The Silver Buffalo Award

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Since 1926, the Boy Scouts of America has awarded the Silver Buffalo Award for distinguished service to youth. Each year, this award for noteworthy service of a national or worldwide character is made to men and women associated with Scouting and to others not directly associated with Scouting.

1926

Sir Robert S. S. Baden-Powell
Gilwell Park, England
Chief Scout of the World

Daniel Carter Beard*
Suffern, New York
National Scout Commissioner

William D. Boyce
Chicago, Illinois
Publisher; Incorporator of Boy Scouts of America

Howard S. Braucher
New York, New York
Chairman, Committee on Organization, Boy Scouts of America

George J. Fisher
New York, New York
Physician; Deputy Chief Scout Executive

John Sherman Hoyt*
Darien, Connecticut
Manufacturer; Chairman, Finance Committee, Boy Scouts of America

Jeremiah W. Jenks*
New York, New York
Educator; Formulator of Scout Oath and Law

Joseph Lee
Boston, Massachusetts
Advocate of Playground and Outdoor Recreation

Colin H. Livingstone*
Washington, D.C.
Financier

Milton A. McRae*
Detroit, Michigan
Publisher; President, Boy Scouts of America

William D. Murray*
Plainfield, New Jersey
Lawyer; Chairman, Editorial Board, Boy Scouts of America

George D. Pratt*
New York, New York
Treasurer, Boy Scouts of America

Frank Presbrey*
New York, New York
Advertising Man; Developer of Boys’ Life

G. Barrett Rich*
New York, New York
Chairman, National Committee of Badges, Awards, and Scout Requirements

Edgar M. Robinson*
Washington, D.C.
Co-organizer, Boy Scouts of America

Mortimer L. Schiff*
New York, New York
Philanthropist; President, Boy Scouts of America

The Unknown Scout
Boy Scout

Ernest Thompson Seton
New York, New York
Chief Scout

James J. Storrow
(Posthumous Award)
Boston, Massachusetts
Banker; President, Boy Scouts of America

James E.West*
New York, New York
Lawyer; Chief Scout Executive

George W.Wingate
New York, New York
Advocate of Organized Outdoor Recreation

1927

Brother Barnabas, F.S.C.
New York, New York
Educator; Director, Catholic Bureau, Boy Scouts of America

Stuart W. French
Pasadena, California
Business Executive; Organizer of Region 12

Walter W. Head
Omaha, Nebraska
Banker; President, Boy Scouts of America

Hubert S. Martin, C.B.E.
London, England
Director, Boy Scouts International Bureau

Bolton Smith
Memphis, Tennessee
Banker; Promoter of Interracial Understanding

William Howard Taft
Washington, D.C.
Chief Justice of the United States; First Honorary President, Boy Scouts of America

William Adams Welch
Washington, D.C.
National and State Parks Commissioner

1928

W. de Bonstetten
Kandersteg, Switzerland
President, Swiss Federation of Boy Scouts

Arthur N. Cotton
Buffalo, New York
Promoter of High-Y Clubs

William H. Cowles
Spokane, Washington
Publisher; First Chairman, Region 11 Committee

Clarence H. Howard
St. Louis, Missouri
Philanthropist; Founder of Junior Chamber of Commerce

Charles A. Lindbergh
Hopewell, New Jersey
Aviator; Transatlantic Pioneer

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