Skull and Bones

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Skull and Bones

• Americas Secret Establishment

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The Beginning

• Established in 1832 by William Huntington Russell
  and Alphonso Taft
• Network of Graduates
• Traces Origins Back to 18th and 19th Century
  Germany and the German Illuminati
• Worship of Eulogia, 322

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The Founders

• Secretary of War, 1876
• U.S. Attorney General 1876-7
• U.S. Minister to Austria, 1882-4
• U.S. Ambassador to Russia, 1884-5

• Teacher, Military Expert. Organized Conn. Militia
  in Civil War
• Served in Conn. State Legislature
• Helped Organize Republican Party
• Established Russell Trust Association, Which
  Funds Skull and Bones

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Prominent Families
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Old Line American Families

• The Whitneys
• The Bundys
• The Lords
• The Rockefellers
• The Harrimans
• The Tafts
• The Vanderbilts
• The Bushs

• All Families Have Three Things in Common
• Money
• Power
• Skull and Bones

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Prominent Members
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William Averell Harriman

• Skull and Bones Class of 1913
• Father and Brother Were Also Members
• Established W.A. Harriman and Company
• Merged in the 1930s with Brown Brothers
• By the 1970s, Brown Brothers, Harriman had Assets
  of one-half billion dollars
• Positions held Under President Truman
• The U.S. Secretary of Commerce
• The U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union
• The U.S. Ambassador to the UK
• Positions Held Under President Kennedy
• Ambassador at Large
• Asst. Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs

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William Collins Whitney

• Skull and Bones class of 1863
• Prominent New York Lawyer
• Actively Involved in Democratic Party Affairs
• Opposed Tammany Hall and Boss Tweed
• Supported Grover Cleveland
• Named Secretary of the U.S. Navy
• The Whitney Group

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Strange Whitney Connections
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The Quintessential Product of Skull and Bones
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Henry L. Stimson
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Henry L. Stimson

• Skull and Bones class of 1888
• Statesman, Served in Five Presidential
  Administrations
• First Job Wall Street. First Boss Sherman
  Evarts, Bones class of 1881.
• Second Job Joins Practice of Elihu Root, One of
  the Most Powerful New York Lawyers of the Time.
  Set Up By William Collins Whitney
• Bonesmen He Hires Along the Way
• Thomas D. Thacher (class of 1904)
• Harvey H. Bundy (class of 1909)
• George L. Harrison (class of 1910)
• Robert A. Lovett (class of 1918)
• Arthur E. Palmer (class of 1930)
• Most Powerful Bones Connection
• William Howard Taft

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Stimson-Taft Connection

• Stimson One of Two Former Bonesmen in Tafts
  Eleven-Man Cabinet
• Secretary of War
• Chief Justice Taft Swears Stimson in as Secretary
  of State, Under Herbet Hoover

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The Tafts
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Taft Family Tree
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Sons of Alphonso Taft

• William Howard Taft
• Skull and Bones Class of 1878
• 42nd U.S. Secretary of War
• 27th President of the United States
• 10th Chief Justice

• Horace Dutton Taft
• Skull and Bones class of 1883
• Established The Taft School
• Headmaster until 1936
• Maintained special connection to Yale

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Sons of William Howard Taft

• Charles Phelps Taft II
• Skull and Bones class of 1918
• Dropped out of Yale to fight in WWI
• Director of U.S. Community War Service
• Director of Economic Affairs
• Mayer of Cincinnati, Mr. Cincinnati

• Robert Alphonso Taft
• Skull and Bones Class of 1910
• Spent 14 years in U.S. Senate
• Mr. Republican
• Co-authored Taft-Hartley Act
• Isolationist

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Thomas Prindle Taft

• Skull and Bones class of 1971
• Grandson of Charles Phelps Taft II
• First Fourth Generation Skull and Bones Member

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Skull and Bones
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