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:

Ernest McFarland, Past U.S. Senator

Frank Steunenberg, 4th Governor of Idaho

Harry G. Leslie, past speaker of Indiana House of Representatives, 33rd Governor of Indiana

Olav V. King of Norway

Paul Mariner, English International Football Player

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

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

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

William Henry McMaster, 10th Governor of South Dakota

Luke Wessman, Tattooer, Designer and Social Media Influencer.

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

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

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

Goodwin Knight, 31st Governor of California

Everett McKinley Driksen, Past U.S. Senator

Francis M. Drake, Past Governor of Iowa

William Mckinley, 25th U.S. President

Thomas Hendricks, 21st U.S. Vice President

Oliver Morton, 14th Governor of Indiana

Harry S Truman 33rd U.S. President

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

Alexander Stephens Clas, Past U.S.Senator

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

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

Thomas Bennett, 5th Governor of Idaho

John Wilkes, English Radical and Journalist

Charlie Chaplin, famous actor and comedian

Louis Emmerson, 27th Governor of Illinois

Edwin Carl Johnson, 26th Governor of Colorado

Burl Ives, famous singer actor and writer

George W. Wright, Past U.S. Senator

Wyatt Earp, iconic American Lawman

Charles M. Russell, famous Western landscape artist.

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

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

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

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

Richard Russell Jr, Past U.S. Senator

Gustaf V. King of Sweden

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

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

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

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

Marion Kane Elston, noted synchronized swimming coach

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

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

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

William Borah, Past U.S. Senator

Joseph McLeskey, prominent Reverend

Otto Kerner, 33rd Governor of Illinois

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

Solomon Meredith, Union Brevet Major General

William Marsh Rice, Founder of Rice University

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

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

John A. Macdonald, 1st Prime Minister of Canada

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

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

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

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

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

Robert Melville Bailey, notable Bahamian Educator (GUOOF)

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

Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet and English politician.

Samuel Pasco, Past U.S. Senator from Florida

Chase Orborn, 27th Governor of Michigan

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.