List of Delta Kappa Epsilon brothers

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The list of Delta Kappa Epsilon brothers (commonly referred to as Dekes) includes initiated and honorary members of Delta Kappa Epsilon.

Delta Kappa Epsilon counts many political, business, sports, education, science, and arts leaders. Listed is a sample of some famous Dekes.

Presidents of the United States[]

• 19th President, Rutherford B. Hayes, Delta Chi
• 26th President, Theodore Roosevelt, Alpha
• 38th President, Gerald R. Ford, Omicron
• 41st President, George H. W. Bush, Phi
• 43rd President, George W. Bush, Phi

Note:

• 32nd President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Alpha

Franklin D. Roosevelt was a member of the Alpha Chapter of DKE at Harvard and would be considered the sixth DKE brother to serve as President of the United States; however, the Harvard chapter was de-recognized by DKE International due to the chapter's stance on dual membership with other fraternities.

Vice Presidents of the United States[]

• Theodore Roosevelt, Alpha
• Gerald R. Ford, Omicron
• George H. W. Bush, Phi
• J. Danforth Quayle, Psi Phi

Justices of the United States Supreme Court[]

• Harold H. Burton, Theta
• John Hessin Clarke, Beta Chi
• Potter Stewart, Phi
• Brett Kavanaugh, Phi

Nobel Laureates[]

• 2018 Nobel Laureate, James P. Allison Omega Chi

Newspaper publishers and editors[]

• Norman Chandler, Sigma Rho, publisher, Los Angeles Times
• Otis Chandler, Sigma Rho, publisher, Los Angeles Times
• William Randolph Hearst, Alpha, publisher, Hearst Newspapers
• Eugene Pulliam, Psi Phi, publisher, .
• Whitelaw Reid, Kappa, editor-in-chief, New York Tribune
• Ogden Reid, Phi – New York Tribune
• James C. Quayle, Psi Phi, chairman, Huntington Newspapers, Inc
• Briton Hadden, Phi, co-founder of Time Magazine

Agency heads[]

• Rear Admiral Sidney W. Souers, Kappa – first director of the Central Intelligence Agency
• Sargent Shriver, Phi – Founder and first director of the Peace Corps

Businessmen[]

• John F. Akers, Phi – past president of IBM
• Frank Batten, Eta – founder Weather Channel
• Edward Bausch, Beta Phi – Bausch & Lomb Opticals
• Alfred R. Berkeley III Eta – former Nasdaq president
• Alfred Bloomingdale, Upsilon – founder of Diners Club International
• Matthew Borden, Phi – Industrialist
• Lawrence Bossidy, Mu – Chairman of Honeywell
• Charles Sterling Bunnell, Phi – CitiBank
• Dave Calhoun, Sigma Alpha – Boeing
• James Boorman Colgate, Mu – Colgate-Palmolive
• Donald Fisher, Theta Zeta – Founder and Past Chairman of Gap Inc.
• Theodore J. Forstmann, Phi – financier, subject of the book and movie Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
• James Gamble, Lambda – Procter & Gamble
• Walter Hoving, Upsilon – Tiffany & Co.
• Herb Kelleher, Gamma Phi – Southwest Airlines
• Robert Lehman, Phi – Lehman Brothers
• Craig McCaw, Sigma Rho – McCaw Communications, cellular telephones
• Bradley Palmer, Alpha - Founder of United Fruit Company, Gillette, and ITT
• John Pierpont Morgan, Jr., Alpha – financier
• Frederick W. Smith, Phi – FedEx
• William L. Trenholm, Delta – North American Trust Company, Comptroller of the Currency
• John Hay Whitney, Phi – New York Herald Tribune, Ambassador to England, art collector
• Joseph Wilson, Beta Phi – Xerox
• Dean Witter, Jr., Phi – Dean Witter Reynolds (Now part of Morgan Stanley)
• William Wrigley III, Phi – Wrigley Company
• August Belmont, Jr., Alpha – Belmont Racetrack

Political figures[]

• Dean G. Acheson, Phi – Secretary of State under Harry S. Truman, Architect of Cold War Foreign Policy
• Larz Anderson, Alpha – U.S. Ambassador to Japan and Belgium
• Robert Bacon, Alpha – US Secretary of State
• Nathaniel Banks, Sigma – Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
• Ron DeSantis, Phi – Governor of Florida (2019 - Present)
• Albert J. Beveridge, Psi Phi – U.S. Senator, Indiana
• James G. Blaine, Theta – Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, presidential candidate, United States Secretary of State under James Garfield and Chester Arthur.
• Matthew Butler, Delta – U.S. Senator, South Carolina 1877-1895
• Gaston Caperton, Beta – Governor of West Virginia 1989–1997
• John Chafee, Phi – Secretary of the Navy, Governor of Rhode Island, U.S. Senator
• Sutemi Chinda, Psi Phi – Secretary of State of the Empire of Japan (The Washington, D.C. Cherry trees were presented by him and his wife on behalf of the people of Japan in 1912)
• Chris Coons, Sigma – U.S. Senator, Delaware
• Royal S. Copeland, Omicron – U.S. Senator of New York 1923–1938
• Mark Dayton, Phi, U.S. Senator and Governor, Minnesota
• George A. Drew, Alpha Phi – Premier of Ontario, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, Leader of the Opposition
• Thomas F. Eagleton, Sigma – U.S. Democratic Senator Missouri, VP Candidate 1972
• Donald Ensenat, Phi – US Ambassador, Chief Of Protocol
• Keith Falconer Fletcher – Massachusetts legislator
• Murphy J. "Mike" Foster, Zeta Zeta – two-term Governor of Louisiana
• Justice George Alexander Gale – former Chief Justice of Ontario
• Asa Bird Gardiner - New York County District Attorney
• Gordon Gray, Beta – Assistant secretary of war under Harry Truman
• Lister Hill, Psi – U.S. Senator of Alabama 1938–1969
• Tony Knowles, Phi, two-term Governor of Alaska
• Robert Todd Lincoln, Alpha – Secretary of War, son of Abraham Lincoln
• Bob Livingston, Tau Lambda – United States House of Representatives, Louisiana
• Henry Cabot Lodge, Alpha – Senate Majority Leader
• Russell B. Long, Zeta Zeta – Senate Majority Whip, Democrat from Louisiana
• Nicholas Longworth, Alpha – Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
• Donald S. MacDonald, former Canadian Minister of Finance, and High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
• Mario García Menocal, Delta Chi – President of the Republic of Cuba
• George Pataki, Phi, Governor New York
• J. Danforth Quayle- Vice-President of the United States (1989–1993), US Senator and Representative Indiana
• Clark T. Randt, Jr., Phi – longest-serving U.S. Ambassador of China
• Peter F. Schabarum, Theta Zeta – American football player, member of Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from 1972 to 1991
• Don Siegelman, Psi, Governor Alabama
• William Simon, Rho – Secretary of the Treasury
• Ted Stevens, Theta Rho, U.S. Senator, Senate Pro Tem, Alaska
• Robert Taft, Jr., Phi – Republican Senator from Ohio, author of modern Labor Law
• Richard W. Thompson – Psi Phi – Secretary of the Navy 1877–1880
• John De Witt Warner, Delta Chi – United States House of Representatives, New York
• Yung Wing, Phi – Chinese Diplomat to the United States. Founder of the Chinese Educational Mission in 1872.
• Michael M. Wood, Phi – U.S. Ambassador to Sweden
• Robert D. Orr, Phi - 45th Governor of Indiana

Sports and entertainment[]

• Mike Babcock, Tau Alpha – Former Head Coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs and only coach in the Triple Gold Club
• Jack Agrios, Delta Phi – Chairman of the IAAF World Championships in Athletics Committee 2001
• Frankie Albert, Sigma Rho – football player, invented bootleg play, Coach San Francisco 49ers
• William Bartholomay, Delta Epsilon – former owner of the Atlanta Braves
• Sebastian Bea, Theta Zeta – Crew, Olympic Silver Medalist 2000 Men's Pair w/o Coxswain (2-)
• August Belmont Jr., Alpha - First president of the Jockey Club, building of Belmont Park racetrack, and breeder of Man O' War.
• Roland Betts, Phi – US Olympic Committee, and founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Chelsea Piers, L.P., which operates the Chelsea Piers Sports and Entertainment Complex in Manhattan.
• Dana X. Bible – College Football head coach at University of Texas, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Texas A&M, Louisiana State and Mississippi College
• Clinton W. Blume, Mu – pitcher New York Giants, 1922 World Series, President, Real Estate Board of New York, 1955
• Paul Brown, Kappa – Hall of Fame Football Coach & Founder of the Cleveland Browns and owner of the Cincinnati Bengals
• Walter Camp, Phi – Father of American Football
• Dick Clark, Phi Gamma – hosted American Bandstand
• Billy Crudup, Beta – actor
• Hugh Culverhouse, Psi – owner of Tampa Bay Buccaneers
• Michael Eben – former Toronto Argonauts player
• James Elder, Alpha Phi – Olympic Gold Medalist Equestrian Team (1968)
• Marcus Giamatti – actor
• A. Bartlett Giamatti, Phi – Commissioner of Major League Baseball
• Harry Hamlin, Theta Zeta – actor
• Hagood Hardy – Pianist and Composer
• Lawren Harris, Alpha Phi, – Canadian artist and member of the Group of Seven
• Howard Hawks, Delta Chi – film director, producer and screenwriter
• Calvin Hill, Phi – Professional Football Player for the Dallas Cowboys, the Washington Redskins, and the Cleveland Browns
• Craig Hummer, Lambda – International Ironman champion (lifeguarding), sportscaster
• Charles Ives, Phi – composer
• Robert Trent Jones, Delta Chi – Famed Golf Course Designer
• Robert J. Kelleher, Epsilon – Hall of Fame tennis player and official
• Larry Kelley, Phi – 1936 Heisman Trophy winner
• Troy Kinney – artist
• Thomas W. Landry, Omega Chi – coach of Dallas Cowboys
• Angelo "Hank" Luisetti, Sigma Rho – one of the most famous college basketball players of all time
• Michael Macari, Epsilon Rho – Film Producer (The Ring)
• Tex McCrary, Phi, Radio/TV personality, led the recruitment of Dwight Eisenhower for President
• David Milch, Phi – writer and producer
• Frank Nesmith Parsons, Pi – Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, 1902–1924
• Joe Paterno, Upsilon – Penn State football coach
• Bob Pettit, Zeta Zeta – National Basketball Association All star and hall of famer.
• Cole Porter, Phi – composer
• J. Burton Rix, Pi – Football and basketball coach at Texas, SMU, and Miami^[1]
• Joan Benoit Samuelson, Theta -- Olympic Gold Medal, Marathon, 1984; Boston Marathon Champion, 1979 and 1983
• Don Schollander, Phi – won four gold medals in swimming in the 1964 Summer Olympics
• Root Boy Slim, Phi – rock singer
• Dr. Charles Snelling – former Canadian Olympian
• George Steinbrenner, Epsilon – owner of the New York Yankees
• Matt Stover, Alpha Omega – placekicker in the National Football League
• Chris Strouth, Phi Epsilon – musician, producer, writer and filmmaker
• Pat Turner – former Canadian Olympian
• Richard Weinberger, Beta Tau – Olympian Long Distance Swimming Medalist
• Wheelock Whitney, Jr., Owner Minnesota Vikings and Minnesota Twins
• Jonathan Winters, Lambda – comedian and writer
• Josh Zuckerman, Zeta – Actor

Other famous Dekes[]

• Alan Bean, Omega Chi – Apollo astronaut, fourth man on the moon
• Edward Bellamy, Theta Chi – author
• Frederick H. Brooke, architect
• Dale Chihuly, Kappa Epsilon – glass artist
• Harvey Weir Cook, Psi Phi – Aviation pioneer, Indianapolis Airport named in his honor
• Melvil Dewey, Sigma – devised the Dewey Decimal System
• Charles Alton Ellis, Gamma Phi – designed the Golden Gate Bridge
• Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau, Theta Zeta – Second son of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, Theta – Author
• Paul M. Hebert, Zeta Zeta – Judge United States Military Tribunals in Nuremberg
• Stanley King, Sigma – Eleventh president of Amherst College from 1932 to 1946
• Peyton C. March, Rho^[2] – American soldier and Chief of Staff of the United States Army from May 1918 through June 1921
• Robert E. Peary, Theta – first man to reach the North Pole
• Calvin Plimpton, Sigma – President of Amherst College and American University of Beirut
• Baron Hirai Seijirō, Psi Omega – President, Japanese Railways
• Oscar Tang, Phi – New York financier and philanthropist. Current Head of the Board of Trustees for Phillips Academy.
• Ming Tsai, Phi – Chinese-American fusion cuisine chef, restaurateur, and Emmy Award-winning television personality
• Jeme Tien Yow, Phi – Director of Chinese Railroads, Chinese (Qing Dynasty) Empire
• Ryan Serhant – New York real estate broker through Nest Seekers International. Also one of the stars of Million Dollar Listing New York

References[]

External links[]

• Prominent Alumni