# List of Fly Club members

Following is a list of Fly Club members. Fly Club is a final club for male students at Harvard University. Member Initiated into the D.U. Club, which merged with the Fly Club in 1996, is indicated with a *.

## Academia

* William Gardner Choate – founder of boarding school Choate Rosemary Hall
* James Bryant Conant* – 26th President of Harvard University
* Archibald Cary Coolidge – historian, Harvard professor, first director of the Harvard University Library
* Charles William Eliot – 24th President of Harvard University
* Samuel Eliot – historian; president of Trinity College, overseer of Harvard University, Boston Public Schools superintendent
* Abbott Lawrence Lowell – historian, 25th President of Harvard University
* Charles Stearns Wheeler – transcendentalist, noted as inspiration for Henry David Thoreau’s Walden

## Architecture

* Herbert Dudley Hale – Boston and New York City architect who designed the Fly Club's house at Two Holyoke Place.
* William Robert Ware – architect, first professor of architecture at MIT, founder of the School of Architecture at Columbia University

## Business

* Charles Francis Adams Jr. – president of the Union Pacific Railroad, president of the American Historical Association, and colonel in the Union Army
* Charlie Cheever – co-founder of Quora
* Albert Hamilton Gordon* – Wall Street entrepreneur, Chairman of Kidder Peabody
* George H. Mifflin – president of Houghton Mifflin publishing company
* Louis Kane – owner of Au Bon Pain bakery and café
* Spencer Rascoff – co-founder and former CEO of Zillow
* David Rockefeller* – American banker

## Entertainment

* Robert Carlock – screenwriter and producer
* Fred Gwynne – stage, film, and television actor
* Whit Stillman – writer-director and actor known for Metropolitan, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
* Dustin Thomason — writer-producer known for “The Rule of Four”, “Castle Rock”, “Presumed Innocent”

## Law

* James Barr Ames – dean of Harvard Law School (1895–1910), known for popularizing the case-study method of teaching law
* James C. Carter – co-founder of law firm Carter Ledyard & Milburn
* Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. – Supreme Court Justice
* John Codman Ropes – co-founder of law firm Ropes & Grey

## Literature and journalism

* Robert Charles Benchley* – humorist
* James Russell Lowell – poet, critic, editor, and US ambassador to the Kingdom of Spain and the Court of St. James's
* Ernest Thayer – poet, author of "Casey at the Bat"
* Evan Thomas – journalist and author
* Owen Wister – writer, "father" of western fiction

## Military

* Henry L. Eustis – General in the Union Army during Civil War; dean of Lawrence Scientific School (now the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences)
* Lionel de Jersey Harvard* – first [collateral] descendant of John Harvard to attend Harvard College, a casualty of World War I. Harvard College's Harvard-Cambridge Fellowship (to Emmanuel College) is named in his honor.

## Politics

* Charles Francis Adams III – Secretary of the Navy, 1929–1932; skipper of America's Cup defender Resolute, 1920; inductee, America's Cup Hall of Fame
* Edward Bell – U.S. diplomatic official involved in the decoding of the Zimmerman Telegram in World War I
* Joseph Hodges Choate – lawyer and diplomat; U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, 1899–1905
* Dwight F. Davis – U.S. Secretary of War, 1925–1929; Governor General of the Philippines, 1929–1932; tennis champion
* Grenville T. Emmet – U.S. Ambassador to Netherlands 1934–1937 and Austria 1937–1937
* Charles Fairchild – United States Secretary of the Treasury 1887–1889; Attorney General of New York 1876-1877
* Joseph Clark Grew – career diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Japan 1932–1941, oversaw the development of U.S. Foreign Service
* Wickham Hoffman – U.S. Minister to Denmark 1883–1885; Colonel in the Union Army
* Jared Kushner – son-in-law of Donald Trump; Senior White House Adviser and head of the White House Office of American Innovation
* Tony Lake – President Bill Clinton's National Security Advisor
* James Russell Lowell – U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Spain and the Court of St. James's, poet, critic, and editor
* Deval Patrick – 71st Governor of Massachusetts; quit the club in 1983
* Roger Putnam – Mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts and director of the U.S. Economic Stabilization Administration
* Jay Rockefeller – U.S. Senator from West Virginia
* Franklin Delano Roosevelt – 32nd President of the United States
* James Roosevelt – U.S. Congressman (CA), 1955–1965
* Theodore Roosevelt – 26th President of the United States
* William Weld – 68th Governor of Massachusetts

## Religion

* Phillips Brooks – clergyman, author, lyricist
* Edward Everett Hale – author, historian, Unitarian minister, Chaplain to the U.S. Senate
* William Appleton Lawrence – clergyman, 3rd bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts

## Science

* Francis Cabot – gardener, horticulturist, chairman of the New York Botanical Garden, and founder of the Garden Conservancy
* Michael Clark Rockefeller – amateur anthropologist, disappeared in 1961 during an expedition in Netherlands New Guinea.

## Sports

* Charles Francis Adams III – skipper of America's Cup defender Resolute, 1920; inductee, America's Cup Hall of Fame; Secretary of the Navy, 1929–1932
* Charles Dudley Daly – college football player and coach who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame
* Dwight F. Davis – Olympic tennis player; three-time U.S. Open doubles champion; founder of the Davis Cup; International Tennis Hall of Fame inductee
* W. Palmer Dixon – two-time winner of national squash championship (1925, 1926)
* Matt Freese – professional soccer player with New York City FC
* Henry Thrun – professional ice hockey player for the San Jose Sharks, winner of a gold medal at 2021 World Junior Championship.