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John Lester Hubbard Chafee (S&B 1947)

Republican. Politician. Groton School. Yale University. Skull and Bones. Harvard. Delta Kappa Epsilon (Phi chapter)

4 Jan 1995 to 24 Oct 1999 - Chair of the Senate Environment Committee

29 Dec 1976 to 24 Oct 1999 - United States Senator from Rhode Island

31 Jan 1969 to 4 May 1972 - 60th United States Secretary of the Navy by President Richard Nixon

1 Jan 1963 to 7 Jan 1969 - 66th Governor of Rhode Island

Korean War - 1951 to 1953 - United States Marine

WW2 - 1942 to 1945 - United States Marine - Captain

1950 - Harvard Law School

1947 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch

Died 24 Oct 1999, after declaring he would not seek relection he suddenly died of congestive heart failure.

Note: Less than two weeks before his death, Chafee was one of four Senate Republicans to vote in favor of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. The treaty was designed to ban underground nuclear testing and was the first major international security pact to be defeated in the Senate since the Treaty of Versailles.[1,11]

In an obituary, President Clinton said that, “He embodied the decent center. For him, civility was not simply a matter of personal manners. He believed it was essential to the preservation of our democratic system.”[1,13]

[1] - FYI - Wiki - John Lester Hubbard Chafee (S&B 1947)

[1,11] - Washingtonpost.com, 14 Oct 1999. DEFEAT OF A TREATY: THE OVERVIEW; SENATE KILLS TEST BAN TREATY IN CRUSHING LOSS FOR CLINTON; EVOKES VERSAILLES PACT DEFEAT

[1,12] - Washingpost.com, 14 Oct 1999. Senate Rejects Test Ban Treaty by Helen Dewar] https://web.archive.org/web/20190404003423/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/daily/oct99/senate14.htm

[1,13] - Los Angeles Times Oct 2 1999. Senate Centrist John H. Chafee Is Dead at 77 ](https://web.archive.org/web/20160306162653/http://articles.latimes.com/1999/oct/26/news/mn-26438)

[2] - America’s Secret Establishment. An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones by Antony C. Sutton (2004)

[3] - Fleshing Out Skull & Bones - Investigations into America’s Most Powerful Secret Society 2008 by Antony Sutton, Howard Altman, Kris Millegan, Dr Ralph Bunch, Anton Chaitkin and Webster Griffin Tarpley

[4] - Find a Grave - John Lester Hubbard Chafee (S&B 1947)