List of Sigma Phi members explained
Sigma Phi is an American collegiate secret society. It was founded in 1827 at Union College in Schenectady, New York. Following is a list of some of its notable members.
Arts and architecture
Business
Education
Name | Chapter | Notability | References |
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Israel Ward Andrews | Williams | professor and president of Marietta College | [12] [13] |
Mortimer Elwyn Cooley | | professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, mechanical and consulting engineer | [14] |
Stephen Gilman | Princeton | Hispanist, Guggenheim Fellow, professor at Harvard University, Ohio State University, and Princeton University | |
George Wheeler Hinman | Hamilton | president of Marietta College, publisher of the Chicago Herald and Examiner, editor and manager of Chicago Inter Ocean | |
Oren Root II | Hamilton | professor of mathematics and natural sciences at Hamilton College; professor of English at the University of Missouri; Presbyterian minister | |
William A. Shanklin | Hamilton | president of Upper Iowa University and Wesleyan University, Methodist minister | [15] |
M. Woolsey Stryker | Hamilton | president of Hamilton College and Presbyterian minister | |
Anson J. Upson | Hamilton | Chancellor of the Regents of the University of the State of New York | [16] |
Andrew Dickson White | Hobart | co-founder and first president of Cornell University, U.S. Ambassador to Germany | [17] |
William Dwight Whitney | Williams | linguist, professor at Yale University, and first president of the American Philological Association | [18] | |
Entertainment
Name | Chapter | Notability | References |
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Nat Faxon | Hamilton | Actor, comedian, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter | [19] |
Arthur C. Nielsen | Wisconsin | creator of Nielsen ratings | | |
Government and public service
Law
Name | Chapter | Notability | References |
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Douglass Boardman | Hobart | jurist, lawyer, served on the Supreme Court of New York, Dean of Cornell Law School | |
| Union | Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals | |
John A. Denison | Vermont | judge of the Supreme Court of Colorado and mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts | |
Douglass Boardman | Hobart | Dean of Cornell Law School, American jurist, lawyer, served on the Supreme Court of New York | |
Thomas Nelson | Williams | Chief Justice of Oregon Territory | [21] |
Joseph Mullin | Union | justice of the New York Supreme Court, United States Congressman from New York | |
James Noxon | Hamilton, Union | Member New York Supreme Court and New York politician | |
Abram B. Olin | Williams | | |
Enoch Rosekrans | Union | judge of the New York Court of Appeals | [22] |
Earl Warren | California | Chief Justice of the United States, Governor of California | | |
Literature and journalism
Name | Chapter | Notability | References |
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George Wheeler Hinman | Hamilton | publisher of the Chicago Herald and Examiner, editor and manager of Chicago Inter Ocean, president of Marietta College | |
Chester Sanders Lord | Hamilton | editor of the New York Sun | |
| | editor of The Churchman, writer for Business Week, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, and Time | [23] |
Mansfield Tracy Walworth | Union | author | |
William Dwight Whitney | Williams | editor-in-chief of The Century Dictionary, linguist, philologist, lexicographer, and first president of the American Philological Association | | |
Military
Politics
Name | Chapter | Notability | References |
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| Union | Lt. Governor of Wisconsin, Sigma Phi Society founder | |
| Union | U.S. Representative from California | |
Thomas Fielder Bowie | Princeton, Union | United States Congressman, founding member of Sigma Phi | |
William W. Campbell | Union | United States Congressman from New York | |
Clark B. Cochrane | Union | United States Congressman from New York | |
John Cochrane | Union | United States Congressman from New York, Attorney General of New York, and Brigadier General in the Civil War | |
Orasmus Cole | Union | United States Congressman from Wisconsin | |
Thomas Treadwell Davis | Hamilton | United States Congressman from New York | |
| Cornell | Canadian Member of Parliament, former professional hockey player, Hockey Hall of Fame | [24] [25] |
| Union | United States Congressman from New York | |
| Vermont | United States House of Representatives and served as a three-term governor of Massachusetts | |
| New York | former Mayor of New York | |
John F. Hartranft | Union | former Governor of Pennsylvania | |
John T. Hoffman | Union | former Governor of New York | |
John James Ingalls | Williams | United States Senator from Kansas | |
Samuel Knox | Williams | United States Congressman from Missouri | |
Addison H. Laflin | Williams | United States Congressman from New York | |
Truman A. Merriman | Hobart | United States Congressman from New York | |
Joseph Mullin | Union | | |
| Williams | United States Congressman from New York and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia | |
Andrew Oliver | Union | United States Congressman from New York | |
Elihu Root | Hamilton | Canadian Member of Parliament, U.S. Secretary of War, U.S. Secretary of State, Nobel Peace Prize Winner | |
| Hamilton | United States Congressman from New York | |
James S. Sherman | Hamilton | Vice President of the United States and United States Congressman from New York | |
Gilbert Carlton Walker | Williams | Governor of Virginia, United States Congressman from Virginia | |
Earl Warren | California | Chief Justice of the United States, Governor of California | | |
Religion
Sports
See also
References
- Web site: Blum . Betty J. . 1986 . Oral History of Lawrence Bradford Perkins . June 12, 2023 . Chicago Art Institute .
- Web site: Guide to the Philip Will, Jr. papers, 1941-1985. . 2023-06-12 . rmc.library.cornell.edu.
- Web site: J Patrick Doyle, Restaurant Brands International Inc: Profile and Biography . 2023-06-12 . Bloomberg.com . en.
- Web site: September 14, 2006 . Dorm Room Titans . 2023-02-15 . Forbes . en.
- Book: Greek Letter Men of New York . 1899 . Umbdenstock Publishing Company . 98 . en.
- December 2017 . Never Forget These Brothers . Sigma Phi Flame . 130 . 19 . February 15, 2023.
- Web site: Parker . Garrett . 2019-02-23 . 10 Things You Didn't Know about Stanley Black & Decker CEO James Loree . 2023-02-15 . Money Inc . en-US.
- News: La Roche . Julia . 2013-02-13 . 17 Fraternities With Top Wall Street Alumni . Business Insider . 2020-11-02.
- Web site: Our alumni - Wisc . 2023-02-15 . Sigma Phi Society . en.
- Book: Epsilon Sigs in 2019 . Epsilon Association Inc. . 2019 . Ithaca, New York . 5 . February 16, 2023.
- Web site: Notable Alumni . 2023-02-15 . Cornell IFC . en.
- Book: Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities . 1927 . G. Banta Company . 23 . en.
- Web site: Andrews, Israel Ward, Dd, Lld from the McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia. . 2023-02-15 . McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia Online . en.
- Book: Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities . 1927 . G. Banta Company . 193 . en.
- Book: Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities . 1927 . G. Banta Company . 24 . en.
- News: 1880-09-17 . Auburn Theological Seminary.; The Rev. Dr. Anson J. Upson Inaugurated as Professor of Sacred Rhetoric and Pastoral Theology . en-US . 3 . The New York Times . 2023-02-15 . 0362-4331.
- Book: Baird, William Raimond . Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities . 1879 . en.
- Book: Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities . 1927 . G. Banta Company . 25 . en.
- Web site: Nat Faxon '97 Co-writes The Descendants . 2023-02-15 . Hamilton College . en.
- Jessup, Philip C., Elihu Root. Vol. I, 1845-1909; Vol. II, 1905-1937. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1938.
- Teiser, Sidney. “The Second Chief Justice of Oregon Territory: Thomas Nelson.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 48, no. 3 (1947): 215
- Web site: Enoch H. Rosekrans . 2023-06-12 . Historical Society of the New York Courts . en-US.
- Web site: Guy Shipler . 2023-02-15 . Nevada Press Association . en-US.
- Web site: Walter . Marcus . September 14, 2009 . Ken Dryden '69 returns with Bill Bradley to muse on sports, service, and leadership . 2023-02-15 . Cornell Chronicle . en.
- Web site: Ken Dryden (2005) . 2023-02-15 . academicallamerica.com . en.
- Web site: Summer 2016 . Herbert Ward Wettlaufer '59 Necrology - 1950s . 2023-02-15 . Hamilton Magazine Hamilton College . en.