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== Notable members == [[File:Dean Acheson.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Dean Acheson]]]] [[File:Fareed Zakaria on January 28, 2011.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Fareed Zakaria]]]] [[File:Sargent Shriver 1961.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Sargent Shriver]]]] [[File:Coleporter.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Cole Porter]] ]] [[File:CalvinTrillin.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Calvin Trillin]]]] [[File:HarveyCushing.JPG|thumb|upright|[[Harvey Cushing]]]] [[File:GarryTrudeau.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Garry Trudeau]]]] {| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left; width:auto" |- !Name!!Yale class!!Notability !References |- |[[Leonard Case Jr.]] || 1842 || Founder of [[Case Western Reserve University|Case School of Applied Science]], later [[Case Western Reserve University]] |<ref name="history1942">{{cite book |last=Giamatti |first=A. Bartlett |title=History of Scroll and Key, 1942β1972 |publisher=The Scroll and Key Society |year=1978}}</ref> |- |[[Theodore Runyon]] || 1842 || Envoy and Ambassador to Germany; Battle of Bull Run |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Carter Harrison III]] || 1845 || mayor of Chicago and U.S. Representative |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Homer Sprague]] |1852 |President of the [[University of North Dakota]] | |- |[[Randall L. Gibson]] || 1853 || U.S. Senator, Confederate Brigadier-General, and president of [[Tulane University]] |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[George Shiras Jr.]] || 1853 || [[U.S. Supreme Court Justice]] |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Brinley D. Sleight]] |1858 |Newspaper editor, member of the [[New York State Assembly]] |<ref>{{Cite news |date=2 January 1914 |title=BRINLEY DERING SLEIGHT, '58 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Yale_Alumni_Weekly/AzM6AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Brinley%20Dering%20Sleight%22 |work=Yale Alumni Weekly |location=New Haven, C.T. |page=416 |via=[[Google Books]] |volume=XXIII |issue=16}}</ref> |- |[[John Dalzell]] || 1865 || U.S. Congress |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[George Bird Grinnell]] || 1870 || Anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer |<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Taliaferro |first1=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UxF1DwAAQBAJ&q=grinnell+scroll+and+key&pg=PT64 |title=Grinnell: America's Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West |date=2019-06-04 |publisher=Liveright |isbn=978-1-63149-014-9}}</ref> |- |[[Edward Salisbury Dana]] || 1870 || American mineralogist |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Fred Dubois]] || 1872 || U.S. Senator |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Henry deForest]] || 1876 || [[Southern Pacific Railroad]] |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Gilbert Colgate]] || 1883 || President and Chairman of Colgate & Co. |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[George Edgar Vincent]] || 1885 || President of the [[University of Minnesota]]; President of the [[Rockefeller Foundation]] |<ref name="time1">{{cite news |author=HP-Time.com Monday, May. 31, 1926 |date=May 31, 1926 |title=Wedlock β TIME |publisher=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,729273-6,00.html |url-status=dead |access-date=2008-10-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071230102810/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,729273-6,00.html |archive-date=December 30, 2007}}</ref> |- |[[James Gamble Rogers]] || 1889 || [[architecture|architect]], designed many of Yale's buildings |<ref name="time1" /> |- |[[Herbert Parsons (New York politician)|Herbert Parsons]] || 1890 || U.S. Congress |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Harvey Cushing]] || 1891 || Neurosurgeon, considered father of brain surgery |<ref name="time1" /> |- |[[William Nelson Runyon]] || 1892 || Acting Governor of New Jersey |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Frank Polk]] || 1894 || Secretary of State, [[Davis Polk & Wardwell]], managed the conclusion to [[World War I]] |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Allen Wardwell]] || 1895 || [[Davis Polk & Wardwell]]; [[Bank of New York]]; Vice-President of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Lewis Sheldon]] || 1896 || [[Paris Peace Conference]], Olympic medalist |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Cornelius Vanderbilt III]] || 1895 || Brigadier General in the U.S. Army during the World War I |<ref name="time1" /> |- |[[William Adams Delano]] || 1895 || architect; designed many of Yale's buildings |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Joseph Medill McCormick]] || 1900 || U.S. Senate and publisher of the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Joseph Medill Patterson|Joseph M. Patterson]] || 1901 || Founder of the ''[[New York Daily News]]''; manager of the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' |<ref name="time1" /> |- |[[Robert R. McCormick]] || 1903 || ''[[Chicago Tribune]]''; [[Kirkland & Ellis]]<ref name="history1942" /> |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[James C. Auchincloss]] || 1908 || U.S. Congress, Governor of the NYSE., US Military Intelligence World War I |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[William C. Bullitt]] || 1912 || Ambassador to France, Ambassador to the Soviet Russia |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Mortimer R. Proctor]] || 1912 || Governor of Vermont |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Cole Porter]] || 1913 || Entertainer, songwriter |<ref name="robbins1">{{cite book |last=Robbins |first=Alexandra |url=https://archive.org/details/secretsoftombsku00robb |title=Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power |publisher=Back Bay Books |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-316-73561-2 |url-access=registration}}</ref> |- |[[Dean Acheson]] || 1915 || 51st Secretary of State |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Wayne Chatfield-Taylor]] || 1916 || President, Export-Import Bank; Undersecretary of Commerce; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury |<ref name="nytimes1">{{cite news |date=1915-05-21 |title=Yale's Great Oak Sees 'Tap Day' Again |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1915/05/21/archives/yales-great-oak-sees-tap-day-again-senior-societies-return-to-the.html |access-date=2008-10-17}}</ref> |- |[[Dickinson W. Richards]] || 1917 || [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Ethan A. H. Shepley]] || 1918 || Chancellor of [[Washington University in St. Louis]] |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[John Enders]] || 1919 || [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Brewster Jennings]] || 1920 || Founder and president of the [[Mobil|Socony Mobil Oil Company Standard Oil of New York]] |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Seymour H. Knox I|Seymour H. Knox]] || 1920 || American retailer, [[F. W. Woolworth Company]] |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Richardson Dilworth]] || 1921 || Mayor of [[Philadelphia]] |<ref name="times2">{{cite news |date=May 20, 1921 |title=Tap Day Exercises are held at Yale |newspaper=New York Times |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1921/05/20/98691396.pdf |access-date=2008-11-10}}</ref> |- |[[William Hawks]] || 1923 || Film producer |<ref>{{cite news |date=18 May 1923 |title=Yale 'Tap Day' Brings Honors to Rowing Men |page=9 |newspaper=New York Tribune |location=New York, N.Y.}}</ref> |- |[[James Stillman Rockefeller]] || 1924 || President and chairman, The First National [[City Bank of New York]]; Olympic gold medal |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Huntington D. Sheldon]] || 1925 || Central Intelligence Agency; President of the Petroleum Corporation of America |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Newbold Morris]] || 1925 || New York lawyer and politician |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Benjamin Spock]] || 1925 || Pediatrician, author, and Olympic gold medalist |<ref name="nytimes1" /> |- |[[John Hay Whitney]] || 1926 || [[U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom]], publisher of [[New York Herald Tribune]] |<ref>{{cite web |date=May 2002 |title=Yale Alumni Magazine: John Hay Whitney |url=http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/02_04/old_yale.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101230124108/http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/02_04/old_yale.html |archive-date=2010-12-30 |access-date=2011-02-13 |publisher=Yale Alumni Publications inc.}}</ref> |- |[[Frederic A. Potts]] || 1926 || Chairman, [[Philadelphia National Bank]]; New Jersey Senate |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Paul Mellon]] || 1929 || Philanthropist |<ref name="nytimes1" /> |- |[[Benjamin Brewster (financier)|Benjamin Brewster]] || 1929 || Director, Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey (later Exxon) |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Raymond R. Guest]] || 1931 || U.S. Ambassador to Ireland; Special Assistant to Secretary of Defense |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Donald R. McLennan]] || 1931 || Founder and chairman, insurance brokerage firm [[Marsh McLennan]] |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Robert F. Wagner, Jr.]] || 1933 || [[Mayor of New York City]] |<ref name="New York Times">{{cite news |date=October 11, 1948 |title=Mary A. Harrison, Lawyers Fiance. Vassar Graduate Will Be Bride of John V. Lindsay, Former Lieutenant in the Navy |pages=29 |newspaper=New York Times |url=https://select.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=FA0A17F8355F167B93C3A8178BD95F4C8485F9 |access-date=December 12, 2011}}</ref> |- |[[J. Peter Grace]] || 1936 || [[W. R. Grace]] & Co. | |- |[[Peter H. Dominick]] || 1937 || U.S. Senator, U.S. Congressman, U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland |<ref>{{cite web |title=J. Peter Grace β Business Executive, leading Catholic layman, Advisor to three U.S. Presidents β dies at age 81. | Government > Government Bodies & Offices from AllBusiness.com |url=http://www.allbusiness.com/government/government-bodies-offices-heads/7119633-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090108111053/http://www.allbusiness.com/government/government-bodies-offices-heads/7119633-1.html |archive-date=8 January 2009 |access-date=2008-10-17 |publisher=Allbusiness.com}}</ref> |- |[[Sargent Shriver]] || 1938 || [[Peace Corps]]; Vice-Presidential Candidate, [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Cyrus Vance]] || 1939 || Secretary of State; Secretary of the Army; Chairman, [[Federal Reserve Bank of New York]] |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Robert D. Orr]] || 1940 || [[Governor of Indiana]]; U.S. Ambassador to Singapore |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Cord Meyer, Jr.]] || 1943 || [[Central Intelligence Agency]]; [[United World Federalists]] |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[George Roy Hill]] || 1943 || [[Academy Award for Directing]] ''[[The Sting]]'' |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Frederick B. Dent]] || 1944 || [[U.S. Secretary of Commerce]] |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[John Vliet Lindsay]] || 1944 || [[Mayor of New York City]], Congressman from New York City |<ref name="New York Times" /> |- |[[Thomas Enders]] || 1953 || Ambassador to Spain, Ambassador to European Union, Ambassador to Canada |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Philip B. Heymann]] || 1954 || [[Watergate scandal|Watergate]] Special Prosecutor, Deputy U.S. Attorney General; professor at Harvard Law School |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Warren Zimmermann]] || 1956 || U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia, author |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Roscoe S. Suddarth]] || 1956 || President of the [[Middle East Institute]]; U.S. Ambassador to Jordan |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Calvin Trillin]] || 1957 || writer |<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8zS-KSreMQ0C&dq=%22Calvin+Trillin%22+%22scroll+and+key%22&pg=PA223 Remembering Denny β Google Books<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> |- |[[A. Bartlett Giamatti]] || 1960 || Yale University president; [[National League (baseball)|National League]] president, [[MLB]] Commissioner |<ref name="nytimes1" /> |- |[[Peter Beard]] || 1961 || Photographer | |- |[[Garry Trudeau]] || 1970 || [[Doonesbury]] cartoonist |<ref name="nytimes1" /> |- |[[Stone Phillips]] || 1977 || [[Dateline NBC]] |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Rick E. Lawrence]] || 1977 || Associate Justice of the [[Maine Supreme Judicial Court]] |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Gideon Rose]] || 1985 || Foreign Affairs |<ref name="history1942" /> |- |[[Fareed Zakaria]] || 1986 || editor of ''[[Newsweek]]'' and host of [[CNN]] show | |- |[[Dave Baseggio]] || 1989 || Director of Professional Scouting for the [[Seattle Kraken]] | |- |[[Dahlia Lithwick]] || 1990 || Editor at ''[[Newsweek]]'' and [[Slate (magazine)|''Slate'']] |<ref name="Indeterminate">{{cite web |title=Archived copy |url=http://www.ctrl.org/boodleboys/boodleboysgphx/Scroll_%26_Key.xls |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071009201128/http://www.ctrl.org/boodleboys/boodleboysgphx/Scroll_%26_Key.xls |archive-date=9 October 2007 |access-date=15 January 2022 |website=www.ctrl.org}}</ref> |- |[[Jeannie Rhee]] || 1994 || Special Council member for the Obstruction of Justice Investigation |<ref>"Jeannie Rhee". Diversity Journal. Retrieved 2018-01-19, January 30, 2019</ref> |- |Jacob W. Dell |1995 |Pastor, spiritual advisor, and faith-based influencer, First Congregational Church, Woodbury, Connecticut | |- |[[Alexandra Robbins]] || 1998 || Journalist |<ref>{{Cite web |title=Skull & Bones: The Secret Society That Unites John Kerry and President Bush<!-- Bot generated title --> |url=http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0122-10.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012033559/http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0122-10.htm |archive-date=2007-10-12 |access-date=2007-10-12}}</ref> |- |[[Ari Shapiro]] || 2000 || Co-host of ''[[All Things Considered]]'' for [[National Public Radio]] |<ref name="Indeterminate" /> |}
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