List of Sigma Phi members

Sigma Phi is an American collegiate fraternity. It was founded in 1827 at Union College in Schenectady, New York. Following is a list of some of its notable members.

Art and architecture

Name	Chapter	Notability
Bradford Perkins	Wisconsin, Cornell	Architect and founder of Perkins Eastman Architects
Montgomery Schuyler	Hobart	architect and influential architecture critic in New York City
Philip Will Jr.	Cornell	Architect, co-founder of architecture firm Perkins&Will, and president of the American Institute of Architects

Business

Name	Chapter	Notability
J. Patrick Doyle	Michigan	former CEO of Domino's Pizza
Seth Flowerman	Cornell	Entrepreneur, CEO of PLT Health Solutions
Leonard Jerome	Union	American financier and the maternal grandfather of Winston Churchill
Charles F. Knight	Cornell	chairman and CEO of Emerson Electric
James M. Loree	Union	CEO of Stanley Black & Decker
Charlie Munger	Michigan	former vice-chairman of Berkshire Hathaway
Peter Busch Orthwein	Cornell	founder and chairman of Thor Industries
Howard Potter	Union	American industrialist, investment banker, diplomat and philanthropist, and a partner in Brown Bros. & Co.
Ratan Tata	Cornell	businessman and former chairman of Tata Sons
Jay Walker	Cornell	founder of Priceline

Education

Name	Chapter	Notability
Israel Ward Andrews	Williams	professor and president of Marietta College
Matthew H. Buckham	Vermont	president of the University of Vermont
Mortimer Elwyn Cooley		professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, mechanical and consulting engineer
George W. Eaton	Union	president of Colegate University and Madison University
Stephen Gilman	Princeton	Hispanist, Guggenheim Fellow, professor at Harvard University, Ohio State University, and Princeton University
George Wheeler Hinman	Hamilton	president of Marietta College, publisher of the Chicago Herald and Examiner, editor and manager of Chicago Inter Ocean
Oren Root II	Hamilton	professor of mathematics and natural sciences at Hamilton College; professor of English at the University of Missouri; Presbyterian minister
William A. Shanklin	Hamilton	president of Upper Iowa University and Wesleyan University, Methodist minister
Theodore Sterling	Hobart	president of Kenyon College
M. Woolsey Stryker	Hamilton	president of Hamilton College and Presbyterian minister
Anson J. Upson	Hamilton	Chancellor of the Regents of the University of the State of New York
Andrew Dickson White	Hobart	co-founder and first president of Cornell University, U.S. Ambassador to Germany
William Dwight Whitney	Williams	linguist, professor at Yale University, and first president of the American Philological Association

Entertainment

Name	Chapter	Notability
Nat Faxon	Hamilton	Actor, comedian, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter
Arthur C. Nielsen	Wisconsin	creator of Nielsen ratings

Government and public service

Name	Chapter	Notability
Daniel Butterfield	Union	Assistant Treasurer of the United States, composer of Taps bugle call, Civil War general
Joel Erhardt	Vermont	police commissioner for the New York Police Department, U.S. Marshal for the Eastern District of New York, and the Collector of the Port of New York
John Jay Knox Jr.	Hamilton	Comptroller of the Currency of the United States

Law

Name	Chapter	Notability
Douglass Boardman	Hobart	justice of the Supreme Court of New York, Dean of Cornell Law School
Orsamus Cole	Union	United States Congressman from Wisconsin and 6th Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
George F. Comstock	Union	Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals
John A. Denison	Vermont	judge of the Supreme Court of Colorado and mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts
Thomas Nelson	Williams	Chief Justice of Oregon Territory
Joseph Mullin	Union	justice of the New York Supreme Court, United States Congressman from New York
James Noxon	Hamilton, Union	Member New York Supreme Court and New York politician
Abram B. Olin	Williams	Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and United States Congressman
Enoch Rosekrans	Union	judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Earl Warren	California	Chief Justice of the United States, Governor of California

Literature and journalism

Name	Chapter	Notability
George Grenville Benedict	Vermont	editor and publisher of The Burlington Daily Free Press, Vermont Senate
John Bigelow	Union	historian who edited the complete works of Benjamin Franklin, United States Minister to France, and Secretary of State of New York
Henry Martyn Field	Williams	publisher and editor of The Evangelist
Chester Sanders Lord	Hamilton	editor of the New York Sun	'
Guy E. Shipler		editor of The Churchman, writer for Business Week, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, and Time	'
Mansfield Tracy Walworth	Union	author
William Dwight Whitney	Williams	editor-in-chief of The Century Dictionary, linguist, philologist, lexicographer, and first president of the American Philological Association
Samuel Wilkeson Jr.	Williams	journalist with the New York Times and the New-York Tribune, editor of The Democracy in Buffalo, owner of the Albany Evening Journal

Military

Name	Chapter	Notability
George Grenville Benedict	Vermont	American Civil War hero and Medal of Honor recipient
Daniel Butterfield	Union	Civil War general, composer of Taps bugle call, and Assistant Treasurer of the United States
John Cochrane	Union	Brigadier General in the Civil War, United States Congressman from New York, Attorney General of New York
Henry Rathbone	Union	prominent in the U.S. Army, present in Lincoln's booth at Ford's Theatre; was stabbed tackling John Wilkes Booth

Politics

Name	Chapter	Notability
Samuel W. Beall	Union	Lt. Governor of Wisconsin, Sigma Phi Society founder
Henry E. Barbour	Union	U.S. Representative from California
George Grenville Benedict	Vermont	Vermont Senate; editor and publisher of The Burlington Daily Free Press
John Bigelow	Union	United States Minister to France, Secretary of State of New York, and historian who edited the complete works of Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Fielder Bowie	Princeton, Union	United States Congressman, founding member of Sigma Phi
William W. Campbell	Union	United States Congressman from New York
Clark B. Cochrane	Union	United States Congressman from New York
John Cochrane	Union	United States Congressman from New York, Attorney General of New York, and Brigadier General in the Civil War
Orsamus Cole	Union	United States Congressman from Wisconsin and 6th Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
Archibald B. Darragh	Michigan	U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan
Thomas Treadwell Davis	Hamilton	United States Congressman from New York
Ken Dryden	Cornell	Canadian Member of Parliament, former professional hockey player, Hockey Hall of Fame
Edwin Einstein	Union	United States Congressman from New York
Charles J. Folger	Hobart	United States Secretary of the Treasury
Eugene Foss	Vermont	United States House of Representatives and served as a three-term governor of Massachusetts
A. Oakey Hall	New York	former Mayor of New York
John F. Hartranft	Union	former Governor of Pennsylvania
John T. Hoffman	Union	former Governor of New York
John James Ingalls	Williams	United States Senator from Kansas
Samuel Knox	Williams	United States Congressman from Missouri
Addison H. Laflin	Williams	United States Congressman from New York
Truman A. Merriman	Hobart	United States Congressman from New York
Joseph Mullin	Union	United States Congressman from New York, justice of the New York Supreme Court
Abram B. Olin	Williams	United States Congressman from New York and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
Andrew Oliver	Union	United States Congressman from New York
Theodore Otis	Union	politician
Elihu Root	Hamilton	Canadian Member of Parliament, U.S. Secretary of War, U.S. Secretary of State, Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Charles B. Sedgwick	Hamilton	United States Congressman from New York
James S. Sherman	Hamilton	Vice President of the United States and United States Congressman from New York
Gilbert Carlton Walker	Williams	Governor of Virginia, United States Congressman from Virginia
Andrew Dickson White	Hobart	U.S. Ambassador to Germany, co-founder and first president of Cornell University

Religion

Name	Chapter	Notability
Charles E. Cheney	Hobart	clergyman and second bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church
George William Knox	Hamilton	Missionary in Japan, author, and theologian
Oren Root II	Hamilton	theologian, Presbyterian minister, college professor
William A. Shanklin	Hamilton	Methodist minister and university president
M. Woolsey Stryker	Hamilton	Presbyterian minister and president of Hamilton College
Lemuel H. Wells	Hobart	first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Spokane
George Worthington	Hobart	second bishop of Nebraska in the Episcopal Church

Science and medicine

Name	Chapter	Notability
Lewis Sayre	New York	leading American orthopedic surgeon of the 19th century and president of the American Medical Association

Sports

Name	Chapter	Notability
Ken Dryden	Cornell	former professional hockey player, Hockey Hall of Fame, Canadian Member of Parliament
Larry Tanenbaum	Cornell	chairman of MLSE, owner of the Toronto Raptors and Toronto Maple Leafs
Ward Wettlaufer	Hamilton	amateur golfer