Notable Alumni of Lambda Chi Alpha

Academics

• Dr. James W. “Jim” Abbott (South Dakota) — President of the University of South Dakota (15 years)
• Dr. Martin Abegg (Bradley) — President Emeritus of Bradley (22 years)
• Dr. John Stuart Allen (Colgate) — Former and 1st president of the University of South Florida
• Dr. Norman R. Auburn (Cincinnati) — Former President of the University of Akron (20 years)
• Dr. Hugh C. Bailey (Samford) — Former President of Valdosta State (22 years)
• Dr. Samuel Beatty (Toronto) — Former Chancellor of the University of Toronto, 1st president of the Canadian Mathematical Society and served in that capacity for over 30 years
• Dr. Daniel Luke Biemesderfer (Franklin & Marshall) — Former president of Millersville College (22 years)
• Dr. Lambuth McGeehee Clarke (Randolph-Macon) — Former President of Virginia Wesleyan (26 years)
• Dr. William Crouch (Wake Forest/Georgetown) — President of Georgetown, Ky (21 years)
• Dr. James A. Davis (Randolph-Macon) — Former President of Shenandoah University (26 years)
• Dr. Frank N. Elliott (Alfred) — Former President of Rider College (21 years)
• Dr. Edward T. Foote (Yale/Miami-FL) — Former President of University of Miami (20 years)
• Dr. William C. Friday (North Carolina State) — 1st President of the University of North Carolina system (30 years)
• Dr. Harold D. Germer (Denison) — Former President of Ottawa University (20 years)
• Dr. Earl Bruce Heilman (Peabody/North Carolina State) — Former President of the University of Richmond and Methodist College (21 years)
• Dr. Homer Lee Hitt (Louisiana State) — 1st Chancellor at LSU @ New Orleans (22 years)
• Dr. William Bay Irvine (Marietta) — Former President of Marietta (15 years)
• Dr. Leo Warren Jenkins (East Carolina) — Former President and Chancellor of East Carolina (18 years)
• Dr. Arnold E. Joyal Sr. (California-Berkeley/Fresno State) — Former President of Fresno State College (16 years)
• Dr. George Kidd (Drexel) — Former President of Tiffin University (21 years)
• Dr. Maxwell King (Auburn) — Former President of Brevard Community College (30 years)
• Carl Martin Kuttler, Jr. (Florida State) — Former President of St. Petersburg College (31 years)
• Dr. Malcolm A. Love (Simpson) — Former President of the University of Nevada and San Diego State University (21 years)
• Dr. Richard E. McDowell (High Point) — Former president of the University of Pittsburgh @ Bradford (29 years)
• Dr. Richard H. Mosier (Oklahoma State) — Former president of Marygrove College (18 years)
• Dr. Samuel Somerville Stratton (Dartmouth) — Former president of Middlebury College (20 years)
• Dr. Ben A. “Todd” Parnell III (Drury) — President of Drury
• Dr. Wendell M. Patton (Wofford) — Former President of High Point (24 years), he succeeded Dennis H. Cooke (North Carolina), who had served as president for 10 years
• Dr. Thomas F. Schutte (Valparaiso) — President of Pratt Institute, previously president of Rhode Island School of Design and also Philadelphia College of Art (37 years)
• Dr. John E. Shay, Jr. (Florida) — Former President of Marygrove College (18 years)
• Dr. Charles E. Smith (Tennessee) — Former Chancellor of the Tennessee Board of Regents, former Tennessee Commissioner of Education, former Executive Director of the National Assessment Governing Board,
• Dr. Willis M. Tate (Southern Methodist) — Former President of SMU (20 years)
• Dr. William E. Troutt (Union-TN) — College president since 1982, Chairman of the American Council on Education
• Dr. Richard D. Valentine (Culver-Stockton) — Current president of Culver-Stockton
• Dr. Herman Viets (Polytechnic) — President of Milwaukee School of Engineering, COB of Astro-Med
• Dr. Albert A. Watrel (Syracuse) — Former president of Slippery Rock and Dickinson State (26 years)
• Dr. W. Roger Webb (Oklahoma State) — College president since 1978, President of the Association of State Colleges and Universities
• Dr. Clifford Oscar Titus Wieden (Colby) — 1st President of Aroostock State College (22years)
• Dr. John Hepler Wood (Missouri/Culver-Stockton) — Former president of Culver-Stockton
• Dr. Donald W. Zacharias (Georgetown) — Former president of Mississippi State and Western Kentucky (20 years)

Arts and entertainment

• Claude Akins (Northwestern) — Actor, 100 movies and 140 TV episodes
• Timothy Atzinger (Delaware) — Editing/writing in reality TV, Emmy
• Walter Becker (UCLA) — Director, Van Wilder
• Dr. James Beckett (Southern Methodist) — Founder, Beckett Publications
• Michael F. Beckner (Southern California) — Co-producer, Sniper, Spy Game, CSI, To Appomattox
• Don Beddoe (Cincinnati) — Actor on stage and screen in over 200 movies
• K. Blair Benson (Worcester) — Emmy for engineering and technical achievement; videotape
• Powers Boothe (Texas State-San Marcos) — Actor, Emmy as Best Actor for Jim Jones
• Benjamin Bratt (California-Santa Barbara) — Actor, SAG and ALMA Awards
• Eugene F. Callahan (Louisiana State) — Two-time Academy Award winning set and production designer for The Hustler and again for America, America
• Dr. John Alexander Carroll (Texas Christian) — Pulitzer Prize
• Jay Chattaway (West Virginia) – Emmy Award and 8 ASCAP Awards as composer of TV and movies, Star Trek
• Kenny Chesney (East Tennessee State) — Singer, 4 x Entertainer of the Year, 4 x Music Video of Year
• William C. Evans (Butler) — Winner of two Emmys
• Kimbal Fatica (Bowling Green) — Photographer, Emmy as videographer
• Will Forte (UCLA) — Actor; SNL, 30 Rock
• Will Geer (Chicago) — Actor of stage & screen; The Waltons
• David Patrick Gilkey (Oregon State) — Emmy while working for the Detroit Free Press: Band of Brothers
• Chester Gould (Oklahoma State) — Creator of Dick Tracy Comics
• Dabbs Greer (Drury) — Little House on the Prairie, Gunsmoke
• Paul Harvey (Culver-Stockton) — Radio personality, recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom
• Jeffrey L. Hayes (Brown) — Producer, Law & Order
• John Michael Hayes Jr (Massachusetts) — screenwriter: Rear Window, Peyton Place
• John Heard (Clark) — Actor, Home Alone I & II, Sopranos
• Jean Hersholt (Rollins) — Actor, 2 Academy Awards and 1 named in his honor
• Robin Hood (Tennessee-Chattanooga) — Photographer – Pulitzer Prize
• Dean Jagger (Northwestern) — Actor, Academy Award for High Noon, Emmy
• Edward Daniel Kuekes (Baldwin-Wallace) — Pulitzer Prize, Freedoms Foundation (3)
• Charles Kelley (Georgia) — Singer/writer, Grammy in ’10 & ‘11
• Frankie Laine (Miami-FL) — Singer, 21 gold records, sales over 100 million
• LeRoy G. Leighton (Florida) — Academy Award for 10 KW lamp
• William R. Manchester (Massachusetts) — author, Death of A President
• Edwin Markham (Rollins) — Poet, Man With A Hoe
• William “Bill” McCullough (Susquehanna) — 9 Emmys
• Joseph Mead (Pennsylvania) — Co-founder of Economic Forum
• Perry Miller (Chicago) — Pulitzer Prize winner
• Walter Miller (Hampden-Sydney) — Producer/writer for CNN and winner of two Peabody Awards for coverage of the Gulf Oil Spill and Hurricane Katrina, and winner of Emmy for coverage of 9/11
• Anson Mount (South) — Actor, Hell on Wheels
• Michael O’Neill (Auburn) — Actor, Seabiscuit, West Wing
• Woody Paige, Jr. (Tennessee) — ESPN Commentator, Around The Horn
• Robert B. Parker (Colby) — Author, Spencer; recipient of Edgar Award
• John J. Peyser (Colgate) — Writer, producer/director of many TV shows
• LeRoy Prinz (Northwestern) — Choreographer – Golden Globe, Academy Award as director
• John Quinones (St. Mary’s) — ABC News Anchor, 7 Emmy’s & Peabody Award
• James Rebhorn (Wittenberg) — Actor, multiple supporting roles
• Frank Reynolds (Wabash) — ABC News Anchor, recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom and Peabody Award
• Kirk Scharfenberg (Brown) — Shared Pulitzer as editor of the editorial page of The Boston Globe
• Mark Schultz (Kansas State) — Musician, recipient of Dove Award
• Adam Joseph Shapiro (Syracuse) — Reporter for Fox Business News, winner of 2 Emmy Awards
• John Tesh (North Carolina State) — Composer/musician , 6 Emmys
• Bob Urich (Florida State) — Actor, 19 TV series, Lonesome Dove
• Ralph Waite (Bucknell) — Actor, The Waltons
• Randall Wallace (Duke) — Screenwriter/director, Braveheart, Secretariat
• Basil Walters (Indiana) — Former Editor of the Chicago Daily News
• Michael Westmore (California-Santa Barbara) — Academy Award as make-up artist, 9 Emmy’s
• Kurt Williams (Missouri) — Producer, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Incredible Hulk
• Mark Young (William & Mary) — Animation writer/producer, 2 daytime Emmys

Athletes

• Charles F. Beasley (Princeton/Miami-FL) — Member of the Tennis Hall of Fame
• Frederick S. Biletnikoff (Florida State) — College & Pro Football Hall of Fame
• D. Lee Braun (Southern Methodist) — Member of the National Trapshooting Hall of Fame
• Lawrence H. “Larry” Brown (UCLA) — Basketball player & coach – NBA Champion 2004 – NCAA Champion 1988 – Olympic Gold Medal
• Charles Butler (Brown) — Olympic Bronze Medal in bobsledding
• Charles B. Clark, Sr. (Washington College)— National Lacrosse Hall of Fame, coach at Washington College and Salisbury State
• John Clawson (Michigan) — 1968 Olympic Gold Medal in basketball
• Gordon “Mickey” Cochrane (Boston) — Baseball Hall of Fame – 2 x MVP – 3 x World Series Champion
• John Cress (Denver)— Coach of the University of Wyoming’s 1968 NCAA Champion ski team
• Frank D’Agostino (Parsons) — College Football Hall of Fame
• Averell Daniell (Pittsburgh) — College Football Hall of Fame
• Phil Dalhausser (Central Florida) — Member of beach volleyball world champion team and Olympic Gold Medal
• William K. Donley (Anderson/Georgetown) — Head football coach at St. Francis, former head coach at Georgetown College, Ky where team won the NAIA Division II championship in 1991; named NAIA Coach of the Year
• Don “Doc” Fauls (Florida State)— Member of the National Athletic Trainer’s Hall of Fame
• Doug Gjertsen (Texas) — 2 Olympic Gold Medals and 1 Olympic Medal in swimming
• Chester Gladchuk (Massachusetts) — College Football Hall of Fame
• Douglas R. Heir (Alfred) —“The world’s greatest wheelchair athlete”
• Henry Iba (Westminster) — Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame (Coach) – ’45 & ’46 NCAA Champion – 2 Olympic Gold Medals
• Buddy Jeanette (Washington & Jefferson) — Professional basketball player & coach – Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame
• Ferguson Jenkins (Illinois State) — Baseball Hall of Fame
• Cobi Jones (UCLA) — Soccer Hall of Fame
• Gregory Kabat (Wisconsin) — Canadian Football League Hall of Fame
• Lawrence E. Liles (Memphis State) — Member of the Racquetball Hall of Fame
• Vaughn Mancha (Alabama) — College Football Hall of Fame – member of U. of Alabama All-Century Team
• John McKinlay (Boston) — Olympic Silver Medal in rowing – member of National Crew Hall of Fame
• Abe Mickal (LSU) — College Football Hall of Fame – Sports Illustrated Silver Anniversary Team
• John Morris (Wilfred Laurier) — Olympic Gold Medal 2010 member of Canadian team
• Joseph Philbin (Washington & Jefferson) — Head Coach of Miami Dolphins
• Rick Pitino (Massachusetts) — College basketball coach – 1996 NCAA Champion
• Francis A. “Sonny” Pittaro (Brown) — Member of the American Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame
• James J. Plumer (Colby) — Head women’s ice hockey coach at Amherst, ’09 & ’10 NCAA Champions
• John Rauch (Georgia) — Football player & coach – College Football Hall of Fame
• Ronald K. Ryan (Colby)— Former president of the Philadelphia Flyers
• Ronald E. Santo (Illinois State) — Baseball Hall of Fame
• Ron Sellers (Florida State) — College Football Hall of Fame – member of Super Bowl Champion team
• Adrian Smith (Kentucky) — Olympic Gold Medal in basketball – Naismith Hall of Fame
• Donald Sutherin (Ohio State) — Canadian Football League Hall of Fame
• Richard B. Sweet (California-Santa Barbara) — Member of the College Sailing Hall of Fame
• Charles Thayer (Colby) — founder and past president of the National Professional Hockey Athletic Trainers Assn.
• Charles L. Trippi (Georgia) — College & Pro Football Hall of Fame – 1946 Maxwell Award
• Arthur Tyler (Worcester) — Olympic Bronze Medal in Bobsledding
• Billy Williams (Illinois State) — Baseball Hall of Fame

Business

• F. Duane Ackerman (Rollins) — former COB/CEO of BellSouth Corp.
• Keith E. Bailey (Tulsa) — COB/CEO Williams Companies
• James M. Benson ( Illinois) — Former President/CEO of John Hancock Life Insurance
• L. Wilson Berry ( Bucknell) – Former President/CEO of Texaco Refining & Marketing
• Edward R. Book (Penn State) — President/CEO of Hershey Corp.
• Fred J. Borch (Case-Western Reserve) — Former president/CEO of General Electric
• Jack O. Bovender (Duke) — Former COB/CEO of HCA, Inc.
• Stephen A. Briganti (Butler) – President/CEO of Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island Foundation
• John A. Canning Jr. (Denison) — Private equity investor
• Dale Carlsen (California-Sacramento) — Co-founder, President and CEO of the Sleep Train Store
• Nicholas D. Chabraja (Northwestern) — Former COB/CEO of General Dynamics
• Richard T. Clark (Washington & Jefferson) — COB of Merck & Co., Inc.
• Henry W. Coil, Jr. (California-Berkeley) — Former President/CEO of Tilden-Coil Constructors
• Glenn A. Cox, Jr. (SMU) — Former President/COO of Phillips Petroleum, Inc.
• John Culver (Florida State) — President of Starbucks Coffee China and Asia Pacific
• Michael Cunningham (Illinois) — Former Executive Vice President and CFO of ING Canada and North America
• Dr. Malcolm R. Currie (California-Berkeley) — President/COB/CEO of Regal One, Inc.
• Daniel Dillon (Florida State) — President and CEO of Welch’s Foods, Inc.
• Glen Mack Dove (Tennessee) — COB/CEO of AAA Cooper Transportation
• William J. Dowd (Worcester) — President/COO of Fleming Companies
• John Faraci (Denison) – COB/CEO of International Paper Co.
• Richard Federico (Tennessee) — COB/co-CEO of P F Chang’s
• James E. Ferrell (Kansas) — COB/President of Ferrell Gas Partners
• Curtiss Frank (Colgate) — Former president of Dun & Bradstreet
• John P. Frazee (Randolph-Macon) — Former President/COO of Sprint, Inc.
• William P. Fricks (Auburn) — Former President/CEO of Newport News Shipbuilding
• Hany Girgis (Central Florida) — President and CEO of SGIS
• Lawrence E. Gloyd (Hanover) — COB/CEO of CLARCOR, Inc.
• Robert B. Goergen Jr. (Richmond) — COB/President of Blyth Inc.
• John Goff (Texas) — Entrepreneur
• Walter Jamouneau (Lock Haven State) — Designer of the Piper J-3 Cub
• Reynold J. Jennings (Georgia) — President/CEO of WellStar Health Systems
• Gerald Johnston (UCLA ) – President/COO of McDonnell-Douglas Corp.
• David A. Jones (Louisville) — Co-founder and former COB of Humana, Inc.
• Howard Katz (Colgate) — Former president of ABC Sports
• Rob Kennedy (Illinois) — Co-president of C-Span
• Karl J. Krapek (Kettering) — Former President/COO of United Technologies Corp.
• John Michael Leonis (Arizona) — Former CEO of Litton Industries
• Dr. Murray D. Lincoln (Massachusetts) — Founder of Nationwide Insurance and C.A.R.E.
• William W. McGuire (Texas) — CEO of UnitedHealth Group
• C. Steven McMillan (Auburn) — COB/CEO of Sara Lee Corp.
• Louis R. Menagh Jr. (Rutgers) — Former President of Prudential Insurance Company
• John Moore (Vanderbilt) — Investor
• Lewis W. Moore (MIT) — Former President of American Oil Company
• Harry M. Moses (Wabash) — Former president of US Coal & Coke Corporation
• Howard I. Mosher (Worcester) — Former President of Land Rover of North America
• Walter F. Munford (Worcester) — Former President US Steel
• James Munro (Colgate) — Former COB/CEO of Time, Inc.
• LeRoy Nausman (Valparaiso) — President/CEO of Itron, Inc.
• George Needham (Bucknell) — President/COB/CEO of Needham & Co.
• David Neuman (UCLA) — President of Disney Television
• Michael R. O’Dell (Denver) — President/CEO of Pep Boys
• James Owens (North Carolina State) — Former COB/CEO of Caterpiller Inc.
• Dr. James Arthur (Purdue) — Wake Forest – COB of Perdue Farms
• Gerald P. Peters (Denver) — CEO of Francis I. DuPont & Co.
• John C. Petrillo (Worcester) — President of business communications services at AT&T
• Kirk P. Pond (Arkansas) — President/COB/CEO of Fairchild Semiconductor
• William F. Rasmussen (DePauw) — Founder of ESPN
• John Reed (Washington & Jefferson) — Former CEO of Citi Group, COB of New York Stock Exchange
• Matthew Rose (Missouri) — CEO of Burlington Northern Santa Fe
• Joe Saunders (Denver) — CEO of VISA Inc.
• Paul C. Saville (William & Mary) — President/CEO of NVR, Inc.
• Jerre Stead (Iowa) — COB/CEO of IHS, Inc.
• Mike Tannenbaum (Massachusetts) — General Manager of the New York Jets
• Mark Templeton (North Carolina State) — President and CEO of Citrix Systems
• James Terrell “Terry” Townsend (Texas) — Former President/CEO of the Texas Hospital Association
• John Michael Trani (Polytechnic) — COB/CEO of The Stanley Works
• Robert C. Van Tuyl (Colgate) — COB/CEO of Shearson Hammill, COB American Stock Exchange
• Jim C. Walton (Arkansas) — Chairman of Arvest Bank
• S. Robson Walton (Arkansas) — COB Walmart
• Kenneth Whipple Jr. (MIT) — Former executive vice president of Ford, former president of the Ford Financial Services Group, and former COB of Ford of Europe
• J. Bradley Wilson (Appalachian State) — President/COO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina
• Leroy A. Wilson (Rose-Hulman) — Former president of A T & T
• Brett Yormark (Indiana) — President and CEO of New Jersey Nets Entertainment
• Michael Zarrilli (Worcster) — Managing Director of the Chase Manhattan Bank
• John S. Zink (Oklahoma State) — Auto Racing Hall of Fame, owned Indy 500 winning cars in ’55 & ‘56

Law

• Mark E. Barham (Louisiana State) — Former Justice of the Louisiana State Supreme Court
• Harold A. Blackmun (Harvard) — Former Justice of the United States Supreme Court
• Preston C. Clayton (Alabama) — Former Justice of the Alabama State Supreme Court
• Frederick H. Dubard (Colby) — Former Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
• Leif Erickson (Chicago) — Former Justice of the Montana State Supreme Court
• James R. Hannah (Arkansas) — Chief Justice of the Arkansas State Supreme Court
• James W. Hardesty (Nevada-Reno) — Justice of the Nevada State Supreme Court
• Frank W. Hawthorne (Nevada-Reno) — Former Chief Justice of the Nevada State Supreme Court
• Charles R. Hayes (South Dakota) — Former Justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court
• Howell Heflin (Birmingham-Southern) — Former Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court
• Joseph M. Jabar (Colby) — Justice of the Maine State Supreme Court
• Amos W. Jackson (Hanover) — Former Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court
• Beverly Lake Jr. (Wake Forest) — Former Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court
• Louis LeBaron (California-Berkeley) — Former Justice of the Hawaii State Supreme Court
• Darell R. Matlock Jr. (Oklahoma State) — Chief Justice of Cherokee Nation Supreme Court
• William C. Mims (William & Mary) — Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court
• Alfred P. Murrah (Oklahoma City) — Former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
• Lawton R. Nuss (Kansas) — Chief Justice of the Kansas State Supreme Court
• John J. O’Brien (Union-NY) — Former Justice of the New York State Supreme Court
• Edwin J. Peterson (Oregon) — Former Chief Justice of the Oregon State Supreme Court
• Frank Pommersheim (Colgate) — Former Associate Justice for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Supreme Court
• Everett D. Roberts (South Dakota) — Former Justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court (’31–’70)
• Glen A. Severson (South Dakota) — Justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court
• Clifford W. Taylor (Michigan) — Former Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court
• Benjamin C. Thornal (Florida) — Former Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court
• Gerald W. VandeWalle (North Dakota) — Chief Justice of the North Dakota State Supreme Court
• Thomas A. Woodall (Millsaps) — Justice of the Alabama State Supreme Court
• Clarence C. Young (Nevada-Reno) — Former Chief Justice of the Nevada State Supreme Court, former U.S. Representative from Nevada

Military

• Col. Thomas D. Akers (Missouri S&T) — Former astronaut
• Maj. Gregory “Pappy” Boyington (Washington) — Medal of Honor recipient
• Lt. Gen. Richard “Tex” Brown (Texas Christian) — Assistant Vice Chief of Staff USAF
• Gen. Bruce C. Clarke (Tennessee) – Commander Continental Army Command
• Lt. Gen. John B. Conaway (Evansville) – Commanding General of the National Guard
• Col. Charles B. DeBellevue (Southwestern Louisiana) — Flying ‘Ace’ in Vietnam, Air Force Cross
• Gen. Russell Doutherty (Louisville) — Commander in Chief of the Strategic Air Command
• Gen. James H. Doolittle (California-Berkeley) – Medal of Honor recipient
• Lt. Gen. James Elles (Alabama/West Point) – Commanding General 3^rd Army
• Lt. Findley (Arizona State) — Vice Commander, Air Mobility Command USAF
• Lt. Gen. Thomas Healy Jr. — Massachusetts/West Point – Commandant of the Army War College
• Gen. William Hobbins (Colorado) – Commander, US Air Forces Europe
• Lt. Gen. William E. Ingram Jr. (North Carolina State) – Director of the Army National Guard
• Gen. Andrew P. Iosue (Massachusetts) – Commander of the Air Training Command
• Lt. Gen. William Lawton (WPI/West Point) – Comptroller of the United States Army
• Vice Adm. Walter B. Massenburg (Washington & Jefferson – Commander of Naval Air Systems Command
• Maj. Gen. James M. McDonald (Tennessee-Chattanooga) — Commanding General U.S. Army Cadet Command
• Col. Richard Henry McDow (Alabama) — POW, 5 Distinguished Flying Crosses
• Gen. Montgomery Meigs (Colgate/West Point) — Commanding General of the 7^th Army
• Gen. Frank Mildren (Nevada-Reno) — Commander, Allied Land Forces Southeast Europe
• Maj. Gen. Luther D. Miller (Thiel) — former Chief of Chaplains, U.S. Army
• Vice Admiral John Harris Nicholson (Nevada-Reno/Naval Academy) — Submariner
• Lt. Gen. David Ott (Auburn/West Point) — Commander of VII Corps
• Maj. Gen. Roy H. Parker (William Jewell) — Former Chief of Chaplains, United states Army
• Lt. Gen. Ken Peck (Indiana State) — Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center
• Cpt. Richard N. Richards (Missouri) — Former astronaut
• Brig. Gen. William Seawell (Arkansas/West Point) — Commandant of Cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy; COB/CEO of Pan American World Airways
• Lt. Gen. Carl Smith (Franklin & Marshall) — Assistant Vice Chief of Staff of the USAF
• Maj. Gen. R. Martin Umbarger (Evansville) — Adjutant General Indiana National Guard
• Col. Terrence W. Wilcutt (Western Kentucky) — Former astronaut

Government and politics

• Thomas G. Abernethy (Cumberland) — Former U.S. Representative from Mississippi (31 years)
• Sergio S. Balanzino (Wisconsin) — Former Italian Ambassador to Canada, former Acting Secretary General of NATO, former Deputy Secretary General of NATO
• Willard L. Beaulac (Brown) — Former Ambassador to Paraguay, Colombia, Cuba, Chile, Argentina
• Ellis Y. Berry (South Dakota) — Former U.S. Representative from South Dakota (20 years)
• G. Russell Boucher (Toronto) — Former member of the Canadian Parliament
• John B. Breaux (Southwestern Louisiana) — U.S. Representative from Louisiana from 1972 to 1987 and US Senator from Louisiana from 1987 to 2005.
• Omar T. Burleson (Cumberland) — Former U.S. Representative from Texas (31 years)
• Donald Louis Carcieri (Brown) — Former Governor of Rhode Island
• Ewan Clague (Washington) — Commissioner of Labor Statistics for the Department of Labor (20 years)
• Maxwell Cleland (Stetson) — Secretary of the American Battle Monuments Commission, U.S. Senator, Administrator of the Veterans Administration
• Dennis M. Daugaard (South Dakota) — Governor of South Dakota
• Lloyd Alton Doggett (Texas) — U.S. Representative from Texas, former Justice of the Texas State Supreme Court
• Wendell H. Ford (Kentucky) — Former Governor and Senator from Kentucky
• Alan Scott Frumin (Colgate) — Former parliamentarian of the United States Senate
• Dr. Gerhard Gmoser (Southern California) — former Austrian Ambassador
• Dr. Henry Francis Grady (California-Berkeley) — 1^st US Ambassador to India
• Joe F. Harris (Georgia) — Former Governor of Georgia
• Harold T. Johnson (Nevada-Reno) — U.S. Congressman from California (21 years)
• James Robert Jones (Oklahoma) — COB of the World Affairs Councils of America, former US Representative, former Chairman of the American Stock Exchange, former Ambassador to Mexico
• Melville C. Kelly (Muskingum/Pittsburgh) — Former U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania (20 years)
• John Heddens “Jack” Kingston (Georgia) — U.S. Congressman from Georgia (20 years)
• James T. Lloyd (Culver-Stockton) — Former U.S. Congressman from Missouri (20 years)
• Freddie R. Marshall (Millsaps) — Former U.S. Secretary of Labor
• Gary Matthews (Drury) — Ambassador to the Island of Malta and the Balkans, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations
• Joe Dan Osceola (Georgetown) — former President of the Seminole Tribe
• Ronald Ernest “Ron” Paul (Gettysburg) — U.S. Congressman from Texas (23 years)
• Dr. R. Richard Rubottom, Jr. (Southern Methodist) — Former Ambassador to Argentina, former President of SMU
• Charles Hinton Russell (Nevada-Reno) — Former Governor of Nevada, former U.S. Representative from Nevada
• Alfred A. Taylor (Cumberland) — Former Governor of Tennessee, former U.S. Representative from Tennessee
• Paul S. Trible Jr. (Hampton-Sydney) — President of Christopher Newport (16 years), former US Senator and former U.S. Representative, both from Virginia
• Harry S. Truman (Missouri) — Former President of the United States, former Vice President of the United States, U.S. Senator from Missouri