List of Delta Kappa Epsilon members

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

• John F. Enders, Phi – 1954 Nobel Prize winner in Medicine
• James P. Allison, Omega Chi – 2018 Nobel Prize winner in Medicine

Pulitzer Prize winners

• Harvey Cushing, Phi – 1926 Pulitzer Prize winner in biography
• Charles Ives, Phi – 1947 Pulitzer Prize winner in music
• Virginius Dabney, Eta – 1948 Pulitzer Prize winner in editorial writing
• Ira B. Harkey Jr., Tau Lambda – 1963 Pulitzer Prize winner in editorial writing
• Dean Acheson, Phi – 1970 Pulitzer Prize winner in history
• Walter A. McDougall, Sigma – 1985 Pulitzer Prize winner in biography

Newspaper & Magazine publishers and editors

• Norman Chandler, Sigma Rho – publisher, Los Angeles Times
• Otis Chandler, Sigma Rho – publisher, Los Angeles Times
• Briton Hadden, Phi – co-founder of Time Magazine
• William Randolph Hearst, Alpha – publisher, Hearst Newspapers
• Eugene Pulliam, Psi Phi – publisher, Indianapolis Newspapers, Inc.
• Ken Purdy, Rho Delta – Editor, Parade (magazine), Car and Driver, True (magazine)
• James C. Quayle, Psi Phi – chairman, Huntington Newspapers, Inc
• Whitelaw Reid, Kappa – editor-in-chief, New York Tribune
• Ogden Reid, Phi – New York Tribune
• John Wright Sifton, Alpha Tau – President of Manitoba Free Press

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
• Rutherford P. Hayes, Delta Chi – Librarian and banker
• Webb Hayes, Delta Chi – co-founder of Union Carbide, Congressional Medal of Honor
• 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
• Oscar Tang, Phi – New York financier and philanthropist. Current head of the board of trustees for Phillips Academy.
• Robert J. Thorne, Delta Chi - Montgomery Ward
• 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

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
• Albert J. Beveridge, Psi Phi – U.S. Senator, Indiana
• Andrew Biemiller, Delta Chi – Congressman and labor leader
• Wilson S. Bissell, Phi – Postmaster General from 1893-1895
• 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
• Ron DeSantis, Phi – Governor of Florida (2019 - Present)
• 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, Tau – Massachusetts legislator
• Murphy J. "Mike" Foster, Zeta Zeta – two-term Governor of Louisiana
• Justice George Alexander Gale, Alpha Phi – former Chief Justice of Ontario
• Asa Bird Gardiner, Nu – 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, Alpha Phi – former Canadian Minister of Finance, and High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
• Mario García Menocal, Delta Chi – President of the Republic of Cuba
• Robert D. Orr, Phi – 45th Governor of Indiana
• Frank Nesmith Parsons, Pi – Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court from 1902–1924
• George Pataki, Phi – Governor of New York
• Clark T. Randt, Jr., Phi – longest-serving U.S. Ambassador to 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 of 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
• George Von L. Meyer, Alpha – United States Postmaster General from 1907-1909, Secretary of the Navy from 1909-1913
• 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

Olympians

• Sebastian Bea, Theta Zeta – 2000 Olympic Silver Medalist in Crew (Men's Pair w/o Coxswain)
• James Elder, Alpha Phi – 1968 Olympic Gold Medalist, Mens Equestrian Team
• Bill Miller, Sigma Rho – 1936 Olympic Gold Medalist in Pole vault
• James Stillman Rockefeller, Phi – 1924 Olympic Gold Medalist in Crew (Men's eights)
• Don Schollander, Phi – 1964 Olympic Gold Medalist (4x) in Swimming
• Dr. Charles Snelling, Alpha Phi – 1957 World Bronze Medalist in figure skating, competed at the 1956 and 1964 Olympics
• Jack Torrance, Zeta Zeta – Held world record in shot put for 14 years, competed at the 1936 Olympics
• Dr. Pat Turner – 1984 Olympic Gold Medalist in Crew (Men's eights)
• Richard Weinberger, Beta Tau – 2012 Olympic Bronze medalist in Swimming (10km Marathon)

Sports and entertainment

• 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
• Mike Babcock, Tau Alpha – Former head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs and only coach in the Triple Gold Club
• William Bartholomay, Delta Epsilon – former owner of the Atlanta Braves
• 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, Iota – 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 and Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve
• Billy Crudup, Beta – actor
• Hugh Culverhouse, Psi – owner of Tampa Bay Buccaneers
• Michael Eben, Alpha Phi – former Toronto Argonauts player
• Marcus Giamatti, Theta – actor
• A. Bartlett Giamatti, Phi – Commissioner of Major League Baseball
• Harry Hamlin, Theta Zeta – actor
• Hagood Hardy, Alpha Chi – 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, Phi – artist
• Thomas W. Landry, Omega Chi – coach of the 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
• Don McNeill, Lambda – 4x Grand Slam winner in Tennis
• David Milch, Phi – writer and producer
• Joe Paterno, Upsilon – Penn State football coach
• Bob Pettit, Zeta Zeta – National Basketball Association All star and hall of famer.
• Cole Porter, Phi – composer
• Dicky Pride, Psi – professional golfer on the PGA Tour
• J. Burton Rix, Pi – Football and basketball coach at Texas, SMU, and Miami^[1]
• Ryan Serhant, Tau – New York real estate broker through Nest Seekers International, one of the stars of Million Dollar Listing New York
• Root Boy Slim, Phi – rock singer
• 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
• Ming Tsai, Phi – Chinese-American fusion cuisine chef, restaurateur, and Emmy Award-winning television personality
• Belford West, Mu – inductee of the College Football Hall of Fame^[2]
• Wheelock Whitney Jr., Phi – owner of the Minnesota Vikings and Minnesota Twins
• Jonathan Winters, Lambda – comedian and writer
• Josh Zuckerman, Zeta – actor

Higher Education

• James R. Angell, Omicron – President of Yale University
• Bruce D. Benson, Delta Chi – President of the University of Colorado
• Charles W. Cole, Sigma – President of Amherst College
• Gregory L. Fenves. Delta Chi – President of Emory University and the University of Texas
• Arthur Twining Hadley, Phi – President of Yale University
• Ernest Martin Hopkins, Pi – President of Dartmouth College
• Martin Kellogg, Phi – President of the University of California at Berkeley
• Stanley King, Sigma – President of Amherst College from 1932 to 1946
• Cyrus Northrop, Phi – President of the University of Minnesota
• Calvin Plimpton, Sigma – President of Amherst College and American University of Beirut
• Benno C. Schmidt Jr., Phi – President of Yale University
• George Edgar Vincent, Phi – President of the University of Minnesota
• Francis Amasa Walker, Sigma – President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Other famous Dekes

• Alan Bean, Omega Chi – Apollo astronaut, fourth man on the moon
• Edward Bellamy, Theta Chi – author
• Frederick H. Brooke, Phi – 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
• Peyton C. March, Rho^[3] – 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
• Baron Hirai Seijirō, Psi Omega – President, Japanese Railways
• Jeme Tien Yow, Phi – Director of Chinese Railroads, Chinese (Qing Dynasty) Empire

References

1. Catalogue of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, p. 649, Delta Kappa Epsilon Council, 1910.
2. "D. B. West Is Dead; Area Industrialist, Grid All-America". The Buffalo Evening News. September 13, 1973. p. VI-64. Retrieved June 29, 2023 – via newspapers.com.
3. Delta Kappa Epsilon Council (1910). Warren, Aldice G. (ed.). Catalogue of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity. Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company. p. 742. Retrieved 15 May 2015.

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