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Famous Scouts

Bill Alexander - US Rep from Arkansas

Gary L. Ackerman - US Rep from NY

Neil Armstrong - astronaut, first man on moon, from Wapakoneta, OH

Henry Aaron - baseball player, home run king - quoted in the Mobile Press Register Henry as saying that the greatest positive influence in his life was his involvement in scouting

Charles E. Bennett - US Rep from Florida

William Bennett - former Secretary of Education

Bill Bradley - Pro basketball star and US Senator from NJ

James Brady - press sec to Pres. Reagan

Milton A. Caniff - comic strip artist "Steve Canyon"

John W. Creighton, Jr. - President & CEO of Weyerhaeuser Company

William E. Dannemeyer - US Rep from Cal.

William Devries - MD, transplanted first artificial heart

Michael Dukakis - former governor of Massachusetts

Arthur Eldred - First Eagle Scout

Gerald Ford - U.S. President (1st Eagle to be President

Steven Fossett - Tried several times to fly solo around the world in a hot air ballon, won the Chicago to Mackinaw boat races, competed in the Iditorad dog race , and competed in several iron man triathelons, and among other things lives the Scouting mottos both Cub and Boy Scout by doing his best and being prepard

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

James 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

Richard Lugar - Senator from Indiana (presidential canidate 1996)

J. Willard Marriott, Jr. - Pres. Marriott Corp.

Sam Nunn - US Senator from Georgia

Ellison Onizuka - Astronaut aboard the space shuttle Challenger

H. Ross Perot - self-made billionaire and presidential canidate

J. J. Pickle - US Rep from Texas, proudly displays his Eagle plaque inside his office

Samuel R. Pierce - former Sec. Housing & Urban Development

Harrison Salisbury - Pulitzer Prize winning author

Jeff Sessions - Junior Senator from Alabama is an Eagle Scout from the troop in Camden, AL.

William Sessions - foremer FBI director

Sam Skinner - Secretary of Energy during the Bush administration and no CEO OF Commonwealth Edison

Steven Spielberg - Movie producer, from Scottsdale, AZ, made a movie of his troop while getting Photography MB. Helped to design requirements for the cinematography MB.

Wallace Stegner - writer and college professor, won Pulitzer Prize in 1972 for "Angle of Repose"

Percy Sutton - Attorney, Ch. of Board of City Broadcasting Corp.

John Tesh - TV celebrity and pianist

Only 1.2 million boys have reached Eagle in over 80 years (15,000 a year, roughly). Only 2 in 100 that joins Scouts make Eagle--that's 0.512f the male population.

Richard Dean Anderson - taught Reptile Study, actor

Charles F. Barber - CEO of American Smelting & refining

Bill Clinton - Cub Scout, President of US

Harrison Ford - Life, taught Reptile Study, actor "Indiana Jones"

Bill Gates - Life, founder of Microsoft Corp.

David Hartman - TV personality

John F Kennedy - first US President who was a Scout

Branford Marsalis - Life Scout, Jazz musician

Merlin Olson - Pro football player and sportscaster

Eddie Rabbitt - Country & Western singer

John Ritter - actor, son of singer Tex Ritter

Richard Roundtree - actor

Nolan Ryan - pro baseball pitcher

Alberto Salazar - Life, 3 time winner NY marathon

James Stewart - actor, USAF B. General, B-17 pilot in WWII

Joe Theisman - Life, former QB, Washington Redskins

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