Alpha, Harvard, 1880
Theodore Roosevelt
26th U.S. President. Conservationist. Nobel Peace laureate.
Prominent Dekes
Presidents, builders, explorers, scientists, champions, firsts.
Omicron, Michigan, 1935
Gerald R. Ford
38th U.S. President. Michigan football MVP.
Phi, Yale, 1948
George H. W. Bush
41st U.S. President. CIA Director. WWII naval aviator.
Phi, Yale, 1968
George W. Bush
43rd U.S. President. Governor of Texas.
Psi Phi, DePauw, 1969
Dan Quayle
44th U.S. Vice President.
Omega Chi, Texas, 1955
Alan L. Bean
Apollo 12 astronaut. Fourth person on the Moon.
Theta, Bowdoin, 1877
Robert E. Peary
U.S. Navy admiral. First man on the North Pole.
Alpha, Harvard, 1889
J. P. Morgan Jr.
Financier. Led J.P. Morgan & Co.
Gamma Phi, Wesleyan, 1900
Charles Alton Ellis
Structural designer of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Alpha, Harvard, 1871
Henry Cabot Lodge
U.S. Senator from Boston. Senate Majority Leader.
Phi, Yale, 1915
Dean Acheson
Secretary of State. Architect of NATO and the Marshall Plan.
Kappa, Miami, 1914
Sidney Souers
First Director of Central Intelligence
Phi, Yale, 1938
Sargent Shriver
First Director of the Peace Corps.
Sigma, Amherst, 1874
Melvil Dewey
Inventor of the Dewey Decimal Classification.
Phi, Yale, 1913
Cole Porter
Composer of the Great American Songbook.
Delta Chi, Cornell, 1888
Mario Garcia Menocal
President of Cuba. Cornell engineer.
Phi, Yale, 1880
Walter Camp
"Father of American Football."
Omega Chi, Texas, 1949
Tom Landry
Dallas Cowboys head coach. Two Super Bowl titles.
Phi, Yale, 1919
John F. Enders
Nobel Prize in Medicine. "Father of modern vaccines."
Theta, Bowdoin, 1909
Harold H. Burton
U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
Phi, Yale, 1937
Potter Stewart
U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
Phi, Yale, 1966
Fred Smith
Founder of FedEx.
Gamma Phi, Wesleyan, 1953
Herb Kelleher
Cofounder of Southwest Airlines.
Phi, Yale, 1960
A. Bartlett Giamatti
Yale president. Commissioner of MLB.