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A Kappa Alpha Society (ΚΑ) is the oldest college fraternity. It was established at Union College in Schenectady, New York on November 26, 1825 by a class action of university student. Kappa Alpha was a foremost to combine aspects of secret Greek-letter societies, literary societies & formalised student mixer groups & is so considered a foremost modern fraternity. Kappa Alpha is too a oldest collegial secret society still in being. From either 1825 to the present, those days are gone than 8,000 gentlemen & two or three women develop been honored sustaining membership to the society.
This organization is does'nt to exist as confused by using a Kappa Alpha Order, a entirely separate (& lot big) fraternity that operates primarily at schools in Southern and border states.
Chapters
Hobart College (CH)
University of Toronto (VT)
Lehigh University (VL)
McGill University (VM)
University of Pennsylvania (VP)
University of Western Ontario (VOO)
University of Alberta (VA)
Chapters at Union College (CC), Williams College (CG), Princeton University (CNC, the University of Virginia (VV), Cornell University (VC), the University of Calgary (VAC) and Wesleyan University (VW) are inactive.
Plans come afoot to recolonize a creation chapter at Union College (CC) for Fall 2005/Spring 2006.
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Notable members
Medicine
James Collip, University of Western Ontario, 1948. Discoverer of cortisone and co-discoverer of insulin. Shared John James Richard Macleod portion of the 1923 Nobel Prize for medicine.
William Lawerence Estes Jr., Lehigh University, 1901. President of the U.s. College of Operating surgeon, 1957-1958.
Arts and Humanities
James Phinney Baxter III. Winner of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for History.
Hume Cronyn, McGill University, 1930. Actor.
Fitzhugh Ludlow, Union College, 1856. Creator & explorer.
Raymond Hart Massey, University of Toronto, 1914. Actor.
Christopher McDonald, Hobart College, 1977. Actor, ordinarily known for his character "Shooter McGavin" in Happy Gilmore (1996).
Lewis H. Morgan, Union College, 1840. "Father of American Anthropology"
Kirk Varnedoe, Wiliams College, 1968. Primary Conservator of painting & sculpture, Museum of Modern Art (New York City).
Ronald D. Moore, Cornell University, 1986. Writer & Producer of TV & film. Notably Star Trek & a remaking of Battlestar Galactica. Both-period winner of Hugo Award for Excellence in Science Fiction.
Business
Verschoyle Philip Cronyn, University of Western Ontario, 1948. Previous Director of John Labatt Ltd. Chancellor of the University of American Ontario, 1961-1967. Brother of Hume Cronyn and cousin of Arthur Labatt.
Arthur Labatt, McGill University, 1953. Founder of Trimark Investment Management, presently a Chancellor of the University of Western Ontario and Officer of the Order of Canada in 1996.
Augustus Schell, Union College, 1830. Railroad baron & a Chair of the Democratic National Committee, 1872-1876.
Thomas Wellington, University of Pennsylvania, 1913. Industrialist & bird of prey,(New York City).
Canadian Politics and Law
Prime Minister
William Lyon Mackenzie King, University of Toronto, 1893. Prime Minister of Canada, 1921-1926, 1926-1930, and 1939-1945.
Member of Federal Parliament
Denton Massey. University of Toronto, 1919. MP for Toronto-Greenwood, 1935-1946. Officer, Order of the British Empire, 1946.
American Politics and Law
Congress
Leander Babcock, Union College, 1828. U.S. Representative from either Just released York, Twenty-third Territory, 1851-1853.
Charles Lewis Beale, Union College, 1842. U.S. Representative from either Just released York, Twelfth Territorial dominion, 1859-1861.
Gabriel Bouck, Union College, 1846. Wisconsin State's attorney General, 1858-1860. U.S. Represenative from either Wisconsin, Sixth Dominion, 1877-1881.
John M. Carroll, Union College, 1845. U.S. Representative from either Just released York, Eighteenth Territory, 1871-1873.
Charles Tappan Dunwell, Cornell University, 1870. U.S. Representative from either Up to date York, Tertiary Dominion, 1903-1908 (Died within professional).
Rodney Frelinghuysen, Hobart College, 1969. Just released Jersey General Assebly, 1983-1994. U.S. Representative from either Future Jersey, Eleventh Dominion, 1995-present.
Lewis Henry, Cornell University, 1905. U.S. Representative from either Future York, 37th Dominion, 1922-1923.
Levi Augustus Mackey, Union College, 1835. U.S. Representative from either Pennsylvania, Twentieth Territorial dominion, 1875-1879.
Jesse Olds Norton, Williams College, 1833. U.S. Representative from either Illinois, Eleventh Territory, 1853-1857, 1863-1865.
Edward Overton Jr., Princeton, 1854. U.S. Representative from either Pennsylvania, Fifteenth Dominion, 1877-1881.
Charles Edward Pearce, Union College, 1861. U.S. Representative from either Missouri, Twelfth Dominion, 1897-1901.
Rufus Wheeler Peckham (1809-1873), Union College, 1826. U.S. Representative from either Future York, Fourteenth Dominion, 1853-1855; Justice of the Future York Supreme Court, 1861-1869; Judge of the Up to date York Court of Appeals, 1870-1873 (died around professional).
John Benedict Steele, Williams College, 1835. U.S. Representative from either Up to date York, 1861-65 (Eleventh Territory 1861-63, Thirteenth Zone 1863-65).
Senate
James Dixon, Williams College, 1833. U.S. Representative from either Connecticut, First Territorial dominion, 1845-1849; Connecticut State Senate, First Territory, 1849; U.S. Senator from either Connecticut, 1857-1869.
Preston King, Union College, 1826. U.S. Representative from either Future York, Eighteenth Territory, 1843-1847, 1849-1853; U.S. Senator from either Future York, 1857-1863.
Governor
Herbert James Hagerman, Cornell University, 1890. 2nd secretary, U.S. Embassy to Russia, 1898-1901; bestowed a Sequentially of St. Anne (Russia) per Czar, 1901; Governor of Up to date Mexico Territory, 1906-07.
Henry M. Hoyt, Williams College, 1849. Governor of Pennsylvania, 1879-83.
Horace White, Cornell University, 1883. Member of the Just released York State Senate, 1896-1908; Lieutenant Governor of Up to date York, 1909-1910; Governor of Just released York, 1910-1911.
Supreme Court
Ward Hunt, Union College, 1828. Founder of the Up to date York Republican Person, 1856. Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1872-1882.
Military
Albert James Myer, Hobart College, 1845. "Father of Army Signal Corps" and founder of the U.S. Weather Bureau
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