Sunday, January 31, 2010
Skull and Bones in the Federal Government
Skull & Bones Government Officials in the Federal Government
Executive Branch:
William Howard Taft (S&B 1878, R-Ohio) – President of the United States (1909-1913)
George H.W. Bush (S&B 1948, R-Texas) – President of the United States (1989-1993); Vice President of the U.S. (1981-1989)
George W. Bush (S&B 1968, R-Texas) – President of the United States (2001-2009)
William M. Evarts (S&B 1837) – U.S. Attorney General (1868-1869); Secretary of State (1877-1881)
Alphonso Taft (S&B 1833) – Secretary of War (1876); U.S. Attorney General (1876-1877)
William C. Whitney (S&B 1863) – Secretary of the Navy (1885-1889)
Wilson Shannon Bissell (S&B 1869) – Postmaster General of the United States (1893-1895)
William Howard Taft (S&B 1878) – Secretary of War (1904-1908)
Franklin MacVeagh (S&B 1862) – Secretary of the Treasury (1909-1913)
Henry L. Stimson (S&B 1888) – Secretary of War (1911-1913, 1940-1945); Secretary of State (1929-1933)
W. Averell Harriman (S&B 1913) – Secretary of Commerce (1946-1948)
Robert Lovett (S&B 1918) – Secretary of Defense (1951-1953)
Judicial Branch:
Morrison R. Waite (S&B 1837) – Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1874-1888)
William Howard Taft (S&B 1878) – Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1921-1930)
Potter Stewart (S&B 1937) – Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1958-1981)
Leonard Eugene Wales (S&B 1845) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware (1884-1897)
Rensselaer Russell Nelson (S&B 1846) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota (1858-1896)
George Chandler Holt (S&B 1866) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1903-1914)
LeBaron Bradford Colt (S&B 1868) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island (1881-1884); Judge of the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (1884-1913)
William Kneeland Townsend (S&B 1871) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (1892-1902); Judge of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1902-1907)
William Howard Taft (S&B 1878) – Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (1892-1900)
Wilbur Franklin Booth (S&B 1884) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota (1914-1925); Judge of the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (1925-1932)
George W. Woodruff (S&B 1889) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for Hawaii (1909-1910)
Thomas D. Thacher (S&B 1904) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1925-1930)
William H. Orrick Jr. (S&B 1937) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (1974-1985)
Potter Stewart (S&B 1937) – Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (1954-1958)
James L. Buckley (S&B 1944) – Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1985-1996)
Charles Sherman Haight Jr. (S&B 1952) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1976-1995)
John M. Steadman (S&B 1952) – Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals (as of 2005)
Douglas P. Woodlock (S&B 1969) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (1986-present)
Legislative Branch:
Members of the U.S. Senate:
William M. Evarts (S&B 1837) – U.S. Senator (R-New York, 1885-1891)
Orris Sanford Ferry (S&B 1844) – U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut, 1867-1875)
William Barrett Washburn (S&B 1844) – U.S. Senator (R-Massachusetts, 1874-1875)
Chauncey M. Depew (S&B 1856) – U.S. Senator (R-New York, 1899-1911)
Anthony Higgins (S&B 1861) – U.S. Senator (R-Delaware, 1889-1895)
George Peabody Wetmore (S&B 1867) – U.S. Senator (R-Rhode Island, 1895-1907, 1908-1913)
LeBaron Bradford Colt (S&B 1868) – U.S. Senator (R-Rhode Island, 1913-1924)
John Patton Jr. (S&B 1875) – U.S. Senator (R-Michigan, 1894-1895)
Frank Bosworth Brandegee (S&B 1885) – U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut, 1905-1924)
Thomas Francis Bayard Jr. (S&B 1890) – U.S. Senator (D-Delaware, 1922-1929)
Frederic C. Walcott (S&B 1891) – U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut, 1929-1935)
James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (S&B 1898) – U.S. Senator (R-New York, 1915-1927)
Robert A. Taft (S&B 1910) – U.S. Senator (R-Ohio, 1939-1953) (Senate Majority Leader (1953))
Prescott S. Bush (S&B 1917) – U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut, 1952-1963)
John Sherman Cooper (S&B 1923) – U.S. Senator (R-Kentucky, 1946-1949, 1952-1955, 1956-1973)
James L. Buckley (S&B 1944) – U.S. Senator (Conservative Party-New York, 1971-1977)
John H. Chafee (S&B 1947) – U.S. Senator (R-Rhode Island, 1976-1999)
David L. Boren (S&B 1963) – U.S. Senator (D-Oklahoma, 1979-1994)
John F. Kerry (S&B 1966) – U.S. Senator (D-Massachusetts, 1985-present)
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives:
John Wallace Houston (S&B 1834, Whig-Delaware) 1845-1851
John Hubbard Tweedy (S&B 1834, Whig-Wisconsin) 1847-1848 [Note: Elected as a Delegate of the Territory of Wisconsin]
William Henry Washington (S&B 1834, Whig-North Carolina) 1841-1843
John Edward Seeley (S&B 1835, R-New York) 1871-1873
Henry Champion Deming (S&B 1836, R-Connecticut) 1863-1867
Allen Ferdinand Owen (S&B 1837, Whig-Georgia) 1849-1851
Richard Dudley Hubbard (S&B 1839, D-Connecticut) 1867-1869
John Perkins Jr. (S&B 1840, D-Louisiana) 1853-1855
William Taylor Sullivan Berry (S&B 1841, D-Mississippi) 1853-1855
John Andrew Peters (S&B 1842, R-Maine) 1867-1873
Benjamin Tucker Eames (S&B 1843, R-Rhode Island) 1871-1879
Roswell Hart (S&B 1843, R-New York) 1865-1867
Orris Sanford Ferry (S&B 1844, R-Connecticut) 1859-1861
William Barrett Washburn (S&B 1844, R-Massachusetts) 1863-1871
Constantine C. Esty (S&B 1845, R-Massachusetts) 1872-1873
Stephen W. Kellogg (S&B 1846, R-Connecticut) 1869-1875
Augustus Brandegee (S&B 1849, R-Connecticut) 1863-1867
Ellis Henry Roberts (S&B 1850, R-New York) 1871-1875
Richard J. Haldeman (S&B 1851, D-Pennsylvania) 1869-1873
William Wallace Crapo (S&B 1852, R-Massachusetts) 1875-1883
Lowndes Henry Davis (S&B 1860, D-Missouri) 1879-1885
William Walter Phelps (S&B 1860, R-New Jersey) 1873-1875, 1883-1889
Thomas Hedge (S&B 1867, R-Iowa) 1899-1907
Edwin F. Sweet (S&B 1871, D-Michigan) 1911-1913
Charles Newell Fowler (S&B 1876, R-New Jersey) 1895-1911
Frank Bosworth Brandegee (S&B 1885, R-Connecticut) 1902-1905
William Kent (S&B 1887, R-California) 1911-1917
Percy Hamilton Stewart (S&B 1890, D-New Jersey) 1931-1933
James William Husted (S&B 1892, R-New York) 1915-1923
Francis Burton Harrison (S&B 1895, D-New York) 1903-1905, 1907-1913
James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (S&B 1898, R-New York) 1933-1951
James McDevitt Magee (S&B 1899, R-Pennsylvania) 1923-1927
Kenneth F. Simpson (S&B 1917, R-New York) 1941
Howard Malcolm Baldrige (S&B 1918, R-Nebraska) 1931-1933
John Martin Vorys (S&B 1918, R-Ohio) 1939-1959
Jonathan Brewster Bingham (S&B 1936, D-New York) 1965-1983
William S. Moorhead Jr. (S&B 1945, D-Pennsylvania) 1959-1981
Thomas William Ludlow “Lud” Ashley (S&B 1948, D-Ohio) 1955-1981
George H.W. Bush (S&B 1948, R-Texas) 1967-1971