Notable Odd Fellows

Odd Fellows, unlike many other organizations, makes no special effort to attract “name” members. It is a warm, personal type of affiliation that doesn’t rely on “rubbing elbows” with the famous to give them satisfaction. Take note that these names are placed below only for educational purposes and not for publicity:

Oliver Peck, Tattooer, Celebrity Judge on “Ink Master”, Texas Entrepreneur.

Goodwin Knight, 31st Governor of California

Alexander Stephens Clas, Past U.S.Senator

Sir Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1923-1937)

Thomas Bennett, 5th Governor of Idaho

Joseph McLeskey, prominent Reverend

Luke Wessman, Tattooer, Designer and Social Media Influencer.

William Mckinley, 25th U.S. President

Red Skelton, famous American Comedian

John Raker, past member of U.S. House of Representatives

John Nance Garner 32nd U.S. Vice President From Texas

William Marsh Rice, Founder of Rice University

Lucy Hobbs Taylor, first U.S. female dentist (Rebekah)

Otto Kerner, 33rd Governor of Illinois

Williman Bankhead, 47th speaker of U.S. House of Representatives

Rutherford Hayes, 19th U.S. President (1877–1881)

Oscar Stanton De Priest, past member of U.S. House of Representatives

Ernest McFarland, Past U.S. Senator

Richard Russell Jr, Past U.S. Senator

John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada

Francis M. Drake, Past Governor of Iowa

Henry Peter Brougham, Lord Chancellor of U.K. (1830-1834)

Frank Steunenberg, 4th Governor of Idaho

John Wilkes, English Radical and Journalist

Earl Warren, U.S. Chief Justice (1953–1969)

Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of U.K. (1951-1955)

Thomas Wildey, founder of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in North America

Levi Stanley & Matilda Joles Stanley, King and Queen of the Gypsies

Jacob De Cardova Grand Master of Louisiana Instituted the First Lodge in Texas in Houston Lone Star No. 1 ….. July 25, 1838

Louis Emmerson, 27th Governor of Illinois

Hugo Black Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court (1937-1971)

Thomas Sterling, Past U.S. Senator

William Jennings Bryan, 41st U.S. Secretary of State

Charles M. Russell, famous Western landscape artist.

Oliver Peck, Tattooer, Celebrity Judge on “Ink Master”, Texas Entrepreneur.

Robert Melville Bailey, notable Bahamian Educator (GUOOF)

P.T. Barnum, American showman, politician, and businessman remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus

Charles Lindbergh U.S. Aviator, First to fly solo across the Atlantic

William Henry McMaster, 10th Governor of South Dakota

Alfred S. Pinkerton of Worcester MA, lawyer, State Senator, and President of the Massachusetts Senate and Grand Sire of the IOOF in 1898.

Wyatt Earp, iconic American Lawman

Henry Rathbone, past member of U.S. House of Representatives

Charlie Chaplin, famous actor and comedian

Samuel Brenton, past member of U.S. House of Representatives in Congress

Edwin Hubbell Chapin, Universalist minister, author, lecturer, and social reformer, was one of the most popular speakers in America from the 1840s until his death.