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Charles Taft, II MP (1897 - 1983)

Charles Phelps Taft II (September 20, 1897 - June 24, 1983), U.S. Republican Party politician and member of the Taft family, From 1955 to 1957, he served as Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio. Like other member...

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William P. Bundy (1917 - 2000)

William Putnam "Bill" Bundy (September 24, 1917 – October 6, 2000) was a member of the CIA and foreign affairs advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He had a key role in planni...

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William H. Taft, 27th President of the USA MP (1857 - 1930)

"Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever." -- William Howard Taft He considered his time as Chief Justice to be the highest point of his career; allegedly, he once remarked "I d...

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Ambassador Alphonso Taft MP (1810 - 1891)

Alphonso Taft (November 5, 1810 – May 21, 1891) was the Attorney General and Secretary of War under President Ulysses S. Grant and the founder of an American political dynasty. Born in Townshend, V...

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George Herbert Walker, Jr. (co-founder of the New York Mets) (1905 - 1977)

. George Herbert Walker, Jr. (November 24, 1905 – November 29, 1977), an American businessman and the uncle of President George H. W. Bush. He was an original owner of the New York Mets, a team which...

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William Coffin, Jr. (1924 - 2006)

William Sloane Coffin, Jr. was born June 1, 1924, in New York City. He attended Deerfield Academy and Phillips Academy Andover before beginning his studies at Yale University in 1942. After one year at...

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William Sloane Coffin, Sr. (1879 - 1933)

president of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Executive W. & J. Sloane Company. William Sloane Coffin, Skull & Bones 1900 William Sloane Coffin Sr. (1879-1933) was a director of W. & J. Sloan...

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Gen. William Russell (1809 - 1885)

American businessman, educator, and politician William Huntington Russell was the founder of the Yale University secret society Skull and Bones. He was a descendant of several old New England families,...

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Frederick Mather (1809 - 1900)

He was a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly (1854–1857) and a founding member of the Yale University secret society Skull and Bones. Frederick Ellsworth Mather was born on May 23, 1809 ...

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Henry Luce MP (1898 - 1967)

Henry Luce was the publisher of Time, Fortune and LIFE magazines. Luce, known to his friends as "Father Time," was born in Penglai City, China, the son of Elizabeth Middleton (née Root) and Henry Win...

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James Whitmore (1921 - 2009)

A veteran stage and screen actor best remembered for his supporting character roles in a slew of TV and film productions since the late 1940s, James Whitmore graduated from Yale, served in the US Marin...

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George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st President of the USA MP

Houston, TX, USA

George Bush brought to the White House a dedication to traditional American values and a determination to direct them toward making the United States "a kinder and gentler nation." In his Inaugural Add...

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John Forbes Kerry, U.S. Senator MP

Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American politician who is currently serving his fourth term as the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts. As the Presidential nominee of the ...

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George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States MP

Washington D.C., United States

George W. Bush July 6, 1946 New Haven, CT, USA Parents: George H. W. Bush June 12, 1924 and Barbara (Pierce) Bush June 9, 1925 Wife: Laura Welch November 4, 1946

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Jonathan Bush MP

Jonathan James Bush (born May 6, 1931), is an American banker and former Republican Party fundraiser. Education and family Jonathan Bush graduated from Hotchkiss School and Yale University, where...

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Daniel Pomeroy DAVISON (1925)

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John Chafee, Governor, U.S. Senator and Secretary of the Navy (1922 - 1999)

John Lester Hubbard Chafee ( /ˈtʃeɪfiː/ chay-fee; October 22, 1922 – October 24, 1999) was an American politician. He served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps, as the 66th Governor of R...

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McGeorge Bundy (1919 - 1996)

McGeorge "Mac" Bundy (March 30, 1919 – September 16, 1996) was United States National Security Advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson from 1961 through 1966, and president of the Fo...

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William Welch Kellogg (1917 - 2007)

William Welch Kellogg (1917–December 12, 2007) was an American meteorologist and climatologist. He served as Associate director and senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (N...

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Lyman S. Spitzer, Jr. (1914 - 1997)

Lyman Strong Spitzer, Jr. (June 26, 1914 – March 31, 1997) was an American theoretical physicist and astronomer best known for his research in star formation, plasma physics, and in 1946, for conceivin...

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Prescott Sheldon Bush MP (1895 - 1972)

Home in 1930: Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 about Prescott Sheldon Bush Name: Prescott Sheldon Bush Gender: male Birth Place: OH S...

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Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress (1892 - 1982)

Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 – April 20, 1982) was an American poet, writer, and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the Modernist school of poetry. He received three Pulitzer Prizes ...

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W. Averell Harriman, politician & diplomat (1891 - 1986)

William Averell Harriman (November 15, 1891 – July 26, 1986) was an American Democratic Party politician, businessman, and diplomat. He was the son of railroad baron E. H. Harriman. He served as Secret...

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Gerald Murphy (1888 - 1964)

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Robert Alphonso Taft, U.S. Senator MP (1889 - 1953)

Senator Robert A. Taft Funeral Without Formal Classification 31 July-4 August 1953 Robert A. Taft, son of former President William Howard Taft and renowned Republican senator from Ohio, died of c...

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Ted Coy (1888 - 1935)

Edward Harris "Ted" Coy (May 23, 1888 – September 8, 1935) was an American football player. Coy was selected as a first-team All-American three straight years from 1907 to 1909 and was later selected...

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Harvey Hollister Bundy, Assistant U.S. Secretary of State (1888 - 1963)

Harvey Hollister Bundy Sr., (March 30, 1888 – October 7, 1963), was an American lawyer, Special Assistant to the Secretary of War during the second World War, and father of McGeorge Bundy. Born in Gr...

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Payne Whitney (1876 - 1927)

William Payne Whitney (March 20, 1876 - May 25, 1927) was a wealthy American businessman and member of the influential Whitney family. Biography The son of William C. Whitney and Flora Payne, and...

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James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr., U.S. Senator (1877 - 1952)

James Wolcott Wadsworth U. S. Representative from NY (1933-1951), U. S. Senator from NY (1915-1927), ranch manager in TX (1911-1915), Speaker of NY State Assembly (1906-1910), NY State Assemblyman (1...

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Amos Richards Eno Pinchot MP (1873 - 1944)

Amos Richards Eno Pinchot (December 6, 1873 – February 18, 1944) was an American reformist. He never held public office but managed to exert considerable influence in reformist circles and did much t...

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Henry Coffin, Rev. (1877 - 1954)

COFFIN, Henry Sloane 1877-1954 PERSONAL: Born January 5, 1877, in New York, NY; died November 25, 1954, in Lakeville, CT; son of Edmund (a legal advisor) and Euphemia (Sloane) Coffin; married Dorot...

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Anson Stokes, Jr. Rev. (1874 - 1958)

) Anson Phelps Stokes (1874-1958), was an American educator, clergyman, author, philanthropist and civil rights activist. Stokes was one of three men of the same name; his father was multimillionai...

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Jules de Sibour, beaux-arts neo-classical architect (1872 - 1938)

Jules Gabriel Henri de Sibour (December 23, 1872-November 4, 1938) was a French architect. Born in Paris, France to Vicomte Gabriel de Sibour and Mary Louisa Johnson of Belfast, Maine, he came to the...

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Francis Harrison MP (1873 - 1957)

Francis Burton Harrison served in the United States House of Representatives and was appointed Governor-General of the Philippines (1913-1921) by President Woodrow Wilson. He so loved the Philippines t...

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Harry Payne Whitney (1872 - 1930)

Harry Payne Whitney From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations ...

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Lee "Bum" McClung, 22nd Treasurer of the United States (1870 - 1914)

Thomas Lee "Bum" McClung (March 26, 1870 – December 19, 1914) was an American football player who later served as the 22nd Treasurer of the United States. McClung was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. ...

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Fairfax Harrison (1869 - 1938)

Fairfax Cary Harrison was an American lawyer, businessman and history writer. Reference: "District of Columbia Deaths, 1874-1959," index and images, FamilySearch ( : accessed 10 Feb 2013), Fairfa...

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Gifford Pinchot, Governor, 1st Chief of the U.S. Forest Service MP (1865 - 1946)

Gifford Pinchot (August 11, 1865 – October 4, 1946) was the first Chief of the United States Forest Service (1905–1910) and the 28th Governor of Pennsylvania (1923–1927, 1931–1935). He was a Republic...

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Frank B. Brandegee, U.S. Senator (1864 - 1924)

Brandegee, Hon. Frank Bosworth, United States senator, lawyer, and one of the most prominent Republicans in Connecticut, was born in New London, Connecticut, July 8th, 1864. He is a descendant of Jac...

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Horace Taft, I (1861 - 1943)

Horace Dutton Taft (28 December 1861-28 January 1943) was an American educator, and the founder of The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut. He was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, the younger brother of W...

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E. H. Moore (1852 - 1932)

Eliakim Moore's father was David Hastings Moore while his mother was Julia Sophia Carpenter. David Moore was a Methodist minister and he and his wife gave their son Eliakim an excellent education. As...

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Henry Taft (1859 - 1945)

next was Henry Waters Taft, who became a lawyer in New York City;

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Walter Camp MP (1859 - 1925)

The Father of American Football--- On April 7, 1859 in New Britain, Connecticut, Walter Chauncy Camp was born. Walter Camp is deemed "The Father of American Football" due to his significant contrib...

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Edward Baldwin Whitney (1857 - 1911)

Wikipedia Biographical Summary: "... Edward Baldwin Whitney (1857–1911) was an American lawyer and judge..." "...Edward Baldwin Whitney was born August 16, 1857. His father was linguist William Dwi...

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Arthur Hadley (1856 - 1930)

Arthur Twining Hadley was an economist who served as President of Yale University from 1899 to 1921. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the only son of James Hadley, Professor of Greek at Yale 18...

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Edward Curtis Smith, Governor (1854 - 1935)

Edward Curtis Smith (January 5, 1854 – April 6, 1935) was an American politician from the US state of Vermont. He was a Republican. He was married to Anna Bailey James, the granddaughter of Amaziah B...

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