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Skull and Bones
Skull and Bones is a secret society at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The society's alumni organization, which owns the society's real property and oversees the organization, is the Russell Trust Association, named for General William Huntington Russell, who co-founded Skull and Bones...
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Austan Goolsbee
Austan Dean Goolsbee, (born August 18, 1969), is a U.S. economist, currently serving under President Barack Obama as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers and as staff director and chief economist of a new federal panel, the President's...
Year of membership:
- 1991
Dana Milbank
Dana Timothy Milbank (born 27 April 1968) is an American political reporter and columnist for The Washington Post. He is a graduate of Yale University, where he was a member of Trumbull College, the Progressive Party of the Yale Political Union and...
Year of membership:
- 1990
John Wertheim
John V. Wertheim (born 12 February 1968) is an American lawyer and politician who served as Chairman of the Democratic Party (United States) of New Mexico from 2004 until 2007. During that time, he also served on the Executive Committee of the...
Year of membership:
- 1990
Earl G. Graves, Jr.
Earl Gilbert "Butch" Graves, Jr. (born January 5, 1962, in Brooklyn, New York, US) is an American businessman and retired basketball player. He is a Scarsdale High School graduate.
Graves, the son of Black Enterprise founder Earl G. Graves, Sr.,...
Year of membership:
- 1984
Edward Lampert
Edward S. "Eddie" Lampert (born July 27 1962) is an American investor, financier and businessman. He is the chairman of Sears Holdings Corporation(SHLD) and founder, chairman, and CEO of ESL Investments. Until May, 2007 he was a director of...
Year of membership:
- 1984
Stephen A. Schwarzman
Stephen Allen Schwarzman (born February 14, 1947) is a billionaire American businessman and investor and the chairman and co-founder of the Blackstone Group, the private-equity and financial advisory firm.
Schwarzman attended the Abington School...
Year of membership:
- 1969
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush ( /ˈdʒɔrdʒ ˈwɔːkər ˈbʊʃ/ (help·info); born July 6, 1946) was the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 and the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000.
Bush is the eldest son of George H. W. Bush (the 41st...
Year of membership:
- 1968
Robert McCallum, Jr.
For the pornographic director of the same name, see Gary Graver
Robert D. McCallum. Jr. (born 1946) was the United States Ambassador to Australia. He was sworn into this position on 21 July 2006, after his appointment by President George W. Bush was...
Year of membership:
- 1968
Roy Austin
Roy L. Austin (born 1939) was United States Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago October 2001 to January 2009.
Born in Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, he moved to the United States to study and later became a U.S. citizen. He attended Yale...
Year of membership:
- 1968
Victor Ashe
Victor Henderson Ashe II (born January 1, 1945) is the former United States Ambassador to Poland. From 1988 to 2003, he was mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee. Ashe is a Republican. Ambassador Ashe concluded his service as Ambassador to Poland on...
Year of membership:
- 1967
Frederick W. Smith
Frederick Wallace Smith (born August 11, 1944), or Fred Smith, is the founder, chairman, president, and CEO of FedEx, originally known as Federal Express, the first overnight express delivery company in the world, and the largest in the United...
Year of membership:
- 1966
John Kerry
John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, and is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. As the Presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, he was defeated by 34 electoral votes...
Year of membership:
- 1966
David L. Boren
David Lyle Boren (born April 21, 1941) is an academic leader and American politician from the state of Oklahoma. A Democrat, he served as governor of Oklahoma from 1975 to 1979 and in the United States Senate from 1979 to 1994. He is currently...
Year of membership:
- 1963
Winston Lord
Winston Lord (born in New York City on August 14, 1937) is a United States diplomat and administrator. He served as the president of the Council on Foreign Relations between 1977 and 1985.
Lord, who speaks some Chinese, was a key figure in the...
Year of membership:
- 1959
R. Inslee Clark, Jr.
Russell Inslee "Ink" Clark, Jr. (died 1999) was an educator, administrator, and a key player in the transition of the Ivy League into co-education in the 1960s.
Clark was born in 1935 and graduated from Garden City High School on Long Island, New...
Year of membership:
- 1957
David McCullough
David Gaub McCullough (mə-kŭl'ə) (born July 7, 1933 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American author, narrator, and lecturer. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of...
Year of membership:
- 1955
Robert Gow
Robert Gow is a U.S. businessman and friend of the Bush family.
Educated at Yale University and tapped for Skull and Bones in 1954 together with his roommate Ray C. Walker, the cousin of George H. W. Bush.
Gow joined Zapata Corporation and in 1966...
Year of membership:
- 1955
William H. Donaldson
William Henry Donaldson (born June 2, 1931 in Buffalo, New York, USA) was the 27th Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), serving from February 2003 to June 2005. He served as Under Secretary of State for International...
Year of membership:
- 1953
Evan G. Galbraith
Evan Griffith Galbraith (July 2, 1928 – January 21, 2008) was the United States Ambassador to France from 1981 to 1985 under Ronald Reagan and the Secretary of Defense Representative in Europe under Donald Rumsfeld from 2002 to 2007.
Galbraith was...
Year of membership:
- 1950
William F. Buckley, Jr.
William Frank Buckley, Jr. (November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American conservative author and commentator. He founded the political magazine National Review in 1955, hosted 1,429 episodes of the television show Firing Line from 1966...
Year of membership:
- 1950
William Henry Draper III
With over forty years of experience, William H. Draper III is one of
the West Coast�s first venture capitalists. He is General Partner of
Draper Richards L.P., a venture capital fund focusing on early-stage
technology companies in the U.S., and...
Year of membership:
- 1950
George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) was the 41st President of the United States (1989-1993). He was also Ronald Reagan's Vice President (1981–1989), a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.
Bush was born in...
Year of membership:
- 1948
John Chafee
John Lester Hubbard Chafee (pronounced /ˈtʃeɪ fiː/ CHAY-fee; October 22, 1922 – October 24, 1999) was an American politician. He served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps, as governor of Rhode Island, as the Secretary of the Navy, and...
Year of membership:
- 1947
Dean Witter, Jr.
Year of membership:
- 1944
James L. Buckley
James Lane Buckley (born March 9, 1923 in New York City) is a former United States Senator from the state of New York as a member of the Conservative Party of New York. Buckley served from January 3, 1971 to January 3, 1977. Formerly, he was vice...
Year of membership:
- 1944
McGeorge Bundy
McGeorge "Mac" Bundy (March 30, 1919 – September 16, 1996) was United States National Security Advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson from 1961 through 1966, and president of the Ford Foundation from 1966 through 1979. He is known...
Year of membership:
- 1940
William Bundy
William Putnam "Bill" Bundy (September 24, 1917 – October 6, 2000) was a member of the CIA and foreign affairs advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He had a key role in planning the Vietnam War. After leaving government...
Year of membership:
- 1939
Clint Frank
Clinton E. Frank (September 13, 1915 - July 7, 1992) was an American football player. He played halfback for Yale University.
Frank attended Yale University and graduated with a degree in economics. In football, he was a two-time team captain and...
Year of membership:
- 1938
Jonathan Brewster Bingham
Jonathan Brewster Bingham (24 April 1914, New Haven, Connecticut - 3 July 1986, New York City) was an American politician and diplomat. He was the US delegate to the United Nations General Assemblies and was elected to Congress.
His father, Hiram...
Year of membership:
- 1936
Potter Stewart
Potter Stewart (January 23, 1915 – December 7, 1985) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. On the Court, he made major contributions to criminal justice reform, civil rights, access to the courts, and Fourth Amendment...
Year of membership:
- 1936
Samuel Hazard Gillespie Jr
Samuel Hazard Gillespie Jr. (born July 12, 1910) was born in Morristown, New Jersey and attended Yale College (1932) and Yale Law School (1935). He is known for his age and still walking to work every day, and also as the former U.S. Attorney for...
Year of membership:
- 1932
H. J. Heinz II
Henry John Heinz II, best known as Jack Heinz, (1908–1987) was an American business executive and CEO of the H. J. Heinz Company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
He was the grandson and namesake of the company founder, Henry J. Heinz, and...
Year of membership:
- 1931
John Rockefeller Prentice
John Rockefeller Prentice (December 17, 1902 – June 13, 1972) was born to Chicago lawyer Ezra Parmalee Prentice and Alta Rockefeller Prentice in New York. Prentice's maternal grandfather is the Standard Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937)....
Year of membership:
- 1928
George Herbert Walker, Jr.
George Herbert Walker, Jr. (November 24, 1905 – November 29, 1977), an American businessman related to the accomplished Bush family. He was the original owner of the New York Mets, a team which he co-founded in 1960 with Joan Whitney Payson.
His...
Year of membership:
- 1927
John S. Cooper
John Sherman Cooper (August 23, 1901 – February 21, 1991) was a liberal Republican United States Senator from Kentucky who served a total of twenty years (1946-1949, 1952-1955, 1956-1973). He was a captain in the United States Army, and served as a...
Year of membership:
- 1923
Briton Hadden
Briton Hadden (February 18, 1898 – February 27, 1929) was the co-founder of Time Magazine with his Yale classmate Henry Luce. He was Time's first editor and the inventor of its revolutionary writing style, known as Timestyle. Though he died at 31,...
Year of membership:
- 1920
Henry Luce
Henry Robinson Luce (April 3, 1898 – February 28, 1967) was an influential American publisher.
Luce, known to his friends as "Father Time," was born in Penglai City, China, the son of Elizabeth Middleton (née Root) and Henry Winters Luce, who was a...
Year of membership:
- 1920
Artemus Gates
Artemus Lamb Gates (November 3, 1895 – June 14, 1976) was an American businessman, naval aviator, and Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air in charge of naval aviation efforts in World War II (7 December 1941 - 30 June 1945). He also was briefly...
Year of membership:
- 1918
F. Trubee Davison
Frederick Trubee Davison (February 7, 1896 – November 21, 1976), usually known as F. Trubee Davison, was the Director of Personnel for the Central Intelligence Agency
He was the brother-in-law of Artemus Gates and the son of Henry P. Davison....
Year of membership:
- 1918
Howard M. Baldrige
Howard Malcolm Baldrige or H. Malcolm Baldrige (1894 – 1985) was a Nebraska Republican politician.
He was born on June 23, 1894 at Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, the son of Nebraska state senator Howard Hammond Baldrige (1864–1928) and Letitia...
Year of membership:
- 1918
Robert A. Lovett
Robert Abercrombie Lovett (14 September 1895 - 7 May 1986) was the fourth United States Secretary of Defense, serving in the cabinet of President Harry S. Truman from 1951 to 1953 and in this capacity, directed the Korean War. Promoted to the...
Year of membership:
- 1918
E. Roland Harriman
E. Roland Harriman (born Edward Roland Noel Harriman on December 24, 1895 in New York City - died on February 16, 1978 in Arden, New York) was a financier and philanthropist. For those who were very close to him, his nickname was "Bunny".
He was the...
Year of membership:
- 1917
Henry Neil Mallon
Henry Neil Mallon (1895–1983) was Chairman of the Board, President and Director 29-, Dresser Industries (Cleveland, OH) (now Halliburton), President 31-, Dresser Manufacturing Limited (Toronto, Canada); Chairman of the Board, Director, Bryant Heater...
Year of membership:
- 1917
Donald Ogden Stewart
Donald Ogden Stewart (November 30, 1894 - August 2, 1980) was an American author and screenwriter.
His hometown was Columbus, Ohio. He graduated from Yale University, where he became a brother to the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Phi chapter), in...
Year of membership:
- 1916
Prescott Bush
Prescott Sheldon Bush (May 15, 1895 – October 8, 1972) was a Wall Street executive banker, and a United States Senator representing Connecticut from 1952 until January 1963. He was the father of the 41st President of the United States George H. W....
Year of membership:
- 1916
Archibald MacLeish
Archibald MacLeish (7 May 1892 – 20 April 1982) was an American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the Modernist school of poetry. He received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.
MacLeish was born in Glencoe, Illinois....
Year of membership:
- 1915
Alfred Cowles
Alfred Cowles, 3rd (15 September 1891, 28 December 1984) was an American economist, businessman and founder of the Cowles Commission. He graduated from Yale in 1913.
He was the grandson of Alfred Cowles, Sr., who was a founder of the Chicago Tribune...
Year of membership:
- 1913
W. Averell Harriman
William Averell Harriman (November 15, 1891 – July 26, 1986) was an American Democratic Party politician, businessman, and diplomat. He was the son of railroad baron E. H. Harriman. He served as Secretary of Commerce under President Harry S. Truman...
Year of membership:
- 1913
George L. Harrison
George Leslie Harrison (January 26, 1887 – March 5, 1958) was an American banker, insurance executive and advisor to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson during World War II.
Born in San Francisco, California, he was educated at Yale University and...
Year of membership:
- 1910
Robert Taft
Robert Alphonso Taft (September 8, 1889 – July 31, 1953), of the Taft political family of Cincinnati, was a Republican United States Senator and a prominent conservative statesman. As the leading opponent of the New Deal in the Senate from 1939 to...
Year of membership:
- 1910
Charles Seymour
Charles Seymour (January 1, 1885 - August 11, 1963) was an American academic, historian and President of Yale University from 1937 to 1951.
Seymour was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of Thomas Day Seymour, who taught classics at Yale. His...
Year of membership:
- 1908
Harold Stanley
Harold Stanley (2 October 1885 Great Barrington, Massachusetts - 14 May 1963 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an American businessman and one of the founders of Morgan Stanley in 1935. He ran Morgan Stanley until 1955.
Stanley went to the Hotchkiss...
Year of membership:
- 1908
John Magee
John Gillespie Magee (1884 – 1953) was an American Episcopalian priest.
Magee was born in 1884 in Virginia of the United States. Magee came from a wealthy Pittsburgh family. He went to school at Yale University and then on to divinity school in...
Year of membership:
- 1906
Percy Avery Rockefeller
Percy Avery Rockefeller (1878–1934) was the son of William Rockefeller and his wife, Almira Geraldine Goodsell. He attended Yale University from 1897 to 1900, where he was also a member of the 1900 class of Skull & Bones.
Rockefeller was founder and...
Year of membership:
- 1900
Amos Pinchot
Amos Richards Eno Pinchot (6 December 1873 - 1944) was an American reformist. He never held public office but managed to exert considerable influence in reformist circles and did much to keep progressive ideas alive in the 1920s.
He was the son of...
Year of membership:
- 1897
Harry Payne Whitney
Harry Payne Whitney (April 29, 1872 - October 26, 1930) was an American businessman, thoroughbred horsebreeder, and member of the prominent Whitney family.
Born in New York City, he was the eldest son of the very wealthy businessman and United...
Year of membership:
- 1894
Lee McClung
Thomas Lee "Bum" McClung (March 26, 1870 – December 19, 1914) was an American football player who later served as the 22nd Treasurer of the United States.
McClung was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. His father was Frank H. McClung, a merchant, and he...
Year of membership:
- 1892
Pierre Jay
Pierre Jay (May 4, 1892 – November 24, 1949) was the first chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
He graduated from Yale University in 1892, and was a member of Skull and Bones, one of the best known of the secret societies based at Yale...
Year of membership:
- 1892
George W. Woodruff
George Waldo Woodruff (August 27, 1895 - February 4, 1987 in Atlanta, Georgia) was an engineer, businessman, and philanthropist in Atlanta, Georgia. He attended the Georgia School of Technology in 1917 and gave generously to both his alma mater and...
Year of membership:
- 1889
Gifford Pinchot
Gifford Pinchot (August 11, 1865 – October 4, 1946) was the first Chief of the United States Forest Service (1905–1910) and the Governor of Pennsylvania (1923–1927, 1931–1935). He was a Republican and Progressive.
Pinchot is known for reforming the...
Year of membership:
- 1889
