List of Wolf's Head members

Wolf's Head is a senior secret society at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The society is one of the reputed "Big Three" societies at Yale, along with Skull and Bones and Scroll and Key. ^[1] It was established in 1883. ^[2] Originally an all-male organization, women have been tapped for membership since 1992. ^{[3] [4]} Active undergraduate members consist of 16 seniors selected in their junior year.

Following is a list of some notable members of Wolf's Head.

Academia

• Sam Chauncey (1957), administrator at Yale University ^[5]
• Richard Gilder (1954), co-founder of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History ^[6]
• A. Whitney Griswold (1929), 16th president of Yale University ^[7]
• Ashbel Green Gulliver (1919), dean of Yale Law School ^[8]
• Robert Maynard Hutchins (1921), president of the University of Chicago ^[9]
• William Woolsey Johnson, mathematician and professor at the United States Naval Academy ^[10]
• Rashid Khalidi (1970), professor emeritus of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University ^[11]
• Clark Blanchard Millikan (1924), professor of aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology ^{[12] [13]}
• Benno C. Schmidt Jr., 20th president of Yale University ^{[14] [15]}
• Kurt Schmoke (1971), president of the University of Baltimore and mayor of Baltimore ^[16]

Anson Goodyear

Art and architecture

• Paul Goldberger (1972), architecture critic ^[11]
• Sam Wagstaff, art curator and collector ^[17]

Edward Harkness

Tom Steyer

Business

• Alexander Smith Cochran (1896), manufacturer and philanthropist ^[18]
• William Clay Ford (1949), owner of the Detroit Lions of the National Football League ^[19]
• Anson Goodyear (1899), manufacturer, businessman, and first president of Museum of Modern Art ^[20]
• Charles W. Harkness (1883), director of Standard Oil; the Southern Pacific Railway Company; the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway; and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ^[21]
• Edward Harkness (1896), philanthropist and major benefactor to Yale University ^[22]
• William L. Harkness, businessman and philanthropist ^[23]
• Lewis Lehrman, Rite Aid president, investment banker, and founder of the Lehrman Institute ^[24]
• Roger Milliken (1937), president and CEO of Milliken & Company ^[25]
• Paul Moore Sr. (1908), founder of Republic Aviation ^[26]
• Philip W. Pillsbury (1924), chair of Pillsbury Company ^{[12] [27]}
• Tom Steyer (1979), founder and co-senior-managing-partner of Farallon Capital ^[28]
• William Earl Dodge Stokes, businessman with Phelps, Dodge & Company and real estate developer of New York City's Upper West Side. ^[29]
• William Wrigley III (1954), president of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company ^[4]

Charles Ives

Entertainment

• Charles Ives (1898), composer ^{[30] [4]}
• Christopher Lydon, media personality and commentator ^[11]
• Douglas Moore (1915), composer ^[31]

David Josiah Brewer

Law

• David J. Brewer, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ^[10]
• John Proctor Clarke, Justice of the New York Supreme Court ^[32]
• Robert B. Fiske (1952), attorney with Davis Polk & Wardwell and United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York ^[33]
• Wayne MacVeagh, 36th Attorney General of the United States, United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, and United States Ambassador to Italy ^[34]

Stephen Vincent Benét

Literature and journalism

• Leigh Bardugo (1997), Israeli–American fantasy author ^[35]
• Charles L. Bartlett, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist ^[36]
• Stephen Vincent Benét (1919), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, short story writer, and novelist ^[8]
• Clarence Winthrop Bowen (1883), author of historical essays ^[37]
• Edmund Clarence Stedman, poet, critic, and essayist ^[10]
• Doug Wright (1985), Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter ^[38]

Rogers Morton

Politics

• Malcolm Baldrige Jr., former United States Secretary of Commerce ^[39]
• Scott Bessent, 79th United States Secretary of Treasury ^[40]
• Erastus Corning 2nd (1932), Mayor of Albany, New York, New York Senate, and New York State Assembly ^[41]
• Parker Corning (1895), United States House of Representatives ^[42]
• Douglas MacArthur II (1932), United States ambassador to Japan, Belgium, Austria, and Iran; Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs ^[43]
• Wayne MacVeagh, 36th Attorney General of the United States, United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, and United States Ambassador to Italy ^[34]
• Edwin Albert Merritt (1884), United States House of Representatives ^[44]
• Thruston Ballard Morton (1929), United States Senate and House of Representatives ^[45]
• Rogers Morton, United States Secretary of the Interior, United States Secretary of Commerce, and United States House of Representatives ^[4]
• Edward John Phelps, Envoy to Court of St. James's, lawyer, and founder of the American Bar Association ^[46]
• Geoffrey Robinson, Member of Parliament and Paymaster General ^[47]

Religion

• Paul Moore Jr., Bishop of New York ^[48]

Sports

• Donald Beer (1957), competition rower and Olympic medalist ^[49]
• John Charlesworth (1929), football player ^[50]
• Thomas Charlton (1956), competition rower and Olympic medalist ^[51]
• Dick Jauron (1973), professional football player and coach in the National Football League ^[52]
• Jack Morrison (1967), ice hockey Olympic athlete ^[53]
• Ducky Pond (1925), college football coach ^[54]
• Rusty Wailes (1958), competition rower and Olympic medalist ^[55]

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