert (B.A. 1933; LL.B. 1937) Secretary of the Air Force (1961-1965)
Steuart L. Pittman (B.A. 1941) Assistant Secretary of Defense for Civil Defense (1961-1964)
William P. Bundy (B.A. 1939; S&B 1939) Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (1961-1963)
Richard M. Bissell Jr. (B.A. 1932, Ph.D. 1939) Deputy CIA Director for Plans (1959-1962)
Sherman Kent (Ph.B. 1926, Ph.D. 1933) Assistant Director of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) (1950-1967)
Frederick Vreeland (B.A. 1951) CIA agent (1951-1985)
Cyrus R. Vance (B.A. 1939, LL.B. 1942, S&K 1939) General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Defense (1961-1962)
Robert Huntington Knight (B.A. 1940) General Counsel of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (1961-1962)
Donald Jay Irwin (B.A. 1951, LL.B. 1954) General Counsel of U.S. Information Agency (1961); Treasurer of State of Connecticut (1962-1963)
Daggett Horton Howard (B.A. 1938, LL.B. 1941) General Counsel of Federal Aviation Agency (1958-1962)
William L. Cary (B.A. 1931) Chairman of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (1961-1964)
Chester Bowles (B.A. 1924) Under U.S. Secretary of State (January 25, 1961-December 3, 1961)
W. Averell Harriman (B.A. 1913, S&B 1913) Ambassador-at-Large (February 13, 1961-December 3, 1961)
Philip W. Bonsal (B.A. 1924) U.S. Ambassador to Cuba (March 3, 1959-October 28, 1960); U.S. Ambassador to Morocco (May 24, 1961August 8, 1962)
James Graham Parsons (B.A. 1929) U.S. Ambassador to Sweden (May 16, 1961-April 17, 1967)
Douglas MacArthur II (B.A. 1931) U.S. Ambassador to Belgium (May 9, 1961-February 11, 1965)
William B. Macomber Jr. (B.A. 1943) U.S. Ambassador to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (April 5, 1961-December 25, 1963)
Albert William Sherer, Jr. (B.A. 1938) Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy in Poland (1961-1966)
Prescott S. Bush (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917) U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut, 1952-1963); Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1972)
John Sherman Cooper (B.A. 1923; S&B 1923) U.S. Senator (R-Kentucky, 1946-1949; 1952-1955; 1956-1973)
W. Stuart Symington (B.A. 1923) U.S. Senator (D-Missouri, 1953-1976)
Thruston B. Morton (B.A. 1929) U.S. Senator (R-Kentucky, 1957-1968)
William Proxmire (B.A. 1938) U.S. Senator (D-Wisconsin, 1957-1989)
John Taber (B.A. 1902) U.S. Congressman (R-New York, 1923-1963)
John Crain Kunkel (B.A. 1916) U.S. Congressman (R-Pennsylvania, 1939-1951, 1961-1966)
James C. Auchincloss (B.A. 1908, S&K 1908) U.S. Congressman (R-New Jersey, 1943-1965)
John Jarman (B.A. 1937) U.S. Congressman (D/R-Oklahoma, 1951-1977)
William S. Mailliard (B.A. 1939) U.S. Congressman (R-California, 1953-1974)
Thomas William Ludlow Lud Ashley (B.A. 1948, S&B 1948) U.S. Congressman (D-Ohio, 1955-1981)
William S. Moorhead Jr. (B.A. 1945, S&B 1945) U.S. Congressman (D-Pennsylvania, 1959-1981)
John V. Lindsay (B.A. 1944, S&K 1944) U.S. Congressman (R-New York, 1959-1965)
Peter H. Dominick (B.A. 1937, S&K 1937) U.S. Congressman (R-Colorado, 1961-1963)
William Warren Scranton (B.A. 1939; LL.B. 1946) U.S. Congressman (R-Pennsylvania, 1961-1963)
Potter Stewart (B.A. 1937, LL.B. 1941, S&B 1937) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1958-1981)
Charles Edward Clark (B.A. 1911, LL.B. 1913) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1939-1963)
John Joseph Smith (B.A. 1925, LL.B. 1927) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1960-1971)
George Thomas Washington (Ph.B. 1928) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for District of Columbia Circuit (1950-1965)
John A. Danaher (B.A. 1920) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for District of Columbia Circuit (1954-1969)
Edward Jordan Dimock (B.A. 1911) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1951-1961)
Robert P. Anderson (B.A. 1927) Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (1960-1964)
Robert C. Zampano (B.A. 1951; LL.B. 1954) U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut (1961-1964)
David Campion Acheson (B.A. 1942, S&B 1943) U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia (1961-1965)
Burke Marshall (B.A. 1943, LL.B. 1951) Assistant U.S. Attorney General for Civil Rights Division (1961-1965)
Thomas Thacher (B.A. 1938; LL.B. 1942, S&K 1938) Superintendent of Insurance of the State of New York (1959-1963)
Robert F. Wagner Jr. (B.A. 1933, S&K 1933) Mayor of New York City (1954-1965)
Charles P. Taft II (B.A. 1918; LL.B. 1921; S&B 1918) Member of the Cincinnati City Council (1938-1942, 1948-1951, 1955-1977)
Albert L. Coles (B.A. 1931, LL.B. 1933) Attorney General of Connecticut (1959-1963)
Thomas M. Debevoise (B.A. 1950) Attorney General of Vermont (1960-1962)
Bankers:
William McChesney Martin Jr. (B.A. 1928) Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1951-1970)
Alfred Hayes (B.A. 1930) President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1956-1975)
Kenneth H. Hannan (B.A. 1933, LL.B. 1936) Class B Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1960-1965)
James Stillman Rockefeller (B.A. 1924, S&K 1924) Chairman of National City Bank of New York [Citibank] (1959-1967)
George S. Moore (B.S. 1927) President of National City Bank of New York [Citibank] (1959-1967)
Knight Woolley (B.A. 1917; S&B 1917) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1982)
Robert A. Lovett (B.A. 1918, S&B 1918) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1953-1986); Trustee, Rockefeller Foundation (1949-61)
Stephen Y. Hord (B.A. 1921, S&B 1921) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1945-1981)
Thomas McCance (B.A. 1925) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1945-1979)
Moreau Delano Brown (B.A. 1926) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1939-1974)
John Beckwith Madden (B.A. 1941, S&B 1941) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1955-1988)
R.L. Ireland III (B.A. 1942) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1960-c.1994)
Francis Fitz Randolph (B.A. 1911, S&B 1911) Senior Partner of J&W Seligman & Co. (1940-1973)
John C. Farrar (B.A. 1918, S&B 1918) Chairman of the board of Farrar, Straus & Giroux [publishing firm in New York City] (1946-1974)
John Warner Field (B.A. 1937, S&B 1937) President and CEO of Warnaco, Inc. (1957-1974)
Reuel Edward Warriner (B.A. 1933) Vice President for sales at American Metal Climax, Inc. (1954-1968)
James Barton Elliott (B.A. 1935) Secretary of American Sugar Co. [New York City] (1955-1965)
Robert George Wiese (B.A. 1925) Partner of Scudder, Stevens & Clark [investment firm in Boston] (1936-1978)
Gordon Grand, Jr. (B.A. 1938, S&K 1938) Corporate Vice President of Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp. (1955-1963)
Horace Reynolds Moorhead (Ph.B. 1929, S&K 1929) Treasurer of Gulf Oil Corp. (1948-c.1972)
Robert Forbes Niven (B.A. 1932) Secretary of Union Oil Co. (1947-1972); Member of the Bohemian Club in San Francisco
John Digney Leary (B.A. 1933, LL.B. 1936) Vice Pres. for Personnel at Chrysler Corp. (1958-1963); director of Chrysler Corp. (1959-1974)
Thaddeus R. Beal Jr. (B.A. 1939, S&K 1939) President of Harvard Trust Co. [Boston] (1957-1969)
Horace Ransom Mustard (B.A. 1931) Treasurer of Pittsburgh Coke & Chemical Co. (1944-1964)
Lloyd Frank Thanhouser (Ph.B.1923, LL.B. 1926) Vice President and General Counsel of Continental Oil Co. (Conoco) [Houston, Texas]
(1949-c.1966)
Lawyers:
Charles M. Spofford (B.A. 1924; S&B 1924) Member of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1940-1950, 1952-1973)
Edward Rogers Wardwell (B.A. 1927, S&B 1927) Member of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1946-c.1972)
Peter O.A. Solbert (B.A. 1941, S&B 1941) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1957-1963, 1965-1989)
Samuel Hazard Gillespie Jr. (B.A. 1932, LL.B. 1936, S&B 1932) Member of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1948-2011)
Stanley R. Resor (B.A. 1939, LL.B. 1946, S&K 1939) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1946-1965, 1971-1973, 1979-1987)
George N. Lindsay (B.A. 1941) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1955-1990)
Harold H. Healy Jr. (B.A. 1943, S&B 1943) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1959-1989)
George Roberts (B.A. 1905, LL.B. Harvard 1908) Partner of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1914-1968)
Allen T. Klots (B.A. 1909, S&B 1909) Member of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1921-1965)
John Baker Jessup (B.A. 1942, S&B 1942) Partner of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1959-1993)
Endicott Peabody Davison (B.A. 1945, S&B 1945) Partner of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1959-1980)
Chauncey Brewster Garver (B.A. 1908, S&K 1908) Partner of Shearman & Sterling (1917-1973)
William Rockefeller (B.A. 1940, LL.B. Columbia 1947) Partner of Shearman & Sterling (1957-1990)
Louis Melville Loeb (B.A. 1919) Partner of Lord, Day & Lord (1948-1972); General Counsel of The New York Times Co. (1948-1967)
John Dorsey Garrison (B.A. 1931, LL.B. 1934) Member of Lord, Day & Lord (1943-1980)
Garrard Wood Glenn (B.A. 1933, S&K 1933) Partner of Lord, Day & Lord (1948-1954, 1958-c.1974)
Charles R. Walker III (B.A. 1951, LL.B. 1954) Member of Lord, Day & Lord (1956-1994)
Alfred Ogden (B.A. 1932, S&B 1932) Partner of Alexander & Green (1955-1975)
William Eldred Jackson (B.A. 1941, S&B 1941) Partner of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy (1954-1999)
Donald Schapiro (B.A. 1944; LL.B. 1949) Partner of Barrett, Smith, Schapiro, Simon & Armstrong [New York City] (1955-1988)
Robert Todd Lang (B.A. 1945) Partner of Weil, Gotshal & Manges [law firm in New York City] (1956-present)
Allen Skinner Hubbard (B.A. 1911, S&K 1911) Partner of Hughes, Hubbard, Blair & Reed [law firm in New York City] (1937-1981)
Edwin Foster Blair (B.A. 1924, S&B 1924) Partner of Hughes, Hubbard, Blair & Reed [law firm in New York City] (1952-1968)
Jerome S. Hess (B.A. 1903) Member of Hardin, Hess & Eder [law firm in New York City] (1907-1970)
Dean G. Acheson (B.A. 1915; S&K 1915) Member of Covington & Burling [law firm in Washington, D.C.] (1953-1971)
Gerhard A. Gesell (B.A. 1932) Member of Covington & Burling [law firm in Washington, D.C.] (1941-1967)
Isaac Henry Mayer (B.A. 1884) Senior Member of Mayer, Meyer, Austrian & Platt [law firm in Chicago] (1922-1967)
Merrill Shepard (B.A. 1925) Partner of Pope, Ballard, Kennedy, Shepard & Fowle [law firm in Chicago] (1936-c.1986)
Anthony Lee Michel (B.A. 1926, S&B 1926) Partner of Gardner, Carton, Douglas, Chilgren & Waud [law firm in Chicago] (1942-1966)
Norman Waite (B.A. 1927; LL.B. Harvard 1930) Partner of Schiff Hardin & Waite [law firm in Chicago] (1940-c.1976)
George Alfred Ranney (B.A. 1934, LL.B. 1939, S&B 1934) Member of Sidley, Austin, Burgess & Smith [law firm in Chicago] (1939-1962)
*Harvey H. Bundy (B.A. 1909, S&B 1909) Member of Choate, Hall & Stewart [law firm in Boston] (1933-1941, 1945-1963)
Marcien Jenckes (B.A. 1921, S&B 1921) Member of Choate, Hall & Stewart [law firm in Boston] (1927-1971)
Brinley Morgan Hall (B.A. 1934, S&K 1934) Partner of Choate, Hall & Stewart [law firm in Boston] (1951-1962)
George Frederick Baer Appel (B.A. 1924, S&B 1924) Partner of Townsend, Elliott & Munson [law firm in Philadelphia] (1938-1970)
Richard Langsdorf Levy (B.A. 1933) Partner of Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish, Kohn & Levy [law firm in Philadelphia] (1949-c.1976)
Howard Tallmadge Foulkes (B.A. 1911) Partner of Wickham, Borgelt, Skogstad and Powell [law firm in Milwaukee] (1913-1973)
Richard Woolsey Cutler (B.A. 1938; LL.B. 1941) Partner of Quarles & Brady [law firm in Milwaukee] (1954-1987)
John Herron More (B.A. 1924) Partner of Taft, Stettinius &Hollister [law firm in Cincinnati] (1935-1970)
John Bourne Dempsey (B.A. 1911, S&B 1911) Partner of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey [law firm in Cleveland, Ohio] (1935-1963)
Henry Cornick Coke (B.A. 1926, LL.B. 1929, S&B 1926) Member of Coke & Coke [law firm in Dallas, Texas] (1930-1977)
Richard Marden Davis (B.A. 1933, S&B 1933) Partner of Davis, Graham & Stubbs [law firm in Denver] (1937-c.1982)
Joseph Martin Jr. (B.A. 1936; LL.B. 1939) Partner of Pettit & Martin [law firm in San Francisco] (1955-1970, 1973-1995)
Lucius Franklin Robinson Jr. (B.A. 1918) Partner of Robinson, Robinson &Cole [law firm in Hartford, Connecticut] (1925-c.1982)
John Caldwell Parsons (B.A. 1922; LL.B. 1926) Partner of Robinson, Robinson & Cole [law firm in Hartford, Connecticut] (1931-1973)
Organization Executives:
E. Roland Harriman (B.A. 1917; S&B 1917) Chairman of American Red Cross (1954-1973); Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
(1931-1978); Chairman of the board of Union Pacific Railroad Co. (1946-1969)
Max F. Millikan (B.S. 1935) President of World Peace Foundation (1956-1969)
Robert M. Hutchins (B.A. 1921) Chairman of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (1959-1974)
Caryl P. Haskins (Ph.B. 1930) President of Carnegie Institution of Washington (1956-1971)
Frank Altschul (B.A. 1908) Vice President of the Council on Foreign Relations (1951-1971)
Morris Hadley (B.A. 1916, S&B 1916) Chairman of Carnegie Corporation of New York (1955-1966)
Ernest Brooks, Jr. (B.A. 1930, S&K 1930) President of Old Dominion Foundation [New York City] (1956-1969)
College Professors:
Alfred Whitney Griswold (B.A. 1929, Ph.D. 1933) President of Yale University (1950-1963)
J. Quigg Newton Jr. (B.A. 1933, LL.B. 1936, S&B 1933) President of University of Colorado (1956-1963)
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall II (B.A. 1932, Ph.D. 1938) President of Smith College (1959-1975)
Richard Daniel Weigle (B.A. 1931, Ph.D. 1939) President of St. Johns College [Annapolis, Maryland] (1949-1980)
Harvey Brooks (B.A. 1937) Dean of Engineering and Applied Physics at Harvard University (1957-1975)
Eugene V. Rostow (B.A. 1933) Dean of Yale Law School (1955-1965)
Reuben A. Holden (B.A. 1940, S&B 1940) Secretary of Yale University (1953-1971)
Charles Stafford Gage (B.A. 1925, S&B 1925) Treasurer of Yale University (1954-1966)
William Sloane Coffin Jr. (B.A. 1949; S&B 1949) Chaplain of Yale University (1958-1976)
Grant Gilmore (B.A. 1931, Ph.D. 1936, LL.B. 1942) Professor of Law at Yale University (1946-1965)
Thomas Irwin Emerson (B.A. 1928, LL.B. 1931) Professor of Law at Yale Law School (1946-1976)
Ralph Sharp Brown Jr. (B.A. 1935; LL.B. 1939) Professor of Law at Yale Law School (1953-c.1998)
John N. Hazard (B.A. 1930) Professor of Public Law at Columbia University (1946-1977)
William L. Cary (B.A. 1931) Professor of Law at Columbia University (1955-1983)
Henry L. Roberts (B.A. 1938) Professor of History at Columbia University (1956-1967)
Willis Livingston Mesier Reese (B.A. 1935; LL.B. 1938) Charles Evans Hughes Professor of Law at Columbia University (1946-1981)
Allen Tracy Hazen (B.A. 1927, Ph.D. 1935) Professor of English at Columbia University (1948-1971)
Karl N. Llewellyn (B.A. 1915, LL.B. 1918) Professor of Law at University of Chicago (1951-1962)
Alexander Hamilton Frey (B.A. 1919, LL.B. 1921) Professor of Law at University of Pennsylvania Law School (1932-1968)
Simon Newcomb Whitney (B.A. 1924, Ph.D. 1931) Professor of Economics at Rutgers University (1961-1967)
Charles A. Barker (B.A. 1926, Ph.D. 1932) Professor of American History at Johns Hopkins University (1945-1972)
Robert Stafford Ward (B.A. 1929) Professor of English at the University of Miami [Florida] (1956-1972)
Lewis Bookwalter Ward (B.A. 1930, Ph.D. 1934) Professor of Business Research at Harvard University (1959-1974)
Charles Leslie Stevenson (B.A. 1930) Professor of Philosophy at University of Michigan (1949-1977)
Lyman B. Spitzer Jr. (B.A. 1935, S&B 1935) Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy at Princeton University (1952-1982)
Arthur Stuart Pitt (B.A. 1935, M.A. 1937, Ph.D. 1939) Professor of English at U.S. Naval Academy (1954-1978)
Everard Mott Williams (B.S. 1936, Ph.D. 1939) Professor of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University [Pittsburgh] (1949-1972)
Henry Larkin Terrie Jr. (B.A. 1943) Professor of English at Dartmouth College (1959-1986)
Journalists:
Henry R. Luce (B.A. 1920; S&B 1920) Editor-in-Chief of Time, Inc. (1923-1964); founder of Time, Life, and Fortune magazines
John K. Jessup (B.A. 1928) Chief Editorial Writer of Life magazine (1951-1969)
Ralph D. Paine Jr. (B.A. 1929, S&B 1929) Publisher of Fortune magazine (1953-1967)
Robert C. Christopher (B.A. 1948) Foreign Editor of Newsweek magazine (1963-1969)
William F. Buckley, Jr. (B.A. 1950; S&B 1950) Editor-in-Chief of National Review magazine (1955-1990)
Philip L. Geyelin (B.A. 1944) Diplomatic correspondent of The Wall Street Journal (1960-1967)
Amory Howe Bradford (B.A. 1934, S&B 1934) Vice President of The New York Times Co. (1957-1963)
Jack Rohe Howard (B.A. 1932) President of Scripps-Howard Newspapers (1953-1975)
John Hay Whitney (B.A. 1926; S&K 1926) Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of New York Herald Tribune (1961-1966)
Yale University Graduates and Their Occupation during the Kennedy Assassination in Dallas, Texas (November 22, 1963)
Government Officials:
W. Averell Harriman (B.A. 1913; S&B 1913) Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (April 4, 1963-March 17, 1965)
McGeorge Bundy (B.A. 1940; S&B 1940) National Security Advisor (1961-1966)
William P. Bundy (B.A. 1939; S&B 1939) Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (1961-1963)
Walt W. Rostow (B.A. 1936, Ph.D. 1940) Counselor of the State Department (December 4, 1961-March 31, 1966)
Roswell L. Gilpatric (B.A. 1928, LL.B. 1931) Deputy U.S. Secretary of Defense (1961-1964)
Cyrus R. Vance (B.A. 1939; LL.B. 1942, S&K 1939) Secretary of the Army (1962-1964)
Eugene M. Zuckert (B.A. 1933; LL.B. 1937) Secretary of the Air Force (1961-1965)
James Jesus Angleton (B.A. 1941) Chief of CIA Counterintelligence Staff (1954-1974)
Cord Meyer Jr. (B.A. 1943) CIA agent (c.1951-1977); head of the CIA Covert Action Staff of the Directorate of Plans (1962-1967)
Sherman Kent (Ph.B. 1926, Ph.D. 1933) Assistant Director of CIA (1950-1967)
Richard M. Bissell Jr. (B.A. 1932, Ph.D. 1939) Deputy CIA Director for Plans (1959-62); President, Institute for Defense Analyses (1962-64)
Frederick Vreeland (B.A. 1951) CIA agent (1951-1985)
Porter J. Goss (B.A. 1960) CIA clandestine services officer (1962-1971)
Homer M. Byington, Jr. (B.A. 1930) U.S. Consul General in Naples, Italy (1962-c.1972)
Marshall Green (B.A. 1939) U.S. Consul General in Hong Kong (1961-1963); Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs
(1963-1965)
Winthrop G. Brown (B.A. 1929; S&K 1929) U.S. Ambassador to Laos (1962-1964)
Chester Bowles (B.A. 1924) U.S. Ambassador to India (July 19, 1963-April 21, 1969)
James Graham Parsons (B.A. 1929) U.S. Ambassador to Sweden (May 16, 1961-April 17, 1967)
Douglas MacArthur II (B.A. 1931) U.S. Ambassador to Belgium (1961-1965)
John H. Ferguson (B.A. 1936) U.S. Ambassador to Morocco (1962-1964)
William B. Macomber Jr. (B.A. 1943) U.S. Ambassador to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (April 5, 1961-December 25, 1963)
Wymberley DeRenne Coerr (B.A. 1936) U.S. Ambassador to Uruguay (1962-1965)
R. Sargent Shriver Jr. (B.A. 1938; LL.B. 1941; S&K 1938) Director of Peace Corps (1961-1966)
Steuart L. Pittman (B.A. 1941) Assistant Secretary of Defense for Civil Defense (1961-1964)
Arthur Joy Draper (B.A. 1937, S&B 1937) Chief of Medicine at U.S. Naval Hospital in Oakland (1961-1966)
John M. Cates Jr. (B.A. 1936, J.D. 1939) Counselor of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations (1963-1970)
Gaspard dAndelot Belin (B.A. 1939; LL.B. 1946, S&B 1939) General Counsel of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (1962-1965)
William L. Cary (B.A. 1931) Chairman of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (1961-1964); Prof. of Law at Columbia Univ. (1955-83)
Charles Maechling Jr. (B.A. 1941) Director for internal defense at U.S. Department of State (1961-1963); Special Assistant to the Under
Secretary of State for Political affairs [Averell Harriman] (1963-1965)
John Sherman Cooper (B.A. 1923; S&B 1923) U.S. Senator (Republican Party-Kentucky, 1946-1949; 1952-1955; 1956-1973); Member of
the Warren Commission
W. Stuart Symington (B.A. 1923) U.S. Senator (Democratic Party-Missouri, 1953-1976)
Thruston B. Morton (B.A. 1929) U.S. Senator (Republican Party-Kentucky, 1957-1968)
William Proxmire (B.A. 1938) U.S. Senator (Democratic Party-Wisconsin, 1957-1989)
Peter H. Dominick (B.A. 1937, S&K 1937) U.S. Senator (Republican Party-Colorado, 1963-1975)
John Crain Kunkel (B.A. 1916) U.S. Congressman (Republican Party-Pennsylvania, 1939-1951, 1961-1966)
James C. Auchincloss (B.A. 1908, S&K 1908) U.S. Congressman (Republican Party-New Jersey, 1943-1965)
John Jarman (B.A. 1937) U.S. Congressman (Democrat Party/Republican Party-Oklahoma, 1951-1977)
William S. Mailliard (B.A. 1939) U.S. Congressman (Republican Party-California, 1953-1974)
Thomas William Ludlow Lud Ashley (B.A. 1948, S&B 1948) U.S. Congressman (Democratic Party-Ohio, 1955-1981)
William S. Moorhead Jr. (B.A. 1945, S&B 1945) U.S. Congressman (Democratic Party-Pennsylvania, 1959-1981)
John V. Lindsay (B.A. 1944, S&K 1944) U.S. Congressman (Republican Party-New York, 1959-1965)
Robert Taft, Jr. (B.A. 1939) U.S. Congressman (Republican Party-Ohio, 1963-1965, 1967-1971)
Rogers C.B. Morton (B.A. 1937) U.S. Congressman (Republican Party-Maryland, 1963-1971)
Ogden Rogers Reid (B.A. 1949) U.S. Congressman (Republican Party/Democratic Party-New York, 1963-1975)
Potter Stewart (B.A. 1937, LL.B. 1941, S&B 1937) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1958-1981)
Charles Edward Clark (B.A. 1911; LL.B. 1913) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [New York City] (March 9, 1939December 13, 1963); died in Hamden, Connecticut on December 13, 1963
John Joseph Smith (B.A. 1925, LL.B. 1927) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1960-1971)
George Thomas Washington (Ph.B. 1928) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for District of Columbia Circuit (1950-1965)
John A. Danaher (B.A. 1920) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for District of Columbia Circuit (1954-1969)
Robert P. Anderson (B.A. 1927) Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (1960-1964)
Robert C. Zampano (B.A. 1951; LL.B. 1954) U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut (1961-1964)
David Campion Acheson (B.A. 1942, S&B 1943) U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia (1961-1965)
Burke Marshall (B.A. 1943, LL.B. 1951) Assistant U.S. Attorney General for Civil Rights Division (1961-1965)
William W. Scranton (B.A. 1939, J.D. 1946) Governor of Pennsylvania (1963-1967)
John H. Chafee (B.A. 1947; S&B 1947) Governor of Rhode Island (1963-1969)
Robert F. Wagner Jr. (B.A. 1933, S&K 1933) Mayor of New York City (1954-1965)
Charles Henry Tenney (B.A. 1933, LL.B. 1936, S&K 1933) Deputy Mayor of New York City (1962-1963)
Walter Myers Jr. (B.A. 1935; LL.B. 1938) Judge of the Indiana Supreme Court (1962-1967)
William Grawn Milliken (B.A. 1946) Michigan State Senator [27th District] (1960-1964)
Richard B. Ogilvie (B.A. 1947) Sheriff of Cook County [Chicago], Illinois (1963-1967); Governor of Illinois (1969-1973)
Bankers:
William McChesney Martin Jr. (B.A. 1928) Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1951-1970)
Alfred Hayes (B.A. 1930) President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1956-1975)
Kenneth H. Hannan (B.A. 1933, LL.B. 1936) Class B Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1960-1965)
James Stillman Rockefeller (B.A. 1924, S&K 1924) Chairman of National City Bank of New York [Citibank] (1959-1967)
George S. Moore (B.S. 1927) President of National City Bank of New York [Citibank] (1959-1967)
Knight Woolley (B.A. 1917; S&B 1917) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1982); [bank in New York City]
Prescott S. Bush (B.A. 1917; S&B 1917) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1972); U.S. Senator (1952-1963)
Robert A. Lovett (B.A. 1918, S&B 1918) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1953-1986); U.S. Secretary of Defense (1951-1953)
Stephen Y. Hord (B.A. 1921, S&B 1921) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1945-1981)
Thomas McCance (B.A. 1925) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1945-1979)
Moreau Delano Brown (B.A. 1926) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1939-1974)
John Beckwith Madden (B.A. 1941, S&B 1941) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1955-1988)
R.L. Ireland III (B.A. 1942) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1960-c.1994)
Robert Lehman (B.A. 1913) Partner of Lehman Brothers [bank in New York City] (1925-1969)
Joseph Albert Thomas (B.A. 1928, S&K 1928) Partner of Lehman Brothers (1937-1977)
John M. Schiff (B.A. 1925) Partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. [bank in New York City] (1931-1977)
Arthur G. Altschul (B.A. 1943) Partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co. [bank in New York City] (1959-1977)
Charles Jacob Stewart (B.A. 1918) Partner of Lazard Freres & Co. [bank in New York City] (1953-1959)
Vance Van Dine (B.A. 1949, S&B 1949) Partner of Morgan Stanley & Co. [bank in New York City] (1963-1975)
Dean Witter Jr. (B.A. 1944, S&B 1944) Partner of Dean Witter & Co. [bank in New York City] (1946-1970)
Grinnell Morris (B.A. 1932) President of Empire Trust Co. (1963-1966)
John I. Howell (B.A. 1939) former Chairman of the board of J. Henry Schroder Banking Corp.
Nicholas F. Brady (B.A. 1952) Vice President of Dillon, Read & Co. [bank in New York City] (1961-1971)
Robert Van Cleef Lindsay (B.A. 1949) Vice President of Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. (1960-1969)
Evan G. Galbraith (B.A. 1950; S&B 1950) Vice President of Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. (1961-1969)
Daniel P. Davison (B.A. 1949, S&B 1949) Vice President of Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. (1961-1973)
Jacques Ralph Stunzi (B.A. 1942) Executive Vice President of Continental Bank International [New York City] (1962-1968)
William Frederick Machold (Ph.B. 1927) Partner of Drexel & Co. [investment bank in Philadelphia] (1949-1966)
Gardner Dominick Stout (B.A. 1926) Partner of Dominick & Dominick [investment firm in New York City] (1926-1968)
Avery Rockefeller Jr. (B.A. 1949) Partner of Dominick & Dominick (1952-1964)
Hoyt Ammidon (B.A. 1932) Chairman and CEO of U.S. Trust Co. (1962-1974)
Ernest Patton (B.A. 1920) Chairman of the board of Peoples National Bank [Greenville, South Carolina] (1948-1969)
Robert James Lewis (B.A. 1921) Partner of Estabrook & Co. [New York City] (1931-1968); Member of the Board of Governors of the New
York Stock Exchange (1960-1966)
Richard Ambler Liggett (Ph.B. 1925) Chairman of the board of First National Bank of Tampa [Florida] (1955-c.1972)
Donald Roderick Welles (B.A. 1927) Senior Vice President of Wilmington Trust Co. [bank in Wilmington, Delaware] (1958-1969)
Pomeroy Day (B.A. 1928; LL.B. 1931) President of Connecticut Bank & Trust Co. (1961-1966)
Roger Conant Damon (B.A. 1929) President of First National Bank of Boston (1959-1966)
Eugene Hale Adams (B.A. 1934) President of the First National Bank of Denver (1959-1973)
Burt Russell Shurly Jr. (B.A. 1934) Vice President of Detroit Bank & Trust Co. [Detroit, Michigan] (1951-1970)
Everett Ware Smith (B.S. 1936) Senior Vice President of New England Merchants National Bank [Boston] (1959-1964)
James Henry Higgins (B.A. 1939) Vice President of Mellon National Bank & Trust Co. [Pittsburgh] (1954-1965)
Samuel Torbitt Castleman (B.A. 1943) Senior Vice President Wachovia Bank & Trust Co. [Winston-Salem, NC] (1958-1968)
Businessmen:
Joseph Richardson Dilworth (B.A. 1938, LL.B. 1942, S&B 1938) senior financial adviser to the Rockefeller family (1958-1981); Member of
the board of directors of Chase Manhattan Bank (1958-1981)
Francis Gordon Fabian Jr. (B.S. 1937) President of Dresser Industries, Inc. [Dallas, Texas] (1962-1965)
H. Neil Mallon (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917) Chairman of Dresser Industries, Inc.
J. Irwin Miller (B.A. 1931) Chairman of the board of Cummins Engine Co. (1951-1977)
James H. Binger (B.A. 1938) President of Honeywell, Inc. (1961-1965)
Juan Terry Trippe (Ph.B. 1921) President of Pan American World Airways, Inc. (1927-1964)
H. Mansfield Horner (B.S. 1926) Chairman and CEO of United Aircraft Corporation (1956-1983)
Robert S. Ingersoll (B.S. 1937) Chairman and CEO of Borg-Warner Corp. (1961-1972)
John E. Bierwirth (B.A. 1917) Chairman and CEO of National Distillers & Chemical Corp. (1958-1970)
Robert Guthrie Page (B.A. 1922, S&B 1922) President of Phelps Dodge Corporation (1947-1967)
John Hancock Daniels (B.A. 1943, S&B 1943) President of Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. (1958-1967)
Henry John Heinz II (B.A. 1931, S&B 1931) Chairman of the board of H.J. Heinz Company (1959-1987)
Joseph F. Cullman III (B.A. 1935) President and CEO of Philip Morris Company [i.e. Marlboro cigarettes] (1957-1966)
Henry Stuart Harrison (B.A. 1932) President and Chief Executive Officer of Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co. (1961-1977)
Frederick Glade Wacker Jr. (B.A. 1940) Chairman of the board and President of Ammco Tools, Inc. [North Chicago, Illinois] (1948-1987)
Arthur K. Watson (B.A. 1942) Chairman of IBM World Trade Corporation (1963-1970)
George H.W. Bush (B.A. 1948; S&B 1948) President of Zapata Offshore Co. [in Houston, Texas] (1956-1964)
William H. Bill Donaldson (B.A. 1953, S&B 1953) Chairman and CEO of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc. (1959-1973)
John Davock Warren (B.A. 1927, S&B 1927) General Partner of G.H. Walker & Co. [firm in New York City] (1944-1974)
George Herbert Walker Jr. (B.A. 1927, S&B 1927) General Partner of G.H. Walker & Co. (1929-1974)
George Herbert Walker III (B.A. 1953, S&B 1953) General Partner of G.H. Walker & Co. (1961-1974)
Jonathan J. Bush (B.A. 1953, S&B 1953) General Partner of G.H. Walker & Co. (1960-1970)
John C. Bierwirth (B.A. 1947) Vice President of National Distillers & Chemical Corp. (1958-1969)
Storer B. Lunt (B.A. 1921, S&B 1921) Chairman of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. (1958-c.1968)
Charles Christian Haffner Jr. (B.A. 1919, S&B 1919) Chairman and CEO of R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. [Chicago] (1952-1964)
William Thompson Lusk (B.A. 1924, S&B 1924) President of Tiffany & Co. [New York City] (1955-1967)
John Warner Field (B.A. 1937, S&B 1937) President and CEO of Warnaco, Inc. (1957-1974)
Philip W. Pillsbury (B.A. 1924) Chairman of the board of The Pillsbury Co. (1952-1965)
William Wrigley (B.A. 1954) President and CEO of William Wrigley Jr. Co. (1961-c.1996)
David L. Luke III (B.A. 1945) President (1962-1980) and CEO (1963-1988) of Westvaco Corp.
Charles Sherwood Munson (B.A. 1912) Chairman of Air Reduction Co. Inc. (1948-1964)
Tecumseh Sherman Fitch (B.S. 1931) Chairman of the board of Washington Steel Corp. [Pennsylvania] (1945-1969)
James G. Fox Jr. (B.S. 1926) President of Allied Chemical Corp. (1959-c.1972)
Thomas Mellon Evans (B.S. 1931) Chairman and CEO of Crane Co. (1959-1984)
Kempton Dunn (B.S. 1931) Chairman of the board (1963-1969) and CEO (1957-1969) of American Brake Shoe Co. [New York City]
William Adams Dunbar (B.A. 1929) Comptroller of General Reinsurance Corp. [New York City] (1956-1966)
Thomas Eugene Lovejoy Jr. (Ph.B. 1928) President and CEO of Manhattan Life Insurance Co. (1955-1967)
Gaylord Donnelley (B.A. 1931, S&B 1931) President, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. [Chicago] (1952-64); Trustee, Univ. of Chicago (1947-80)
Fred Rollin White Jr. (B.A. 1935) Senior Vice President of Oglebay Norton Co. [Cleveland, Ohio] (1959-1978)
Robert Forbes Niven (B.A. 1932) Secretary of Union Oil Co. (1947-1972); Member of the Bohemian Club in San Francisco
Robert George Wiese (B.A. 1925) Partner of Scudder, Stevens & Clark [investment firm in Boston] (1936-1978)
William M. Day (B.A. 1927) President of Michigan Bell Telephone Co. [Detroit] (1956-1968)
John M.K. Davis (B.A. 1929) President of Conneciticut Printers Inc. [Hartford, Connecticut] (1952-c.1972)
Richard C. Doane (B.A. 1919) Chairman of the board of International Paper Co. [New York City] (1961-1967)
Frank Courtenay Dodd (B.A. 1897) Chairman of the board of Dodd, Mead & Co., Inc. [publishing company in New York City] (1942-1968)
Thaddeus R. Beal Jr. (B.A. 1939, S&K 1939) President of Harvard Trust Co. [Boston] (1957-1969)
Allen Ledyard Lindley (B.A. 1932) Senior Vice President of Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York (1961-1967)
Henry Holloway Scudder (B.A. 1917) Vice Chairman of of International Standard Electric Corp. [New York City] (1960-c.1970)
Alexander Coutts Stewart (B.A. 1945) Treasurer of Collins & Altman Corp. [textile company in New York City] (1960-1966)
Horace Ransom Mustard (B.A. 1931) Treasurer of Pittsburgh Coke & Chemical Co. (1944-1964)
Hamlett Harrison (B.A. 1932) General Counsel (1939-1970) and Exec. Vice Pres. (1942-1970) of Trinity Universal Insurance Co. [Dallas, TX]
Henry White Gadsden (B.S. 1933) Executive Vice President of Merck & Co., Inc. [pharmaceutical company] (1955-1965)
James Murdock Fulton (B.S. 1935, LL.B. 1938) General Counsel of Merck & Co., Inc. [pharmaceutical company] (1961-1974)
Lawyers:
Charles M. Spofford (B.A. 1924; S&B 1924) Member of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1940-1950, 1952-1973)
Charles Hastings Willard (B.A. 1926, S&B 1926) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1950-1973)
Edward Rogers Wardwell (B.A. 1927, S&B 1927) Member of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1946-c.1972)
Peter O.A. Solbert (B.A. 1941, S&B 1941) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1957-1963, 1965-1989)
Samuel Hazard Gillespie Jr. (B.A. 1932, LL.B. 1936, S&B 1932) Member of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1948-2011)
Stanley R. Resor (B.A. 1939, LL.B. 1946, S&K 1939) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1946-1965, 1971-1973, 1979-1987)
George N. Lindsay (B.A. 1941) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1955-1990)
Robert B. von Mehren (B.A. 1943) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1957-1993)
Harold H. Healy Jr. (B.A. 1943, S&B 1943) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1959-1989)
George Roberts (B.A. 1905, LL.B. Harvard 1908) Partner of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1914-1968)
James William Husted (B.A. 1918) Partner of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1930-1969)
John Baker Jessup (B.A. 1942, S&B 1942) Partner of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1959-1993)
Endicott Peabody Davison (B.A. 1945, S&B 1945) Partner of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1959-1980)
Chauncey Brewster Garver (B.A. 1908, S&K 1908) Partner of Shearman & Sterling (1917-1973)
Robert Huntington Knight (B.A. 1940) Partner of Shearman & Sterling (1955-1958, 1962-1985)
William Rockefeller (B.A. 1940, LL.B. Columbia 1947) Partner of Shearman & Sterling (1957-1990)
Louis Melville Loeb (B.A. 1919) Partner of Lord, Day & Lord (1948-1972); General Counsel of The New York Times Co. (1948-1967)
John Dorsey Garrison (B.A. 1931, LL.B. 1934) Member of Lord, Day & Lord (1943-1980)
Garrard Wood Glenn (B.A. 1933, S&K 1933) Partner of Lord, Day & Lord (1948-1954, 1958-c.1974)
Charles R. Walker III (B.A. 1951, LL.B. 1954) Member of Lord, Day & Lord (1956-1994)
Richard S. Storrs (B.A. 1932) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1945-1980)
Alfred Ogden (B.A. 1932, S&B 1932) Partner of Alexander & Green (1955-1975)
William Eldred Jackson (B.A. 1941, S&B 1941) Partner of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy (1954-1999)
Allen Skinner Hubbard (B.A. 1911, S&K 1911) Partner of Hughes, Hubbard, Blair & Reed [law firm in New York City] (1937-1981)
Edwin Foster Blair (B.A. 1924, S&B 1924) Partner of Hughes, Hubbard, Blair & Reed [New York City] (1952-1968)
Donald Schapiro (B.A. 1944; LL.B. 1949) Partner of Barrett, Smith, Schapiro, Simon & Armstrong [New York City] (1955-1988)
Robert Todd Lang (B.A. 1945) Partner of Weil, Gotshal & Manges [New York City] (1956-present)
John Carey (B.A. 1947, S&B 1945W) Partner of Coudert Brothers [law firm in New York City] (1961-1987)
Jerome S. Hess (B.A. 1903) Member of Hardin, Hess & Eder [law firm in New York City] (1907-1970)
Dean G. Acheson (B.A. 1915; S&K 1915) Member of Covington & Burling [law firm in Washington, D.C.] (1953-1971); fmr. U.S. Sec of State
Gerhard A. Gesell (B.A. 1932) Member of Covington & Burling (1941-1967)
Lloyd N. Cutler (B.A. 1936) Partner of Wilmer Cutler Pickering [law firm in Washington, D.C.] (1962-1979, 1981-1990)
H. Stewart Dunn Jr. (B.A. 1951) Partner of Ivins, Phillips & Barker [law firm in Washington, D.C.] (1962-c.2002)
Roger Robb (B.A. 1928, LL.B. 1931) Partner of Robb, Porter, Kistler & Parkinson [law firm in Washington, D.C.] (1951-1969)
Marcien Jenckes (B.A. 1921, S&B 1921) Member of Choate, Hall & Stewart [law firm in Boston] (1927-1971)
Marcus Morton (B.A. 1916) Member of Hale, Sanderson, Byrnes & Morton [law firm in Boston] (1927-c.1980)
Richard Wellington McLaren (B.A. 1939; LL.B. 1942) Member of Chadwell, Keck, Kayser, Ruggles & McLaren [law firm in Chicago] (19501969); Assistant U.S. Attorney General for Antitrust Division (1969-1972)
Merrill Shepard (B.A.1925) Partner of Pope, Ballard, Kennedy, Shepard & Fowle [law firm in Chicago] (1936-c.1986)
Anthony Lee Michel (B.A. 1926, S&B 1926) Partner of Gardner, Carton, Douglas, Chilgren & Waud [law firm in Chicago] (1942-1966)
Norman Waite (B.A. 1927; LL.B. Harvard 1930) Partner of Schiff, Hardin & Waite [law firm in Chicago] (1940-c.1976)
George Frederick Baer Appel (B.A. 1924, S&B 1924) Partner of Townsend, Elliott & Munson [law firm in Philadelphia] (1938-1970)
Richard Langsdorf Levy (B.A. 1933) Partner of Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish, Kohn & Levy [law firm in Philadelphia] (1949-c.1976)
Joseph Martin Jr. (B.A. 1936; LL.B. 1939) Partner of Pettit & Martin [law firm in San Francisco] (1955-1970, 1973-1995)
Robert P. Hastings (B.A. 1933) Partner of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker [law firm in Los Angeles] (1946-1981)
Stephen Harding Hart (B.A. 1929) Partner of Holland & Hart [law firm in Denver] (1947-c.1978)
Richard Marden Davis (B.A. 1933, S&B 1933) Partner of Davis, Graham & Stubbs [law firm in Denver] (1937-c.1982)
Donald Wright Hoagland (B.A. 1942, S&B 1943) Partner of Davis, Graham & Stubbs [law firm in Denver] (1951-1963, 1966-1987)
David Everett Wagoner (B.A. 1950) Partner of Perkins & Coie [law firm in Seattle] (1957-1996)
Cornelius E. Lombardi Jr. (B.A. 1949) Member of Blackwell, Sanders, Matheny, Weary & Lombardi [law firm in Kansas City] (1957-1992)
Henry Cornick Coke (B.A. 1926, LL.B. 1929, S&B 1926) Member of Coke & Coke [law firm in Dallas, Texas] (1930-1977)
George Denegre (B.A. 1943) Partner of Jones, Walker, Weachter, Poievent, Carrere & Denegre [law firm in New Orleans] (1952-2008)
John Wesley Warrington (B.A. 1936) Partner of Graydon, Head & Ritchey [law firm in Cincinnati] (1951-1989)
John Herron More (B.A. 1924) Partner of Taft, Stettinius &Hollister [law firm in Cincinnati] (1935-1970)
Seth Chase Taft (B.A. 1943, LL.B. 1948) Partner of Partner of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue [law firm in Cleveland, Ohio] (1959-c.1984)
Howard Tallmadge Foulkes (B.A. 1911) Partner of Wickham, Borgelt, Skogstad and Powell [law firm in Milwaukee] (1913-1973)
Richard Woolsey Cutler (B.A. 1938; LL.B. 1941) Partner of Quarles & Brady [law firm in Milwaukee] (1954-1987)
Lucius Franklin Robinson Jr. (B.A. 1918) Partner of Robinson, Robinson &Cole [law firm in Hartford, Connecticut] (1925-c.1982)
John Caldwell Parsons (B.A. 1922; LL.B. 1926) Partner of Robinson, Robinson & Cole [law firm in Hartford, Connecticut] (1931-1973)
James Wayne Cooper (B.A. 1926; LL.B. 1929) Partner of Tyler, Cooper, Grant, Bowerman & Keefe [law firm in New Haven, CT] (1935-1989)
Bayard Ewing (B.A. 1938) Partner of Tillinghast, Collins & Graham [law firm in Providence, Rhode Island] (1949-c.1984)
Richard Francis Corroon (B.A. 1935) Partner of Potter, Anderson & Corroon [law firm in Wilmington, Delaware] (1946-1978)
Malcolm W. Martin (B.A. 1933) Partner of Peper, Martin, Jensen, Maichel & Hetlage [law firm in St. Louis] (1941-2004); brother of Federal
Reserve Chairman William McC. Martin Jr.
Organization Executives:
E. Roland Harriman (B.A. 1917; S&B 1917) Chairman of American Red Cross (1954-1973); Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
(1931-1978); Chairman of the Board of Union Pacific Railroad Co. (1946-1969)
Max F. Millikan (B.S. 1935) President of World Peace Foundation (1956-1969)
Robert M. Hutchins (B.A. 1921) Chairman of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (1959-1974)
Caryl P. Haskins (Ph.B. 1930) President of Carnegie Institution of Washington (1956-1971)
Frank Altschul (B.A. 1908) Vice President of the Council on Foreign Relations (1951-1971)
Morris Hadley (B.A. 1916, S&B 1916) Chairman of Carnegie Corporation of New York (1955-1966)
J. Quigg Newton Jr. (B.A. 1933, LL.B. 1936, S&B 1933) President of The Commonwealth Fund (1963-1975)
Ernest Brooks, Jr. (B.A. 1930, S&K 1930) President of Old Dominion Foundation [New York City] (1956-1969)
Walter James McNerney (B.S. 1947) President of Blue Cross Association [in Chicago] (1961-1977)
Anson Phelps Stokes Jr. (B.A. 1927, S&B 1927) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts (1956-1970)
August Heckscher (B.A. 1936) Member of the board of directors, American Civil Liberties Union (1957-1965); OSS agent (1942-1945)
Walter Millis (B.A. 1920) Member of the board of directors, American Civil Liberties Union (1957-1968)
College Administrators:
Kingman Brewster Jr. (B.A. 1941) President of Yale University (1963-1977)
Eugene Victor Rostow (B.A. 1933) Dean of Yale Law School (1955-1965)
William Sloane Coffin Jr. (B.A. 1949; S&B 1949) Chaplain of Yale University (1958-1976)
Reuben A. Holden (B.A. 1940, S&B 1940) Secretary of Yale University (1953-1971)
Charles Stafford Gage (B.A. 1925, S&B 1925) Treasurer of Yale University (1954-1966)
Douglas M. Knight (B.A. 1942) President of Duke University (1963-1969)
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall II (B.A. 1932, Ph.D. 1938) President of Smith College (1959-1975)
Richard Daniel Weigle (B.A. 1931, Ph.D. 1939) President of St. Johns College [Annapolis, Maryland] (1949-1980)
Harvey Brooks (B.A. 1937) Dean of Engineering and Applied Physics at Harvard University (1957-1975)
William D. Carmichael (B.A. 1950) Dean of Graduate School of Business and Public Administration at Cornell University (1962-1968)
College Professors:
John N. Hazard (B.A. 1930) Professor of Public Law at Columbia University (1946-1977)
William L. Cary (B.A. 1931) Professor of Law at Columbia University (1955-1983)
Henry L. Roberts (B.A. 1938) Professor of History at Columbia University (1956-1967)
A. Doak Barnett (B.A. 1942) Professor of Political Science at Columbia University (1961-1969)
Willis Livingston Mesier Reese (B.A. 1935; LL.B. 1938) Charles Evans Hughes Professor of Law at Columbia University (1946-1981)
Allen Tracy Hazen (B.A. 1927, Ph.D. 1935) Professor of English at Columbia University (1948-1971)
Grant Gilmore (B.A. 1931, Ph.D. 1936, LL.B. 1942) Professor of Law at Yale University (1946-1965)
Thomas Irwin Emerson (B.A. 1928, LL.B. 1931) Professor of Law at Yale Law School (1946-1976)
Ralph Sharp Brown Jr. (B.A. 1935; LL.B. 1939) Professor of Law at Yale Law School (1953-c.1998)
Lewis Bookwalter Ward (B.A. 1930, Ph.D. 1934) Professor of Business Research at Harvard University (1959-1974)
Samuel P. Huntington (B.A. 1946) Professor of Government at Harvard University (1962-2008)
Henry Larkin Terrie Jr. (B.A. 1943) Professor of English at Dartmouth College (1959-1986)
Richard Whitney Sterling (B.A. 1942, M.A. 1947, Ph.D. 1956) Professor of Government at Dartmouth College (1962-c.1987)
Lyman B. Spitzer Jr. (B.A. 1935, S&B 1935) Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy at Princeton University (1952-1982)
Charles A. Barker (B.A. 1926, Ph.D. 1932) Professor of American History at Johns Hopkins University (1945-1972)
Francis E. Rourke (B.A. 1947, M.A. 1948) Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University (1961-1993)
Arthur Stuart Pitt (B.A. 1935, M.A. 1937, Ph.D. 1939) Professor of English at U.S. Naval Academy (1954-1978)
Edward V. Gulick (B.A. 1937, M.A. 1942, Ph.D. 1947) Prof. of European History and Far Eastern History at Wellesley College (1961-c.1976)
Benjamin McLane Spock (B.A. 1925, S&K 1925) Professor of Child Development at Western Reserve University [Cleveland] (1955-1967)
Everard Mott Williams (B.S. 1936, Ph.D. 1939) Professor of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University [Pittsburgh] (1949-1972)
Charles Leslie Stevenson (B.A. 1930) Professor of Philosophy at University of Michigan (1949-1977)
Robert Stafford Ward (B.A. 1929) Professor of English at the University of Miami [Florida] (1956-1972)
Simon Newcomb Whitney (B.A. 1924, Ph.D. 1931) Professor of Economics at Rutgers University (1961-1967)
Anthony Nicholas Brady Garvan (B.A. 1939; Ph.D. 1948, S&K 1939) Professor of American Civilization at Univ. of Pennsylvania (1960-1987)
Oswald Garrison Villard Jr. (B.A. 1938) Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University (1955-1987); Member of United States Air
Force Scientific Advisory Board (1961-1975); great-grandson of abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison
Journalists:
Henry R. Luce (B.A. 1920; S&B 1920) Editor-in-Chief of Time, Inc. (1923-1964); founder of Time and Life magazines
William F. Buckley, Jr. (B.A. 1950; S&B 1950) Editor-in-Chief of National Review magazine (1955-1990)
Philip L. Geyelin (B.A. 1944) Diplomatic correspondent of The Wall Street Journal (1960-1967)
Ralph D. Paine Jr. (B.A. 1929, S&B 1929) Publisher of Fortune magazine (1953-1967)
John K. Jessup (B.A. 1928) Chief Editorial Writer of Life magazine (1951-1969)
Robert C. Christopher (B.A. 1948) Foreign Editor of Newsweek magazine (1963-1969)
John Hay Whitney (B.A. 1926; S&K 1926) Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of New York Herald Tribune (1961-1966)
Jack Rohe Howard (B.A. 1932) President of Scripps-Howard Newspapers (1953-1975)
Note: S&B = Skull & Bones; S&K = Scroll & Key
Yale University Graduates and Their Occupation during the Vietnam War (1964-1973)
Government Officials:
*Ellsworth Bunker (B.A. 1916) U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam (April 28, 1967-May 11, 1973)
*Stanley R. Resor (B.A. 1939, LL.B. 1946, S&K 1939) Secretary of the Army (July 2, 1965-June 30, 1971)
*Walt W. Rostow (B.A. 1936, Ph.D. 1940) National Security Advisor (1966-1969); Counselor of the State Department (1961-1966)
*W. Averell Harriman (B.A. 1913; S&B 1913) U.S. Negotiator at the Paris Peace Conference on Vietnam (1968-1969); Under Secretary of
State for Political Affairs (1963-1965); Ambassador at Large (1965-1969)
*Cyrus R. Vance (B.A. 1939; LL.B. 1942, S&K 1939) U.S. Negotiator at the Paris Peace Conference on Vietnam (1968-1969); Deputy
Secretary of Defense (1964-1967); Secretary of the Army (1962-1964)
*William P. Bundy (B.A. 1939; S&B 1939) Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1965-1969); Assistant Secretary of
Defense for International Security Affairs (1963-1964); CIA agent (1951-1961)
*Eugene V. Rostow (B.A. 1933) Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1966-1969)
Thaddeus R. Beal Jr. (B.A. 1939, S&K 1939) Under Secretary of the Army (1969-1971); President of Harvard Trust Co. [Boston] (1957-1969)
*Paul C. Warnke (B.A. 1941) Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (1967-1969)
Eugene M. Zuckert (B.A. 1933, LL.B. 1937) Secretary of the Air Force (January 23, 1961-September 30, 1965); Partner of Zuckert, Scoutt &
Rasenburger [law firm in Washington, D.C.] (1967-1988)
*Norman S. Paul (B.A. 1940) Under Secretary of the Air Force (1965-1967); CIA agent (1955-1960)
*Townsend Hoopes (B.A. 1944; S&B 1944) Under Secretary of the Air Force (1967-1969)
John M. Steadman (B.A. 1952, S&B 1952) General Counsel of the Department of the Air Force (1968-1970); Special Assistant to the
Secretary of Defense (1965-1968)
*John H. Chafee (B.A. 1947; S&B 1947) Secretary of the Navy (January 31, 1969-May 4, 1972); Governor of Rhode Island (1963-1969)
James Jesus Angleton (B.A. 1941) Chief of CIA Counterintelligence Staff (1954-1974)
Hugh Terry Cunningham (B.A. 1934, S&B 1934) Director of Training at the Central Intelligence Agency (1969-1973)
*Porter J. Goss (B.A. 1960) CIA clandestine services officer (1962-1971)
*Cord Meyer Jr. (B.A. 1943) Assistant Deputy CIA Director of Plans (1967-1973)
Sherman Kent (Ph.B. 1926, Ph.D. 1933) Assistant Director of Central Intelligence Agency (1950-1967)
Elbridge Durbrow (Ph.B. 1926) U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam (1957-1961)
George McMurtrie Godley (B.A. 1939) U.S. Ambassador to Laos (1969-1973); Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific
Affairs (1968-1969)
*Charles S. Whitehouse (B.A. 1947; S&B 1947) U.S. Ambassador to Laos (1973-1975); U.S. Ambassador to Thailand (1975-1978)
Marshall Green (B.A. 1939) U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia (1965-1969); Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (19691973); U.S. Consul-General in Hong Kong (1961-1963); Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs (1963-1965)
*Douglas MacArthur II (B.A. 1931) Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations (1965-1967); U.S. Ambassador to Austria (19671969); U.S. Ambassador to Iran (1969-1972)
*William B. Macomber Jr. (B.A. 1943) Asst. Sec. of State for Congressional Relations (1967-1969); U.S. Ambassador to Turkey (1973-1977)
*Chester Bowles (B.A. 1924) U.S. Ambassador to India (1963-1969)
Kenneth Franzheim II (B.A. 1948) U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand (1969-1972)
*Winthrop G. Brown (B.A. 1929; LL.B. 1932, S&K 1929) U.S. Ambassador to South Korea (August 14, 1964-June 10, 1967); U.S.
Ambassador to Laos (1962-1964); Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1968-1972)
*R. Sargent Shriver Jr. (B.A. 1938; LL.B. 1941; S&K 1938) U.S. Ambassador to France (May 25, 1968-March 25, 1970); Director of Peace
Corps (1961-1966)
Raymond Richard Guest (B.A. 1931, S&K 1931) U.S. Ambassador to Ireland (April 28, 1965-June 7, 1968)
Spencer Mathews King (B.A. 1940) U.S. Ambassador to Guyana (1969-1974); Deputy Inspector General of U.S. Dept. of State (1964-1969)
*Thomas O. Enders (B.A. 1953, S&K 1953) Deputy Chief of Mission to Cambodia (1971-1973); Charge dAffaires of Cambodia (1973-1974)
Robert F. Wagner Jr. (B.A. 1933, S&K 1933) U.S. Ambassador to Spain (July 4, 1968-March 7, 1969); Mayor of New York City (1954-1965)
J. Graham Parsons (B.A. 1929) U.S. Ambassador to Sweden (1961-1967); Senior Foreign Service Inspector, U.S. State Dept. (1967-1969)
Albert William Sherer, Jr. (B.A. 1938) U.S. Ambassador to Togo (1967-1970)
Homer M. Byington, Jr. (B.A. 1930) U.S. Ambassador to Malaya [Malaysia] (1957-1961); U.S. Consul General in Naples, Italy (1962-c.1972)
*Joseph N. Greene Jr. (B.A. 1941) Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India (1963-1968); Deputy Chief of Mission at
the U.S. Embassy in London, Great Britain (1970-1971)
Richard Garon Johnson (B.A. 1946) Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria (1967-1970)
David Cameron Cuthell (B.A. 1942) Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, Turkey (1970-1972)
Steuart L. Pittman (B.A. 1941) Assistant Secretary of Defense for Civil Defense (1961-1964)
*Richard C. Steadman (B.A. 1955, S&B 1955) Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1966-1969)
*Hewson A. Ryan (B.A. 1946) Deputy Director of U.S. Information Agency (1966-1969); U.S. Ambassador to Honduras (1969-1973)
*James J. Wadsworth (B.A. 1927; S&B 1927) Member of Federal Communications Commission (1965-1969)
Arthur Joy Draper (B.A. 1937, S&B 1937) Chief of Medicine at U.S. Naval Hospital in Oakland (1961-1966)
*John M. Cates Jr. (B.A. 1936, J.D. 1939) Counselor of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations (1963-1970)
*William J. Jorden (B.A. 1947) Senior Member of the National Security Council staff (1966-1968, 1972-1974); member of the American
delegation to the Vietnam Peace Talks in Paris (1968-1969)
*Lawrence C. McQuade (B.A. 1950) Assistant Secretary of Commerce (1967-1969); President and CEO of Procon Incorporated (1969-1975)
*Winston Lord (B.A. 1959, S&B 1959) Member of the National Security Council staff (1969-1973); Member of the Policy Planning Staff in
International Security Affairs at the U.S. Department of Defense (1967-1969)
*John D. Negroponte (B.A. 1960) Second Secretary at the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, South Vietnam (1964-1968); Member of the National
Security Council staff (1970-1973); Member of the American Delegation to the Vietnam Peace Talks in Paris (1968-1969)
William Cowles Hamilton (B.A. 1947, M.A. 1949, Ph.D. 1955) Deputy Director for Far East Region, International Security Affairs, U.S.
Department of Defense (1964-1966); Country Director for Laos, U.S. Department of State (1966-1967); Counselor for Political Affairs at U.S.
Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand (1967-1970); Minister at the U.S. Embassy in Manila, Philippines (1971-1973)
Harry E.T. Thayer (B.A. 1951) Deputy Director of the Office of Asian Communist Affairs at the U.S. State Department (1968-1970); Deputy
Principal Counselor to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations (1971-1975); Director of the Office of the Peoples Republic of China and
Mongolia Affairs at the U.S. State Department (1976-1979)
Mark B. Lewis (B.A. 1947) Chairman of Television Task Force, U.S. Information Agency (1969-1970)
*William Matson Roth (B.A. 1939) Special Representative for Trade Negotiations (1967-1969); Deputy Special Representative for Trade
Negotiations (1963-1966)
*William S. Gaud (B.A. 1929, LL.B. 1931) Administrator of U.S. Agency for International Development (1966-1969)
Leonard Story Zartman (B.A. 1948) Special Assistant to the President of the United States (1969); General Counsel of Small Business
Administration (1969-1970); Secretary of Eastman Kodak Co. [photography] (1973-c.1980); Attorney of Eastman Kodak Co. (1964-1968)
James Pomeroy Hendrick (B.A. 1923) Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (1962-1969); Vice President of INTERPOL (1968-1969)
*John Sherman Cooper (B.A. 1923; S&B 1923) U.S. Senator (Republican-Kentucky, 1946-1949; 1952-1955; 1956-1973)
*W. Stuart Symington (B.A. 1923) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Missouri, 1953-1976)
Thruston B. Morton (B.A. 1929) U.S. Senator (Republican-Kentucky, January 3, 1957-December 16, 1968)
William Proxmire (B.A. 1938) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Wisconsin, 1957-1989)
Peter H. Dominick (B.A. 1937, S&K 1937) U.S. Senator (Republican-Colorado, 1963-1975)
*James L. Buckley (B.A. 1944, LL.B. 1949, S&B 1944) U.S. Senator (Conservative Party-New York, 1971-1977)
John G. Beall Jr. (B.A. 1950) U.S. Senator (Republican-Maryland, 1971-1977); U.S. Congressman (Republican-Maryland, 1969-1971)
*Lowell P. Weicker (B.A. 1953) U.S. Senator (Republican-Connecticut, 1971-1989); U.S. Congressman (R-Connecticut, 1969-1971)
John V. Tunney (B.A. 1956) U.S. Senator (Democrat-California, 1971-1977); U.S. Congressman (Democrat-California, 1965-1971)
Robert Taft, Jr. (B.A. 1939) U.S. Senator (Republican-Ohio, 1971-1976); U.S. Congressman (Republican-Ohio, 1963-1965, 1967-1971)
John Jarman (B.A. 1937) U.S. Congressman (Democrat/Republican-Oklahoma, 1951-1977)
William S. Mailliard (B.A. 1939) U.S. Congressman (Republican-California, 1953-1974)
Thomas William Ludlow Lud Ashley (B.A. 1948, S&B 1948) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Ohio, 1955-1981)
William S. Moorhead Jr. (B.A. 1945, S&B 1945) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Pennsylvania, 1959-1981)
Donald Jay Irwin (B.A. 1951, LL.B. 1954) U.S. Congressman (D-Conn., 1959-1961, 1965-1969); Mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut (1971-1975)
Rogers C.B. Morton (B.A. 1937) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Maryland, 1963-1971); U.S. Secretary of the Interior (1971-1975)
*Ogden Rogers Reid (B.A. 1949) U.S. Congressman (Republican/Democrat-New York, 1963-1975)
*Jonathan Brewster Bingham (B.A. 1936, S&B 1936) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-New York, 1965-1983)
Philip Edward Ruppe (B.A. 1948) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Michigan, 1967-1979)
*George H.W. Bush (B.A. 1948; S&B 1948) U.S. Congressman (R-Texas, 1967-1971); U.S. Representative to United Nations (1971-1973)
James Wadsworth Symington (B.A. 1950) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Missouri, 1969-1977); Chief of Protocol for White House (1966-68)
Robert Lawrence Coughlin (B.A. 1950) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Pennsylvania, 1969-1993); Pennsylvania State Senator (1967-1969)
*Henry John Heinz III (B.A. 1960) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Pennsylvania, 1971-1977)
*Leslie (Les) Aspin (B.A. 1960) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Wisconsin, 1971-1993)
Potter Stewart (B.A. 1937, LL.B. 1941, S&B 1937) Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1958-1981)
John Joseph Smith (B.A. 1925, LL.B. 1927) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1960-1971)
Robert P. Anderson (B.A. 1927) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1964-1971)
Gerhard A. Gesell (B.A. 1932) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1967-1993)
Charles Henry Tenney (B.A. 1933, LL.B. 1936, S&K 1933) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1963-1979)
Robert C. Zampano (B.A. 1951; LL.B. 1954) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (1964-1977)
Alexander Harvey II (B.A., 1947) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (1966-1991)
Henry Putzel Jr. (B.A. 1935, LL.B. 1938) U.S. Supreme Court Reporter of Decisions (1964-1979)
Gilbert Stroud Merritt Jr. (B.A. 1957) U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee (1966-1969)
William Charles Lee (B.A. 1959) U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana (1970-1973)
William Grawn Milliken (B.A. 1946) Governor of Michigan (1969-1983); Lieutenant Governor of Michigan (1965-1969)
Richard B. Ogilvie (B.A. 1947) Governor of Illinois (1969-1973); Sheriff of Cook County [Chicago], Illinois (1963-1967)
*William W. Scranton (B.A. 1939, J.D. 1946) Governor of Pennsylvania (1963-1967)
*John V. Lindsay (B.A. 1944, S&K 1944) Mayor of New York City (1966-1973)
Robert W. Sweet (B.A. 1944; LL.B. 1948) Deputy Mayor of New York City (1966-1969); Partner of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
[law firm in New York City] (1970-1977)
Pete Wilson (B.A. 1956) Mayor of San Diego, California (1971-1983); Member of the California Assembly (1966-1971)
Howard S. Cullman (B.A. 1913) Chairman of Port of New York Authority (1945-55); Commissioner of Port of New York Authority (1927-1972)
Newton Ivan Steers, Jr. (B.A. 1939; J.D. 1948) Maryland State Insurance Commissioner (1967-1970)
Eric van Cortlandt Stevenson (B.A. 1947; LL.B. 1950) General Counsel of Peace Corps (1966-1968)
Bankers:
*William McChesney Martin Jr. (B.A. 1928) Chairman of the Federal Reserve (April 2, 1951-January 31, 1970)
*Alfred Hayes (B.A. 1930) President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (August 1, 1956-August 1, 1975); Chairman of the Economic
Club of New York (1965-1966)
James Stillman Rockefeller (B.A. 1924, S&K 1924) Chairman of the board of National City Bank of New York [Citibank] (1959-1967)
*George S. Moore (B.S. 1927) Chairman of the board of National City Bank of New York [Citibank] (1967-1970)
*Herbert P. Patterson (B.S. 1948) Executive Vice President (1965-1969) and President (1969-1972) of Chase Manhattan Bank
Prescott S. Bush (B.A. 1917; S&B 1917) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1972); U.S. Senator (1952-1963)
*Knight Woolley (B.A. 1917; S&B 1917) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1982)
*Robert A. Lovett (B.A. 1918, S&B 1918) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1953-1986); U.S. Secretary of Defense (1951-1953)
Stephen Y. Hord (B.A. 1921, S&B 1921) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1945-1981)
*Thomas McCance (B.A. 1925) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1945-1979)
Moreau Delano Brown (B.A. 1926) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1939-1974)
John Beckwith Madden (B.A. 1941, S&B 1941) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1955-1988)
*R.L. Ireland III (B.A. 1942) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1960-c.1994)
Robert Lehman (B.A. 1913) Partner of Lehman Brothers (1925-1969)
Joseph Albert Thomas (B.A. 1928, S&K 1928) Partner of Lehman Brothers (1937-1977)
*John M. Schiff (B.A. 1925) Partner of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. (1931-1977)
*Arthur G. Altschul (B.A. 1943) Partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co. (1959-1977)
*Grinnell Morris (B.A. 1932) Vice Chairman of Bank of New York (1966-1968); President of Empire Trust Co. (1963-1966)
*John I. Howell (B.A. 1939) former Chairman of the board of J. Henry Schroder Banking Corp.
*Alfred Brittain III (B.A. 1945) President of Bankers Trust Co. (1966-1975)
Lewis Abbot Lapham (B.A. 1931, S&B 1931) Vice Chairman of Bankers Trust Co. (1966-1974)
*Charles Edwin Lord (B.A. 1949, S&B 1949) Chairman of the board of Allied Bank International (1968-1976)
Vance Van Dine (B.A. 1949, S&B 1949) Partner of Morgan Stanley & Co. (1963-1975)
Dean Witter Jr. (B.A. 1944, S&B 1944) Partner of Dean Witter & Co. (1946-1970)
*Nicholas F. Brady (B.A. 1952) President and CEO of Dillon, Read & Co. (1971-1982); Vice President of Dillon, Read & Co. (1961-1971)
*Richard P. Cooley (B.S. 1944) President and CEO of Wells Fargo Bank (1966-1979)
William Redmond Cross Jr. (B.A. 1941, S&B 1941) Senior Vice President of Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. (1964-1973)
*Robert Van Cleef Lindsay (B.A. 1949) Vice President (1960-1969) and Senior Vice President (1969-1976) of Morgan Guaranty Trust Co.
*Evan G. Galbraith (B.A. 1950; S&B 1950) Vice President of Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. (1961-1969); Chairman of Bankers Trust
International (1969-1975)
*Daniel P. Davison (B.A. 1949, S&B 1949) Vice President of Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. (1961-1973)
Charles Welles Buek (B.A. 1933) President (1962-1974) and Chairman (1974-1976) of U.S. Trust Co. of New York
George Harold Pfau Jr. (B.S. 1948, S&B 1948) Member of White Weld & Co. Inc. [San Francisco branch] (1957-1978)
Wilbur Louis Ross Jr. (B.A. 1959) President of Faulkner, Dawkins and Sullivan Securities Corp. [New York City] (1964-1976)
*Harry P. Barrand Jr. (B.A. 1944) Executive Vice President of banking department at Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. (1966-1970)
*Roger D. Stone (B.A. 1955) Vice Pres. of International Dept. at Chase Manhattan Bank (1970-1974); Asst. to Pres. of Time, Inc. (1968-70)
Charles B. Johnson (B.A. 1954) Chairman of the board of Franklin Resources, Inc. [now called Franklin Templeton Investments] (1969-pres.)
Jacques Ralph Stunzi (B.A. 1942) Executive Vice President of Continental Bank International [New York City] (1962-1968); Vice Chairman of
Allied Bank International [New York City] (1968-1973)
Roger Conant Damon (B.A. 1929) Chairman and CEO of First National Bank of Boston (1966-1971); President of First National Bank of
Boston (1959-1966); director of Raytheon
Frank Wells McCabe (B.A. 1925) Chairman of the board of National Commercial Bank & Trust Co. [Albany, New York] (1964-1973)
Eliot G. Fitch (B.A. 1918) President of Marine National Exchange Bank of Milwaukee (1942-1992)
Frederic Augustus Potts (B.A. 1926) Chairman of the board of Philadelphia National Bank (1964-1969)
Gardner Dominick Stout (B.A. 1926) Partner of Dominick & Dominick [investment firm in New York City] (1926-1968)
*William Frederick Machold (Ph.B. 1927) Partner of Drexel & Co. [investment bank in Philadelphia] (1949-1966); Vice President of Drexel
Harriman Ripley, Inc. [Philadelphia] (1966-1972)
Bradford Arnold Warner (B.A. 1932) Senior Vice President of Belgian-American Bank & Trust Co. (1962-1968); Senior Vice President of
European-American Bank & Trust Co. (1968-1975)
Richard Ambler Liggett (Ph.B. 1925) Chairman of the board of First National Bank of Tampa [Florida] (1955-c.1972)
Samuel Torbitt Castleman (B.A. 1943) Senior Vice President Wachovia Bank & Trust Co. [Winston-Salem, NC] (1958-1968); Senior Vice
President of American Security & Trust Co. [Washington, D.C.] (1968-1971)
Eugene Hale Adams (B.A. 1934) Class A Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (1964-1969); President of International Trust
Company [Denver] (1951-1958); President (1959-1973) and Chairman (1973-1977) of the First National Bank of Denver
Edward Byron Smith (B.A. 1932) Class A Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (1970-1975); President of Northern Trust
Company [Chicago] (1957-1963); Chairman of the board of Northern Trust Company [Chicago] (1963-1978)
James Henry Higgins (B.A. 1939) Vice President (1954-1965), Senior Vice President (1965-1968), Executive Vice President (1968-1971),
President (1971-1974), and Chairman and CEO (1974-1981) of Mellon National Bank & Trust Co. [Pittsburgh]
David James Laub (B.A. 1932) President of Marine Midland Trust Co. [bank in Buffalo, New York] (1968-1972)
Everett Ware Smith (B.S. 1936) Senior Vice President (1959-1964) and Vice Chairman (1964-1968) of New England Merchants National
Bank [Boston]
John Edward Drick (B.S. 1934) Executive Vice President (1965-1969) and President (1969-1974) of First National Bank of Chicago
Robert James Lewis (B.A. 1921) Partner of Estabrook & Co. [New York City] (1931-1968); Limited Partner of Clark, Dodge & Co. (19681974); Member of the Board of Governors of the New York Stock Exchange (1960-1966)
Brooks Banker (B.A. 1952, LL.B. Harvard 1957) Executive Vice President (1968-1976), Vice President (1966-1968) and Treasurer (19641966, 1968-1972) of American Express Company
Pomeroy Day (B.A. 1928; LL.B. 1931) Chairman of the board (1966-1970) and President (1961-1966) of Connecticut Bank & Trust Co.
Edward McCrady Gaillard (B.A. 1919) Chairman of the board of Union & New Haven Trust Co. (1963-1968)
Donald Roderick Welles (B.A. 1927) Senior Vice President of Wilmington Trust Co. [bank in Wilmington, Delaware] (1958-1969)
Ernest Patton (B.A. 1920) Chairman of the board of Peoples National Bank [Greenville, South Carolina] (1948-1969)
Burt Russell Shurly Jr. (B.A. 1934) Vice President of Detroit Bank & Trust Co. [Detroit, Michigan] (1951-1970)
Fred George Theuer (B.A. 1949) Executive Vice President of Saginaw (Michigan) Savings & Loan Association (1965-1970); President of
Saginaw (Michigan) Savings & Loan Association (1971-c.1977)
Businessmen:
Joseph F. Cullman III (B.A. 1935) Chairman of the board and CEO of Philip Morris Company [i.e. Marlboro cigarettes] (1967-1978)
*Henry John Heinz II (B.A. 1931, S&B 1931) Chairman of the board of H.J. Heinz Company [i.e. H.J. Heinz ketchup] (1959-1987)
*J. Irwin Miller (B.A. 1931) Chairman of the board of Cummins Engine Co. (1951-1977)
*James H. Binger (B.A. 1938) Chairman of the board and CEO of Honeywell, Inc. (1965-1978)
*Juan Terry Trippe (Ph.B. 1921) Chairman and CEO of Pan American World Airways, Inc. (1964-1968)
H. Mansfield Horner (B.S. 1926) Chairman and CEO of United Aircraft Corporation (1956-1983)
Stewart Shaw Cort (B.A. 1934) President (1963-1971) and Chairman and CEO (1971-1980) of Bethlehem Steel Corp.
*Joseph Richardson Dilworth (B.A. 1938, LL.B. 1942, S&B 1938) Chairman of the board of Rockefeller Center, Inc. (1966-1982)
*Robert S. Ingersoll (B.S. 1937) Chairman and CEO of Borg-Warner Corp. (1961-1972); U.S. Ambassador to Japan (1972-1973); President
of The Economic Club of Chicago (1967-1969)
*John E. Bierwirth (B.A. 1917) Chairman and CEO of National Distillers & Chemical Corp. (1958-1970)
*Robert Guthrie Page (B.A. 1922, S&B 1922) Chairman of the board of Phelps Dodge Corporation (1967-1970)
John Hancock Daniels (B.A. 1943, S&B 1943) Chairman of the board of Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. (1967-1972)
Gaylord Donnelley (B.A. 1931, S&B 1931) Chairman of the board of R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. [Chicago] (1964-1975); Trustee of University
of Chicago (1947-1980)
Gordon Grand, Jr. (B.A. 1938, S&K 1938) Chairman (1966-1967) and President and CEO (1965-1972) of Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp.
Downing Bland Jenks (B.S. 1937) Chairman (1972-1983) and President (1961-1972) of Missouri Pacific Railroad [St. Louis]; Chairman of the
board of Texas & Pacific Railroad (1968-c.1976); Chairman of the board of Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad (1969-c.1976)
John Shedd Reed (B.S. 1939) President (1967-78), CEO (1968-82), and Chairman (1973-1983) of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
Henry Stuart Harrison (B.A. 1932) President and Chief Executive Officer of Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co. (1961-1977)
*Joseph Peter Grace, Jr. (B.A. 1936, S&K 1936) President and CEO of W.R. Grace & Co. (1945-1981)
Horace Havemeyer, Jr. (B.A. 1936, S&K 1936) President (1948-1966) and Chairman (1966-1968) of National Sugar Refining Co. [NYC]
Kempton Dunn (B.S. 1931) Chairman of the board (1963-1969) and CEO (1957-1969) of American Brake Shoe Co. [New York City]
Thomas Mellon Evans (B.S. 1931) Chairman and CEO of Crane Co. [paper company] (1959-1984)
Charles Denston Dickey, Jr. (B.A. 1940, S&K 1940) President of Scott Paper Co. (1969-1979)
Frederick Glade Wacker Jr. (B.A. 1940) Chairman of the board and President of Ammco Tools, Inc. [North Chicago, Illinois] (1948-1987)
*William H. Bill Donaldson (B.A. 1953, S&B 1953) Chairman and CEO of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc. [New York City] (1959-1973)
Olcott D. Smith (B.A. 1929) Chairman of the board of Aetna Life & Casualty Cos. [insurance company] (1963-c.1972)
Thomas Eugene Lovejoy Jr. (Ph.B. 1928) Chairman of the board and CEO of Manhattan Life Insurance Co. (1966-1977)
*Percy Chubb II (Ph.B. 1931) Chairman of the board of Federal Insurance Co. (1964-1970)
Robert L. McNeil Jr. (B.S. 1936) Chairman of the board of Petroleum Laboratories, Inc. [Philadelphia] (1968-c.1970); Chairman of the board
of McNeil Laboratories (1956-1964)
*Hoyt Ammidon (B.A. 1932) Vice Chairman of Port Authority of New York (1970-1972); Chairman and CEO of U.S. Trust Co. (1962-1974)
*Arthur K. Watson (B.A. 1942) Chairman of IBM World Trade Corporation (1963-1970); U.S. Ambassador to France (1970-1972)
*Malcolm A. MacIntyre (B.A. 1929) President of Chemical Division of Martin Marietta Corp. (1965-1972); Under Sec. of Air Force (1957-59)
*Richard M. Bissell Jr. (B.A. 1932, Ph.D. 1939) Director of Marketing and Economic Planning at United Aircraft Corp. (1964-1974)
Daniel Crow Searle (B.S. 1950) President of G.D. Searle & Co. [chemical company] (1966-1977)
*Brooks McCormick (B.A. 1940) President of International Harvester Company (1968-1977)
*Henry B. Schacht (B.S. 1956) Vice President of Cummins Engine Co. (1964-1969); President of Cummins Engine Co. (1969-1977)
*John C. Bierwirth (B.A. 1947) Vice President (1958-1969) and Executive Vice President (1969-1972) of National Distillers & Chemical Corp.
*William W. Boeschenstein (B.S. 1950) Executive Vice President of Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corp. (1967-1971)
*Thomas Wright Russell Jr. (B.A. 1939) President (1968-1970) and Chairman and CEO (1970) of American Brake Shoe Co. [Abex Corp.]
C. William Verity Jr. (B.A. 1939) President and CEO (1965-1971) and Chairman of the board (1971-1982) of Armco Steel Company
Edward Foster Swift 3rd (B.A. 1945, S&K 1945) Executive Vice President of Swift & Co. [meat packing company] (1964-1975)
Wilmot Fitch Wheeler Jr. (B.A. 1945, S&K 1945) Chairman and CEO of American Chain & Cable Co., Inc. [New York City] (1967-1976)
*Richard L. Gelb (B.A. 1945) President of Bristol-Myers Co. (1967-1976)
*David L. Luke III (B.A. 1945) President (1962-1980) and CEO (1963-1988) of Westvaco Corp. [paper company]
David Livingston Francis (B.A. 1937) Chairman of the board of Princess Coals, Inc. (1963-1968)
Tecumseh Sherman Fitch (B.S. 1931) Chairman of the board of Washington Steel Corp. [Pennsylvania] (1945-1969)
James G. Fox Jr. (B.S. 1926) President of Allied Chemical Corp. (1959-c.1972)
Louis S. Rothschild (Ph.B. 1920) President of Transport Equities Corporation (1958-1961, 1965-1984)
Louis Frederick Polk Jr. (B.S. 1954) President and CEO of Metro-Goldwyn Mayer, Inc. (1968-1969); Comptroller of General Mills (1961-68)
John C. Duncan (B.A. 1942) Executive Vice President of W.R. Grace & Co. (1964-1970)
Gilfry Ward (B.S. 1928, Bohemian Grove) Vice President of American Brake Shoe Co. [Abex Corp.] (1957-1970)
William Adams Dunbar (B.A. 1929) Comptroller (1956-1966) and Treasurer (1966-1969) of General Reinsurance Corp. [New York City]
Clive Runnells (B.A. 1948) Vice President of Commerce Fund, Inc. [Houston, Texas] (1960-c.1972)
John David Kirkland (B.A. 1955, LL.B. 1958) Vice President (1967-1973) and Executive Vice President (1973-1978) of Pennzoil Co.
William Robert Orthwein Jr. (B.A. 1938) former Vice President of McDonnell Douglas Corporation (circa 1960s)
John Digney Leary (B.A. 1933, LL.B. 1936) Vice President for Personnel at Chrysler Corp. (1958-1963); Vice President for Administration at
Chrysler Corp. (1963-1974); director of Chrysler Corp. (1959-1974)
John Ambrose Ford (B.A. 1941) Vice President for Public Relations at Chrysler Corp. (1963-c.1974)
Robert Upjohn Redpath Jr. (B.A. 1928) life underwriter for Lawyers Mortgage Co. [New York City] (1933-1987)
Fred Rollin White Jr. (B.A. 1935) Senior Vice President of Oglebay Norton Co. [Cleveland, Ohio] (1959-1978)
*Philip C. Jessup Jr. (B.A. 1949) Chief Legal Officer and Secretary of Inco Europe Ltd. [London] (1968-1972); President and Managing
Director of P.T. International Nickel Indonesia [Jakarta] (1972-1978)
Samuel Reid Sutphin (B.A. 1934) Chairman of Beveridge Paper Co. [Indianapolis] (1958-1969)
Richard Sutton Bull Jr. (B.A. 1948, J.D. 1951) Chairman of the board of Bradner Central Co. [Chicago] (1966-c.1990)
Horace Reynolds Moorhead (Ph.B. 1929, S&K 1929) Treasurer of Gulf Oil Corp. (1948-c.1972)
Joseph Elliott Muckley (B.A. 1930) Executive Vice President of Martin Marietta Corp. [New York City] (1966-1973)
John Ward Seabury (B.S. 1943) Vice President of Marsh & McLennan, Inc. [Chicago] (1956-1976)
George T. French (B.A. 1933) Senior Vice President of Deere & Co. (1963-1968)
Robert Cushing Winters (B.A. 1953) Vice President for actuary at Prudential Insurance Co. of America (1969-1975)
Francis Fitz Randolph (B.A. 1911, S&B 1911) Senior Partner of J&W Seligman & Co. (1940-1973)
George Herbert Walker Jr. (B.A. 1927, S&B 1927) General Partner of G.H. Walker & Co. [firm in New York City] (1929-1974)
George Herbert Walker III (B.A. 1953, S&B 1953) General Partner of G.H. Walker & Co. (1961-1974)
Jonathan J. Bush (B.A. 1953, S&B 1953) General Partner of G.H. Walker & Co. (1960-1970)
John Davock Warren (B.A. 1927, S&B 1927) General Partner of G.H. Walker & Co. [firm in New York City] (1944-1974)
John C. Farrar (B.A. 1918, S&B 1918) Chairman of the board of Farrar, Straus & Giroux [publishing firm in New York City] (1946-1974)
John Warner Field (B.A. 1937, S&B 1937) President and CEO of Warnaco, Inc. (1957-1974)
Frank A. Sprole (B.A. 1942, S&B 1942) Vice President of Bristol-Myers Co. (1965-1973)
*William H. Draper III (B.A. 1950, S&B 1950) Founder and General Partner of Sutter Hill Ventures [firm in Palo Alto, California] (1965-1981)
Russell W. Meyer Jr. (B.A. 1954, S&B 1954) President and CEO of Grumman America Aviation Corp. [Cleveland, Ohio] (1966-1974)
Robert Haigh Gow (B.A. 1955, S&B 1955) President of Zapata [Oil] Corp. (1964-1970)
Morgan Hovey Harris Jr. (B.A. 1954) Vice President of White Weld & Co. Inc. [Los Angeles branch] (1965-1971)
Harold H. Hines Jr. (B.A. 1948) Vice President and Executive Vice President of Marsh and McLennan, Inc. Chicago (1969-1979)
Kenneth H. Hannan (B.A. 1933, LL.B. 1936) Executive Vice President (1956-1969) and Vice Chairman (1969-1971) of Union Carbide
Corporation; Class C Director and Deputy Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1966-1968)
Fritz Carleton Hyde Jr. (B.A. 1933) President of Revere Copper & Brass, Inc. [metal manufacturing in New York City] (1965-1971)
Alfred White Van Sinderen (B.A. 1945) President (1967-1982) and Chairman (1982-1985) of Southern New England Telephone Company
Henry Waters Taft (B.A. 1947) Treasurer (1962-1966), Vice President (1966-1969), and Exec. Vice Pres. (1969-1973) of Bristol-Myers Co.
Henry White Gadsden (B.S. 1933) President (1965-1971) and Chairman and CEO (1971-1976) of Merck & Co., Inc. [pharmaceutical firm]
William Alexander Kirkpatrick (B.A. 1944) Controller (1960-1968), Vice President for Finance (1968-1973), and Vice President for
Administration (1973-1979) of Allegheny Ludlum Industries, Inc. [steel company in Pittsburgh]
Reuel Edward Warriner (B.A. 1933) Vice President for sales at American Metal Climax, Inc. (1954-1968); Vice President for nickel project at
American Metal Climax, Inc. (1968-1972)
James Barton Elliott (B.A. 1935) Secretary of American Sugar Co. [New York City] (1955-1965)
Robert George Wiese (B.A. 1925) Partner of Scudder, Stevens & Clark [investment firm in Boston] (1936-1978)
Sidney Walter Dean Jr. (B.A. 1926) President of Ventures Development Co. [New York City] (1961-c.1997)
Crosby Wells (B.A. 1946) Legal Officer for International Nickel Co, Inc. [New York City] (1961-1973)
Robert Forbes Niven (B.A. 1932) Secretary of Union Oil Co. (1947-1972); Member of the Bohemian Club in San Francisco
Frank A. Sherer (B.A. 1932) Executive Vice President of Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. [New York City] (1961-1967)
A Thomas Taylor (B.A. 1932) director of Ford Motor Co. (c. 1965); former Chairman of Deltec International Corporation
Allen Ledyard Lindley (B.A. 1932) Vice President and Treasurer (1952-1961); Senior Vice President (1961-1967), Executive Vice President
(1967-1972), and Vice Chairman (1972-1978) of Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York
John Denis Joseph Moore (B.A. 1932, LL.B. 1935) Vice President of W.R. Grace & Co. (1952-1969); U.S. Ambassador to Ireland (19691975); Vice Chairman of the Council of the Americas (1964-1969)
Henry Holloway Scudder (B.A. 1917) President (1957-1960) and Vice Chairman of (1960-c.1970) of International Standard Electric Corp.
[New York City]
Alexander Coutts Stewart (B.A. 1945) Treasurer of Collins & Altman Corp. [textile company in New York City] (1960-1966); Vice President for
finance of Collins & Altman Corp. (1966-1979)
William M. Day (B.A. 1927) President (1956-1968) and Chairman of the board and CEO (1968) of Michigan Bell Telephone Co. [Detroit]
John M.K. Davis (B.A. 1929) President of Conneciticut Printers Inc. [Hartford, Connecticut] (1952-c.1972)
Richard C. Doane (B.A. 1919) Chairman of the board (1961-1967) and President (1954-1959) of International Paper Co. [New York City]
Frank Courtenay Dodd (B.A. 1897) Chairman of the board of Dodd, Mead & Co., Inc. [publishing company in New York City] (1942-1968)
Edward Howard Dodd Jr. (B.A. 1928) Chairman of the board of Dodd, Mead & Co., Inc. [publishing company in New York City] (1966-1976);
President of Dodd, Mead & Co., Inc. [publishing company in New York City] (1953-1957); Chairman of the editorial board of Dodd, Mead & Co.,
Inc. [publishing company in New York City] (1957-1966)
Ross Randolph Millhiser (B.A. 1941) Executive Vice President for Marketing at Philip Morris, Inc. (1965-1966); President of Philip Morris
U.S.A. (1966-1973); President of Philip Morris, Inc. (1973-1978); Vice Chairman of Philip Morris, Inc. (1978-1985); Member of the board of
directors of Philip Morris, Inc. [i.e. Marlboro cigarettes] (1963-1987); prisoner-of-war during World War II (captured by the Nazis)
Lawyers:
*Charles M. Spofford (B.A. 1924; S&B 1924) Member of Davis, Polk & Wardwell [law firm in New York City] (1940-1950, 1952-1973)
Charles Hastings Willard (B.A. 1926, S&B 1926) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1950-1973)
Edward Rogers Wardwell (B.A. 1927, S&B 1927) Member of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1946-c.1972)
*Samuel Hazard Gillespie Jr. (B.A. 1932, LL.B. 1936, S&B 1932) Member of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1948-2011)
Morton Fearey (B.A. 1935; LL.B. 1938, S&K 1935) Member of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1951-c.1974)
*Peter O.A. Solbert (B.A. 1941, S&B 1941) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1957-1963, 1965-1989)
Edward Snover Reid III (B.A. 1951, S&B 1951) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1964-1995)
Robert B. Fiske, Jr. (B.A. 1952) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1964-2010)
*Eli Whitney Debevoise (B.A. 1921) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton [law firm in New York City] (1931-1990)
*George N. Lindsay (B.A. 1941) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1955-1990)
*Harold H. Healy Jr. (B.A. 1943, S&B 1943) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1959-1989)
*Robert B. von Mehren (B.A. 1943) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1957-1993)
*William B. Matteson (B.A. 1950) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1961-1998)
George B. Adams (B.A. 1952) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1966-1997)
*George Roberts (B.A. 1905, LL.B. Harvard 1908) Partner of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts [law firm in New York City] (1914-1968)
James William Husted (B.A. 1918) Partner of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1930-1969)
John Baker Jessup (B.A. 1942, S&B 1942) Partner of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1959-1993)
Endicott Peabody Davison (B.A. 1945, S&B 1945) Partner of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts (1959-1980)
Chauncey Brewster Garver (B.A. 1908, S&K 1908) Partner of Shearman & Sterling [law firm in New York City] (1917-1973)
*Robert Huntington Knight (B.A. 1940) Partner of Shearman & Sterling (1955-1958, 1962-1985)
William Rockefeller (B.A. 1940) Partner of Shearman & Sterling (1957-1990)
Richard S. Storrs (B.A. 1932) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell [law firm in New York City] (1945-1980)
Stephen K. West (B.A. 1950) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1964-1997)
*Roswell L. Gilpatric (B.A. 1928, LL.B. 1931) Partner of Cravath, Swaine & Moore (1953-1961, 1964-1977); Deputy Secretary of Defense
(1961-1964); Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1972-1975)
Daniel Gleason Tenney Jr. (B.A. 1935, LL.B. 1938, S&K 1935) Partner of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy (1948-c.1983)
*William Eldred Jackson (B.A. 1941, S&B 1941) Partner of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy (1954-1999)
Allen Evarts Foster (B.A. 1906) Partner of Lord, Day & Lord [law firm in New York City] (1919-c.1970)
Sherman Baldwin (B.A. 1919, S&B 1919) Member of Lord, Day & Lord (1929-1969)
Louis Melville Loeb (B.A. 1919) Partner of Lord, Day & Lord (1948-1972); General Counsel of The New York Times Co. (1948-1967)
John Dorsey Garrison (B.A. 1931, LL.B. 1934) Member of Lord, Day & Lord (1943-1980)
Garrard Wood Glenn (B.A. 1933, S&K 1933) Partner of Lord, Day & Lord (1948-1954, 1958-c.1974)
Charles R. Walker III (B.A. 1951, LL.B. 1954) Member of Lord, Day & Lord (1956-1994)
John Archer Gifford (B.A. 1922, S&K 1922) Partner of White & Case [law firm in New York City] (1937-1972)
*Alfred Ogden (B.A. 1932, S&B 1932) Partner of Alexander & Green [law firm in New York City] (1955-1975)
*Manuel R. Angulo (B.A. 1939) Partner of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle [law firm in New York City] (1961-c.1993)
Allen Skinner Hubbard (B.A. 1911, S&K 1911) Partner of Hughes, Hubbard & Reed [law firm in New York City] (1937-1981)
*Orville H. Schell, Jr. (B.A. 1930) Partner of Hughes, Hubbard & Reed (1942-1987)
Thomas Thacher (B.A. 1938; LL.B. 1942, S&K 1938) Partner of Patterson, Belknap & Webb [law firm in New York City] (1964-1984)
Donald Schapiro (B.A. 1944; LL.B. 1949) Partner of Barrett, Smith, Schapiro, Simon & Armstrong [law firm in New York City] (1955-1988)
Robert Todd Lang (B.A. 1945) Partner of Weil, Gotshal & Manges [law firm in New York City] (1956-present)
John Carey (B.A. 1947, S&B 1945W) Partner of Coudert Brothers [law firm in New York City] (1961-1987)
*Donald H. Rivkin (B.A. 1948; J.D. 1952) Member of Rivkin, Sherman and Levy [law firm in New York City] (1959-1984)
Paul C. Lambert (B.A. 1950, S&B 1950) Partner of Breed, Abbott & Morgan [law firm in New York City] (1966-1990)
C. Dickerman Williams (B.A. 1922, LL.B. 1924) Partner of Baker, Nelson, Williams & Mitchell [law firm in New York City] (1962-1974)
Harris John Ashton (B.A. 1954) Partner of Lovejoy, Wasson, Lundgren & Ashton [law firm in New York City] (1964-1975)
Ethan A. Hitchcock (B.A. 1931, S&K 1931) Partner of Webster, Sheffield, Fleischmann, Hitchcock & Brookfield [New York City] (1961-1983)
Frank Herbert Prem Jr. (B.A. 1953) Partner of Whitman & Ransom [law firm in New York City] (1967-1993)
Sidney Wetmore Davidson (B.A. 1916; J.D. 1918) Member of Davidson, Dawson & Clark [law firm in New York City] (1949-1974)
*Jerome S. Hess (B.A. 1903) Member of Hardin, Hess & Eder [law firm in New York City] (1907-1970); Member of Hardin, Hess & Suarez
[law firm in Mexico City] (1921-1970)
*Dean G. Acheson (B.A. 1915; S&K 1915) Member of Covington & Burling [law firm in Washington, D.C.] (1953-1971); fmr. U.S. Sec of State
*Lloyd N. Cutler (B.A. 1936) Partner of Wilmer Cutler Pickering [law firm in Washington, D.C.] (1962-1979, 1981-1990)
John D. Hawke Jr. (B.A. 1954) Partner of Arnold & Porter [law firm in Washington, D.C.] (1967-1975, 1978-1995, 2004-present)
H. Stewart Dunn Jr. (B.A. 1951) Partner of Ivins, Phillips & Barker [law firm in Washington, D.C.] (1962-c.2002)
Roger Robb (B.A. 1928, LL.B. 1931) Partner of Robb, Porter, Kistler & Parkinson [law firm in Washington, D.C.] (1951-1969)
Thomas M. Debevoise (B.A. 1950) Partner of Debevoise & Liberman [law firm in Washington, D.C.] (1965-1974)
Marcien Jenckes (B.A. 1921, S&B 1921) Member of Choate, Hall & Stewart [law firm in Boston] (1927-1971)
Marcus Morton (B.A. 1916) Member of Hale, Sanderson, Byrnes & Morton [law firm in Boston] (1927-c.1980)
Richard Wellington McLaren (B.A. 1939; LL.B. 1942) Member of Chadwell, Keck, Kayser, Ruggles & McLaren [law firm in Chicago] (19501969); Assistant U.S. Attorney General for Antitrust Division (1969-1972)
Merrill Shepard (B.A.1925) Partner of Pope, Ballard, Kennedy, Shepard & Fowle [law firm in Chicago] (1936-c.1986)
Norman Waite (B.A. 1927; LL.B. Harvard 1930) Partner of Schiff Hardin & Waite [law firm in Chicago] (1940-c.1976)
George Frederick Baer Appel (B.A. 1924, S&B 1924) Partner of Townsend, Elliott & Munson [law firm in Philadelphia] (1938-1970)
Richard Langsdorf Levy (B.A. 1933) Partner of Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish, Kohn & Levy [law firm in Philadelphia] (1949-c.1976)
Joseph Martin Jr. (B.A. 1936; LL.B. 1939) Partner of Pettit & Martin [law firm in San Francisco] (1955-1970, 1973-1995); General Counsel of
Federal Trade Commission (1970-1971); U.S. Representative to the Disarmament Conference [Geneva, Switzerland] (1971-1976)
James F. Kirkham (B.A. 1954) Partner of Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro [law firm in San Francisco] (1966-c.1996); member of Bohemian Club
Robert P. Hastings (B.A. 1933) Partner of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker [law firm in Los Angeles] (1946-1981)
*Richard Edwin Sherwood (B.A. 1949) Partner of OMelveny & Myers [law firm in Los Angeles] (1964-1993); Chairman of Planned
Parenthood/World Population Los Angeles (1971-1975)
Stephen Harding Hart (B.A. 1929) Partner of Holland & Hart [law firm in Denver] (1947-c.1978); Colorado State Senator (1939-1943)
Richard Marden Davis (B.A. 1933, S&B 1933) Partner of Davis, Graham & Stubbs [law firm in Denver] (1937-c.1982)
Donald Wright Hoagland (B.A. 1942, S&B 1943) Partner of Davis, Graham & Stubbs [law firm in Denver] (1951-1963, 1966-1987)
David Everett Wagoner (B.A. 1950) Partner of Perkins & Coie [law firm in Seattle] (1957-1996)
Cornelius E. Lombardi Jr. (B.A. 1949) Member of Blackwell, Sanders, Matheny, Weary & Lombardi [law firm in Kansas City] (1957-1992)
Henry Cornick Coke (B.A. 1926, LL.B. 1929, S&B 1926) Member of Coke & Coke [law firm in Dallas, Texas] (1930-1977)
George Denegre (B.A. 1943) Partner of Jones, Walker, Weachter, Poievent, Carrere & Denegre [law firm in New Orleans] (1952-2008)
John Wesley Warrington (B.A. 1936) Partner of Graydon, Head & Ritchey [law firm in Cincinnati] (1951-1989)
John Herron More (B.A. 1924) Partner of Taft, Stettinius &Hollister [law firm in Cincinnati] (1935-1970)
Seth Chase Taft (B.A. 1943, LL.B. 1948) Partner of Partner of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue [law firm in Cleveland, Ohio] (1959-c.1984)
Howard Tallmadge Foulkes (B.A. 1911) Partner of Wickham, Borgelt, Skogstad and Powell [law firm in Milwaukee] (1913-1973)
Richard Woolsey Cutler (B.A. 1938; LL.B. 1941) Partner of Quarles & Brady [law firm in Milwaukee] (1954-1987)
Lucius Franklin Robinson Jr. (B.A. 1918) Partner of Robinson, Robinson &Cole [law firm in Hartford, Connecticut] (1925-c.1982)
John Caldwell Parsons (B.A. 1922; LL.B. 1926) Partner of Robinson, Robinson & Cole [law firm in Hartford, Connecticut] (1931-1973)
James Wayne Cooper (B.A. 1926; LL.B. 1929) Partner of Tyler, Cooper, Grant, Bowerman & Keefe [law firm in New Haven, Connecticut]
(1935-1989)
Bayard Ewing (B.A. 1938) Partner of Tillinghast, Collins & Graham [law firm in Providence, Rhode Island] (1949-c.1984)
Richard Francis Corroon (B.A. 1935) Partner of Potter, Anderson & Corroon [law firm in Wilmington, Delaware] (1946-1978)
*Malcolm W. Martin (B.A. 1933) Partner of Peper, Martin, Jensen, Maichel & Hetlage [law firm in St. Louis] (1941-2004); Member (19651977) and President (1969-1971) of St. Louis [Missouri] Board of Education; brother of Federal Reserve Chairman William McC. Martin Jr.
James Murdock Fulton (B.S. 1935, LL.B. 1938) General Counsel (1961-1974) and Secretary (1970-1976) of Merck & Co. [pharmaceutical]
David C. Acheson (B.A. 1942, S&B 1943) General Counsel of Communications Satellite Corp. (1967-1974)
*Brooks Thomas (B.A. 1953) General Counsel of Harper & Row, Publishing, Inc. (1968-1973)
James C. Goodale (B.A. 1955) General Counsel of The New York Times Co. (1967-1973)
Burke Marshall (B.A. 1943, LL.B. 1951) Vice President and General Counsel of IBM Corp. (1965-1969); Assistant U.S. Attorney General for
Civil Rights Division (1961-1965); Professor of Law and Deputy Dean of Yale Law School (1970-1976)
George Alfred Ranney (B.A. 1934, LL.B. 1939, S&B 1934) Vice President and General Counsel of Inland Steel Co. [Chicago] (1962-1968)
John S. Johnson (B.A. 1952, LL.B. 1955) Vice President, Secretary, and General Counsel of Warnaco Inc. (1970-1977)
Stanley Burton Feuer (B.A. 1950; LL.B. 1953) Vice President and General Counsel of Studebaker-Worthington, Inc. (1968-1971); Vice
President and General Counsel of GAF Corp. (1971-1974); Vice President and General Counsel of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. (1974-1980)
Norman Bristol (B.A. 1944) Secretary (1960-1978), General Counsel (1964-1978), and Senior Vice President (1968-1975) of Kellogg Co.
Hamlett Harrison (B.A. 1932) General Counsel (1939-1970) and Executive Vice President (1942-1970) of Trinity Universal Insurance Co.
[Dallas, Texas]
Stanley Elliot Zimmerman (B.A. 1939; J.D. Harvard 1946) General Counsel (1962-1971) and Secretary (1964-1971) of W.T. Grant Co.
[variety store in New York City]
Journalists:
*Henry R. Luce (B.A. 1920; S&B 1920) Editor-in-Chief of Time, Inc. (1923-1964); founder of Time, Life, and Fortune magazines
Henry Luce III (B.A. 1945) Publisher of Time magazine (1969-1972); Publisher of Fortune magazine (1968-1969)
*John K. Jessup (B.A. 1928) Chief Editorial Writer of Life magazine (1951-1969)
*Ralph D. Paine Jr. (B.A. 1929, S&B 1929) Publisher of Fortune magazine (1953-1967)
*Hugh D.S. Greenway (B.A. 1958, S&K 1958) Correspondent for Time magazine in Saigon (1967-1968) and Bangkok (1968-1970)
*Robert C. Christopher (B.A. 1948) Foreign Editor (1963-1969) and Executive Editor (1969-1972) of Newsweek magazine
*William F. Buckley, Jr. (B.A. 1950; S&B 1950) Editor-in-Chief of National Review magazine (1955-1990)
*John Hay Whitney (B.A. 1926; S&K 1926) Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of New York Herald Tribune (1961-1966)
*Philip L. Geyelin (B.A. 1944) Editorial Page Editor of The Washington Post (1968-1979); Diplomatic correspondent of The Wall Street
Journal (1960-1967)
*David Kruidenier (B.A. 1946) President and Publisher of Des Moines Register and Tribune (1971-1978)
*Robert B. Semple Jr. (B.A. 1959) White House correspondent for The New York Times (1968-1972)
*Peter B. Grose (B.A. 1957) Moscow Bureau Chief (1965-1967) and diplomatic correspondent (1967-1970) for The New York Times
Eric Dwight Pace (B.A. 1957) Member of the staff of The New York Times (1965-2004)
Robert Greeley Kaiser (B.A. 1964) Correspondent of Saigon Bureau [Vietnam] at The Washington Post (1969-1970); Bureau Chief of
Moscow Bureau at The Washington Post (1971-1974); son of former U.S. Ambassador to Hungary Philip M. Kaiser
Richard Gerard Valeriani (B.A. 1953) Correspondent for NBC-TV News in Washington, D.C. (1964-1983)
James David Atwater (B.A. 1950) Senior Editor of Saturday Evening Post (1966-1969); Special Assistant to the President (1969-1970)
Stewart J.O. Alsop (B.A. 1936) Washington Editor of Saturday Evening Post (1962-1968); Columnist for Newsweek magazine (1968-1974)
Jack Rohe Howard (B.A. 1932) President of Scripps-Howard Newspapers (1953-1975); director of Trans World AIrlines; Member of the
Bohemian Club in San Francisco and Pilgrims Society in New York City
*Donald Malcolm Wilson (B.A. 1948) Chief Far Eastern Correspondent for Life magazine (1953-1956); Chief Washington Correspondent for
Life magazine (1956-1960); Deputy Director of U.S. Information Agency (1961-1965); General Manager of Time-Life International (19651968); Associate Publisher of Life magazine (1968-1969); Vice President for corporate and public affairs, Time, Inc. (1969-1981)
Daniel Joseph Mahoney Jr. (B.A. 1950) President of Dayton Newspapers, Inc. [Dayton, Ohio] (1968-c.1978)
*David A. Laventhol (B.A. 1957) Assistant Managing Editor of The Washington Post (1966-1969)
Organization Executives:
*E. Roland Harriman (B.A. 1917; S&B 1917) Chairman of American Red Cross (1954-1973); Chairman of the board of Union Pacific Railroad
Co. (1946-1969); Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1931-1978)
*McGeorge Bundy (B.A. 1940; S&B 1940) President of Ford Foundation (1966-1979); National Security Advisor (1961-1966)
*Max F. Millikan (B.S. 1935) President of World Peace Foundation (1956-1969); Assistant Director of CIA (1951-1952)
Robert M. Hutchins (B.A. 1921) Chairman (1959-1974) and President (1975-1977) of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions
*Caryl P. Haskins (Ph.B. 1930) President of Carnegie Institution of Washington (1956-1971)
*Alfred Brunson MacChesney III (B.A. 1931) President of The American Society of International Law (1964-1966)
*Bayless Manning (B.A. 1943) President of the Council on Foreign Relations (1971-1977); Dean of Stanford Law School (1964-1971)
*Frank Altschul (B.A. 1908) Vice President of the Council on Foreign Relations (1951-1971)
Morris Hadley (B.A. 1916, S&B 1916) Chairman of Carnegie Corporation of New York (1955-1966)
*Frederick Sheffield (B.A. 1924, S&K 1924) Chairman of Carnegie Corporation of New York (1966-1971)
Ernest Brooks, Jr. (B.A. 1930, S&K 1930) President of Old Dominion Foundation [New York City] (1956-1969)
*J. Quigg Newton Jr. (B.A. 1933, LL.B. 1936, S&B 1933) President of The Commonwealth Fund (1963-1975)
Harold Howe II (B.A. 1940; S&B 1940) Vice President of Ford Foundation (1971-1981); U.S. Commissioner of Education (1965-1968)
*Roger G. Kennedy (B.A. 1949) Vice President for Financial Affairs at Ford Foundation (1970-1979)
Walter James McNerney (B.S. 1947) President of Blue Cross Association [in Chicago] (1961-1977)
*George W. Rathjens (B.S. 1946) Director of weapons systems evaluation division at the Institute of Defense Analyses (1965-1968)
*Gustave H. Shubert (B.A. 1948) Vice President for Domestic Programs of Rand Corp. (1968-1975)
Scott Adams (B.A. 1930) Deputy Director of National Library of Medicine [Washington, D.C.] (1960-1969)
Everett Smith (B.A. 1915) President of American Bible Society (1962-1967)
Jeremiah Milbank Jr. (B.A. 1942) Finance Chairman of Republican National Committee (1969-1972, 1975-1977)
Frank C. Brophy (B.A. 1917) Member of the national council of John Birch Society (1961-1978); President, Bank of Douglas [Ariz.] (1935-55)
Jonathan Goodhue Sherman (B.A. 1929) Protestant Episcopal Bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island (1966-1977)
College Administrators:
*Kingman Brewster Jr. (B.A. 1941) President of Yale University (1963-1977)
Charles Henry Taylor Jr. (B.A. 1950, M.A. 1952, Ph.D. 1955, S&K 1950) Provost of Yale University (1964-1972)
Reuben A. Holden (B.A. 1940, S&B 1940) Secretary of Yale University (1953-1971)
John Edwin Ecklund (B.A. 1938, S&B 1938) Treasurer of Yale University (1966-1978)
William Sloane Coffin Jr. (B.A. 1949; S&B 1949) Chaplain of Yale University (1958-1976); CIA agent (1950-1953)
Ray Lorenzo Heffner, Jr. (B.A. 1945, S&K 1945) President of Brown University (1966-1969)
*Douglas M. Knight (B.A. 1942) President of Duke University (1963-1969)
Phillip Raymond Shriver (B.A. 1943) President of Miami University [Ohio] (1965-1981)
Homer D. Babbidge, Jr. (B.A. 1945, Ph.D. 1953, S&K 1946) President of the University of Connecticut (1962-1972)
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall II (B.A. 1932, Ph.D. 1938) President of Smith College (1959-1975)
Richard Daniel Weigle (B.A. 1931, Ph.D. 1939) President of St. Johns College [Annapolis, Maryland] (1949-1980)
John Arthur Logan Jr. (B.A. 1949, Ph.D. 1954) President of Hollins College [Roanoke, Virginia] (1961-1975)
Harold B. Whiteman, Jr. (B.A. 1941; Ph.D. 1958, S&K 1941) President of Sweet Briar College [Virginia] (1971-1983); Vice Chancellor of New
York University (1969-1971); Professor of History at New York University (1966-1971)
Fenton Keyes (B.A. 1937, Ph.D. 1942) President of Coker College [Hartsville, South Carolina] (1960-1968)
*Harvey Brooks (B.A. 1937) Dean of Engineering and Applied Physics at Harvard University (1957-1975)
Prosser Gifford (B.A. 1951, S&K 1951) Dean of Faculty at Amherst College (1967-1979)
*William D. Carmichael (B.A. 1950) Dean of Graduate School of Business and Public Administration at Cornell University (1962-1968)
Joseph Herman Taggart (Ph.B. 1924) Dean of Graduate School of Business Administration at New York University (1959-1970)
College Professors:
*John N. Hazard (B.A. 1930) Professor of Public Law at Columbia University (1946-1977)
*William L. Cary (B.A. 1931) Professor of Law at Columbia University (1955-1983)
*Henry L. Roberts (B.A. 1938) Professor of History at Columbia University (1956-1967); Professor of History at Dartmouth College (1967-72)
*A. Doak Barnett (B.A. 1942) Professor of Political Science at Columbia University (1961-1969)
Willis Livingston Mesier Reese (B.A. 1935; LL.B. 1938) Charles Evans Hughes Professor of Law at Columbia University (1946-1981)
Allen Tracy Hazen (B.A. 1927, Ph.D. 1935) Professor of English at Columbia University (1948-1971)
Grant Gilmore (B.A. 1931, Ph.D. 1936, LL.B. 1942) Professor of Law at Yale University (1946-1965); Professor of Law at University of
Chicago (1965-1973); Sterling Professor of Law at Yale University (1973-1978)
Thomas Irwin Emerson (B.A. 1928, LL.B. 1931) Professor of Law at Yale Law School (1946-1976)
Ralph Sharp Brown Jr. (B.A. 1935; LL.B. 1939) Professor of Law at Yale Law School (1953-c.1998); Associate Dean of Yale Law School
(1965-1970)
Jan Ginter Deutsch (B.A. 1955; Ph.D. 1962; LL.B. 1962, S&K 1955) Professor of Law at Yale University (1968-2004)
Ralph K. Winter Jr. (B.A. 1957; LL.B. 1960) Professor of Law at Yale University (1968-1982)
William Jay Willis (B.S. 1954, Ph.D. 1958) Professor of Physics at Yale University (1964-c.1972)
Lewis Bookwalter Ward (B.A. 1930, Ph.D. 1934) Professor of Business Research at Harvard University (1959-1974)
*Samuel P. Huntington (B.A. 1946) Professor of Government at Harvard University (1962-2008)
*Jerome A. Cohen (B.A. 1951; J.D. 1955) Jeremiah J. Smith Professor of Law at Harvard University (1964-1981)
Henry Larkin Terrie Jr. (B.A. 1943) Professor of English at Dartmouth College (1959-1986)
Richard Whitney Sterling (B.A. 1942, M.A. 1947, Ph.D. 1956) Professor of Government at Dartmouth College (1962-c.1987)
Lyman B. Spitzer Jr. (B.A. 1935, S&B 1935) Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy at Princeton University (1952-1982)
Charles A. Barker (B.A. 1926, Ph.D. 1932) Professor of American History at Johns Hopkins University (1945-1972)
Francis E. Rourke (B.A. 1947, M.A. 1948) Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University (1961-1993)
Elias Lynch Rivers (B.A. 1948; M.A. 1950; Ph.D. 1952) Professor of Spanish at Johns Hopkins University (1964-1978)
Bert Franklin Green Jr. (B.A. 1949) Professor of Psychology at Johns Hopkins University (1969-1998)
Arthur Stuart Pitt (B.A. 1935, M.A. 1937, Ph.D. 1939) Professor of English at U.S. Naval Academy (1954-1978)
Bernard Cecil Cohen (B.A. 1948; M.A. 1950; Ph.D. 1952) Professor of Political Science at University of Wisconsin [Madison] (1963-1990)
Edward V. Gulick (B.A. 1937, M.A. 1942, Ph.D. 1947) Prof. of European History and Far Eastern History at Wellesley College (1961-c.1976)
Benjamin McLane Spock (B.A. 1925, S&K 1925) Professor of Child Development at Western Reserve University [Cleveland] (1955-1967)
Everard Mott Williams (B.S. 1936, Ph.D. 1939) Professor of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University [Pittsburgh] (1949-1972)
Philip Adrian Wadsworth (B.A. 1935, Ph.D. 1939) Professor of French at Rice University [Houston, Texas] (1964-1973)
Charles Leslie Stevenson (B.A. 1930) Professor of Philosophy at University of Michigan (1949-1977)
Otis Arnold Pease (B.A. 1949, Ph.D. 1954, S&K 1949) Professor of History at the University of Washington [Seattle] (1966-1995)
Robert Stafford Ward (B.A. 1929) Professor of English at the University of Miami [Florida] (1956-1972)
David Thornton Smith (B.A. 1957) Professor of Law at University of Florida (1969-2003)
Simon Newcomb Whitney (B.A. 1924, Ph.D. 1931) Professor of Economics at Rutgers University (1961-1967); Professor of Economics at
New York University (1949-1954, 1967-1971); Director of the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission (1956-1961)
Anthony Nicholas Brady Garvan (B.A. 1939; Ph.D. 1948, S&K 1939) Professor of American Civilization at Univ. of Pennsylvania (1960-1987)
Taylor Culbert (B.A. 1939) Professor of English at Ohio University (1965-1987); Dean of the Graduate College at Ohio University (19651970); Provost of Ohio University (1975-1976)
Oswald Garrison Villard Jr. (B.A. 1938) Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University (1955-1987); Member of United States Air
Force Scientific Advisory Board (1961-1975); great-grandson of abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison
Doctors (Medicine):
Joseph Vincent Terenzio (B.A. 1939) Commissioner of Hospitals of New York City (1966-1970)
Harold Edward Harrison (B.S. 1928; M.D. 1931) Pediatrician-in-Chief of Baltimore City Hospitals (1945-1975)
David Daniel Denker (B.A. 1948; Ph.D. 1951) President of New York Medical College (1967-1969); Professor of History at Rutgers University
(1958-1967)
Albert F. Wessen (B.A. 1948; Ph.D. 1951) Professor of Sociology at Washington University [in St. Louis] (1965-1970); Professor of Sociology
at Brown University (1970-c.1976); Chief of behavioral science unit, World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland (1967-c.1976)
Robert Straus (B.A. 1943; M.A. 1945; Ph.D. 1947) Chairman of National Advisory Committee on Alcoholism (1966-1969)
William Edward Laupus (B.S. 1943; M.D. 1945) Professor of Pediatrics and Chairman of the department at the Medical College of Virginia
and Virginia Commonwealth University [Richmond, Virginia] (1963-1975)
Paul Calabresi (B.A. 1951, M.D. 1955) Professor of Medical Science at Brown University (1968-?); Physician-in-Chief at Roger Williams
General Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island (1968-?)
Henry Brill (B.A. Yale 1928, M.D. Yale 1932) Administrator of New York State Mental Hygiene Research Program (1952-1964); Vice
Chairman of New York State Narcotic Addiction Control Commission (1966-1968); Member of the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug
Abuse (1971-1973); Chairman of the committee of hallucinogenic drugs at FDA-NIMH (1960-1970)
Others:
*John Forbes Kerry (B.A. 1966, S&B 1966) Navy Lieutenant during the Vietnam War; prominent anti-Vietnam War activist
George W. Bush (B.A. 1968, S&B 1968) Lieutenant in the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War; son of George H.W. Bush (B.A.
1948, S&B 1948) and grandson of former U.S. Senator Prescott S. Bush (B.A. 1917, S&B 1917)
*Barry Zorthian (B.A. 1941; S&B 1941) Chief U.S. Spokesman and Director of Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office in Saigon (1964-1968); Vice
President of Time, Inc. (1969-1979)
Richard Ward Day (B.A. 1938, Ph.D. Harvard 1950) Principal of Phillips Exeter Academy (1964-1974)
Note: *=Member of the Council on Foreign Relations; S&B = Skull & Bones; S&K = Scroll & Key
Note: Robert Upjohn Redpath Jr.s office address was located at 666 Fifth Avenue in New York City.
Note: Joseph F. Cullman IIIs Philip Morris Co. corporate headquarters was located at 100 Park Avenue in New York City.
Glenn Leroy Archer Jr. (B.A. 1951) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (1985-1997)
Robert W. Sweet (B.A. 1944; LL.B. 1948) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York [New York City] (1978-1991)
Charles Sherman Haight Jr. (B.A. 1952, S&B 1952) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1976-1995)
Peter K. Leisure (B.A. 1952) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1984-1997)
Louis Lee Stanton (B.A. 1950) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1985-1996)
Gerhard A. Gesell (B.A. 1932) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1967-1993)
Samuel Pailthorpe King (B.S. 1937; LL.B. 1940) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii (1972-1984)
William H. Orrick Jr. (B.A. 1937, S&B 1937) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (1974-1985)
Richard Wellington McLaren (B.A. 1939; LL.B. 1942) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (1972-1976)
Charles Mengel Allen (B.A. 1941) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky (1971-1985)
Stanley Seymour Brotman (B.A. 1947) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (1975-1990)
Alexander Harvey II (B.A. 1947) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (1966-1991)
Herbert Frazier Murray (B.A. 1947) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (1971-1988)
Thomas Collier Platt Jr. (B.A. 1947) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York [Brooklyn] (1974-2001)
Joseph Edward Stevens Jr. (B.A. 1949) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri (1981-1995); Judge of the U.S.
District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri (1981-1995)
William Lloyd Standish (B.A. 1953) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (1987-2002)
John C. Lifland (B.A. 1954) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (1988-2001)
J. Spencer Letts (B.A. 1956) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1985-2000)
George Kendall Sharp (B.A. 1957) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida (1983-2000)
William Charles Lee (B.A. 1959) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana (1981-2003)
Allen Joe Fish (B.A. 1965; LL.B. 1968) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas (1983-2007)
Mark Lawrence Wolf (B.A. 1968) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (1985-2013)
Myron Herbert Thompson (B.A. 1969, J.D. 1972) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama (1980-present)
Douglas P. Woodlock (B.A. 1969, S&B 1969) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (1986-present)
*Dick Thornburgh (B.E. 1954) Governor of Pennsylvania (1979-1987); U.S. Attorney General (1988-1991)
Robert D. Orr (B.A. 1940, S&K 1940) Governor of Indiana (1981-1989)
*Richard F. Celeste (B.A. 1959, RS) Governor of Ohio (1983-1991)
John D. Ashcroft (B.A. 1964 cum laude) Governor of Missouri (1985-1993); Attorney General of Missouri (1976-1985)
*Bill Clinton (J.D. 1973, RS) Governor of Arkansas (1979-1981, 1983-1992)
*Carlos A. Romero-Barcelo (B.A. 1953) Governor of Territory of Puerto Rico (1977-1985)
*Joseph Lieberman (B.A. 1964, J.D. 1967) Attorney General of Connecticut (1983-1989)
Sherrod Brown (B.A. 1974) Secretary of State of Ohio (1983-1991)
Michael Truman Greely (B.A. 1962) Attorney General of Montana (January 3, 1977-January 2, 1989)
Pete Wilson (B.A. 1956) Mayor of San Diego, California (1971-1983)
George Harvey Ingalls Sloane (B.A. 1958) Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky (1973-1977, 1982-1986)
Tony Knowles (B.A. 1968) Mayor of Anchorage, Alaska (1981-1987)
Bankers:
*Robert Huntington Knight (B.A. 1940) Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1977-1983)
David C. Clapp (B.A. 1960) Partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co. (1978-1994)
*Robert A. Lovett (B.A. 1918, S&B 1918) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1953-1986)
John Beckwith Madden (B.A. 1941, S&B 1941) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1955-1988)
Granger Kent Costikyan (B.A. 1929, S&B 1929) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1969-1998)
*Robert L. Ireland III (B.A. 1942) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1960-c.1994)
Laurence Frederick Whittemore (B.A. 1951) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1974-2003)
*Alexander T. Ercklentz (B.A. 1959, S&B 1959) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1978-present)
*Richard P. Cooley (B.S. 1944) Chairman and CEO of Wells Fargo Bank (1979-1982)
*Alfred Brittain III (B.A. 1945) Chairman of Bankers Trust Co. (1975-1987)
Charles B. Johnson (B.A. 1954) Chairman of the board of Franklin Resources, Inc. [now called Franklin Templeton Investments] (1969-pres.)
Herbert M. Allison Jr. (B.A. 1965) Senior Vice President (1986-1993) of Merrill Lynch & Co.
*Stephen A. Schwarzman (B.A. 1969, S&B 1969) Chairman and CEO of The Blackstone Group (1985-present)
George Harold Pfau Jr. (B.S. 1948, S&B 1948) Senior Vice President of Paine Webber [acquired by UBS] (1979-c.2004)
Wilbur Louis Ross Jr. (B.A. 1959) Senior Managing Director of Rothschild, Inc. (1976-2000)
William M. Crozier Jr. (B.A. 1954) Chairman and CEO of BayBanks, Inc. [bank in Boston] (1974-1996)
Raymond Jacob Albright (B.A. 1951, S&K 1951) Vice President of Export-Import Bank of the U.S. (1973-1992)
*Jay Hartley Newman (B.A. 1973) Managing Director of Dillon Read & Co. (1988-1990); Vice President of Lehman Brothers (1983-1985)
Robert Van Cleef Lindsay (B.A. 1949) President of Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. [later J.P. Morgan & Co.] (1980-1986); Chairman of Foreign
Policy Association (1986-1990)
Businessmen:
*John F. Akers (B.S. 1956) Chairman and CEO of International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) (1986-1993)
Robert Cushing Winters (B.A. 1953) Chairman and CEO of Prudential Insurance Co. of America (1987-1994)
Edward J. Morton (B.A. 1949) Chairman and CEO of John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. (1987-1991)
Dennis Keith Ross (B.E. 1946) Chairman and CEO of New York Life Insurance Co. (1981-1990)
John M. Regan, Jr. (B.A. 1943) Chairman of the board of Marsh & McLennan, Inc. [insurance company] (1972-1986)
*William H. Bill Donaldson (B.A. 1953, S&B 1953) Chairman and CEO of Donaldson Enterprises (1980-1990)
*Henry B. Schacht (B.S. 1956) Chairman and CEO of Cummins Engine Co., Inc. (1977-1995)
*John C. Bierwirth (B.A. 1947) Chairman and CEO of Grumman Corporation (1976-1988) [later Northrop Grumman]
H. Mansfield Horner (B.S. 1926) Chairman and CEO of United Aircraft Corporation (1956-1983)
*William W. Boeschenstein (B.S. 1950) Chairman and CEO of Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corp. (1981-1990)
Russell W. Meyer Jr. (B.A. 1954, S&B 1954) Chairman and CEO of Cessna Aircraft Co. (1975-2000, 2002-2003)
Daniel Crow Searle (B.S. 1950) Chairman of the board of G.D. Searle & Co. [chemical company] (1977-1985)
*John D. Macomber (B.A. 1950) Chairman and CEO of Celanese Corp. (1980-1987)
*Thomas B. Ross (B.A. 1951, S&B 1951) Senior Vice President of NBC News (1986-1990)
*Richard L. Gelb (B.A. 1945) Chairman and CEO of Bristol-Myers Co. (1976-1994)
*Bruce S. Gelb (B.A. 1950) Vice Chairman of Bristol-Myers Co. (1985-1989)
John E. Pepper Jr. (B.A. 1960) President of Proctor & Gamble Co. (1986-1995)
John C. Waddell (B.A. 1959) Chairman of the board of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (1980-1994)
Thomas James Skutt (B.A. 1952) Chairman and CEO of Mutual of Omaha Insurance Co. [Nebraska] (1986-1996)
Vernon R. Loucks Jr. (B.A. 1957, S&B 1957) Chairman and CEO of Baxter International Inc. [health care company] (1987-1998)
James S. Chanos (B.A. 1980) Founder and President of Kynikos Associates [hedge fund investment company] (1985-present)
*Joseph Peter Grace, Jr. (B.A. 1936, S&K 1936) Chairman and CEO of W.R. Grace & Co. (1981-1992)
*Frederick W. Smith (B.A. 1966, S&B 1966) Chairman and CEO of Federal Express [FedEx Corp.] (1975-present)
*Henry John Heinz II (B.A. 1931) Chairman of the board of H.J. Heinz Company (1959-1987)
*Roberto C. Goizueta (B.S. 1953) Chairman and CEO of Coca-Cola Co. (1981-1997)
William Wrigley (B.A. 1954) President and CEO of William Wrigley Jr. Co. (1961-c.1996)
Samuel Reid Sutphin (B.A. 1934) Chairman of of Beveridge Paper Co. Indianaipolis (1958-1969); Vice President of Scott Paper Company
(1965-1969); Director of Scott Paper Company (1965-1982); member of the board of directors of National Audubon Society (1976-1982)
Jack Franklin Bennett (B.A. 1944, Ph.D. Harvard 1951) Senior Vice President of Exxon Corp. [oil company in New York City] (1975-1989)
David Samuel Potter (B.S. 1945) Vice President of General Motors Corp. (1976-1985)
Downing Bland Jenks (B.S. 1937) Chairman of the board of Missouri Pacific Railroad [St. Louis] (1972-1983); National President of Boy
Scouts of America (1977-1980)
George Sim Johnston (B.S. 1948, S&K 1948) President and CEO (1970-1991) and Chairman of the board (1988-1991) of Scudder, Stevens
& Clark [investment firm in New York City]
George Albert Sawyer (B.A. 1953) Executive Vice President of General Dynamics Corp. [military weapons] (1983-c.1985); vice president of
international [affairs] at Bechtel, Inc. (1975-1976); Assistant U.S. Secretary of the Navy for Shipbuilding and Logistics (1981-1983)
Crosby Wells (B.A. 1946) Vice President, Secretary, and General Counsel of Electric Bond and Share Co. (Ebasco Services) (1973-1982)
Lawyers:
*Cyrus R. Vance (B.A. 1939, LL.B. 1942, S&K 1939) Partner of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (1956-1961, 1967-1977, 1980-1998)
*William Eldred Jackson (B.A. 1941, S&B 1941) Partner of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy (1954-1999)
*Stanley R. Resor (B.A. 1939, LL.B. 1946, S&K 1939) Member and Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1946-1965, 1971-1973, 1979-1987)
*George N. Lindsay (B.A. 1941) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1955-1990)
*Robert B. von Mehren (B.A. 1943) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1957-1993)
*Harold H. Healy Jr. (B.A. 1943, S&B 1943) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1959-1989)
*William B. Matteson (B.A. 1950) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1961-1998)
George B. Adams (B.A. 1952) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1966-1997)
James C. Goodale (B.A. 1955) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1980-1993)
*David W. Rivkin (B.A. 1977; J.D. 1980) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1988-present)
*Eli Whitney Debevoise II (B.A. 1974) Partner of Arnold & Porter (1979-2007)
Steven Lewis Friedman (B.A. 1968) General Counsel in the United States for the Likud Party of Israel (1988-c.1997); Senior Partner of
Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish and Kauffman [law firm in Philadelphia] (1972-c.1997)
*Peter O.A. Solbert (B.A. 1941, S&B 1941) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1957-1963, 1965-1989)
William F. Kroener III (B.A. 1967) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1979-1994)
Edward Snover Reid III (B.A. 1951, S&B 1951) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1964-1995)
Robert B. Fiske, Jr. (B.A. 1952) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1964-2010)
Jonathan M. Clark (B.A. 1959) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1971-1993)
Donaldson Clark Pillsbury (B.A. 1962, LL.B. 1967, S&K 1962) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell [law firm] (1972-1993)
Guy Miller Struve (B.A. 1963, LL.B. Harvard 1966) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1973-2013)
Bradley Y. Smith (B.A. 1970) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1980-2013)
D. Scott Wise (B.A. 1974) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1987-2011)
Paul W. Bartel, II (B.A. 1975) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1988-2010)
Stephen K. West (B.A. 1950) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1964-1997)
Michael M. Maney (B.A. 1956) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1971-2003)
Willard B. Taylor (B.A. 1962; LL.B. 1965) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1972-2007)
Richard R. Howe (B.A. 1964) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1974-2009)
Richard G. Asthalter (B.A. 1966; J.D. 1971) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1980-2008)
John T. Bostelman (B.A. 1975) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1986-2009)
*James H. Carter (B.A. 1965; LL.B. 1969) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1977-2010)
Richard J. Urowsky (B.A. 1967; J.D. 1972) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1980-2014)
Gandolfo V. DiBlasi (B.A. 1975; J.D. 1978) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1985-present)
David F. Morrison (B.A. 1974) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1986-present)
Gregory A. Weiss (B.A. 1966) Partner of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (1976-present)
Glenn M. Reiter (B.A. 1973, J.D. 1976) Partner of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (1984-present)
*Robert Huntington Knight (B.A. 1940) Partner of Shearman & Sterling (1955-1958, 1962-1985)
Roger J. Baneman (B.A. 1972) Partner of Shearman & Sterling (1985-present)
Robert S. Rifkind (B.A. 1958) Partner of Cravath, Swaine & Moore (1971-2001)
*Alfred D. Youngwood (B.A. 1959) Partner of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (1970-2008)
*Toby S. Myerson (B.A. 1971) Partner of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (1983-1989, 1990-present)
*Jerome A. Cohen (B.A. 1951; J.D. 1955) Partner of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (1981-2000)
Charles R. Walker III (B.A. 1951, LL.B. 1954) Member of Lord, Day & Lord [law firm in New York City] (1956-1994)
Charles H. Critchlow (B.A. 1972) Partner of Coudert Brothers [law firm in New York City] (1986-2005)
David Wilder Welles (B.A. 1961) Partner of Baker & McKenzie [law firm in New York City] (1970-c.1990)
Frank Herbert Prem Jr. (B.A. 1953) Partner of Whitman & Ransom [law firm in New York City] (1967-1993)
Michael David Hess (B.A. 1962, J.D. Harvard 1965) Partner of Weil Gotshal [law firm in New York City] (1973-1983); Senior Partner of White
& Case [law firm in New York City] (1986-1993)
Donald Schapiro (B.A. 1944; LL.B. 1949) Partner of Chadbourne & Parke [law firm in New York City] (1988-present)
Robert William Brundige Jr. (B.A. 1966) Partner of Hughes, Hubbard & Reed [law firm in New York City] (1987-present)
John M. Townsend (B.A. 1968, J.D., 1971) Partner and Co-Chair of Hughes, Hubbard & Reed [law firm in New York City]
Scott J. Davis (B.A. 1972) Partner of Mayer Brown [Chicago] (1983-present)
R. Quincy White (B.A. 1954) Partner of Sidley & Austin [Chicago] (1973-1993)
David Alan Richards (B.A. 1967, J.D. 1972, S&B 1967) Partner of Sidley & Austin [law firm in Chicago and New York City] (1983-2000)
Donald Etra (B.A. 1968, S&B 1968) Partner of Sidley & Austin [law firm in Chicago and Los Angeles] (1983-1995)
Robert Howard Wellen (B.A. 1968; J.D. 1971) Partner of Fulbright & Jaworski [law firm in Washington, D.C.] (1979-1993)
Jonathan C. Rose (B.A. 1963, S&B 1963) Partner of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue [Washington, D.C.] (1977-1981, 1984-present)
H. Stewart Dunn Jr. (B.A. 1951) Partner of Ivins, Phillips & Barker [law firm in Washington, D.C.] (1962-c.2002)
Allen C. Goolsby (B.A. 1961) Partner of Hunton & Williams [Richmond, Virginia] (1975-present)
Kell Marsh Damsgaard (B.A. 1971) Partner of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius [Philadelphia] (1981-present)
James F. Kirkham (B.A. 1954) Partner of Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro [law firm in San Francisco] (1966-c.1996); member of Bohemian Club
Peter R. Taft (B.A. 1958; LL.B., 1961, S&K 1958) Partner of Munger, Tolles & Olson [Los Angeles] (1969-present)
George Denegre (B.A. 1943) Partner of Jones, Walker, Weachter, Poievent, Carrere & Denegre [law firm in New Orleans] (1952-2008)
David Allan Gates (B.A. 1969) Partner of Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard [law firm in Little Rock, Arkansas] (1979-c. 1995)
Robert Hastings Nichols (B.A. 1963) Partner of Cotton, Watt, Jones & King [Chicago] (1967-1995)
William Paul Sutter (B.A. 1947) Partner of Hopkins & Sutter [law firm in Chicago] (1957-1989)
Robert D. McCallum Jr. (B.A. 1968, S&B 1968, RS) Partner of Alston & Bird [Atlanta] (1979-2001)
Journalists and Organization Executives:
*Robert Greeley Kaiser (B.A. 1964) National Correspondent at The Washington Post (1975-1982); Assistant Managing Editor for national
news at The Washington Post (1985-1990); son of former U.S. Ambassador to Hungary Philip M. Kaiser
Robert U. Bob Woodward (B.A. 1965) Washington Post reporter (1971-present) and best-selling author
*Strobe Talbott (B.A. 1968, RS) Washington Bureau Chief of Time magazine (1984-1989)
Eric Dwight Pace (B.A. 1957) Member of the staff of The New York Times (1965-2004)
*James F. Hoge Jr. (B.A. 1958) President of New York Daily News (1985-1991)
William F. Buckley Jr. (B.A. 1950, S&B 1950) Editor-in-Chief of National Review magazine (1955-1990)
*Robert B. Semple Jr. (B.A. 1959) Associate Editor of the Editorial Page of The New York Times (1988-present); Op-Ed Page Editor of The
New York Times (1982-1988)
*Hugh D.S. Greenway (B.A. 1958, S&K 1958) Associate Editor of The Boston Globe (1978-1993)
James H. Ottaway Jr. (B.A. 1960) Senior Vice President of Dow Jones & Co. (1986-2003)
*David R. Gergen (B.A. 1963) CNN political analyst; Counselor to the President of the United States (1993-1994)
*William H. Draper III (B.A. 1950, S&B 1950) Administrator of United Nations Development Programme [UNDP] (1986-1993)
*George N. Lindsay (B.A. 1941) Trustee of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1981-1991)
*Carl Gershman (B.A. 1965) President of the National Endowment for Democracy (1984-present)
College Presidents and Professors:
*Angelo Bartlett Giamatti (B.A. 1960) President of Yale University (1978-1986)
*Benno C. Schmidt Jr. (B.A. 1963) President of Yale University (1986-1992)
George Dennis OBrien (B.A. 1952, Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago 1961) President of Bucknell University (1976-1984); President of University of
Rochester [New York] (1984-1994)
*Edward T. Foote II (B.A. 1959) President of the University of Miami [Florida] (1981-2001)
Richard L. Van Horn (B.S. 1954) President of University of Houston (1983-1989); President of University of Oklahoma (1989-1994)
James David Atwater (B.A. 1950) Dean of School of Journalism at University of Missouri-Columbia (1983-1989)
James F. Simon (B.A. 1961; LL.B. 1964) Dean of New York Law School (1983-1992)
Russell K. Osgood (B.A. 1969, J.D. 1974) Dean of Cornell Law School (1988-1998)
Guido Calabresi (B.S. 1953, RS) Dean of Yale Law School (1985-1994)
William D. Nordhaus (B.A. 1963, S&B 1963) Provost of Yale University (1986-1988)
*John H.F. Shattuck (B.A. 1965, S&B 1965) Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs at Harvard University (1984-1993)
Robert J. Sternberg (B.A. 1972) IBM Professor of Psychology and Education at Yale University (1986-2005)
*Samuel P. Huntington (B.A. 1946) Professor of Government at Harvard University (1962-2008)
*Rashid I. Khalidi (B.A. 1970) Professor of Middle East History at University of Chicago (1987-2003)
Richard Burleson Stewart (B.A. 1961) Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (1975-1984); Byrne Professor of Administrative Law at
Harvard Law School (1984-1989); Assistant U.S. Attorney General for Environment and Natural Resources (1989-1991)
Alvin C. Warren (B.A. 1966) Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (1980-present)
Richard Whitney Sterling (B.A. 1942, M.A. 1947, Ph.D. 1956) Professor of Government at Dartmouth College (1962-c.1987)
David Thornton Smith (B.A. 1957) Professor of Law at University of Florida (1969-2003)
Bert Franklin Green Jr. (B.A. 1949) Professor of Psychology at Johns Hopkins University (1969-1998)
Otis Arnold Pease (B.A. 1949, Ph.D. 1954, S&K 1949) Professor of History at the University of Washington [Seattle] (1966-1995)
Note: *=Member of the Council on Foreign Relations; RS = Rhodes Scholar; S&B = Skull & Bones; S&K = Scroll & Key
Thomas Collier Platt Jr. (B.A. 1947) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (1974-2001); Chief Judge of the U.S.
District Court for the Eastern District of New York (1988-1995)
Joseph Edward Stevens Jr. (B.A. 1949) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri (1981-1995); Judge of the U.S.
District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri (1981-1995)
William Lloyd Standish (B.A. 1953) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (1987-2002)
John C. Lifland (B.A. 1954) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (1988-2001)
J. Spencer Letts (B.A. 1956) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1985-2000)
George Kendall Sharp (B.A. 1957) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida (1983-2000)
William Charles Lee (B.A. 1959) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana (1981-2003); Chief Judge of the U.S.
District Court for the Northern District of Indiana (1997-2003)
John G. Murtha (B.A. 1963) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont (1995-2009); Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for
the District of Vermont (1995-2002)
Allen Joe Fish (B.A. 1965; LL.B. 1968) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas (1983-2007)
John W. Lungstrum (B.A. 1967) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas (1991-present)
Mark Lawrence Wolf (B.A. 1968) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (1985-2013)
Myron Herbert Thompson (B.A. 1969, J.D. 1972) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama (1980-present); Chief
Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama (1991-1998)
Douglas P. Woodlock (B.A. 1969, S&B 1969) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (1986-present)
Carlos R. Moreno (B.A. 1970) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1998-2001)
Denise Page Hood (B.A. 1974) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (1994-present)
Jack B. Schmetterer (B.A. 1952; J.D. 1955) Judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois [Chicago] (1985-present)
James Edgar Baker (B.A. 1982, J.D. 1990) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (2000-present); Legal Adviser to the
President of the U.S. (1997-2000); Deputy Legal Adviser for the National Security Council (1994-1997); Attorney adviser on Law Enforcement
and Intelligence for the U.S. Department of State (1990-1993)
*Dick Thornburgh (B.E. 1954) U.S. Attorney General (1988-1991); United Nations Undersecretary-General for Administration and
Management (1992-1993)
Philip B. Heymann (B.A. 1954, S&K 1954) Deputy U.S. Attorney General (1993-1994)
Paul Edward Coggins (B.A. 1973, RS) U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas (1993-2001)
*Charles Nicholas Rostow (B.A. 1972, Ph.D. 1979, J.D. 1982) Special Assistant to the President of the U.S. (1987-1993); General Counsel of
the U.S. Mission to the United Nations (2001-2005); member of the Royal Institute for International Affairs
John D. Hawke Jr. (B.A. 1954) Comptroller of the Currency (1998-2004); Under Sec. of the Treasury for Domestic Finances (1995-1998)
*William K. Reilly (B.A. 1962) Administrator of Environmental Protection Agency (1989-1993)
Reed Hundt (B.A. 1969, J.D. 1974) Chairman of Federal Communications Commission (1993-1997)
Andrew J. Pincus (B.A. 1977) General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Commerce (1997-2000)
Kenneth N. Weinstein (B.A. 1968; J.D. 1974) Assistant Chief Counsel for Litigation of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
(NHTSA) (1988-1997); NHTSA Associate Administrator for Enforcement (1997-2005)
*John H. Chafee (B.A. 1947, S&B 1947) U.S. Senator (Republican Party-Rhode Island, 1976-1999)
*John Forbes Kerry (B.A. 1966, S&B 1966) U.S. Senator (Democratic Party-Massachusetts, 1985-2013)
*Joseph Lieberman (B.A. 1964, J.D. 1967) U.S. Senator (Democratic Party-Connecticut, 1989-2013)
James M. Jeffords (B.S. 1956) U.S. Senator (Republican Party-Vermont, 1989-2007)
John D. Ashcroft (B.A. 1964) U.S. Senator (Republican Party-Missouri, 1993-2001); Governor of Missouri (1985-1993)
Gerry Eastman Studds (B.A. 1959) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-Massachusetts, 1973-1997)
Raymond Hoyt Thornton Jr. (B.A. 1950) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-Arkansas, 1973-1979, 1991-1997)
Willis David Gradison, Jr. (B.A. 1949) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Ohio, 1975-1993)
Andrew P. Andy Ireland (B.S. 1952) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D/R-Florida, 1977-1993)
Clarence William Bill Nelson (B.A. 1965) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-Florida, 1979-1991)
Ben Erdreich (B.A. 1960) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-Alabama, 1983-1993)
John Jacob Rhodes III (B.A. 1965) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Arizona, 1987-1993)
*Porter J. Goss (B.A. 1960) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Florida, 1989-2004)
Richard Swett (B.A. 1979) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-NH, 1991-1995); U.S. Ambassador to Denmark (1998-2001)
Richard Zimmer (B.A. 1966; L.L.B. 1969) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-New Jersey, 1991-1997)
Gary A. Franks (B.A. 1975) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Connecticut, 1991-1997)
Sherrod Brown (B.A. 1974) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-Ohio, 1993-2007)
Lamar S. Smith (B.A. 1969) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Texas, 1987-present)
Sheila Jackson-Lee (B.A. 1972) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-Texas, 1995-present)
George W. Bush (B.A. 1968, S&B 1968) Governor of Texas (1995-2000)
Gary Locke (B.A. 1972) Governor of Washington (1997-2005)
Bob Taft (B.A. 1963) Governor of Ohio (1999-2007); Secretary of State of Ohio (1991-1999)
Tony Knowles (B.A. 1968) Governor of Alaska (1994-2002)
Pete Wilson (B.A. 1956) Governor of California (January 7, 1991-January 4, 1999)
Kurt L. Schmoke (B.A. 1971) Mayor of Baltimore, Maryland (1987-1999)
Victor H. Ashe (B.A. 1967, S&B 1967) Mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee (1987-2003)
George B. Daniels (B.A. 1975) Counsel to the Mayor of New York City (1990-1993); Judge of the Criminal Court of the City of New York
(1989-1990, 1993-1995); Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York (1995-2000)
Clarence William "Bill" Nelson (B.A. 1965) Treasurer, Insurance Commissioner, and Fire Marshal of Florida (Jan. 3, 1995Jan. 1, 2000)
Businessmen:
*John F. Akers (B.S. 1956) Chairman and CEO of International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) (1986-1993)
Robert Cushing Winters (B.A. 1953) Chairman and CEO of Prudential Insurance Co. of America (1987-1994)
Edward J. Morton (B.A. 1949) Chairman and CEO of John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. (1987-1991)
*William H. Bill Donaldson (B.A. 1953, S&B 1953) Chairman of the board of New York Stock Exchange (1991-1995); Chairman and CEO of
Aetna Insurance Co. (2000-2001); Chairman of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1999-2003)
*Henry B. Schacht (B.S. 1956) Chairman and CEO of Cummins Engine Co., Inc. (1977-1995); Chairman of Lucent Technologies (1995-1997,
2000-2002)
Russell W. Meyer Jr. (B.A. 1954, S&B 1954) Chairman and CEO of Cessna Aircraft Co. (1975-2000, 2002-2003)
*John D. Macomber (B.A. 1950) Chmn. and CEO of Celanese Corp. (1980-1987); Chmn. and Pres. of Export-Import Bank of U.S. (1989-92)
Louis Gordon Lower, II (B.A. 1967) President of Allstate Life Insurance Co. (1990-c.1997)
Stephen F. Gates (B.A. 1968) Vice President and General Counsel of Amoco Corp. (1995-1998); Executive Vice President of BP Amoco
(1999-2000)
*Lawrence C. McQuade (B.A. 1950, RS) Vice Chairman of Prudential Mutual Fund Management, Inc. (1988-1995); Chairman of Qualitas
International (1995-2005)
*Thomas B. Ross (B.A. 1951, S&B 1951) Senior Vice President of NBC News (1986-1990); Senior Vice President of Hill and Knowlton
(1990-1994); Vice President for Government Relations of Loral Space and Communications (1995-2003)
*Richard L. Gelb (B.A. 1945) Chairman and CEO of Bristol-Myers Co. (1976-1994)
Kenneth L. Wolfe (B.A. 1961) Chairman and CEO of Hershey Chocolate Co. (1994-2001)
John E. Pepper Jr. (B.A. 1960) Chairman of the board of The Walt Disney Co. (2007-2012); Chairman of the board of Proctor & Gamble Co.
(1995-2002); President of Proctor & Gamble Co. (1986-1995)
Thomas B. Wheeler (B.A. 1958, S&B 1958) President and CEO of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. (1988-1999); Chairman and
CEO of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. (1996-1999)
John C. Waddell (B.A. 1959) Chairman of the board of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (1980-1994)
Thomas James Skutt (B.A. 1952) Chairman and CEO of Mutual of Omaha Insurance Co. [Nebraska] (1986-1996)
Vernon R. Loucks Jr. (B.A. 1957, S&B 1957) Chairman and CEO of Baxter International Inc. [health care company] (1987-1998)
Gerald Grinstein (B.A. 1954) Chairman (1997-1999) CEO (2004-2007) of Delta Air Lines Inc.; Chairman and CEO of Burlington Northern
Railroad Co. (1990-1995)
John C. Pope (B.S. 1971) President of United Airlines Corporation (1992-1994); Vice Chairman of United Airlines Inc. (1989-1992)
James S. Chanos (B.A. 1980) Founder and President of Kynikos Associates [hedge fund investment company] (1985-present)
David D. Holbrook (B.A. 1960, S&B 1960) Chairman (1995-98), President (1988-1994), and Co-CEO (1992-94) of Marsh & McLennan, Inc.
*Joseph Peter Grace, Jr. (B.A. 1936, S&K 1936) Chairman and CEO of W.R. Grace & Co. (1981-1992)
Arthur John Peck Jr. (B.A. 1962) Assistant Secretary of Corning, Inc. (1981-1998); Secretary and Vice President of Corning, Inc. (1998-?)
*L. Paul Bremer III (B.A. 1963) Managing Director of Kissinger Associates (1989-2000)
W. James (Jim) McNerney, Jr. (B.A. 1971) President of General Electric Asia-Pacific [Hong Kong] (1993-1995); President and CEO of
General Electric (GE) Aircraft Engines [Cincinnati] (1997-2000)
Bankers:
David W. Mullins Jr. (B.S. 1968) Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1991-1994); Member of the Federal Reserve Board (1990-1994)
Laurence H. Meyer (B.A. 1965) Member of the Federal Reserve Board (1996-2002)
*Cyrus R. Vance (B.A. 1939, LL.B. 1942, S&K 1939) Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1989-1991)
Douglas A. Warner III (B.A. 1968) Chairman and CEO of J.P. Morgan & Co. (1995-2000); President of J.P. Morgan & Co. (1990-2000);
Chairman of JP Morgan Chase & Co. (2000-2001)
Robert F. Greenhill (B.A. 1958) President of Morgan Stanley (1991-1993); Vice Chairman of Morgan Stanley (1989-1991)
David C. Clapp (B.A. 1960) Partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co. (1978-1994)
Joseph H. Gleberman (B.A. 1980) Partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co. (1990-2011)
Granger Kent Costikyan (B.A. 1929, S&B 1929) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1969-1998)
*Robert L. Ireland III (B.A. 1942) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1960-c.1994)
Laurence Frederick Whittemore (B.A. 1951) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1974-2003)
*Alexander T. Ercklentz (B.A. 1959, S&B 1959) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1978-present)
George Harold Pfau Jr. (B.S. 1948, S&B 1948) Senior Vice President of Paine Webber [acquired by UBS] (1979-c.2004)
Wilbur Louis Ross Jr. (B.A. 1959) Senior Managing Director of Rothschild, Inc. (1976-2000)
Raymond Jacob Albright (B.A. 1951, S&K 1951) Vice President of Export-Import Bank of the U.S. (1973-1992); Senior Vice President of
Export-Import Bank of the U.S. (1992-1995)
*Jay Hartley Newman (B.A. 1973) Managing Director of Morgan Stanley & Co. (1990-1993); Managing Director of Dillon Read & Co. (19881990); Vice President of Lehman Brothers (1983-1985)
Charles B. Johnson (B.A. 1954) Chairman of the board of Franklin Resources, Inc. [now called Franklin Templeton Investments] (1969-pres.)
Herbert M. Allison Jr. (B.A. 1965) Senior Vice President (1986-1993) and President (1997-1999) of Merrill Lynch & Co.
*Stephen A. Schwarzman (B.A. 1969, S&B 1969) Chairman and CEO of The Blackstone Group (1985-present)
William M. Crozier Jr. (B.A. 1954) Chairman and CEO of BayBanks, Inc. [bank in Boston] (1974-1996)
Journalists:
*Jeffrey L. Bewkes (B.A. 1974) Chairman and CEO of Home Box Office (HBO) (1995-2002)
*David R. Gergen (B.A. 1963) CNN political analyst; Counselor to the President of the U.S. (1993-1994)
*Paul E. Steiger (B.A. 1964) Managing Editor of Wall Street Journal (1991-2007)
Robert Greeley Kaiser (B.A. 1964) Managing Editor of The Washington Post (1991-1998); Associate Editor, The Washington Post (1998-pr.)
Robert U. Bob Woodward (B.A. 1965) Washington Post reporter (1971-present) and best-selling author
Eric Dwight Pace (B.A. 1957) Member of the staff of The New York Times (1965-2004)
*Fareed Zakaria (B.A. 1986, S&K 1986) Editor of Newsweek International; Director of Council on Foreign Relations (2004-present)
*James F. Hoge Jr. (B.A. 1958) Editor of Foreign Affairs magazine (1992-2010); President of New York Daily News (1985-1991)
*David A. Laventhol (B.A. 1957) Publisher and CEO of The Los Angeles Times (1989-1993)
*William F. Buckley Jr. (B.A. 1950, S&B 1950) Editor-at-Large of National Review magazine (1991-2004)
*Robert B. Semple Jr. (B.A. 1959) Associate Editor of the Editorial Page of The New York Times (1988-present); Op-Ed Page Editor of The
New York Times (1982-1988)
*Hugh D.S. Greenway (B.A. 1958, S&K 1958) Associate Editor of The Boston Globe (1978-1993); Editorial Page Editor of The Boston Globe
(1994-2000); Foreign Affairs Columnist for The Boston Globe (2000-present)
*Robert W. Kagan (B.A. 1980, S&B 1980) Columnist for The Washington Post; Co-Founder of the Project for the New American Century
Dana T. Milbank (B.A. 1990, S&B 1990) Columnist for The Washington Post
*Paul Krugman (B.A. 1974) Op-Ed Columnist for The New York Times (1999-present)
Scott C. Smith (B.A. 1973) Senior Vice President of Tribune Co. (1989-1993); President, Publisher, and CEO of Chicago Tribune Co. (19972004, 2006-2008)
James H. Ottaway Jr. (B.A. 1960) Senior Vice President of Dow Jones & Co. (1986-2003)
*Margaret G. Warner (B.A. 1971) PBS journalist
*Strobe Talbott (B.A. 1968, RS) Editor-at-Large (and Foreign Affairs Columnist) for Time magazine (1989-1993); Director of Council on
Foreign Relations (1988-1993)
Organization Executives:
*William H. Draper III (B.A. 1950, S&B 1950) Administrator of United Nations Development Programme [UNDP] (1986-1993)
*Roger D. Stone (B.A. 1955) President of Sustainable Development Institute (1993-present)
*George N. Lindsay (B.A. 1941) Trustee of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1981-1991)
*James Gustave Speth (B.A. 1964, RS) Administrator of United Nations Development Program (1993-1999)
*Carl Gershman (B.A. 1965) President of the National Endowment for Democracy (1984-present)
*Jonathan F. Fanton (B.A. 1965) Chairman of the board of Human Rights Watch (1998-2003); President of John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation (1999-2009)
Dawn Johnsen (B.A. 1983; J.D. 1986) Legal Director of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL) (1988-1993);
Deputy Assistant U.S. Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel (1993-1996)
College Administrators and Professors:
*Benno C. Schmidt Jr. (B.A. 1963) President of Yale University (1986-1992)
George Dennis OBrien (B.A. 1952, Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago 1961) President of University of Rochester [New York] (1984-1994)
*Edward T. Foote II (B.A. 1959) President of the University of Miami [Florida] (1981-2001)
*David L. Boren (B.A. 1963, S&B 1963, RS) President of University of Oklahoma (1994-present); U.S. Senator (D-Oklahoma, 1979-1994)
Russell K. Osgood (B.A. 1969, J.D. 1974) President of Grinnell College (1998-2010); Dean of Cornell Law School (1988-1998)
Dale T. Knobel (B.A. 1971) President of Denison University (1998-2013)
Steven Knapp (B.A. 1973) Provost of Johns Hopkins University (1996-2007)
Avi Soifer (B.A. 1969, J.D. 1972) Dean of Boston College Law School (1993-1998)
Lance Liebman (B.A. 1962) Dean of Columbia Law School (1991-1996); William S. Beinecke Professor of Law at Columbia Law School
(1998-present)
Robert J. Sternberg (B.A. 1972) IBM Professor of Psychology and Education at Yale University (1986-2005)
*Samuel P. Huntington (B.A. 1946) Professor of Government at Harvard University (1962-2008)
*Rashid I. Khalidi (B.A. 1970) Professor of Middle East History at University of Chicago (1987-2003)
*Paul Krugman (B.A. 1974) Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University (2000-present)
*Michael Mandelbaum (B.A. 1968) Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy at The Johns Hopkins University School of
Advanced International Studies (1990-present)
Akhil Reed Amar (B.A. 1980, J.D. 1984) Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School (1993-present)
Reva Siegel (B.A. 1978; J.D. 1986) Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law at Yale Law School (1999-present)
James Q. Whitman (B.A. 1980, J.D. 1988) Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale Law School (1996-present)
Alvin C. Warren (B.A. 1966) Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (1980-present)
Jeffrey N. Gordon (B.A. 1971) Alfred W. Bressler Professor of Law at Columbia Law School (1998-present)
Brian C. Murchison (B.A. 1974, J.D. 1979, S&B 1974) Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University School of Law (1990-present)
*James C. Thomson, Jr. (B.A. 1953, S&K 1953) Professor of Journalism at Boston University (1984-1997)
*Marvin Zonis (B.A. 1958) Professor of Behavioral Sciences at the University of Chicago (1989-present)
Bert Franklin Green Jr. (B.A. 1949) Professor of Psychology at Johns Hopkins University (1969-1998)
Steven E. Hyman (B.A. 1974) Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School; Director of the National Institute of Mental Health
(NIMH) (1996-2001)
Lawyers:
*Cyrus R. Vance (B.A. 1939, LL.B. 1942, S&K 1939) Partner of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (1956-1961, 1967-1977, 1980-1998)
*William Eldred Jackson (B.A. 1941, S&B 1941) Partner of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy (1954-1999); Vice Chairman of International
Court of Arbitration (1988-1994)
*George N. Lindsay (B.A. 1941) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1955-1990); Of Counsel of Debevoise & Plimpton (1991-1993)
*Robert B. von Mehren (B.A. 1943) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1957-1993)
*William B. Matteson (B.A. 1950) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1961-1998)
George B. Adams (B.A. 1952) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1966-1997); Of Counsel of Debevoise & Plimpton (1998-present); Chairman
of the corporate department of Debevoise & Plimpton (1988-1993); Director of Lawyers Alliance for World Security (1989-1998)
James C. Goodale (B.A. 1955) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1980-1993)
*David W. Rivkin (B.A. 1977; J.D. 1980) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1988-present)
Michael W. Blair (B.A. 1977) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1989-present)
*Eli Whitney Debevoise II (B.A. 1974) Partner of Arnold & Porter (1979-2007)
Steven Lewis Friedman (B.A. 1968) General Counsel in the United States for the Likud Party of Israel (1988-1999); Partner of Dilworth,
Paxson, Kalish and Kauffman [law firm in Philadelphia] (1976-2005)
William F. Kroener III (B.A. 1967) General Counsel of FDIC (1995-2006); Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1979-1994)
Edward Snover Reid III (B.A. 1951, S&B 1951) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1964-1995)
Robert B. Fiske, Jr. (B.A. 1952) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1964-2010)
Jonathan M. Clark (B.A. 1959) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1971-1993); General Counsel of Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. (1993-1997)
Donaldson Clark Pillsbury (B.A. 1962, LL.B. 1967, S&K 1962) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1972-1993)
Guy Miller Struve (B.A. 1963, LL.B. Harvard 1966) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1973-2013)
Bradley Y. Smith (B.A. 1970) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1980-2013)
Patrick S. Kenadjian (B.A. 1970) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1984-2010)
D. Scott Wise (B.A. 1974) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1987-2011)
Paul W. Bartel, II (B.A. 1975) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1988-2010)
John M. Brandow (B.A. 1975) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1989-present)
Danforth Townley (B.A. 1979; J.D. 1985) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1994-present)
Mario J. Verdolini (B.A. 1985) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1997-present)
Harry Ballan (B.A. 1981; Ph.D. 1986) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1999-present)
Daniel G. Kelly, Jr. (B.A. 1973) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1999-present)
Stephen K. West (B.A. 1950) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell [law firm in New York City] (1964-1997)
Michael M. Maney (B.A. 1956) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1971-2003); Senior Counsel of Sullivan & Cromwell (2003-present)
Willard B. Taylor (B.A. 1962; LL.B. 1965) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1972-2007)
Richard R. Howe (B.A. 1964) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1974-2009)
Richard G. Asthalter (B.A. 1966; J.D. 1971) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1980-2008)
John T. Bostelman (B.A. 1975) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1986-2009)
*James H. Carter (B.A. 1965; LL.B. 1969) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1977-2010)
Richard J. Urowsky (B.A. 1967; J.D. 1972) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1980-2014)
Gandolfo V. DiBlasi (B.A. 1975; J.D. 1978) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1985-present)
David F. Morrison (B.A. 1974) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1986-present)
Robert S. Risoleo (B.A. 1980; J.D. 1984) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1992-present)
Gregory A. Weiss (B.A. 1966) Partner of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (1976-present)
Glenn M. Reiter (B.A. 1973, J.D. 1976) Partner of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (1984-present)
Sarah E. Cogan (B.A. 1978) Partner of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (1989-present)
David A. Sneider (B.A. 1979) Partner of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (1994-present)
Roger J. Baneman (B.A. 1972) Partner of Shearman & Sterling (1985-present)
Antonia E. Stolper (B.A. 1979) Partner of Shearman & Sterling
Michael J. Kennedy (B.A. 1981) Partner of Shearman & Sterling
Thomas B. Wilner (B.A. 1966) Of Counsel of Shearman & Sterling
*Clark T. Randt Jr. (B.A. 1968) Partner of Shearman & Sterling in Hong Kong (1991-2001)
Robert S. Rifkind (B.A. 1958) Partner of Cravath, Swaine & Moore (1971-2001)
Rory O. Millson (B.A. 1973; J.D. 1977, B.A. Oxford 1975 (S. African Rhodes Scholar)) Partner of Cravath, Swaine & Moore (1984-present)
Scott A. Edelman (B.A. Yale; M.A. Yale) Partner (and Vice Chairman) of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy (1995-present)
Andrew E. Tomback (B.A. Yale, J.D. Yale) Partner of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy (1996-present)
*Alfred D. Youngwood (B.A. 1959) Partner of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (1970-2008)
*Toby S. Myerson (B.A. 1971) Partner of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (1983-1989, 1990-present)
*Jerome A. Cohen (B.A. 1951; J.D. 1955) Partner of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (1981-2000); Of Counsel of Paul, Weiss,
Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (2000-present); Professor of Law at New York University School of Law (1990-present)
Charles R. Walker III (B.A. 1951, LL.B. 1954) Member of Lord, Day & Lord [law firm in New York City] (1956-1994)
Charles H. Critchlow (B.A. 1972) Partner of Coudert Brothers [law firm in New York City] (1986-2005)
Donald Schapiro (B.A. 1944; LL.B. 1949) Partner of Chadbourne & Parke [law firm in New York City] (1988-present)
Robert William Brundige Jr. (B.A. 1966) Partner of Hughes, Hubbard & Reed [law firm in New York City] (1987-present)
John M. Townsend (B.A. 1968, J.D., 1971) Partner and Co-Chair of Hughes, Hubbard & Reed [law firm in New York City]
Scott J. Davis (B.A. 1972) Partner of Mayer Brown [Chicago] (1983-present)
R. Quincy White (B.A. 1954) Partner of Sidley & Austin [Chicago] (1973-1993)
David Alan Richards (B.A. 1967, J.D. 1972, S&B 1967) Partner of Sidley & Austin [law firm in Chicago and New York City] (1983-2000);
Partner of McCarter & English [law firm in New York City] (2001-present)
Donald Etra (B.A. 1968, S&B 1968) Partner of Sidley & Austin [law firm in Chicago and Los Angeles] (1983-1995); Head of Law Offices of
Donald Etra in Los Angeles (1995-present)
Robert Howard Wellen (B.A. 1968; J.D. 1971) Partner of Fulbright & Jaworski [law firm in Washington, D.C.] (1979-1993)
Jonathan C. Rose (B.A. 1963, S&B 1963) Partner of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue [Washington, D.C.] (1977-1981, 1984-present)
H. Stewart Dunn Jr. (B.A. 1951) Partner of Ivins, Phillips & Barker [law firm in Washington, D.C.] (1962-c.2002)
Allen C. Goolsby (B.A. 1961) Partner of Hunton & Williams [Richmond, Virginia] (1975-present)
Andrea Bear Field (B.A. 1971) Partner of Hunton & Williams [Washington, D.C.] (1991-present)
Kell Marsh Damsgaard (B.A. 1971) Partner of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius [Philadelphia] (1981-present)
Robert L. Abramowitz (B.A. 1971) Partner of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius [Philadelphia] (1990-present)
Gene J. Oshman (B.A. 1980, J.D. 1983) Partner of Baker Botts [Houston, Texas] (1990-present)
J. David Kirkland Jr. (B.A. 1980, J.D. 1983) Partner of Baker Botts [Houston, Texas]
James F. Kirkham (B.A. 1954) Partner of Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro [law firm in San Francisco] (1966-c.1996); member of Bohemian Club
Peter R. Taft (B.A. 1958; LL.B., 1961, S&K 1958) Partner of Munger, Tolles & Olson [Los Angeles] (1969-present)
George Denegre (B.A. 1943) Partner of Jones, Walker, Weachter, Poievent, Carrere & Denegre [law firm in New Orleans] (1952-2008)
David Allan Gates (B.A. 1969) Partner of Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard [law firm in Little Rock, Arkansas] (1979-c. 1995)
Robert Hastings Nichols (B.A. 1963) Partner of Cotton, Watt, Jones & King [Chicago] (1967-1995); Senior Attorney and Coordinator for
United Airlines Master Executive Council, Air Line Pilots Association, International AFL-CIO (1995-c.2007)
Roderick A. Palmore (B.A. 1974) General Counsel and Secretary of Sara Lee Corp. (1999-2008); Senior Vice President and General
Counsel of Sara Lee Corp. (1999-2004); Partner of Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon [Chicago] (1986-1993)
Michael David Hess (B.A. 1962, J.D. Harvard 1965) Senior Partner of White & Case [law firm in New York City] (1986-1993); Senior Partner
of Chadbourne & Parke [law firm in New York City] (1993-1998); Chairman of the board of trustees of Horace Mann School in Bronx, New York
City (1994-2001); Chief of civil division , Office of the U.S. Attorney [for the Southern District of New York] in New York City (1966-1973)
Note: *=Member of the Council on Foreign Relations; RS = Rhodes Scholar; S&B = Skull & Bones; S&K = Scroll & Key
Note: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit is located in New York City. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New
York is located in New York City. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit is located in Chicago.
Yale University Graduates and Their Occupation during Global War on Terrorism (2001-present) and Second Persian Gulf War (2003-2011)
Government Officials:
George W. Bush (B.A. 1968, S&B 1968) President of the United States (January 20, 2001-January 20, 2009)
John D. Ashcroft (B.A. 1964) U.S. Attorney General (February 2, 2001-February 3, 2005)
*L. Paul Bremer III (B.A. 1963) Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority of Iraq (May 12, 2003-June 28, 2004)
*Porter J. Goss (B.A. 1960) Director of Central Intelligence Agency (September 24, 2004-May 5, 2006); U.S. Congressman (RepublicanFlorida, January 3, 1989-September 23, 2004)
*William H. Donaldson (B.A. 1953, S&B 1953) Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Feb. 18, 2003-June 30, 2005)
Elisse B. Walter (B.A. 1971) Chairman of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (December 14, 2012-April 10, 2013); Commissioner of
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (2008-2013)
Mark W. Everson (B.A. 1976) Commissioner of Internal Revenue Service (May 1, 2003-May 28, 2007); President of American Red Cross
(May 29, 2007-November 27, 2007)
Ellen L. Weintraub (B.A. 1978) Commissioner of Federal Election Commission (2002-present); Chairman of FEC (2002-2003)
John D. Hawke Jr. (B.A. 1954) Comptroller of the Currency (1998-2004); Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finances (19951998); Partner of Arnold & Porter [law firm in Washington, D.C.] (2004-present)
*Emil W. Henry Jr. (B.A. 1983) Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Institutions (2005-2009)
Thomas O. Barnett (B.A. 1985) Assistant U.S. Attorney General for the Antitrust Division (2005-2008)
*John D. Negroponte (B.A. 1960) U.S. Representative to the United Nations (September 18, 2001-June 23, 2004); U.S. Ambassador to Iraq
(June 28, 2004-March 17, 2005); Director of National Intelligence (April 21, 2005-February 13, 2007); Deputy U.S. Secretary of State
(February 13, 2007-January 20, 2009)
*John R. Bolton (B.A. 1970; J.D. 1974) U.S. Representative to the United Nations (August 1, 2005-December 9, 2006); Under Secretary of
State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs (May 11, 2001-July 31, 2005)
*Lewis Libby (B.A. 1972) Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the U.S. [Dick Cheney] (2001-2005), principal figure in the Plame Affair
*William H. Taft IV (B.A. 1966) Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State (2001-2005)
*Clark T. Randt Jr. (B.A. 1968) U.S. Ambassador to Communist China (2001-2009); Partner of Shearman & Sterling law firm in Hong Kong
(1991-2001)
Robert D. McCallum Jr. (B.A. 1968, S&B 1968, RS) U.S. Ambassador to Australia (2006-2009); Associate U.S. Attorney General (2003-06)
George Herbert Walker III (B.A. 1953, S&B 1953) U.S. Ambassador to Hungary (2003-2006)
Victor Ashe (B.A. 1967, S&B 1967) U.S. Ambassador to Poland (2004-2009)
David H. Thorne (B.A. 1966, S&B 1966) U.S. Ambassador to Italy (2009-2013)
Charles H. Rivkin (B.A. 1984) U.S. Ambassador to France (2009-2013)
David N. Greenlee (B.A. 1965?) U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia (2003-2006); U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay (2000-2003)
Stephen G. McFarland (B.A. 1976) U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala (2008-2011); Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy in Venezuela 20032005)
Grover Joseph Rees III (B.A. 1973?) U.S. Ambassador to East Timor (2002-2006)
John Marshall Evans (B.A. 1970) U.S. Ambassador to Armenia (2004-2006); U.S. Consul General in St. Petersburg, Russia (1994-1997)
J. Adam Ereli (B.A. 1982) U.S. Ambassador to Bahrain (2007-2011)
Gordon Gray III (B.A. 1978) U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia (2009-2012); Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Egypt (2002-2005);
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (2005-2008)
Paul E. Simons (B.A. Yale) U.S. Ambassador to Chile (2007-2010); former Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel
Donald B. Ensenat (B.A. 1968) U.S. Chief of Protocol (2001-2007)
*Alexander R. Vershbow (B.A. 1974) U.S. Ambassador to Russia (2001-2005); U.S. Ambassador to South Korea (2005-2008); Assistant U.S.
Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (2009-2011); Deputy Secretary-General of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (2012present)
Gary Locke (B.A. 1972) U.S. Ambassador to Communist China (2011-2014); U.S. Secretary of Commerce (2009-2011); Governor of
Washington (1997-2005)
*Ashton B. Carter (B.A. 1976, RS) Under U.S. Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (2009-2011); Deputy U.S.
Secretary of Defense (2011-2013)
*Stephen W. Preston (B.A. 1979) General Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency (2009-2013); General Counsel of the U.S. Department
of Defense (2013-present)
*Reuben Jeffery III (B.A. 1975) Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (2005-2007); Under Secretary of State for
Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs (2007-2009); Executive Director of the Coalition Provisional Authority Office (CPA) [Iraq] at the
Pentagon (2003); Managing Partner of Goldman Sachs in Paris, France (1997-2001)
*Neal S. Wolin (B.A. 1983, J.D. 1988) Deputy U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (2009-2013)
*Kenneth M. Pollack (B.A. 1988) Iran-Iraq Military Analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency (1988-1995); Director for Persian Gulf Affairs at
the National Security Council (1999-2001); Director for National Security Studies at Council on Foreign Relations (2001-2002)
*Joseph Verner Reed Jr. (B.A. 1961) Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations (1992-present)
Austan Goolsbee (B.A. 1991; S&B 1991) Member (2009-2011) and Chairman (2010-2011) of the Council of Economic Advisers
Jay Carney (B.A. 1987) White House Press Secretary (2011-2014)
John M. Walker Jr. (B.A. 1962) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1989-2006); Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Second Circuit (2000-2006); George H.W. Bushs cousin
Guido Calabresi (B.S. 1953, LL.B. 1958, RS) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1994-2009)
*Barrington D. Parker Jr. (B.A. 1965, LL.B. 1969) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2001-present); Judge of the U.S.
District Court for the Southern District of New York (1994-2001)
Richard A. Posner (B.A. 1959) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (1981-present)
Brett M. Kavanaugh (B.A. 1987) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for District of Columbia Circuit (2006-present)
Raymond Charles Clevenger III (B.A. 1959) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (1990-2006)
George B. Daniels (B.A. 1975) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (2000-present)
William Lloyd Standish (B.A. 1953) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (1987-2002)
William Charles Lee (B.A. 1959) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana (1981-2003); Chief Judge of the U.S.
District Court for the Northern District of Indiana (1997-2003)
James Knoll Gardner (B.A. 1962) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (2002-present)
John G. Murtha (B.A. 1963) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont (1995-2009); Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for
the District of Vermont (1995-2002)
Allen Joe Fish (B.A. 1965; LL.B. 1968) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas (1983-2007); Chief Judge of the U.S.
District Court for the Northern District of Texas (2002-2007)
John W. Lungstrum (B.A. 1967) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas (1991-present); Chief Judge of the U.S. District
Court for the District of Kansas (2001-2007)
Mark Lawrence Wolf (B.A. 1968) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (1985-2013); Chief Judge of the U.S.
District Court for the District of Massachusetts (2006-2013)
Myron Herbert Thompson (B.A. 1969, J.D. 1972) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama (1980-present)
Douglas P. Woodlock (B.A. 1969, S&B 1969) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (1986-present)
Denise Page Hood (B.A. 1974) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (1994-present)
Dora L. Irizarry (B.A. 1976) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (2004-present)
James O. Browning (B.A. 1978) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico (2003-present)
Robert Michael Dow Jr. (B.A. 1987) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (2007-present)
Jack B. Schmetterer (B.A. 1952; J.D. 1955) Judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois [Chicago] (1985-present)
James Edgar Baker (B.A. 1982, J.D. 1990) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (2000-present)
*Charles Nicholas Rostow (B.A. 1972, Ph.D. 1979, J.D. 1982) Special Assistant to the President of the U.S. (1987-1993); General Counsel of
the U.S. Mission to the United Nations (2001-2005); member of the Royal Institute for International Affairs
Kenneth N. Weinstein (B.A. 1968; J.D. 1974) Assistant Chief Counsel for Litigation of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
(NHTSA) (1988-1997); NHTSA Associate Administrator for Enforcement (1997-2005)
*John Forbes Kerry (B.A. 1966, S&B 1966) U.S. Senator (D-Massachusetts, 1985-2013); U.S. Secretary of State (2013-present)
*Joseph Lieberman (B.A. 1964, J.D. 1967) U.S. Senator (D-Connecticut, 1989-2013)
Mark Dayton (B.A. 1969) U.S. Senator (D-Minnesota, 2001-2007); Governor of Minnesota (2011-present)
James M. Jeffords (B.S. 1956) U.S. Senator (I-Vermont, 1989-2007)
Clarence William Bill Nelson (B.A. 1965) U.S. Senator (D-Florida, 2001-present)
Sheldon Whitehouse (B.A. 1978) U.S. Senator (D-Rhode Island, 2007-present); Attorney General of Rhode Island (1999-2003)
Sherrod Brown (B.A. 1974) U.S. Senator (D-Ohio, 2007-present); Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1993-2007)
Amy Klobuchar (B.A. 1982) U.S. Senator (D-Minnesota, 2007-present)
Lamar S. Smith (B.A. 1969) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-Texas, 1987-present)
John Yarmuth (B.A. 1969) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-Kentucky, 2007-present)
Sheila Jackson-Lee (B.A. 1972) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-Texas, 1995-present)
Denise L. Majette (B.A. 1976) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Democrat-Georgia, 2003-2005)
Howard B. Dean III (B.A. 1971) Governor of Vermont (August 14, 1991-January 8, 2003);
George Pataki (B.A. 1967) Governor of New York (1995-2006)
Bob Taft (B.A. 1963) Governor of Ohio (1999-2007)
John "Jack" Dalrymple (B.A. 1970) Governor of North Dakota (2010-present); Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota (2000-2010)
Anthony A. Williams (B.A. 1979) Mayor of Washington, D.C. (1999-2007)
Susan Bysiewicz (B.A. 1983) Secretary of State of Connecticut (1999-present)
Businessmen:
*William H. Bill Donaldson (B.A. 1953, S&B 1953) Chairman and CEO of Aetna Insurance Co. (2000-2001); Chairman of Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (1999-2003)
*Henry B. Schacht (B.S. 1956) Chairman of Lucent Technologies (1995-1997, 2000-2002)
W. James (Jim) McNerney, Jr. (B.A. 1971) Chairman and CEO of Boeing (2005-present)
Russell W. Meyer Jr. (B.A. 1954, S&B 1954) Chairman and CEO of Cessna Aircraft Co. (1975-2000, 2002-2003)
Stephen F. Gates (B.A. 1968) Senior Vice President and General Counsel of ConocoPhillips (2003-2007); Vice President and General
Counsel of Amoco Corp. (1995-1998); Executive Vice President of BP Amoco (1999-2000)
*Neal S. Wolin (B.A. 1983, J.D. 1988) Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (2001-2007);
President of Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (2007-2009)
*Lawrence C. McQuade (B.A. 1950, RS) Vice Chairman of Prudential Mutual Fund Management, Inc. (1988-1995); Chairman of Qualitas
International (1995-2005)
*Thomas B. Ross (B.A. 1951, S&B 1951) Vice President for Government Relations of Loral Space and Communications (1995-2003)
*Jeffrey L. Bewkes (B.A. 1974) Chairman and CEO of Time Warner (2009-present); Director of Council on Foreign Relations (2002-2006)
John E. Pepper Jr. (B.A. 1960) Chairman of the board of The Walt Disney Co. (2007-2012); Chairman of the board of Proctor & Gamble Co.
(1995-2002)
Gerald Grinstein (B.A. 1954) Chairman (1997-1999) and CEO (2004-2007) of Delta Air Lines Inc.
James S. Chanos (B.A. 1980) Founder and President of Kynikos Associates [hedge fund investment company] (1985-present)
Roland W. Betts (B.A. 1968) Director of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (2001-2006)
Michael David Hess (B.A. 1962, J.D. Harvard 1965) Partner and Senior Managing Director of Giuliani Partners [consulting firm in New York
City] (2002-c.2009)
Ethan Chorin (B.A. 1991) Senior Manager for Government Relations and Head of Corporate Social Responsibility at Dubai Ports World
[United Arab Emirates] (2009-2011)
Bankers:
Laurence H. Meyer (B.A. 1965) Member of the Federal Reserve Board (1996-2002)
Charles B. Johnson (B.A. 1954) Chairman of the board of Franklin Resources, Inc. [now called Franklin Templeton Investments] (1969-pres.)
Herbert M. Allison Jr. (B.A. 1965) Chairman and CEO of TIAA-CREF (2002-2008); CEO of Fannie Mae (2008-2009); Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury for Financial Stability (2009-2011)
*Stephen A. Schwarzman (B.A. 1969, S&B 1969) Chairman and CEO of The Blackstone Group (1985-present)
Joseph H. Gleberman (B.A. 1980) Partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co. (1990-2011)
Laurence Frederick Whittemore (B.A. 1951) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1974-2003)
*Alexander T. Ercklentz (B.A. 1959, S&B 1959) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1978-present)
George Harold Pfau Jr. (B.S. 1948, S&B 1948) Senior Vice President of Paine Webber [acquired by UBS] (1979-c.2004)
Jerome P. Kenney (B.A. 1963) Vice-Chairman of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (2002-2008)
Robert J. Small (B.A. Yale) Managing Director of Berkshire Partners (2000-present)
Journalists:
*David R. Gergen (B.A. 1963) CNN political analyst; Counselor to the President of the U.S. (1993-1994)
*Robert Greeley Kaiser (B.A. 1964) Associate Editor and Senior Correspondent at The Washington Post (1998-present)
*Paul E. Steiger (B.A. 1964) Managing Editor of Wall Street Journal (1991-2007)
Robert U. Bob Woodward (B.A. 1965) Washington Post reporter (1971-present) and best-selling author
Eric Dwight Pace (B.A. 1957) Member of the staff of The New York Times (1965-2004)
*Fareed Zakaria (B.A. 1986, S&K 1986) Editor of Newsweek International; Director of Council on Foreign Relations (2004-present)
*James F. Hoge Jr. (B.A. 1958) Editor of Foreign Affairs magazine (1992-2010)
*William F. Buckley Jr. (B.A. 1950, S&B 1950) Editor-at-Large of National Review magazine (1991-2004)
*Robert B. Semple Jr. (B.A. 1959) Associate Editor of the Editorial Page of The New York Times (1988-present)
*Hugh D.S. Greenway (B.A. 1958, S&K 1958) Foreign Affairs Columnist for The Boston Globe (2000-present)
*Robert W. Kagan (B.A. 1980, S&B 1980) Columnist for The Washington Post; Co-Founder of the Project for the New American Century
Dana T. Milbank (B.A. 1990, S&B 1990) Columnist for The Washington Post
David Leonhardt (B.A. 1994, S&B 1994) Washington Bureau Chief of The New York Times (?-present)
*Paul Krugman (B.A. 1974) Op-Ed Columnist for The New York Times (1999-present)
Scott C. Smith (B.A. 1973) President, Publisher, and CEO of Chicago Tribune Co. (1997-2004, 2006-2008)
James H. Ottaway Jr. (B.A. 1960) Senior Vice President of Dow Jones & Co. (1986-2003)
*Margaret G. Warner (B.A. 1971) PBS journalist
Anderson Cooper (B.A. 1989) CNN reporter (2001-present); anchor of Anderson Cooper 360 (2003-present)
Michael Medved (B.A. 1969) radio commentator and author; host of The Michael Medved Show
Organization Executives:
Howard B. Dean III (B.A. 1971) Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (2005-2009)
*Roger D. Stone (B.A. 1955) President of Sustainable Development Institute (1993-present)
*Strobe Talbott (B.A. 1968, RS) President of The Brookings Institution (2002-present)
*Winston Lord (B.A. 1959, S&B 1959) Co-Chairman of the board of International Rescue Committee (c. 2001-c. 2004)
*Richard E. Salomon (B.A. 1964) Vice Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations (2007-2014)
*Carl Gershman (B.A. 1965) President of the National Endowment for Democracy (1984-present)
*Jonathan F. Fanton (B.A. 1965) Chairman of the board of Human Rights Watch (1998-2003); President of John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation (1999-2009)
College Administrators and Professors:
*David L. Boren (B.A. 1963, S&B 1963, RS) President of University of Oklahoma (1994-present); U.S. Senator (D-Oklahoma, 1979-1994)
*Steven Knapp (B.A. 1973) President of George Washington University (2007-present); Provost of Johns Hopkins University (1996-2007)
Marvin Krislov (B.A. 1982, J.D. 1988, RS) President of Oberlin College (2007-present); Vice President and General Counsel of the University
of Michigan (1998-2007)
Richard H. Brodhead (B.A. 1968, Ph.D. 1972) President of Duke University [North Carolina] (2004-present)
Dale T. Knobel (B.A. 1971) President of Denison University (1998-2013)
Russell K. Osgood (B.A. 1969, J.D. 1974) President of Grinnell College [Iowa] (1998-2010)
Douglas M. North (B.A. 1962) President of Alaska Pacific University [Anchorage, Alaska] (1995-2009)
Steven E. Hyman (B.A. 1974) Provost of Harvard University (December 2001-2011); Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School;
Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) (1996-2001)
Michael A. Bernstein (B.A. 1976, Ph.D. 1982) Provost of Tulane University (2007-present)
David M. Schizer (B.A. 1990; M.A. 1990; J.D. 1993) Dean of Columbia Law School (2004-2014)
Mary Elizabeth Magill (B.A. 1988) Dean of Stanford Law School (2012-present); Vice Dean of Univ. of Virginia School of Law (2009-2012)
Kurt L. Schmoke (B.A. 1971) Dean of Howard University School of Law (2003-2012)
Avi Soifer (B.A. 1969, J.D. 1972) Dean of William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii (2003-present)
Robert J. Sternberg (B.A. 1972) Dean of Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences (2005-present); President of the American
Psychological Association (2003); IBM Professor of Psychology and Education at Yale University (1986-2005)
*R. Keith Walton (B.A. 1986, S&B 1986) Executive Vice President and Secretary of Columbia University (1996-2007)
*Samuel P. Huntington (B.A. 1946) Professor of Government at Harvard University (1962-2008)
*Rashid I. Khalidi (B.A. 1970) Professor of Middle East History at University of Chicago (1987-2003)
*Paul Krugman (B.A. 1974) Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University (2000-present)
*Michael Mandelbaum (B.A. 1968) Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy at The Johns Hopkins University School of
Advanced International Studies (1990-present)
Akhil Reed Amar (B.A. 1980, J.D. 1984) Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School (1993-present)
Ian Ayres (B.A. 1981, J.D. 1986) William K. Townsend Professor of Law at Yale Law School
Daniel Markovits (B.A. 1991, J.D. 2000) Professor of Law at Yale Law School (2007-present)
Reva Siegel (B.A. 1978; J.D. 1986) Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law at Yale Law School (1999-present)
James Q. Whitman (B.A. 1980, J.D. 1988) Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale Law School (1996-present)
John Fabian Witt (B.A. 1994, J.D. 1999, Ph.D. 2000) Professor of Law at Yale Law School
Alvin C. Warren (B.A. 1966) Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (1980-present)
Jeffrey N. Gordon (B.A. 1971) Alfred W. Bressler Professor of Law at Columbia Law School (1998-present)
Lance Liebman (B.A. 1962) William S. Beinecke Professor of Law at Columbia Law School (1998-present)
Brian C. Murchison (B.A. 1974, J.D. 1979, S&B 1974) Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University School of Law (1990-present)
*Marvin Zonis (B.A. 1958) Professor of Behavioral Sciences at the University of Chicago (1989-present)
Susan N. Gary (B.A. 1977) Orlando John and Marian H. Hollis Professor of Law at University of Oregon School of Law (2008-present)
Tom Lininger (B.A. 1988) Orlando John and Marian H. Hollis Professor of Law at University of Oregon School of Law (c.2003-present)
Joseph A. Grundfest (B.A. 1973) William A. Franke Professor of Law and Business at Stanford University (1997-present)
Pamela S. Karlan (B.A. 1980, J.D. 1984) Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law at Stanford Univ. (1999-present)
Wall Street Lawyers:
Robert B. Fiske, Jr. (B.A. 1952) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1964-2010)
Guy Miller Struve (B.A. 1963, LL.B. Harvard 1966) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1973-2013)
Bradley Y. Smith (B.A. 1970) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1980-2013)
Patrick S. Kenadjian (B.A. 1970) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1984-2010)
D. Scott Wise (B.A. 1974) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1987-2011)
Paul W. Bartel, II (B.A. 1975) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1988-2010)
John M. Brandow (B.A. 1975) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1989-present)
Danforth Townley (B.A. 1979; J.D. 1985) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1994-present)
Mario J. Verdolini (B.A. 1985) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1997-present)
Harry Ballan (B.A. 1981; Ph.D. 1986) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1999-present)
Daniel G. Kelly, Jr. (B.A. 1973) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1999-present)
Jean M. McLoughlin (B.A. 1988) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (2001-present)
Michael M. Maney (B.A. 1956) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1971-2003); Senior Counsel of Sullivan & Cromwell (2003-present)
Willard B. Taylor (B.A. 1962; LL.B. 1965) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1972-2007)
Richard R. Howe (B.A. 1964) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1974-2009)
Richard G. Asthalter (B.A. 1966; J.D. 1971) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1980-2008)
John T. Bostelman (B.A. 1975) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1986-2009)
*James H. Carter (B.A. 1965; LL.B. 1969) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1977-2010)
Richard J. Urowsky (B.A. 1967; J.D. 1972) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1980-2014)
Gandolfo V. DiBlasi (B.A. 1975; J.D. 1978) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1985-present)
David F. Morrison (B.A. 1974) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1986-present)
Robert S. Risoleo (B.A. 1980; J.D. 1984) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1992-present)
William F. Kroener III (B.A. 1967) General Counsel of FDIC (1995-2006); Counsel of Sullivan & Cromwell (2006-present)
Gregory A. Weiss (B.A. 1966) Partner of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (1976-present)
Glenn M. Reiter (B.A. 1973, J.D. 1976) Partner of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (1984-present)
Sarah E. Cogan (B.A. 1978) Partner of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (1989-present)
David A. Sneider (B.A. 1979) Partner of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (1994-present)
Roger J. Baneman (B.A. 1972) Partner of Shearman & Sterling (1985-present)
Antonia E. Stolper (B.A. 1979) Partner of Shearman & Sterling
Michael J. Kennedy (B.A. 1981) Partner of Shearman & Sterling
Thomas B. Wilner (B.A. 1966) Of Counsel of Shearman & Sterling
Robert S. Rifkind (B.A. 1958) Partner of Cravath, Swaine & Moore (1971-2001)
Rory O. Millson (B.A. 1973; J.D. 1977, B.A. Oxford 1975 (S. African Rhodes Scholar)) Partner of Cravath, Swaine & Moore (1984-present)
Rachel G. Skaistis (B.A. 1992) Partner of Cravath, Swaine & Moore (2005-present)
Paul H. Zumbro (B.A. 1992) Partner of Cravath, Swaine & Moore (2005-present)
Antony L. Ryan (B.A. 1992; J.D. Harvard 1995) Partner of Cravath, Swaine & Moore (2003-present)
Gary A. Bornstein (B.A. 1994; J.D. Harvard 1997) Partner of Cravath, Swaine & Moore (2005-present)
Robert W. Sheehan (B.A. Yale) Partner of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle (as of 2014)
Turner P. Smith (B.A. Yale) Partner of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle (as of 2014)
Matias A. Vega (B.A. Yale) Partner of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle (as of 2014)
*Albert Francke (B.A. 1956) Partner (1968-?) and Of Counsel of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle (as of 2014)
David F. Williams (B.A. 1974) Partner of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft [Washington, D.C. office] (as of 2014)
Diana de Brito (B.A. 1979) Partner of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft [Washington, D.C. office] (as of 2014)
Gregory P. Patti Jr. (B.A. Yale) Partner of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft [New York City office]; former partner at OMelveny & Myers
Hal S. Shaftel (B.A. 1986; J.D. 1989) Partner of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft [New York City office] (as of 2014)
Jonathan M. Wainwright (B.A. 1965) Senior Counsel of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft (as of 2014)
Michael A. McCormack (B.A. 1991) Special Counsel of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft (as of 2014)
*David W. Rivkin (B.A. 1977; J.D. 1980) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1988-present)
Michael W. Blair (B.A. 1977) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1989-present)
Scott A. Edelman (B.A. Yale; M.A. Yale) Partner (and Vice Chairman) of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy (1995-present)
Andrew E. Tomback (B.A. Yale, J.D. Yale) Partner of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy (1996-present)
*Alfred D. Youngwood (B.A. 1959) Partner of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (1970-2008)
*Toby S. Myerson (B.A. 1971) Partner of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (1983-1989, 1990-present)
*Jerome A. Cohen (B.A. 1951; J.D. 1955) Partner of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (1981-2000); Of Counsel of Paul, Weiss,
Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (2000-present); Professor of Law at New York University School of Law (1990-present)
Charles H. Critchlow (B.A. 1972) Partner of Coudert Brothers [law firm in New York City] (1986-2005); Partner of Baker & McKenzie [law firm
in New York City] (2005-present)
Thomas J. Rice (B.A. 1982) Partner of Baker & McKenzie [law firm in New York City] (c.2013-present)
Angela J. Walitt (B.A. 1991) Partner of Baker & McKenzie [law firm in New York City] (c.2013-present)
Donald Schapiro (B.A. 1944; LL.B. 1949) Partner of Chadbourne & Parke [law firm in New York City] (1988-present)
Robert William Brundige Jr. (B.A. 1966) Partner of Hughes, Hubbard & Reed [law firm in New York City] (1987-present)
John M. Townsend (B.A. 1968, J.D., 1971) Partner and Co-Chair of Hughes, Hubbard & Reed [law firm in New York City]
Other Corporate Lawyers:
Michael P. Boudett (B.A. 1988, J.D. Harvard 1991) Partner of Foley Hoag [law firm in Boston] (as of 2014)
David R. Pierson (B.A. 1973, J.D. Harvard 1978) Partner of Foley Hoag [law firm in Boston] (as of 2014)
Daniel Marx (B.A. Yale, J.D. Yale) Partner of Foley Hoag [law firm in Boston] (as of 2014)
Robert E. Toone (B.A. 1991, J.D. 1995) Partner of Foley Hoag [law firm in Boston] (as of 2014)
Donald R. Ware (B.A. Yale) Partner of Foley Hoag [law firm in Boston] (as of 2014)
David Lee Weltman (B.A. 1954) Partner of Foley, Hoag & Eliot [law firm in Boston] (1967-c.2005)
F. Davis Dassori (B.A. 1963, LL.B. 1968) Partner of Choate Hall & Stewart [law firm in Boston] (as of 2014)
W. Brewster Lee (B.A. 1979) Partner of Choate Hall & Stewart [law firm in Boston] (as of 2014)
Andrew E. Mishkin (B.A. 1968) Partner of Duane Morris [law firm in Washington, D.C.] (1999-present)
Lisa W. Clark (B.A. 1982) Partner of Duane Morris [law firm in Philadelphia] (1999-present)
Richard H. Lowe (B.A. 1978) Partner of Duane Morris [law firm in Philadelphia] (2003-present)
Steven Lewis Friedman (B.A. 1968) Partner of Duane Morris [law firm in Philadelphia] (2005-present); Partner of Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish
and Kauffman [law firm in Philadelphia] (1976-2005); Member of the American Jewish Committee National Board of Governors (1991-2003);
Member of the Republican Jewish Coalition National Board of Directors (2008-present); Member of United States Israel Science and
Technology Commission Advisory Committee (appointed by President Bush in 2003) (2003-present)
Scott J. Davis (B.A. 1972) Partner of Mayer Brown [Chicago] (1983-present)
R. Quincy White (B.A. 1954) Partner of Sidley & Austin [Chicago] (1973-1993)
David Alan Richards (B.A. 1967, J.D. 1972, S&B 1967) Partner of Sidley & Austin [law firm in Chicago and New York City] (1983-2000);
Partner of McCarter & English [law firm in New York City] (2001-present)
Donald Etra (B.A. 1968, S&B 1968) Partner of Sidley & Austin [law firm in Chicago and Los Angeles] (1983-1995); Head of Law Offices of
Donald Etra in Los Angeles (1995-present)
*Eli Whitney Debevoise II (B.A. 1974) Partner of Arnold & Porter [law firm in Washington, D.C.] (1979-2007); U.S. Executive Director of The
World Bank (2007-present)
Jonathan C. Rose (B.A. 1963, S&B 1963) Partner of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue [Washington, D.C.] (1977-1981, 1984-present)
H. Stewart Dunn Jr. (B.A. 1951) Partner of Ivins, Phillips & Barker [law firm in Washington, D.C.] (1962-c.2002)
Allen C. Goolsby (B.A. 1961) Partner of Hunton & Williams [Richmond, Virginia] (1975-present)
Andrea Bear Field (B.A. 1971) Partner of Hunton & Williams [Washington, D.C.] (1991-present)
Kell Marsh Damsgaard (B.A. 1971) Partner of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius [Philadelphia] (1981-present)
Robert L. Abramowitz (B.A. 1971) Partner of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius [Philadelphia] (1990-present)
Gene J. Oshman (B.A. 1980, J.D. 1983) Partner of Baker Botts [law firm in Houston, Texas] (1990-present)
J. David Kirkland Jr. (B.A. 1980, J.D. 1983) Partner of Baker Botts [law firm in Houston, Texas]
Peter R. Taft (B.A. 1958; LL.B., 1961, S&K 1958) Partner of Munger, Tolles & Olson [law firm in Los Angeles] (1969-present)
George Denegre (B.A. 1943) Partner of Jones, Walker, Weachter, Poievent, Carrere & Denegre [law firm in New Orleans] (1952-2008)
Robert Hastings Nichols (B.A. 1963) Partner of Cotton, Watt, Jones & King [Chicago] (1967-1995); Senior Attorney and Coordinator for
United Airlines Master Executive Council, Air Line Pilots Association, International AFL-CIO (1995-c.2007)
Stephen M. Cutler (B.A. 1982, J.D. 1985) Executive Vice President and General Counsel of JP Morgan Chase & Co. (Feb. 2007-present);
Director of the Division of Enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission (2001-2005)
Roderick A. Palmore (B.A. 1974) Executive Vice President and General Counsel of General Mills, Inc. (2008-present); General Counsel and
Secretary of Sara Lee Corp. (1999-2008); Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Sara Lee Corp. (1999-2004)
Joel N. Ephross (B.A. 1983) Assistant General Counsel of Enron Corp. (2002-2005); Special Counsel of Duane Morris [law firm] (2005-2011)
Note: *=Member of the Council on Foreign Relations; RS = Rhodes Scholar; S&B = Skull & Bones; S&K = Scroll & Key
Note: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit is located in New York City. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New
York is located in New York City. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit is located in Chicago.
Prominent Yale University Graduates and Their Occupation during the Russo-Ukrainian War (2014-present)
Government Officials:
John Forbes Kerry (B.A. 1966, S&B 1966) U.S. Secretary of State (February 1, 2013-present)
Jay Carney (B.A. 1987) White House Press Secretary (2011-2014)
Donald Verrilli Jr. (B.A. 1979) Solicitor General of the United States (June 9, 2011-present)
Stephen W. Preston (B.A. 1979) General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Defense (2013-present)
Stevan E. Bunnell (B.A. 1982) General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (2013-present)
Gary Locke (B.A. 1972) U.S. Ambassador to Communist China (August 1, 2011-February 28, 2014)
Charles H. Rivkin (B.A. 1984) Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs (2014-present)
Samantha Power (B.A. 1992, J.D. Harvard 1999) U.S. Representative to the United Nations (August 2, 2013-present)
Joseph Verner Reed Jr. (B.A. 1961) Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations (1992-present)
Alexander R. Vershbow (B.A. 1974) Deputy Secretary-General of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (2012-present); U.S. Ambassador to
South Korea (2005-2008); U.S. Ambassador to Russia (2001-2005)
Ellen L. Weintraub (B.A. 1978) Commissioner of Federal Election Commission (2002-present)
Kara M. Stein (B.A. 1986, J.D. 1991) Commissioner of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (August 9, 2013-present)
Bill Nelson (B.A. 1965) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Florida, 2001-present)
Sheldon Whitehouse (B.A. 1978) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Rhode Island, 2007-present)
Sherrod Brown (B.A. 1974) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Ohio, 2007-present)
Amy Klobuchar (B.A. 1982) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Minnesota, 2007-present)
Lamar S. Smith (B.A. 1969) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Texas, 1987-present)
Sheila Jackson-Lee (B.A. 1972) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Texas, 1995-present)
John Yarmuth (B.A. 1969) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Kentucky, 2007-present)
Mark Dayton (B.A. 1969) Governor of Minnesota (2011-present)
John "Jack" Dalrymple (B.A. 1970) Governor of North Dakota (2010-present)
Susan Bysiewicz (B.A. 1983) Secretary of State of Connecticut (1999-present)
Barrington D. Parker Jr. (B.A. 1965, LL.B. 1969) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2001-present)
Richard A. Posner (B.A. 1959) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (1981-present)
Brett M. Kavanaugh (B.A. 1987) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for District of Columbia Circuit (2006-present)
George B. Daniels (B.A. 1975) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York [New York City] (2000-present)
Edgardo Ramos (B.A. 1982) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York [New York City] (2011-present)
James Knoll Gardner (B.A. 1962) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania [Philadelphia] (2002-present)
Douglas P. Woodlock (B.A. 1969, S&B 1969) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts [Boston] (1986-present)
Robert Michael Dow Jr. (B.A. 1987) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois [Chicago] (2007-present)
Richard G. Seeborg (B.A. 1978) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California [San Francisco] (2010-present)
William Horsley Orrick III (B.A. 1976) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California [San Francisco] (2013-present)
Denise Page Hood (B.A. 1974) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan [Detroit] (1994-present)
Myron Herbert Thompson (B.A. 1969, J.D. 1972) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama (1980-present)
John W. Lungstrum (B.A. 1967) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas (1991-present)
James O. Browning (B.A. 1978) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico (2003-present)
Dora L. Irizarry (B.A. 1976) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (2004-present)
James Emanuel Boasberg (B.A. 1985, J.D. 1990, S&B 1985) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (2011-present)
Kevin Charles McNulty (B.A. 1976) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (2012-present)
Jesus Gilberto Bernal (B.A. 1986) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (December 12, 2012-present)
Raymond Paul Moore (B.A. 1975, J.D. 1978) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado [Denver] (2013-present)
Jeffrey Alker Meyer (B.A. 1985, J.D. 1989) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (February 25, 2014-present)
Christopher Reid Cooper (B.A. 1988) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (March 28, 2014-present)
Corporate Executives and Bankers:
W. James (Jim) McNerney, Jr. (B.A. 1971) Chairman of the board of Boeing [airplane company] (2005-present)
Jeffrey L. Bewkes (B.A. 1974) Chairman of the board of Time Warner [media company] (2009-present)
Frederick W. Smith (B.A. 1966) Chairman of the board of Federal Express [FedEx Corp.] (1975-present)
Stephen M. Cutler (B.A. 1982, J.D. 1985) Executive Vice President and General Counsel of JP Morgan Chase & Co. [bank] (2007-present)
Roderick A. Palmore (B.A. 1974) Executive Vice President and General Counsel of General Mills, Inc. (2008-present)
William D. Nordhaus (B.A. 1963, S&B 1963) Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (2014-present)
David Marshall (B.A. 1972) Senior Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago (2006-present)
Eli Whitney Debevoise II (B.A. 1974) U.S. Executive Director of The World Bank (2007-present)
Journalists:
Robert B. Semple Jr. (B.A. 1959) Associate Editor of the Editorial Page of The New York Times (1988-present)
Robert Greeley Kaiser (B.A. 1964) Associate Editor and Senior Correspondent at The Washington Post (1998-present)
Robert U. Bob Woodward (B.A. 1965) Washington Post reporter (1971-present) and best-selling author
Robert W. Kagan (B.A. 1980, S&B 1980) Columnist for The Washington Post; Co-Founder of the Project for the New American Century
Fareed Zakaria (B.A. 1986, S&K 1986) Editor of Newsweek International; Director of Council on Foreign Relations (2004-present)
Anderson Cooper (B.A. 1989) CNN reporter (2001-present); anchor of Anderson Cooper 360 (2003-present)
Organization Executives:
Richard E. Salomon (B.A. 1964) Vice Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations (2007-2014)
Strobe Talbott (B.A. 1968) President of The Brookings Institution (2002-present)
Carl Gershman (B.A. 1965) President of the National Endowment for Democracy (1984-present)
Kell Marsh Damsgaard (B.A. 1971) Partner of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius [Philadelphia] (1981-present)
Robert L. Abramowitz (B.A. 1971) Partner of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius [Philadelphia] (1990-present)
Gene J. Oshman (B.A. 1980, J.D. 1983) Partner of Baker Botts [Houston, Texas] (1990-present)
J. David Kirkland Jr. (B.A. 1980, J.D. 1983) Partner of Baker Botts [Houston, Texas]
Peter R. Taft (B.A. 1958; LL.B., 1961, S&K 1958) Partner of Munger, Tolles & Olson [Los Angeles] (1969-present)
College Administrators:
David L. Boren (B.A. 1963, S&B 1963, RS) President of University of Oklahoma (1994-present)
Richard H. Brodhead (B.A. 1968, Ph.D. 1972) President of Duke University [North Carolina] (2004-present)
Steven Knapp (B.A. 1973) President of George Washington University (2007-present)
Marvin Krislov (B.A. 1982, J.D. 1988) President of Oberlin College [Ohio] (2007-present)
Michael A. Bernstein (B.A. 1976, Ph.D. 1982) Provost of Tulane University (2007-present)
David M. Schizer (B.A. 1990; M.A. 1990; J.D. 1993) Dean of Columbia Law School (2004-2014)
Mary Elizabeth Magill (B.A. 1988) Dean of Stanford Law School (2012-present)
Avi Soifer (B.A. 1969, J.D. 1972) Dean of William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii (2003-present)
Robert J. Sternberg (B.A. 1972) Dean of Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences (2005-present)
Akhil Reed Amar (B.A. 1980, J.D. 1984) Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School (1993-present)
Ian Ayres (B.A. 1981, J.D. 1986) William K. Townsend Professor of Law at Yale Law School
Daniel Markovits (B.A. 1991, J.D. 2000) Professor of Law at Yale Law School (2007-present)
Reva Siegel (B.A. 1978; J.D. 1986) Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law at Yale Law School (1999-present)
James Q. Whitman (B.A. 1980, J.D. 1988) Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale Law School (1996-present)
John Fabian Witt (B.A. 1994, J.D. 1999, Ph.D. 2000) Professor of Law at Yale Law School
Alvin C. Warren (B.A. 1966) Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (1980-present)
Jeffrey N. Gordon (B.A. 1971) Alfred W. Bressler Professor of Law at Columbia Law School (1998-present)
Lance Liebman (B.A. 1962) William S. Beinecke Professor of Law at Columbia Law School (1998-present)
Brian C. Murchison (B.A. 1974, J.D. 1979, S&B 1974) Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University School of Law (1990-present)
*Marvin Zonis (B.A. 1958) Professor of Behavioral Sciences at the University of Chicago (1989-present)
Susan N. Gary (B.A. 1977) Orlando John and Marian H. Hollis Professor of Law at University of Oregon School of Law (2008-present)
Tom Lininger (B.A. 1988) Orlando John and Marian H. Hollis Professor of Law at University of Oregon School of Law (c.2003-present)
Joseph A. Grundfest (B.A. 1973) William A. Franke Professor of Law and Business at Stanford University (1997-present)
Pamela S. Karlan (B.A. 1980, J.D. 1984) Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law at Stanford Univ. (1999-present)
Paul Krugman (B.A. 1974) Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University (2000-present)
Michael Mandelbaum (B.A. 1968) Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy at The Johns Hopkins University School of
Advanced International Studies (1990-present)
Note: S&B=Skull & Bones, RS=Rhodes Scholar, S&K=Scroll & Key
Yale University Graduates and Their Occupation during the Iran-Contra Affair (1987)
Government Officials:
George H.W. Bush (B.A. 1948, S&B 1948) Vice President of the United States (1981-1989)
Edwin Meese III (B.A. 1953) U.S. Attorney General (1985-1988)
*Malcolm Baldrige (B.A. 1944) Secretary of Commerce (1981-1987)
*William H. Taft IV (B.A. 1966) Deputy Secretary of Defense (1984-1989); General Counsel of the Department of Defense (1981-1984)
*John D. Negroponte (B.A. 1960) Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (1985-1987);
U.S. Ambassador to Honduras (1981-1985)
William L. Eagleton Jr. (B.A. 1948) U.S. Ambassador to Syria (1984-1988)
*Samuel W. Lewis (B.A. 1952) U.S. Ambassador to Israel (1977-1985)
*Robert H. Pelletreau Jr. (B.A. 1957) U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia (1987-1991)
*Joseph Verner Reed Jr. (B.A. 1961) U.S. Ambassador to Morocco (1981-1985)
Edward M. Rowell (B.A. 1953) U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia (1985-1988)
*Robie Marcus Hooker Mark Palmer (B.A. 1963) U.S. Ambassador to Hungary (1986-1990)
Paul Matthews Cleveland (B.A. 1953) U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand (1986-1989)
*James R. Lilley (B.A. 1951) U.S. Ambassador to South Korea (1986-1988)
*Winston Lord (B.A. 1959, S&B 1959) U.S. Ambassador to Communist China (1985-1989)
*L. Paul Bremer III (B.A. 1963) Ambassador at Large for Counter-Terrorism (1986-1989)
*Robert W. Kagan (B.A. 1980, S&B 1980) Member of the State Department Policy Planning Staff (1985-1988)
*John R. Bolton (B.A. 1970; J.D. 1974) Assistant U.S. Attorney General for Legislative Affairs (1985-1987)
Lawrence B. Gibbs (B.A. 1960) Commissioner of Internal Revenue Service (1986-1989)
William von Raab (B.A. 1963) Commissioner of U.S. Customs Service (1981-1989)
*Joseph A. Grundfest (B.A. 1973) Commissioner of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (1985-1990)
*William H. Draper III (B.A. 1950, S&B 1950) Chairman and President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (1981-1986)
*John H. Chafee (B.A. 1947, S&B 1947) U.S. Senator (Republican-Rhode Island, 1976-1999)
*David L. Boren (B.A. 1963, S&B 1963, RS) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Oklahoma, 1979-1994)
*John Forbes Kerry (B.A. 1966, S&B 1966) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Massachusetts, 1985-2013)
William Proxmire (B.A. 1938) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Wisconsin, 1957-1989)
*Lowell P. Weicker (B.A. 1953) U.S. Senator (Republican-Connecticut, 1971-1989)
*H.J. Heinz III (B.A. 1960) U.S. Senator (Republican-Pennsylvania, 1977-1991)
Malcolm Wallop (B.A. 1954) U.S. Senator (Republican-Wyoming, 1977-1995)
Pete Wilson (B.A. 1956) U.S. Senator (Republican-California, 1983-1991)
Stewart Brett McKinney (B.A. 1958) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Connecticut, 1971-1987)
*Leslie (Les) Aspin (B.A. 1960) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Wisconsin, 1971-1993)
Gerry Eastman Studds (B.A. 1959) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Massachusetts, 1973-1997)
James M. Jeffords (B.S. 1956) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Vermont, 1975-1989)
Willis David Gradison, Jr. (B.A. 1949) U.S. Congressman (Republican-Ohio, 1975-1993)
Andrew P. Andy Ireland (B.S. 1952) U.S. Congressman (Democrat/Republican-Florida, 1977-1993)
Clarence William Bill Nelson (B.A. 1965) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Florida, 1979-1991)
Ben Erdreich (B.A. 1960) U.S. Congressman (Democrat-Alabama, 1983-1993)
George Cheney Pratt (B.A. 1950, J.D. 1953) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [New York City] (1982-1993)
Richard A. Posner (B.A. 1959) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (1981-present)
Richard Sheppard Arnold (B.A. 1957) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (1980-2001)
*James L. Buckley (B.A. 1944, LL.B. 1949, S&B 1944) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1985-1996)
Stephen Fain Williams (B.A. 1958) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for District of Columbia Circuit (1986-2001)
Glenn Leroy Archer Jr. (B.A. 1951) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (1985-1997)
Charles Sherman Haight Jr. (B.A. 1952, S&B 1952) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1976-1995)
Peter K. Leisure (B.A. 1952) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1984-1997)
Louis Lee Stanton (B.A. 1950) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1985-1996)
Thomas Collier Platt Jr. (B.A. 1947) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (1974-2001)
Joseph Edward Stevens Jr. (B.A. 1949) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western and Eastern District of Missouri (1981-1995)
J. Spencer Letts (B.A. 1956) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1985-2000)
George Kendall Sharp (B.A. 1957) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida (1983-2000)
William Charles Lee (B.A. 1959) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana (1981-2003)
Allen Joe Fish (B.A. 1965; LL.B. 1968) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas (1983-2007)
Mark Lawrence Wolf (B.A. 1968) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (1985-2013)
Douglas P. Woodlock (B.A. 1969, S&B 1969) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (1986-present)
Myron Herbert Thompson (B.A. 1969, J.D. 1972) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama (1980-present)
Robert D. Orr (B.A. 1940, S&K 1940) Governor of Indiana (1981-1989)
John D. Ashcroft (B.A. 1964 cum laude) Governor of Missouri (1985-1993)
*Richard F. Celeste (B.A. 1959, RS) Governor of Ohio (1983-1991)
*Dick Thornburgh (B.E. 1954) Governor of Pennsylvania (1979-1987)
*Bill Clinton (J.D. 1973, RS) Governor of Arkansas (1979-1981, 1983-1992)
Journalists:
*Robert Greeley Kaiser (B.A. 1964) Assistant Managing Editor for national news at The Washington Post (1985-1990)
Robert U. Bob Woodward (B.A. 1965) Washington Post reporter (1971-present) and best-selling author
Eric Dwight Pace (B.A. 1957) Member of the staff of The New York Times (1965-2004)
*William F. Buckley, Jr. (B.A. 1950; S&B 1950) Editor-in-Chief of National Review magazine (1955-1990)
*Strobe Talbott (B.A. 1968, RS) Washington Bureau Chief of Time magazine (1984-1989)
Yale University Graduates and Their Occupation during the Oklahoma City Bombing (April 19, 1995)
Government Officials:
Strobe Talbott (B.A. 1968) Deputy Secretary of State (1994-2001)
Winston Lord (B.A. 1959, S&B 1959) Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1993-1997)
Robert H. Pelletreau Jr. (B.A. 1957) Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1994-1997)
Ashton B. Carter (B.A. 1976) Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy (1993-1996)
John D. Hawke Jr. (B.A. 1954) Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finances (1995-1998)
Neal S. Wolin (B.A. 1983, J.D. 1988) Deputy General Counsel of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (1995-1999)
Reed Hundt (B.A. 1969, J.D. 1974) Chairman of Federal Communications Commission (1993-1997)
Paul Edward Coggins (B.A. 1973) U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas (1993-2001)
John D. Negroponte (B.A. 1960) U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines (1993-1996)
James T. Laney (B.A. 1950, Ph.D. 1966) U.S. Ambassador to South Korea (1993-1997)
Curtis W. Kamman (B.A. 1959) U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia (1994-1997)
John Marshall Evans (B.A. 1970) U.S. Consul General in St. Petersburg, Russia (1994-1997)
Alexander R. Vershbow (B.A. 1974) National Security Council Senior Director for European Affairs (1994-1997)
James Edgar Baker (B.A. 1982, J.D. 1990) Deputy Legal Adviser for the National Security Council (1994-1997)
Kenneth N. Weinstein (B.A. 1968; J.D. 1974) Assistant Chief Counsel for Litigation of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
(NHTSA) (1988-1997)
John M. Walker Jr. (B.A. 1962) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1989-2006); George H.W. Bushs cousin
Guido Calabresi (B.S. 1953, LL.B. 1958) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [New York City] (1994-2009)
Jerry Edwin Smith (B.A. 1969, J.D. 1972) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit [New Orleans] (1987-present)
Richard A. Posner (B.A. 1959) Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit [Chicago] (1993-2000)
Richard Sheppard Arnold (B.A. 1957) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (1980-2001)
Glenn Leroy Archer Jr. (B.A. 1951) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (1985-1997)
Raymond Charles Clevenger III (B.A. 1959) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (1990-2006)
James L. Buckley (B.A. 1944, LL.B. 1949, S&B 1944) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1985-1996)
Stephen Fain Williams (B.A. 1958) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for District of Columbia Circuit (1986-2001)
Charles S. Haight Jr. (B.A. 1952, S&B 1952) Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (Mar. 29, 1976-Sept. 23, 1995)
Peter K. Leisure (B.A. 1952) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1984-1997)
Louis Lee Stanton (B.A. 1950) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1985-1996)
Barrington D. Parker Jr. (B.A. 1965, LL.B. 1969) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1994-2001)
Thomas Collier Platt Jr. (B.A. 1947) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (1974-2001)
Mark Lawrence Wolf (B.A. 1968) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (1985-2013)
Douglas P. Woodlock (B.A. 1969, S&B 1969) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (1986-present)
John C. Lifland (B.A. 1954) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (1988-2001)
William Lloyd Standish (B.A. 1953) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (1987-2002)
William Charles Lee (B.A. 1959) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana (1981-2003)
Denise Page Hood (B.A. 1974) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (1994-present)
John W. Lungstrum (B.A. 1967) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas (1991-present)
Allen Joe Fish (B.A. 1965; LL.B. 1968) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas (1983-2007)
George Kendall Sharp (B.A. 1957) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida (1983-2000)
J. Spencer Letts (B.A. 1956) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1985-2000)
Joseph Edward Stevens Jr. (B.A. 1949) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri (September 18, 1981-July 1,
1995); Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri (September 18, 1981-July 1, 1995)
Myron Herbert Thompson (B.A. 1969, J.D. 1972) Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama (1991-1998)
John M. Steadman (B.A. 1952, S&B 1952) Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals (1985-2004)
Jack B. Schmetterer (B.A. 1952; J.D. 1955) Judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois [Chicago] (1985-present)
John H. Chafee (B.A. 1947) U.S. Senator (Republican-Rhode Island, 1976-1999)
James M. Jeffords (B.S. 1956) U.S. Senator (Republican-Vermont, 1989-2007)
John Ashcroft (B.A. 1964 cum laude) U.S. Senator (Republican-Missouri, 1993-2001)
John Forbes Kerry (B.A. 1966, S&B 1966) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Massachusetts, 1985-2013)
Joseph Lieberman (B.A. 1964, J.D. 1967) U.S. Senator (Democrat-Connecticut, 1989-2013)
Raymond Hoyt Thornton Jr. (B.A. 1950) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Democrat-Arkansas, 1973-1979, 1991-1997)
Gerry Eastman Studds (B.A. 1959) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Democrat-Massachusetts, 1973-1997)
Porter J. Goss (B.A. 1960) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Republican-Florida, 1989-2004)
Richard Zimmer (B.A. 1966; LL.B. 1969) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Republican-New Jersey, 1991-1997)
Lamar S. Smith (B.A. 1969) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Republican-Texas, 1987-present)
Sheila Jackson-Lee (B.A. 1972) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Democrat-Texas, 1995-present)
Sherrod Brown (B.A. 1974) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Democrat-Ohio, 1993-2007)
Gary A. Franks (B.A. 1975) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Republican-Connecticut, 1991-1997)
David Martin McIntosh (B.A. 1980) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Republican-Indiana, 1995-2001)
George W. Bush (B.A. 1968, S&B 1968) Governor of Texas (Jan. 17, 1995-Dec. 21, 2000); son of former U.S. President George H.W. Bush
George Pataki (B.A. 1967) Governor of New York (January 1, 1995-December 31, 2006)
Pete Wilson (B.A. 1956) Governor of California (1991-1999)
Howard B. Dean III (B.A. 1971) Governor of Vermont (1991-2003)
Tony Knowles (B.A. 1968) Governor of Alaska (1994-2002)
Victor H. Ashe (B.A. 1967, S&B 1967) Mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee (1987-2003)
Bankers:
Douglas A. Warner III (B.A. 1968) Chairman and CEO of J.P. Morgan & Co. (1995-2000); President of J.P. Morgan & Co. (1990-2000)
Granger Kent Costikyan (B.A. 1929, S&B 1929) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1969-1998)
Laurence Frederick Whittemore (B.A. 1951) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1974-2003)
Alexander T. Ercklentz (B.A. 1959, S&B 1959) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1978-present)
Wilbur Louis Ross Jr. (B.A. 1959) Senior Managing Director of Rothschild, Inc. (1976-2000)
Stephen A. Schwarzman (B.A. 1969, S&B 1969) Chairman and CEO of The Blackstone Group (1985-present)
Charles B. Johnson (B.A. 1954) Chairman of the board of Franklin Resources, Inc. [now called Franklin Templeton Investments] (1969-pres.)
George Harold Pfau Jr. (B.S. 1948, S&B 1948) Senior Vice President of Paine Webber [acquired by UBS] (1979-c.2004)
James S. Chanos (B.A. 1980) Founder and President of Kynikos Associates [hedge fund investment company] (1985-present)
Herbert M. Allison Jr. (B.A. 1965) Senior Vice President (1986-1993) and President (1997-1999) of Merrill Lynch & Co.
Businessmen:
Henry B. Schacht (B.S. 1956) Chairman of Lucent Technologies (1995-1997, 2000-2002)
John E. Pepper Jr. (B.A. 1960) Chairman of the board of Proctor & Gamble Co. (1995-2002)
Owsley Brown II (B.A. 1964) Chairman and CEO of Brown-Forman Corporation [i.e. Jack Daniels] (1995-2005)
Frederick W. Smith (B.A. 1966, S&B 1966) Chairman and CEO of Federal Express [FedEx Corp.] (1975-present)
Russell W. Meyer Jr. (B.A. 1954, S&B 1954) Chairman and CEO of Cessna Aircraft Co. (1975-2000, 2002-2003)
Vernon R. Loucks Jr. (B.A. 1957, S&B 1957) Chairman and CEO of Baxter International Inc. [health care company] (1987-1998)
Thomas B. Wheeler (B.A. 1958, S&B 1958) President and CEO of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. (1988-1999)
Thomas James Skutt (B.A. 1952) Chairman and CEO of Mutual of Omaha Insurance Co. [Nebraska] (1986-1996)
David D. Holbrook (B.A. 1960, S&B 1960) Chairman of Marsh & McLennan, Inc. (1995-1998)
Louis Gordon Lower, II (B.A. 1967) President of Allstate Life Insurance Co. (1990-c.1997)
Thomas B. Ross (B.A. 1951, S&B 1951) Vice President for Government Relations of Loral Space and Communications (1995-2003)
Stephen F. Gates (B.A. 1968) Vice President and General Counsel of Amoco Corp. (1995-1998)
L. Paul Bremer III (B.A. 1963) Managing Director of Kissinger Associates (1989-2000)
Organization Executives:
Roger D. Stone (B.A. 1955) President of Sustainable Development Institute (1993-present)
Carl Gershman (B.A. 1965) President of the National Endowment for Democracy (1984-present)
James Gustave Speth (B.A. 1964) Administrator of United Nations Development Program (1993-1999)
Joseph Verner Reed Jr. (B.A. 1961) Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Special Representative for Public Affairs (19921997); Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations (1992-present)
Media:
Robert Greeley Kaiser (B.A. 1964) Managing Editor of The Washington Post (1991-1998)
William F. Buckley Jr. (B.A. 1950) Editor-at-Large of National Review magazine (1991-2004)
Eric Dwight Pace (B.A. 1957) Member of the staff of The New York Times (1965-2004)
Hugh D.S. Greenway (B.A. 1958, S&K 1958) Editorial Page Editor of The Boston Globe (1994-2000)
James F. Hoge Jr. (B.A. 1958) Editor of Foreign Affairs magazine (1992-2010)
Robert B. Semple Jr. (B.A. 1959) Associate Editor of the Editorial Page of The New York Times (1988-present)
Robert U. Bob Woodward (B.A. 1965) Washington Post reporter (1971-present) and best-selling author
Ashton Phelps Jr. (B.A. 1967) Publisher of Times-Picayune [New Orleans] (1979-present)
Jeffrey Bewkes (B.A. 1974) Chairman and CEO of Home Box Office (HBO) (1995-2002)
College Administrators and Professors:
David L. Boren (B.A. 1963, S&B 1963, RS) President of University of Oklahoma (1994-present)
Tom Gerety (B.A. 1969, J.D. 1976, Ph.D. 1976) President of Amherst College (1994-2003)
Edward T. Foote II (B.A. 1959) President of the University of Miami [Florida] (1981-2001)
Lance Liebman (B.A. 1962) Dean of Columbia Law School (1991-1996)
Russell K. Osgood (B.A. 1969, J.D. 1974) Dean of Cornell Law School (1988-1998)
Douglas G. Baird (B.A. 1975) Dean of University of Chicago Law School (1994-1999)
Robert J. Sternberg (B.A. 1972) IBM Professor of Psychology and Education at Yale University (1986-2005)
Samuel P. Huntington (B.A. 1946) Professor of Government at Harvard University (1962-2008)
Rashid I. Khalidi (B.A. 1970) Professor of Middle East History at University of Chicago (1987-2003)
Michael Mandelbaum (B.A. 1968) Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy at The Johns Hopkins University School of
Advanced International Studies (1990-present)
Akhil Reed Amar (B.A. 1980, J.D. 1984) Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School (1993-present)
Alvin C. Warren (B.A. 1966) Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (1980-present)
Richard H. Fallon (B.A. 1975, J.D. 1980, RS) Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (1987-2004)
Lori F. Damrosch (B.A. 1973, J.D. 1976) Henry L. Moses Professor of Law at Columbia Law School (1989-present)
Lucas A. Powe Jr. (B.A. 1965) Professor of Law at The University of Texas at Austin (1974-present)
Michael F. Sturley (B.A. 1977; J.D. 1981) Stanley D. and Sandra J. Rosenberg Centennial Professor in Property Law at The University of
Texas at Austin (c.1984-present)
Mark P. Gergen (B.A. 1979) Professor of Law at The University of Texas at Austin (1989-2004)
Douglas G. Baird (B.A. 1975) Professor of Law at University of Chicago Law School (1984-present)
Marvin Zonis (B.A. 1958) Professor of Behavioral Sciences at the University of Chicago (1989-present)
Brian C. Murchison (B.A. 1974, J.D. 1979, S&B 1974) Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University School of Law (1990-present)
Lawyers:
Jonathan M. Clark (B.A. 1959) General Counsel of Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. (1993-1997)
William J. Bowe (B.A. 1964) General Counsel of Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. [Chicago] (1986-present)
William F. Kroener III (B.A. 1967) General Counsel of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation [FDIC] (1995-2006)
Steven Lewis Friedman (B.A. 1968) General Counsel in the United States for the Likud Party of Israel (1988-c.1997); Senior Partner of
Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish and Kauffman [law firm in Philadelphia] (1972-c.1997)
Robert B. Fiske, Jr. (B.A. 1952) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1964-2010)
Bradley Y. Smith (B.A. 1970) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1980-2013)
D. Scott Wise (B.A. 1974) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1987-2011)
Paul W. Bartel, II (B.A. 1975) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1988-2010)
John M. Brandow (B.A. 1975) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1989-present)
Danforth Townley (B.A. 1979; J.D. 1985) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1994-present)
Michael M. Maney (B.A. 1956) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1971-2003)
Willard B. Taylor (B.A. 1962; LL.B. 1965) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1972-2007)
Richard R. Howe (B.A. 1964) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1974-2009)
Richard G. Asthalter (B.A. 1966; J.D. 1971) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1980-2008)
John T. Bostelman (B.A. 1975) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1986-2009)
James H. Carter (B.A. 1965; LL.B. 1969) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1977-2010)
Richard J. Urowsky (B.A. 1967; J.D. 1972) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1980-2014)
Gandolfo V. DiBlasi (B.A. 1975; J.D. 1978) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1985-present)
David F. Morrison (B.A. 1974) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1986-present)
Robert S. Risoleo (B.A. 1980; J.D. 1984) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1992-present)
Cyrus R. Vance (B.A. 1939, LL.B. 1942, S&K 1939) Partner of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (1956-1961, 1967-1977, 1980-1998)
Gregory A. Weiss (B.A. 1966) Partner of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (1976-present)
Glenn M. Reiter (B.A. 1973, J.D. 1976) Partner of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (1984-present)
Roger J. Baneman (B.A. 1972) Partner of Shearman & Sterling (1985-present)
Sarah E. Cogan (B.A. 1978) Partner of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (1989-present)
David A. Sneider (B.A. 1979) Partner of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (1994-present)
William B. Matteson (B.A. 1950) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1961-1998)
George B. Adams (B.A. 1952) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1966-1997)
David W. Rivkin (B.A. 1977; J.D. 1980) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1988-present)
Michael W. Blair (B.A. 1977) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1989-present)
Toby S. Myerson (B.A. 1971) Partner of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (1983-1989, 1990-present)
Alfred D. Youngwood (B.A. 1959) Partner of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (1970-2008)
Jerome A. Cohen (B.A. 1951; J.D. 1955) Partner of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (1981-2000); Professor of Law at New York
University School of Law (1990-present)
William Eldred Jackson (B.A. 1941, S&B 1941) Partner of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy (1954-1999)
Robert S. Rifkind (B.A. 1958) Partner of Cravath, Swaine & Moore (1971-2001)
Roger J. Baneman (B.A. 1972) Partner of Shearman & Sterling (1985-present)
Clark T. Randt Jr. (B.A. 1968) Partner of Shearman & Sterling in Hong Kong (1991-2001)
Robert William Brundige Jr. (B.A. 1966) Partner of Hughes, Hubbard & Reed [New York City] (1987-present)
Eli Whitney Debevoise II (B.A. 1974) Partner of Arnold & Porter [Washington, D.C.] (1979-2007)
David Alan Richards (B.A. 1967, J.D. 1972, S&B 1967) Partner of Sidley & Austin [law firm in Chicago and New York City] (1983-2000)
Donald Etra (B.A. 1968, S&B 1968) Partner of Sidley & Austin [law firm in Chicago and Los Angeles] (1983-1995)
Scott J. Davis (B.A. 1972) Partner of Mayer Brown [Chicago] (1983-present)
Donald Schapiro (B.A. 1944; LL.B. 1949) Partner of Chadbourne & Parke [law firm in New York City] (1988-present)
Michael David Hess (B.A. 1962, J.D. Harvard 1965) Senior Partner of Chadbourne & Parke [law firm in New York City] (1993-1998)
Jonathan C. Rose (B.A. 1963, S&B 1963) Partner of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue [Washington, D.C.] (1977-1981, 1984-present)
Allen C. Goolsby (B.A. 1961) Partner of Hunton & Williams [Richmond, Virginia] (1975-present)
Andrea Bear Field (B.A. 1971) Partner of Hunton & Williams [Washington, D.C.] (1991-present)
Kell Marsh Damsgaard (B.A. 1971) Partner of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius [Philadelphia] (1981-present)
Robert L. Abramowitz (B.A. 1971) Partner of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius [Philadelphia] (1990-present)
Gene J. Oshman (B.A. 1980, J.D. 1983) Partner of Baker Botts [Houston, Texas] (1990-present)
Robert Hastings Nichols (B.A. 1963) Senior Attorney and Coordinator for United Airlines Master Executive Council, Air Line Pilots
Association, International AFL-CIO (1995-c.2007)
George Denegre (B.A. 1943) Partner of Jones, Walker, Weachter, Poievent, Carrere & Denegre [law firm in New Orleans] (1952-2008)
H. Stewart Dunn Jr. (B.A. 1951) Partner of Ivins, Phillips & Barker [law firm in Washington, D.C.] (1962-c.2002)
Peter R. Taft (B.A. 1958; LL.B., 1961, S&K 1958) Partner of Munger, Tolles & Olson [Los Angeles] (1969-present)
Robert D. McCallum Jr. (B.A. 1968, S&B 1968) Partner of Alston & Bird [law firm in Atlanta] (1979-2001)
Note: S&B = Skull & Bones; S&K = Scroll & Key, RS=Rhodes Scholar
Yale University Graduates and Their Occupation during the 9/11 [New York City and Pentagon] Tragedy (September 11, 2001)
Government Officials:
George W. Bush (B.A. 1968, S&B 1968) President of the United States (January 20, 2001-January 20, 2009)
John D. Ashcroft (B.A. 1964) U.S. Attorney General (February 2, 2001-February 3, 2005)
Robert D. McCallum Jr. (B.A. 1968, J.D. 1973, S&B 1968, RS) Assistant U.S. Attorney General for the Civil Division (2001-2003)
John D. Hawke Jr. (B.A. 1954) Comptroller of the Currency (1998-2004)
John D. Negroponte (B.A. 1960) U.S. Representative to the United Nations (2001-2004)
Clark T. Randt Jr. (B.A. 1968) U.S. Ambassador to Communist China (July 23, 2001-January 20, 2009)
Alexander R. Vershbow (B.A. 1974) U.S. Ambassador to Russia (October 17, 2001-July 22, 2005)
Howard H. Leach (B.S. 1952) U.S. Ambassador to France (September 4, 2001-2005)
V. Manuel Rocha (B.A. 1973) U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia (2000-2002)
David N. Greenlee (B.A. 1965?) U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay (2000-2003)
Lewis Libby (B.A. 1972) Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States (2001-2005)
John R. Bolton (B.A. 1970; J.D. 1974) Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs (2001-2005)
William H. Taft IV (B.A. 1966) Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State (2001-2005)
Donald B. Ensenat (B.A. 1968) U.S. Chief of Protocol (2001-2007)
Charles Nicholas Rostow (B.A. 1972, Ph.D. 1979, J.D. 1982) General Counsel of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations (2001-2005)
Douglas Scott Eakeley (B.A. 1968; J.D. 1972) Chairman of Legal Services Corporation (1993-2003)
Steven E. Hyman (B.A. 1974) Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) (1996-2001)
Stephen M. Cutler (B.A. 1982, J.D. 1985) Director of Enforcement at Securities and Exchange Commission (2001-2005)
John M. Walker Jr. (B.A. 1962) Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [New York City] (2000-2006)
James Harvie Wilkinson III (B.A. 1967) Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit [Richmond] (1996-2003)
Robert Lanier Anderson III (B.A. 1958) Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit [Atlanta] (1999-2002)
Guido Calabresi (B.S. 1953, LL.B. 1958) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1994-2009)
Jerry Edwin Smith (B.A. 1969, J.D. 1972) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit [New Orleans] (1987-present)
Richard A. Posner (B.A. 1959) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit [Chicago] (1981-present)
Raymond Charles Clevenger III (B.A. 1959) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (1990-2006)
James Edgar Baker (B.A. 1982, J.D. 1990) Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (2000-present)
John G. Murtha (B.A. 1963) Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont (1995-2002)
William Charles Lee (B.A. 1959) Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana (1997-2003)
John W. Lungstrum (B.A. 1967) Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas (2001-2007)
Barrington D. Parker Jr. (B.A. 1965, LL.B. 1969) Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern Dist. of New York (Sept. 15, 1994-Oct. 18, 2001)
George B. Daniels (B.A. 1975) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (2000-present)
Mark Lawrence Wolf (B.A. 1968) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (1985-2013)
Douglas P. Woodlock (B.A. 1969, S&B 1969) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (1986-present)
Allen Joe Fish (B.A. 1965; LL.B. 1968) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas (1983-2007)
Myron Herbert Thompson (B.A. 1969, J.D. 1972) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama (1980-present)
Carlos R. Moreno (B.A. 1970) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1998-2001)
Denise Page Hood (B.A. 1974) Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (1994-present)
John M. Steadman (B.A. 1952, S&B 1952) Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals (1985-2004)
Jack B. Schmetterer (B.A. 1952; J.D. 1955) Judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois [Chicago] (1985-present)
John Forbes Kerry (B.A. 1966, S&B 1966) U.S. Senator (Democratic Party-Massachusetts, 1985-2013)
Joseph Lieberman (B.A. 1964, J.D. 1967) U.S. Senator (Democratic Party-Connecticut, 1989-2013)
James M. Jeffords (B.S. 1956) U.S. Senator (Republican Party-Vermont, 1989-2007)
Clarence William Bill Nelson (B.A. 1965) U.S. Senator (Democratic Party-Florida, January 3, 2001-present)
Mark Dayton (B.A. 1969) U.S. Senator (Democratic Party-Minnesota, January 3, 2001-January 3, 2007)
Lamar S. Smith (B.A. 1969) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Republican Party-Texas, 1987-present)
Sheila Jackson-Lee (B.A. 1972) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Democratic Party-Texas, 1995-present)
Sherrod Brown (B.A. 1974) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Democratic Party-Ohio, 1993-2007)
Porter J. Goss (B.A. 1960) Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Republican Party-Florida, 1989-2004)
George Pataki (B.A. 1967) Governor of New York (1995-2006)
Bob Taft (B.A. 1963) Governor of Ohio (1999-2007)
Howard B. Dean III (B.A. 1971) Governor of Vermont (1991-2003)
Gary Locke (B.A. 1972) Governor of Washington (1997-2005)
Tony Knowles (B.A. 1968) Governor of Alaska (1994-2002)
Anthony A. Williams (B.A. 1979) Mayor of Washington, D.C. (1999-2007)
Victor H. Ashe (B.A. 1967, S&B 1967) Mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee (1987-2003)
Sheldon Whitehouse (B.A. 1978) Attorney General of Rhode Island (1999-2003)
Howard Kyongju Koh (B.A. 1973, M.D. 1977) Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Health (1997-2003)
Susan Bysiewicz (B.A. 1983) Secretary of State of Connecticut (1999-present)
Raymond Hoyt Thornton Jr. (B.A. 1950) Justice of Arkansas State Supreme Court (1997-2005)
Michael David Hess (B.A. 1962, J.D. Harvard 1965) Corporation Counsel of New York City (January 1, 1998-December 31, 2001)
Bankers:
Laurence H. Meyer (B.A. 1965) Member of the Federal Reserve Board (1996-2002)
Laurence Frederick Whittemore (B.A. 1951) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1974-2003)
Alexander T. Ercklentz (B.A. 1959, S&B 1959) Partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1978-present)
Stephen A. Schwarzman (B.A. 1969, S&B 1969) Chairman and CEO of The Blackstone Group (1985-present)
Charles B. Johnson (B.A. 1954) Chairman of the board of Franklin Resources, Inc. [now called Franklin Templeton Investments] (1969-pres.)
George Harold Pfau Jr. (B.S. 1948, S&B 1948) Senior Vice President of Paine Webber [acquired by UBS] (1979-c.2004)
James S. Chanos (B.A. 1980) Founder and President of Kynikos Associates [hedge fund investment company] (1985-present)
Wesley M. Oler IV (B.A. 1978) Senior Portfolio Manager for Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1999-c.2007)
Businessmen:
Scott C. Smith (B.A. 1973) President, Publisher, and CEO of Chicago Tribune Co. (1997-2004, 2006-2008)
Henry B. Schacht (B.S. 1956) Chairman of Lucent Technologies (1995-1997, 2000-2002)
John E. Pepper Jr. (B.A. 1960) Chairman of the board of Proctor & Gamble Co. (1995-2002)
W. James (Jim) McNerney, Jr. (B.A. 1971) Chairman and CEO of 3M Company (2001-2005)
Owsley Brown II (B.A. 1964) Chairman and CEO of Brown-Forman Corporation [i.e. Jack Daniels] (1995-2005)
Frederick W. Smith (B.A. 1966, S&B 1966) Chairman and CEO of Federal Express [FedEx Corp.] (1975-present)
Thomas B. Ross (B.A. 1951, S&B 1951) Vice President for Government Relations of Loral Space and Communications (1995-2003)
David Kissinger (B.A. 1983) President of Universal Network Television (1999-2004); son of former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger
L. Paul Bremer III (B.A. 1963) Chairman of Political Risk Business at Marsh Inc. [Marsh & McLennan] (2000-present); Chairman and CEO of
crisis consulting practice at Marsh Inc. (2001-2003); Chairman of National Commission on Terrorism (1999-2001)
Roland W. Betts (B.A. 1968) Director of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (2001-2006)
Lawyers:
William J. Bowe (B.A. 1964) General Counsel of Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. [Chicago] (1986-present)
William F. Kroener III (B.A. 1967) General Counsel of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation [FDIC] (1995-2006)
Roderick A. Palmore (B.A. 1974) Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Sara Lee Corp. (1999-2004)
Robert B. Fiske, Jr. (B.A. 1952) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1964-2010)
Bradley Y. Smith (B.A. 1970) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1980-2013)
D. Scott Wise (B.A. 1974) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1987-2011)
Paul W. Bartel, II (B.A. 1975) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1988-2010)
John M. Brandow (B.A. 1975) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1989-present)
Danforth Townley (B.A. 1979; J.D. 1985) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1994-present)
Mario J. Verdolini (B.A. 1985) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1997-present)
Harry Ballan (B.A. 1981; Ph.D. 1986) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1999-present)
Daniel G. Kelly, Jr. (B.A. 1973) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (1999-present)
Jean M. McLoughlin (B.A. 1988) Partner of Davis, Polk & Wardwell (2001-present)
Michael M. Maney (B.A. 1956) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1971-2003)
Willard B. Taylor (B.A. 1962; LL.B. 1965) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1972-2007)
Richard R. Howe (B.A. 1964) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1974-2009)
Richard G. Asthalter (B.A. 1966; J.D. 1971) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1980-2008)
John T. Bostelman (B.A. 1975) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1986-2009)
James H. Carter (B.A. 1965; LL.B. 1969) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1977-2010)
Richard J. Urowsky (B.A. 1967; J.D. 1972) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1980-2014)
Gandolfo V. DiBlasi (B.A. 1975; J.D. 1978) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1985-present)
David F. Morrison (B.A. 1974) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1986-present)
Robert S. Risoleo (B.A. 1980; J.D. 1984) Partner of Sullivan & Cromwell (1992-present)
Gregory A. Weiss (B.A. 1966) Partner of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (1976-present)
Glenn M. Reiter (B.A. 1973, J.D. 1976) Partner of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (1984-present)
Sarah E. Cogan (B.A. 1978) Partner of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (1989-present)
David A. Sneider (B.A. 1979) Partner of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett (1994-present)
Roger J. Baneman (B.A. 1972) Partner of Shearman & Sterling (1985-present)
Alfred D. Youngwood (B.A. 1959) Partner (1970-2008) and Chairman (1999-2008) of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
Toby S. Myerson (B.A. 1971) Partner of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (1983-1989, 1990-present)
Jerome A. Cohen (B.A. 1951; J.D. 1955) Of Counsel of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (2000-present)
David W. Rivkin (B.A. 1977; J.D. 1980) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1988-present)
Michael W. Blair (B.A. 1977) Partner of Debevoise & Plimpton (1989-present)
George B. Adams (B.A. 1952) Of Counsel of Debevoise & Plimpton (1998-present)
Charles H. Critchlow (B.A. 1972) Partner of Coudert Brothers [law firm in New York City] (1986-2005)
Eli Whitney Debevoise II (B.A. 1974) Partner of Arnold & Porter [Washington, D.C.] (1979-2007)
Scott J. Davis (B.A. 1972) Partner of Mayer Brown [Chicago] (1983-present)
Donald Schapiro (B.A. 1944; LL.B. 1949) Partner of Chadbourne & Parke [New York City] (1988-present)
Jonathan C. Rose (B.A. 1963, S&B 1963) Partner of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue [Washington, D.C.] (1977-1981, 1984-present)
Allen C. Goolsby (B.A. 1961) Partner of Hunton & Williams [Richmond, Virginia] (1975-present)
Andrea Bear Field (B.A. 1971) Partner of Hunton & Williams [Washington, D.C.] (1991-present)
Kell Marsh Damsgaard (B.A. 1971) Partner of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius [Philadelphia] (1981-present)
Robert L. Abramowitz (B.A. 1971) Partner of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius [Philadelphia] (1990-present)
Gene J. Oshman (B.A. 1980, J.D. 1983) Partner of Baker Botts [Houston, Texas] (1990-present)
Robert Hastings Nichols (B.A. 1963) Senior Attorney and Coordinator for United Airlines Master Executive Council, Air Line Pilots
Association, International AFL-CIO (1995-c.2007)
George Denegre (B.A. 1943) Partner of Jones, Walker, Weachter, Poievent, Carrere & Denegre [law firm in New Orleans] (1952-2008)
Donald Etra (B.A. 1968, S&B 1968) Head of Law Offices of Donald Etra in Los Angeles (1995-present)
Paul Schott Stevens (B.A. 1974) Partner of Dechert [law firm in Washington, D.C.] (1999-2004); President and CEO of Investment Company
Institute (2004-present); Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (1987-1989); Partner of Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin [law
firm in Washington, D.C.] (1989-1993)
Organization Executives:
William H. Bill Donaldson (B.A. 1953, S&B 1953) Chairman of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1999-2003)
Roger D. Stone (B.A. 1955) President of Sustainable Development Institute (1993-present)
Carl Gershman (B.A. 1965) President of the National Endowment for Democracy (1984-present)
Jonathan F. Fanton (B.A. 1965) Chairman of the board of Human Rights Watch (1998-2003); President of John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation (1999-2009)
George W. Rathjens (B.S. 1946) Secretary-General of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (1997-c.2002)
Kenneth M. Pollack (B.A. 1988) Director for National Security Studies at Council on Foreign Relations (2001-2002)
Joseph Verner Reed Jr. (B.A. 1961) Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations (1992-present)
Journalists:
Robert Greeley Kaiser (B.A. 1964) Associate Editor and Senior Correspondent for The Washington Post (1998-present)
Robert U. Bob Woodward (B.A. 1965) Washington Post reporter (1971-present) and best-selling author
Paul E. Steiger (B.A. 1964) Managing Editor of Wall Street Journal (1991-2007)
James F. Hoge Jr. (B.A. 1958) Editor of Foreign Affairs magazine (1992-2010)
Gideon Rose (B.A. 1985) Managing Editor of Foreign Affairs magazine (2000-2010)
William F. Buckley Jr. (B.A. 1950) Editor-at-Large of National Review magazine (1991-2004)
Robert B. Semple Jr. (B.A. 1959) Associate Editor of the Editorial Page of The New York Times (1988-present)
Eric Dwight Pace (B.A. 1957) Member of the staff of The New York Times (1965-2004)
Ashton Phelps Jr. (B.A. 1967) Publisher of Times-Picayune [New Orleans] (1979-present)
Jeffrey Bewkes (B.A. 1974) Chairman and CEO of Home Box Office (HBO) (1995-2002)
College Administrators:
David L. Boren (B.A. 1963, S&B 1963, RS) President of University of Oklahoma (1994-present)
Tom Gerety (B.A. 1969, J.D. 1976, Ph.D. 1976) President of Amherst College (1994-2003)
Russell K. Osgood (B.A. 1969, J.D. 1974) President of Grinnell College [Iowa] (1998-2010)
Dale T. Knobel (B.A. 1971) President of Denison University [Ohio] (1998-2013)
Douglas M. North (B.A. 1962) President of Alaska Pacific University [Anchorage, Alaska] (1995-2009)
Steven Knapp (B.A. 1973) Provost of Johns Hopkins University (1996-2007)
R. Keith Walton (B.A. 1986, S&B 1986) Executive Vice President and Secretary of Columbia University (1996-2007)
Marvin Krislov (B.A. 1982, J.D. 1988, RS) Vice President and General Counsel of the University of Michigan (1998-2007)
College Professors:
Robert J. Sternberg (B.A. 1972) IBM Professor of Psychology and Education at Yale University (1986-2005)
Samuel P. Huntington (B.A. 1946) Professor of Government at Harvard University (1962-2008)
Rashid I. Khalidi (B.A. 1970) Professor of Middle East History at University of Chicago (1987-2003)
Paul Krugman (B.A. 1974) Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University (2000-present)
Michael Mandelbaum (B.A. 1968) Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy at The Johns Hopkins University School of
Advanced International Studies (1990-present)
Akhil Reed Amar (B.A. 1980, J.D. 1984) Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School (1993-present)
James Q. Whitman (B.A. 1980, J.D. 1988) Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale Law School (1996-present)
Reva Siegel (B.A. 1978; J.D. 1986) Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law at Yale Law School (1999-present)
Alvin C. Warren (B.A. 1966) Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (1980-present)
Richard H. Fallon (B.A. 1975, J.D. 1980, RS) Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (1987-2004)
Lori F. Damrosch (B.A. 1973, J.D. 1976) Henry L. Moses Professor of Law at Columbia Law School (1989-present)
Lance Liebman (B.A. 1962) William S. Beinecke Professor of Law at Columbia Law School (1998-present)
Jeffrey N. Gordon (B.A. 1971) Alfred W. Bressler Professor of Law at Columbia Law School (1998-present)
David M. Schizer (B.A. 1990; M.A. 1990; J.D. 1993) Wilbur H. Friedman Professor of Tax Law at Columbia University (1998-2004)
Lucas A. Powe Jr. (B.A. 1965) Professor of Law at The University of Texas at Austin (1974-present)
Michael F. Sturley (B.A. 1977; J.D. 1981) Stanley D. and Sandra J. Rosenberg Centennial Professor in Property Law at The University of
Texas at Austin (c.1984-present)
Mark P. Gergen (B.A. 1979) Professor of Law at The University of Texas at Austin (1989-2004)
Douglas G. Baird (B.A. 1975) Professor of Law at University of Chicago Law School (1984-present)
Marvin Zonis (B.A. 1958) Professor of Behavioral Sciences at the University of Chicago (1989-present)
Brian C. Murchison (B.A. 1974, J.D. 1979, S&B 1974) Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University School of Law (1990-present)
Note: S&B = Skull & Bones; S&K = Scroll & Key, RS=Rhodes Scholar