List of Cosmos Club members

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The Cosmos Club is a private social club in Washington, D.C., that was founded in 1878. Following is an incomplete list of its notable members.

Name Class and range Notability Reference
Cleveland Abbe 1883–1884 professor of meteorology with the U.S. Weather Bureau [1]
Cleveland Abbe Jr. 1895–1899 professor of geography and biology at Western Maryland College [1]
Truman Abbe 1903 surgeon [1]
Philip Abelson 1953 physicist [2]
Henry Adams 1878 historian and Pulitzer Prize recipient [3][4][1]
Henry Carter Adams 1889 professor of political economy at the University of Michigan [1]
James Truslow Adams writer, historian, and Pulitzer Prize winner [3]
Leason Adams geophysicist and researcher at the Carnegie Institute [5]
Alvey A. Adee 1887–1889 United States Secretary of State [1]
Jesse C. Adkins judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia [5]
Cyrus Adler 1890 Educator, librarian [1]
Fred C. Ainsworth 1887–1888 U.S. Army surgeon and adjutant general [1]
Clyde Bruce Aitchison Interstate Commerce Commissioner [5][6][7]
Charles Henry Alden 1893–1897 first president of the Army Medical School [1]
Asa O. Aldis 1880–1884 Judge and diplomat [1]
John Merton Aldrich associate curator of insects at the United States National Museum [5]
Dean C. Allard naval historian, archivist, director of the United States Navy's Naval Historical Center [8]
Charles Herbert Allen 1888–1890 Governor of Puerto Rico, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, member of Congress [1]
Eugene Thomas Allen pioneer of geochemistry, worked at the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution [5]
Harvey J. Alter 1970 medical researcher, co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine [9][10]
Benjamin Alvord 1878 mathematician, soldier, U.S. Army paymaster [1]
Henry Elijah Alvord 1895 Professor of agriculture, chief of the dairy division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture [1]
Nicholas Longworth Anderson 1886–1887 U.S. Army brigadier general and major general of volunteers [1]
Eliphalet F. Andrews 1880–1896 painter, director of the Corcoran School of Art [3][1]
Lincoln Clark Andrews U.S. Army brigadier general, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury [5]
Earl C. Arnold attorney, academic, college administrator [5]
William Harris Ashmead 1892 Entomologist, assistant curator Smithsonian [1]
John Vincent Atanasoff 1957 computer pioneer, built the first digital computer [9]
Wilbur Olin Atwater 1899 professor of chemistry, U.S. Department of Agriculture nutritionist [1]
Albert William Atwood 1928 author, journalist, and writer for National Geographic and The Saturday Evening Post [11][12][13]
James Percy Ault Geodetic surveyor, geophysicist, geomagnetic researcher [5]
Louis Winslow Austin Physicist U.S. Bureau of Standards [5]
Michael Auslin writer [4]
Cyrus Cates Babb 1892 civil engineer and hydrographer with U.S. Geological Survey [1][14]
Ernest Adna Back Entomologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture [5][15]
Henry Bacon 1888 architect [1]
Barbara A. Bailar 1988 mathematical statistician; executive director of the American Statistical Association [16]
Jennings Bailey judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia [5]
Vernon Orlando Bailey Mammologist with the Bureau of Biological Survey, United States Department of Agriculture [5]
H. Foster Bain geologist, director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines. [5]
George Washington Baird 1895 Chief engineer and rear admiral in the U.S. Navy [1][17][5]
Spencer Fullerton Baird 1878 ornithologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist, first curator and Secretary of the Smithsonian [4][1][18]
Marcellus Bailey 1878–1885,

1866–1890

 patent lawyer [1]
Frank Baker 1882 physician and superintendent of the National Zoo [4][1]
Marcus Baker 1884 cartographer with U. S. Geological Survey; assistant secretary of Carnegie Institution [4][1]
Aram Bakshian Jr. Author and speechwriter for three presidents [19]
Albertus H. Baldwin 1899 commissioner U.S. Tariff Commission [1][20][21][5]
Carleton Roy Ball botanist, in charge of the U.S. Bureau of Plant Industry [5]
John Chandler Bancroft 1890–1898 sculptor [1][22]
Orion M. Barber politician and associate judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals [5]
Edward Chester Barnard 1899 topographer, U.S. Geological Survey; chief topographer, U.S. and Canada boundary survey [1]
Job Barnard 1903 associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1]
John Russell Bartlett 1886–1897 oceanographer and U.S. Navy Admiral [4][1]
Paul Wayland Bartlett 1914 sculptor [9][3]
Henry Askew Barton first director of the American Institute of Physics [23]
Paul Bartsch malacologist, carcinologist, curator of the division of mollusks U.S. National Museum [5]
Carl Barus 1885–1895 physicist with U.S. Geological Survey and Smithsonian Institution, professor at Brown University [4][24][1]
Ray S. Bassler geologist and paleontologist with the U.S. National Museum [5]
Frederick John Bates physicist, chief of polarimetric and carbohydrate section, Bureau of Standards; supervisor of the Government Sugar Laboratories, Treasury Department [5]
Newton Lemuel. Bates 1878–1881, 1884 surgeon general of the U.S. Navy [4][25][1]
Louis Agricola Bauer 1899 geophysicist, chief of the terrestrial magnetism division of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. [1][5]
Nathan D. Baxter bishop of the Episcopal Church [26]
Clifton Bailey Beach 1896 member of the U.S. Congress [1]
George Ferdinand Becker 1890 geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey [1]
George Beadle geneticist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine [3]
Truxtun Beale 1902 diplomat [1][5]
Tarleton Hoffman Bean 1883 ichthyologist, curator of the department of fishes at the Smithsonian Institution [4][1]
Thomas M. Beggs 1955 painter [3][27][9]
Alexander Graham Bell 1880 scientist, engineer, and inventor of the first telephone; president, National Geographic Society [28][4][1][29]
Charles J. Bell 1883 co-founder of the National Geographic Society, secretary of the Bell Telephone Company [1][5]
Chichester Bell 1881–1887 chemist and inventor [1]
Samuel Flagg Bemis historian, biographer, professor of history at George Washington University [5]
Marcus Benjamin 1896 chemist, editor for the U.S. National Museum [1][5]
Charles Bendire 1888 ornithologist, captain of infantry in the U.S. Army [1]
Arden L. Bement Jr. 1980 engineer, scientist, professor at Purdue University, director of the National Science Foundation
Andrew H. Berding journalist, United States Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs [30]
Patricia Wilson Berger librarian, president of the American Library Association [31]
Emil Bessels 1878 zoologist, entomologist, and arctic researcher with the Smithsonian Institution [4][1]
John M. Bevan university professor [32]
Albert Burnley Bibb 1892–1899 architect with United States Life-Savings Service, professor of architecture at Catholic University [1]
Ernest Percy Bicknell director of the American Red Cross [5][33]
Julius Bien 1885 artist, publisher, lithographer [1]
Frank Hagar Bigelow 1890 professor of meteorology with the U.S. Weather Bureau [1]
John Bigelow Jr. U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, teacher at MIT, superintendent of Yosemite National Park [5]
John Shaw Billings 1878 librarian of the New York Public Library, deputy of the US Army Surgeon General [34][4][1]
Henry H. Bingham 1881–1889 Congressman from Pennsylvania [1]
Theodore A. Bingham 1897–1898 U.S. Army General, superintendent of the public buildings and grounds at Washington [1]
Claude Hale Birdseye chief topographic engraver, U.S. Geological Survey [5][35]
Rogers Birnie 1886 co-founder of National Geographic Society, United States Army officer, explorer of Death Valley [1]
William Herbert Bixby U.S. Army brigadier general [5]
Henry Campbell Black 1892 lawyer, founder of Black's Law Dictionary [1][5]
William Murray Black 1897–1898 Commissioner of the District of Columbia, chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers [1]
Harry Blackmun U.S. Supreme Court Justice [16][36]
James P. Blair 1998 photographer with National Geographic [37]
William Bodde Jr. U.S. Ambassador to the Marshall Islands, Fiji, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Kiribati [38]
Ernest L. Bogart economist and academic, president of the American Economic Association [5]
Henry Carrington Bolton 1888 chemist [1]
Robert Whitney Bolwell professor at George Washington University, pioneer of American studies [5][39]
Stephen Bonsal journalist, war correspondent, author, and diplomat, won the Pulitzer Prize for History [5]
Daniel J. Boorstin Librarian of Congress and winner of the Pulitzer Prize [3][36]
William A. Boring 1901 architect [1]
Clement Lincoln Bouvé attorney, Register of Copyrights in the United States Copyright Office [5]
John Wesley Bovee 1902 gynecology professor at George Washington University, founder American College of Surgeons [1][40][5]
Adam Giede Böving entomologist and zoologist, U.S. National Museum [5]
Norman L. Bowen geologist, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington [5]
William Bowie geodetic engineer, chief of the division of geodesy, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey [5]
Francis Tiffany Bowles 1882–1901 chief naval constructor and youngest Rear Admiral in the history of the U.S. Navy [4][41][42][1]
Alpheus Henry Bowman brigadier general U.S. Army [5]
George Lothrop Bradley 1883 artist [1][43]
Frank B. Brady engineer, executive director of the Institute of Navigation [44][45]
Charles John Brand chief of the Bureau of Markets at the United States Department of Agriculture [5]
Louis Brandeis 1915–1932 U.S. Supreme Court Justice [46][5]
Gregory Breit Mathematical physicist, academic [5]
Lyman James Briggs Physicist and engineer [47][5]
David Brinkley journalist [36]
Alfred Hulse Brooks 1895 geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey [1][5]
Glenn Brown 1888 architect [1][5]
Henry Billings Brown 1897 U.S. Supreme Court Justice [1]
Joseph Stanley Brown 1881–1885, 1894 assistant geologist, U. S. Geological Survey; private secretary to President James A. Garfield [1]
Lester R. Brown environmental analyst [48]
Stimson Joseph Brown 1900 professor of mathematics, astronomical director of the United States Naval Observatory [1]
John Mills Browne 1883–1884 surgeon general of the U.S. Navy [1][49]
Arnold W. Brunner 1902 Architect and historian [1]
Kirk Bryan Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey, professor at Harvard University [5]
Wilhelmus Bogart Bryan journalist, author, editor of The Washington Star [5][50]
Albert H. Bumstead cartographer [5]
William E. Bunney Jr. 1982 Psychiatrist, academic [51]
Horatio C. Burchard 1879–1886 director of the U.S. Mint, congressman, father of the consumer price index [1]
George K. Burgess physicist [34]
Swan Moses Burnett 1879 surgeon, pioneering ophthalmologist at the Georgetown University School of Medicine [52][4][53][9]
Arthur F. Burns economist, U.S. Ambassador to West Germany [38]
Vannevar Bush electrical engineer [52]
Henry Kirke Bush-Brown sculptor [5]
Charles Henry Butler lawyer, reporter of decisions of the United States Supreme Court [5]
Robert W. Cairns 1954 chemist, executive director of the American Chemical Society [2]
Edgar B. Calvert Principal meteorologist and chief of the Forecast Division, U.S. Weather Bureau [5][54]
Charles R. Cameron U.S. Foreign Service [5]
Frank Kenneth Cameron 1895 soil chemist with U.S. Department of Agriculture, professor at University of North Carolina [1][55]
Edward Kernan Campbell chief judge of the Court of Claims [5]
Marius Robinson Campbell 1896 geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey [1][56][5]
Henry W. Cannon 1884 Comptroller General of the United States [4][1]
Stephen Capps geologist, U.S. Geological Survey [5][57]
Horace Capron 1879 United States Commissioner of Agriculture [1]
David Carliner attorney with JAG Office Army, lecturer at the Harvard University Foreign Service Institute [58]
Frances Carpenter Folklorist and photographer [59]
Wilbur J. Carr assistant secretary of State, diplomat [5]
William George Carr educator, executive secretary (chief administrator) of the National Education Association [60]
William Kearney Carr 1903 Philosopher, physician, author [1][61]
John Merven Carrère 1905 architect [3]
Henry A. P. Carter 1881 businessman, politician, and diplomat in the Kingdom of Hawaii [4][1]
Philip L. Cantelon 1984 academic, historian, co-founder and CEO of History Associates Incorporated [62]
Thomas Lincoln Casey Jr. 1894 major with the Army Corps of Engineers and entomologist [1][5]
James McKeen Cattell 1902 first professor of psychology in the U.S., editor of Science and Popular Science Monthly [1]
Bruce Catton historian, author, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History [63][3]
Joan R. Challinor chairperson of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science [64][65]
Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin 1883–1889 geologist, president University of Wisconsin, founder of The Journal of Geology [1]
Steve Charnovitz Legal scholar, writer, educator [66]
Hobart Chatfield-Taylor 1902 author, novelist [1]
Victor King Chesnut 1896 botanist. U.S. Department of Agriculture; expert in poisonous and Native American plants [1][67][5]
Colby Mitchell Chester U.S. Navy admiral [5]
John White Chickering 1878–1880 Botanist, professor at Columbian Institution for Deaf and Dumb [68][1]
George B. Chittenden 1881 Chief topographer for the San Juan division and director of the White River division

of the U.S. Geological Survey

 [4][69][70][1]
Hong-Yee Chiu astrophysicist at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center [71]
Martha E. Church 1988 geographer and president of Hood College [16]
Earle H. Clapp forester [5]
Alonzo Howard Clark 1889 naturalist, author, historian, secretary American Historical Association, Smithsonian Institution [1]
Austin Hobart Clark zoologist, curator U.S. National Museum [5]
Edgar E. Clark attorney [5]
William Bullock Clark 1895 professor of geology at Johns Hopkins University [1]
William Mansfield Clark chemist, academic, chief of the division of chemistry, U.S. Public Health Service [5]
Bruce C. Clarke 1968 U.S. army general [2]
Frank Wigglesworth Clarke 1883 chemist with the U.S. Geological Survey [4][1][5]
Stanwood Cobb educator [72]
Theodore I. Coe architect [73]
Roberta Cohen executive director, International League for Human Rights; senior fellow Brookings Institution [74][75]
William Colby CIA director [36]
Charles Cleaves Cole 1894–1895 associate justice Supreme Court of the District of Columbia [1]
William Byron Colver chairman, Federal Trade Commission; general editorial director, Scripps-Howard newspapers [5]
Rita R. Colwell 1988 microbiologist [16]
Arthur Compton physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics [3][52]
Karl Taylor Compton physicist and president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology [76]
Wilson Martindale Compton lawyer, president of the State College of Washington [5]
Charles Arthur Conant 1899 assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury, journalist, economist [1]
James B. Conant chemist [52]
David H. Condon 1967–1996 architect [9]
Willis Conover radio producer, host of Voice of America's Music USA Jazz Hour [77]
Holmes Conrad 1895–1900, 1903 attorney, Solicitor General of the United States [1]
Nancy Conrad teacher, author [78]
Joseph A. Conry 1935 consul of Russia; director of the Port of Boston; special attorney, U.S. Maritime Commission [9]
Orator F. Cook botanist [79][5]
Luis Felipe Corea 1890–1902 minister to the United States from Nicaragua, E. E. and M. P. of Nicaragua [1][80]
Frederic René Coudert Sr. 1897–1899 lawyer [1]
Elliott Coues 1879 ornithologist, secretary of the U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories [1]
Frederick Vernon Coville 1892 chief botanist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture [1][18][5]
J. Harry Covington politician, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia [5]
Allyn Cox 1973 painter [9]
Thomas Craig 1879–1890 mathematician at Johns Hopkins University [1]
William Crentz 1962–2002 Engineer and a national authority on fossil fuels [9]
Oscar Terry Crosby 1896 electrician, assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury, president of the World Federation League [1][81][82]
Charles Whitman Cross 1888 geologist and petrologist with U.S. Geological Survey [1][5]
George Crossette Chief of the geographic research division of the National Geographic Society [11][83]
Barbara Culliton science journalist, news editor at Science, and deputy editor of Nature [84][65]
Hugh S. Cumming surgeon general, U.S. Public Health Service [5]
Harry F. Cunningham architect [5][85][86]
Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry 1895 educator, diplomat, state politician, congressman [1]
George Edward Curtis 1889–1893 meteorologist with U.S. Weather Bureau, photographer [1][87]
William Eleroy Curtis 1886 journalist, author, director of the Bureau of the American Republics;

Chief of the Latin American Department of the World's Columbian Exposition

 [1][88][89]
William Parker Cutter 1894 chemist, chief of the order division of the Library of Congress;

director of the U.S. National Agricultural Library

 [1][90]
Charles William Dabney 1894 university president, assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Agriculture [1]
William Healey Dall 1887 naturalist, curator of mollusks, U.S. National Museum of Natural History [1][5]
Joan Danziger 2003 sculptor [3][9]
Nelson Horatio Darton 1899 geologist with U.S. Geological Survey [1][5]
Joseph E. Davies Lawyer and diplomat [5]
Arthur Powell Davis 1895 civil engineer and topographer with U. S. Geological Survey [1]
Bancroft Davis 1886–1892 attorney, judge of the Court of Claims, Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the U.S. [4][1]
Charles Henry Davis 1878 rear admiral of the U.S. Navy, worked on the United States Coast Survey [1]
George Whitefield Davis 1881–1885 engineer and major general in the U.S. Army, governor of the Panama Canal Zone [1]
James Cox Davis director general of the Federal Railroad Administration [5][91]
John Davis 1886–1887 associate justice of the Court of Claims [1]
Arthur Louis Day geophysicist; volcanologist; director Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington [5]
David Talbot Day 1889–1893, 1901 chief of mining and mineral division, U.S. Geological Survey [1]
Sara Day 2014 author of historical nonfiction [92][93]
Frederic Adrian Delano railroad president, first Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve [5]
John Howard Dellinger telecommunication engineer [5]
Laura DeNardis endowed chair in technology, ethics, and society at Georgetown University [94]
Tyler Dennett editor, writer, historian, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography [5]
Leon E. Dessez 1903 architect [1]
Dozier A. DeVane attorney and judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida and U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. [5]
Arthur E. Dewey 2003 U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration [95]
Lyster Hoxie Dewey botanist, U.S. Department of Agriculture [5]
Roscoe DeWitt architect, one of the Monuments Men during World War II [96]
Edwin Grant Dexter educator [5]
Joseph Silas Diller 1885 assistant geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, academic [4][97][1][5]
Alvin E. Dodd consulting engineer and president of the American Management Association [5]
Charles Richards Dodge 1894 Textile fiber expert, botanist with the Office of Fiber Investigation U.S. Department of Agriculture [1][98][99]
Edward W. Donn Jr. 1896 architect [1]
Marion Dorset 1902 chief, biochemical division of the Bureau of Animal Husbandry, U.S. Department of Agriculture [1][100][101][5]
George Amos Dorsey 1902 ethnographer, professor, curator of the Field Museum of Natural History [1]
Noah Ernest Dorsey physicist [5]
Edward Morehouse Douglas 1887 geographer and topographer with the U.S. Geological Survey [102][1]
Alexander Wilson Drake 1884–1887 artist, art director of The Century Magazine [1]
Allen Drury writer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize [3]
Horace Bookwalter Drury Economist, academic, author [5]
Paul du Quenoy historian, professor, Fulbright scholar [103]
Charles Benjamin Dudley 1900 chemist [1]
William Ward Duffield 1894–1897 superintendent, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey [1]
Arthur William Dunn national director of the Junior American Red Cross, college lecturer [5]
Edward Dana Durand 1903 director of the United States Census Bureau [1]
Clarence Dutton 1878 geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey [34][4][1]
Theodore Frelinghuysen Dwight 1878–1882 librarian, archivist, and diplomat, a librarian with the U.S. Department of State [1]
William Sylvester Eames 1900 architect [1]
John Robie Eastman 1878 astronomer with Naval Observatory, professor of mathematics, U.S. Navy [1][104][105][106]
Edward D. Easton 1883–1902 founder and president of the Columbia Phonograph Company [4][1]
Burton Edelson U.S. Navy officer, associate administrator of NASA [107]
Henry White Edgerton attorney, academic, judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit [5]
John Joy Edson 1896–1898 president, Washington Loan & Trust Company [1][5]
Lawrence Edwards innovator in aerospace and ground transportation
Maurice F. Egan 1898 Professor, author, diplomat [1]
Edward Eggleston 1901 Novelist, historian [1]
William Snyder Eichelberger astronomer, director of The Nautical Almanac, professor of mathematics U.S. Navy [5][108]
Churchill Eisenhart mathematician; chief, Statistical Engineering Laboratory, National Bureau of Standards [109]
Milton Courtright Elliott Lawyer and judge [5]
Samuel Franklin Emmons 1882–1892 geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, president of the Geological Society of America [4][1]
Mordecai Thomas Endicott 1896 Civil engineer, chief of Yards and Docks Navy Department, father of the Civil Engineering Corps [1][110][111][5]
Carl Engel pianist, composer, musicologist, chief of the music division of the Library of Congress [5]
William Phelps Eno father of traffic safety [5]
Jesse Frederick Essary journalist [5]
Edward Trantor Evans senior topographer with the U.S. Geological Survey [102]
Robley D. Evans 1883–1901 U.S. Navy admiral [1]
Barton Warren Evermann 1898 ichthyologist, U. S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries [1]
William M. Ewing 1942 geophysicist at the University of Texas, National Medal of Science recipient [2]
David Fairchild 1898 Plant explorer and botanist, Bureau of Plant Industry U.S. Department of Agriculture [1][5]
Tom Farer academic, author, and former president of the University of New Mexico [112]
Guy Otto Farmer lawyer, chairman of the National Labor Relations Board [113]
Arthur Briggs Farquhar 1902 Businessman and writer [1]
John Barclay Fassett 1886–1887 Medal of Honor recipient [1]
Oliver Lanard Fassig 1893 meteorologist with the U.S. Weather Bureau, professor at Johns Hopkins University [1]
Clarence Norman Fenner geologist [5]
Henry G. Ferguson geologist with U.S. Geological Survey [5]
Thomas B. Ferguson 1879–1880 United States Ambassador to Sweden, assistant commissioner of Fish and Fisheries [1]
Alan Fern scholar of American prints and photographs at the Library of Congress [65][44][114][115]
Bernhard Fernow 1887 director, New York State College of Forestry, Cornell University; chief, U.S. Division of Forestry [1]
Jesse Walter Fewkes chief, Bureau of Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution [5]
George Wilton Field biologist [5]
Albert Kenrick Fisher 1902 biologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture; ornithologist [1][5]
Walter Kenrick Fisher 1902 biologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture; zoologist, evolutionary biologist, illustrator, and painter [1]
John Fitterer 1973 educator and president of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities [116]
J. A. Henry Flemer 1886–1888 architect [4][117][1]
James Milton Flint 1880 medical director, U. S. Navy; medical collection curator U.S. National Museum [1][118]
Allen Ripley Foote 1891 political economist, author, and founder of the National Tax Association [1][119]
Paul D. Foote physicist, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering [5]
Kenneth M. Ford computer scientist [63]
William H. Forwood 1903 surgeon general of the U.S. Army [1]
John W. Foster 1889 Secretary of State, jurist, diplomat [1]
William Dudley Foulke 1902 Civil service commissioner, literary critic, journalist, reformer [1]
Harry Crawford Frankenfield senior meteorologist, U.S. Weather Bureau [5]
John Hope Franklin 1963 historian [63][120]
James E. Freeman Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington [5]
Herbert Friedenwald 1894 author, historian, librarian, and secretary of the American Jewish Committee [1][5]
Daniel Mortimer Friedman judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; chief judge of the U.S.Court of Claims [121]
Paul L. Friedman judge [122][123]
Ed Frost sculptor [3]
Thomas James Duncan Fuller Jr. 1900 architect [1][5]
Ira Noel Gabrielson entomologist [124]
Frank E. Gaebelein 1965 educator, author, editor of Christianity Today [116]
Arthur Burton Gahan entomologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture [5]
John Kenneth Galbraith economist [125]
Hugh Gregory Gallagher disability advocate [126]
Edward Miner Gallaudet 1878 first president of Gallaudet University [4][1]
Beverly Thomas Galloway 1894 chief of Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of Agriculture [1][5]
Henry Gannett 1878 chief geographer-in-charge of topographic mapping U.S. Geological Survey [102][4][1]
Samuel Gannett 1891 geographer, U.S. Geological Survey [1][5]
Wilbur E. Garrett 1966 photographer, editor of National Geographic [37][127]
Hampson Gary colonel, U.S. Army; lawyer, and diplomat [5]
Georgie Anne Geyer journalist; syndicated columnist, television news analyst [16]
Tatiana C. Gfoeller ambassador [103]
Riccardo Giacconi astrophysicist and the winner of the Nobel Prize [3]
Cass Gilbert 1902 architect [1]
Grove Karl Gilbert 1878 geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey [34][4][1]
Joseph Bernard Gildenhorn 2013 attorney, U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland [128]
Theodore Gill 1878 Biologist, zoologist [4][1]
Daniel Coit Gilman 1878–1882, 1903 president, Johns Hopkins University; president, Carnegie Institution of Washington [1]
Charles C. Glover 1887–1891, 1903 treasurer, Corcoran Gallery of Art; banker [1]
Martin B. Gold 2000 lobbeyist [129]
Arthur J. Goldberg U.S. Secretary of Labor, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, and Ambassador to the United Nations [16]
Joseph Goldberger epidemiologist and surgeon, U.S. Public Health Service [5]
Edward Alphonso Goldman biologist [5]
Frank Austin Gooch 1884–1886 chemist and engineer [4][1]
George Brown Goode 1881 ichthyologist and assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution [4][1]
Richard Urquhart Goode 1886 geographer and topographer with the U.S. Geological Survey [130][1]
Elliot Hersey Goodwin vice president and secretary of the United States Chamber of Commerce [5]
James Howard Gore 1883 geodesist, author, and professor of mathematics at the Columbian University [4][1][5]
Carol Graham 2008 Economist, Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution [95]
Henry S. Graves 1898–1901 chief of the United States Forest Service, co-founded the Yale Forest School [1]
Horace Gray 1882 U.S. Supreme Court justice [1]
John H. Gray Economist, academic [5]
William B. Greeley chief of the United States Forest Service [5]
Adolphus Greely 1887 polar explorer, brigadier general and chief signal officer in the U. S. Army [1][5]
William R. Green congressman, judge of the Court of Claims [5]
Edward Lee Greene 1895–1902 professor of botany, Catholic University [1]
Charles Ravenscroft Greenleaf 1889–1903 assistant surgeon general and brigadier general, U. S. Army [1][131][132]
James Leal Greenleaf Landscape architect and civil engineer
Willis Ray Gregg meteorologist and chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau [5]
Robert Fiske Griggs botanist, academic, head of National Geographic Society [5]
Gilbert M. Grosvenor 1901 president and chairman of the National Geographic Society, editor of National Geographic [28][34][1]
Nathan Clifford Grover chief hydraulic engineer, U.S. Geological Survey; academic [5][133]
John M. Grunsfeld astronaut and astronomer
Francis M. Gunnell 1878 Surgeon General U.S. Navy [1][134]
Alexander Burton Hagner 1883 associate justice Supreme Court District of Columbia [1]
Arnold Hague 1884 geologist, U. S. Geological Survey [1]
Benjamin F. Hake geologist and general manager of Gulf Oil Company of Bolivia [135]
Asaph Hall Jr. 1890–1895 astronomer [1]
Henry Clay Hall attorney and commissioner of the Interstate Commerce Commission [5]
Percival Hall president of Gallaudet University [5]
William Hallock 1885–1886 physicist, U. S. Geological Survey [1]
Stefan Halper Foreign policy scholar [136]
Walton Hale Hamilton economist and professor at Yale Law School [5]
Charles Sumner Hamlin 1879 Assistant Secretary of the Treasury [1][5]
John Hays Hammond Mining engineer, diplomat [5]
Hugh S. Hanna president, The Capital Transit Company [5][137]
George Wallace William Hanger 1902 chief clerk, Department of Labor; U.S. Board of Mediation [1][5]
Norman Hapgood writer, journalist, editor, critic, and an American minister to Denmark [5]
William Hard Social reformist and journalist [5][138]
William Harkness 1878 astronomer, professor of mathematics for the U. S. Navy [34][1]
James S. Harlan attorney [5]
Mark Walrod Harrington 1891–1898 chief of Weather Bureau, U.S. Department of Agriculture [1]
Albert L. Harris architect [5]
William Torrey Harris 1890 commissioner of education, U.S. Department of Interior; educator, lexicographer [1]
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