List of Sigma Phi members

Following is a list of Sigma Phi members.

Arts and architecture

Name	Chapter	Notability	References
Bradford Perkins	Wisconsin, Cornell	Architect and founder of Perkins Eastman Architects	^[1]
Philip Will Jr.	Cornell	architect, co-founder of architecture firm Perkins+Will, and president of the American Institute of Architects	^[2]

Business

Name	Chapter	Notability	References
J. Patrick Doyle	Michigan	former CEO of Domino's Pizza	^[3]
Seth Flowerman	Cornell	Entrepreneur, CEO of PLT Health Solutions	^[4]
Leonard Jerome	Union	American financier and the maternal grandfather of Winston Churchill	^[5]
Charles F. Knight	Cornell	chairman and CEO of Emerson Electric	^[6]
James M. Loree	Union	CEO of Stanley Black & Decker	^[7]
Charlie Munger	Michigan	vice-chairman of Berkshire Hathaway	^[8]^[9]
Peter Busch Orthwein	Cornell	founder and chairman of Thor Industries	^[10]
Howard Potter	Union	American industrialist, investment banker, diplomat and philanthropist, and a partner in Brown Bros. & Co.	^[5]
Ratan Tata	Cornell	businessman and former chairman of Tata Sons	^[11]
Jay Walker	Cornell	founder of Priceline	^[9]^[11]

Education

Name	Chapter	Notability	References
Israel Ward Andrews	Williams	professor and president of Marietta College	^[12]^[13]
Mortimer Elwyn Cooley		professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, mechanical and consulting engineer	^[14]
Stephen Gilman	Princeton	Hispanist, Guggenheim Fellow, professor at Harvard University, Ohio State University, and Princeton University	^[14]
George Wheeler Hinman	Hamilton	president of Marietta College, publisher of the Chicago Herald and Examiner, editor and manager of Chicago Inter Ocean	^[14]
Oren Root II	Hamilton	professor of mathematics and natural sciences at Hamilton College; professor of English at the University of Missouri; Presbyterian minister	^[15]
William A. Shanklin	Hamilton	president of Upper Iowa University and Wesleyan University, Methodist minister	^[16]
M. Woolsey Stryker	Hamilton	president of Hamilton College and Presbyterian minister	^[16]
Anson J. Upson	Hamilton	Chancellor of the Regents of the University of the State of New York	^[15]^[17]
Andrew Dickson White	Hobart	co-founder and first president of Cornell University, U.S. Ambassador to Germany	^[16]^[18]
William Dwight Whitney	Williams	linguist, professor at Yale University, and first president of the American Philological Association	^[19]

Entertainment

Name	Chapter	Notability	References
Nat Faxon	Hamilton	Actor, comedian, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter	^[20]
Arthur C. Nielsen	Wisconsin	creator of Nielsen ratings	^[9]

Government and public service

Name	Chapter	Notability	References
John Bigelow	Union	Minister to France and U.S. Secretary of State	^[15]^[18]
Daniel Butterfield	Union	Assistant Treasurer of the United States, composer of Taps bugle call, Civil War general	^[15]^[18]
Charles J. Folger	Hobart	United States Secretary of the Treasury	^[5]
John Jay Knox Jr.	Hamilton	Comptroller of the Currency of the United States	^[15]
Elihu Root	Hamilton	U.S. Secretary of War, U.S. Secretary of State, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, and U.S. Senator	^[15]^[21]^[5]
Andrew Dickson White	Hobart	U.S. Ambassador to Germany, co-founder and first president of Cornell University	^[18]

Law

Name	Chapter	Notability	References
Douglass Boardman	Hobart	jurist, lawyer, served on the Supreme Court of New York, Dean of Cornell Law School	^[5]
George F. Comstock	Union	Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals	^[18]
John A. Denison	Vermont	judge of the Supreme Court of Colorado and mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts	^[14]
Douglass Boardman	Hobart	Dean of Cornell Law School, American jurist, lawyer, served on the Supreme Court of New York	^[5]
Thomas Nelson	Williams	Chief Justice of Oregon Territory	^[22]
Joseph Mullin	Union	justice of the New York Supreme Court, United States Congressman from New York	^[5]
James Noxon	Hamilton, Union	Member New York Supreme Court and New York politician	^[5]
Abram B. Olin	Williams	Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and United States Congressman	^[5]
Enoch Rosekrans	Union	judge of the New York Court of Appeals	^[5]^[23]
Earl Warren	California	Chief Justice of the United States, Governor of California	^[15]

Literature and journalism

Name	Chapter	Notability	References
George Wheeler Hinman	Hamilton	publisher of the Chicago Herald and Examiner, editor and manager of Chicago Inter Ocean, president of Marietta College	^[14]
Chester Sanders Lord	Hamilton	editor of the New York Sun	^[14]
Guy E. Shipler		editor of The Churchman, writer for Business Week, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, and Time	^[14]^[24]
Mansfield Tracy Walworth	Union	author	^[18]
William Dwight Whitney	Williams	editor-in-chief of The Century Dictionary, linguist, philologist, lexicographer, and first president of the American Philological Association	^[19]

Military

Name	Chapter	Notability	References
George Grenville Benedict	Vermont	American Civil War hero and Medal of Honor recipient	^[15]
Daniel Butterfield	Union	Civil War general, composer of Taps bugle call, and Assistant Treasurer of the United States	^[15]^[18]
John Cochrane	Union	Brigadier General in the Civil War, United States Congressman from New York, Attorney General of New York	^[15]^[18]
Henry Rathbone	Union	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	Union	Lt. Governor of Wisconsin, Sigma Phi Society founder	^[5]^[18]
Henry E. Barbour	Union	U.S. Representative from California	^[14]
Thomas Fielder Bowie	Princeton, Union	United States Congressman, founding member of Sigma Phi	^[15]
William W. Campbell	Union	United States Congressman from New York	^[5]
Clark B. Cochrane	Union	United States Congressman from New York	^[5]
John Cochrane	Union	United States Congressman from New York, Attorney General of New York, and Brigadier General in the Civil War	^[15]^[18]
Orasmus Cole	Union	United States Congressman from Wisconsin	^[5]
Thomas Treadwell Davis	Hamilton	United States Congressman from New York	^[5]
Ken Dryden	Cornell	Canadian Member of Parliament, former professional hockey player, Hockey Hall of Fame	^[25]^[26]
Edwin Einstein	Union	United States Congressman from New York	^[5]
Eugene Foss	Vermont	United States House of Representatives and served as a three-term governor of Massachusetts	^[14]
A. Oakey Hall	New York	former Mayor of New York	^[18]
John F. Hartranft	Union	former Governor of Pennsylvania	^[5]
John T. Hoffman	Union	former Governor of New York	^[5]
John James Ingalls	Williams	United States Senator from Kansas	^[5]
Samuel Knox	Williams	United States Congressman from Missouri	^[5]
Addison H. Laflin	Williams	United States Congressman from New York	^[5]
Truman A. Merriman	Hobart	United States Congressman from New York	^[5]
Joseph Mullin	Union	United States Congressman from New York, justice of the New York Supreme Court	^[5]
Abram B. Olin	Williams	United States Congressman from New York and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia	^[5]
Andrew Oliver	Union	United States Congressman from New York	^[5]
Elihu Root	Hamilton	Canadian Member of Parliament, U.S. Secretary of War, U.S. Secretary of State, Nobel Peace Prize Winner	^[5]^[15]^[21]
Charles B. Sedgwick	Hamilton	United States Congressman from New York	^[5]
James S. Sherman	Hamilton	Vice President of the United States and United States Congressman from New York	^[5]^[15]
Gilbert Carlton Walker	Williams	Governor of Virginia, United States Congressman from Virginia	^[5]^[15]
Earl Warren	California	Chief Justice of the United States, Governor of California	^[15]

Religion

Name	Chapter	Notability	References
George William Knox	Hamilton	Missionary in Japan, author, and theologian	^[15]
Oren Root II	Hamilton	theologian, Presbyterian minister, college professor	^[15]
William A. Shanklin	Hamilton	Methodist minister and university president	^[16]
M. Woolsey Stryker	Hamilton	Presbyterian minister and president of Hamilton College	^[16]
George Worthington	Hobart	second bishop of Nebraska in the Episcopal Church	^[5]

Science and medicine

Name	Chapter	Notability	References
Lewis Sayre	New York	leading American orthopedic surgeon of the 19th century and president of the American Medical Association	^[5]

Sports

Name	Chapter	Notability	References
Ken Dryden	Cornell	former professional hockey player, Hockey Hall of Fame, Canadian Member of Parliament	^[25]^[26]
Larry Tanenbaum	Cornell	chairman of MLSE, owner of the Toronto Raptors and Toronto Maple Leafs	^[11]
Ward Wettlaufer	Hamilton	amateur golfer	^[27]

See also

• Collegiate secret societies in North America

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