Since 1832, the chapters of Alpha Delta Phi have recruited tens of thousands of outstanding young men who have gone on to have distinguished careers. Following is a short, representative list of Alpha Delt alumni:
Theodore Roosevelt (Harvard, 1880), President of the United States
Franklin Roosevelt (Harvard, 1904), President of the United States
Salmon P. Chase (Dartmouth, 1826), Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
Harlan Stone (Amherst, 1894), Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
Henry Brown (Yale, 1856), Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
William Day (Michigan, 1870), Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
Oliver Wendell Holmes (Harvard, 1861), Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
George Shiras, Jr. (Yale, 1853), Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
Harlan Stone (Amherst, 1894), Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
Frederick Gillett (Amherst, 1874), Speaker of the House
Charles Percy (Chicago, 1941), U.S. Senator
Michael Castle (Hamilton, 1961), U.S. Congressman
William Luther (Minnesota, 1967), U.S. Congressman
John Wold (Union, 1938), U.S. Congressman
William Day (Michigan, 1870), Secretary of State
Dwight Davis (Harvard, 1900), Secretary of War
Joshua Chamberlain (Bowdoin, 1852), Governor of Maine
Otto Kerner (Brown, 1930), Governor of Illinois
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (Brown, 1897), financier and philanthropist
David Packard (Stanford, 1934), Founder, Hewlett-Packard
William R. Grace (Columbia, 1900), Founder, W.R. Grace & Co.
Frederick Weyerhaeuser (Yale, 1917), Chairman, Weyerhaeuser Co.
Phillip Pillsbury (Yale, 1924), President, Pillsbury Company
Keith Funston (Trinity College, 1932), President, New York Stock Exchange
Charles Percy (Chicago, 1941), Chairman, Bell & Howell Corporation
Grant Tinker (Dartmouth, 1949), President, NBC
Fay Vincent (Williams, 1960), Commissioner, Major League Baseball
Walter Haas, Jr. (California, 1937), Owner, Oakland A's
Francis Bellamy (Rochester, 1876), Author, Pledge of Allegiance
Thornton Wilder (Yale, 1920), author and playwright
Henry R. Luce (Yale, 1920), Publisher, Time-Life
Robert McCormick (Yale, 1903), Publisher, Chicago Tribune
Robert Ludlum (Wesleyan, 1951), author
Scott Turow (Amherst, 1970), novelist
Chris Miller (Dartmouth, 1961), Co-author, Animal House
John A. Blethen (Dartmouth, 1940) Chairman, Seattle Times