![]() When the Pi Phis presented the portrait of Grace Coolidge to the nation, Mrs. Henry A.’s father, Henry Cantwell Wallace, served as Secretary of Agriculture under Calvin Coolidge. She was an early member of the Pi Beta Phi chapter at Iowa State University. ** Henry Agard Wallace’s mother was (Carrie) May Brodhead Wallace. The Flat Hat is also the name of the college’s student newspaper. Society was revived at the College of William and Mary in May, 1972. It is believed to be the precursor of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, which was established at the same institution in 1776. The Flat Hat Club was founded at the College of William and Mary in 1750. * Thomas Jefferson, the nation’s second Vice President and third President was a member of the Flat Hat Club. The list of Presidents and First Ladies in fraternities and sororities Kamala Harris, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Howard University Michael Pence, Phi Gamma Delta, Hanover College (served as his chapter’s president) Bush, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Yale University, became Presidentĭan Quayle, Delta Kappa Epsilon, DePauw University Nelson Rockefeller, Psi Upsilon, Dartmouth College Gerald Ford, Delta Kappa Epsilon, University of Michigan, became President Cephas, Grand President of Chi Delta Mu, pins the fraternity’s badge on Senator Hubert H. He was also an honorary member of Alpha Phi Alpha and Chi Delta Mu, a fraternity founded at Howard University for blacks in Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy or Doctors who graduated in these professions Chi Delta Mu is no longer in existence.ĭr. Hubert Humphrey, Phi Delta Chi, University of Minnesota. Johnson, no affiliation, became President Richard Nixon, no affiliation, became President at a later time Barkley, Delta Tau Delta, Emory University Truman, Lambda Chi Alpha and Alpha Delta Gamma, honorary member, became PresidentĪlben W. Henry Agard Wallace, Delta Tau Delta, Iowa State University** John Nance Garner, Pi Kappa Alpha, Vanderbilt University Thomas Riley Marshall, Phi Gamma Delta, Wabash CollegeĬalvin Coolidge, Phi Gamma Delta, Amherst College, became PresidentĬharles G. James Schoolcraft Sherman, Sigma Phi, Hamilton College He served as Phi Gamma Delta’s Archon President from 1903-05. Fairbanks, Phi Gamma Delta, Ohio Wesleyan College. Theodore Roosevelt, Delta Kappa Epsilon and Alpha Delta Phi, Harvard University, became PresidentĬharles W. Garret Hobart, Delta Phi, Rutgers College (now Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) The Rainbow of Delta Tau Delta (October 1885) noted that there were “no fraternities at Hanover until many years after his college days were over.”Īdlai Stevenson I, Phi Delta Theta, Centre College Arthur, Psi Upsilon, Union College, became President Colfax and the Betas went out the back door where he delivered “an extemporaneous lecture to the mob which, for point and pungency, excelled even his brilliant platform efforts.” The event was captured in the Chicago papers and the offending students made a public apology, spurred on by the college authorities.Ĭhester A. Mayhem from the other fraternities ensued they barred the front door. The Exchanges section in the April, 1885 Anchora of Delta Gamma noted, “The third article gives us a short sketch of Honorable Schuyler Colfax, who was an honorary member of Beta Theta Pi, but exhibited all of the enthusiasm of an active one.” Another account in the Beta magazine, tells of Colfax, a “whole souled Beta,” lecturing in Evanston, Illinois, on January 17, 1876, accepting an invitation from the University of Chicago Beta chapter to attend a chapter meeting. Schuyler Colfax – Beta Theta Pi (Honorary). I’ve included all the names from Colfax on, even those who were not fraternity men, or college graduates, for that matter, because these men don’t get much publicity.Īnd in 2021, the first sorority woman on this list, Kamala Harris, a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., became Vice President. Here is a list of Vice Presidents since 1869,* when Schuyler Colfax became the first fraternity man to become Vice President. Vice Presidents have been in a fraternity or sorority? A goodly number, it turns out.
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