List of Phi Delta Theta members

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The signature of Lou Gehrig indicating his membership into Phi Delta Theta

This is a list of prominent alumni of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Names are listed followed by the school attended and their graduation year.

Academia

Air and space

Art and architecture

Business

Entertainment

Film and television

Music

Radio

  • Ken Niles, Univ., of Montana, 1928 – Radio actor
  • Wendell Niles, Univ., of Montana, 1927 – Broadcaster during the Golden Age of radio

Video games

Government

Canada

Executive branch

Benjamin Harrison
23rd President of the United States
Adlai Stevenson I,
23rd Vice President of the United States
John W. Foster
32nd Secretary of State of the United States

Judicial branch

Governors

U.S. Congressmen

  • Andrew H. Hamilton, Wabash College, 1855 – Representative from Indiana, 1875–1878
  • Adlai E. Stevenson, Centre College, 1860, – Representative from Illinois, 1875–1880
  • John Alexander Anderson, Miami University (Ohio), 1853 – Representative from Kansas, 1879–1886
  • Thomas B. Ward, Miami University (Ohio), 1855 – Representative from Indiana, 1883–1886
  • Willis Sweet, University of Nebraska, 1879 – Representative from Idaho, 1889–1894
  • Charles L. Moses, Mercer University, 1876 – Representative from Georgia, 1891–1896
  • Francis M. Griffith, Franklin College, 1874 – Representative from Indiana, 1897–1904
  • James M. Griggs, Vanderbilt University, 1881 – Representative from Georgia, 1897–1910
  • William M. Howard, University of Georgia, 1877 – Representative from Georgia, 1897–1910
  • William G. Brantley, University of Georgia, 1881 – Representative from Georgia, 1897–1912
  • Burton L. French, University of Idaho, 1901 – Representative from Idaho, 1903–1932
  • Thomas Hardwick, Mercer University, 1892 – Representative from Georgia, 1903–1918
  • John L. Kennedy, Knox College, 1883 – Representative from Nebraska, 1905–1906
  • James W. Overstreet, Mercer University, 1888 – Representative from Georgia, 1905–1922
  • James G. Lee, Emory University, 1880 – Representative from Georgia, 1905–1926
  • Rufus Hardy, University of Georgia, 1875 – Representative from Texas, 1907–1922
  • Martin A. Morrison, Butler University, 1883 – Representative from Indiana 1910–1916
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Alumnus William Bankhead, served as Speaker of the House 1936–1940
  • Samuel Tribble, University of Georgia, 1891 – Representative from Georgia, 1911–1916
  • Oscar Lee Gray, University of Alabama, 1885 – Representative from Alabama, 1915–1917
  • Jouette Shouse, University of Missouri, 1899 – Representative from Illinois, 1915–1918
  • Royal C. Johnson, University of South Dakota, 1906 – Representative from South Dakota, 1915–1932
  • William B. Oliver, University of Alabama, 1887– Representative from Alabama, 1915–1936
  • William B. Bankhead, University of Alabama, 1893 – Former Speaker of the House, Representative from Alabama, 1917–1940
  • Charles G. Bond, Ohio State University, 1899 – Representative from New York, 1921–1922
  • Frederick M. Vinson, Centre College, 1909 – Representative from Kentucky, 1924–1928, 1930–1937
  • William Lemke, University of North Dakota, 1903 – Representative from North Dakota, 1933–1950
  • Francis E. Walter, Lafayette College, 1916 – Representative from Pennsylvania, 1933–1964
  • Clark W. Thompson, University of Oregon, 1918 – Representative from Texas, 1933–1966
  • Charles F. McLaughlin, University of Nebraska, 1908 – Representative from Nebraska, 1935–1942
  • Robert J. Corbett, Allegheny College, 1927 – Representative from Pennsylvania, 1939–1972
  • Charles M. La Follette, Wabash College, 1920 – Representative from Indiana, 1943–1946
  • Dwight L. Rogers, Mercer University, 1910 – Representative from Florida, 1945–1954
  • James G. Fulton, Penn State, 1924 – Representative from Pennsylvania, 1945–1972
  • Charles K. Fletcher, Stanford University, 1924 – Representative from California, 1947–1948
  • Frederick A. Muhlenberg, Gettysburg College, 1908 – Representative from Pennsylvania, 1947–1948
  • Frank Ertel Carlyle, University of North Carolina, 1920 – Representative from North Carolina, 1949–1956
  • Richard Walker Bolling, University of South, 1937 – Representative from Missouri, 1949–1982
  • John Jarman, Westminster College, 1936 – Representative from Oklahoma, 1951–1976
  • Edward J. Bonin, Dickinson College, 1933 – Representative from Pennsylvania, 1953–1954
  • Edwin Keith Thomson, University of Wyoming, 1939 – Representative from Wyoming, 1955–1960
  • Paul G. Rogers, University of Florida, 1942 – Representative from Florida, 1955–1978
  • Charles Goodell, Williams College, 1949 – Representative from New York, 1959–1970
  • Edwin R. Durno, University of Oregon, 1921 – Representative from Oregon, 1961–1962
  • Garner E. Shriver, Wichita State University, 1934 – Representative from Kansas, 1961–1976
  • Jim Broyhill, University of North Carolina, 1950 – Representative from North Carolina, 1963–1984
  • Howard Callaway, Georgia Tech, 1948 – Representative from Georgia, 1965–1966
  • Chester Mize, University of Kansas, 1939 – Representative from Kansas, 1965–1970
  • Robert C. McEwen, University of Vermont, 1942 – Representative from New York, 1965–1980
  • James M. Collins, Southern Methodist University, 1937 – Representative from Texas, 1967–1982
  • Pete McCloskey, Stanford University, 1951 – Author of the Endangered Species Act, Representative from California, 1967–1983
  • Wyche Fowler, Davidson College, 1962 – Representative from Georgia, 1977–1986
  • Douglas Barnard, Mercer University, 1943 – Representative from Georgia, 1977–1992
  • Jim Courter, Colgate University, 1963 – Representative from New Jersey, 1979–1990
  • Albert T. Smith Jr., Auburn University, 1953 – Representative from Alabama, 1981–1983
  • James McNulty, Arizona, 1950 – Representative from Arizona, 1983–1985
  • Jim Slattery, Washburn University, 1970 – Representative from Kansas, 1983–1995
  • Neil Abercrombie, Union, 1959 – Representative from Hawaii 1986–1987, 1991–2010
  • Joel Hefley, Oklahoma State, 1959 – Representative from Colorado, 1987–2007
  • Jim Ramstad, University of Minnesota – Representative from Minnesota, 1991–2009
  • Max Sandlin, Baylor, 1975 – Representative from Texas, 1997–2004
  • Chris Bell, University of Texas, 1988 – Representative from Texas, 2002–2004
  • Frank Kratovil, McDaniel College, 1990, – Representative from Maryland, 2009–2011
  • Walt Minnick, Whitman College, 1958 – Representative from Idaho, 2009–2011
  • John Fleming, Jr., Ole Miss, 1973 – Representative from Louisiana, 2009–present
  • Bradley Byrne, Duke University, 1977, – Representative from Alabama, 2013–present
  • Jared Huffman, UC Santa Barbara, 1986 – Representative from California, 2013–present
  • Luke Messer, Wabash College, 1991 – Representative from Indiana, 2013–present
  • David Rouzer, North Carolina State, 1994 – Representative from North Carolina, 2015–present

U.S. Senators

  • James Z. George, University of Mississippi – Senator from Mississippi, 1881–1898
  • Edward Cary Walthall, University of Mississippi – Senator from Indiana, 1885–1894
  • Joseph C. Blackburn, Centre College, 1857 – Senator from Kentucky, 1885–1906
  • John Allen, Wabash College, 1867 – Senator from Washington, 1889–1892
  • William F. Vilas, University of Wisconsin, 1858 – Senator from Wisconsin, 1891–1896
  • Duncan U. Fletcher, Vanderbilt University, 1880 – Senator from Florida, 1909–36
  • Thomas Hardwick, Mercer University, 1892 – Senator from Georgia, 1913–1918
  • Xenophon P. Wilfley, Washington University, 1899 – Senator from Missouri, 1917–1918
  • Arthur Raymond Robinson, University of Chicago, 1913 – Senator from Indiana, 1925–1934
  • John Elmer Thomas, DePauw University, 1900 – Senator from Oklahoma, 1927–1950
  • Thomas Connally, University of Texas, 1898 – Senator from Texas, 1929–1952
  • Elbert Thomas, University of Utah, 1906 – Senator from Utah, 1933–1950
  • Sherman Minton, Indiana University Senator from Indiana, 1935–1941
  • Raymond E. Willis, Wabash College, 1896 – Senator from Indiana, 1941–1956
  • Eugene D. Millikin, University of Colorado, 1913 – Senator from Colorado, 1941–1956
  • Harry P. Cain, University of the South, 1929 – Senator from Washington, 1946–1952
  • Harry Darby, University of Illinois, 1917 – Senator from Kansas, 1949–1950
  • Thomas R. Underwood, University of Kentucky, 1919 – Congressman from Indiana, Senator from Indiana,1951–1952
  • J. Bennett Johnston, Washington & Lee College, 1954 – Senator from Louisiana, 1972–1997
  • Sam Nunn, Georgia Tech 1960 – Founder of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, Senator from Georgia, 1972–1997
  • Dennis DeConcini, University of Arizona, 1959 – Senator from Arizona, 1977–1994
  • Brock Adams, University of Washington – Senator from Washington, 1987–1993
  • James Broyhill, University of North Carolina, 1950 – Senator from North Carolina 1985–1991
  • Wyche Fowler, Davidson College, 1962 – Senator from Georgia, 1987–1992
  • Brockman Adams, University of Washington, 1948 – Sect. of Treasury, Congressman from Washington, Former Senator from Washington,. 1987–1993
  • James E. Risch, University of Idaho, 1965, 1968 – J.D. – Senator from Idaho, 2008–Current

Other

Literature

  • Ray Stannard Baker, Michigan State University, 1889 – Biographer, Pulitzer Prize winner
  • Louis Bromfield, Columbia University, 1920 – Pulitzer Prize winner for Early Autumn
  • Po Bronson, Stanford, 1986 – Writer
  • Eugene Field, Knox College, 1872 – Poet, author of children's books
  • Don Herold, Indiana University, 1912 – Humorist
  • Walter Havighurst, Ohio Wesleyan University, 1923 – Writer and professor
  • James Michener, Swarthmore College, 1929 – Pulitzer Prize winner, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient
  • Dan Moldea, The University of Akron, 1973 – Author, writer of organized crime and American politics books
  • Reynolds Price, Duke University, 1955 – Writer, essayist
  • William Tate, Vanderbilt University, 1922 – Poet, social commentator
  • Edward K. Thompson, Univ. of North Dakota, 1927 – Managing Editor of Life popular weekly pictorial magazine
  • William Allen White, University of Kansas, 1890 – Editor, writer, Pulitzer Prize winner

Media

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Alumnus Bob Schieffer, former anchor of the CBS Evening News, 2005–2007

Military

Medal of Honor and Victoria Cross recipients

Prominent military personnel

Nobel Prize winners

  • Adam G. Riess, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992 – Physics, 2011

Religion

Sports

References

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