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Since the office was established in 1789, 45 [a] individuals have served as president of the United States. Of these, 15, [1] including Lyndon B. Johnson who took only the First Degree, are known to have been Freemasons, beginning with the nation's first president, George Washington. The most recent president to have undisputed membership is ...
Daniel Coit Gilman (1852), president of the University of California, Johns Hopkins University, and the Carnegie Institution, founder of the Russell Trust Association [3]: 83–5 George Griswold Sill (1852), Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut [2] Andrew Dickson White (1853), cofounder and first President of Cornell University [14]
Milton Eisenhower – president Kansas State University, president Johns Hopkins University; James M. Farr – president of the University of Florida; Mike Feinberg – co-founder of the KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) Bruce Grube – president of Georgia Southern University; Ralph Cooper Hutchinson – president of Washington & Jefferson College
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In addition, he wrote Sigma's first constitution and was the first president of Alpha Chapter. He was the first person to graduate from Howard University in 3 years with two degrees (A.B and a B.Ed. degree). Charles I. Brown (August 27, 1890 – December 21, 1981), co-founder of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity; first vice-president of Phi Beta Sigma.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was a member of the Alpha Chapter of DKE at Harvard and would be considered the sixth DKE brother to serve as President of the United States; however, the Harvard chapter was de-recognized by DKE International due to the chapter's stance on dual membership with other fraternities.
Vice President Mike Pence was in a fraternity at Hanover College in Indiana. He once infuriated fellow fraternity brothers when he led an inquiring college administrator to where they were hiding ...
By 1883, when the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa were established, there were 25 chapters. The first women were elected to the Society at the University of Vermont in 1875, and the first African-American member, George Washington Henderson, [16] was elected at the same institution two years later. In 1885, however, Phi Beta Kappa eliminated ...