List of Sigma Phi members

Sigma Phi is an American collegiate fraternity. It was founded in 1827 at Union College in Schenectady, New York. Following is a list of some of its notable members.

Art and architecture

NameChapterNotabilityBradford Perkins Wisconsin, Cornell Architect and founder of Perkins Eastman ArchitectsMontgomery SchuylerHobartarchitect and influential architecture critic in New York City Philip Will Jr.CornellArchitect, co-founder of architecture firm Perkins&Will, and president of the American Institute of Architects

Business

NameChapterNotabilityJ. Patrick DoyleMichiganformer CEO of Domino's PizzaSeth FlowermanCornell Entrepreneur, CEO of PLT Health SolutionsLeonard JeromeUnionAmerican financier and the maternal grandfather of Winston ChurchillCharles F. Knight Cornellchairman and CEO of Emerson ElectricJames M. Loree UnionCEO of Stanley Black & DeckerCharlie MungerMichiganformer vice-chairman of Berkshire HathawayPeter Busch OrthweinCornellfounder and chairman of Thor IndustriesHoward PotterUnionAmerican industrialist, investment banker, diplomat and philanthropist, and a partner in Brown Bros. & Co.Ratan TataCornellbusinessman and former chairman of Tata SonsJay Walker Cornellfounder of Priceline

Education

NameChapterNotabilityMortimer Elwyn Cooleyprofessor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, mechanical and consulting engineerGeorge W. EatonUnionpresident of Colegate University and Madison UniversityStephen GilmanPrincetonHispanist, Guggenheim Fellow, professor at Harvard University, Ohio State University, and Princeton UniversityGeorge Wheeler HinmanHamiltonpresident of Marietta College, publisher of the Chicago Herald and Examiner, editor and manager of Chicago Inter OceanOren Root IIHamiltonprofessor of mathematics and natural sciences at Hamilton College; professor of English at the University of Missouri; Presbyterian ministerWilliam A. ShanklinHamiltonpresident of Upper Iowa University and Wesleyan University, Methodist ministerM. Woolsey StrykerHamiltonpresident of Hamilton College and Presbyterian ministerAndrew Dickson WhiteHobartco-founder and first president of Cornell University, U.S. Ambassador to GermanyWilliam Dwight WhitneyWilliamslinguist, professor at Yale University, and first president of the American Philological Association

Entertainment

NameChapterNotabilityNat FaxonHamilton Actor, comedian, and Academy Award-winning screenwriterArthur C. NielsenWisconsincreator of Nielsen ratings

Government and public service

NameChapterNotabilityDaniel ButterfieldUnionAssistant Treasurer of the United States, composer of Taps bugle call, Civil War generalJoel ErhardtVermontpolice commissioner for the New York Police Department, U.S. Marshal for the Eastern District of New York, and the Collector of the Port of New York John Jay Knox Jr.HamiltonComptroller of the Currency of the United States

Law

NameChapterNotabilityDouglass BoardmanHobartjustice of the Supreme Court of New York, Dean of Cornell Law SchoolOrsamus ColeUnionUnited States Congressman from Wisconsin and 6th Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme CourtGeorge F. Comstock UnionChief Judge of the New York Court of AppealsJohn A. DenisonVermontjudge of the Supreme Court of Colorado and mayor of Springfield, MassachusettsThomas NelsonWilliamsChief Justice of Oregon TerritoryTeiser, Sidney. “The Second Chief Justice of Oregon Territory: Thomas Nelson.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 48, no. 3 (1947): 215Joseph MullinUnionjustice of the New York Supreme Court, United States Congressman from New YorkJames NoxonHamilton, Union Member New York Supreme Court and New York politicianAbram B. OlinWilliamsAssociate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and United States Congressman Earl WarrenCaliforniaChief Justice of the United States, Governor of California

Literature and journalism

NameChapterNotabilityGeorge Grenville BenedictVermonteditor and publisher of The Burlington Daily Free Press, Vermont SenateJohn BigelowUnionhistorian who edited the complete works of Benjamin Franklin, United States Minister to France, and Secretary of State of New YorkHenry Martyn Field Williams publisher and editor of The Evangelist Chester Sanders LordHamiltoneditor of the New York SunMansfield Tracy WalworthUnionauthorWilliam Dwight WhitneyWilliamseditor-in-chief of The Century Dictionary, linguist, philologist, lexicographer, and first president of the American Philological AssociationSamuel Wilkeson Jr.Williams journalist with the New York Times and the New-York Tribune, editor of The Democracy in Buffalo, owner of the Albany Evening Journal

Military

NameChapterNotabilityGeorge Grenville Benedict VermontAmerican Civil War hero and Medal of Honor recipientDaniel ButterfieldUnionCivil War general, composer of Taps bugle call, and Assistant Treasurer of the United StatesJohn CochraneUnionBrigadier General in the Civil War, United States Congressman from New York, Attorney General of New YorkHenry RathboneUnionprominent in the U.S. Army, present in Lincoln's booth at Ford's Theatre; was stabbed tackling John Wilkes Booth

Politics

NameChapterNotabilitySamuel W. Beall UnionLt. Governor of Wisconsin, Sigma Phi Society founderHenry E. Barbour UnionU.S. Representative from CaliforniaGeorge Grenville BenedictVermontVermont Senate; editor and publisher of The Burlington Daily Free PressJohn BigelowUnionUnited States Minister to France, Secretary of State of New York, and historian who edited the complete works of Benjamin FranklinThomas Fielder BowiePrinceton, UnionUnited States Congressman, founding member of Sigma PhiWilliam W. CampbellUnionUnited States Congressman from New YorkClark B. CochraneUnionUnited States Congressman from New YorkJohn CochraneUnionUnited States Congressman from New York, Attorney General of New York, and Brigadier General in the Civil WarOrsamus ColeUnionUnited States Congressman from Wisconsin and 6th Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme CourtArchibald B. DarraghMichiganU.S. House of Representatives from MichiganThomas Treadwell DavisHamiltonUnited States Congressman from New YorkKen Dryden CornellCanadian Member of Parliament, former professional hockey player, Hockey Hall of FameEdwin Einstein UnionUnited States Congressman from New YorkCharles J. FolgerHobartUnited States Secretary of the TreasuryEugene Foss VermontUnited States House of Representatives and served as a three-term governor of MassachusettsA. Oakey Hall New Yorkformer Mayor of New YorkJohn F. HartranftUnionformer Governor of PennsylvaniaJohn T. HoffmanUnionformer Governor of New YorkJohn James IngallsWilliamsUnited States Senator from KansasSamuel KnoxWilliamsUnited States Congressman from MissouriAddison H. LaflinWilliamsUnited States Congressman from New YorkTruman A. MerrimanHobartUnited States Congressman from New YorkJoseph MullinUnionUnited States Congressman from New York, justice of the New York Supreme Court Abram B. Olin WilliamsUnited States Congressman from New York and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of ColumbiaAndrew OliverUnionUnited States Congressman from New YorkTheodore OtisUnionpoliticianElihu RootHamiltonCanadian Member of Parliament, U.S. Secretary of War, U.S. Secretary of State, Nobel Peace Prize WinnerJessup, Philip C., Elihu Root. Vol. I, 1845-1909; Vol. II, 1905-1937. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1938.Charles B. Sedgwick HamiltonUnited States Congressman from New YorkJames S. ShermanHamiltonVice President of the United States and United States Congressman from New YorkGilbert Carlton WalkerWilliamsGovernor of Virginia, United States Congressman from VirginiaAndrew Dickson WhiteHobartU.S. Ambassador to Germany, co-founder and first president of Cornell University

Religion

NameChapterNotabilityCharles E. CheneyHobartclergyman and second bishop of the Reformed Episcopal ChurchGeorge William KnoxHamiltonMissionary in Japan, author, and theologianOren Root IIHamiltontheologian, Presbyterian minister, college professorWilliam A. ShanklinHamiltonMethodist minister and university presidentM. Woolsey StrykerHamiltonPresbyterian minister and president of Hamilton CollegeLemuel H. WellsHobartfirst Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of SpokaneGeorge WorthingtonHobartsecond bishop of Nebraska in the Episcopal Church

Science and medicine

NameChapterNotabilityLewis Sayre New Yorkleading American orthopedic surgeon of the 19th century and president of the American Medical Association

Sports

NameChapterNotabilityKen DrydenCornellformer professional hockey player, Hockey Hall of Fame, Member of Parliament in CanadaLarry TanenbaumCornellchairman of MLSE, owner of the Toronto Raptors and Toronto Maple LeafsWard WettlauferHamiltonamateur golfer

See also Collegiate secret societies in North America

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