Skull and Bones, a secret society at Yale University, was founded in 1832. Until 1971, the organization published annual membership rosters, which were kept at Yale's library. In this list of notable Bonesmen, the number in parentheses represents the cohort year of Skull and Bones, as well as their graduation year.
There are no official rosters published after 1982 and membership for later years is speculative. Some news organizations refer to them as a power elite.[1]
Founding members (1832–1833 academic year)[edit]
19th century[edit]
- John Wallace Houston (1834), Secretary of State of Delaware (1841–1844), associate judge Delaware Superior Court (1855–1893)[2]
- John Hubbard Tweedy (1834), delegate to the United States Congress from Wisconsin Territory (1847–1848)[2]
- William Henry Washington (1834), Whig U.S. Congressman from North Carolina (1841–1843)[2]
- John Edward Seeley (1835), US Representative from New York[2]
- Thomas Anthony Thacher (1835), Professor of Latin at Yale University (1842–1886)[3]:47
- Henry Champion Deming (1836), U.S. Representative from Connecticut[4]:112
- William Maxwell Evarts (1837), U.S. Secretary of State, Attorney General, Senator, grandson of Roger Sherman[3]:131, 199[5]
- Chester Smith Lyman (1837), astronomer, Yale professor of Industrial Mechanics and Physics[2]
- Allen Ferdinand Owen (1837), US Representative from Georgia[2]
- Benjamin Silliman, Jr. (1837), Yale professor of chemistry[3]:64
- Morrison Remmick Waite (1837), Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court[3]:89
- Joseph B. Varnum, Jr. (1838), Speaker of the New York State Assembly[2]
- Richard Dudley Hubbard (1839), Governor of Connecticut, US Representative[2]
- Thomas Marshall Key (1838), Colonel U. S. Army, Political Adviser to Major General George B. McClellan /