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:
Everett McKinley Driksen, Past U.S. Senator
Frank Steunenberg, 4th Governor of Idaho
Tom Bevill, past member of U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama
Solomon Meredith, Union Brevet Major General
Henry S. Rosenthal, Film and Documentary Producer, actor, and drummer from influential punk band “Crime”
Henry Peter Brougham, Lord Chancellor of U.K. (1830-1834)
Thomas Wildey, founder of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in North America
Harry G. Leslie, past speaker of Indiana House of Representatives, 33rd Governor of Indiana
John Powers “The Kentucky Giant”. One of PT Barnum’s Famous Side Show performers
Ernest McFarland, Past U.S. Senator
William Jennings Bryan, 41st U.S. Secretary of State
John Wilkes, English Radical and Journalist
Burl Ives, famous singer actor and writer
Wyatt Earp, iconic American Lawman
Harry S Truman 33rd U.S. President
John Nance Garner 32nd U.S. Vice President From Texas
Alfred S. Pinkerton of Worcester MA, lawyer, State Senator, and President of the Massachusetts Senate and Grand Sire of the IOOF in 1898.
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.
Ulysses S. Grant, 18th U.S. President (1869–1877)
George W.P. Hunt, 1st Governor of Arizona
John Raker, past member of U.S. House of Representatives
Warren Harding, 29th U.S. President (1921–1923)
George IV, King of Hanover and the Unites Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1820-1830)
Charles Lindbergh U.S. Aviator, First to fly solo across the Atlantic
William Mckinley, 25th U.S. President
Levi Stanley & Matilda Joles Stanley, King and Queen of the Gypsies
Chase Orborn, 27th Governor of Michigan
Louis Emmerson, 27th Governor of Illinois
Rutherford Hayes, 19th U.S. President (1877–1881)
Marion Kane Elston, noted synchronized swimming coach
Otto Kerner, 33rd Governor of Illinois
Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of U.K. (1951-1955)
Olav V. King of Norway
Williman Bankhead, 47th speaker of U.S. House of Representatives
Bruce Lee Webb, Artist, Fraternal Art Historian/Collector/Writer
Franklin Roosevelt, 32nd U.S. President (1933–1945)
Homer Stille Cummings, 55th U.S. Attorney General
Gustaf V. King of Sweden
Robert Melville Bailey, notable Bahamian Educator (GUOOF)
Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet and English politician.
William Henry McMaster, 10th Governor of South Dakota
P.T. Barnum, American showman, politician, and businessman remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus
Henry Rathbone, past member of U.S. House of Representatives
Samuel Pasco, Past U.S. Senator from Florida
Lucy Hobbs Taylor, first U.S. female dentist (Rebekah)
Luke Wessman, Tattooer, Designer and Social Media Influencer.
Thomas Hendricks, 21st U.S. Vice President
Red Skelton, famous American Comedian
Georgia Dwelle, first female African-American Physician(GUOOF)
Charles M. Russell, famous Western landscape artist.
Earl Warren, U.S. Chief Justice (1953–1969)
Alexander Stephens Clas, Past U.S.Senator
Sir Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1923-1937)
Francis M. Drake, Past Governor of Iowa
Edwin Carl Johnson, 26th Governor of Colorado
Joseph McLeskey, prominent Reverend
Schuyler Colfax, U.S. Vice President (1869–1873)
Albert Pike, notable Confederate Army soldier, lawyer and Masonic writer
Oliver Morton, 14th Governor of Indiana
George W. Wright, Past U.S. Senator
Richard Russell Jr, Past U.S. Senator
Hugo Black Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court (1937-1971)
Robert C. Byrd, U.S. Senator (1989-2010)
Oliver Peck, Tattooer, Celebrity Judge on “Ink Master”, Texas Entrepreneur.
Samuel Brenton, past member of U.S. House of Representatives in Congress
Charlie Chaplin, famous actor and comedian
Thomas Sterling, Past U.S. Senator
Oscar Stanton De Priest, past member of U.S. House of Representatives
Oliver Peck, Tattooer, Celebrity Judge on “Ink Master”, Texas Entrepreneur.
William Marsh Rice, Founder of Rice University
Anson Jones, 4th and last President of the Republic of Texas (1844-1846)
Jacob De Cardova Grand Master of Louisiana Instituted the First Lodge in Texas in Houston Lone Star No. 1 ….. July 25, 1838
Nathan Kelley, famous U.S. architect, designed the Ohio statehouse
William Borah, Past U.S. Senator
Frances Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy, confidante of Queen Elizabeth, maternal grandmother of Princess Diana.
Goodwin Knight, 31st Governor of California
Thomas Bennett, 5th Governor of Idaho
Paul Mariner, English International Football Player
Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady of the United States (1933-1945) and delegate to the United Nations General Assembly. (Rebekah)
John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada
