List of Sigma Phi members

Sigma Phi is an American collegiate fraternity.[1] It was founded in 1827 at Union College in Schenectady, New York.[1] Following is a list of some of its notable members.

Art and architecture

Name Chapter Notability Ref.
Bradford Perkins Wisconsin, Cornell Architect and founder of Perkins Eastman Architects [2]
Montgomery Schuyler Hobart architect and influential architecture critic in New York City [3]
Philip Will Jr. Cornell Architect, co-founder of architecture firm Perkins&Will, and president of the American Institute of Architects [4]

Business

Name Chapter Notability Ref.
J. Patrick Doyle Michigan former CEO of Domino's Pizza [5]
Seth Flowerman Cornell Entrepreneur, CEO of PLT Health Solutions [6]
Leonard Jerome Union American financier and the maternal grandfather of Winston Churchill [7]
Charles F. Knight Cornell chairman and CEO of Emerson Electric [8]
James M. Loree Union CEO of Stanley Black & Decker [9]
Charlie Munger Michigan former vice-chairman of Berkshire Hathaway [10][11]
Peter Busch Orthwein Cornell founder and chairman of Thor Industries [12]
Howard Potter Union American industrialist, investment banker, diplomat and philanthropist, and a partner in Brown Bros. & Co. [7]
Ratan Tata Cornell businessman and former chairman of Tata Sons [13]
Jay Walker Cornell founder of Priceline [11][13]

Education

Name Chapter Notability Ref.
Mortimer Elwyn Cooley professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, mechanical and consulting engineer [14]
George W. Eaton Union president of Colegate University and Madison University [3][15]
Stephen Gilman Princeton Hispanist, Guggenheim Fellow, professor at Harvard University, Ohio State University, and Princeton University [14]
George Wheeler Hinman Hamilton president of Marietta College, publisher of the Chicago Herald and Examiner, editor and manager of Chicago Inter Ocean [14]
Oren Root II Hamilton professor of mathematics and natural sciences at Hamilton College; professor of English at the University of Missouri; Presbyterian minister [3]
William A. Shanklin Hamilton president of Upper Iowa University and Wesleyan University, Methodist minister [3][16]
M. Woolsey Stryker Hamilton president of Hamilton College and Presbyterian minister [3][16]
Andrew Dickson White Hobart co-founder and first president of Cornell University, U.S. Ambassador to Germany [16][1][3]
William Dwight Whitney Williams linguist, professor at Yale University, and first president of the American Philological Association [17]

Entertainment

Name Chapter Notability Ref.
Nat Faxon Hamilton Actor, comedian, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter [18]
Arthur C. Nielsen Wisconsin creator of Nielsen ratings [11]

Government and public service

Name Chapter Notability Ref.
Daniel Butterfield Union Assistant Treasurer of the United States, composer of Taps bugle call, Civil War general [3][1]
Joel Erhardt Vermont police 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 [3]
John Jay Knox Jr. Hamilton Comptroller of the Currency of the United States [3]

Law

Name Chapter Notability Ref.
Douglass Boardman Hobart justice of the Supreme Court of New York, Dean of Cornell Law School [7][3]
Orsamus Cole Union United States Congressman from Wisconsin and 6th Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court [7][3]
George F. Comstock Union Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals [1]
John A. Denison Vermont judge of the Supreme Court of Colorado and mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts [14]
Thomas Nelson Williams Chief Justice of Oregon Territory [19]
Joseph Mullin Union justice of the New York Supreme Court, United States Congressman from New York [7]
James Noxon Hamilton, Union Member New York Supreme Court and New York politician [7]
Abram B. Olin Williams Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and United States Congressman [7]
Earl Warren California Chief Justice of the United States, Governor of California [3]

Literature and journalism

Name Chapter Notability Ref.
George Grenville Benedict Vermont editor and publisher of The Burlington Daily Free Press, Vermont Senate [3]
John Bigelow Union historian who edited the complete works of Benjamin Franklin, United States Minister to France, and Secretary of State of New York [3]
Henry Martyn Field Williams publisher and editor of The Evangelist [3]
Chester Sanders Lord Hamilton editor of the New York Sun [14][3]
Mansfield Tracy Walworth Union author [1]
William Dwight Whitney Williams editor-in-chief of The Century Dictionary, linguist, philologist, lexicographer, and first president of the American Philological Association [17]
Samuel 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 [3]

Military

Name Chapter Notability Ref.
George Grenville Benedict Vermont American Civil War hero and Medal of Honor recipient [3]
Daniel Butterfield Union Civil War general, composer of Taps bugle call, and Assistant Treasurer of the United States [3][1]
John Cochrane Union Brigadier General in the Civil War, United States Congressman from New York, Attorney General of New York [3][1]
Henry Rathbone Union prominent in the U.S. Army, present in Lincoln's booth at Ford's Theatre; was stabbed tackling John Wilkes Booth [3]

Politics

Name Chapter Notability Ref.
Samuel W. Beall Union Lt. Governor of Wisconsin, Sigma Phi Society founder [7][1]
Henry E. Barbour Union U.S. Representative from California [14]
George Grenville Benedict Vermont Vermont Senate; editor and publisher of The Burlington Daily Free Press [3]
John Bigelow Union United States Minister to France, Secretary of State of New York, and historian who edited the complete works of Benjamin Franklin [3]
Thomas Fielder Bowie Princeton, Union United States Congressman, founding member of Sigma Phi [3]
William W. Campbell Union United States Congressman from New York [7]
Clark B. Cochrane Union United States Congressman from New York [7]
John Cochrane Union United States Congressman from New York, Attorney General of New York, and Brigadier General in the Civil War [3][1]
Orsamus Cole Union United States Congressman from Wisconsin and 6th Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court [7][3]
Archibald B. Darragh Michigan U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan [3]
Thomas Treadwell Davis Hamilton United States Congressman from New York [7]
Ken Dryden Cornell Canadian Member of Parliament, former professional hockey player, Hockey Hall of Fame [20][21]
Edwin Einstein Union United States Congressman from New York [7]
Charles J. Folger Hobart United States Secretary of the Treasury [7][3]
Eugene Foss Vermont United States House of Representatives and served as a three-term governor of Massachusetts [14]
A. Oakey Hall New York former Mayor of New York [1]
John F. Hartranft Union former Governor of Pennsylvania [7][3]
John T. Hoffman Union former Governor of New York [7][3]
John James Ingalls Williams United States Senator from Kansas [7][3]
Samuel Knox Williams United States Congressman from Missouri [7]
Addison H. Laflin Williams United States Congressman from New York [7][3]
Truman A. Merriman Hobart United States Congressman from New York [7][3]
Joseph Mullin Union United States Congressman from New York, justice of the New York Supreme Court [7]
Abram B. Olin Williams United States Congressman from New York and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia [7][3]
Andrew Oliver Union United States Congressman from New York [7]
Theodore Otis Union politician [3]
Elihu Root Hamilton Canadian Member of Parliament, U.S. Secretary of War, U.S. Secretary of State, Nobel Peace Prize Winner [7][3][22]
Charles B. Sedgwick Hamilton United States Congressman from New York [7]
James S. Sherman Hamilton Vice President of the United States and United States Congressman from New York [7][3]
Gilbert Carlton Walker Williams Governor of Virginia, United States Congressman from Virginia [7][3]
Andrew Dickson White Hobart U.S. Ambassador to Germany, co-founder and first president of Cornell University [1]

Religion

Name Chapter Notability Ref.
Charles E. Cheney Hobart clergyman and second bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church [3]
George William Knox Hamilton Missionary in Japan, author, and theologian [3]
Oren Root II Hamilton theologian, Presbyterian minister, college professor [3]
William A. Shanklin Hamilton Methodist minister and university president [16]
M. Woolsey Stryker Hamilton Presbyterian minister and president of Hamilton College [16]
Lemuel H. Wells Hobart first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Spokane [3]
George Worthington Hobart second bishop of Nebraska in the Episcopal Church [7][3]

Science and medicine

Name Chapter Notability Ref.
Lewis Sayre New York leading American orthopedic surgeon of the 19th century and president of the American Medical Association [7]

Sports

Name Chapter Notability Ref.
Ken Dryden Cornell former professional hockey player, Hockey Hall of Fame, Member of Parliament in Canada [20][21]
Larry Tanenbaum Cornell chairman of MLSE, owner of the Toronto Raptors and Toronto Maple Leafs [13]
Ward Wettlaufer Hamilton amateur golfer [23]

See also


References

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  19. ^ Teiser, Sidney. “The Second Chief Justice of Oregon Territory: Thomas Nelson.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 48, no. 3 (1947): 215
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