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| x Cyrus Vance |
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Scroll and Key | 1939 |
Cyrus Roberts Vance (March 27, 1917–January 12, 2002) was the United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1980. He approached foreign policy with an emphasis on negotiation over conflict and a special interest in arms...
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| x Dean Acheson |
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Scroll and Key | 1915 |
Dean Gooderham Acheson (April 11, 1893 – October 12, 1971) was an American statesman and lawyer; as United States Secretary of State in the administration of President Harry S. Truman during 1949–1953, he played a central role in defining American...
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| x Anthony A. Williams |
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Sigma Chapter of St. Anthony Hall |
Anthony Allen "Tony" Williams (born July 28, 1951, in Los Angeles, California) is an American politician who served as the fifth mayor of the District of Columbia for two terms, from 1999 to 2007. He had previously served as chief financial officer...
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| x Strobe Talbott |
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Sigma Chapter of St. Anthony Hall |
Nelson Strobridge "Strobe" Talbott III (born April 25, 1946) is an American foreign policy analyst associated with Yale University and the Brookings Institution, a former journalist associated with Time magazine and diplomat who served as the Deputy...
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| x Thornton Marshall | Mace and Chain | 1957 | ||
| x William Folberth | 1966 | |||
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| x Tony Knowles |
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Berzelius |
Anthony Carroll Knowles (born January 1, 1943 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American Democratic politician and businessman who served as Governor of Alaska from December 1994 to December 2002. Barred from seeking a third consecutive term as governor in...
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| x David Dellinger |
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Berzelius |
David Dellinger (August 22, 1915 – May 25, 2004), one of the most influential American radicals of the 20th century, was a pacifist and activist for nonviolent social change.
Dellinger achieved peak notoriety as one of the Chicago Seven, protesters...
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| x Frank Shorter |
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Berzelius |
Frank Shorter (born October 31, 1947) is an American distance runner and winner of the marathon race at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Born in Munich, Germany, where his father, physician Samuel Shorter, served in the army, Frank Shorter grew up in...
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| x William Proxmire |
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Berzelius |
Edward William Proxmire (November 11, 1915 – December 15, 2005) was a member of the Democratic Party, who served in the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1957 to 1989.
Proxmire graduated from The Hill School (in Pottstown,...
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| x A. Peter Dewey |
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Berzelius |
Albert Peter Dewey (1916-September 26, 1945), shot by accident. by Viet Minh troops on September 26, 1945. Dewey was the first American fatality in Vietnam, killed in the early aftermath of World War II.
Col. Dewey the younger son of Congressman...
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| x Fenno Heath | Berzelius |
Fenno Follansbee Heath, Jr. (December 30, 1926- December 5, 2008) was an American conductor, composer, and arranger of choral music.
Heath attended Yale University, where he majored in music and graduated in 1950. As an undergraduate he sang in the...
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| x Henry Ford II | Book and Snake |
Henry Ford II (September 4, 1917 — September 29, 1987), commonly known as "HF2" and "Hank the Deuce", was the son of Edsel Ford and grandson of Henry Ford. He was president of the Ford Motor Company from 1945 to 1960, chairman of the board and chief...
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| x Nicholas F. Brady |
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Book and Snake |
Nicholas Frederick Brady (born April 11, 1930, in New York City) was United States Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, and is also known for articulating the Brady Plan in March 1989.
The son of Eliot...
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| x Porter J. Goss |
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Book and Snake |
Porter Johnston Goss (born November 26, 1938) is an American politician, who was a Director of Central Intelligence and the first Director of the Central Intelligence Agency following the passage of the 2004 Intelligence Reform and Terrorism...
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| x Kathleen Neal Cleaver | Book and Snake |
Kathleen Neal Cleaver is a professor of law, known for her involvement with the Black Panther Party.
Kathleen Neal was born on May 13, 1945, in Dallas, Texas. Both of Kathleen’s parents had higher education; her father was a sociology professor at...
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| x Bob Woodward |
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Book and Snake |
Robert Upshur "Bob" Woodward (born March 26, 1943) is regarded as one of America's preeminent investigative reporters and non-fiction authors. He has worked for The Washington Post since 1971 as a reporter, and is currently an associate editor of...
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| x Margaret Warner | Book and Snake |
Margaret Garrard Warner is a senior correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Before joining the News Hour in 1993, she was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, The San Diego Union-Tribune, the Concord Monitor, and Newsweek.
In addition,...
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| x Les Aspin |
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Book and Snake |
Leslie "Les" Aspin, Jr. (July 21, 1938 – May 21, 1995) was a United States Representative from 1971 to 1993, and the United States Secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton from January 21, 1993 to February 3, 1994.
Aspin was born in...
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| x Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
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Book and Snake |
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, educator, scholar, writer, editor and public intellectual. He was the first African American to receive the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship. He has received...
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| x Clarence William Nelson |
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Book and Snake |
Clarence William "Bill" Nelson (born September 29, 1942) is the senior U.S. Senator from Florida. Nelson is a member of the Democratic Party. Nelson became the second sitting member of the United States Congress to fly in space (after Jake Garn)...
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| x Alexander Garvin | Elihu |
Alexander Garvin is a noted American urban planner, educator, and author. He is currently in private practice at Alexander Garvin & Associates in New York City and also an adjunct professor at Yale's School of Architecture. He is widely heralded for...
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| x John Pepper, Jr. | Elihu |
John Pepper, Jr. is the former CEO of Procter & Gamble and will replace George J. Mitchell as non-executive chairman of The Walt Disney Company in January, 2007. Prior to his election as chairman, he served as Vice President of Yale University...
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| x Sheila Jackson Lee |
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Elihu |
Sheila Jackson-Lee (born January 12, 1950) is an American politician. She has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1995. She represents Texas's 18th congressional district.
Jackson-Lee graduated from Jamaica...
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| x Robert A. M. Stern |
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Elihu |
Robert Arthur Morton Stern, usually credited as Robert A. M. Stern, (born May 23, 1939) is an American architect and Dean of the Yale University School of Architecture.
His work is generally classified as postmodern, though a more useful...
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| x Stuart Symington |
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Elihu |
William Stuart Symington (June 26, 1901 – December 14, 1988) was a businessman and political figure from Missouri. He served as the first Secretary of the Air Force (from 1947 until 1950) and was a Democratic United States Senator from Missouri ...
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| x Jim Amoss | Elihu |
Jim Amoss is editor of the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Under his leadership the paper won two Pulitzer Prizes in 1997 for public service and editorial cartooning, and in 2006 won two more Pulitzer Prizes for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina. Amoss...
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| x Lloyd Kaufman |
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Elihu |
Lloyd Kaufman (born December 30, 1945) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and occasional actor. With producer Michael Herz, he is the co-founder of Troma Entertainment film studio, and the director of many of their feature films,...
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| x Paul Monette |
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Elihu |
Paul Monette (October 16, 1945 – February 10, 1995) was an American author, poet, and activist best remembered for his essays about gay relationships.
Monette was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and went on to graduate from Phillips Academy in 1963...
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| x James Franciscus |
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Elihu |
James Grover Franciscus (January 31, 1934 – July 8, 1991) was an American actor. He was born in Clayton, Missouri. His first big role was as Detective Jim Halloran in the half-hour version of ABC's The Naked City television series.
Franciscus was...
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| x Robert Blair Kaiser | Elihu |
Robert Blair Kaiser (born 1930) is an American author and journalist, best known for his writing on the Catholic Church.
As a correspondent for Time Magazine, he won the Overseas Press Club's Ed Cunningham Award in 1962 for the "best magazine...
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| x Robert B. Semple, Jr. |
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Elihu |
Robert B. Semple, Jr. (b. on August 12, 1936, in St. Louis, Missouri) is the associate editor of The New York Times editorial page, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.
Semple was raised in Michigan and educated at Andover, and Yale University,...
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| x Peter Beinart |
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Elihu |
Peter Beinart (born 1971) is a journalist and contributing editor for The New Republic, having served as editor of TNR from November 1999 until March 2006. He is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC.
Beinart is a...
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| x Ranidu Lankage | Elihu |
Ranidu Lankage is a Sinhalese R&B; and hip hop artist who raised the international profile of Sinhalese RnB/pop. Lankage is the first Sinhalese artist to be played on BBC Radio 1 and the creator of the first Sinhalese single to be played on MTV and...
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| x Sarah Sze | Elihu |
Sarah Sze (born 1969) is an American artist and sculptor based in New York and Cambridge. She received her high school diploma from Milton Academy, her bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1991 and her MFA from New York's School of Visual Arts...
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| x Henry Roe Cloud | Elihu |
Henry Roe (1884–1950) was a Native American who distinguished himself as an educator, college administrator, U.S. Federal Government official (in the precursor to the Bureau of Indian Affairs), Presbyterian minister, and reformer.
Henry Roe Cloud...
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| x Joe Lieberman |
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Elihu |
Joseph Isadore "Joe" Lieberman (born February 24, 1942) is the junior United States Senator from Connecticut. First elected to the Senate in 1988, Lieberman was elected to a fourth term on November 7, 2006. In the 2000 United States presidential...
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| x Lan Samantha Chang | Elihu |
Lan Samantha Chang (張嵐; pinyin: Zhāng Lán), born 1965, is an American writer of novels and short stories. Her works include Hunger, a novella plus four short stories, and Inheritance, a novel.
She was born in Appleton, Wisconsin, the daughter of...
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| x John Templeton | Elihu |
Sir John Templeton (November 29, 1912 – July 8, 2008) was an American-born British stock investor, businessman and philanthropist.
(Sir) John Marks Templeton was an investor and mutual fund pioneer. Templeton was born in the town of Winchester,...
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| x César Pelli |
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Elihu |
César Pelli (born October 12, 1926 in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina) is an Argentine architect known for designing some of the world's tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks. His designs are known for their curved facades and metallic...
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| x Troy Kinney |
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Elihu |
Troy Kinney (December 1, 1871 – January 29, 1938) was a notable American artist, etcher, and author.
Troy Kinney was most notable for his works portraying nudes, and dance performers, including Ruth St. Denis, Anna Pavlova, and Sophie Pflanz among...
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| x Benjamin Silliman Jr. | Skull and Bones |
Benjamin Silliman, Jr. (December 4, 1816 – January 14, 1885) was a professor of chemistry at Yale University and instrumental in developing the oil industry.
His father Benjamin Silliman Sr., also a famous Yale chemist, developed the process of...
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| x Morrison Waite |
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Skull and Bones | 1837 |
Morrison Remick Waite, nicknamed "Mott" (November 29, 1816 – March 23, 1888) was the Chief Justice of the United States from 1874 to 1888.
He was born at Lyme, Connecticut, the son of Henry Matson Waite, who was a judge of the Superior Court and...
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| x Daniel Coit Gilman |
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Skull and Bones | 1852 |
Daniel Coit Gilman (6 July 1831 - 13 October 1908) was an American educator and academician, who was instrumental in founding the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale College, and who subsequently served as one of the earliest presidents of the...
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| x William M. Evarts |
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Skull and Bones | 1837 |
William Maxwell Evarts (February 6, 1818 – February 28, 1901) was an American lawyer and statesman who served as US Secretary of State, US Attorney General and US Senator from New York. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of author, editor...
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| x Alphonso Taft |
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Skull and Bones | 1832 |
Alphonso Taft (November 5, 1810 – May 21, 1891) was the Attorney General and Secretary of War under President Ulysses S. Grant and the founder of an American political dynasty.
Born in Townshend, Vermont, the son of Peter Rawson Taft, he graduated...
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| x William Huntington Russell |
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Skull and Bones | 1832 |
William Huntington Russell (12 August 1809 – 19 May 1885) was an American businessman, educator, and politician. He was co-founder of Skull and Bones along with Alphonso Taft. He was a descendant of several old New England families, including those...
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| x Timothy Dwight V |
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Skull and Bones | 1849 |
Timothy Dwight V (November 16, 1828 – May 26, 1916) was and American academic and educator, a Congregational minister, and president of Yale College (1886-1898). During his years as head of the institution, Yale developed as a university.
Dwight was...
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| x Arthur Twining Hadley | Skull and Bones | 1876 |
Arthur Twining Hadley (1856-1930) was an economist who served as President of Yale University from 1899 to 1921.
He was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of James Hadley, Professor of Greek at Yale 1851-1872, and his wife née Anne Loring...
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| x John T. Croxton |
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Skull and Bones | 1857 |
John Thomas Croxton (November 20, 1836 – April 16, 1874) was an attorney, a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and a postbellum U.S. diplomat.
Croxton was born near Paris, Kentucky, in rural Bourbon County. He was the oldest...
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| x Simeon Eben Baldwin |
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Skull and Bones | 1861 |
Simeon Eben Baldwin (February 5, 1840 – January 30, 1927), jurist, law professor and governor of Connecticut, was the son of jurist, Connecticut governor and U.S. Senator Roger Sherman Baldwin and Emily Pitkin Perkins. He was born in New Haven,...
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| x William H. Welch |
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Skull and Bones | 1870 |
William Henry Welch, M.D. (April 8, 1850 - April 30, 1934) was an American physician, pathologist, and medical school administrator. He was first dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where the library is named for him. He was...
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| x William Henry Gleason |
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Skull and Bones | 1853 |
William Henry Gleason (1829-1902) was an American politician from Florida. He was Florida's second Lieutenant Governor and was very briefly, acting Governor.
William Henry Gleason was born in 1829 in New York. He had an early interest in engineering...
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| x Andrew Dickson White |
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Skull and Bones | 1853 |
Andrew Dickson White (November 7, 1832 – November 4, 1918) was a U.S. diplomat, historian, and educator, best known as the co-founder of Cornell University.
Andrew Dickson White was born on November 7, 1832 in Homer, New York to Clara (née Dickson)...
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| x Franklin MacVeagh |
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Skull and Bones | 1862 |
Franklin MacVeagh (November 22, 1837 – July 6, 1934) was an American banker and Treasury Secretary.
Born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, he graduated from Yale University in 1862, where he was a member of Skull & Bones. He graduated from Columbia...
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| x Chauncey Depew |
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Skull and Bones | 1855 |
Chauncey Mitchell Depew (April 23, 1834 – April 5, 1928) an Attorney for Cornelius Vanderbilt's railroad interests, president of the New York Central Railroad System, and finally a United States Senator from New York from 1899 to 1911.
Peekskill...
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| x Edwin F. Sweet | Skull and Bones | 1871 |
Edwin Forrest Sweet (November 21, 1847 - April 2, 1935) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Sweet was born in Dansville, New York and attended the common schools and Dansville Seminary. He graduated from the literary department of Yale...
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| x William C. Whitney |
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Skull and Bones | 1863 |
William Collins Whitney (July 5, 1841 - February 2, 1904) was an American political leader and financier and founder of the prominent Whitney family. He served as Secretary of the Navy in the first Cleveland administration from 1885 through 1889. A...
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