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Notable alumni Conservative John Glenn Beall Jr. (Vice President, Fall 1949), United States Senator from Maryland John Bolton (Floor Leader of the Right, 1968), former United States Ambassador to the United Nations David Boren, (YPU Speaker), Governor of Oklahoma and U.S. Senator from Oklahoma L. Brent Bozell Jr. (YPU President, Spring 1949), conservative activist and Catholic writer James L. Buckley, U.S. Senator from New York and Federal Judge on the United States Court of Appeals William F. Buckley, founder of National Review and host of Firing Line (in 1967, as an alumnus, was inducted a member of the Party of the Right) Patrick J. Bumatay, (YPU Treasurer, 1998), Federal Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Meghan Clyne (Party Chair, Spring 2001), speechwriter and Senior Editor of National Affairs Fred Krupp (YPU President, Spring 1974), President of the Environmental Defense Fund John Watson Lungstrum (Party Chair, Fall 1964 and Spring 1965; Speaker, Fall 1966), Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Kansas Edwin Meese (Party Chair, Spring 1951; YPU President, Fall 1951), United States Attorney General George Pataki (Party Chair, Fall 1965), Governor of New York Raymond Price (Party Chair, Fall 1949 and Spring 1950), speechwriter for President Richard Nixon Whitelaw Reid II (Party Chair, Fall 1935), Chairman and President of the New York Herald Tribune Avik Roy (Party Chair, Fall 1996), editor of Forbes magazine and Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute[1] William Scranton, Governor of Pennsylvania and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Lyman Spitzer, theoretical physicist Bob Taft, Governor of Ohio Robert Taft Jr., United States Senator from Ohio William Howard Taft III, U.S. Ambassador to Ireland James Harvie Wilkinson III (Party Vice Chair, Fall 1964; YPU President, Fall 1965 and Spring 1966), Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Independent John Avlon (Party Chair, Fall 1994), editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast Steven Calabresi (YPU President, Fall 1978), co-founder of the Federalist Society and Professor of Law at Northwestern University Austan Goolsbee, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers R. David Edelman, advisor to President Barack Obama John Wertheim (Party Chair, Fall 1987; YPU President, Spring 1988), former Chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico Jonathan Zittrain, (Party Chair, Spring 1989), professor at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School Labor Samuel P. Huntington (Party Leader, Fall 1945), political theorist known for The Clash of Civilizations theory Liberal Akhil Amar (Party Chairman, Spring 1978), Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University Peter Beinart (Party Chair, Fall 1990) editor of The New Republic McGeorge Bundy (Party Chair, Spring 1939), United States National Security Advisor William Bundy (YPU President, Spring and Fall 1938), advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson David P. Calleo (Party Chair, Fall 1953; YPU President, Spring 1954), intellectual and political economist John F. Kerry (Party Chairman, Spring 1964; YPU President, Fall 1964 and Spring 1965), US Senator, United States Secretary of State and Democratic nominee for President in 2004 Marvin Krislov (Party Chair, Fall 1979), President of Oberlin College Robert C. Lieberman (Party Chair, Spring 1984; YPU Speaker, Fall 1984), former provost of Johns Hopkins University John J. O'Leary (Party Chair, Spring 1967; YPU President, Fall 1967 and Spring 1968), United States Ambassador to Chile Richard Posner (Party Chair, Spring 1957), Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Kevin Ryan (Party Chair, Fall 1982), founder and CEO of Gilt Groupe Potter Stewart, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Katherine Tai, United States Trade Representative H. Bradford Westerfield (YPU President, Fall 1945), Yale Professor of International Studies and Political Science Evan Wolfson (Speaker, 1976), President of Freedom to Marry Neal Wolin (YPU President, Fall 1981), Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury Party of the Right Richard S. Arnold (YPU Vice President, Fall 1955), former Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Richard Brookhiser (Party Chair, 1975), Senior Editor at National Review. Brian Carney, member of the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Maggie Gallagher (Party Chair, 1981), President of the National Organization for Marriage Paul Gottfried, former professor at Elizabethtown College Peter Keisler (Party Chair; Speaker), co-founder of the Federalist Society Walter Olson (Party Chair, Spring 1974), Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute Robert Pollock (Party Chair), member of the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Grover Rees III (Party Chair, Spring 1971), United States Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of East Timor Matthias Storme, Professor of Law at Catholic University Leuven Eve Tushnet (Party Chair, Spring 2000), author of Gay and Catholic: Accepting My Sexuality, Finding Community, Living My Faith Fareed Zakaria (YPU President, Spring 1984), editor-at-large of Time Progressive David M. McIntosh (YPU President, Fall 1979), U.S. Representative from Indiana and President of the Club for Growth Dana Milbank (Party Chair), columnist for The Washington Post Tory Michael J. Astrue (Party Chairman, 1975; YPU President, 1977), former Commissioner of the Social Security Administration David Frum, journalist, speechwriter, commentator, and author Keith Ferrazzi (Party Chairman, 1985), author of Never Eat Alone Michael J. Knowles, actor, author, and political commentator Jim O'Neill (investor), speechwriter and co-founder of the Thiel Fellowship Patrick F. Philbin (Party Chairman, Spring 1988), Deputy White House Counsel and Assistant Attorney General. Lauren Willig (Party Chairman, Spring 1998), New York Times bestselling author of historical romance fiction novels References ^ Yes, Health Care is a Right - An Individual Right. Forbes (2013-03-28). Retrieved on 2013-07-15.

Moving this notable alumni list here for verification. Please confirm with a reliable, secondary source before re-adding. czar 15:59, 26 March 2022 (UTC) czar 15:59, 26 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The opening paragraph of Yale Political Union - About Us reads:

The Yale Political Union (YPU) is a debate society at Yale University founded in 1934 by Professor and later Yale University President Alfred Whitney Griswold. The YPU’s structure was inspired both by the preexisting Oxford and Cambridge Unions and the party system of the defunct Yale Unions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which were in turn inspired by the great literary debating societies of Linonia and Brothers in Unity. Members of the YPU have reciprocal rights at our sister societies in England, the Cambridge Union and the Oxford Union

This is remarkably close to the opening paragraph of the lede of this article:

The Yale Political Union (YPU) is a debate society at Yale University, founded in 1934 by Alfred Whitney Griswold. It was modeled on the Cambridge Union and Oxford Union and the party system of the defunct Yale Unions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which were in turn inspired by the great literary debating societies of Linonia and Brothers in Unity. Members of the YPU have reciprocal rights at sister societies in England.

Looking back in the history, the lead basically reached its current form with the addition of the mention of Linonia and Brothers in Unity in July 2016 (diff). However, the 'About this Union' page stored from theypu.org in 2017 by the Web Archive does not have this text. It therefore appears that the text on the current YPU page is copied from Wikipedia, so I will add a 'backwards copy' tag to the top of this page. Robminchin (talk) 17:15, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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