Sigma Phi


 
 

Founded on March 4, 1827 on the campus of Union College in Schenectady, New York, USA, the Sigma Phi Society is the second-oldest Greek social fraternal organization in the United States.

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Founders: Charles Thorne Cromwell of Mosquito Cove, New York, Thomas Fielders Bowie and his brother, John Thomas Bowie, both of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, and Thomas Sydenham Witherspoon of Greensboro, Alabama. Part of the symbolic Union Triad.

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  • Elihu Root - US Secretary of War/State in the administration of Theodore Roosevelt
  • Earl Warren - Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, Governor of California
  • James Schoolcraft Sherman - Vice President of the United States under William Howard Taft

 

March 4: March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (64th in leap years). There are 302 days remaining....

1827: 1827 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar)....

Union College: This article is about the college in New York; there are also Union Colleges in Barbourville, Kentucky and Lincoln, Nebraska and a Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. Many other colleges use the word "union" in their name....


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