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Council on Foreign Relations

Founded on 29 Jul 1921

The founders included many of those who had been at the signing of the Treaty of Versailles after World War I, including Colonel Edward House (Chief Advisor to President Wilson) and Walter Lippman. Other early connected names are:

President Herbert Hoover (Bohemian Club), Archibald Cary Coolidge (Son of President Calvin Coolidge), Eustace Percy (1st Baron Percy of Newcastle), Allen Dulles, Christian Herter, Lionel George Curtis, Charles Seymour (S&B), James T. Shotwell and Harold Temperley.

Finances for the CFR came from the same people associated with the Federal Reserve System in America: J.PMorgan; John D. Rockefeller; Bernard Baruch; Paul Warburg; Otto Kahn and Jacob Schiff.

CFR’s Study No., published 25 Nov 1959, opening declared its true purpose:”… the building a New International Order [which] must be responsive to world aspirations for peace,[and] for social and economic change…an international order [code for world government]…including states labeling themselves as ‘Socialist’.”

David Rockefeller joined the Council in 1941 and was appointed as director in 1949

Council on Foreign Relations - Others - to be completed

1902 - Elihu Root (Eucleian Society) - Headed the first Council on Foreign Relations.

Council on Foreign Relations - Skull and Bones - to be completed

President Calvin Coolidge was a distant relative to Joseph Collidge who was connected with the Russell and Co (Search mind map - Samuel Russells’ cousin William Huntingdon Russell (S&B1933) who co-founded Skull and Bones.

2009 to ? - Frederick W. Smith (S&B 1966) - Director of the Council on Foreign Relations.

1977 to 1985 - Winston Lord (S&B 1959) - President of the Council on Foreign Relations.

1977 to 1979 - George H. W. Bush (S&B 1948) - Director of the Council on Foreign Relations.

1964 to 1974 - William P. Bundy (S&B 1939) - Director of the Council on Foreign Relations.

1955 to 1972 - Charles M. Spofford (S&B 1924) - Director of the Council on Foreign Relations.

1950 to 1955 - W. Averell Harriman (S&B 1913) - Director of the Council on Foreign Relations.

William H. Wright II (S&B1982)
James Ting-Yeh Yang (S&B1982)
Tali Farimah Farhadian (S&B1997)
James Edward Bass (S&B1982)
Elizabeth Ahylyn Stanley (S&B1992)
Robert William Kagan (S&B1980)
Eric P. Liu (S&B1990)
Stephen Allen Schwarzman (S&B1969)
R. Keith Walton (S&B1986)
John Joseph O’Leary Jr. (S&B1969)
William Sickels Dodge (S&B1986)
John Forbes Kerry (S&B1966)
David Geoffrey Litt (S&B1983)
Charles Edwin Lord II (S&B1949)
John H.F. Shattuck (S&B1965)
Daniel Pomeroy Davison (S&B1949)
David L. Boren (S&B1963)
George Herbert Walker Bush (S&B1948)
David George Ball (S&B1960)
John Hubbard Chafee (S&B1947)
Alexander Tonio Ercklentz (S&B1959)
Charles Sheldon Whitehouse (S&B1947)
Richard Cooke Steadman (S&B1955)
Walter Henderson Brown (S&B1945W)
William H. “Bill” Donaldson (S&B1953)
John Carey (S&B1945W)
Raymond K. Price Jr. (S&B1951)
James Lane Buckley (S&B1944)
Evan Griffith Galbraith (S&B1950)
Townsend Walter Hoopes (S&B1944)
William H. Draper III (S&B1950)
Harold Harris Healy Jr. (S&B1943)
William F. Buckley Jr. (S&B1950)
James Quigg Newton Jr. (S&B1933)
Barry Zorthian (S&B1941)
Alfred Ogden (S&B1932)
Peter Omar Abernathy Solbert (S&B1941)
Samuel Hazard Gillespie Jr (S&B1932)
William Eldred Jackson (S&B1941)
Henry John Heinz II (S&B1931)
McGeorge Bundy (S&B1940)
Ralph Delahaye Paine Jr. (S&B1929)
George Hastings Chittenden (S&B1939)
Dana T. Bartholomew (S&B 1928)
William Putman Bundy (S&B1939)
George Winthrop Haight (S&B1928)
Joseph Carrere Fox (S&B1938)
Dana Treat Bartholomew (S&B1928)
Joseph Richardson Dilworth (S&B1938)
James Jeremiah Wadsworth (S&B1927)
Jonathan Brewster Bingham (S&B1936)

Council on Foreign Relations - Rhode Scholars

Craig M. Mullaney (Rhodes 2000)
Seth Andrew Bodnar (Rhodes 2001)
Jonathan J. Finer (Rhodes 1999)
Manuel-Julian R. Montoya (Rhodes 1999)
Ebrahim Patel (Rhodes 1998)
Adeel Qalbani (Rhodes 1998)
John Maxon Ackerly (Rhodes 1997)
Tali Farimah Farhadian (S&B 1997. Rhodes 1997)
Michelle Diane Gavin (Rhodes 1996)
Mark Wu (Rhodes 1996)
M. Taylor Fravel, Jr. (Rhodes 1993)
Erez Czarnes Kalir (Rhodes 1993)
Gina Raimondo (Rhodes 1993)
Cory A. Booker (Rhodes 1992)
Noah Feldman (Rhodes 1992)
Nikolas K. Gvosdev (Rhodes 1992)
Catherine M. Sharkey (S&B 1992. Rhodes 1992.)
Peter Blair Henry (Rhodes 1991)
Christopher B. Howard (Rhodes 1991)
Edward S. Pallesen (Rhodes 1991)
David A. Campbell (Rhodes 1990)
Jennie M. Koch (Rhodes 1990)
Basilios E. Tsingos (Rhodes 1990)
Martina Vandenberg (Rhodes 1990)
Pamela Jane Hill (Rhodes 1989)
Tomasz P. Malinowski (Rhodes 1989)
John Nagl (Rhodes 1988)
Stewart McClellan Patrick (Rhodes 1988)
Michael S. Barr (Rhodes 1987)
Elizabeth M. Cousens (Rhodes 1987)
Sylvia M. Mathews [Burwell] (Rhodes 1987. TC.)
Robert Radtke (Rhodes 1987)
Daniel D. Stid (Rhodes 1987)
John K. Tien, Jr. (Rhodes 1987)
Jacob Weisberg (Rhodes 1987)
Michael McFaul (Rhodes 1986)
Susan Elizabeth Rice (Rhodes 1986. TC)
Benjamin B. Sherwood (Rhodes 1986)
Stuart Benjamin Munsch (Rhodes 1985)
Catherine Kissee-Sandoval (Rhodes 1984)
Robert Malley (Rhodes 1984)
Hunter Monroe (Rhodes 1984)
Sarah Sewall (Rhodes 1984)
George Stephanopoulos (Rhodes 1984. B.)
Christopher D. Suits (Rhodes 1982)
Timothy John Galpin (Rhodes 1982)
Barton D. Gellman (Rhodes 1982)
Rick Waddell (Rhodes 1982)
Heather A. Wilson (Rhodes 1982)
Lois Quam (Rhodes 1982)
Daniel C. Esty (Rhodes 1981)
Michelle Denise Johnson (Rhodes 1981)
Nicholas D. Kristof (Rhodes 1981)
Elizabeth Deirdre Sherwood [Randall] (Rhodes 1981)
William Carl Altman (Rhodes 1980)
Gordon Crovitz (Rhodes 1980)
Clark Kent Ervin (Rhodes 1980. TC)
Susan Louise Karamanian (Rhodes 1980)
Christopher D. Miller (Rhodes 1980)
Kenneth Whittemore Banta (Rhodes 1979)
Nancy-Ann Elizabeth Min [DeParle] (Rhodes 1979)
Mark Milton Foulon (Rhodes 1978)
Jane Elizabeth Stromseth (Rhodes 1978)
Doron Weber (Rhodes 1978)
Gerrit Walter Gong (Rhodes 1977)
Richard A. Stengel (Rhodes 1977)
Ashton Baldwin Carter (Rhodes 1976)
Lawrence Paul Tu (Rhodes 1976)
James Hayes [Shofner] Cooper (Rhodes 1975)
James G. LeMoyne (Rhodes 1975)
Carlisle Ford Runge (Rhodes 1975)
Michael Joseph Sandel (Rhodes 1975)
Elliot Francis Gerson (Rhodes 1974)
Bruns Holland Grayson (Rhodes 1974)
Brian Colvert Griffin (Rhodes 1974)
Walter Seff Isaacson (Rhodes 1974. TC. B.)
Kerry Kirwin Pierce (Rhodes 1974)
Richard Nathan Haass (Rhodes 1973. TC. B.)
Frank Graham Klotz (Rhodes 1973)
Timothy Townley Lupfer (Rhodes 1973)
Wendell Lewis Willkie, II (Rhodes 1973)
Keith Paty Ellison (Rhodes 1972)
Franklin Delano Raines (Rhodes 1971. TC. B.)
Kurt Lidell Schmoke (Rhodes 1971. TC.)
Jerome Davis (Rhodes 1971)
Donald Jay Gogel (Rhodes 1971. TC)
James Mackenzie Fallows (Rhodes 1970)
Mark Weston Janis (Rhodes 1969)
Steven Bernard Pfeiffer (Rhodes 1969)
Alan Douglas Bersin (Rhodes 1968)
William Jefferson Clinton (Rhodes 1968. TC. B.)
Robbin St. Clair Johnson (Rhodes 1968)
Nelson Strobridge Talbott (Rhodes 1968. TC)
Thomas Samuel Williamson, Jr. (Rhodes 1968)
Charles Stevenson Abbot (Rhodes 1967)
Ronald Stanley Katz (Rhodes 1967)
Stephen Alan Oxman (Rhodes 1967)
Wesley Kanne Clark (Rhodes 1966)
Curtis Alan Hessler (Rhodes 1966)
Richard Anthony Joseph (Rhodes 1966)
Michael Sam Teitelbaum (Rhodes 1966)
William Warren Bradley(Rhodes 1965. B)
Benjamin Walter Heineman, Jr. (Rhodes 1965)
James Daniel O’Flaherty (Rhodes 1965)
John Bundy Ritch (Rhodes 1965)
W. Bowman Cutter (Rhodes 1964)
Larry Lee Pressler (Rhodes 1964. B.)
James Gustave Speth (Rhodes 1964)
David Odell Beim (Rhodes 1963)
David Lyle Boren (Rhodes 1963. S&B 1963)
Josiah Bunting (Rhodes 1963)
William Walker Lewis (Rhodes 1963. B.)
Joseph Stanley Sanders (Rhodes 1963)
Walter Becker Slocombe (Rhodes 1963)
Willard Scott Thompson (Rhodes 1963)
R. James Woolsey (Rhodes 1963)
William Grandin Bardel (Rhodes 1961)
Michael Robert Gordon (Rhodes 1961)
Howard Dwayne Graves (Rhodes 1961)
Richard David Portes (Rhodes 1961)
Ralph Clement Bryant (Rhodes 1960)
Richard Frank Celeste (Rhodes 1960)
John Blythe McLin (Rhodes 1960)
Charles William Maynes (Rhodes 1960. B.)
Matthew Nimetz (Rhodes 1960)
John Roy Price, Jr. (Rhodes 1960)
Peter Miller Dawkins (Rhodes 1959)
Bradley Clark Hosmer (Rhodes 1959)
Frank Neils Von Hippel (Rhodes 1959)
A. E. Dick Howard (Rhodes 1958)
Jason Donald McManus (Rhodes 1958)
Joseph Samuel Nye, Jr. (Rhodes 1958. TC. B.)
John O. B. Sewall (Rhodes 1958)
Roger Dennis Hansen (Rhodes 1957. S&K 1957)
Robert Irwin Rotberg (Rhodes 1957)
Neil Leon Rudenstine (Rhodes 1956)
James Bickford Hurlock (Rhodes 1955)
Lee Donne Olvey (Rhodes 1955)
Richard Henry Ullman (Rhodes 1955)
Paul Spyros Sarbanes (Rhodes 1954)
William Daniel Carmichael (Rhodes 1952)
George J. W. Goodman (Rhodes 1952)
Francis Dummer Logan (Rhodes 1952)
Thomas Alva Bartlett (Rhodes 1951)
John Henry Funari (Rhodes 1951)
Carl Thor Hanson (Rhodes 1951)
Kenneth Keniston (Rhodes 1951. B.)
Richard Crawford Pugh (Rhodes 1951)
James Hadley Billington (Rhodes 1950. B.)
Stephen John Brademas (Rhodes 1950. TC. B.)
Lawrence Carroll McQuade (Rhodes 1950)
Eugene Bertram Skolnikoff (Rhodes 1950)
Dennis Carothers Stanfill (Rhodes 1950)
Steven Muller (Rhodes 1949)
George Barber Munroe (Rhodes 1949)
Richard Arthur Wiley (Rhodes 1949)
Ralph Kirby Davidson (Rhodes 1948)
John Theodore McNaughton (Rhodes 1948. B.)
Ewell Edward Murphy, Jr. (Rhodes 1948)
Wesley Wentz Posvar (Rhodes 1948)
Donald Herschel Rivkin (Rhodes 1948)
Edson White Spencer (Rhodes 1948. TC.)
Frank Rockwell Barnett (Rhodes 1947)
Charles Guy Bolte (Rhodes 1947)
James McNaughton Hester (Rhodes 1947)
Thomas Lowe Hughes (Rhodes 1947. TC. B.)
Amos Azariah Jordan (Rhodes 1947)
Nicholas deBelleville Katzenbach (Rhodes 1947)
Richard Henry Nolte (Rhodes 1947)
Bernard William Rogers (Rhodes 1947. B.)
Stansfield Turner (Rhodes 1947)
Morris Berthold Abram(Rhodes 1939)
Charles Finch Barber (Rhodes 1939)
Charles Cummings Collingwood (Rhodes 1939)
Tom Killefer (Rhodes 1939)
Waldemar August Nielsen (Rhodes 1939)
Henry Lithgow Roberts (Rhodes 1939. B.)
Robert Vincent Roosa (Rhodes 1939, TC, B)
James Harlan Cleveland(Rhodes 1938. B.)
Chadbourne Gilpatric (Rhodes 1938)
Kermit Gordon (Rhodes 1938)
James Ervin King, Jr. (Rhodes 1937)
Gordon Alexander Craig (Rhodes 1936)
Philip Mayer Kaiser (Rhodes 1936)
Walt Whitman Rostow (Rhodes 1936)
John Thomas Hays, Jr. (Rhodes 1935)
Herbert C. L. Merillat (Rhodes 1935)
Franklin Moore (Dyke) Brown (Rhodes 1935)
Robert Warren Barnett (Rhodes 1934)
George Crews McGhee (Rhodes 1934. B.)
John Bertram Oakes (Rhodes 1934.)
John Fischer (Rhodes 1933)
Lincoln Gordon (Rhodes 1933. B.)
Atherton Bean (Rhodes 1932)
Samuel Hutchison Beer (Rhodes 1932)
Albert Henry Garretson (Rhodes 1932)
Charles Johnston Hitch (Rhodes 1932)
James McCormack, Jr. (Rhodes 1932. B.)
Don Krasher Price, Jr. (Rhodes 1932. B.)
Howland Hill Sargeant (Rhodes 1932)
Charles Hartwell Bonesteel III (Rhodes 1931)
Milo Fowler Hamilton (Rhodes 1931)
Alfred Hayes (Rhodes 1931)
Dean Rusk (Rhodes 1931. B.)
John King Fairbank (Rhodes 1929)
George Arthur Lincoln (Rhodes 1929)
Frederick Lawson Hovde (Rhodes 1929)
Malcolm Ames MacIntyre (Rhodes 1929)
Carl Bernhardt Spaeth (Rhodes 1929)
William Whipple (Rhodes 1929)
Clyde K. M. Kluckhohn (Rhodes 1928)
Andrew Douglas McHendrie (Rhodes 1928)
John William Nason (Rhodes 1928)
Thomas Warren Childs (Rhodes 1928)
Thomas Jefferson Hamilton, Jr. (Rhodes 1928)
Myres Smith McDougal (Rhodes 1927)
Walter Lindsey Brown (Rhodes 1926)
Erwin Dain Canham (Rhodes 1926)
William Ezna Lingelbach, Jr. (Rhodes 1926)
William Ichabod Nichols (Rhodes 1926)
Arthur Worthington Packard (Rhodes 1925)
Charles Eskridge Saltzman (Rhodes 1925)
Carter Marshall Braxton (Rhodes 1924)
William Walton Butterworth(Rhodes 1924)
William Percy Maddox (Rhodes 1922)
William Edwards Stevenson (Rhodes 1922)
Alan Valentine (Rhodes 1922)
Ernest Kidder Lindley (Rhodes 1920)
Crane Brinton (Rhodes 1919)
Francis Pickens Miller (Rhodes 1919)
William Dwight Whitney (S&K 1919. Rhodes 1919)
Ralph Moore Carson (Rhodes 1918)
Felix Muskett Morley (Rhodes 1917)
Arthur Preston Whitaker(Rhodes 1917)
Clyde Eagleton (Rhodes 1914)
Oliver Cromwell Carmichael (Rhodes 1913)
Elmer Holmes Davis (Rhodes 1910)
Whitney Hart Shepardson (Rhodes 1910)
Clarence Henry Haring (Rhodes 1907)
Robert William Hartley (Rhodes 1907)
Bernadotte Everly Schmitt (Rhodes 1905)
Leonard Wolsey Cronkhite (Rhodes 1905)
Frank Aydelotte (Rhodes 1905)
Stanley Kuhl Hornbeck (Rhodes 1904)