List of Skull and Bones members

Skull and Bones, a secret society at Yale University, was founded in 1832.

Until 1971, the organization published annual membership rosters, which were kept at Yale's library.

In this list of notable Bonesmen, the number in parentheses represents the cohort year of Skull and Bones, as well as their graduation year.

Some news organizations refer to the organization's members as a power elite.

[1] There are no official rosters published after 1982 and membership for later years is often speculative.

Skull and Bones entry from the 1948 Yale Banner .
William Huntington Russell, founder of Skull and Bones and the namesake of the society's corporate body, the Russell Trust Association
Orris S. Ferry (Bones 1844)
Daniel Coit Gilman (Bones 1852)
Chauncey Depew wearing a Skull and Bones bowtie.
William Howard Taft (Bones 1878)
Henry L. Stimson (Bones 1888), US Secretary of War and Secretary of State
Archibald MacLeish (Bones 1915)
Senator Prescott Bush (Bones 1916)
John Kerry (Bones 1966)