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This is a list of Kappa Alpha Society members. The Kappa Alpha Society (ΚΑ), founded in 1825, was the progenitor of the modern fraternity system in North America. As of 2015, there are nine active chapters in the United States and Canada.[1] Over the course of its nearly 200-year history, The Kappa Alpha Society has produced a substantial number of notable members in widely varied fields.

Notable alumni

Notable Member Key: Member Name, Chapter, Date Joined (not year of graduation)

Law and politics

Great Britain

Member of Parliament

Canada

Prime Minister
Supreme Court
  • Ian Binnie, McGill University, 1960. Justice of Canadian Supreme Court from 1987 to present.
Members of Federal Parliament
Provincial Premiers
Diplomatic Corps
  • Robert R. Fowler, McGill University, 1962. Deputy Minister for National Defense, 1986-1995. Permanent Ambassador to the United Nations, 1995-2000. President of the U. N. Security Council. Ambassador to Italy, 2000-2006.
  • William Duncan Herridge, University of Toronto, 1905. Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States, 1931-1935. Mastermind of the Canadian version of the New Deal, 1935.
  • Andrew George Latta McNaughton, McGill University, 1905. First Canadian Ambassador to the UN, 1950.
  • Michael Holcombe Wilson, University of Toronto, 1955. Ambassador to the United States, March, 2006–2009.
  • Humphrey Hume Wrong, University of Toronto, 1911. Permanent Delegate to the League of Nations, 1937-1946. Ambassador to the United States, 1946-1953. Under Secretary of State for External Affairs, 1953-1954.
Member of Provincial Parliament (Ontario)
Member of the Legislative Assembly (Alberta)
  • Donald Ross Getty, University of Western Ontario, 1953. See Canadian Politics and Law: Provincial Premiers
Senior Provincial Courts
  • Hugh Farthing, McGill University, 1909. Justice, Supreme Court of Alberta.
  • Frederick Drummond Hogg, University of Toronto, 1897. Justice, Supreme Court of Ontario, 1935-1945. Justice, Ontario Court of Appeal, 1945-1957.
  • Arthur Courtney Kingstone, University of Toronto, 1892. Justice, Ontario Supreme Court.
  • Errol Malcolm McDougall, McGill University, 1900. Justice, Quebec Court of Appeal, 1942-1949.
  • Philip Edward MacKenzie, University of Toronto, 1892. Justice, Saskatchewan Court of Appeals, 1927-1946.
  • John Wilson Morden, University of Toronto, 1952. Associate Chief Justice, Ontario Court of Appeal, 1978-2003.
  • Kenneth Gibson Morden, University of Toronto, 1928. Justice, Ontario Court of Appeal, 1957-.
  • John Parker, University of Toronto, 1934. Justice, Territorial Court of the Yukon.

United States

Executive Branch
  • William John Bennett, Williams College, 1962. U. S. Secretary of Education, 1985–1988 and Drug Czar, 1989-1990. Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1881-1985. Chairman, Republican National Committee.
  • James Fowler Dwight, Williams College, 1845. Assistant U. S. Attorney in charge of final elimination of the slave trade, 1857.
  • Francis Ellington Leupp, Williams College 1866. U. S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1905-1909.
  • Ganson Purcell, Williams College, 1924. Chairman, Security and Exchange Commission, 1942-1946.
Congress
  • Thomas Allen, Union College, 1832. U.S. Representative from Missouri, 2nd District, 1881-1882 Railroad President. Built first railroad west of the Mississippi. (Died in office).
  • Leander Babcock, Union College, 1828. U.S. Representative from New York, 23rd District, 1851-1853.
  • Charles Lewis Beale, Union College, 1842. U.S. Representative from New York, 12th District, 1859-1861.
  • Gabriel Bouck, Union College, 1846. Wisconsin State Attorney General, 1858-1860. U.S. Representative from Wisconsin, 6th District, 1877-1881.
  • Edward Stuyvesant Bragg, Hobart College, 1844. Wisconsin State Senator 1868-1869. U.S. Representative from Wisconsin, 1877-1883 (5th District) and 1885-1887 (2nd District); U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, 1889–1902; U.S. Consul General in Havana, 1902–1903; U.S. Consul General in Hong Kong, 1903-1906 (resigned). See Armed Forces
  • John M. Carroll, Union College, 1845. U.S. Representative from New York, 18th District, 1871-1873.
  • Charles T. Dunwell, Cornell University, 1870. U.S. Representative from New York, 3rd District, 1903-1908 (Died in office).
  • Rodney Frelinghuysen, Hobart College, 1969. New Jersey General Assembly, 1983-1994. U.S. Representative from New Jersey, 11th District, 1995–present.
  • Lewis Henry, Cornell University, 1905. U.S. Representative from New York, 37th District, 1922-1923.
  • Levi Augustus Mackey, Union College, 1835. U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 20th District, 1875-1879.
  • Jesse O. Norton, Williams College, 1833. U.S. Representative from Illinois, 11th District, 1853–1857, 1863-1865.
  • Edward Overton Jr., Princeton, 1854. U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 15th District, 1877-1881.
  • Charles Edward Pearce, Union College, 1861. U.S. Representative from Missouri, 12th District, 1897-1901.
  • Rufus Wheeler Peckham (1809-1873), Union College, 1826. U.S. Representative from New York, 14th District, 1853–1855; Justice of the New York Supreme Court, 1861–1869; Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, 1870-1873 (died in office).
  • John B. Steele, Williams College, 1835. U.S. Representative from New York, 1861-65 (11th District 1861-63, 13th District 1863-65).
U.S. Senate
  • James Dixon, Williams College, 1833. U.S. Representative from Connecticut, 1st District, 1845–1849; Connecticut State Senate, 1st District, 1849; U.S. Senator from Connecticut, 1857-1869.
  • Preston King, Union College, 1826. U.S. Representative from New York, 18th District, 1843–1847, 1849–1853; U.S. Senator from New York, 1857-1863. Principal organizer of the Republican Party.
State Legislative Leaders
  • Samuel Bancroft Bird, Cornell University, 1917. Majority Leader of Delaware House of Representatives, 1944-1946.
  • Gabriel Bouck, Union College, 1846. Speaker, Wisconsin Assembly.
  • John Peter Jackson Jr, Princeton University, 1853. Speaker, New Jersey Assembly, 1863.
  • Dr. Charles Abner Phelps, Union College, 1839. Speaker, Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1856. President, Massachusetts Senate, 1858.
  • John Arnold Tibbits, Williams College, 1860. Speaker, Connecticut House of Representatives, 1886.
Governors
  • Herbert James Hagerman, Cornell University, 1890. Second secretary, U.S. Embassy to Russia, 1898–1901; presented the Order of St. Anne (Russia) by the Czar, 1901; Governor of New Mexico Territory, 1906-07.
  • Henry Martyn Hoyt, Williams College, 1849. Governor of Pennsylvania, 1879-83.
  • Carlton Skinner, Wesleyan University (as a local). First civilian Territorial Governor of Guam, 1949-1953. "The George Washington of Guam."
  • Wade Warren Thayer, Hobart College, 1891. Acting Governor of Hawaii. Attorney General of Hawaii. Territorial Secretary of Hawaii.
  • Horace White, Cornell University, 1883. Member of the New York State Senate, 1896–1908; Lieutenant Governor of New York, 1909–1910; Governor of New York, 1910-1911.
State and Territorial Executive Branches
  • William Fessenden Allen, Williams College, 1848. Collector General of Customs, Kingdom of Hawaii, 1864-1883. Privy Council, Kingdom of Hawaii. Member, Advisory Council and Constitutional Convention, Republic of Hawaii.
  • Gabriel Bouck, Union College, 1846. Attorney General of Wisconsin, 1858-1860.
  • Theodore P. Gilman, Williams College, 1862. Comptroller of New York State, 1909. Drafted the original proposal for the legislation that created the Federal Reserve Banking System.
  • Rev. Fletcher John Hawley, Union College, 1838. President, Colonial Council of Danish West Indies (now U. S. Virgin Islands).
  • Nelson K. Hopkins, Union College, 1841. Comptroller of New York, 1871-1875.
  • Frederick Harvey Jackson, Cornell University, 1869. Lt. Governor of Rhode Island, 1904-1907.
  • Abraham Lansing, Williams College, 1852. Treasurer of New York, 1874.
  • Wheeler Hazard Peckham, Union College, 1851. Appointed New York City District Attorney by Governor Grover Cleveland, 1884. Prosecuted New York Mayor Abraham Hall and "Boss" Tweed of Tammany Hall for corruption. Appointed to United States Supreme Court in 1894 by President Grover Cleveland. Not confirmed by U. S. Senate.
  • Henry Rufus Pierson, Union College, 1843. Chancellor of the University of New York, 1881-1889.
  • Edward Regan, Hobart College, 1949. Comptroller of New York State, 1978-1993. President, Baruch College, 2000-2004.
  • Clark Williams, Williams College, 1888. Superintendent of Banking of New York, 1907-1909. Comptroller of New York, 1909-1911.
U.S. Supreme Court
  • Ward E. Hunt, Union College, 1828. Founder of the New York Republican Party, 1856. Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1872-1882.
Senior State Courts
  • James Denison Colt, Williams College, 1836. Justice, Supreme Court of Massachusetts, 1865–1866, 1868-1881.
  • Francis R. E. Cornell, Union College 1840. Attorney General of Minnesota, 1868-1874. Justice, Supreme Court of Minnesota, 1875-1881.
  • George Franklin Danforth, Union College, 1838. Justice, New York Court of Appeals, 1879-1889.
  • John Augustine Dooley III, Union College, 1962. Justice, Supreme Court of Vermont.
  • Hulbert Fellows Fairchild, Williams College, 1836. Justice, Supreme Court of Arkansas, 1860.
  • Frank H. Hiscock, Cornell University, 1871. Justice, New York Supreme Court, 1896-1906. Justice New York Court of Appeals, 1906-1926. Chief Judge of New York, 1916-1926. Chairman of the Board, Cornell University, 1917-1939.
  • Levi Hubbell, Union College, 1825. Chief Justice of Wisconsin, 1853-1856.
  • Ward E. Hunt, Union College, 1828. Chief Justice, New York Court of Appeals, 1865-1872.
  • John Hanson Kennard, University of Virginia, 1857. Justice, Supreme Court of Louisiana 1870.
  • Charles B. Lawrence, Union College, 1840. Chief Justice of Illinois, 1864-1873.
  • Rufus Wheeler Peckham, Union College, 1826. Justice, Supreme Court of New York, 1859-1870. Justice, New York Court of Appeals, 1870-1873.
  • John Knickerbocker Porter, Union College, 1835. Justice, New York Court of Appeals, 1864-1868.
  • Algernon Sidney Randolph, Union College, 1828. Chief Justice of Mississippi.
  • Clarence John Shearn, Cornell University, 1886. Justice, New York Appellate Division, 1916-1919. He had been the 1908 nominee of the Independence League for Governor of New York.
  • John Wells, Williams College, 1838. Justice, Supreme Court of Massachusetts, 1866-1875.
Non-Elective Politics
  • Augustus Schell, Union College, 1830. Leader in Democratic Party politics. Chairman, New York State Democratic Party, 1853-1856. Chairman, Democratic Party National Committee, 1860 and 1872-1876. Succeeded "Boss" Tweed as head of Tammany Hall in 1872 after ousting Tweed over the "Tweed Ring" Scandals. Ran for Governor of New York, 1852. Ran for Mayor of New York City, 1878. Collector of the Port of New York, 1857-1861. Principal associate of "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt as he built his railroad empire.

Armed Forces

Canada

United States

Other

Religion

Education

  • Alfred Amos Abbott, Union College, 1841. President, Peabody Institute.
  • Samuel Rogers Adams, Wesleyan University (as a local). President, Moore's Hill College.
  • Donald Kinney Angell, University of Pennsylvania, 1927. Secretary of the University of Pennsylvania, 1946-1951. Executive Vice President, University of Pennsylvania, 1956-.
  • James Phinney Baxter III, Williams College, 1913. President, Williams College, 1937-1961. Winner of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for History.
  • Edgar Frederick Beckham, Wesleyan University (as a local). Associate Provost, Wesleyan University, 1969-1973. Dean of the College, Wesleyan University, 1973-1990. Chairman, Connecticut Board of Education, 1992-1995.
  • Charles Wilfrid Brennan, Lehigh University, 1960. Dean of Lehigh University.
  • Dr. Alan Emerson Cameron, McGill University, 1908. President, Nova Scotia Technical College, 1947-1957.
  • Paul Ansel Chadbourne, Williams College, 1846. President, University of Massachusetts, 1867 and 1882-1883. President, University of Wisconsin, 1868-1870. President, Williams College, 1872-1881.
  • Charles F. Chandler, Union College, 1958. Organizer and first President of the American Chemical Society. President, New York College of Pharmacy, 1867-1898.
  • Peter Clark, Union College, 1826. President, Washington College (MD), 1828-1831.
  • Dr. David Copeland, Wesleyan University (as a local). President, Hillsboro College.
  • Dr. Thomas Frederick Crane, Cornell University, 1868. Dean, Cornell University, 1896-1909. Acting President, Cornell University, 1899 and 1912.
  • Amos Dean, Union College, 1826. Organizer Albany Medical College, 1838. Organizer, Albany Law School, 1851. President, Albany Law School, 1851-1868. Founder, Young Men's Association for the Mutual Improvement of Albany and the Albany Library.. Manager, Albany Normal School (now SUNY Albany). Founding President, University of Iowa, 1855-1859.
  • Rev. Frederick Dean, Union College 1833. President, Poydras College, 1850-1851.
  • Gordon P. Eaton, Wesleyan University (as a local). Provost and Academic Vice President, Texas A&M University, 1983-1986. President, Iowa State University, 1986-1990. Director, Lamont-Doherty Laboratory, 1990-1994. Director, United States Geological Survey, 1994-1997.
  • William D. Gurowitz, Cornell University, 1980. Director Chemistry Department, Cornell University, 1968-1971. Vice President for Campus Affairs, Cornell University, 1971-1990.
  • John Cummings Hetherston, University of Pennsylvania, 1945. Secretary of the University of Pennsylvania, 1956-. Vice President for Planning, University of Pennsylvania.
  • Rev. Telfair Hodgson, Princeton University, 1855. Vice-Chancellor (President), University of the South.
  • Henry Hopkins (Clergy), Williams College, 1856. President Williams College, 1902-1908.
  • Thomas Hun, Union College, 1825. Organizer, Albany Medical College, 1838 and Professor 1839-1858.
  • Rev. Francis Theodore Ingalls, Williams College, 1863. President Drury College, 1887-1892.
  • Lewis Melvin Johnson, Williams College, 1857. President New Jersey State Normal School (now The College of New Jersey).
  • Dr. Matias Perez y Ponce, Wesleyan University (as a local). President, Cagayan Teachers College (Philippine Islands), 1948-1980.
  • Rev. Joshua Phelps, Union College, 1833. President Alexander College, 1853–1857.
  • Rev. Eliphalet Nott Potter, Union College, 1858. President, Union College 1871-1884. President, Hobart College, 1884-1896. President, Cosmopolitan University.
  • Rev. Villeroy Dibble Reed, Union College, 1833. President, Alexander College, 1857-1861.
  • Edward V. Regan, Hobart College, 1949. President, Jerome Levy Economics Institute, 1993-2000. President, Baruch College, 2000-2004.
  • Rev. William Charles Roberts, Princeton University, 1853. President, Lake Forest University, 1886-1892. President, Central University of Kentucky, 1898-1903.
  • Dr. Robert A. Rosenbaum, Wesleyan University (as a local). Dean of the Sciences, Wesleyan University, 1963-1965. Provost, Wesleyan University, 1965-1970. Academic Vice President, Wesleyan University, 1967-1970. Acting President, Wesleyan University, 1970. Chancellor, Wesleyan University, 1970-1973. Chairman, Project to Increase Mastery of Mathematics and Science (PIMMS).
  • Dr. Charles Jones Ashmead Schaeffer, Union College, 1865. President Iowa State University, 1887-1898.
  • Laurenus Clark Seelye, Union College, 1855. First President, Smith College, 1873-1910.
  • James Leonard Thayer, University of Western Ontario, 1954. President Neuchatel Junior College (Switzerland).
  • James Etherington Trimble, Williams College 1854. President, Farmersville College, 1859-1862.
  • Rev. Edward Jefferson Willis, Williams College, 1840. Founding President, Alderson-Broaddus College 1876-1887. President Shelby College, 1887.
  • Leonard Woods, Union College, 1826. President, Bowdoin College, 1839-1866.

Medicine

Sciences and engineering

  • Frederick Walker Baldwin, University of Toronto, 1900. As member of Alexander Graham Bell's Aerial Experiment Association made the first public flight in American aviation on March 12, 1908. Director, Graham Bell Labs.
  • Charles Brady King, Cornell University, 1887. Designer of the pneumatic hammer. Designer of first automobile in Detroit.
  • John Alexander Douglas McCurdy, University of Toronto, 1902. Aviator with Alexander Graham Bell's Aerial Experiment Association. Organizer of the Canadian aviation industry. Lieutenant Governor, Nova Scotia.
  • Lewis Henry Morgan, Union College, 1839. "Father of the Science of Anthropology" Morgan's theories of historical development were the basis for Marx and Engels (according to Marx and Engels). President, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1879.

Arts and humanities

  • Oliver Bronson Capen, Hobart College, 1898. Publisher and author.
  • Hume Cronyn, McGill University, 1930. Actor. Was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1944.
  • Thomas Jefferson Farnham, Union College, 1831. Leader of one of the earliest overland expeditions to explore the American West. His books were influential in opening the Oregon Trail and California.
  • Nathan Fillion University of Alberta, 1994 - Saving Private Ryan, Firefly, Serenity, Castle, Lost, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Two Guys a Girl and a Pizza Place, One Life to Live, Desperate Housewives, Slither.
  • Theodore P. Gilman, Williams College, 1862. From 1898 to 1908 presented the plans that Congress adopted to establish the Federal Reserve Banking System.
  • Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Union College, 1856. Author and editor.
  • Raymond Hart Massey, University of Toronto, 1914. Actor. Was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1940.
  • Christopher McDonald, Hobart College, 1977. Has acted in over 85 films along with numerous television and theater productions, commonly known for his character "Shooter McGavin" in Happy Gilmore (1996).
  • Ronald D. Moore, Cornell University, 1984. Writer and Producer of TV and film. Notably Star Trek and the remake of Battlestar Galactica. Two-time winner of Hugo Award for Excellence in Science Fiction.
  • Earl A. Powell III, Williams College, 1963. Currently the Director of the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, DC.
  • Archibald Rutledge, Union College, 1905. Poet-laureate of South Carolina, author of Home by the River.
  • Naren Shankar, Cornell University, 1981. Writer/Editor/Producer for television. Science Consultant, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Writer/Editor, Star Trek: Next Generation. Writer, The Outer Limits and Farscape. Executive Producer, CSI. Winner Emmy Award. Nominee for two additional Emmy Awards. Winner, Writers' Guild of Canada Award.
  • Leland Stowe, Wesleyan University (as a local). Pulitzer Prize for Journalism, 1930. Runner-up for a second Pulitzer in 1940, as war correspondent in World War II.
  • Dr. Lawrence Rogers Thompson, Wesleyan University (as a local). 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Biography of Robert Frost. Professor of English, Princeton University.
  • John Kirk Train Varnedoe, Williams College, 1964. Former Chief Curator of painting and sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, 1988-2001. Was dubbed “the most powerful man in the modern art world,” by Newsweek before his death in 2003.
  • David Wilson, Union College, 1838. Author. His Autobiography of Solomon Northrup was second only to Uncle Tom's Cabin in popularizing the anti-slavery movement.
  • James N. Wood, Williams College, 1960. Former President and Director of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1980-2004.
  • Donald P. Dulchinos, Union College, 1978. Author. Neurosphere: The Convergence of Evolution, Group Mind, and the Internet; Pioneer of Inner Space: The Life of Fitzhugh Ludlow, Hasheesh Eater; and Forbidden Sacraments: The Survival of Shamanism in Western Civilization.

Business

Sports

  • Donald Getty, University of Western Ontario, 1953. Canadian Football League, 1955-1960.
  • John Douglas Gray, University of Western Ontario, 1950. Canadian Football League, 1951-1955.
  • Merle Gulick, Hobart College, 1927. All-American in Football and Lacrosse. College Football Hall of Fame. Chairman, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Board of Trustees, 1950-1961.
  • Rev. Donald Bruce MacDonald, University of Toronto, 1892. President Canadian Amateur Athletic Union, 1919-1921. Chairman Board of Governors, University of Toronto, 1906-1941.
  • Douglas Albert MacKenzie, University of Western Ontario, 1957. Canadian Football, 1959.
  • Richard William Duncan Pound, McGill University, 1957. Former Olympic athlete (1960); Gold, Silver and Bronze medalist at the 1962 Commonwealth Games; Canadian champion (1958, 1960, 1961 and 1962); Secretary General of the Canadian Olympic Committee, 1968–1976; President of the Canadian Olympic Committee, 1977–1982; International Olympic Committee member (IOC), 1978–present; Vice-President of the IOC, 1987–1991 and 1996–2000; Chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), 1999–present; Chancellor of McGill University, 1999–present; Officer of the Order of Canada, 1992 and Officer of the National Order of Quebec, 1993.
  • Dr. Ted Nicholas Roman, University of Western Ontario, 1955. Canadian Football League, 1959.
  • Dave Sapunjis, University of Western Ontario, 1989. CFL Stampeders, 1990-1997. All-Canadian All-Stars. Most Valuable Canadian in Three Grey Cups.
  • Clinton Wyckoff, Cornell University, 1892. All-American in Football, 1895. College Football Hall of Fame.
  • James "Jim" Joy, University of Western Ontario, 1960. Legendary Rowing Coach, W' Club Hall of Fame Inductee, founder of "Craftsbury Sculling". Author of The Mind’s Eye: The Evolution of the Athletes’ Skills and Consciousness, Hanlan’s Spirit: Training for Flow and Beyond the Centaur: A lifetime of Searching for the Integral[2] [3]

References

  1. ^ https://www.ka.org/public3.asp
  2. ^ http://sportsenergygroup.com/about-us/james-joy/
  3. ^ http://www.alumni.westernu.ca/connect/alumni/james-c-joy.html
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