"Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are of afraid of something. They know
that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."
-- President Woodrow Wilson
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); U.S. 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); U.S. Secretary of State (1929-1933)
W. Averell Harriman (S&B 1913) – Secretary of Commerce (1946-1948)
Robert A.Lovett (S&B 1918) – Secretary of Defense (1951-1953)
