Yale Political Union - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

Notable alumni of the YPU include:

• William Bundy, President, Spring and Fall 1938
• H. Bradford Westerfield, President, Fall 1945 (Liberal)
• Byron White, Chairman of the Conservative Party (Conservative-IP)
• Samuel P. Huntington, Leader of the Labor Party, Fall 1945 (Labor)
• L. Brent Bozell Jr., President, Spring, 1949 (Conservative-IP)
• John Glenn Beall, Jr., Vice President, Fall 1949
• Edwin Meese, President, Fall 1951 (Conservative-IP)
• David P. Calleo, President, Spring, 1954
• Richard S. Arnold, Vice President, Fall 1955

• Senator John F. Kerry, President, Fall 1964 and Spring 1965; Chairman of the Liberal Party, Spring 1964 (Liberal)
• J. Harvie Wilkinson, President, Fall 1965 and Spring 1966; Chairman of the Conservative Party, Fall 1964 (Conservative-IP)
• John J. O'Leary, President, Fall 1967 and Spring 1968
• Walter Olson, POR Chairman, Spring 1974, author and legal critic, senior fellow at the Cato Institute
• Fred Krupp, President, Spring 1974 (Conservative-IP)
• Evan Wolfson, Speaker, 1976
• Peter Keisler, Speaker, Chairman of the PoR (PoR), co-founder of the Federalist Society
• Dana Milbank, Chairman of the Progressives (Progressive)
• Michael J. Astrue, President, 1977, Chairman of the Tory Party, 1975 (Tory)
• Steven Calabresi, President, Fall, 1978, co-founder of the Federalist Society, professor of law Northwestern University
• Akhil Amar, Chairman of Liberal Party
• David McIntosh, President, Fall, 1979
• Matthias Storme, (PoR) 1981, professor of law Catholic University Leuven
• Neal Wolin, President, Fall, 1981 (Liberal)
• Fareed Zakaria, President, Spring 1984 (PoR), Newsweek columnist, editor of Time
• Keith Ferrazzi, Chairman of the Tory Party, 1985
• John Wertheim, President, Spring, 1988
• Robert Pollock, Chairman of the PoR, member of the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board
• David Boren, Speaker (Conservative-IP)
• Austan Goolsbee, (Independent)
• John Bolton, Floor Leader of the Right, 1968 (Conservative-IP)
• Richard Brookhiser, Chairman of PoR, 1975 (PoR), senior editor at National Review
• Governor Bob Taft Chairman, (Conservative-IP)
• Governor George Pataki Chairman
• William F. Buckley (Conservative-IP)
• Raymond Price, Chairman of the Conservative Party (Conservative-IP)
• Marvin Krislov, Chairman of the Liberal Party, Fall 1979 (Liberal)
• Peter Beinart, Chair of the Liberal Party, Fall 1990 (Liberal)
• Maggie Gallagher, Chairman of the PoR, 1981 (PoR), columnist
• Jonathan Zittrain, 1991 (Independent)
• Lauren Willig, Chairman of the Tory Party, Spring 1998 (Tory)
• Karl Ziebarth, POR Chairman, international rail and transportation consultant
• Eve Tushnet, (PoR) journalist
• Grover Rees, III, POR Chairman, Spring 1971, former US Ambassador
• Brian Carney, member of the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board