Leaders and Notable Members
The Sentinels' founding members were:
- Louis Arthur Coolidge, Treasurer of the United Shoe Machinery Corporation, former journalist and political publicist, served as private secretary to U.S. Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, 1888-91
- James Jackson, Treasurer and Receiver-General of Massachusetts, former New England Chairman of the Red Cross
- Herbert Parker, former Massachusetts Attorney General
- Charles Sedgwick Rackemann, partner in the Boston law firm Rackemann, Sawyer & Brewster
- Boyd B. Jones, a lawyer and former U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts
- Henry F. Hurlbert, former District Attorney of Essex County, Massachusetts
- Maurice S. Sherman, editor of The Hartford Courant, and later The Springfield Union
- Frank F. Dresser, Massachusetts attorney
- Katharine Torbert Balch, President of the Massachusetts Women's Anti-Suffrage Association
Coolidge served as the Sentinels' first president from 1922 until his death in 1925. He was succeeded by Bentley Wirt Warren, a Boston lawyer who had been the Democratic Party's candidate for Massachusetts' 11th Congressional District seat in 1894. Warren served from 1925 to 1927 and was succeeded by Alexander Lincoln, also a Boston lawyer, who served from 1927 to 1936.
Raymond Pitcairn, son of PPG Industries founder, John Pitcairn, Jr., who served as the Sentinels' national chairman for several years, was also the group's primary benefactor: in early 1935 he single-handedly revitalized the Sentinels with a donation of $85,000 (more than $1.25 million in 2008 dollars ). To a group which had raised exactly $15,378.74 since 1931, this was a massive injection of capital.
Other notable or prominent supporters of the Sentinels included Pitcairn's two brothers, Harold Frederick Pitcairn and Rev. Theodore Pitcairn; several powerful members of the du Pont Nemours chemical manufacturing dynasty (Pierre S. du Pont, President; Irénée du Pont, Vice Chairman; Henry du Pont, Director of the Du Pont family's Wilmington Trust; and A. B. Echols, Vice President of du Pont Nemours and Director of the Wilmington Trust); Alfred P. Sloan, the long-time president and chairman of General Motors; Atwater Kent, the wealthy radio manufacturer; former Pennsylvania Senator George Wharton Pepper; Edward T. Stotesbury, a prominent investment banker and partner of J.P. Morgan & Co. and Drexel & Co.; Horatio Lloyd, also a partner of J.P. Morgan & Co.; J. Howard Pew, the President of Sun Oil; and Bernard Kroger, founder of the Kroger chain of supermarkets.
The Sentinels' chief officers in 1933 included:
- Alexander Lincoln, President
- Frank L. Peckham, Vice-president
- William H. Coolidge, Treasurer
- John Balch, Secretary
- Thomas F. Cadwalader, Chairman of the Executive Committee
- H. G. Torbert, Executive Secretary
- Raymond Pitcairn, National Chairman
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