Skull and Bones Founders

William Huntington Russell (1832), Connecticut State Legislator
Alphonso Taft (1832), U.S. Attorney General (1876–1877); Secretary of War (1876); Ambassador to Austria-Hungary (1882) and Russia (1884–1885); father of William Howard Taft

1830s

Morrison R. Waite (1837), Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
William M. Evarts (1837), U.S. Secretary of State; Attorney General; Senator; grandson of Roger Sherman

1840s

Timothy Dwight (Bones 1849), President of Yale (1886-1899) and one of a number of Bonesmen to go on to posts at the university
Timothy Dwight V (1849), Yale acting Treasurer 1887–1889, Yale President 1886–1899

1850s

Daniel Coit Gilman (1852), president of the University of California, Johns Hopkins University, and the Carnegie Institution; co-founder of the Russell Trust Association
Andrew Dickson White (1853), Co-founder and first President of Cornell University
Chauncey Depew (1855), U.S. Senator (R-New York 1899–1911)

1860s

Simeon Eben Baldwin (1861), Governor and Chief Justice, State of Connecticut; son of Roger Sherman Baldwin
Franklin MacVeagh (1862), US Secretary of the Treasury

1870s

William Howard Taft (Bones 1878), son of the society's co-founder and the first of three Bonesman to become US President
William H. Welch (1870), dean of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Arthur T. Hadley (1876), Yale president 1899-1921
William Howard Taft (1878), 27th President of the United States; Chief Justice of the United States; Secretary of War; son of Alphonso Taft

1880s

Walter Camp (1880), founder of American football
Benjamin Brewster (1882), was the Episcopal Bishop of Maine and Missionary Bishop of Western Colorado.
Amos Alonzo Stagg (1888), College football Hall of Fame coach
Henry L. Stimson (1888), US Secretary of War
George Washington Woodruff (1889), College Hall of Fame football coach, Acting Secretary of the Interior and Pennsylvania state attorney-general
Gifford Pinchot (1889), First Chief of U.S. Forest Service

1890s

Henry S. Graves (1892) co-founder and first Dean, Yale School of Forestry, 2nd chief, U.S. Forest Service, founding member & 4th president Society of American Foresters
Pierre Jay (1892), first chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Henry Sloane Coffin president of the Union Theological Seminary
Harry Payne Whitney (1894), husband of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney; investment banker
Amos Pinchot (1897), progressive leader

1900s

Ashley Day Leavitt (1900), Congregational minister, Harvard Congregational Church, Brookline, Massachusetts, frequent lecturer and public speaker
John Magee (1906), Chaplain at Yale, documenter of Japanese atrocities during the Rape of Nanking, assistant rector at St. John's Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square (Washington, D.C.), father of High Flight poet John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
Percy Rockefeller (1900), director of Brown Brothers Harriman, Standard Oil, and Remington Arms
Charles Seymour (1908), President of Yale 1937–1951

1910s

Archibald MacLiesh (Bones 1915), poet, diplomat, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and Librarian of Congress
Senator Prescott Bush (Bones 1916) has long been rumored to have played a role in Skull and Bones' alleged theft of the skull of Native American leader Geronimo
George L. Harrison (1910), banker; President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, former Chairman of the board of New York Life Insurance Co., and special consultant to fellow Bonesman, Henry L. Stimson.
Robert A. Taft (1910), U.S. Senator (R-Ohio 1939–1953)
Averell Harriman (1913), businessman - founding partner in Harriman Brothers & Company and later Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.; U.S. Ambassador and Secretary of Commerce; Governor of New York; Chairman and CEO of the Union Pacific Railroad, Brown Brothers & Harriman, and the Southern Pacific Railroad
Archibald MacLeish (1915), poet and diplomat
Donald Ogden Stewart (1916), author and screenwriter, Academy Award winner for The Philadelphia Story
Prescott Bush (1916), businessman - founding partner in Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.; U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut 1952–1963), Father of George H. W. Bush, grandfather of George W. Bush
H. Neil Mallon (1917), CEO of Dresser Industries
F. Trubee Davison (1918), Director of Personnel at the CIA
Robert A. Lovett (1918), US Secretary of Defense

1920s

Briton Hadden (1920), co-founder of Time-Life Enterprises
Henry Luce (1920), co-founder of Time-Life Enterprises
John Sherman Cooper (1923), U.S. Senator (R-Kentucky 1946–1949, 1952–1973); member of the Warren Commission
Russell Davenport (1923), editor of Fortune magazine; created Fortune 500 list
F. O. Matthiessen, historian, literary critic
George Herbert Walker, Jr. (1927), financier and co-founder of the New York Mets; uncle to President George Herbert Walker Bush

1930s

H. J. Heinz II (1931), Heir to H. J. Heinz Company; father of H. John Heinz III
Jonathan Brewster Bingham (1936), U.S. Representative (D-New York
Potter Stewart (1936), U.S. Supreme Court Justice
William P. Bundy (1939), State Department liaison for the Bay of Pigs invasion, brother of McGeorge Bundy

1940s

McGeorge Bundy (1940), Special Assistant for National Security Affairs; National Security Advisor; Professor of History, brother of William Bundy
William Sloane Coffin, clergyman and peace activist
James L. Buckley (1944), U.S. Senator (R-New York 1971–1977) and brother of William F. Buckley, Jr.
John Chafee (1947), U.S. Senator; Secretary of the Navy and Governor of Rhode Island; father of Lincoln Chafee
George H. W. Bush (1948), 41st President of the United States; 11th Director of Central Intelligence; son of Prescott Bush; father of George W. Bush; his Skull and Bones nickname was "Magog"

1950s

Evan G. Galbraith (1950), US ambassador to France; managing director of Morgan Stanley
William F. Buckley, Jr. (1950), founder of National Review,[55] former CIA officer.
William Henry Draper III (1950), Chair of United Nations Development Programme and Export-Import Bank of the United States
William H. Donaldson (1953), appointed chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission by George W. Bush; founding dean of Yale School of Management; co-founder of DLJ investment firm
David McCullough (1955), U.S. historian; two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
R. Inslee Clark, Jr. (1957), former Director of Undergraduate Admissions for Yale College; former Headmaster of Horace Mann School
Winston Lord (1959), Chairman of Council on Foreign Relations; Ambassador to China; Assistant U.S. Secretary of State

1960s

David L. Boren (1963), Governor of Oklahoma, U.S. Senator, President of the University of Oklahoma
Frederick W. Smith (1966), founder of FedEx
John F. Kerry (1966), U.S. Senator (D-Massachusetts 1985.present); Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts 1983–1985; 2004 Democratic Presidential nominee
Don Schollander, Developer; Author; US Olympic Hall of Fame inductee; Four time Olympic Gold medallist swimmer.
Victor Ashe (1967), Tenn. State House (1968–1975); Tenn. State Senate (1976–1984); Mayor of Knoxville, Tenn. (1988–2003); appointed Ambassador to Poland (2004–Present) by George W. Bush
George W. Bush (1968), grandson of Prescott Bush; son of George H. W. Bush; 46th Governor of Texas; 43rd President of the United States. His nickname was "Temporary" since he failed to choose a name.
Robert McCallum, Jr (1968), Ambassador to Australia
Roy Leslie Austin (1968), appointed ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago by George W. Bush
Stephen A. Schwarzman (1969), co-founder The Blackstone Group

1970s to present

George Lewis (1974), trombonist and composer
Earl G. Graves, Jr. (1984), president of Black Enterprise
Edward S. Lampert (1984), founder of ESL Investments; chairman of Sears Holdings Corporation
Dana Milbank (1990), political reporter for The Washington Post
Austan Goolsbee (1991), staff director to and chief economist of President Barack Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board.