List of Skull and Bones Members
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The Skull and Bones (1833-present) published membership lists until 1971, which were kept at the Yale Library. The following partial list of noteworthy Bonesmen is compiled from those lists. The number in parentheses represents their cohort year of Skull and Bones, as well as their graduation year from Yale University.
[edit] Founders
- William Huntington Russell (1833), Co-founder of the Skull and Bones was a Connecticut State Legislator, and according to sources his cousin Samuel Russell established Russell and Company for the "purpose of acquiring opium in Turkey and smuggling it to China." Warren Delano, Jr., the grandfather of Franklin Roosevelt (32nd President of the United States) served as the Chief of Operations of Russell and Company in Canton. John Murray Forbes, the great-granduncle of John Forbes Kerry (S&B 1966) had a son Robert Bennet Forbes who was the head of Russell and Company.
- Alphonso Taft (1832), Co-Founder of the Skull and Bones, U.S. Attorney General (1876-1877), Secretary of War (1876), Ambassador to Austria-Hungary (1882), and Russia (1884-1885), father of William Howard Taft who served both as the 27th President of the United States and Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
[edit] Partial List of Members
- Frederick Baldwin Adams
- Victor Ashe (S&B 1967), Tenn. State House (1m968-1975); Tenn. State Senate (1976-1984); Mayor - Knoxville, Tenn. (1988-2003); Skull and Bones member President George W. Bush appoints him Ambassador to Poland (2004-Present)
- Roy Leslie Austin (S&B 1968), George W. Bush (S&B 1968) appoints him Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobagos
- Simeon Eben Baldwin (1861), Governor and Chief Justice, State of Connecticut (son of Roger Sherman Baldwin)
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham (1936), U.S. Senator
- David Boren (1963), Governor of Oklahoma, U.S. Senator, President of the University of Oklahoma
- Amory Howe Bradford (1934), general manager for the New York Times, worked briefly for the CIA
- Hugh Cunningham (?), worked briefly for the CIA
- Augustus Brandegee (1849), Speaker of the Connecticut State Legislature in 1861
- Frank Bosworth Brandegee (1885), U.S. Senator
- James Buckley (1944), U.S. Senator, worked for CIA briefly
- William F. Buckley
- William F. Buckley, Jr. (1950), founder of National Review, author, CIA covert agent
- McGeorge Bundy Special Assistant for National Security Affairs under Kennedy and Johnson, National Security Advisor, Professor of History
- William P. Bundy (1939), the State Department's liaison for the Bay of Pigs invasion.
- Prescott Bush (1916), father of George H.W. Bush who was the 41st President of the United States, and the grandfather of George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States
- George H. W. Bush (1948), 41st President of the United States, 43rd Vice-President of the United States, son of Boneseman Prescott Bush, father of Bonesman George W. Bush
- George W. Bush (1968), 43rd President of the United States, Governor of Texas
- John Chafee (1947), U.S. Senator, Secretary of the Navy and Governor of Rhode Island; father of U.S. Senator Lincoln Chafee
- Matthew Campbell (2007), Canadian heavyweight rower
- R. Inslee Clark (1963), Director of Undergraduate Admissions who help co-educate Yale under Kingman Brewster, former Headmaster Horace Mann School
- Thomas Cochran (1904), JP Morgan partner
- John Sherman Cooper (1923), U.S. Senator and member of the Warren Commission
- Alfred Cowles (1913), Cowles Communication
- Russell W. Davenport (1923), editor of Fortune magazine, created Fortune 500 list
- F. Trubee Davison (1918), Director of Personnel at the Central Intelligence Agency
- Henry P. Davison Jr. (1920), senior partner, JP Morgan's Guaranty Trust
- Endicott Peabody Davison (1948), same class as George H.W. Bush, later became Bush's lawyer.
- Chauncey Depew, U.S. Senator
- Christine Tsang (2007), Founder and Editor-in-Chief, FIVE Magazine
- William Henry Draper III (1950), chair of United Nations Development Programme and Import-Export Bank of the United States
- Timothy Dwight (1849), Yale acting Treasurer 1887-89, Yale Pres. 1886-99
- Timothy Dwight V (1849), President of Yale College
- John E. Ecklund (1938), Treasurer 1966-78, Partner in Bones-dominanted New Haven lawfirm Dana & Wiggin
- William Maxwell Evarts (1837), U.S. Secretary of State, Attorney General, and Senator (grandson of Roger Sherman)
- Robert D. French (1910)
- Charles Stafford Gage (1925), Yale Treasurer 1954-66, and with Bones family firm Mathiesson Chemical
- Evan G. Galbraith (1950), Ambassador to France and managing director of Morgan Stanley
- Artemus Gates (1918), President of New York Trust Company, Union Pacific Railroad, TIME-Life and Boeing Company
- Daniel Coit Gilman (1852), Studied at the University of Berlin (1854-1855) under Karl Von Ritter and Friedrich Trendelenderg, attache to the American legation at St. Petersburg; 2nd President of the University of California, 1st President of Johns Hopkins University, President of the Carnegie Institution
- William Henry Gleason (1853), Lt. Governor of Florida, founder of Eau Gallie, Florida, lawyer and land speculator
- Robert Gow (1955), business associate of George H. W. Bush, joined and later president of Bush's Zapata Oil
- Briton Hadden (1920), Cofounder of Time-Life Enterprises
- Gabriel Hernandez (2007), Hip-Hop Mogul
- Arthur T. Hadley (1876), Yale acting Treas. 1909-10, Yale Pres. 1899-1921
- Averell Harriman (1913), U.S. Ambassador and Secretary of Commerce, Governor of New York, Chairman and CEO of the Union Pacific Railroad, Brown Brothers & Harriman and the Southern Pacific Railroad. Wife Pamela Churchill Harriman helped to fund Bill Clinton's Presidential camapign.
- E. Roland Harriman (1917), businessman.
- H. J. Heinz II (1931), heir to H. J. Heinz Company, father of U.S. Senator H. John Heinz III
- Reuben Holden
- Pierre Jay (1892), first chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
- Franc Kahn, heir to Kahn Brothers Securities & Investments Group
- John Kerry (1966) U.S. Senator and 2004 Democratic presidential nominee
- Henry Coit Kingsley (1834), Yale Treasurer 1862-87 (D. G. Gilman's uncle; Gilman even wrote the land grant application for Yale, which was quickly authorized; monies passed to his uncle, treasurer of Yale.)
- Charles Edwin Lord (1949), U.S. Comptroller of the Currency
- Winston Lord (1959), Chairman of Council on Foreign Relations, Ambassador to China, and Assistant U.S. Secretary of State
- Henry Luce (1920), Cofounder of Time-Life Enterprises
- Archibald MacLeish (1915), poet and author
- F. O. Matthiessen
- Robert McCallum, Jr (1968) - Current Ambassador to Australia
- Thomas Lee McClung (1892), Yale Treasurer 1904-09 (Bones U.S. Treas as well 1909-12, appointed by Bones U.S. President Taft)
- David McCullough (1955), U.S. historian and 2 time Pulitzer Prize winner
- Gifford Pinchot (1889), first Chief of U.S. Forest Service, under President Theodore Roosevelt
- Dino Pionzio (1950), CIA Deputy Chief of Station during Allende overthrow
- John Rockefeller Prentice (1928), grandson of John D. Rockefeller, pioneer of artificial insemination in farm animals as a means of improving their genetic pool
- Percy Rockefeller (1900), Director of Brown Brothers Harriman, Standard Oil and Remington Arms
- Charles Seymour
- Benjamin Silliman, Jr
- Frederick W. Smith (1966), founder of FedEx
- Harold Stanley (1908), founder of investment house of Morgan Stanley
- Donald Ogden Stewart
- Potter Stewart (1936), U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- Anson Phelps Stokes
- Daniel Suppers (1980), former CEO of McDonalds and fast-food connoisseur
- William Howard Taft (1878), Secretary of War, 27th President of the United States, Chief Justice of the United States, (son of Alphonso Taft)
- Robert A. Taft I, U.S. Senator
- Lawrence G. Tithe (1916), Yale Treasurer 1942-54, Director/Partner Brown Brothers Harriman
- Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt (1898), son of Cornelius Vanderbilt II and brother of Gertude Vanderbilt Whitney
- Morrison R. Waite (1837), U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- George Herbert Walker, Jr. (1927), financier and co-founder of the New York Mets, uncle to President George Herbert Walker Bush
- Frederick E. Weyerhaeuser (1896), scion of the Weyerhaeuser Paper Co.
- Andrew Dickson White (1853), first President of Cornell University
- Edward Baldwin Whitney (1878), New York Supreme Court Justice
- Harry Payne Whitney (1894), husband of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, investment banker
- William Collins Whitney (1863), U.S. Secretary of the Navy and New York City financier
- Hugh Wilson (1909)
- Dean Witter, Jr. (1944), founder of the investment house Dean Witter & Co.
- William Jorden (1925), Ex US Ambassador to Panama and was on the National Security Council
- Walter Camp (1880), founder of the first national collegiate football All-American squad
- Amos Alonzo Stagg (1888), one of the all-time winningest college football coaches
- Larry Kelley (1937), 1936 Heisman Trophy winner
- Clint Frank (1938), 1937 Heisman Trophy winner
- Neil Mallon (1917), CEO Dresser Industries, where Prescott Bush served on the Board for 22 years, along with E. Roland Harriman. Gave George H.W. Bush his first job in 1948, namesake for Bush's son Neil Mallon Bush; "tried to be helpful to Allen Dulles in the CIA, especially in the procurement of individuals to serve in that important agency."
- Robert A. Lovett (1918), partner of Prescott Bush at Brown Brothers Harriman, "father of the CIA" and Secretary of Defense.
- William Bissell (19??), ?. [His brother, Richard M. Bissell, Jr. was a Yale grad of 1932 but not Skull & Bones; Richard directed the Bay of Pigs invasion out of Miami as CIA Director of Plans].
- Richard Dale Drain (1943), CIA; co-authored (with Jacob Easterline) an early paper proposing the Bay of Pigs invasion, "A Program of Covert Action against the Castro Regime," adopted by President Eisenhower on 17 March 1960. Also a Memorandum for the Record, 1 /30/61, "likelihood of success was very high"
- Howard Weaver (1945), retired from the CIA in 1959.
- Carl Tucker, Jr (1947) inducted GHW Bush into Skull and Bones.
