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Around 40% of U.S. presidents were brothers of college fraternities in some way. Post-graduate memberships and honorary memberships, however, serve to slightly bolster this field (and give some jealous hater fraternities who couldn’t foster their own president the ability to “claim” a president as theirs who, in reality, had little to nothing to do with the fraternity).
We’re here to present you with a definitive list of presidents who were actually in fraternities while in college; not just on paper now. Therefore, I will be recognizing neither honorary memberships nor post-graduate memberships on this list (though I will be recognizing dual fraternity memberships, a once common practice that no longer exists).
1. George Washington – N/A
2. John Adams – N/A
3. Thomas Jefferson – N/A
4. James Madison – N/A
5. James Monroe – N/A
6. John Quincy Adams – N/A
7. Andrew Jackson – N/A
8. Martin Van Buren – N/A
9. William Henry Harrison – N/A
10. John Tyler – N/A
11. James K. Polk – N/A
12. Zachary Taylor – N/A
13. Millard Fillmore – N/A
14. Franklin Pierce – N/A
15. James Buchanan – N/A
16. Abraham Lincoln – N/A
17. Andrew Johnson – N/A
18. Ulysses S. Grant – N/A
19. Rutherford B. Hayes – N/A
20. James Garfield – Delta Upsilon (Williams College)
21. Chester A. Arthur – Psi Upsilon (Union College)
22. Grover Cleveland – N/A
23. Benjamin Harrison – Phi Delta Theta (Miami (OH)), Delta Chi (Miami (OH))
24. Grover Cleveland – N/A
25. William McKinley – Sigma Alpha Epsilon (Mount Union College)
26. Teddy Roosevelt – Delta Kappa Epsilon (Harvard), Alpha Delta Phi (Harvard)
27. William Howard Taft – Psi Upsilon (Yale)
28. Woodrow Wilson – Phi Kappa Psi (Princeton)
29. Warren Harding – N/A
30. Calvin Coolidge – Phi Gamma Delta (Amherst College)
31. Herbert Hoover – N/A
32. Franklin D. Roosevelt – Delta Kappa Epsilon (Harvard)*, Alpha Delta Phi (Harvard)
33. Harry S. Truman – N/A
34. Dwight D. Eisenhower – N/A
35. John F. Kennedy – N/A
36. Lyndon B. Johnson – N/A
37. Richard Nixon – N/A
38. Gerald Ford – Delta Kappa Epsilon (Michigan)
39. Jimmy Carter – N/A
40. Ronald Reagan – Tau Kappa Epsilon (Eureka College)
41. George H.W. Bush – Delta Kappa Epsilon (Yale)
42. Bill Clinton – N/A
43. George W. Bush – Delta Kappa Epsilon (Yale)
44. Barack Obama – N/A
45. Donald Trump – N/A.
*FDR was a Harvard DKE despite DKE nationals de-recognizing the chapter due to a dispute over dual membership privileges for brothers
Did we miss one? If so, let me know at jared@totalfratmove.com
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Guy Fieri- Alpha Tau Omega
Comment of the year.
I’ve peaked
What in tarnation
Didn’t know we were counting future presidents.
Didn’t know you could buy likes on TFM.
It must be really hard taking life so seriously
Not gonna lie, DKE has a powerhouse roster here.
Give it a few years. We’ll have another Deke running the White House soon. Two geed presidents in a row is two too many.
Pretty sure we’ve had like 23 straight gdi PMs up north so, count your blessings.
And yes, I’ve done zero research to back this claim
Trump is gdi?
It’s literally printed right there bud.
I don’t read the articles
Name checks out
Teddy fuckin’ Roosevelt
Yes I was.
You forgot Jefferson Davis
frat
Bill Clinton was Alpha Phi Omega at Georgetown before nationals got cucked and went coed.
Free Masons should be considered fraternity men as well. Obviously, they don’t fit this list of collegiate member, but more befitting than honorary grads.
Skull and Bones up at Yale
Thomas Jefferson was Flat Hat Club, literally the first collegiate social/secret society in the U.S. I know it’s not Greek letter but I’d count it.
How W.H. Landed at Yale is amazing
Served his country in WWII as an 18 year old, moved on to Yale to become president of DKE and captain of the college baseball team, grew up to be a Congressman, then RNC chair, then CIA director, then VP to Reagan, then President of the United States.
Hero.
Same way that we all get anywhere, because of our dads
Grover Cleveland – Sigma Chi
Read the intro. He was an honorary member.
God bless Reagan
Harrison leaving Alpha chapter of Phi Delt to join delta chi is the epitome of Phi Delta Theta. Am I proud to be a Phi? Ask me on a weekend.
Rutherford B Hayes was a Deke at Kenyon College
No, he was a DKE at Cornell.
What kind of fake news are you looking at champ? His son went to Cornell
But he’s just an “honorary member”
Benjamin Harrison was actually only an honorary Delta Chi
Nope. He was a dual Phi Delt-Delta Chi brother back when Delta Chi was a fraternity for law students.
Delta Chi was founded 37 years after he graduated.
JFK was in Phi Kappa Theta
Read the intro. He was an honorary member.
Lots of N/As there my boy. Ever here of research? BTW Harry S. Truman was a Lambda Chi Alpha.
Read the intro. He was an honorary member.
JFK was phi kappa theta
Read the intro. He was an honorary member.
Grover Cleveland was a Sigma Chi
Read the intro. He was an honorary member.
Grover Cleveland was an Honorary member of Sigma Chi, he drink like a fish(Reportedly, when he decided to “cut back” that just meant to just a gallon a night so only like 11 beers) and he went on a date with a woman around his age(49) and said fuck that noise after noticing her 21 year old daughter and that girl went on to be the First Lady. Grover Cleveland was FaF.
Grover Cleveland was a living embodiment of the American Dream.
Ifeel you really want to make America great again you need to be like Grover Cleveland
Fuck