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.
Luke Wessman, Tattooer, Designer and Social Media Influencer.
Bruce Lee Webb, Artist, Fraternal Art Historian/Collector/Writer
Franklin Roosevelt, 32nd U.S. President (1933–1945)
Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady of the United States (1933-1945) and delegate to the United Nations General Assembly. (Rebekah)
Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of U.K. (1951-1955)
Harry S Truman
33rd U.S. President
Warren Harding, 29th U.S. President (1921–1923)
Ulysses S. Grant, 18th U.S. President (1869–1877)
Thomas Wildey, founder of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in North America
Charles Lindbergh
U.S. Aviator, First to fly solo across the Atlantic
William Mckinley, 25th U.S. President
Schuyler Colfax, U.S. Vice President (1869–1873)
Rutherford Hayes, 19th U.S. President (1877–1881)
Red Skelton, famous American Comedian
P.T. Barnum, American showman, politician, and businessman remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus
Thomas Hendricks, 21st U.S. Vice President
Charlie Chaplin, famous actor and comedian
Robert C. Byrd, U.S. Senator (1989-2010)
Albert Pike, notable Confederate Army soldier, lawyer and Masonic writer
John Powers “The Kentucky Giant”. One of PT Barnum’s Famous Side Show performers
Gustaf V.
King of Sweden
Wyatt Earp, iconic American Lawman
Williman Bankhead, 47th speaker of U.S. House of Representatives
Lucy Hobbs Taylor, first U.S. female dentist
(Rebekah)
Tom Bevill, past member of U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama
Robert Melville Bailey, notable Bahamian Educator (GUOOF)
Jacob De Cardova
Grand Master of Louisiana Instituted the First Lodge in Texas in Houston Lone Star No. 1 ….. July 25, 1838
Alfred S. Pinkerton of Worcester MA, lawyer, State Senator, and President of the Massachusetts Senate and Grand Sire of the IOOF in 1898.
John Nance Garner
32nd U.S. Vice President
From Texas
William Marsh Rice, Founder of Rice University
Solomon Meredith, Union Brevet Major General
Frances Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy, confidante of Queen Elizabeth, maternal grandmother of Princess Diana.
Paul Mariner, English International Football Player
Samuel Brenton, past member of U.S. House of Representatives in Congress
Joseph McLeskey, prominent Reverend
William Jennings Bryan, 41st U.S. Secretary of State
Hugo Black Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court (1937-1971)
Georgia Dwelle, first female African-American Physician(GUOOF)
Harry G. Leslie, past speaker of Indiana House of Representatives, 33rd Governor of Indiana
Goodwin Knight, 31st Governor of California
Burl Ives, famous singer actor and writer
Oscar Stanton De Priest, past member of U.S. House of Representatives
Francis M. Drake, Past Governor of Iowa
George W.P. Hunt, 1st Governor of Arizona
Nathan Kelley, famous U.S. architect, designed the Ohio statehouse
Chase Orborn, 27th Governor of Michigan
Otto Kerner, 33rd Governor of Illinois
Thomas Bennett, 5th Governor of Idaho
Edwin Carl Johnson, 26th Governor of Colorado
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.
Henry Rathbone, past member of U.S. House of Representatives
Frank Steunenberg, 4th Governor of Idaho
John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada
John Raker, past member of U.S. House of Representatives
William Borah, Past U.S. Senator
Homer Stille Cummings, 55th U.S. Attorney General
Richard Russell Jr, Past U.S. Senator
William Henry McMaster, 10th Governor of South Dakota
Thomas Sterling, Past U.S. Senator
Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet and English politician.
Sir Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1923-1937)
Samuel Pasco, Past U.S. Senator from Florida
Oliver Morton, 14th Governor of Indiana
Anson Jones, 4th and last President of the Republic of Texas (1844-1846)
George W. Wright, Past U.S. Senator
Louis Emmerson, 27th Governor of Illinois
Ernest McFarland, Past U.S. Senator
George IV, King of Hanover and the Unites Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1820-1830)
Henry Peter Brougham, Lord Chancellor of U.K. (1830-1834)
John Wilkes, English Radical and Journalist
Everett McKinley Driksen, Past U.S. Senator
Levi Stanley & Matilda Joles Stanley, King and Queen of the Gypsies