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:

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

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

George IV, King of Hanover and the Unites Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1820-1830)

Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady of the United States (1933-1945) and delegate to the United Nations General Assembly. (Rebekah)

Everett McKinley Driksen, Past U.S. Senator

William Marsh Rice, Founder of Rice University

Ulysses S. Grant, 18th U.S. President (1869–1877)

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

Joseph McLeskey, prominent Reverend

Charles M. Russell, famous Western landscape artist.

Homer Stille Cummings, 55th U.S. Attorney General

Chase Orborn, 27th Governor of Michigan

Thomas Sterling, Past U.S. Senator

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

Warren Harding, 29th U.S. President (1921–1923)

Gustaf V. King of Sweden

Otto Kerner, 33rd Governor of Illinois

John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada

Schuyler Colfax, U.S. Vice President (1869–1873)

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

Alexander Stephens Clas, Past U.S.Senator

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

Anson Jones, 4th and last President of the Republic of Texas (1844-1846)

Paul Mariner, English International Football Player

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

George W.P. Hunt, 1st Governor of Arizona

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

Frances Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy, confidante of Queen Elizabeth, maternal grandmother of Princess Diana.

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet and English politician.

Robert Melville Bailey, notable Bahamian Educator (GUOOF)

Red Skelton, famous American Comedian

Wyatt Earp, iconic American Lawman

Solomon Meredith, Union Brevet Major General

Bruce Lee Webb, Artist, Fraternal Art Historian/Collector/Writer

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

John Powers “The Kentucky Giant”. One of PT Barnum’s Famous Side Show performers

Thomas Bennett, 5th Governor of Idaho

Luke Wessman, Tattooer, Designer and Social Media Influencer.

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

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

Ernest McFarland, Past U.S. Senator

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

George W. Wright, Past U.S. Senator

Franklin Roosevelt, 32nd U.S. President (1933–1945)

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

Henry S. Rosenthal, Film and Documentary Producer, actor, and drummer from influential punk band “Crime”

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

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

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

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

Richard Russell Jr, Past U.S. Senator

Francis M. Drake, Past Governor of Iowa

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

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.