Delta Kappa Epsilon Prominent Alumni

If there is anything the general public knows about DKE, it is the names of some of the Fraternity's members. DKE is a small fraternity as fraternities go. What is exceptional about prominent DKE alumni is not that there are so many of them, but that they represent such a large percentage of the membership. Here are just a few... 

Presidents of the United States Rutherford B. Hayes, Delta Chi  Theodore Roosevelt, Alpha  Gerald R. Ford, Omicron  George H. W. Bush, Phi  George W. Bush, Phi  Vice Presidents of the United States  Theodore Roosevelt, Alpha  Gerald R. Ford, Omicron  George H. W. Bush, Phi  J. Danforth Quayle, Psi Phi  Sitting State Governors George Pataki, New York Mike Foster, Zeta Zeta, Louisiana Tony Knowles, Phi, Alaska Don Siegelman, Psi, Alabama 106th U. S. Congress Senator Ted Stevens, Theta Rho, Alaska Congressman Cass Ballenger, Sigma, North Carolina Congressman Pete Stark, Sigma Tau, California Newspaper Publishers & Editors Whitelaw Reid, Kappa, Editor-in-chief, New York Tribune William Randolph Hearst, Alpha, Publisher,  Hearst Newspapers Otis Chandler, Sigma Rho, Publisher,  Los Angeles Times Richard J. V. Johnson, Omega Chi, Publisher, Houston Chronicle Eugene Pulliam, Psi Phi, Publisher, Indianapolis Newspapers, Inc. Rance Craine, Psi Phi, Publisher, Crain Communications Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court  John Hessin Clarke, Beta Chi  Harold H. Burton, Theta  Potter Stuart, Phi  Other Famous Dekes  William Simon, Rho - Former Secretary of the Treasury  John F. Akers, Phi - Past President of I.B.M.  Mario Garcia Menocal, Delta Chi - President of the Republic of Cuba  Charles Ives, Phi - Pulitzer Prize winner in Music  Yuan Schikau, Phi - Prime Minister of the Chinese Empire  Henry Cabot Lodge, Alpha - Senate Majority Leader  Rear Admiral Sidney W. Souers, Kappa - first director of the C.I.A.  Melvil Dewey, Sigma - devised the Dewey Decimal System  Charles A. Ellis, Gamma Phi - designed the Golden Gate Bridge  Robert A. Peary, Theta - first man to reach the North Pole  Alan Bean, Omega Chi - Apollo astronaut, walked on the moon  Business Founders, Presidents, and Chairmen  J. Pierpont Morgan, Alpha - financier  Irving H. Chase, Phi - Chase Manhattan Bank  Dean Witter, Jr., Phi - Dean Witter & Co.  Edward Bausch, Beta Phi - Bausch & Lomb Opticals  William W. Wrigley, Phi - Wrigley's Gum  Howard Heinz, Phi - Heinz 57 Varieties  Howard Johnson, Phi - Howard Johnson Motor Inns  James M. Gamble, Lambda - Proctor and Gamble  Herb Kelleher, Gamma Phi - Southwest Airlines Fred Smith, Phi - Federal Express Prominent Sporting Figures  Paul Brown, Kappa - coach of Cleveland Browns and owner of Cincinnati Bengals  Thomas W. Landry, Omega Chi - coach of Dallas Cowboys  Joe Paterno, Upsilon - Penn State football coach  George Steinbrenner, Epsilon - owner of the New York Yankees  Don Schollander, Phi - won four gold medals in swimming in 1964 Olympics  Calvin Hill, Phi - Yale football star  Hugh Culverhouse, Psi - owner of Tampa Bay Buccaneers  A. Bartlett Giamatti, Phi - Commissioner of Major League Baseball  In the Entertainment World  Dick Clark, Phi Gamma - hosted American Bandstand  Harry Hamlin, Theta Zeta - actor  Cole Porter, Phi - composer  Jonathan Winters, Lambda - comedian and writer