List of Beta Theta Pi members

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This is a list of notable members of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. [1]

Contents

Academia

NameChapter and yearNotabilityReferences
Peter H. Armacost Denison 1957President of Eckerd College [1]
Thomas A. Bartlett Willamette 1951Rhodes Scholar; Former chancellor of the University of Alabama System
David Ross Boyd Wooster 1878First president of the University of Oklahoma and fifth president of the University of New Mexico
Paul Bragdon Amherst 1950President of Reed College [1]
James S. Buchanan Cumberland 1885Fourth president of the University of Oklahoma
Thomas P. Courtice Ohio WesleyanFormer president of Ohio Wesleyan University
Stanley Coulter Hanover 1870Former dean of Purdue University
John Crecine Carnegie Mellon 1961Former president of Georgia Tech
William H. Danforth Westminster 1948Former chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis
James J. Duderstadt Yale 1964Former president of the University of Michigan
Joseph Dupuy Eggleston Hampden-Sydney 1886Former president of Virginia Tech
Robert F. Engle Williams 1964Nobel Prize winner; Currently co-director of the Volatility and Risk Institute at NYU Stern
Robin Hugh Farquhar British Columbia 1960Former president of Carleton University
Carl Russell Fish Harvard 1900Former historian of the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Thomas P. Gerrity MIT 1963Former dean of the Wharton School of Business
William Pratt Graham Syracuse 1903Former chancellor of Syracuse University
Andrew Dousa Hepburn Washington & Jefferson 1852Former president of Miami University
Alexander Q. Holladay Virginia 1859Former president of North Carolina State University [2]
John S. Hougham Wabash 1846Former president of Purdue University [3]
Alfred Hume VanderbiltFormer chancellor of the University of Mississippi [4]
Charles Keeler UC Berkeley 1893Former director of the California Academy of Sciences
Deane Waldo Malott Kansas 1921Former chancellor of the University of Kansas and president of Cornell University
William Alexander Parsons Martin Indiana 1846Former president of the Tongwenguan and the Imperial University of Peking
David T. McLaughlin Dartmouth 1954Former president of Dartmouth College
Dale T. Mortensen Willamette 1961Nobel Prize winner; Former co-founding editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics
Franklin David Murphy Kansas 1936Former chancellor of the University of Kansas and UCLA
James Kennedy Patterson Hanover 1856First president of the University of Kentucky
Steven Sample Illinois 1958Former president of the University of Southern California [1]
James M. Sellers Chicago 1917Former president of Wentworth Military Academy
Charles N. Sims DePauw 1859Former chancellor of Syracuse University
Edgar F. Shannon Jr. Washington and Lee 1939Former president of the University of Virginia
David Stanton Tappan Miami 1864Former president of Miami University
George H. Whipple Yale 1905Nobel Prize winner; Founding dean of URMC
Timothy M. Wolfe Missouri 1980Former president of the University of Missouri System [5]

Art

NameChapter and yearNotabilityReferences
George Bellows Ohio State 1905 Realist painter considered one of the most acclaimed artist of his generation
Bernard Berenson Boston / Harvard 1887Art historian
Barry Bishop Cincinnati 1951Photographer for National Geographic
Douglas Cramer Cincinnati 1953Leading collector of contemporary art and co-founder of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
Jay Norwood Darling Beloit 1899Cartoonist who won two Pulitzer Prizes and founder of the National Wildlife Federation

Astronauts

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NameChapter and yearNotabilityReferences
Joseph P. Allen DePauw 1959Former astronaut; Space Flight Executive; Senior Scientist Astronaut; Mission Specialist for STS-5 mission aboard Columbia and STS-51A mission aboard Discovery
Kenneth D. Cameron MIT 1971Management astronaut; naval aviator-astronaut; Colonel, USMC (Ret.); pilot for STS-37 mission aboard Atlantis (STS-37); commander for STS-56 mission aboard Discovery and STS-74 mission aboard Atlantis; currently deputy director for safety, NASA Engineering & Safety Center, Langley Research Center, Virginia
Bill Nelson Florida 1964 (1961–63) / Yale 1965 (1963–65)Former US Congressman (D-FL), former senior US Senator from Florida (D-FL); not a professional career astronaut, but while a US congressman representing the congressional district including Kennedy Space Center, flew as a payload specialist on Columbia (STS-61C); the second sitting member of the US Congress to fly in space as part of a NASA initiative prior to the Challenger (STS-51L) disaster [1] [6]
Paul J. Weitz Penn State 1954Former astronaut; naval aviator-astronaut; captain, USN (Ret.); pilot, Apollo-Skylab 2 (SL-2); commander for STS-6 mission aboard Challenger; former deputy director, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center

Business

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NameChapter and yearNotabilityReferences
Joe M. Allbaugh Oklahoma State 1974Founder of the Allbaugh Company; Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) when in Federal government service
John Edward Anderson UCLA 1940Founder of Topa Equities, Ltd.; namesake of UCLA Anderson School of Management
Stephen David Bechtel, Sr. California 1923Chairman and CEO of the Bechtel Group
Bill Bowerman Oregon 1933Founder of Nike, Inc.
Donald Bren Washington 1955Billionaire; owner of The Irvine Company
Dan Carney Wichita State 1953Co-founder of Pizza Hut
Douglas ClaytonCornell 1982CEO of Leopard Capital
Arthur D. Collins Jr. Miami 1969CEO of Medtronic 2002–2008
William Cook Northwestern 1953Billionaire; founder of the Cook Group
David Coulter Carnegie Mellon 1971Former chairman and chief executive officer of BankAmerica Corporation
Ernest Kent Coulter Ohio State 1892Founder, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
Justin Dart Northwestern 1929Founder of Dart Industries
Chris DeWolfe Washington 1988CEO of Myspace.com
David Duffield Cornell 1962President and CEO of PeopleSoft Inc.
William Esrey Denison 1961President and CEO of Sprint
Weldon B. Gibson Washington State University 1938Executive at SRI International
Joel Hyatt Dartmouth 1972Founder of Hyatt Legal Services
Edgar Kaiser Stanford 1965Chairman of the Bank of British Columbia
Shahid Khan Illinois at Urbana–Champaign 1971Owner of Illinois auto parts company Flex-N-Gate; owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars
Charles G. Koch MIT 1957Chairman and CEO of Koch Industries
Alan Ladd Jr. Southern CaliforniaFormer president of United Artists and MGM/UA entertainment
Samuel Laws Miami University 1848Inventor of the ticker tape machine
Kenneth Lay Missouri 1967Former chairman and CEO of Enron; indicted/convicted on charges related to Enron's financial collapse
R. Conrad Leslie Miami University 1949World renowned crop analyst
Alexander F. Mathews Virginia 1856Early West Virginia banker [7]
Hugh McColl North Carolina 1957Chairman and CEO of Bank of America
Steve Miller Southern California 1966President of Dean Witter Reynolds
J. C. Nichols Kansas 1902Real estate
Daniel Ninivaggi [8] Columbia 1986CEO of Lordstown Motors and chairman of Garrett Motion, former CEO of Icahn Enterprises and Federal-Mogul
Bruce Nordstrom Washington 1955Former chairman and CEO of Nordstrom
John Opel Westminster 1948Former president of IBM
Sam Palmisano Johns Hopkins 1973CEO of IBM
John H. Patterson Miami University 1867Founder of National Cash Register
William Pennington UC Berkeley 1945Co-founder of Circus Circus Casino
Donald Petersen Washington 1946Former CEO of the Ford Motor Company
Marvin Pierce Miami University 1916President of the McCall Corporation; father of Barbara Bush
Mitchell Rales Miami University 1978Billionaire; co-founder of Danaher Corporation
Steven Rales DePauw 1973Billionaire; co-founder of Danaher
Steven Rogel Washington 1965CEO of the Weyerhaeuser Company
Frank Shrontz Idaho 1954Past Chairman and CEO of The Boeing Company
Jeffrey Skilling Southern Methodist 1975Former CEO of Enron; indicted/convicted on charges related to Enron's financial collapse
Kenneth A. Spencer Kansas 1921Founder, President, and CEO of Spencer Chemical Company
Robert K. Steel Duke 1973Former president and CEO of Wachovia
G. Kennedy Thompson North Carolina 1973CEO of Wachovia, 2000–2008; board member of Hewlett-Packard
Sam Walton Missouri 1940Founder of Wal-Mart
Fred Wilson MIT 1983Venture capitalist and prominent blogger
Thornton Wilson Iowa State 1942Chairman emeritus of the Boeing Co.
John D. Zeglis University of Illinois 1969Former chairman and CEO of AT&T Wireless [9]

Entertainment

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NameChapter and yearNotabilityReferences
James Arness Beloit 1946Actor known for portraying Matt Dillon in the TV series Gunsmoke
Bix Beiderbecke Iowa (pledged 1925, not initiated)Jazz musician
Steve Bellamy Indiana University 1986Entrepreneur in sports and entertainment known for founding several niche cable TV networks
John Boles Texas 1917Actor known for playing Victor Moritz in Frankenstein
Jackson Bostwick Alabama 1965Actor known for portraying Captain Marvel in the TV series Shazam! [10]
Kyle Brandt Princeton 2001TV host, media personality, and actor
Thom Brennaman Ohio 1986TV sportscaster
Phil Brown Stanford 1937Actor known for his role as Luke Skywalker's uncle, Owen Lars, in Star Wars
Robert Butler UCLA 1950Emmy Award-winning TV director
Jay Chandrasekhar Colgate 1990Actor known for Super Troopers and a member of the comedy troupe Broken Lizard
Lloyd Corrigan UC Berkeley 1922Actor who appeared in more than 90 films, including The Manchurian Candidate
John Doman Pennsylvania 1966Actor known for playing William Rawls in the TV series The Wire
Bergen Evans Miami 1924 Rhodes scholar and TV personality who won a Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting
Neil Everett Willamette / Oregon 1984Anchor of SportsCenter
Chet Forte Columbia 1957TV director known for Monday Night Football
Pat Green Texas Tech 1995Country music artist
Cary Guffey Florida 1994Actor known for Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Leigh Harline Utah 1929Film composer and songwriter; won an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1940 for "When You Wish Upon a Star"
Kevin Heffernan ColgateActor known for Super Troopers and a member of the comedy troupe Broken Lizard
Horace Heidt UC Berkeley 1924Pianist, big band leader, and radio and TV personality
Foster Hewitt Toronto 1925Radio broadcaster known for Hockey Night in Canada
Griffin House Miami 2002Singer-songwriter
Chuck Howard Duke 1955 Emmy Award-winning producer known for Wide World of Sports ; member of the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame
Sidney Howard UC Berkeley 1912Playwright and screenwriter; received a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1925 for They Knew What They Wanted and a posthumous Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1939 for Gone with the Wind
Jeffrey Jones Lawrence 1968Actor known for Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Richard Karn Washington 1978Actor known for Home Improvement
Burt Kwouk Bowdoin 1953Actor known for his role as Cato in The Pink Panther film series
Steve Lemme ColgateActor known for Super Troopers and a member of the comedy troupe Broken Lizard
Daniel Lindsay Missouri 2001Filmmaker known for the Oscar-winning sports documentary Undefeated
David Lloyd Colgate 1983Anchor for SportsCenter
Pare Lorentz West Virginia 1926Filmmaker considered to be the father of the modern documentary
David Martin Yale 1965TV correspondent, journalist, and author for CBS News
Walter Massey MIT 1951Actor known for Arthur and the English version of The Mysterious Cities of Gold
Les Mayfield Southern California 1982Film director known for Encino Man and Blue Streak
Max Morath Colorado College 1947Ragtime pianist
Edward P. Morgan Whitman 1932Broadcast journalist for ABC, CBS, and PBS; Peabody Award winner in 1956
William R. Moses Wesleyan 1982Actor known for the 1980s prime-time soap opera Falcon Crest
Kenyon Nicholson Wabash 1917Playwright and screenwriter
Lance Norris Whitman 1984Actor and writer
Frank Pacelli Illinois 1948 Emmy Award-winning director known for The Young and the Restless
George Peppard Purdue 1952Actor known for Breakfast at Tiffany's and the TV series The A-Team
Robert Pine Ohio Wesleyan 1963Actor known for the TV series CHiPs
Robert Reed Northwestern 1954Actor known for portraying Mike Brady in the TV series The Brady Bunch
David Richmond-Peck Western Ontario 1996Actor who has appeared in over 70 film and TV roles, including She's The Man and Battlestar Galactica
Rivers Rutherford Mississippi 1989Country music songwriter who has composed several number one hits, including "Ain't Nothing 'bout You" by Brooks & Dunn
Steve Sholes Rutgers 1933Recording executive and member of the Country Music Hall of Fame
Jeremy Slate St. Lawrence 1952Actor known for The Sons of Katie Elder , the TV series The Aquanauts , and the soap opera One Life to Live
Stephen Sondheim Williams 1950Composer and lyricist known for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and West Side Story
Paul Soter ColgateActor known for Super Troopers and a member of the comedy troupe Broken Lizard
Erik Stolhanske Colgate 1991Actor known for Super Troopers and a member of the comedy troupe Broken Lizard
Jess Thomas Nebraska 1948Operatic tenor known for singing Wagner compositions
Erland Van Lidth De Jeude MIT 1976Actor known for The Wanderers and Stir Crazy
Doodles Weaver Stanford 1937 Character actor, comedian, and musician who hosted the variety TV show The Doodles Weaver Show
Robb Weller Washington 1972TV personality and game show host known for Entertainment Tonight and Win, Lose or Draw
Adam West Whitman 1951Actor known for Batman and Family Guy
Brian J. White DartmouthActor known for Stomp the Yard
Christopher Woodrow Alabama 1999Hollywood movie producer known for Birdman , Black Mass , and Hacksaw Ridge
Paul Worley Vanderbilt 1972Record producer who discovered the Dixie Chicks and produced the Grammy Award-winning album Own the Night for Lady Antebellum

Law

NameChapter and yearNotabilityReferences
David Josiah Brewer Wesleyan 1955Former US Supreme Court Justice
Willis Van Devanter DePauw 1881Former US Supreme Court Justice
Charles Douglas III Wesleyan 1964Former US Representative from New Hampshire and New Hampshire Supreme Court Associate Justice
William O. Douglas Whitman 1920Former US Supreme Court Justice [1]
Fred Gause Indiana 1900Former Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court
Charles H. Haden II Oklahoma 1956Former US Federal Judge [1]
John Marshall Harlan Centre 1850Former US Supreme Court Justice [1]
Frank Smithwick Hogan Columbia 1924Former New York County District Attorney
Stephen N. Limbaugh Sr. Missouri 1951Former Judge on the US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri and President of the Missouri Bar Association [1]
Horace Lurton Cumberland 1867Former US Supreme Court Justice [1]
Samuel Taylor Marshall Ohio 1839Former Attorney and Co-Founder of Beta Theta Pi
Ralph O. Olson Carleton 1922Former Washington Supreme Court justice [11]
John Sopinka Toronto 1958Former Puisne Justice, Supreme Court of Canada
Edwin K. Steers Indiana 1937Former Indiana Attorney General
Kimbrough Stone Missouri 1895Former Judge of the US Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
Ralph G. Thompson Oklahoma 1956Former US Federal Judge [1]
Hosea Townsend Western Reserve 1864Former US Representative from Colorado
William B. Woods Western Reserve 1841Former US Supreme Court Justice [1]
Wendell Wyatt Oregon 1939Former US Representative from Oregon

Literature and journalism

NameChapter and yearNotabilityReferences
Bert Andrews Stanford 1925 Washington-based reporter for the New York Herald Tribune who won a Pulitzer Prize
James O'Donnell Bennett Michigan 1893Journalist known for writing for the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Record-Herald
Main Bocher Chicago 1911Fashion designer and editor-in-chief of the French edition of Vogue
Percy Jewett Burrell Boston 1897Dramatist and playwright
Byron Calame Missouri 1961Journalist and deputy managing editor of The Wall Street Journal
Dick Durrell Minnesota 1950Former publisher of People magazine
Howard Fineman Colgate 1970Journalist and TV commentator; global editorial director of the AOL Huffington Post Media Group
George Helgesen Fitch Knox College 1897Author and journalist
Sam Walter Foss Brown 1882Poet known for The House by the Side of the Road and The Coming American
David Hirshey Dickinson 1971Book editor who served as senior vice president and executive editor of HarperCollins
Richard Hooker Bowdoin 1945Writer and surgeon known for his novel MASH
L. D. Hotchkiss Iowa Wesleyan / Iowa 1916Newspaper journalist who served as editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times
Kermit Hunter Ohio 1931Author and playwright
Russell Janney Yale 1906Theatrical producer and author known for his 1946 best-selling novel The Miracle of the Bells, which was made into a film of the same name in 1948 [12]
Ken Kesey Oregon 1957Author known for his 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , which was made into an Academy Award-winning film of the same name in 1975
Laird Koenig Washington 1949Author known for his 1974 novel The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane , [13] which was made into a film of the same name in 1976.
David Lamb Maine 1962Writer who traveled the world for 25 years as a Los Angeles Times correspondent [14]
Charles Wesley Leffingwell KnoxAuthor who served as editor of The Living Church magazine
Norman Fitzroy Maclean Dartmouth 1924Author known for his 1976 novel A River Runs Through It , which was made into an Academy Award-winning film of the same name in 1992
Karl Marlantes Yale 1967Author known for the novel Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
Thomas Franklin Fairfax Millard Missouri 1888Journalist and newspaper editor; founder of the China Weekly Review and author of seven influential books on the Far East [15]
Harry Allen Overstreet California 1899Writer and author of known for the best-selling book The Mature Mind
Albert Shaw Johns Hopkins 1884Journalist who was the founder and editor of The American Review of Reviews
Bob Thomas UCLA 1943Hollywood reporter for the Associated Press
Frederick N. Ward Florida 1957Photojournalist
Robert Wilson Texas 1963New York City-based playwright, Obie Award winner for direction, and Olivier Award winner for Best New Opera
John Sergeant Wise Virginia 1867Author of The End of an Era

Military

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NameChapter and yearNotabilityReferences
Jerry M. BleschCentre 1960
(1956–58) /
US Naval Academy 1962 (1958–62)		 Captain, US Navy (Ret.); surface warfare officer; commanding officer of guided missile frigate USS Richard L. Page (FFG-5); commanding officer of destroyer tender USS Puget Sound (AD-38); commander of Destroyer Squadron 25; (e.g., commodore of COMDESRON 25), to include acting as on scene commander of US military forces following the Soviet shootdown of Korean Air Lines Flight 007; commanding officer of battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64); [16] following retirement from the U.S. Navy, served as general secretary of Beta Theta Pi; [17] namesake of the fraternity's Jerry M. Blesch General Secretary Leadership Award
George M. Browning Jr. [18] UCLA 1952 Lieutenant General, US Air Force (Ret.); Command Pilot; fighter pilot (F-86 Sabre, F-102 Delta Dagger, F-4 Phantom II); commander, 26th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing; Comptroller of the Air Force
Omar Bundy DePauw 1881 Major General, US Army (Ret.), initiated counter-attack that saved Paris from impending capture by the Germans in World War I; namesake of USS General Omar Bundy (AP-152)
Kenneth D. Cameron MIT 1971 Colonel, US Marine Corps (Ret.), naval aviator-astronaut; currently a NASA management astronaut; pilot for STS-37 mission aboard space shuttle Atlantis; commander for STS-56 mission aboard Discovery and STS-74 mission aboard Atlantis; currently deputy director for safety, NASA Engineering & Safety Center, Langley Research Center, Virginia (also see "Astronauts" section)
John Coburn Wabash 1846 Brigadier General, Union Army; during the Civil War, led the first Union Army troops into the city of Atlanta during the Battle of Atlanta; founder of the Wabash College Chapter
Donald L. CromerWashington State 1958 (1954–55) /
US Naval Academy 1959 (1955–59)		 Lieutenant General, US Air Force (Ret.), Master Missile Operations Officer; Master Space Operations Officer; Commander of Space Systems Division, Air Force Systems Command; 2010 recipient of Beta Theta Pi's Oxford Cup [19] [20]
Enoch Crowder Missouri 1887 / US Military Academy 1881Major General, US Army; Judge Advocate General of the US Army; US Army Provost Marshall General; oversaw the drafting and administration of the Selective Service Act of 1917; US Ambassador to Cuba
Mark Divine Colgate 1985 Commander, US Navy (Ret.), Special Warfare (SEAL) Officer; founder of NavySEALs.com and SEAL FIT
John Perry EdwardsKansas 1939 Ensign, US Naval Reserve, Naval Aviator, awarded Navy Cross for valor during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. [21]
Eric Erickson Cornell 1921Technically not a member of the US armed forces, but as a Swedish national served as an intelligence agent for the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II; provided key information that led to the aerial bombing of Nazi oil fields by USAAF and RAF aircraft
George Benson Fox Ohio Wesleyan 1861Major, US Army 75th Ohio Volunteer Infantry - American Civil War. Later American businessman and member Ohio General Assembly
Gerald E. GneckowIdaho 1960 Rear Admiral, US Navy (Ret.); surface warfare officer; commanding officer of guided missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG-36); commanding officer of guided missile cruiser USS Richmond K. Turner (CG-20); commanding officer of battleship USS Iowa (BB-61);commander of US Naval Forces South [22]
John Brown Gordon Georgia 1854Major General, Confederate States Army; US Senator; Governor of Georgia
Terrence C. Graves Miami 1967 2nd Lieutenant, US Marine Corps, infantry officer, 3rd Force Reconnaissance Company; Medal of Honor recipient (posthumous) during Vietnam War
Dudley Jackson HardWooster 1893 Major General, US Army (Ohio Army National Guard); left private business to enlist as a private during the Spanish–American War; was later commissioned as an officer, commanded the 135th Field Artillery as a colonel during World War I; retired in 1936 as a major general commanding the 37th Division of the Ohio National Guard; became the first county commander of the American Legion in Ohio [23]
James Wallace HaverfieldOhio State 1939Ensign, US Naval Reserve; killed aboard the battleship USS Arizona (BB-39) during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; namesake of USS Haverfield (DE-393) / (DER-393)
Joe W. Kelly DePauw 1931
(1927–1928) /
US Military Academy 1932 (1928–32)		 General, US Air Force (Ret.); Command Pilot; B-26 Marauder bomber pilot and Commander of 386th Bomb Group (Medium) during World War II; later flew as a B-29 Superfortress, B-50 Superfortress and B-36 Peacemaker pilot and commanded various Strategic Air Command bomber units in the late 1940s and 1950s; first four-star Commander of Military Air Transport Service in the 1960s, to include during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis [24]
Jonathan Letterman Washington & Jefferson 1845 Major and surgeon, Union Army/Army of the Potomac; medical director of the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War; known as the "father of battlefield medicine"; namesake of the former Letterman Army Medical Center, now the Letterman Digital Arts Center at the Presidio of San Francisco [25]
Frank S. LomaxNebraska 1939
(1935–36) /
US Naval Academy 1940 (1936–40)		Ensign, US Navy, killed aboard the battleship USS Arizona (BB-39) during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor [26]
Daniel McClearyMiami 1844Lieutenant, US Army; killed in 1847 during the Mexican–American War; first Beta Theta Pi alumnus to die in combat [27]
James Rogers McConnell Virginia 1910Sergeant and fighter pilot, Lafayette Escadrille; French Croix de Guerre recipient; one of the first Americans to die in World War I. Today, brothers of McConnell's fraternity, the Omicron of Beta Theta Pi, remember his exploits in song and memorialize the fallen aviator every year on March 19 with an all-day color guard and a memorial ceremony.
Thomas McGuire Georgia Tech 1944 Major, US Army Air Forces; Pilot; P-38 Lightning fighter pilot and World War II aerial fighter ace (second highest scoring US ace of WW II); posthumous recipient of the Medal of Honor; previously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and three awards of the Silver Star; killed in action during a fighter sweep of the central Philippines, 7 Jan 1945; namesake of McGuire Air Force Base (now Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst), New Jersey
Marvin L. McNickle [28] South Dakota 1936 Lieutenant General, US Air Force (Ret.); command pilot; commander, 314th Troop Carrier Wing; commander, 9th Air Force; commander, 13th Air Force
Emory Jenison Pike Iowa Wesleyan 1899 (1895–97) /
US Military Academy 1901 (1897–1901)		 Lieutenant Colonel, US Army; infantry officer; Medal of Honor recipient (posthumous) during World War I; the only West Point graduate to be awarded the Medal of Honor during World War I
Everett P. Pope Bowdoin 1941 Major, US Marine Corps; Medal of Honor recipient during World War II [29]
Matthew Stanley Quay Washington & Jefferson 1850 Colonel, Union Army; first Beta Theta Pi alumnus to be awarded the Medal of Honor; MOH awarded for heroic actions at the Battle of Fredericksburg, December 1862 (also see "Government and politics" section)
William B. Rosson Oregon 1940 General, US Army (Ret.), Combat Infantryman, recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross for valor during the invasion of Anzio in World War II; deputy commander of US Military Assistance Command, Vietnam; commander in chief, US Southern Command
Thomas E. SchaeferLehigh 1953 Colonel, US Air Force (Ret.); command pilot; highest-ranking US military officer (Colonel, USAF) held captive during the 444-day Iranian Hostage Crisis at the US Embassy in Teheran, Iran, 1979–1981 [30]
John Taliaferro Thompson Indiana 1881 (1877–1878) /
US Military Academy 1882 (1878–1882)		 Brigadier General, US Army (Ret.), artillery officer and ordnance officer; inventor of the Thompson submachine gun (aka "Tommy Gun")
David C. Waybur UC Berkeley 1942 1st Lieutenant, US Army, Medal of Honor recipient; killed in action in Germany, 28 Mar 1945, two years after the action which earned him the MOH; recipient of the Silver Star and the Purple Heart
Paul J. Weitz Penn State 1954 Captain, US Navy (Ret.), naval aviator-astronaut; pilot, Apollo-Skylab 2 (SL-2); commander for space shuttle STS-6 mission aboard Challenger; retired from NASA as deputy director, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (also see "Astronauts" section)

Politics

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NameChapter and yearNotabilityReferences
Theodore Achilles Stanford 1925Former US Ambassador to Peru
Joe Allbaugh Oklahoma State 1974Former Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
John M. Allen Cumberland 1869Former US Representative from Mississippi
Abram Piatt Andrew Jr. Wabash 1892Former US Representative from Massachusetts
William Hepburn Armstrong Princeton 1847Former US Representative from Pennsylvania
Owen Aspinall Denison 1949Former governor of American Samoa
Wayne N. Aspinall Denver 1919Former US Representative from Colorado
Charles M. Bakewell California 1889Former US Representative from Connecticut
George Thomas Barnes Georgia 1853Former US Representative from Georgia
Lewis O. Barrows Maine 1916Former governor of Maine
John L. Bates Boston 1882Former governor of Massachusetts
Albert Beach Kansas 1905Former mayor of Kansas City, Missouri
Jack Beall Texas 1890Former US Representative from Texas
James A. Beaver Washington and Jefferson 1856Former governor of Pennsylvania
James T. Begg Wooster 1903Former US Representative from Ohio
Michael Bennet Wesleyan 1987US Senator from Colorado
Thomas Warren Bennett DePauw 1855Former US Representative from Idaho; former governor of Idaho Territory
Dr. Ami Bera UC Irvine 1987US Representative from California
Albert Seaton Berry Miami 1856Former US Representative from Kentucky
Richard Whiting Blue Washington and Jefferson 1864Former US Representative from Kansas
Thomas H. Boggs Tulane 1935Former US Representative from Louisiana [1]
Newton Booth DePauw 1846Former US Senator from California; former governor of California
William Borah Kansas 1884Former US Senator from Idaho; former chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Henry S. Boutell Iowa 1873Former US Representative from North Dakota; former Minister Plenipotentiary to Portugal and Switzerland
Emmett Forest Branch Indiana 1896Former governor of Indiana
Louis Jefferson Brann Maine 1898Former governor of Maine
Donald G. Brotzman Colorado 1943Former US Representative from Colorado
Charles H. Brough Johns Hopkins 1898Former governor of Arkansas
Benjamin Gratz Brown Transylvania 1846Former US Senator from Kentucky
John Young Brown Centre 1855Former US Representative from Kentucky; former governor of Kentucky
Norris Brown Iowa 1883Former US Senator from Nebraska
Webster E. Brown Wisconsin 1874Former US Representative from Wisconsin
Henry A. Buchtel DePauw 1872Former governor of Colorado
Joseph Ralph Burton Hanover 1873Former US Senator from Kansas
John Marshall Butler Johns Hopkins 1921Former US Senator from Maryland
William D. Bynum Indiana 1869Former US Representative from Indiana
Joseph W. Byrns, Sr. Vanderbilt 1890Former US Representative from Tennessee; former Speaker of the US House of Representatives
Ezekial Samuel Candler Jr. Mississippi 1881Former US Representative from Mississippi
Rush Clark Washington and Jefferson 1853Former US Representative from Iowa
Frank G. Clarke Dartmouth 1873Former US Representative from New Hampshire
Isaac Clements DePauw 1859Former US Representative from Illinois
John Coburn Wabash 1846Former US Representative from Indiana
Schuyler Colfax DePauw 1854Former US Representative from Indiana; former Speaker of the US House of Representatives; former Vice President of the United States
Chuck Colson Brown 1953Former Special Counsel to President Richard M. Nixon; indicted/convicted Watergate conspirator
Daniel Webster Comstock Ohio Wesleyan 1860Former US Representative from Indiana
John Sherman Cooper Centre / Yale 1923Former US Senator from Kentucky; former US Ambassador to India, Nepal and West Germany [1]
Norris Henry Cotton Wesleyan 1923Former US Senator from New Hampshire
William S. Cowherd Missouri 1881Former mayor of Kansas City, Missouri; former US Representative from Missouri
William B. Cravens Missouri 1893Former US Representative from Arkansas
Thomas T. Crittenden Jr. Missouri 1882Former mayor of Kansas City, Missouri
George Washington Cromer Indiana 1882Former US Representative from Indiana
Charles Crosby Western Reserve 1897Former US Representative from Pennsylvania
Enoch Herbert Crowder Missouri 1886Former US Ambassador to Cuba
Lee Cruce Vanderbilt 1885Former governor of Oklahoma
William Cumback DePauw 1853Former US Representative from Indiana; former lieutenant governor of Indiana
John Anthony Danaher Yale 1920Former US Senator from Connecticut
John E. Davis North Dakota 1935Former governor from North Dakota
Donald Dawson Missouri 1932Former aide to President Harry S. Truman; former curator of the Truman Presidential Library
Mark Lindsey De Motte DePauw 1853Former US Representative from Indiana
David Dewhurst Arizona 196741st lieutenant governor of Texas
Robert Docking Kansas 1946Former governor of Kansas; former mayor of Kansas City, Missouri
Ozro J. Dodds Miami 1861Former US Representative from Ohio
Robert J. Dold Denison 1991Former US Representative from Illinois
John E. Dolibois Miami 1942Former US Ambassador to Luxembourg [1]
Charles Douglas III Wesleyan 1964Former US Representative from New Hampshire; New Hampshire Supreme Court Associate Justice
Adolph Dubs Beloit 1942Former US Ambassador to Afghanistan
Anthony S. Earl Michigan State 1958Former governor of Wisconsin [1]
Harvey J. Eckley Washington & Jefferson 1868judge and member of Ohio Senate [31]
Alonzo Jay Edgerton Wesleyan 1850Former US Senator from Minnesota
Paul Carrington Edmunds Virginia 1856Former US Representative from Virginia
Samuel Hitt Elbert Ohio Wesleyan 1854Former governor of the then-Colorado Territory
William Elliott Virginia 1858Former US Representative from South Carolina
Ezekiel John Ellis Centenary 1859Former US Representative from Louisiana
Robert Ellsworth Kansas 1946Former US Representative from Kansas, former advisor to the president and former US Permanent Representative to NATO under President Richard M. Nixon; former Deputy Secretary of Defense under President Gerald R. Ford
Joseph S. Farland West Virginia 1938Former US Ambassador to Dominican Republic, Panama, Iran and Pakistan [1]
Joseph R. Farrington Wisconsin 1919Former US Representative from Wisconsin
Wallace R. Farrington Maine 1891Former governor of the Territory of Hawaii
Charles James Faulkner V.M.I. / Virginia 1868Former US Senator from West Virginia
W. Mark Felt Idaho 1935Former Associate Director of the FBI; exposed the Nixon administration's corruption as "Deep Throat"
Scott Field Virginia 1868Former US Representative from Texas
David R. Francis Washington University in St. Louis 1870Former mayor of St. Louis; former governor of Missouri; former US Secretary of the Interior; former US Ambassador to Russia; president of Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Bob Franks DePauw 1973Former US Representative from New Jersey [1]
William E. Fuller Iowa 1870Former US Representative from Iowa
Samuel Galloway Miami 1855Former US Representative from Ohio
Richard Gephardt Northwestern 1962Former US Representative from Missouri; former US House Minority Leader [1]
John (Jack) V. Geraghty Washington 1956Former mayor of Spokane, Washington
John Milton Glover Washington University in St. Louis 1871Former US Representative from Missouri
Abe McGregor Goff Idaho 1922Former US Representative from Idaho
Stephen Goldsmith Wabash 1968Former mayor of Indianapolis, Indiana
John Brown Gordon Georgia 1854Major General in CSA; former US Senator from Georgia; former governor of Georgia [1]
Miles Tobey Granger Wesleyan 1842Former US Representative from Connecticut
Levi Thomas Griffin Michigan 1857Former US Representative from Michigan
George Blackmore Guild Cumberland 1855Former mayor of Nashville, Tennessee
Steven Gunderson Wisconsin 1973Former US House Representative from Wisconsin [1]
William T. Haines Maine 1876 [32] Former governor of Maine
H. R. Haldeman UCLA 1948Former White House Chief of Staff under President Richard M. Nixon; indicted/convicted Watergate conspirator
Benton Jay Hall Miami 1855Former US Representative from Iowa
Charles Abraham Halleck Indiana 1922Former US Representative from Indiana
John Hanna DePauw 1858Former US Representative from Indiana
Michael F. Harcourt British Columbia 1963Former premier of British Columbia; former mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia [1]
Charles Henry Hardin Miami 1841Former governor of Missouri
James Harlan DePauw 1845Former US Senator from Iowa; former US Secretary of the Interior
Henry Richard Harris Emory 1847Former US Representative from Georgia
Louis Powell Harvey Western Reserve 1840Former governor of Wisconsin
Mark O. Hatfield Willamette 1943Former US Senator; former governor of Oregon [1]
Joe Heck Penn State 1984US Representative from Nevada; chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel
Pat Henry Mississippi 1882Former US Representative from Mississippi
Robert Roberts Hitt DePauw 1855Former US Representative from Illinois
George Hoadly Western Reserve 1844Former governor of California; former US Representative from California
Henry William Hoffman Washington and Jefferson 1846Former US Representative from Maryland
Glen Holden Sr. Oregon 1951Former US Ambassador to Jamaica [1]
Edward Everett Holland Richmond 1879Former US Representative from Virginia
A. Linwood Holton Washington and Lee 1945Former governor of Virginia [1]
Stanley K. Hornbeck Colorado / Denver 1903Former US Ambassador to the Netherlands
Jonas George Howard DePauw 1847Former US Representative from Indiana
Frank Neville Ikard Texas 1932Former US House Representative from Texas [1]
Clifford C. Ireland Knox 1901Former US Representative from Illinois
James Ferdinand Izlar Emory 1855Former US Representative from South Carolina
Craig T. James Florida 1963Former US Representative from Florida [1]
William Marion Jardine Kansas State 1894Former US Secretary of Agriculture; former US Ambassador to Egypt
Eric M. Javits Columbia 1952Ambassador to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons [1]
Leslie Jensen South DakotaFormer governor of South Dakota
Martin Nelson Johnson Iowa 1873Former US Senator from North Dakota
Brereton C. Jones Virginia 1961Former governor of Kentucky [1]
Doug Jones Alabama 1976Former US Senator from Alabama
David Karnes Nebraska 1971Former US Senator from Nebraska
James P. Kem Missouri 1910Former U.S. Senator from Missouri
William E. Kemp Missouri 1914Former mayor of Kansas City, Missouri
Peter D. Kinder Missouri 1976Lieutenant Governor of Missouri
William M. Kinsey Monmouth 1869Former U.S. Representative from Missouri
William F. Kopp Iowa Wesleyan 1892Former U.S. Representative from Iowa
Edward H. Kruse Indiana 1940Former U.S. Representative from Indiana
Robert M. La Follette Jr. Wisconsin 1917Former U.S. Senator from Wisconsin; former governor of Wisconsin
Joseph Rucker Lamar Bethany 1877Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice [1]
Charles B. Landis Wabash 1883Former U.S. Representative from Indiana
Milton Slocum Latham Jefferson 1843Former U.S. Senator from California; former governor of California
John J. Lentz Wooster 1881Former U.S. Representative from Ohio
Fred D. Letts Iowa 1899Former U.S. Representative from Iowa
David Linton Miami 1839Ohio State Senator who was active in the Whig, Republican, and Greenback parties; co-founder of Beta Theta Pi
Thomas G. Loeffler Texas 1971Former US House Representative from Texas [1]
Frank Orren Lowden Iowa 1885Former US House Representative from Illinois; former governor of Illinois
Richard Lugar Denison 1954Former US Senator from Indiana; knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and named an honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE); recipient of Beta Theta Pi's Oxford Cup [1]
Ray Mabus Mississippi 1969Former governor of Mississippi 1988–92; former, Ambassador to Saudi Arabia; Secretary of the Navy, 2009–present; recipient of Beta Theta Pi's Oxford Cup [1]
Humphrey Marshall Translyvania 1845Former US Representative from Kentucky; former US Minister to China
Dr. Roger Marshall Kansas State 1984US Senator from Kansas
James G. Martin Davidson 1957Former US House of Representatives; former governor of North Carolina [1]
Henry M. Mathews West Virginia 1857Former governor of West Virginia
Courtland Cushing Matson DePauw 1862Former US Representative from Indiana
Thomas Stanley Matthews Cincinnati 1842Former US Senator from Ohio; former US Supreme Court Justice
John Jay McCloy Amherst 1916Former assistant secretary of War; former advisor to presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, Gerald R. Ford and Ronald Reagan; received Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction
James L. McConaughy Yale 1909Former governor of Connecticut
John Watts McCormick Ohio 1855Former US Representative from Ohio
James Wilson McDill Miami 1853Former US Representative from Iowa
Joseph Ewing McDonald DePauw / Indiana 1849Former US Senator from Indiana
David McKinley Purdue 1969US Representative from West Virginia, Former member of W. Virginia House of Delegates
William Pickney McLean North Carolina 1857Former US Representative from Texas
William H. McMaster Beloit 1899Former US Senator from South Dakota; former governor of South Dakota
Paul Vories McNutt Indiana 1913Former governor of Indiana; first US Ambassador to the Philippines
Robert W. Miers Indiana 1870Former US Representative from Indiana
Andrew Jackson Montague Richmond 1882 / Virginia 1885Former US Representative from Virginia; former governor of Virginia
J. Waldo Monteith Toronto 1927Former member of the Canadian House of Commons
Arch A. Moore Jr. West Virginia 1951Former governor of West Virginia; former US Representative from West Virginia [1]
Dwight Morrow Amherst 1895Former senator from New Jersey; US Ambassador to Mexico
Oliver P. Morton Miami 1847Former governor of Indiana; integral in the creation of the DePauw, Indiana and Wabash chapters of Beta Theta Pi
David C. Mulford Lawrence 1959Former US Ambassador to India [1]
John Mutz Northwestern 1957Former lieutenant governor of Indiana; President of Lilly Endowment
Albinus Nance Knox 1868Former governor of Nebraska
Bill Nelson Florida 1964 / Yale 1965Former US Senator from Florida; former State Treasurer of Florida; former US Representative from Florida; recipient of Beta Theta Pi's Oxford Cup (also see "Astronauts" section)
John Stoughton Newberry Michigan 1847Former US Representative from Michigan
Richard D. Nichols Kansas State 1951Former US Representative from Kansas [1]
Don Nickles Oklahoma State 1971Former US Senator from Oklahoma [1]
John W. Noble Miami 1850Former US Secretary of the Interior
Jeremiah E. O'Connell Boston 1906Former US Representative from Rhode Island
Benjamin Baker Odell Jr. Bethany 1877Former US Representative from New York
Richard Buell Ogilivie Yale 1945Former governor of Illinois
Alvin M. Owsley Texas 1912Former US Ambassador to Romania
Bob Packwood Willamette 1954Former US Senator from Oregon
Halbert Eleazer Paine Western Reserve 1845Former US Representative from Wisconsin
Guy B. Park Missouri 1896Former governor of Missouri
Richard C. Patterson Jr. Nebraska 1909 / Columbia 1911Former US ambassador to Yugoslavia and Guatemala, and US minister to Switzerland
John M. Pattison Ohio Wesleyan 1869Former US Representative from Ohio; former governor of Ohio
George Smith Patton Virginia Military Institute 1877Mayor of San Marino, California, candidate for U.S. House and Senate, father of General George S. Patton [33]
Boies Penrose Harvard / Pennsylvania 1881Former US Senator from Pennsylvania
William J. Perry Carnegie Mellon 1949Former US Secretary of Defense [1]
David Peterson Western Ontario 1966Former premier of Ontario [1]
Walter R. Peterson Dartmouth 1947Former governor of New Hampshire
Bill Phelps Missouri 1956Former US Representative from Missouri
Robert Phinny Ambassador to Swaziland Michael Pitfield St. Lawrence 1956Former Canadian Senator
Henry Moses Pollard Dartmouth 1857Former US Representative from Missouri
John G. Pollard Richmond 1891Former governor of Virginia
Laurence Pope Bowdoin 1967Former US Ambassador to Chad
Andrew J. Poppleton Michigan 1851Former mayor of Omaha, Nebraska
Albert Gallatin Porter DePauw 1843Former governor of Indiana; former US Representative from Indiana; former US Minister to Italy
George M. Pritchard North Carolina 1907Former US Representative from North Carolina
Jacob Joseph Pugsley MiamiFormer US Representative from Ohio
Matthew Stanley Quay Jefferson 1850Former US Senator from Pennsylvania; first Beta to be awarded the Medal of Honor while a colonel in the 134th Pennsylvania Infantry at the Battle of Fredericksburg, December 1862
Saul F. Rae Texas 1936Former Canadian ambassador to the United Nations, Mexico, Guatemala and the Netherlands
Joseph Lafayette Rawlins Indiana 1874Former US Senator from Utah
John Henry Ray Minnesota 1908Former US Representative from New York
Henry Augustus Reeves Michigan 1852Former US Representative from Michigan
Robert Rice Reynolds North Carolina 1906Former US Senator from North Carolina
John J. Rhodes Kansas State 1938Former US Representative from Arizona; former US House Minority Leader; recipient of Beta Theta Pi's Oxford Cup [1]
Ira E. Rider St. Lawrence 1888Former US Representative from New York
William A. Robinson Toronto 1925Former member of the Canadian House of Commons
Charlie Rose Davidson 1961Former US Representative from North Carolina [1]
Arthur Rouse Hanover 1896Former US Representative from Kentucky
Thomas L. Rubey Missouri 1885Former US Representative from Missouri
Eugene P. Ruehlmann Cincinnati 1947Former mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio
Aimaro Sato DePauw 1881Former Japanese Ambassador to the United States
Daniel Schaefer South Dakota 1958Former US Representative from Colorado [1]
Charles Frederick Scott Kansas 1881Regent; former Kansas State Senator; former US Representative from Kansas
Harvey David Scott DePauw 1850Former US Representative from Indiana
Townsend Scudder Columbia 1888Former US Representative from New York
Frederick Andrew Seaton Kansas State 1931Former US Senator from Nebraska; former assistant secretary of defense; former US Secretary of the Interior
Phillip R. Sharp DePauw 1964Former US Representative from Indiana [1]
David Sholtz Yale 1914Former governor of Florida
Scott Sifton Truman State University 1996Member of the Missouri Senate
George G. Siebels Jr. Virginia 1937Former mayor of Birmingham, Alabama
Arnold Cantwell Smith Toronto 1935Former Canadian ambassador to Egypt and the USSR
Dennis A. Smith Willamette 1960Former US Representative from Oregon [1]
Frank E. Smith Mississippi 1941Former US Representative from Mississippi
John M.C. Smith Michigan 1881Former US Representative from Michigan
Bertrand Snell Amherst 1894Former US Representative from New York
Earl W. Snell Oregon 1907Former governor of Oregon
C. Wilbert Snow Bowdoin 1907Former governor of Connecticut
Zack Space Kenyon 1983Former US Representative from Ohio [1]
William Brainerd Spencer Centenary 1855Former US Representative from Louisiana
John M. Spratt Jr. Davidson 1964Former US Representative from South Carolina [1]
William McKendree Springer Indiana 1857Former US Representative from Illinois
William Francis Stevenson Davidson 1885Former US Representative from South Carolina
Kevin Stitt Oklahoma State 1995Governor of Oklahoma
Edward C. Stokes Brown 1883Former governor of New Jersey
Reginald H. Sullivan Wabash 1897Former mayor of Indianapolis, Indiana
Howard Sutherland Westminster 1889Former US Senator from West Virginia
Robert Franklin Sutherland Toronto 1911Former member of the Canadian House of Commons
Mike Synar Oklahoma 1972Former US House Representative from Oklahoma [1]
Charles P. Taft II Yale 1918Former mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio
Leon Taylor Denison 1907Former governor of New Jersey
Dickran M. Tevrizian Jr. Southern California 1962Former US Federal Judge; first Armenian-American Federal Judge [1]
Henry St. George Tucker Washington and Lee 1875Former US Representative from Virginia
John Turner British Columbia 1952Former prime minister of Canada [1]
Albert Rollen Conrad Ullman Whitman 1935Former US Representative from Oregon
William Hanford Upson Western Reserve 1842Former US Representative from Ohio
Willis Van Devanter DePauw 1881Former US Supreme Court Justice [1]
Daniel Wosley Voorhees DePauw 1849Former US Senator from Indiana
Durbin Ward Miami 1843Former Kentucky assemblyman and brevet brigadier general during the Civil War
George B. Ward Cumberland 1887Former mayor of Birmingham, Alabama
John Warner Washington and Lee 1950Former Secretary of the Navy; former US Senator from Virginia; former chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC); namesake of the attack submarine USS John Warner (SSN-785) [1]
Walter Allen Watson Hampden-Sydney 1887Former US Representative from Virginia
E.D. Claude Weaver Texas 1887Former US Representative from Oklahoma
Edward F. Weber Denison 1953Former US Representative from Ohio
Tom Wheeler Ohio State 1968Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
Kenneth S. Wherry Nebraska 1914Former US Senator and Senate Minority Leader
William F. Whiting Amherst 1886Former US Secretary of Commerce
Jamie Whitten Mississippi 1933Former US Representative from Mississippi [1]
Benjamin Mitchell Williamson Bethany 1886Former US Senator from Kentucky
Wendell Willkie Indiana 19161940 Republican Party nominee for president of the US
Charles Erwin Wilson Carnegie 1909Former US Secretary of Defense
Joseph Gardner Wilson Miami 1846Former US Representative from Oregon
Charles E. Winter Iowa Wesleyan 1892Former US Representative from Wyoming; former acting governor of Puerto Rico
William W. Wirtz Beloit 1933Former US Secretary of Labor
John Sergeant Wise Virginia 1867Former US Representative from Virginia
Josiah Oliver Wolcott Wesleyan 1901Former US Senator from Delaware
John Smith Young Centenary 1855Former US Representative from Louisiana
Owen D. Young St. Lawrence 1894Former US diplomat; representative to the Second Reparations Conference (SRC) in 1929 as a member of the German Reparations International Commission; "father" of the Young Plan for the fiscal rehabilitation of Germany after World War I
Philip Young St. Lawrence 1931Former US Ambassador to the Netherlands
Eugene M. Zuckert Yale 1933Former Secretary of the Air Force

Religion

[1]

NameChapter and yearNotabilityReferences
Charles E. Bennison Lawrence 1965Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania
Earl Cranston Ohio 1861Bishop, Methodist Episcopal Church
C. Christopher Epting Florida 1969Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Iowa
Robert Todd GiffinNational Roll 2017Bishop, Anglican Province of America, also a member of the Pilgrims Society and the New York State Society of the Cincinnati
Gregory Parkes Florida State University 1986Bishop, Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Petersburg, FL

Sports

[1]

NameChapter and yearNotabilityReferences
Fred Ahern Bowdoin 1974NHL player, California Seals, Cleveland Barons, Colorado Rockies
Ethan Allen Cincinnati 1926Major League Baseball player; head baseball coach at Yale University
Michael Antonovich Minnesota 1973NHL player, Minnesota North Stars, Hartford Whalers, New Jersey Devils
Frankie Baumholtz Ohio 1941Professional basketball player; Major League Baseball player
Jim Benepe Northwestern 1986Professional golfer
Earl Blaik Miami 1918Head football coach, Army
Carl Blaurock Colorado Mines 1916First American to climb all mountains over 14,000 feet in the continental US
Joe Bottom Southern California 19771976 Olympic silver medalist in 100m butterfly
Don Bragg UCLA 19591960 Olympic gold medalist in pole vault
Evan Brown SMU 2017Center for the New York Giants, Cleveland Browns, and Detroit Lions
Mike Brown Dartmouth 1957President and general manager, Cincinnati Bengals
Dave Brundage Oregon State 1986Minor League Baseball player and coach
Jim Brunzell Minnesota 1971Professional wrestler and co-author of the Killer Bees comic book series
George Buehler Stanford 1969NFL player for the Los Angeles Raiders
John Bunn Kansas 1920Key contributor to the game of basketball
Guy Chamberlin Nebraska 1916College and pro football Hall of Famer by playing for seven teams over nine years, coaching four (4) over seven (7) years. Awards: 5x NFL champion (1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1926) and member of the all 20's NFL team.
Peter Cipollone California 19942004 Olympic gold medalist, rowing
Bob Clotworthy Ohio State 19541952 Olympic silver medalist and 1956 gold medalist in springboard diving
Roy Cochran Indiana 19411948 Olympic gold medalist, 400m hurdles, 4 × 400 m relay
Ron Coder Penn State 1976 NFL player for Seattle Seahawks
Don Cohan Amherst 19511972 Olympic bronze medalist, sailing
Eddie Collins Columbia 1907 Major League Baseball Hall of Famer who played with just two teams over 26 seasons. While at the Philadelphia Athletics and the Chicago White Sox, Eddie won Six (6) World Series. World Series MVP in 1924.
Don Coryell Washington 1947Former coach of the San Diego Chargers
Mel Counts Oregon State 1964Olympic gold medalist in basketball, 1964; 7th overall pick in 1964 NBA draft; played in NBA 1964–1976; won two NBA titles with Boston Celtics
Edgar Diddle Centre 1919Legendary basketball coach at Western Kentucky University; first coach to win 1,000 games at one school
DeLoss Dodds Kansas State 1959Athletic Director of the University of Texas at Austin
Charles Doe Stanford 19201920 and 1924 Olympic gold medalist, rugby
Bobby Douglass Kansas 1969NFL quarterback, Chicago Bears
Eddie Eagan Denver / Yale 1920Olympic gold medalist, boxing 178-lb in 1920 and bobsledding in
Keith Fahnhorst Minnesota 1974 NFL player, San Francisco 49ers, Super Bowl XVI & XIX Champion
Max Falkenstien Kansas 1947Kansas Jayhawks radio announcer
John Ferris Stanford 19711968 Olympic bronze medalist in the 200M and 200 butterfly
Jay Fiedler Dartmouth 1994 NFL QB who played seven seasons total, and five with the Miami Dolphins. Threw for almost 12,000 yards over his career.
Dow Finsterwald Ohio 1952Professional golfer
Jeff Float Southern California 19831984 Olympic bronze medalist, 4x200 freestyle relay
Travis Ford Missouri 1991Head basketball coach for Oklahoma State University
Ken Forsch Oregon State 1969Major League Baseball; two-time All-Star team selection; pitched a no-hitter on 7 April 1979
Bruce Furniss Southern California 19791976 Olympic gold medalist, 4x200 freestyle relay and 200 freestyle
Steve Furniss Southern California 19751972 Olympic bronze medalist, 200 IM
David Gagnon Colgate 1991NHL player, Detroit Red Wings
George Glamack North Carolina early 1940sAll American basketball with the NBL, Rookie of the Year (1942) and Champion (1946) playing for several teams.
Iñaki Gomez British Columbia 20102012 Canadian Summer Olympic team member
Gail Goodrich UCLA 1965 NBA player, Los Angeles Lakers
Dan Greenbaum Southern California 19921992 Olympic bronze medalist, volleyball
Dan Guerrero UCLA 1974 UCLA athletic director
Ed Hamm Georgia Tech 19281928 Olympic gold medalist, long jump
George Harrison Stanford 19611960 Olympic gold medalist, 4x200 freestyle relay
Dick Harter North Carolina 1952 NBA coach; first head coach for the Charlotte Hornets
Alan Helffrich Penn State 19251924 Olympic gold medalist, 4 × 400 m relay
Mark Jerue Washington 1982NFL player, New York Jets
Brian Job Stanford1968 Olympic bronze medalist, 200m breaststroke
Brandt Jobe UCLA 1989Professional golfer
Grier Jones Oklahoma State 1968Professional golfer
Charlie "Choo Choo" Justice North Carolina 1950Three-time All-American; Heisman Trophy runner-up; Washington Redskins football
Robert J. Kane Cornell 1934Former president of the US Olympic Committee
Jeff Kemp Dartmouth 1981 NFL quarterback for several teams, ending with the Los Angeles Rams for 5 seasons.
William Koch MIT 1962America's Cup winner
George Kojac Rutgers 19311928 Olympic gold medalist, 100 backstroke, 4x200 relay
Cawood Ledford Centre CollegeUniversity of Kentucky basketball commentator
David Lipsky Northwestern UniversityProfessional golfer
Jerry Lucas Ohio State 1962 NBA player, 1960 Olympic gold medalist
Larry MacPhail Beloit 1910Brooklyn Dodgers owner and general manager, introduced night games
Jim Mandich Michigan 1970NFL player, Miami Dolphins
Steve Marino UVA 2002Professional golfer
Kent Massey Oklahoma 19741996 Olympic bronze medalist, sailing
Scott McCarron UCLA 1989Professional golfer
Charles McGinnis Wisconsin 19271928 Olympic bronze medalist, pole vault
John L. Miller Yale 19241924 Olympic gold medalist, rowing
Matt Monger Oklahoma State 1984All Big 8 LB honors, played five seasons in the NFL including with the Buffalo Bills in the Super Bowl XXV.
Lowell North UC Berkeley 1971Olympic medalist, yachting; bronze in 1964 and gold in 1968
Gus Otto Missouri 1965NFL player, Oakland Raiders
John Parker Stanford 19701972 Olympic bronze medalist, water polo
Bob Pearce Oklahoma 19311932 Olympic gold medalist, wrestling 128-lb
Pete Pihos Indiana 1945College Football Hall of Fame, NFL player Philadelphia Eagles, six-time Pro Bowl selection
Pat Powers Southern California 19801984 Olympic gold medalist, volleyball
Chip Reese Dartmouth 1973Professional poker player
Robert G. Rich Jr.|Florida 1952US Ambassador to Belize [1]
Ed Rimkus St. Lawrence 19371948 Olympic gold medalist, bobsledding
Jamey Rootes Clemson 1988Major League Soccer general manager, Columbus Crew, Houston Texans
I. Murray Rose Southern California 1961Multiple Olympic medalist, three gold medals in 1956 (400 freestyle, 4x200 relay, and 1500 freestyle), two medals in 1960 (silver for 1500 freestyle, and bronze for 4x200 relay)
Edward P. Roski Southern California 1968Owner Los Angeles Kings hockey team
Richard Roth Stanford 19691964 Olympic gold medalist, 400 IM
Harlow Rothert Stanford 19301932 Olympic silver medalist, shot put
Mike Schmidt Ohio 1971Major League Baseball player; hit 548 home runs; member of the Hall of Fame
John Shadden Southern California 19871988 Olympic bronze medalist, yachting
Gary Sheerer Stanford 19681972 Olympic bronze medalist, water polo
Dave Shula Texas 1973Former head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals
Jerry Sichting Purdue 1979NBA coach
John T. Smith Professional wrestler
Stan Smith Southern California 1969Professional tennis player; winner of two major singles titles (US Open 1971, Wimbledon 1972)
Bob Stein Minnesota 1969NFL player, Kansas City Chiefs
Kevin Still UCLA 19821984 Olympic bronze medalist, rowing coxed-pairs
Bill Stoneman Idaho 1966General manager of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, 1999–2007; Major League Baseball player
William G. Thompson UC Berkeley 19291928 Olympic gold medalist, rowing eight oars
Bill Tindall Washington 1965Professional golfer
Bill Veeck Kenyon 1936Major League Baseball franchise owner; Hall of Fame member
Rick Volk Michigan 1967NFL player with the Miami Dolphins
Webb Wilder Oklahoma 1931Professional golfer
Ben Wilson Heidelberg 1944WSU Football Coach
John Wooden Purdue 1932UCLA basketball coach

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