List of Theta Delta Chi members

This is a list of notable members of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. Names are listed followed by the school attended and the graduation year.^[1]

Arts

John Brougham, New York Graduate 1857, 19th century actor, dramatist, and orator
Thomas Thackeray Swinburne, University of Rochester 1892, Poet
Fitz James O'Brien, New York Graduate 1857, New York Literary Bohemian, science fiction pioneer
Robert Frost, Dartmouth 1896, four time Pulitzer Prize winning poet

Alexander Woollcott, Hamilton 1896, drama critic NY Times, Herald-Tribune, Sun.
Norman H. Hackett, Michigan 1898, actor
Stanton Griffis, Cornell 1910, former Chairman of Board of Paramount Pictures and Madison Square Garden
Arthur Hornblow, Jr., Dartmouth 1915, film producer Paramount and MGM
Eric Johnston, Washington 1917, President of US Chamber of Commerce, Motion Picture Association of America
Pat Ballard, Penn 1922, composer of the #1 song of 1954 "Mr. Sandman"
Frank Thomas, Stanford 1933, Thumpers (Bambi) creator
John Dunning, UCLA 1939, film editor, Oscar winner for Ben Hur
Tad Mosel, Amherst 1944, Pulitzer Prize for All the Way Home
Gardner McKay, Cornell 1953, actor, drama critic
John Nichols, Hamilton 1962, author The Milagro Bean Field War The Sterile Cuckoo
Joseph J. Ellis, William and Mary 1965, author Founding Brothers, American Sphinx, His Excellency
James Woods, MIT 1969, actor
Kary Antholis, Bowdoin 1984, documentary producer
Charles "Chip" Esten, William and Mary 1987, actor/comedian, Whose Line Is It Anyway?
David C. Hayes, Michigan State University 1994, author/performer
Sendhil Ramamurthy, Tufts 1996, actor from Heroes

Medicine

Frank Lahey, Harvard 1904, Founder of Boston's Lahey Clinic
Park Dietz, Cornell 1970, Renowned Forensic Psychologist

Public life

M. D. Ball, College of William and Mary 1854, member of the Virginia House of Delegates and collector of customs for the Alaska Territory^[2]
Allen Beach, Union 1849, Lt. Governor of New York, Secretary of State of New York
John C. Nicholls, William and Mary 1853, Georgia (Rep.)
William D. Bloxham, William and Mary 1854, Governor of Florida
Clement Hall Sinnickson, Union 1855, New Jersey (Rep.)
Frederick George Bromberg, Harvard 1858, Alabama (Rep.)
John Hay, Brown 1858, Abraham Lincoln's secretary, Secretary of State
Henry J. Spooner, Brown 1860, Rhode Island (Rep.)
William W. Thomas, Jr., Bowdoin 1860, US Minister (Ambassador) to Norway and Sweden
Henry R. Gibson, Hobart 1862, Tennessee (Rep.)
Daniel N. Lockwood, Union 1865, New York (Rep.)
John Bayard McPherson, Princeton 1866, Judge, US Court of Appeals
Hosea M. Knowlton, Tufts 1867, Chief Prosecutor in Lizzie Borden case, Attorney General of Massachusetts ^[3]
John W. Griggs, Lafayette 1868, Governor of New Jersey, Attorney General
Nathan F. Dixon, III, Brown 1869, US Senator from Rhode Island
John Bellamy, Virginia 1875, Senator North Carolina
Walter R. Stiness, Brown 1877, Rhode Island (Rep.)
James McLachlan, Hamilton 1878, California (Rep.)
Thomas B. Kyle, Dartmouth 1880, Ohio (Rep.)
Frederick C. Stevens, Bowdoin 1881, Minnesota (Rep.)
Daniel J. McGillicuddy, Bowdoin 1881, Maine (Rep.)
John A. Dix, Cornell 1883, Governor of New York
Gonzalo de Quesada, CCNY 1888, architect of Cuban Independence Movement (statue at Havana Park)

John H. Bartlett, Dartmouth 1894, Governor of New Hampshire
Joseph Irwin France, Hamilton 1895, US Senator from Maryland
Rollin B. Sanford, Tufts 1897, New York (Rep.)
James A. Hamilton, Rochester 1898, New York Secretary of State ^[4]
Harlan W. Rippey, Rochester 1898, US District Court Judge/New York Court of Appeal Judge
Earle S. Warner, Hobart 1902, New York Supreme Court Justice
Arthur W. Coolidge, Tufts 1903, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
William F. Love, Rochester 1903, New York Supreme Court Justice
Frank Henry Buck, Berkeley 1907, California (Dem.)
Maurice E. Crumpacker, Michigan 1909, Oregon (Rep.)
Allen J. Furlow, Michigan 1916, Minnesota (Rep.)
Eric Johnston, Washington 1917, US Chamber of Commerce President
Irving M. Ives, Hamilton 1919, Senator New York
Louis P. Beaubien, McGill 1925, Senator of Canada from Quebec
Lane Dwinell, Dartmouth 1928, Governor of New Hampshire
Herman T. Schneebeli, Dartmouth 1930, Pennsylvania (Rep.)
Philleo Nash, Wisconsin 1932, Presidential Adviser for Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, led integration of US Armed Forces ^[5]
Henry P. Smith, Dartmouth 1933, New York (Rep.)

John W. Tuthill, William and Mary 1932, Ambassador to Brazil
Alvin M. Bentley, Michigan 1940, Michigan (Rep.)
Robert L. Leggett, Berkeley 1948, California (Rep.)
Joseph B. Benedetti, William and Mary 1951, Virginia (Rep.)
Thomas R. Pickering, Bowdoin 1953, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
Jerry Lewis, UCLA 1956, California (Rep.)
Wesley C. Uhlman, Washington 1956, Mayor of Seattle
Hugh Rodham, Penn State 1972, Public Defender and Brother of Hillary Rodham Clinton^[6]
Bruce Rauner, Dartmouth 1978, Governor of Illinois
Michael K. Powell, William and Mary 1985, Chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission

Education

Elmer H. Capen, Tufts 1860, President of Tufts University
William Leslie Hooper, Tufts 1877, Acting President of Tufts University ^[7]
Frederick W. Hamilton, Tufts 1880, President of Tufts University ^[7]
Ernest W. Huffcut, Cornell 1884, Dean of Cornell Law School, Legal Advisor to New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes
Alexander Meiklejohn, Brown 1893, President of Amherst College
Guy S. Ford, Wisconsin 1895, President of University of Minnesota, Phi Beta Kappa
Hollis Godfrey, Tufts 1895, President of Drexel University
Samuel P. Capen, Tufts 1898, President of the University of Buffalo
Frank E. Compton, Wisconsin 1898, Creator of Compton's Encyclopedia
Edmund Ezra Day, Dartmouth 1905, President of Cornell University
Chauncey S. Boucher, Michigan 1909, President of University of West Virginia/Chancellor of the University of Nebraska
Robert E. Doherty, Illinois 1909, President of Carnegie Mellon University
Erwin Schell, MIT 1912, Dean of MIT Department of Business and Engineering
Leonard Carmichael, Tufts 1921, President of Tufts University, Secretary of Smithsonian
Alvin D. Chandler, William and Mary 1922, President of College of William and Mary
Francis H. Horn, Dartmouth 1930, President of the University of Rhode Island
Norman Topping, Washington 1930, Chancellor of the University of Southern California
Julian Gibbs, Amherst 1946, President of Amherst College
Richard M. Freeland, Amherst 1963, President of Northeastern University

Scholarship

William Leete Stone, Jr., Brown 1858, historian
Stephen M. Babcock, Tufts 1886, inventor of the Babcock Centrifuge (butterfat testing)
Henry Crampton, CCNY 1893, paleontologist and evolutionary biologist
Herbert E. Bolton, Wisconsin 1895, President of the American Historical Association
Carlos Baker, Dartmouth 1932, Hemingway biographer, scholar of Princeton University

Lester C. Thurow, Williams 1960, Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management

Military

Raymond W. Bliss, Tufts 1910, former Surgeon General of the U.S. Army
Silas B. Hays, Iowa State 1924, former Surgeon General of the United States Army
Arthur Japy Hepburn, Dickinson 1896, Admiral Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet
William Lamb, William and Mary 1853, Civil War "Hero of Fort Fisher"
Benjamin P. Lamberton, Dickinson 1862, Admiral U.S. Navy
Donald B. MacMillan, Bowdoin 1897, Arctic explorer, Rear Admiral, U.S.N.
Robert Lee Scott Jr., Arizona State 1932, U.S. General
Franklin Guest Smith, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1859, U.S. Army brigadier general^[8]
Eben Swift, Dickinson 1874, Major General U.S. Army
Henry Goddard Thomas, Bowdoin 1858, Brigadier General U.S. Army first regular officer to command United States Colored Troops
Colonel William Loyd Osborne, UCLA 1936, Assistant Chief of Staff at the 6th Army, Presidio of San Francisco. Distinguished Service Cross, Combat Infantry Badge, and inductee to the Ranger Hall of Fame.

Architecture

John William Merrow, Dartmouth 1897
Raymond M. Hood, Brown 1902, Rockefeller Center and Chicago Tribune

Business

Howard Melville Hanna, Union 1859, President of M.A. Hanna Co. and Globe Iron Works
Eugene Grace, Lehigh 1899, Chairman of the Board of Bethlehem Steel
Harvey Dow Gibson, Bowdoin 1902, President of the Manufacturers Trust Co
Dwight Follett, Illinois 1925, President of Follett Corporation
Charles C. Tillinghast Jr., Brown 1932, President of TWA, Chancellor of Brown University
Charles K. Fletcher Jr., Stanford 1950, Chairman of the Home Federal Saving Assoc
Mark H. McCormack, William and Mary 1950, CEO International Management Group
William J. Henry, William and Mary 1963, President Time Life Books, Inc.
Michael R. Burns, Arizona State 1980, Vice Chairman of Lionsgate
Jack D. Furst, Arizona State 1981, Partner of Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Inc.
Michael J. Saylor, MIT 1987, Founder MicroStrategy
Tom First, Brown 1989, Co-founder of Nantucket Nectars
Tom Scott, Brown 1989, Co-founder of Nantucket Nectars
Cuong Chi Dang, Penn State 2000, Penn State real estate tycoon, Founder of United Mosaic, Inc., CEO and co-founder of kEEstone Properties LLC, Vietnamese immigrant who suffered through the tribulations of three weeks in a refugee camp to go on and achieve a stellar 2.14 GPA, key thought leader in the Asian-American community

Engineering and science

Alexander Lyman Holley, Brown 1853, Bessemer Steel, statue in Washington Square, NYC
Frederick Vernon Coville, Cornell 1887, Botanist, Founder of the United States National Arboretum
William Henry Brewer, Yale 1889, Botanist, Chair of Agriculture at Yale
Charles Hook Tompkins, George Washington 1906, Founder of Charles H. Tompkins Construction Company
Dan Geer, MIT 1972, computer security specialist
Peter Diamandis, MIT 1983, space flight entrepreneur

Sport

Edward Marsh, Lehigh 1894, gold medalist 1900 Olympics – rowing
William Wilson Talcott, Michigan 1901, Quarterback of team inspiring "The Victors"
Harold A. Fisher, CCNY 1902, College Basketball Hall of Fame Member, author of first college basketball rules
Edward Lindberg, Tufts 1909, gold and bronze medalist at the 1912 Olympics - track
Wally Snell, Brown 1913, player Boston Red Sox
Leon Tuck, Dartmouth 1915, silver medalist 1920 Olympics – hockey
Jackson Keefer, Brown 1925, All-American 1924, 1925, early NFL player Providence Steam Roller 1926, Dayton Triangles 1928
Walter Francis O'Malley, Pennsylvania 1926, owner of Brooklyn/LA Dodgers
William F. McAfee, Jr., Michigan 1929, player Chicago White Sox
John W. Allyn, Lafayette 1939, owner of Chicago White Sox
Donald Canham, Michigan 1941, University of Michigan Athletic Director
Harry Dalton, Amherst 1950, Executive VP Milwaukee Brewers
William P. Ficker, Berkeley 1950, Winner of America's Cup Race
Benjamin L. Abruzzo, Illinois 1952, Crewmember of "Double Eagle II" (first trans-Atlantic balloon flight)
Mark Donohue, Brown 1959, Indianapolis 500 Winner
Darrin Nelson, Stanford 1981, Stanford All-American, player Minnesota Vikings
Jeffrey L. Ballard, Stanford 1982, baseball player for Baltimore Orioles
Chuck Muncie, Berkeley 1975, player New Orleans Saints and San Diego Chargers
James Lofton, Stanford 1978, NFL wide receiver, 2004 NFL Hall of Fame Inductee
Garin Veris, Stanford 1985, player New England Patriots and San Francisco 49ers
John Brody, Tufts 1995, Major League Baseball Senior VP of Corporate Sales and Marketing
Sean Morey, Brown 1999, player New England Patriots, Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers, Arizona Cardinals 1999–present
Chas Gessner, Brown 2003, player New England Patriots, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2003–present
Nick Thompson, Wisconsin 2004, MMA fighter
Zak DeOssie, Brown 2007, player 2007 4th round draft pick New York Giants
Al Saunders,San Jose State 1969, Academic All American Football, NFL Head Coach San Diego Chargers, Prep All American Swimmer & National Age Group Record Holder. RRCA Masters 5K National Champion.

Clergy

Rt. Rev. John H. D. Wingfield, William and Mary 1853, Bishop of North Carolina
Rt. Rev. A. M. Randolph, William and Mary 1855, Bishop of Virginia
Henry Christopher McCook, Washington and Jefferson 1859, Presbyterian clergyman, naturalist, and prolific author on religion, history, and nature
David Gregg, Washington and Jefferson 1865, Presbyterian clergyman, pastor of Park Street Church
Rev. Franklin Clark Fry, Hamilton 1921, President of the Lutheran Church of America
Rt. Rev. Robert C. Rusack, Hobart 1947, Bishop of Los Angeles

References

^ Unless otherwise cited, the referenced alumni can be found in: Ed. McCready, Adam (2004). The Theta Delta Chi Membership Handbook. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Cambridge Offset Printing.
^ "Mottrom Dulany Ball: A Founding Father of Alaska". Alaskan History Magazine. November–December 2020. Retrieved August 3, 2023 – via Issuu.
^ Maxwell, W. J (1900). Greek Letter Men of Boston. College Bk. Co.
^ "Theta Delta Chi Political Members". 2008.
^ Officer, James (1988). "Philleo Nash (1909–1987)". American Anthropologist. 90 (4): 952–956. doi:10.1525/aa.1988.90.4.02a00140. JSTOR 680770.
^ "The Pillars of Prospect: Sigma Phi Sigma/Theta Delta Chi Alumni Association" (PDF). May 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 29, 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-20.
^ ^a ^b Chi, Theta Delta (1911). Sixth Catalogue of ΘΔΧ. Retrieved 2009-06-15.
^ Jones, Frank Lawrence, ed. (May 1889). "Our Graduates". The Shield. Elmira, NY: Elmira Advertiser Print. p. 70 – via Google Books.

[alumni-1] Unless otherwise cited, the referenced alumni can be found in: Ed. McCready, Adam (2004). The Theta Delta Chi Membership Handbook. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Cambridge Offset Printing.

[2] "Mottrom Dulany Ball: A Founding Father of Alaska". Alaskan History Magazine. November–December 2020. Retrieved August 3, 2023 – via Issuu.

[Knowlton-3] Maxwell, W. J (1900). Greek Letter Men of Boston. College Bk. Co.

[hamilton-4] "Theta Delta Chi Political Members". 2008.

[nash-5] Officer, James (1988). "Philleo Nash (1909–1987)". American Anthropologist. 90 (4): 952–956. doi:10.1525/aa.1988.90.4.02a00140. JSTOR 680770.

[pillarsofprospect-6] "The Pillars of Prospect: Sigma Phi Sigma/Theta Delta Chi Alumni Association" (PDF). May 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 29, 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-20.

[Sixth_Catalogue_of_Theta_Delta_Chi-7] Chi, Theta Delta (1911). Sixth Catalogue of ΘΔΧ. Retrieved 2009-06-15.

[8] Jones, Frank Lawrence, ed. (May 1889). "Our Graduates". The Shield. Elmira, NY: Elmira Advertiser Print. p. 70 – via Google Books.

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