Founded in 1832 at Yale. Originally called the Eulogian Club. The society owns Deer Island in the St. Lawrence River.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Victor Ashe |
Diplomat |
1-Jan-1945 |
|
US Ambassador to Poland |
| Roy L. Austin |
Diplomat |
13-Dec-1939 |
|
US Ambassador to Trinidad |
| David L. Boren |
Politician |
21-Apr-1941 |
|
Governor and Senator from Oklahoma |
| Frank B. Brandegee |
Politician |
8-Jul-1864 |
14-Oct-1924 |
US Senator, committed suicide |
| Christopher Buckley |
Novelist |
1952 |
|
Thank You for Smoking |
| James L. Buckley |
Politician |
9-Mar-1923 |
|
US Senator from New York, 1971-77 |
| William F. Buckley |
Columnist |
24-Nov-1925 |
27-Feb-2008 |
National Review |
| William Bundy |
Government |
24-Sep-1917 |
6-Oct-2000 |
Cold War advisor to JFK, LBJ |
| George H.W. Bush |
Head of State |
12-Jun-1924 |
|
41st US President, 1989-93 |
| George W. Bush |
Head of State |
6-Jul-1946 |
|
43rd US President |
| Jonathan J. Bush |
Relative |
1931 |
|
Brother of George H.W. Bush |
| Prescott Bush |
Politician |
15-May-1895 |
8-Oct-1972 |
US Senator from Connecticut, 1952-63 |
| Henry Sloane Coffin |
Religion |
5-Jan-1877 |
25-Nov-1954 |
Meaning of the Cross |
| William Sloane Coffin |
Activist |
1-Jun-1924 |
12-Apr-2006 |
Civilly disobedient chaplain |
| Chauncey Depew |
Politician |
23-Apr-1834 |
5-Apr-1928 |
Co-Founder of the Pilgrims Society |
| Bill Donaldson |
Government |
2-Jun-1931 |
|
SEC Chairman, 2003-05 |
| Timothy Dwight |
Educator |
14-May-1752 |
11-Jan-1817 |
President of Yale, 1795-1817 |
| Irving Fisher |
Economist |
27-Feb-1867 |
29-Apr-1947 |
The Theory of Interest |
| Evan Griffith Galbraith |
Business |
2-Jul-1928 |
21-Jan-2008 |
US Ambassador to France, 1981-85 |
| Earl G. Graves, Jr. |
Business |
5-Jan-1962 |
|
Black Enterprise magazine |
| W. Averell Harriman |
Diplomat |
15-Nov-1891 |
26-Jul-1986 |
Ambassador to USSR, Governor of NY |
| Francis Burton Harrison |
Government |
18-Dec-1873 |
21-Nov-1957 |
Drug prohibition |
| John Heinz |
Politician |
23-Oct-1938 |
4-Apr-1991 |
US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1977-91 |
| Robert Kagan |
Government |
26-Sep-1958 |
|
Influential neocon, cofounded PNAC |
| Larry Kelley |
Football |
30-May-1915 |
27-Jun-2000 |
Winner, 1936 Heisman Trophy |
| John Kerry |
Politician |
11-Dec-1943 |
|
US Senator from Massachusetts |
| Eddie Lampert |
Business |
19-Jul-1962 |
|
Billionaire, Chairman of Sears |
| Winston Lord |
Diplomat |
17-Aug-1937 |
|
President, Council on Foreign Relations, 1977-85 |
| Vernon R. Loucks, Jr. |
Business |
c. 1935 |
|
CEO of Baxter International, 1980-99 |
| Henry R. Luce |
Business |
3-Apr-1898 |
28-Feb-1967 |
Founded Time Magazine |
| Archibald Macleish |
Poet |
7-May-1892 |
20-Apr-1982 |
Conquistador |
| Franklin MacVeagh |
Government |
22-Nov-1837 |
6-Jul-1934 |
US Treasury Secretary, 1909-13 |
| F. O. Matthiessen |
Critic |
19-Feb-1902 |
1-Apr-1950 |
American Renaissance |
| Robert D. McCallum, Jr. |
Diplomat |
1946 |
|
US Ambassador to Australia |
| Dana Milbank |
Journalist |
27-Apr-1968 |
|
Washington Post White House reporter |
| Donald Grant Mitchell |
Author |
12-Apr-1822 |
15-Dec-1908 |
Reveries of a Bachelor |
| John Negroponte |
Government |
21-Jul-1939 |
|
US Deputy Secretary of State |
| Stephen A. Schwarzman |
Business |
14-Feb-1947 |
|
Co-Founder, Blackstone Group |
| Frederick W. Smith |
Business |
11-Aug-1944 |
|
Founder and CEO of Federal Express |
| Potter Stewart |
Judge |
23-Jan-1915 |
7-Dec-1985 |
US Supreme Court Justice |
| Henry L. Stimson |
Government |
21-Sep-1867 |
20-Oct-1950 |
US Secretary of War 1911-13, 1940-45 |
| William Graham Sumner |
Educator |
30-Oct-1840 |
12-Apr-1910 |
Laissez faire sociologist |
| Alphonso Taft |
Government |
5-Nov-1810 |
21-May-1891 |
Attorney General under Grant |
| William Howard Taft |
Head of State |
15-Sep-1857 |
8-Mar-1930 |
27th US President, 1909-13 |
| Strobe Talbott |
Government |
25-Apr-1946 |
|
Time journalist, Deputy Secy. of State |
| James W. Wadsworth, Jr. |
Politician |
12-Aug-1877 |
21-Jun-1952 |
US Senator from New York, 1915-27 |
| Morrison Waite |
Judge |
29-Nov-1816 |
23-Mar-1888 |
US Supreme Court Chief Justice, 1874-88 |
| George Herbert Walker III |
Diplomat |
c. 1931 |
|
US Ambassador to Hungary |
| William H. Welch |
Scientist |
8-Apr-1850 |
30-Apr-1934 |
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine |
| James Whitmore |
Actor |
1-Oct-1921 |
|
Tora! Tora! Tora! |
| William C. Whitney |
Business |
5-Jul-1841 |
2-Feb-1904 |
US Secretary of the Navy, 1885-89 |
