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Gary L. Ackerman - U.S. Representative from New York
Bill Alexander - U.S. Representative from Arkansas
Lamar Alexander - Lawyer, Governor of Tennessee, Secretary of Education,
presidential candidate
Gary L. Anderson - U.S. Representative from New York
Willie Banks - Olympic & world record holding track star
Albert Belle - baseball player
Charles E. Bennett - U.S. Representative from Florida
William Bennett - Secretary of Education
Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr. - Treasury Secretary & U.S. Representative
from Texas
Jeff Bingaman - U.S. Senator from New Mexico
Michael Bloomberg - Mayor of New York City, founder of Bloomberg News
Charles H. Bonestell, III - Army four-star General
William "Bill Bradley" - Pro basketball star and U.S. Senator
from New Jersey
James Brady - Former Press Secretary to President Reagan
Stephen G. Breyer - U.S. Supreme Court Justice
William Bridgeforth - formulated "Mountain Dew" drink
Milton A. Caniff - Comic strip artist "Steve Canyon"
William P. Clements, Jr. - former governor of Texas
Thad Cochran - U.S. Senator from Mississippi
Barber B. Conable, Jr. - President, World Bank
Mike Crapo - U.S. senator from Idaho
John W. Creighton, Jr. - President & CEO of Weyerhaeuser Company
John N. Dalton - former governor of Virginia
William E. Dannemeyer - U.S. Representative from California
Hal Daub - U.S. Representative from Nebraska
William Devries - M.D., transplanted first artificial heart
John E. Dolibois - U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg
Hedley W. Donovan - Editor in Chief, Time Magazine
Michael Dukakis - Governor of Massachusetts, presidential candidate
Arthur Eldred - First Eagle Scout
Mike Enzi - U.S. Senator from Wyoming
Daniel J. Evans - Senator and Governor of Washington
David Farabee - Texas State Representative
Thomas Foley - Speaker of the House; U.S. Representative from Washington;
ambassador to Japan
Gerald Ford - U.S. President (1st Eagle to be President; obtained at the age of
14)
Steven Fossett - Tried several times to fly solo around the world in a
hot air balloon and finally did it in 2002, won the Chicago to Mackinaw boat races, competed in the
1,000-mile Iditarod dog race (Alaska), and competed in several iron man triathlons
Murphy J. "Mike" Foster - Governor of Louisiana
Chan Gailey - College and professional football coach
John Garamendi - Lieutenant governor of California
Bill Gates Sr. - CEO of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; father of
Bill Gates
Robert M. Gates - Director of Central Intelligence (CIA) and Secretary
of Defense
Clifton C. Garvin, Jr. - Chairman of the Board, Exxon
Richard A. Gephardt - U.S. Representative from Missouri, Minority Leader
Maurice F. Granville - Chairman & CEO, Texaco
Gerald Greenwald - Chairman, Chrysler Motors
William D. Hanna - Hanna-Barberra Productions, Inc.
Ronald J. Hays - Admiral, Commander US Navy Pacific Fleet
Alexander Holsinger - became the one millionth eagle
Michael Kahn - stage director, Oscar winning film editor
Ewing M. Kaufman - Owner, Kansas City Royals baseball
Dr. Alfred Kinsey - insect biologist, human behavior researcher
John Koncak - basketball player
Sheldon Leonard - actor, director, producer, 3-time Emmy award winner
Gary Locke - Governor of the State of Washington, the first
Chinese-American Governor in the contiguous United States, and selected as a Distinguished Eagle Scout
by NESA
Richard Lugar - Senator from Indiana (presidential candidate 1996)
J. William Marriott, Jr. - President, Marriott Corp.
Wynton Marsalis - Jazz trumpeter and composer
Jason McManus - editor-in-chief, TIME, Inc
W. Walter Menninger - Physician, civil servant
George Meyer - Writer and producer of "The Simpsons"
Michael Moore - Author and filmmaker, nominated for an Oscar for
"Bowling for Columbine"
Jim Mora - Head Coach, New Orleans Saints
Ben Nelson - U.S. Senator from Nebraska
Oswald "Ozzie" Nelson - actor
Samuel A. Nunn, Jr. - U.S. Senator from Georgia
Mitchell Paige - walked 200 miles to enlist in Marines on his 18th
birthday in 1936, retired as a Colonel, Medal of honor, presented his eagle award in 2003 after it
was verified that he'd not received it in 1936 because he'd joined the Marines!
Francis J. Parater - nominated for Sainthood by Diocese of Richmond,
VA.; died at age 22 in 1920 in Rome, while at seminary
H. Ross Perot - Self-made billionaire and presidential candidate
Rick Perry - Governor, State of Texas
J.J. Pickle - U.S. Representative from Texas, proudly displays his
Eagle plaque inside his office
Samuel R. Pierce - Former Secretary of Housing & Urban Development
Beasley Reece - former NFL player and sportscaster
Frederick Reines - Nobel Prize winner in Physics
Gary Rogers - Chairman and CEO of Dreyer's Ice Cream
Jim Rogers - CEO of Kampgrounds of America (KOA)
Mike Rowe - host of "Dirty Jobs" television program
William Rudman - U.S. Senator from New Hampshire
Donald Rumsfeld - Secretary of Defense
Harrison E. Salisbury - Pulitzer Prize winning author
James Sanderson - Vice Admiral, US Navy (Ret), Deputy Chief US
Atlantic Fleet
Mark Sanford - Governor of South Carolina
Robert L. Scott - WWII ace pilot "Flying Tigers"
Jeff Sessions - U.S. Senator from Alabama
William S. Sessions - former federal judge and FBI director
Sam Skinner - Secretary of Energy during the Bush administration and
now CEO of Commonwealth Edison
Steven Spielberg - Movie producer, from Scottsdale, AZ, made a movie
of his troop while getting Photography MB. Helped design requirements for the Cinematography MB.
Wallace Stegner - Writer and college professor, won Pulitzer Prize
in 1972 for "Angle of Repose"
Percy Sutton - Attorney, Chairman of the Board of City Broadcasting Corp.
John Tesh - TV celebrity and pianist
Meldrim Thomson, Jr. - 3-term governor of New Hampshire
Sam M. Walton - Founder, Wal-Mart
Togo West - Secretary of the Army and Secretary of Veterans Affairs
William C. Westmoreland - General; Commander, U.S. forces, Vietnam War
Edward O. Wilson - Pellegrino University Professor and curator of
entomology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. - Admiral, Chief of Naval Operations
# - Guion "Guy" S. Bluford Jr. -
retired U.S. Air Force officer; first African American in space
$ - Steven W. Lindsey -
pilot for STS-95 when John Glenn returned to space as a Senator; made Eagle in Troop 161 in Temple City,
California
% - James A. Lovell -
navy pilot and astronaut, President of National Eagle Scout Association; flew on Gemini 7, 12 & Apollo
8, 13; at one time had seen more sunrises than any other human being
& - CDR William McCool, USN -
pilot of U.S. Space Shuttle Columbia
~ - Ellison S. Onizuka -
perished on the Challenger space shuttle
