List of Sigma Phi members

Following is a list of Sigma Phi members.

Arts and architecture
Name Chapter Notability References
Bradford Perkins architect and founder of Perkins Eastman Architects
Philip Will Jr. architect, co-founder of architecture firm Perkins+Will, and president of the American Institute of Architects [[American Institute of Architects|]]

Business
Name Chapter Notability References
J. Patrick Doyle former CEO of Domino's Pizza [[Domino's Pizza|]]
Seth Flowerman entrepreneur, CEO of PLT Health Solutions [1]
Leonard Jerome American financier and the maternal grandfather of Winston Churchill [2]
Charles F. Knight chairman and CEO of Emerson Electric [3]
James M. Loree CEO of Stanley Black & Decker [4]
Charlie Munger vice-chairman of Berkshire Hathaway [5][6]
Peter Busch Orthwein founder and chairman of Thor Industries [7]
Todd Parent founder and CEO of Extreme Pizza [8][9]
Howard Potter American industrialist, investment banker, diplomat and philanthropist, and a partner in Brown Bros. & Co. [2]
Ratan Tata businessman and former chairman of Tata Sons [10]
Jay Walker founder of Priceline [6][10]

Education
Name Chapter Notability References
Israel Ward Andrews professor and president of Marietta College [11][12]
Wilson S. Bissell chancellor of the University of Buffalo and U.S. Postmaster General [11]
Douglass Boardman Dean of Cornell Law School, American jurist, lawyer, served on the Supreme Court of New York [2]
Mortimer Elwyn Cooley professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, mechanical and consulting engineer, U.S. Navy officer [13]
Stephen Gilman Hispanist, Guggenheim Fellow, professor at Harvard University, Ohio State University, and Princeton University [13]
George Wheeler Hinman president of Marietta College, publisher of the Chicago Herald and Examiner, editor and manager of Chicago Inter Ocean [13]
Cyrus Northrop president of the University of Minnesota, chair of Rhetoric and English Literature at Yale University [14]
Oren Root II professor of mathematics and natural sciences at Hamilton College; professor of English at the University of Missouri; Presbyterian minister [15]
William A. Shanklin president of Upper Iowa University and Wesleyan University, Methodist minister [14]
M. Woolsey Stryker president of Hamilton College and Presbyterian minister [14]
Henry Suzzallo president of the University of Washington, director of the National Advisory Committee on Education, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching [14]
Anson J. Upson Chancellor of the Regents of the University of the State of New York [15][16]
Andrew Dickson White co-founder and first president of Cornell University, U.S. Ambassador to Germany [14][17]
William Dwight Whitney linguist, professor at Yale University, and first president of the American Philological Association [18]

Entertainment
Name Chapter Notability References
Nat Faxon actor, comedian, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter [19]
Arthur C. Nielsen creator of Nielsen ratings [6]

Government and public service
Name Chapter Notability References
John Bigelow Minister to France and U.S. Secretary of State [15][17]
Wilson S. Bissell U.S. Postmaster General and Chancellor of the University of Buffalo [11]
Samuel Bodman United States Secretary of Energy, U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, and U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce [10]
Daniel Butterfield Assistant Treasurer of the United States, composer of Taps bugle call, Civil War general [15][17]
James J. Davis U.S. Secretary of Labor and United States Senate [11]
Charles J. Folger United States Secretary of the Treasury [2]
John Jay Knox Jr. Comptroller of the Currency of the United States [15]
Elihu Root U.S. Secretary of War, U.S. Secretary of State, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, and U.S. Senator [15][20][2]
Andrew Dickson White U.S. Ambassador to Germany, co-founder and first president of Cornell University [17]

Law
Name Chapter Notability References
Douglass Boardman jurist, lawyer, served on the Supreme Court of New York, Dean of Cornell Law School [2]
George F. Comstock Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals [17]
John A. Denison judge of the Supreme Court of Colorado and mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts [13]
Thomas Nelson Chief Justice of Oregon Territory [21]
James Noxon member New York Supreme Court and New York politician [2]
Abram B. Olin Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and United States Congressman [2]
Daniel Pratt Attorney General of New York, New York Supreme Count justice, New York Court of Appeals justice
Enoch Rosekrans judge of the New York Court of Appeals [2]
Earl Warren Chief Justice of the United States, Governor of California [15]

Literature and journalism
Name Chapter Notability References
George Wheeler Hinman publisher of the Chicago Herald and Examiner, editor and manager of Chicago Inter Ocean, president of Marietta College [13]
Chester Sanders Lord editor of the New York Sun [13]
Guy E. Shipler editor of The Churchman, writer for Business Week, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, and Time [13][22]
Mansfield Tracy Walworth author [17]
William Dwight Whitney editor-in-chief of The Century Dictionary, linguist, philologist, lexicographer, and first president of the American Philological Association [18]

Military
Name Chapter Notability References
George Grenville Benedict American Civil War hero and Medal of Honor recipient [15]
Daniel Butterfield Civil War general, composer of Taps bugle call, and Assistant Treasurer of the United States [15][17]
John Cochrane Brigadier General in the Civil War, United States Congressman from New York, Attorney General of New York [15][17]
Henry Rathbone prominent in the U.S. Army, present in Lincoln's booth at Ford's Theatre; was stabbed tackling John Wilkes Booth [15]

Politics
Name Chapter Notability References
Samuel W. Beall Lt. Governor of Wisconsin, Sigma Phi Society founder [2][17]
Henry E. Barbour U.S. Representative from California [13]
Thomas Fielder Bowie United States Congressman, founding member of Sigma Phi [15]
William W. Campbell United States Congressman from New York [2]
Clark B. Cochrane United States Congressman from New York [2]
John Cochrane United States Congressman from New York, Attorney General of New York, and Brigadier General in the Civil War [15][17]
Orasmus Cole United States Congressman from Wisconsin [2]
James J. Davis United States Senate for Pennsylvania and U.S. Secretary of Labor [11]
Thomas Treadwell Davis United States Congressman from New York [2]
John A. Denison mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts and judge of the Supreme Court of Colorado [13]
Ken Dryden Canadian Member of Parliament, former professional hockey player, Hockey Hall of Fame [23][24]
Edwin Einstein United States Congressman from New York [2]
Eugene Foss United States House of Representatives and served as a three-term governor of Massachusetts [13]
A. Oakey Hall former Mayor of New York [17]
John F. Hartranft former Governor of Pennsylvania [2]
John T. Hoffman former Governor of New York [2]
John James Ingalls United States Senator from Kansas [2]
Hastings Keith United States Congressman from Massachusetts [[Massachusetts|]]
Samuel Knox United States Congressman from Missouri [2]
Addison H. Laflin United States Congressman from New York [2]
Truman A. Merriman United States Congressman from New York [2]
Joseph Mullin United States Congressman from New York [2]
Abram B. Olin United States Congressman from New York and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia [2]
Andrew Oliver United States Congressman from New York [2]
Elihu Root Canadian Member of Parliament, U.S. Secretary of War, U.S. Secretary of State, Nobel Peace Prize Winner [2][15][20]
Charles B. Sedgwick United States Congressman from New York [2]
James S. Sherman Vice President of the United States and United States Congressman from New York [2][15]
Gilbert Carlton Walker Governor of Virginia, United States Congressman from Virginia [2][15]
Earl Warren Chief Justice of the United States, Governor of California [15]

Religion
Name Chapter Notability References
George William Knox Missionary in Japan, author, and theologian [15]
Oren Root II theologian, Presbyterian minister, college professor [15]
William A. Shanklin Methodist minister and university president [14]
Lemuel H. Wells first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Spokane [13]
M. Woolsey Stryker Presbyterian minister and president of Hamilton College [14]
George Worthington second bishop of Nebraska in the Episcopal Church [2]

Science and medicine
Name Chapter Notability References
Lewis Sayre leading American orthopedic surgeon of the 19th century and president of the American Medical Association [2]

Sports
Name Chapter Notability References
Tully Banta-Cain professional football player with the New England Patriots
Ken Dryden former professional hockey player, Hockey Hall of Fame, Canadian Member of Parliament [23][24]
Larry Tanenbaum chairman of MLSE, owner of the Toronto Raptors and Toronto Maple Leafs [10]
Ward Wettlaufer amateur golfer [25]

See also

References
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  14. Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities. G. Banta Company. 1927. p. 24.
  15. Catalogue of the Sigma Phi: E.P.V. at Google Books
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  18. Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities. G. Banta Company. 1927. p. 25.
  19. "Nat Faxon '97 Co-writes The Descendants". Hamilton College. Retrieved 2023-02-15.
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