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FAMOUS/NOTABLE EAGLE SCOUTS |
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Henry
Aaron |
baseball player, home run king |
Bill
Alexander |
US Rep from Arkansas |
Lamar
Alexander |
Lawyer, Governor of Tennessee, Secretary of Education, US Presidential
candidate 1996 |
Gary
L. Anderson |
US Rep from NY |
Neil
Armstrong |
astronaut, first man on moon, from Wapakoneta, OH |
Willie
Banks |
Olympic & World Record holding track athlete |
Albert
Belle |
outfielder, Chicago White Sox |
Charles
E. Bennett |
US Rep from Florida |
Lloyd
M. Bentsen, Jr. |
Former Treasury Secretary and US Senator from Texas |
Bill
Bradley |
Pro basketball star and US Senator from NJ |
James
Brady |
press sec to Pres. Reagan |
Milton
A. Caniff |
comic strip artist "Steve Canyon" |
John
W. Creighton, Jr. |
President & CEO
of Weyerhaeuser Company |
William
E. Dannemeyer |
US Rep from Cal. |
William
Devries |
MD, transplanted first artificial heart |
Michael
Dukakis |
former governor of Massachusetts |
Arthur
Eldred |
First Eagle Scout in 1912 |
Thomas
Foley |
former Speaker of the House and US Rep from WA |
Murphy
J. "Mike" Foster |
Governor of Louisiana, Distinguished Eagle 1996 recipient |
Robert
M. Gates |
former CIA Director, at CIA for almost 30 years, NESA President |
Richard
A. Gephardt |
US Congressman |
Michael
Kahn |
stage director, Oscar winning film editor |
Alfred
Kinsey, Dr. |
insect biologist, human behavior researcher |
John
Koncak |
Orlando Magic basketball player |
Sheldon
Leonard |
actor, director, producer, won 3 Emmys |
Gary
Lock |
Governor of Washington State, first US governor of Asian (Chinese)
descent (other than Hawaii) |
Richard
G. Lugar |
Senator from Indiana |
J.
Willard Marriott, Jr. |
Pres. Marriott Corp. |
W.
Walter Menninger |
Physician, Civil Servant, Distinguished Eagle Scout, Silver Buffalo
Award |
Michael
Moore |
Author and filmmaker, nominated for an Oscar for "Bowling For
Columbine" |
Jim
Mora |
Head Coach, New Orleans Saints football team |
Oswald
"Ozzie" Nelson |
actor, earned in 1919 at age 13 |
Sam
Nunn |
US Senator from Georgia |
Ellison
Onizuka |
Astronaut aboard the space shuttle Challenger |
Steve
Oswald |
Astronaut, Navy Rear Admiral, Distinguished Eagle recipient |
J.
J. Pickle |
US Rep from Texas, proudly displays his Distinguished Eagle plaque
inside his office |
Samuel
R. Pierce |
former Sec. Housing & Urban Development |
Frederick
Reines |
Nobel Prize for Physics, 1995 |
Gary
Rogers |
Chairman and CEO of Dreyer's Grande Ice Cream, has 10 Eagles in his
family |
Jim
Rogers |
CEO of Kampgrounds of America (related to Gary Rogers) |
Harrison
Salisbury |
Pulitzer Prize winning author |
James
Sanderson |
Vice Admiral, US Navy (Retired), Deputy Chief US Atlantic Fleet |
William
Sessions |
former FBI director |
Sam
Skinner |
Secretary of Energy during the Bush administration and now CEO of
Commonwealth Edison |
John
Tesh |
TV celebrity and pianist |
Sam
Walton |
Businessman, Retailer |
Elmo
Russell Zumwalt Jr. |
US Navy Admiral, Chief Of Naval Operations |
Wallace
Stegner |
writer and college professor, won Pulitzer Prize in 1972 for "Angle
of Repose" |
Percy
Sutton |
Attorney, Ch. of Board of City Broadcasting Corp. |
Gerald
Ford |
U.S. President (1st Eagle
to be pres.), "Junior" Ford of Troop 15, Grand Rapids, MI in
1927 |
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26 MBs, including Civics, "Boy Scouts was invaluable in shaping my
life." |
Steven
Fossett |
Crossed the Earth solo on
6th attempt in a hot air balloon, won the Chicago to Mackinaw boat |
races,
competed in the Iditorad dog race, and competed in several iron man
triathlons, and |
among
other things lives the Scouting mottos both Cub and Boy Scout by doing his
best |
and
being prepared |
James
Lovell |
Career Navy pilot and
astronaut, President of NESA Flew on Gemini 7, 12 & Apollo 8, 13. |
Apollo
13 Mission Commander. At one
time had seen more sunrises than any other |
human
being, Distinguished Eagle recipient.
Business executive. |
Francis
J. Parater |
Nominated for sainthood by
Diocese of Richmond in Feb 2002. One
of Richmond's first |
Eagle
Scouts. Died at age 22 in
1920 while at a seminary in Rome, Italy. |
H.
Ross Perot |
self made billionaire and
presidential candidate, founder of Reform Party, EDS Corp., |
and
The Perot Group |
Steven
Spielberg |
Movie producer and
director, from Scottsdale, AZ, made a movie of his troop while getting |
Photography
MB |
Togo
D. West, Jr. |
Sec. Of The Army and Sec.
Of Veteran Affairs during Clinton administration, Distinguished |
Eagle
recipient |
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FAMOUS/NOTABLE
SCOUTS, but not Eagles: |
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Richard
Dean Anderson |
taught Reptile Study, actor |
Charles
F. Barber |
CEO of American Smelting & refining |
Jimmy
Buffett |
musician and singer |
Bill
Clinton |
Cub Scout, President of US |
Walter
Cronkite |
Journalist, TV commentator |
Harrison
Ford |
Life, taught Reptile Study, actor "Indiana Jones" |
Bill
Gates |
Life, founder of Microsoft Corp. |
David
Hartman |
TV personality |
Dan
Jansen |
Olympic Gold Medal Speed Skating, 1994 Olympics, Lillihammer |
Bruce
Jenner |
Olympic Decathlete, Gold Medalist |
John
F. Kennedy |
first US President who was a Scout |
Branford
Marsalis |
Life Scout, Jazz musician |
Merlin
Olson |
Pro football player and sportscaster |
Eddie
Rabbitt |
Country & Western singer |
John
Ritter |
actor, son of singer Tex Ritter |
Richard
Roundtree |
actor |
Nolan
Ryan |
pro baseball pitcher |
Alberto
Salazar |
Life, 3 time winner NY marathon |
Mark
Spitz |
Seven Gold Medals Swimming, 1972 Munich Olympic Games |
James
Stewart |
actor, USAF B. General, B17 pilot in WWII |
Joe
Theisman |
Life, former QB, Washington Redskins |
Peter
Ueberroth |
Cub Scout, former Commissioner of Baseball |
Norm
Mineta |
Japanese American, spent
WWII as a Boy Scout in an internment camp in Wyoming, |
where
he met Alan Simpson, who was a Boy Scout in a troop in Cody, WY that made |
visits
to their fellow Scouts in the camp. Norm
later became mayor of San Jose, CA; |
a
member of the US Congress, and later a Democratic Cabinet member of
Republican |
Pres.
George W. Bush in 2001. Also
see Alan Simpson, who was a long time friend of |
Norm's. |
Alan
Simpson |
member of a troop in Cody,
WY in WWII that visited fellow Scouts in a Japanese American |
internment
camp near Cody, where he met Norm Mineta, who was a long time friend. |
Alan
became a Republican Senator from WY and helped Norm pass the Japanese
American |
Compensation
Act. Also see Norm Mineta.
This story appeared in the Jan / Feb 2002 |
issue
of Scouting Magazine.
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