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If there is anything the general
public knows about DKE, it is the names of some of the Fraternity's
members. DKE is a small fraternity as fraternities go. What is
exceptional about prominent DKE alumni is not that there are so many
of them, but that they represent such a large percentage of the
membership. Any large fraternity (and some are huge) will produce
some famous alumni just by the law of averages, but when a small one
produces a lot more, it's probably not accidental. As a member of
DKE you inherit a heritage of distinguished predecessors unmatched
in the fraternity world. Below is a very small portion of the list,
only the most prominent members of each category have been listed.
Presidents of
the
United States
Rutherford B.
Hayes, Delta Chi
Theodore Roosevelt, Alpha
Gerald R. Ford, Omicron
George H. W. Bush, Phi
George W. Bush, Phi
Vice Presidents
of the
United States
Theodore
Roosevelt, Alpha
Gerald R. Ford, Omicron
George H. W. Bush, Phi
James Danforth Quayle,
Psi Phi
President of
The
Republic
of
Cuba
Mario Garcia
Menocal, Delta Chi
Recent State
Governors
Mike Foster,
Zeta Zeta,
Louisiana
Tony Knowles, Phi, Alaska
Don Siegelman, Psi,
Alabama
(45
Dekes have been State Governors)
Leader of the
Conservative Party of
Canada
George A. Drew,
Alpha Phi
Speakers of the
U.S.
House of Representatives
Nathaniel P.
Bankes, Sigma
James G. Blaine, Theta
Nicholas Longworth, Alpha
Justices of the
U.S.
Supreme Court
John
Hessin Clarke, Beta Chi
Harold H. Burton, Theta
Potter Stewart, Phi
Cabinet
Officers
Canada
Donald S.
Macdonald, Alpha Phi President of the Privy Council
China
Youan
Shikau, Phi - Prime Minister, Chinese
Empire
Liang Tung
Yew, Phi - Secretary of State, Chinese Empire
Chung Mun Yew, Phi - Director of Chinese
Railroads
Japan
Suti
Ki Chinda,
Psi Phi - Secretary of State
Baron Sejiro Hara,
Psi Omega - President, Japanese Railroads
United States
Secretary of
State:
James G. Blaine, Theta
Robert Bacon, Alpha
Dean G. Acheson, Phi
Secretary of
Commerce:
Victor H. Metcalf, Phi
Edwin F. Sweet, Phi
Josh W. Alexander, Phi
Malcolm Baldridge Jr., Phi
Secretary of
the Treasury:
Charles S. Fairchild, Alpha
William E. Simon,
Rho
Secretary of
War:
Robert Todd Lincoln, Alpha
Kenneth C. Royall, Beta
Secretary of
the Navy:
Richard W. Thompson, Psi Phi
Eugene Hale, Theta
Hilary A. Herbert, Eta
John D. Long, Alpha
Victor H. Metcalf, Phi
George Von L. Meyer, Alpha
Charles F. Adams, Alpha
John L. Chafee, Phi
Secretary of
the Army:
Kenneth C. Royall, Beta
Gordon Gray, Beta
Secretary of
the Air Force:
W. Stuart Symington, Phi
Secretary of
the Interior:
Rogers
C. B. Morton, Phi
Postmaster
General:
Wilson S. Bissell, Phi
George Von L. Meyer, Alpha
Attorney
General:
Wayne MacVeagh, Phi
William D. Mitchell, Phi Epsilon
106th
U. S.
Congress
Senator Ted
Stevens, Theta Rho, Alaska
Congressman Cass Ballenger, Sigma, North Carolina
Congressman Pete Stark, Sigma Tau,
California
U.S.
Senators
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Over 40 Dekes have served in the Senate;
here are a few of them.
Henry Cabot
Lodge, Alpha - Senate Majority Leader
W. Stuart Symington, Phi
Thomas F. Eagleton, Sigma
John L. Chafee, Phi
Dan Quayle, Psi Phi
Russell B. Long, Zeta Zeta - Senate
Majority Whip
Robert A. Taft, Jr., Phi
Albert J. Beveridge,
Psi Phi
Lister Hill, Psi
Ted Stevens, Theta Rho
In addition,
over 130 Dekes have served in the U.S.
House of Representatives.
U.S.
Ambassadors
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Dekes have been ambassadors to 36
foreign countries and the U.N.
Anson
Burlingame, Sigma
Whitelaw Reid, Kappa
John H. "Jock" Whitney, Phi
R. Sargent Shriver, Phi
Robert Orr, Phi
Henry J. Taylor, Eta
Cyrus E. Woods, Rho
Angier Biddle Duke, Phi
Francis F. T. Plimpton, Sigma
Paul Robinson, Delta Phi
John G. Weinmann,
Tau Lambda
Canadian
Ambassadors
Thomas A. Stone,
Alpha Phi
Ross Campbell, Alpha Phi
George A. Drew, Alpha Phi
Japanese
Ambassadors
Suti
Ki Chinda,
Psi Phi - To the U.S.
Nobel Prize
Winners
Theodore
Roosevelt, Alpha - Peace Prize 1905
John F. Enders, Phi - Prize for Medicine 1954
Pulitzer Prize
Winners
Editorial
Writing
Virginus
Dabney, Eta
(1948)
Ira B. Harkey, Jr.,
Tau Lamda (1963)
Biography
Harvey Cushing,
Phi (1926)
Music
Charles Ives,
Phi (1947)
History
Dean G. Acheson,
Phi (1970)
Walter A. McDougall, Sigma (1985)
Authors
Edward Bellamy,
Theta Chi
Vance Bourjaily, Theta
Corey Ford, Gamma Beta
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Theta
W. O. Mitchell, Alpha Tau
Owen Wister, Alpha
Financiers
J. Pierpont
Morgan, Jr., Alpha
Robert Lehmen, Phi (Lehman Brothers)
Thomas W. Lamont, Alpha
Thatcher M. Brown, Phi (Brown Brothers Harriman)
Payne Whitney, Phi
John Hay Whitney, Phi
Irving H. Chase, Phi (Chase Manhattan Bank)
William L. Harkness, Phi
W. W. Crocker, Phi (Crocker National Bank)
August Belmon, Alpha
Dean Witter, Jr., Phi (Dean Witter & Co.)
Magazine
Editors and Publishers
Daniel W.
Ashley, Xi - U.S. News & World Report
Roger Butterfield, Beta Phi - Life
Merle Crowell, Xi - Reader's Digest
Harry Dunlop, Delta Phi - Cosmopolitan
Steward Hagerty, Phi - Newsweek
Briton Hadden, Phi - Co-founder of Time
Allison R. Lenniger,
Rho - Parent's Magazine
Robert H. Lyman, Phi - World Almanac
Kenneth W. Purdy, Rho Delta - Argosy and
True
Thomas B. Wells, Phi - Harper's
Gerald and Charles Hallock, Sigma -
Field and Stream
Newspaper
Publishers & Editors
Whitelaw Reid,
Kappa - Editor-in-chief, New York Tribune
William Randolph Hearst, Alpha, Publisher - Hearst Newspapers
Norman and Otis Chandler, Sigma Rho -
Publisher, Los Angeles Times
Richard J. V. Johnson, Omega Chi - Publisher, Houston Chronicle
Eugene Pulliam, Psi Phi, Publisher -
Indianapolis Newspapers, Inc.
Rance Craine,
Psi Phi, Publisher - Crain
Communications
Harding F. Bancroft, Epsilon - New York Times
John R. Bone, Alpha Phi - Toronto Daily Star
Eugene and Eugene S. Pulliam, Psi Phi -
Indianapolis Newspapers, Inc.
Business
Founders, Presidents, Chairmen
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There are literally hundreds of Dekes in
this category; this is just a sprinkling of some of the more
familiar names.
John F. Akers,
Phi - I.B.M.
Henry B. Thayer, Pi - A.T.&T.
Owen D. Young, Sigma Tau - General
Electric
Edward Bausch, Beta Phi - Bausch & Lomb
Opticals
M. C. D. Borden, Phi
Howard S. Borde, Phi - Borden's Products
Harold H. Swift, Delta Delta - Swift and
Company
James H. Evans, Iota Union Pacific Railway
William W. Wrigley, Phi - Wrigley's Gum
Howard Heinz, Phi - Heinz 57 Varieties
Howard Johnson, Phi - Motor Inns
James M. Gamble, Lambda - Proctor and Gamble
Sidney M. Colgate, Phi
James C. Colgate, Mu
Gilbert Colgate, Phi - Colgate-Palmolive
Herbert F. Perkins, Phi - International Harvester
Walter Hoving, Upsilon - Tiffany and Co.
Alfred S. Bloomingdale, Upsilon - Diner's Club
William H. Morton, Pi - American Express Co.
Joseph C. Wilson, Beta Phi - Xerox
R. L. Agassiz, Alpha - Calumet &
Hecla Mining Corp.
Joseph Kerr Cass, Lambda - Westvaco
Adrian R. Fisher, Phi Chi - Johns-Manville
Willard C. Gulick,
Mu - B.F. Goodrich
Herb Kelleher, Gamma Phi - Southwest Airlines
Roger Mitsui, Delta Chi - Mitsui Products, Japan
Louis Bantle, Phi Gamma - U.S. Tobacco
Cyrus S. Eaton, Jr., Mu (International
industrialist)
Frederick N. Schwartz, Gamma Phi - Bristol-Myers Corp.
Hays Clark, Delta Chi - Avon Products
Fred Smith, Phi - Federal Express
Prominent
Sporting Figures
Paul Brown,
Kappa - coach of Cleveland Browns and owner of Cincinnati
Bengals
Thomas W. Landry, Omega Chi - coach of Dallas Cowboys
Joe Paterno, Upsilon - Penn State
football coach
George Steinbrenner, Epsilon - owner of the New York Yankees
Don Schollander, Phi - won four gold
medals in swimming in 1964 Olympics
Calvin Hill, Phi - Yale football star
Hugh Culverhouse, Psi - owner of Tampa
Bay Buccaneers
A. Bartlett Giamatti, Phi - Commissioner
of Major League Baseball
Francis Albert, Sigma Rho - Coach of San
Francisco's 49'ers
William Bartholomay, Delta Epsilon -
Owner of the Atlanta Braves
In the
Entertainment World
Dick Clark, Phi
Gamma - hosted American Bandstand
Harry Hamlin, Theta Zeta - actor
Cole Porter, Phi - composer
Jonathan Winters, Lambda - comedian and writer
Charles E. Ives, Phi - Classical Composer
Grant Mitchell, Phi - Actor
Other Famous
Dekes
Rear Admiral
Sidney W. Souers, Kappa - first director
of the C.I.A.
Henry Sewall, Gamma Phi - Discovered the
basic principles of immunization, upon which the
seince of anti-toxins has been based.
Melvil Dewey, Sigma - devised the Dewey
Decimal System
Gen. Peyton C. March, Rho - U.S. Chief
of Staff in World War I
Albion W. Small, Xi - founded the first sociology department ever
established, and is known as "the father of sociology."
Charles A. Ellis, Gamma Phi - designed the Golden Gate Bridge
Charles F. Brush, Omicron - invented the storage battery
Lt. Gen. Price J. Montague, Alpha Phi - DKE's
highest ranking officer in World War II
Robert A. Peary, Theta - first man to
reach the North Pole, did so on April 6, 1909, carrying with him a
DKE flag
Alan Bean, Omega Chi - Apollo astronaut, walked on the moon on
November 19, 1969, carrying with him another DKE flag
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