Year

National Fathers of the Year

2001

Jim Fassel, George Foreman, Howard Lutnick, Jacques Pepin, Andy Pettitte, Michael K. Powell, Russell Simmons

2000

Bill Boggs, Paul R. Charron, “Smokin” Joe Frazier, Walt “Clyde” Frazier, Jay Johnson, Gerald McRaney

1999

William Cohen, Mark Ewen, Michael Gould, Mike Jarvis, H. Carl McCall, Oscar Robertson

1998

Andrew Cuomo, Jack Ford, James Kallstrom, Jim Kelly, Don Marron, Henry H. Shelton, Earl Woods

1997

Mario Andretti, Wolf Blitzer, Larry Doby, Henry Kravis, Frank Rich, Howard Safir

1996

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., John McEnroe, Steve Schreck, Brian Williams

1995

William J. Bratton, Joseph McCarthy, MD, Karl Nelson, Tim Russert, George Pataki, Federico Pena

1994

Fred Barnes, David Checketts, Fred Epstein, MD, Boomer Esiason, Fernando Mateo, Thomas F. McLarty III, Harvey Weinstein

1993

Nicholas Buoniconti, Dennis Byrd, Alfred W. DiTolla, Lou Dobbs. James M. Fox, Leslie Gelb, Gregory Hines, Dr. Edwin W. Marhn

1992

Peter Arnett, Bill Beutel, Marty Glickman, David A. Kessler, MD, Robert M. Morganthau, Colin Powell, Freddie Roman, Harry Smith, Andrew J. Stein

1991

Lee P. Brown, Alan M. Dershowitz, Ira Joe Fisher, Walter A. Haas, Jr., Jeff Hostetler, H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Samuel Skinner, Dr. Louis Sullivan

1990

Jack Cafferty, Bill Demby, David N. Dinkins, Skitch Henderson, Stu Jackson, Lee Mazzilli, Mandy Patinkin, Thomas R. Pickering

1989

Ernie Anastos, Jeff Bingaman, Ron Darling, Malcolm Forbes, Stewart Klein, Bruce Morrow, Rick Pitino, J. Danforth Quayle

1988

Arthur Ashe, Kris Kristofferson, Bill Mazur, Steven McDonald, Willie Randolph, Charles S. Robb, William Sessions, Chris Wallace

1987

Marv Albert, William E. Brock, Tom Clancy, Ossie Davis, Phil Esposito, Rudolph Giuliani, Rev. Harold B. Halcomb, Bob Ojeda, John Palmer

1986

James Baker, Tim Gullikson, Tom Gullikson, Thomas H. Kean, Arthur Levitt, Jr., Lou Pinella, Maxwell M. Robb. Soupy Sales, Ozzie Smith, Rolland Smith, William H. Webster

1985

Gary Carter, Mario Cuomo, Marvin Hagler, Bruce Jenner, Charles Osgood, Gabe Pressman, Al Roker, Ben Vereen, John Walsh

1984

Bill Bradley, Albert Gore, Peter Jennings, Tommy John, Joseph Kramer, MD, Anthony Quinn, Willard Scott, Bryan Trottier, Paul Williams

1983

James Brady, Benny Goodman, Roy M. Goodman, Bryant Gumbel, Bernard Hughes, Hal Linden, Kojo Odo, Joe Piscopo, Hugh Sidey, Tom Weiskopf

1982

George Bamberger, John Y. Brown, Jr., Hugh Downs, William Fox, John Gambling, Victor Kiam, Donald Regan, Chi Chi Rodriquez, Warner Wolf

1981

Robert W. DeBolt, Geoffrey Holder, Sugar Ray Leonard, Joseph Papp, Dan Rather, Kyle Rote, John Rubenstein, Richard Thomas, Richard A. Vande, George Will

1980

Roger Grimsby, Bob “Captain Kangaroo” Keeshan, Irv Klein, Rev. Joseph Lowry, Robert MacKinnon, Michael Mullick, Alton Ochsner, MD, Bert Parks, Pete Rozelle, Murray Schisgal, Stan Smith, David “Sonny” Werblin

1979

Sam Erwin, Jim Jenson, John D. Rockefeller IV, Chuck Scarborough, Robert Suthers, Joe Torre, Eli Wallach, Tom Wicker, Robert Wilson

1978

Tom Brokaw, Arthur Burns, Yul Brynner, Hugh L. Carey, Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr., Thurman Munson, Thomas O”Neill, William Safire, John Sirica, Eugene B. Spitz, MD, Dick Van Patten

1977

James Broderick, John Chancellar, Benjamin Hooks, Leon Jaworski, John Newcombe, Jerry Stiller, Roy White, Andrew Young

1976

Brendan T. Byrne, John Cullum, Dave DeBusschere, Frank Field, Edward Kennedy, Jesse Owens, Hughes Rudd, Luis Tiant

1975

Kenneth A. Gibson, John W. Gardner, Jim Hartz, James “Catfish” Hunter, Ted Knight, Johnny Miller, Edmund Muskie, Neil Simon

1974

Michael DeBakey, MD, Dom DeLuise, Christopher E. Edley, Gerald Ford, Joel Grey, Frank McGee, Louis Nizer, Tom Seaver

1973

Jack Albertson, Howard Cosell, Redd Foxx, Bob Griese, Julius LaRosa, Charles Percy

1972

I. W. Abel, Spiro Agnew, Ted Brown, Mike Douglas, Vernon E. Jordan, Doc Severinsen

1971

Henry Jackson, Jesse Jackson, Greg Morris, Howard K. Smith, Big Wilson

1970

Frank Borman, Joe Garagiola, Leon H. Sullivan,
Bowie K. Kuhn, Jack Nicklaus

1969

Jack Lemmon, Jerry Orbach, Fran Tarkenton

1968

Burt Bacharach, Cab Calloway, Whitey Ford, Arthur J. Goldberg, Ed Nelson

1967

Hershel Bernardi, Elston Howard, John Lindsay, Dick Van Dyke

1966

Eddie Albert, Tom Harman, Jacob Javits, Alan King, Fess Parker

1965

Frank Blair, Sammy Davis, Jr., Frank Gifford, Lorne Greene, Robert M. Hutchins, Jonathan Winters

1964

Yogi Berra, Douglas Edwards, Bert Lahr, Jack Paar, Sargent Shriver

1963

Henry Fonda, Paul Ford, Chet Huntley, John F. Kennedy, Don McNeil, Tom Tresh

1962

Gene Fullmer, John Glenn, Jr., E. G. Marshall, Robert Morse, Meredith Wilson

1961

Evan Hunter, Ralph Houk, Fred McMurray, Phil Silvers, Adlai Stevenson

1960

Pat Boone, Ray Goulding, Cedric Hardwicke, Charlton Heston, Robert F. Kennedy, Johnny Unitas

1959

Arthur Godfrey, Andy Griffith, Alfred M. Gruenther, Oscar Hammerstein, Richard Rodgers, Bob Turley

1958

Victor Borge, Walter Cronkite, Milton S. Eisenhower, Eddie Fisher, Martin Mayer. Peter Ustinov

1957

Paul Douglas, Billy Graham, Mickey Mantle, John L. McClellan, Mitch Miller, Ronald Reagan, Robert Weede

1956

Walter Alston, Bob Considine, Kirk Douglas, Harry Hershfield, John O’Hara, Joseph N. Welch, Lawrence Welk

1955

Don Ameche, Sid Caesar, George H. Combs, Alvin Dark, Danny Kaye, Basil O’Conner, Jonas Salk, Merriman Smith

1954

Chester Bowles, Paul G. Hoffman, Lloyd Nolan, Roy Rogers, Herb Shriner, Sam Snead, Lowell Thomas

1953

Alben Barkley, John Daly, James W. Doolittle, Melvyn Douglas, Henry Cabot Lodge, Rocky Marciano, Ezio Pinza, Danny Thomas

1952

Robert Alda, Humphrey Bogart, Henry Fonda, H. V. Kaltenborn, Sam Levenson, Sugar Ray Robinson, David Sarnoff

1951

Abe Burrows, Estes Kefauver, Phil Rizzuto, James Stewart

1950

Sidney Blackmar, William O. Douglas, Jean Hersholt, Kay Kayser, Jackie Robinson, Walter Winchell, Robert Young

1949

Ralph Bunche, Alfred Drake, John Garfield, Gabriel Heatter, Connie Mack, Ed Sullivan

1948

Bob Feller, Horace Heidt, F. Van Wyck Mason, Drew Pearson, Gregory Peck, David Wayne

1947

Warren Austin, Edgar Bergen, Bob Hope, Babe Ruth

1946

Irving Berlin, Al Schmid, Frank Sinatra

1945

Jack Benny, Bing Crosby, Frederic March, Harry S. Truman

1944

Eddie Cantor, Mark Clark, Charles Coburn, Dudley Diggs, Dixie Walker

1943

Ralph Bellamy, Dwight Eisenhower, Parker Fennelly, Walter Huston, Mell Ott

1942

Douglas MacArthur