List of Skull and Bones members

Skull and Bones, a secret society at Yale University, was founded in 1832. Until 1971, the organization published annual membership rosters, which were kept at Yale's library. In this list of notable Bonesmen, the number in parentheses represents the cohort year of Skull and Bones, as well as their graduation year from Yale.

As there are no official rosters published post 1982, membership for later years is highly speculative, and there are some who claim them to be a power elite. [cite web |title=Skull And Bones: Secret Yale Society Includes America's Power Elite|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/02/60minutes/main576332.shtml|author=CBS News]

Founders

*William Huntington Russell (1832), Connecticut State Legislator [Robbins, page 82]
*Alphonso Taft (1832), U.S. Attorney General (1876–1877); Secretary of War (1876); Ambassador to Austria-Hungary (1882) and Russia (1884–1885); father of William Howard Taft [Robbins, page 82]

1830s

*Morrison R. Waite (1837), U.S. Supreme Court Justice [Robbins, page 89]
*William Maxwell Evarts (1837), U.S. Secretary of State; Attorney General; Senator; grandson of Roger Sherman [Robbins, page 131, 199] [Chester Leonard Barrows, "William M. Evarts, Lawyer, Diplomat, Statesman", University of North Carolina press, 1941, page 12]

1840s

*Timothy Dwight V (1849), Yale acting Treasurer 1887–1889, Yale President 1886–1899 [Robbins, page 50]

1850s

*Daniel Coit Gilman (1852), president of the University of California, Johns Hopkins University, and the Carnegie Institution [Robbins, page 83-5]
*Andrew Dickson White (1853), Co-founder and first President of Cornell University [ [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B04EEDC113BEE3ABC4D53DFB7678383609EDE "Dr. A.D. White Dies; A Cornell Founder; President of University for 18 Years Dies in Ithaca Close to His 86th Birthday. Twice Envoy to Germany; Educator Who Sought to Broaden Scope of Colleges Had Also Served as Minister to Russia. Fought for Reform in Colleges. Spent Many Years in Education. His Gifts to Cornell,"] "New York Times." November 5, 1918.]
*Chauncey Depew (1855), U.S. Senator (R-New York 1899–1911) [Robbins, page 165]

1860s

*Simeon Eben Baldwin (1861), Governor and Chief Justice, State of Connecticut; son of Roger Sherman Baldwin [Robbins, page 39]
*Franklin MacVeagh (1862), US Secretary of the Treasury [Robbins, page 182]

1870s

*William H. Welch (1870), dean of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicinecite web|url=http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1925_1952/1933-34.pdf|title=Yale Obituary Record 1933 - 1934|publisher=Yale University]
*Edwin F. Sweet (1871), Assistant Secretary of Commerce*cite web|url=http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1925_1952/1934-35.pdf|title=Yale Obituary Record 1934 - 1935|publisher=Yale University]
*Arthur T. Hadley (1876), Yale president 1899-1921 [Robbins, page 48, 58, 142]
*Edward Baldwin Whitney (1878), New York Supreme Court JusticeFact|date=August 2007
*William Howard Taft (1878), 27th President of the United States; Chief Justice of the United States; Secretary of War; son of Alphonso Taft [Robbins, page 182]
*Lloyd Wheaton Bowers (1879), United States Solicitor General

1880s

*Walter Camp (1880), founder of American football [Robbins, page 166]
*Frank Bosworth Brandegee (1885), U.S. Representative (R-Connecticut 1902–1905); U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut 1905–1924)Fact|date=August 2007
*Amos Alonzo Stagg (1888), College football Hall of Fame coach [Robbins, page 126] [Robin Lester, "Stagg's University: The Rise, Decline, and Fall of Big-time Football at Chicago", University of Illinois Press, 1995, page 9.]
*Henry L. Stimson (1888), US Secretary of Warcite web|url=http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1925_1952/1950-51.pdf|title=Yale Obituary Record 1950 - 1951|publisher=Yale University]
*George W. Woodruff (1889), College Hall of Fame football coach, Acting Secretary of the Interior and Pennsylvania state attorney-general
*Gifford Pinchot (1889), First Chief of U.S. Forest ServiceFact|date=August 2007

1890s

*Lee McClung (1892), Yale Treasurer 1904–1909; U.S. Treasurer 1909–1912Fact|date=August 2007
*Pierre Jay (1892), first chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York [*cite web|url=http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1925_1952/1949-50.pdf|title=Yale Obituary Record 1949 - 1950|publisher=Yale University]
* Henry Sloane Coffin, president of the Union Theological Seminary [Robbins, page 127]
*Harry Payne Whitney (1894), husband of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney; investment banker [Robbins, page 187]
*Amos Pinchot (1897), progressive leader [cite web|url=http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1925_1952/1943-44.pdf|title=Yale Obituary Record 1943 - 1944|publisher=Yale University]

1900s

*John Magee (missionary) (1906), Chaplain at Yale, documenter of Japanese atrocities during the Rape of Nanking, assistant rector at St. John's Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square (Washington, D.C.), father of High Flight poet John Gillespie Magee, Jr. [cite web|url=http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/Skull-And-Bones1833-1985.htm|title=Skull and Bones Membership List (1833-1985)]
*Percy Rockefeller (1900), director of Brown Brothers Harriman, Standard Oil, and Remington Arms
*Charles Seymour (1908), President of Yale 1937–1951 [Robbins, page 127, 147]
*Harold Stanley (1908), founder of investment house Morgan StanleyFact|date=August 2007

1910s

*George L. Harrison (1910), banker; President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, former Chairman of the board of New York Life Insurance Co., and special consultant to fellow Bonesman, Henry L. Stimson.cite news
work=New York Times
date=28th May, 1909
title=Taft's son elected to Skull and Bones
author=] [War Department, [http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB162/35.pdf Harrison's report to Stimson of second atomic bomb test] |work=George Washington University
date=17th July, 1945
title=Harrison's report to Stimson of second atomic bomb test
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*Robert A. Taft (1910), U.S. Senator (R-Ohio 1939–1953) [Robbins, page 126]
*Alfred Cowles (1913), founder of the Cowles CommissionFact|date=August 2007
*Averell Harriman (1913), U.S. Ambassador and Secretary of Commerce; Governor of New York; Chairman and CEO of the Union Pacific Railroad, Brown Brothers & Harriman, and the Southern Pacific Railroad [Robbins, page 127, 150-1]
*Archibald MacLeish (1915), poet and diplomat [Robbins, page 185, 187-9]
*Donald Ogden Stewart (1916), author and screenwriter, Academy Award winner for "The Philadelphia Story" [Robbins, page 127]
*Prescott Bush (1916), U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut 1952–1963), Father of George H.W. Bush, grandfather of George W. Bush [Robbins, page 126, 144-5]
*E. Roland Harriman (1917), businessman; railroad executive; president of American Red CrossFact|date=August 2007
*H. Neil Mallon (1917), CEO of Dresser Industries [Robbins, page 126, 145, 168]
*Artemus Gates (1918), president of New York Trust Company, Union Pacific Railroad, TIME-Life, and Boeing CompanyFact|date=August 2007
*F. Trubee Davison (1918), Director of Personnel at the CIA [Robbins, page 108, 187] [Kathrin Day Lassila and Mark Alden Branch, [http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2006_05/notebook.html "Whose Skull and Bones?"] , "Yale Alumni Magazine", May/June 2006] [Marc Wortman, "The Millionaires' Unit: The Aristocratic Flyboys who Fought the Great War and Invented America's Airpower". New York : Public Affairs, 2006. ISBN 1586483285]
*Howard M. Baldrige (1918) - U.S. Representative (R-Nebraska 1931–1933)Fact|date=August 2007
*Robert A. Lovett (1918), US Secretary of Defense [Robbins, page 184-8] ["Current Biography", 1954, H.W. Wilson Company, page 29.]

1920s

*Briton Hadden (1920), co-founder of Time-Life Enterprises [Robbins, page 127, 150]
*Henry Luce (1920), co-founder of Time-Life Enterprises [Robbins, page 109-10]
*John Sherman Cooper (1923), U.S. Senator (R-Kentucky 1946–1949, 1952–1973); member of the Warren Commissionref
*Russell Davenport (1923), editor of "Fortune" magazine; created Fortune 500 list ["Russell Wheeler Davenport." "Dictionary of American Biography", Supplement 5: 1951-1955. American Council of Learned Societies, 1977.]
*F. O. Matthiessen, historian, literary critic [Robbins, page 126]
*George Herbert Walker, Jr. (1927), financier and co-founder of the New York Mets; uncle to President George Herbert Walker Bush [Robbins, page 164]
*John Rockefeller Prentice (1928), Grandson of John D. Rockefeller; pioneer of artificial inseminationFact|date=August 2007
*Granger Kent Costikyan (1929), a banker, partner of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.

1930s

*H. J. Heinz II (1931), Heir to H. J. Heinz Company; father of H. John Heinz III [Robbins, page 174]
*Jonathan Brewster Bingham (1936), U.S. Representative (D-New York) [Robbins, page 165]
*Potter Stewart (1936), U.S. Supreme Court Justice [Robbins, page 127, 171]
*William P. Bundy (1939), State Department liaison for the Bay of Pigs invasion, brother of McGeorge Bundy [Robbins, page 186]

1940s

*McGeorge Bundy (1940), Special Assistant for National Security Affairs; National Security Advisor; Professor of History, brother of William Bundy [Robbins, page 53]
* William Sloane Coffin, clergyman and peace activist [Robbins, page 127, 196]
*James L. Buckley (1944), U.S. Senator (R-New York 1971–1977) and brother of William F. Buckley, Jr. [Robbins, page 168, 174] ["People in the News", Associated Press, May 27, 1983] [Bob Dart, "Skull and bones a secret shared by Bush, Kerry", "The Gazette", March 7, 2004]
*John Chafee (1947), U.S. Senator; Secretary of the Navy and Governor of Rhode Island; father of Lincoln Chafee [Robbins, page 168, 171]
*George H. W. Bush (1948), 41st President of the United States; 11th Director of Central Intelligence; son of Prescott Bush; father of George W. Bush [Robbins, page 167-168]

1950s

*Evan G. Galbraith (1950), US ambassador to France; managing director of Morgan Stanley [Robbins, page 181, 187] [David W. Dunlap, "Yale Society Resists Peeks Into Its Crypt", "New York Times", November 4, 1988]
*William F. Buckley, Jr. (1950), founder of "National Review" [Robbins, page 41]
*William Henry Draper III (1950), Chair of United Nations Development Programme and Export-Import Bank of the United States [Robbins, page 174-5, 179]
*William H. Donaldson (1953), appointed chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission by George W. Bush; founding dean of Yale School of Management; co-founder of DLJ investment firm [Robbins, page 166, 173] [ [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/02/60minutes/main576332.shtml "Skull And Bones: Secret Yale Society Includes America's Power Elite"] , CBS News, June 13, 2004]
*David McCullough (1955), U.S. historian; two-time Pulitzer Prize winner [Robbins, page 127]
*Robert Gow (1955), business associate of George H. W. Bush; president of Bush's Zapata Oil [Robbins, page 168, 179]
*R. Inslee Clark, Jr. (1957), Director of Undergraduate Admissions; former Headmaster of Horace Mann School [Robbins, page 153, 176]
*Winston Lord (1959), Chairman of Council on Foreign Relations; Ambassador to China; Assistant U.S. Secretary of State [Robbins, page 174-5, 189] [David W. Dunlap, "Yale Society Resists Peeks Into Its Crypt", "New York Times", November 4, 1988]

1960s

*David Boren (1963), Governor of Oklahoma, U.S. Senator, President of the University of Oklahoma [Robbins, page 124, 158] [Lloyd Grove, "The Boren Identity; Oklahoma's Senator, Unlikely Point Man for Clinton Plan", "Washington Post", March 24, 1993.]
*Frederick W. Smith (1966), founder of FedEx [Robbins, page 172, 180-1] ["Frederick W. Smith." "Contemporary Newsmakers" 1985, Issue Cumulation. Gale Research, 1986.]
*John Kerry (1966), U.S. Senator (D-Massachusetts 1985.present); Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts 1983–1985; 2004 Democratic Presidential nominee [Robbins, page 112]
*Don Schollander Olympic Gold medal swimmer. [Robbins, page 126, 177]
*Victor Ashe (1967), Tenn. State House (1968–1975); Tenn. State Senate (1976–1984); Mayor of Knoxville, Tenn. (1988–2003); appointed Ambassador to Poland (2004–Present) by George W. Bush [Robbins, page 181-2] [Diane Scarponi, "In Yale-Harvard rivalry, presidential politics is the big game", Associated Press, May 5, 2000]
*George W. Bush (1968), 43rd President of the United States; 46th Governor of Texas [Robbins, page 175-178]
*Robert McCallum, Jr (1968), Ambassador to Australia [Robbins, page 177, 181] [ [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8853002/site/newsweek/ "Leak Investigation: An Oversight Issue?"] , "Newsweek", Aug. 15, 2005]
*Roy Leslie Austin (1968), appointed ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago by George W. Bush [Robbins, page 177, 181-2] [Don Oldenburg, "Tippy-Top Secret; Yalies Bush and Kerry Share a Patrician Past Of Skull and Bones", "Washington Post", April 4, 2004]
*Stephen A. Schwarzman (1969), co-founder The Blackstone Group [Evan Thomas and Daniel Gross, "Taxing the Super Rich", "Newsweek", July 23, 2007] [Andrew Clark, "The Guardian profile: Stephen Schwarzman", "The Guardian", June 15, 2007]

ince 1980

*Earl G. Graves, Jr. (1984), president of "Black Enterprise" [cite news | author=Berner, Robert | title=The Next Warren Buffett? | work=BusinessWeek.com | url=http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_47/b3909001_mz001.htm
date=2004-11-22 | accessdate=2007-04-14]
*Edward S. Lampert (1984), founder of ESL Investments; chairman of Sears Holdings Corporation [Robbins, page 180] [cite news | author=Berner, Robert | title=The Next Warren Buffett? | work=BusinessWeek.com | url=http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_47/b3909001_mz001.htm
date=2004-11-22 | accessdate=2007-04-14]
*Dana Milbank (1990), political reporter for "The Washington Post" [Lloyd Grove, "Yale Bones Connect Kerry, Bush", "New York Daily News", March 4, 2004] [Deborah Mitchell, "A Rich Bounty, Gone For Good", "New York Daily News", January 28, 2001] ["Kerry versus Bush: Eight is Enough", The Hotline, March 4, 2004.]
*Austan Goolsbee (1991), economic advisor to Barack Obama [citenews|url=http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/21789
title=Goolsbee ’91 puts economics degree to use for Obama
work=Yale Daily News
date=October 12th 2007
author=Aaron Bray]
*John Wertheim (1990), American lawyer and politician [ [http://osdir.com/ml/culture.discuss.conspiracy/2006-12/msg00025.html Partial List of Skull and Bones Members 1986-2006] .]

Notes

References

*cite book | author=Robbins, Alexandra | title=Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power | publisher=Little, Brown | location=Boston | year=2002 | id=ISBN 0-316-72091-7

Further reading

* Millegan, Kris, ed. "Fleshing Out Skull and Bones: Investigations into America's Most Powerful Secret Society". Walterville, OR: Trine Day, 2003. ISBN 0-9720207-2-1
* Sutton, Antony C. "America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones". Walterville, OR: Trine Day, 2003. ISBN 0-9720207-0-5