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:

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

John Wilkes, English Radical and Journalist

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

Georgia Dwelle, first female African-American Physician(GUOOF)

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet and English politician.

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

Harry S Truman 33rd U.S. President

Marion Kane Elston, noted synchronized swimming coach

Solomon Meredith, Union Brevet Major General

Nathan Kelley, famous U.S. architect, designed the Ohio statehouse

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

William Henry McMaster, 10th Governor of South Dakota

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

Louis Emmerson, 27th Governor of Illinois

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

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

Wyatt Earp, iconic American Lawman

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

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

William Marsh Rice, Founder of Rice University

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

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

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

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

Otto Kerner, 33rd Governor of Illinois

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

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

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

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

Robert C. Byrd, U.S. Senator (1989-2010)

Chase Orborn, 27th Governor of Michigan

Richard Russell Jr, Past U.S. Senator

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

Luke Wessman, Tattooer, Designer and Social Media Influencer.

Thomas Hendricks, 21st U.S. Vice President

Frank Steunenberg, 4th Governor of Idaho

Charlie Chaplin, famous actor and comedian

William Mckinley, 25th U.S. President

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

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

Thomas Bennett, 5th Governor of Idaho

Alexander Stephens Clas, Past U.S.Senator

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

Olav V. King of Norway

John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada

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

Albert Pike, notable Confederate Army soldier, lawyer and Masonic writer

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

Thomas Sterling, Past U.S. Senator

Robert Melville Bailey, notable Bahamian Educator (GUOOF)

Ernest McFarland, Past U.S. Senator

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

Charles M. Russell, famous Western landscape artist.

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

Edwin Carl Johnson, 26th Governor of Colorado

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

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

Goodwin Knight, 31st Governor of California

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

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

Red Skelton, famous American Comedian

Samuel Pasco, Past U.S. Senator from Florida

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

William Borah, Past U.S. Senator

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

Tom Bevill, past member of U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama

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

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.