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  • Cyrus Roberts Vance, U.S. Secretary of State (1917 - 2002)
    Cyrus Roberts Vance, Sr., U.S. Secretary of State Secretary Vance was an American lawyer and United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1980. Prior to that...
  • Professor Edward Salisbury Dana (1849 - 1935)
    Edward Salisbury Dana Dana was an American mineralogist and physicist. He made important contributions to the study of minerals, especially in the field of crystallography. Life and Career ...
  • John 'Jock' Hay Whitney (1904 - 1982)
    John 'Jock' Hay Whitney John Hay Whitney, colloquially known as "Jock" Whitney, was U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune, and a member of the Whitney fam...
  • George Zabriskie Gray, Jr. (1873 - 1895)
    George Zabriskie Gray, Jr. GRAY. -- At London, September 12, in the 22d year of his age, GEORGE ZABIRSKIE GRAY, eldest son of Kate Forrest and the late Rev. George Zabriskie Gray, D.D. ~ Funeral s...
  • Frank Thompson McClintock (1853 - 1925)
    Frank Thompson McClintock Father, Washington McClintock; engaged in the carpet business as member of firm of W. McClintock & Company, W. McClintock & Son, and Oliver McClintock & Company, successi...

The Scroll and Key Society is a secret society, founded in 1842 at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut. It is one of the oldest Yale secret societies and reputedly the wealthiest. The society is one of the reputed "Big Three" societies at Yale, along with Skull and Bones and Wolf's Head. Each spring the society admits fifteen rising seniors to participate in its activities and carry on its traditions.

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  • Leonard Case Jr. 1842 Philanthropist and Founder of Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, later Case Western Reserve University
  • Theodore Runyon 1842 Envoy, then Ambassador, Germany; Battle of Bull Run
  • Carter Henry Harrison 1845 Mayor of Chicago, five terms 1879–93; US Representative, 1875–79; cousin of President William Henry Harrison
  • Homer Sprague 1852 President of the University of North Dakota
  • Randall L. Gibson 1853 US Senator 1883–1892 (Louisiana); US Representative, 1872–1882; Brigadier-General in the Confederate States Army; President, Tulane University
  • George Shiras Jr. 1853 U.S. Supreme Court Justice
  • John Dalzell 1865 US Congress
  • George Bird Grinnell 1870 Anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer
  • Edward Salisbury Dana 1871 American mineralogist
  • Fred Dubois 1872 First US Senator from Idaho 1891–1897, resigned, re-elected 1901–1907; Opponent of gold standard; Engineered statehood for Idaho
  • Henry deForest 1876 Southern Pacific Railroad
  • Gilbert Colgate 1883 President and Chairman of Colgate & Co.
  • George Edgar Vincent 1885 President of the University of Minnesota; President of the Rockefeller Foundation
  • James Gamble Rogers 1889 Collegiate Gothic architect, favored architect of Edward Harkness and designed many of Yale's buildings
  • Herbert Parsons 1890 US Congress 1904–1910; leading supporter of League of Nations
  • Harvey Cushing 1891 Neurosurgeon considered father of brain surgery
  • William Nelson Runyon 1892 Acting Governor of New Jersey (May 1919 – Jan 1920)
  • Frank Polk 1894 Davis Polk & Wardwell; (acting) Secretary of State, managed conclusion to World War I
  • Allen Wardwell 1895 Russian War Relief, Davis Polk & Wardwell; Bank of New York; Vice-President, American-Russian Chamber of Commerce
  • Lewis Sheldon 1895 US Peace Commission, Paris Peace Conference, 1918; Olympic medalist, track and field
  • Cornelius Vanderbilt III 1895 Brigadier General in the U.S. Army during the First World War
  • William Adams Delano 1895 Award-winning Architect; designed many of Yale's buildings
  • Joseph Medill McCormick 1900 U.S. Senate 1919-1924; publisher, Chicago Tribune
  • Joseph M. Patterson 1901 Founder, New York Daily News; manager, Chicago Tribune
  • Robert R. McCormick 1903 Chicago Tribune; Kirkland & Ellis
  • James C. Auchincloss 1908 Representative, US Congress 1943–1965, Governor of the NYSE., US Military Intelligence World War I
  • William C. Bullitt 1912 US Ambassador, France, 1936–1941, first US Ambassador, Soviet Russia, 1933–1936
  • Mortimer R. Proctor 1912 Governor of Vermont, 1945–47
  • Cole Porter 1913 Entertainer, songwriter
  • Dean Acheson 1915 51st Secretary of State
  • Wayne Chatfield-Taylor 1916 President, Export-Import Bank; Undersecretary of Commerce; Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
  • Dickinson W. Richards 1917 1956 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • Ethan A. H. Shepley 1918 Chancellor, Washington University in St. Louis
  • John Enders 1919 Shared 1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • Brewster Jennings 1920 Founder and President of the Socony Mobil Oil Company Standard Oil of New York; president, Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases and Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research
  • Seymour H. Knox 1920 American retailer, F. W. Woolworth Company
  • Richardson Dilworth 1921 Mayor of Philadelphia 1955–1962
  • William Hawks 1923 Film producer
  • James Stillman Rockefeller 1924 President and Chairman, The First National City Bank of New York; Olympic gold medal for crew
  • Huntington D. Sheldon 1925 Central Intelligence Agency; Director of the Office of Current Intelligence; President, Petroleum Corporation of America
  • Newbold Morris 1925 New York lawyer and politician
  • Benjamin Spock 1925 Pediatrician and author (Baby & Child Care), antiwar activist, Olympic gold medalist
  • John Hay Whitney 1926 U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, publisher of the New York Herald Tribune, major philanthropist to Yale University, and during his college years coined the phrase "crew cut"
  • Frederic A. Potts 1926 Chairman, Philadelphia National Bank; New Jersey Senate; Republican candidate, New Jersey Governor
  • Paul Mellon 1929 Philanthropist
  • Benjamin Brewster 1929 Director, Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey (later Exxon)
  • Raymond R. Guest 1931 US Ambassador, Ireland; Special Assistant to Secretary of Defense, 1945–47; horse breeder; polo Hall of fame
  • Donald R. McLennan 1931 Founder and Chairman, insurance brokerage firm Marsh & McLennan
  • Robert F. Wagner, Jr. 1933 102nd Mayor of New York City 1954–1965 assembly person from New York City 1937–1941
  • J. Peter Grace 1936 W. R. Grace & Co.
  • Peter H. Dominick 1937 US Senator 1962–1974 (Colorado); US Congressman, 1960–1962; US Ambassador, Switzerland
  • Sargent Shriver 1938 Peace Corps; 1972 Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate, Presidential Medal of Freedom
  • Cyrus Vance 1939 57th Secretary of State; Secretary of the Army; Chairman, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  • Robert D. Orr 1940 Governor of Indiana; US Ambassador, Singapore
  • Cord Meyer, Jr. 1943 Central Intelligence Agency; United World Federalists
  • George Roy Hill 1943 1974 Academy Award for Directing, The Sting
  • Frederick B. Dent 1944 US Secretary of Commerce
  • John Vliet Lindsay 1944 103rd Mayor of New York City 1966–1973 Congressman from New York City 1959–1965
  • Ray Heffner 1948 President of Brown University 1966–1969
  • Thomas Enders 1953 Ambassador, Spain 1983-1986, Assistant Sec. of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Ambassador to the European Union 1979-1981, Ambassador to Canada, 1976-1979; Salomon Brothers
  • Philip B. Heymann 1954 Watergate Special Prosecutor, Deputy US Attorney General; Professor, Harvard Law School
  • Warren Zimmermann 1956 US Ambassador, Yugoslavia, 1989–1992; author of book about the causes of Yugoslavia's dissolution
  • Roscoe S. Suddarth 1956 President, Middle East Institute; US Ambassador to Jordan; American Iranian Council
  • Calvin Trillin 1957 American writer
  • A. Bartlett Giamatti 1960 19th Yale University president; National League president, MLB Commissioner
  • Peter Beard 1961 Photographer
  • Garry Trudeau 1970 Doonesbury Cartoonist
  • Stone Phillips 1977 Dateline NBC
  • Gideon Rose 1985 Foreign Affairs
  • Fareed Zakaria 1986 Editor, Newsweek International and host of CNN show, Former Yale Corporation Member (Resigned 2012)/>
  • Dave Baseggio 1989 Director of Professional Scouting, Seattle Kraken, NHL
  • Dahlia Lithwick 1990 Editor at Newsweek and Slate
  • Jeannie Rhee 1994 Special Council member for the Obstruction of Justice Investigation
  • Alexandra Robbins 1998 Journalist, New York Times Bestseller
  • Ari Shapiro 2000 Co-host of All Things Considered for National Public Radio