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 establihsed in 1883. ^[2] Originally an all-male organization, women have been tapped for membership since the spring of 1992. ^[3] Active undergraduate members consist of sixteen seniors, selected annually in their junior year.

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

Academia

• Paul Butler, (1982), law professor of Georgetown University Law Center
• Sam Chauncey (1957), administrator at Yale University ^[4]
• Richard Gilder (1954), co-founder of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History ^[5]
• A. Whitney Griswold (1929), 16th President of Yale University ^[6]
• Ashbel Green Gulliver (1919), dean of Yale Law School ^[7]
• Robert Maynard Hutchins (1921), president of the University of Chicago ^[8]
• William Woolsey Johnson, mathematician and professor at the United States Naval Academy ^[9]
• Rashid Khalidi (1970), Professor Emeritus of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University ^[10]
• Felix Matos Rodriguez (1984), Chancellor of the City University of New York
• Clark Blanchard Millikan (1924), professor of aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology ^{[11] [12]}
• Benno C. Schmidt, Jr., 20th President of Yale University ^[13]
• Kurt Schmoke (1971), President of the University of Baltimore and mayor of Baltimore ^[14]
• Arthur Williams Wright (1859), physicist at Yale University

Anson Goodyear

Art and architecture

• Jonathan Foote (1958), architect whose work is associated with the preservation movement in the U.S.
• Paul Goldberger (1972), architecture critic ^[10]
• Sam Wagstaff, art curator and collector ^[15]
• George Alexis Weymouth (1958), painter and conservationist

Edward Harkness

Tom Steyer

Business

• Alexander Smith Cochran (1896), manufacturer and philanthropist ^[16]
• William Clay Ford (1949), past owner of the Detroit Lions of the National Football League ^[17]
• Anson Goodyear (1899), manufacturer, businessman, and first President of Museum of Modern Art ^[18]
• 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 ^[19]
• Edward Harkness (1896), philanthropist and major benefactor to Yale University ^[20]
• William L. Harkness, businessman and philanthropist
• Lewis Lehrman, former Rite Aid president, investment banker, and founded the Lehrman Institute ^[21]
• Roger Milliken (1937), president and CEO of Milliken & Company, ^[22]
• Paul Moore Sr. (1908), founder of Republic Aviation ^[23]
• Philip W. Pillsbury (1924), Chair of Pillsbury Company ^{[11] [24]}
• Tom Steyer (1979), founder and former co-senior-managing-partner of Farallon Capital ^[25]
• William Earl Dodge Stokes, businessman with Phelps, Dodge & Company and real estate developer of New York City's Upper West Side. ^[26]
• William Wrigley III (1954), president of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company

Charles Ives

Entertainment

• Chipo Chung (2000), Zimbabwean actress
• Charles Ives (1898), modernist composer ^[27]
• Christopher Lydon, media personality and commentator ^[10]
• Douglas Moore (1915), composer ^[28]
• Lila Neugabaue r ( 2007), theater and film director
• Clarissa Ward (2002), Emmy Award-winning television news correspondent
• Douglas Wick (1976), Academy Award-winning film producer

David Josiah Brewer

Law

• Rob Bonta (1994), Attorney General of California
• David J. Brewer, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ^[9]
• John Proctor Clarke, Justice of the New York Supreme Court ^[29]
• Robert B. Fiske (1952), an attorney with Davis Polk & Wardwell and United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York ^[30]
• Wayne MacVeagh, 36th Attorney General of the United States, United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, and United States Ambassador to Italy ^[31]
• Edward John Phelps, Envoy to Court of St. James's, lawyer, and founder of the American Bar Association

Stephen Vincent Benét

Literature and journalism

• Leigh Bardugo (1997), Israeli–American fantasy author ^[32]
• Charles L. Bartlett, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
• Stephen Vincent Benét (1919), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, short story writer, and novelist ^[7]
• Clarence Winthrop Bowen (1883), member of American Academy of Arts and Letters, author of historical essays ^[33]
• Edwin S. Grosvenor (1973), President and editor-in-chief of American Heritage
• William Matthews (1965), poet, winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
• Edmund Clarence Stedman, poet, critic, and essayist ^[9]
• Doug Wright (1985), Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter ^[34]

Rogers Morton

Politics

• Malcolm Baldrige Jr., former United States Secretary of Commerce ^[35]
• Scott Bessent 79th United States Secretary of Treasury
• Erastus Corning 2nd (1932), Mayor of Albany, New York, New York Senate, and New York State Assembly ^[36]
• Parker Corning (1895), United States House of Representatives ^[37]
• Mark Dayton (1978), Governor of Minnesota, United States Senator, and Auditor of Minnesota
• Douglas MacArthur II (1932), United States ambassador to Japan, Belgium, Austria, and Iran; Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs ^[38]
• Wayne MacVeagh, 36th Attorney General of the United States, United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, and United States Ambassador to Italy ^[31]
• Edwin Albert Merritt (1884), United States House of Representatives ^[39]
• Thruston Ballard Morton (1929), United States Senate and House of Representatives ^[40]
• Rogers Morton, United States Secretary of the Interior, United States Secretary of Commerce, and United States House of Representatives
• Edward John Phelps, Envoy to Court of St. James's and founder of the American Bar Association
• Geoffrey Robinson, Member of Parliament and Paymaster General
• Raymond G. H. Seitz (1963), U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom

Religion

• Dorsey McConnel (1975) American Anglican Bishop
• Paul Moore Jr., Bishop of New York ^[41]

Sports

• Donald Beer (1957), competition rower and Olympic medalist ^[42]
• Nicole Breault (1994) American sailor, four-time winner of U.S. Women's Open Championship
• John Charlesworth (1929), American football player ^[43]
• Thomas Charlton (1956), competition rower and Olympic medalist ^[44]
• Tess Gerrand (2010) Australian olympic rower
• Dick Jauron (1973), professional football player and coach in the National Football League ^[45]
• Chuck Mercein (1964) American professional football player
• Jack Morrison (1967), ice hockey Olympic athlete ^[46]
• Ducky Pond (1925), college football coach ^[47]
• Rusty Wailes (1958), competition rower and Olympic medalist ^[48]

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