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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
Recent
State Governors
Mike Foster, Zeta Zeta, Louisiana
Tony Knowles, Phi, Alaska
Don Siegelman, Psi, Alabama
(45 Dekes
have been State Governors)
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 U.S. Supreme Court
John Hessin Clarke, Beta Chi
Harold H. Burton, Theta
Potter Stewart, Phi
Cabinet Officers
Canada
Donald S. Macdonald,
Alpha Phi President of the Privy Council
China
Youan 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 Sejiro Hara, Psi
Omega - President, Japanese Railroads
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
Josh W. 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 Phi
Eugene Hale, Theta
Hilary A. Herbert, Eta
John D. Long, Alpha
Victor H. Metcalf, Phi
George Von L. Meyer, Alpha
Charles F. Adams, Alpha
John L. Chafee, 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 D. Mitchell, Phi Epsilon
106th U. S. Congress
Senator Ted Stevens,
Theta Rho, Alaska
Congressman Cass Ballenger, Sigma, North Carolina
Congressman Pete Stark, Sigma Tau, California
U.S. Senators -
Over 40 Dekes have served in the Senate; here are
a few of them.
Henry Cabot Lodge,
Alpha - Senate Majority Leader
W. Stuart Symington, Phi
Thomas F. Eagleton, Sigma
John L. Chafee, Phi
Dan Quayle, Psi Phi
Russell B. Long, Zeta Zeta - Senate Majority Whip
Robert A. Taft, Jr., Phi
Albert J. Beveridge, Psi
Phi
Lister Hill, Psi
Ted Stevens, Theta Rho
In addition, over 130 Dekes have served in the U.S. House of Representatives.
U.S. Ambassadors -
Dekes have been ambassadors to 36 foreign
countries and the U.N.
Anson Burlingame, Sigma
Whitelaw Reid, Kappa
John H. "Jock" Whitney, Phi
R. Sargent Shriver, Phi
Robert Orr, Phi
Henry J. Taylor, Eta
Cyrus E. Woods, Rho
Angier Biddle Duke, Phi
Francis F. T. Plimpton, Sigma
Paul Robinson, Delta Phi
John G. Weinmann, Tau
Lambda
Canadian Ambassadors
Thomas A. Stone, Alpha
Phi
Ross Campbell, Alpha Phi
George A. Drew, Alpha Phi
Japanese Ambassadors
Suti Ki Chinda, Psi Phi - To the U.S.
Nobel Prize Winners
Theodore Roosevelt,
Alpha - Peace Prize 1905
John F. Enders, Phi - Prize for Medicine 1954
Pulitzer Prize
Winners
Editorial Writing
Virginus Dabney,
Eta (1948)
Ira B. Harkey, Jr., Tau
Lamda (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
Vance Bourjaily, Theta
Corey Ford, Gamma Beta
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Theta
W. O. Mitchell, Alpha Tau
Owen Wister, Alpha
Financiers
J. Pierpont Morgan,
Jr., Alpha
Robert Lehmen, Phi (Lehman Brothers)
Thomas W. Lamont, Alpha
Thatcher M. Brown, Phi (Brown Brothers Harriman)
Payne Whitney, Phi
John Hay Whitney, Phi
Irving H. Chase, Phi (Chase Manhattan Bank)
William L. Harkness, Phi
W. W. Crocker, Phi (Crocker National Bank)
August Belmon, Alpha
Dean Witter, Jr., Phi (Dean Witter & Co.)
Magazine Editors and
Publishers
Daniel W. Ashley, Xi -
U.S. News & World Report
Roger Butterfield, Beta Phi - Life
Merle Crowell, Xi - Reader's Digest
Harry Dunlop, Delta Phi - Cosmopolitan
Steward Hagerty, Phi - Newsweek
Briton Hadden, Phi - Co-founder of Time
Allison R. Lenniger, Rho
- Parent's Magazine
Robert H. Lyman, Phi - World Almanac
Kenneth W. Purdy, Rho Delta - Argosy and True
Thomas B. Wells, Phi - Harper's
Gerald and Charles Hallock, Sigma - Field and
Stream
Newspaper Publishers
& Editors
Whitelaw Reid, Kappa -
Editor-in-chief, New York Tribune
William Randolph Hearst, Alpha, Publisher - Hearst Newspapers
Norman and Otis Chandler, Sigma Rho - Publisher,
Los Angeles Times
Richard J. V. Johnson, Omega Chi - Publisher, Houston Chronicle
Eugene Pulliam, Psi Phi, Publisher - Indianapolis
Newspapers, Inc.
Rance Craine, Psi Phi, Publisher - Crain Communications
Harding F. Bancroft, Epsilon - New York Times
John R. Bone, Alpha Phi - Toronto Daily Star
Eugene and Eugene S. Pulliam, Psi Phi -
Indianapolis Newspapers, Inc.
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
Edward Bausch, Beta Phi - Bausch & Lomb Opticals
M. C. D. Borden, Phi
Howard S. Borde, Phi - Borden's Products
Harold H. Swift, Delta Delta - Swift and Company
James H. Evans, Iota Union Pacific Railway
William W. Wrigley, Phi - Wrigley's Gum
Howard Heinz, Phi - Heinz 57 Varieties
Howard Johnson, Phi - Motor Inns
James M. Gamble, Lambda - Proctor and Gamble
Sidney M. Colgate, Phi
James C. Colgate, Mu
Gilbert Colgate, Phi - Colgate-Palmolive
Herbert F. Perkins, Phi - International Harvester
Walter Hoving, Upsilon - Tiffany and Co.
Alfred S. Bloomingdale, Upsilon - Diner's Club
William H. Morton, Pi - American Express Co.
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, Gamma Phi - 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
Fred Smith, Phi - Federal Express
Prominent Sporting
Figures
Paul Brown, Kappa -
coach of Cleveland Browns and owner of Cincinnati Bengals
Thomas W. Landry, Omega Chi - coach of Dallas Cowboys
Joe Paterno, Upsilon - Penn State football coach
George Steinbrenner, Epsilon - owner of the New York Yankees
Don Schollander, Phi - won four gold medals in
swimming in 1964 Olympics
Calvin Hill, Phi - Yale football star
Hugh Culverhouse, Psi - owner of Tampa Bay
Buccaneers
A. Bartlett Giamatti, Phi - Commissioner of Major
League Baseball
Francis Albert, Sigma Rho - Coach of San
Francisco's 49'ers
William Bartholomay, Delta Epsilon - Owner of the
Atlanta Braves
In the Entertainment
World
Dick Clark, Phi Gamma -
hosted American Bandstand
Harry Hamlin, Theta Zeta - actor
Cole Porter, Phi - composer
Jonathan Winters, Lambda - comedian and writer
Charles E. Ives, Phi - Classical Composer
Grant Mitchell, Phi - Actor
Other Famous Dekes
Rear Admiral Sidney W. Souers, Kappa - first director of the C.I.A.
Henry Sewall, Gamma Phi - Discovered the basic
principles of immunization, upon which the seince
of anti-toxins has been based.
Melvil Dewey, Sigma - devised the Dewey Decimal
System
Gen. Peyton C. March, Rho - U.S. Chief of Staff
in World War I
Albion W. Small, Xi - founded the first sociology department ever
established, and is known as "the father of sociology."
Charles A. Ellis, Gamma Phi - designed the Golden Gate Bridge
Charles F. Brush, Omicron - invented the storage battery
Lt. Gen. Price J. Montague, Alpha Phi - DKE's
highest ranking officer in World War II
Robert A. Peary, Theta - first man to reach the
North Pole, did so on April 6, 1909, carrying with him a DKE flag
Alan Bean, Omega Chi - Apollo astronaut, walked on the moon on November 19,
1969, carrying with him another DKE flag
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