Presidents of the United States
Rutherford B. Hayes, Delta Chi
Theodore Roosevelt, Alpha
Gerald R. Ford, Omicron
George H. W. Bush, Phi
George W. Bush, Phi
Vice Presidents of the United States
Theodore Roosevelt, Alpha
Gerald R. Ford, Omicron
George H. W. Bush, Phi
James Danforth Quayle, Psi Phi
President of the Republic of Cuba
Mario Garcia Menocal, Delta Chi
Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada
George A. Drew, Alpha Phi
Speakers of the U.S. House of Representatives
Nathaniel P Bankes, Sigma
James G. Blaine, Theta
Nicholas Longworth, Alpha
Justices of the Supreme Court
John Hessin Clarke, Beta Chi
Harold H. Burton, Theta
Potter Stewart, Phi
Cabinet Officers
Canada
Donald Macdonald, Alpha Phi (President Privy Council)
China
Yuan Shikau, Phi (Prime Minister, Chinese Empire)
Liang Tung Yew, Phi (Secretary of State, Chinese Empire)
Chung Mun Yew, Phi (Director of Chinese Railroads)
Japan
Suti Ki Chinda, Psi Phi (Secretary of State)
Baron Seijiro Hara, Psi Omega (President, Japanese Railways)
United States
Secretary of State
James G. Blaine, Theta
Robert Bacon, Alpha
Dean G. Acheson, Phi
Secretary of Commerce
Victor H. Metcalf, Phi
Edwin F. Sweet, Phi
Joshia Alexander, Phi
Malcolm Baldridge Jr., Phi
Secretary of the Treasury
Charles S. Fairchild, Alpha
William E. Simon, Rho
Secretary of War
Robert Todd Lincoln, Alpha
Kenneth C. Royall, Beta
Secretary of the Navy
Richard W. Thompson, Psi
Eugene Hale, Theta
Hilary A. Herbert, Eta
John D. Long, Alpha
George Von L. Meyer, Alpha
Charles F. Adams, Alpha
John L. Chaffee, Phi
Secretary of the Army
Kenneth C. Royall, Beta
Gordon Gray, Beta
Secretary of the Air Force
W. Stuart Symington, Phi
Secretary of the Interior
Rogers C. B. Morton, Phi
Postmaster General
Wilson S. Bissell, Phi
George Von L. Meyer, Alpha
Attorney General
Wayne MacVeagh, Phi
William Mitchell, Phi Epsilon
U.S. Senators
(Over 40 Dekes have served in the Senate; here are a few of them)
Henry Lodge, Alpha (Senate Majority Leader)
Russell B. Long, Zeta Zeta (Senate Majority Whip)
W Stuart Symington, Phi
Robert A. Taft, Jr., Phi
Thomas E Eagleton, Sigma
Albert J. Beveridge, Psi Phi
John L. Chafee, Phi
Lister Hill, Psi
Dan Quayle, Psi Phi
Ted Stevens, Theta Rho
(In addition, over 130 Dekes have served in the U.S. House of Representatives)
Recent State Governors
Tony Knowles, Phi, AK
Don Siegelman, Psi, AL
Mike Foster, Zeta Zeta, LA
George Pataki, Phi (Hon), NY
George W. Bush, Phi, Texas
U.S Ambassadors
(Dekes have been ambassadors to 36 foreign countries and the U.N.)
Anson Burlingame, Sigma
Henry J. Taylor, Eta
Whitelaw Reid, Kappa
Cyrus E. Woods, Rho
John H. 'Jock' Whitney, Phi
Angier Biddle Duke, Phi
R. Sargent Shriver, Phi
Francis F.T. Plimpton, Sigma
Robert Orr, Phi
Paul Robinson, Delta Pi
John G. Weinmann, Tau Lambda
Canadian Ambassadors
Thomas A. Stone, Alpha Phi
Ross Campbell, Alpha Phi
George A. Drew, Alpha Phi
(The first foreign ambassador to the United States who was a fraternity man was the Japanese ambassador Suti Ki Chinda, a Deke from Psi Phi).
College and University Presidents
(Dekes have been presidents of 86 colleges and universities; here is a sampling)
Amherst
Stanley King, Sigma
Charles W Cole, Sigma
Calvin H. Plimpton, Sigma
(3 Deke presidents in a row from 1932 to 1970)
U. of California (Berkeley)
Martin Kellogg, Phi
U. of Chicago
Harry Pratt Judson, Epsilon
James R. Angell, Omicron
Colgate University
James Colby Colgate, Mu
Dartmouth College
Ernest M. Hopkins, Pi
Depauw University
Henry B. Longdon, Psi Phi
Louisiana State University
W. P Johnson, Phi
M.I.T.
Francis A. Walker, Sigma
Miami University (Ohio)
Raymond M. Hughes, Kappa
Alfred H. Upham, Kappa
Alpheus K. Morris, Kappa
Yale University
James R. Angell, Omicron
Arthur T. Hadley, Phi
A. Bartlett Giamatti, Phi
Benno C. Schmidt, Jr., Phi
Nobel Prize Winners
Theodore Roosevelt, Alpha (Peace Prize, 1905)
John F Enders, Phi (Prize for Medicine, 1954)
Pulitzer Prize Winners
(Not counting Deke proprietors of winning newspapers)
Editorial Writing
Virginus Dabney, Eta (1948)
Ira B. Harkey, Jr., Tau Lambda (1963)
Biography
Harvey Cushing, Phi (1926)
Music
Charles Ives, Phi (1947)
History
Dean G. Acheson, Phi (1970)
Walter A. McDougall, Sigma (1985)
Authors
Edward Bellamy, Theta Chi
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Theta
Vance Bourjaily, Theta
W. O. Mitchell, Alpha Tau
Corey Ford, Gamma Beta
Owen Wister, Alpha
Financiers
J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr., Alpha
Irving H. Chase, Phi (Chase Manhattan Bank)
Robert Lehman, Phi (Lehman Brothers)
William L. Harkness, Phi
Thomas W Lamont, Alpha
W W Crocker, Phi (Crocker National Bank)
Thatcher M. Brown, Phi
August Belmont, Alpha
Payne Whitney, Phi
John Hay Whitney, Phi
Dean Witter, Jr., Phi (Dean Witter & Co.)
Magazine Editors and Publishers
U.S. News & World Report
Daniel W. Ashley, Xi
Life
Roger Butterfield, Beta Phi
Reader's Digest
Merle Crowell, Xi
Cosmopolitan
Harry Dunlop, Delta Pi
Newsweek
Steward Hagerty, Phi
Field and Stream
Gerald and Charles Hallock, Sigma
Co-founder of Time
Briton Hadden, Phi
Parent's Magazine
Allison R. Leninger, Rho
World Almanac
Robert H. Lyman, Phi
Argosy and True
Kenneth W. Purdy, Rho Delta
Harper's
Thomas B. Wells, Phi
Newspaper Publishers
New York Times
Harding F Bancroft, Epsilon
Toronto Daily Star
John R. Bone, Alpha Phi
Los Angeles Times
Norman and Otis Chandler, Sigma Rho
Crain Communications
Rance Crain, Psi Phi
Hearst Newspaper Chain
William Randolph Hearst, Alpha
Indianapolis Newspapers, Inc.
Eugene and Eugene S. Pulliam, Psi Phi
Sifton chain of Canadian newspapers
John W. Sifton, Alpha Phi
Victor Sifton, Alpha Phi
Clifford Sifton, Alpha Phi
John Sifton, Alpha Tau
Business Founders, Presidents, Chairmen
(There are literally hundreds of Dekes in this category; this is just a sprinkling of some of the more familiar names)
John F. Akers, Phi (I.B.M)
Henry B. Thayer, Pi (A.T.&T.)
Owen D. Young, Sigma Tau (General Electric)
James H. Evans, Iota (Union Pacific Railway)
William W. Wrigley, Phi (Wrigley?fs Gum)
Howard Heinz, Phi (Heinz 57 Varieties)
Howard Johnson, Phi (Motor Inns)
James M. Gamble, Lambda (Procter and Gamble)
Sidney M. Colgate, Phi (Colgate-Palmolive)
James C. Colgate, Mu (Colgate-Palmolive)
Gilbert Colgate, Phi (Colgate-Palmolive)
Herbert F Perkins, Phi (International Harvester)
Walter Hoving, Upsilon (Tiffany and Co.)
Alfred S. Bloomingdale, Upsilon (Diner?fs Club)
William H. Morton, Pi (American Express Co.)
Edward Bausch, Beta Phi (Bausch & Lomb Opticals)
M. C. D. Borden, Phi (Borden?fs Products)
Howard S. Borden, Phi (Borden?fs Products)
Harold H. Swift, Delta Delta (Swift and Company)
Joseph C. Wilson, Beta Phi (Xerox)
R. L. Agassiz, Alpha (Calumet & Hecla Mining Corp.)
Joseph Kerr Cass, Lambda (Westvaco)
Adrian R. Fisher, Phi Chi (Johns-Manville)
Willard C. Gulick, Mu (B. F Goodrich)
Herb Kelleher (Southwest Airlines)
Roger Mitsui, Delta Chi (Mitsui products, Japan)
Louis Bantle, Phi Gamma (U.S. Tobacco)
Cyrus S. Eaton, Jr., Mu (International industrialist)
Frederick N. Schwartz, Gamma Phi (Bristol-Myers Corp.)
Hays Clark, Delta Chi (Avon Products)
Prominent Sporting Figures
Frankie Albert, Sigma Rho (Coach, San Francisco 49'ers)
Paul Brown, Kappa (Coach, Cleveland Browns and Owner, Cincinnati Bengals)
Thomas Landry, Omega Chi (Coach, Dallas Cowboys)
Joseph Paterno, Upsilon (Penn State football coach)
Dana X. Bible, Iota (Celebrated college coach)
Walter Camp, Phi (Football authority, early selector of 'All American' players)
William Bartholomay, Delta Epsilon (Owner, Atlanta Braves)
George Steinbrenner, Epsilon (Owner, New York Yankees)
High Culverhouse, Psi (Owner, Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
Robert Trent Jones, Delta Chi (Famed golf-course designer)
Leland S. Scott, Sigma Rho (Held world's pole vault record)
Charles Snelling, Alpha Phi (Canadian men's skating champion)
Calvin Hill, Phi (Yale football star)
Bob Pettit, Zeta Zeta (All-American, All-Pro basketball player)
Jay Gould, Gamma Beta (World squash champion)
Donald McNeill, Lambda (U.S. singles tennis champion)
Robert J. Kelleher, Epsilon (Pres., U.S. Lawn Tennis Association)
James Elder, Alpha Phi (Canadian Equestrian Team 1969 Olympic gold medal winner)
McNeill Drumwright, Omega Chi (U.S. doubles tennis champion)
Hank Luisetti, Sigma Rho (All-Time All-American basketball player)
Don Schollander, Phi (Won 4 gold medals at the 1964 Olympics)
Jack Torrance, Zeta Zeta (Held world shotput record)
William Miller, Sigma Rho (Held world's pole vault record)
In The Entertainment World
Cole Porter, Phi (Composer)
Charles E. Ives, Phi (Classical composer)
Dick Clark, Phi Gamma ('American Bandstand')
William T. Purdy, Tau (Composer of college songs including 'On Wisconsin')
Grant Mitchell, Phi (Actor)
Jonathan Winters, Lambda (Comedian and writer)
Harry Hamlin, Theta Zeta (Actor)
Lloyd Nolan, Sigma Rho (Actor)
Gary Merril, Theta (Actor)
Sonny Tufts, Phi (Actor)
Lowell Thomas, Jr., Pi (Broadcaster and author)
Donald Ogden Stewart, Phi (Won 1931 Oscar for the screenplay of 'Laughter')
Douglas Z. Doty, Gamma Beta (Won 1931 Oscar for the screenplay of 'Laughter')
Other Categories
(A random sampling)
Rear Admiral Sidney W. Souers, Kappa (First director of C.I.A.)
Mark Pitman, Theta (Founded the Choate School)
Henry Sewall, Gamma Phi (Discovered the basic principles of immunization, upon which the science of
anti-toxins has been based)
Hen. Peyton C. March, Rho (U.S. Chief of Staff in World War I)
George H. Bixby, Phi (One of the founders of Long Beach, California)
Robert A. Peary, Theta (First man to the North Pole, April 6, 1909. Carried the DKE flag with him)
Charles F. Brush, Omicron (Invented the storage battery)
Lt. Gen. Price J. Montague, Alpha Phi (DKE's highest ranking officer in World War II)
Charles A. Ellis, Gamma Phi (Designed San Francisco?fs Golden Gate Bridge)
Albion W. Small, Xi (Founded the first sociology dept. ever established, and is known as 'the father of
sociology')
W J. Bland, a Rhodes Scholar at Lambda (First American to be elected president of the Oxford Union)
A. Bartlett Giamatti, Phi (First president of Yale to subsequently become the U.S. Commissioner of Baseball)
Melvil Dewey, Sigma (Devised the Dewey Decimal System)
Alan L. Bean, Omega Chi (First Deke to walk on the moon, November 19, 1969. Carried the DKE flag with him)
