List of Acacia members

The list of Acacia brothers includes initiated and honorary members of Acacia.

Politics and government

• Conrad G Selvig, Minnesota 1906 - US Congressman, Minnesota
• Harry Leslie, Purdue 1907 - Governor of Indiana
• William Jennings Bryan, Nebraska 1908 - Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson; orator
• William Howard Taft, Yale 1913 - 27th President of the United States of America
• Paul V. McNutt, Harvard 1914 - Governor of Indiana
• David Sholtz, Yale 1914 - Governor of Florida
• Arthur Capper, Kansas State 1916 - Governor and US Senator, Kansas
• Wilburn Cartwright, Oklahoma 1920 - US Congressman, Oklahoma
• Francis H Case, Northwestern 1923 - US Congressman, South Dakota
• Ralph Yarborough, Texas 1926 - US Senator, Texas
• Ovie Clark Fisher, Texas 1926 - US Congressman, Texas; writer
• John Moore Allison, Nebraska 1927 - diplomat; Ambassador to Japan; Assistant Secretary of State under Truman
• William G. Bray, Indiana 1927 - US Congressman, Indiana
• Homer Thornberry, Texas 1930 - US Congressman, Texas
• J. Edward Hutchinson, Michigan 1933 - US Congressman, Michigan
• Frank Carlson, Kansas State 1948 - US Congressman; US Senator; Governor of Kansas
• Homer E. Capehart, Indiana 1959 - US Senator, Indiana
• James 'Jim' Kolbe, Northwestern 1961 - US House Representative, Arizona
• Steve Scalise, LSU 1986 - Current US Congressman, Louisiana
• Jim Watson, Carleton University 1998 - Member of Provincial Parliament (Minister), Mayor of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (1997–2000) (2010–Present)
• Douglas “Dewey” Lachance, University of New Hampshire, 1984-1990, NH Legislator 1987-1991 and 1998-2000, Mayor of Rochester, NH 1997-2001
• Hiram Bingham III, Yale 1915 - explorer; discovered Machu Picchu; US Senator and Governor of Connecticut

Sports

• Chester L. Brewer, Missouri 1911 - past head football coach at both Missouri and Michigan State; past Athletic Director of Missouri; Homecoming originator
• John L. Griffith, Illinois 1921 - past commissioner of what is now the Big Ten Conference
• Edwin Weir, Nebraska 1925 - Hall of Fame college football player
• Jack van Bebber, Oklahoma State 1931 - Olympic wrestler
• Calvin Griffith, George Washington 1935 - owner of Washington Senators / Minnesota Twins
• Arthur L. Valpey, Michigan 1936 - head football coach of Harvard and UConn
• Thomas "Tommy" James, Ohio State 1942 - professional football player, Cleveland Browns
• Dee Andros, Oklahoma 1948 - head football coach and athletic director, Oregon State
• Gene Conley, Washington State 1949 - professional baseball player and basketball player
• Roger Nelson, Oklahoma 1951 - Canadian Football Hall of Fame
• Richard ‘Dick’ Farley, Indiana 1951 - star IU basketball player for the 1953 National Championship team; NBA player
• David 'Wes' Santee, Kansas 1952 - Olympic runner
• Ron Fairly, USC 1957 - professional baseball player and broadcaster
• Tony Crosby, Texas 1963 - star kicker/halfback for UT's 1963 National Championship football team
• Pat Jones, Oklahoma State - Head Football Coach at Oklahoma State; Assistant Coach of Miami Dolphins
• Gary Patterson, Kansas State 1980 - current Head Football Coach at TCU
• H. L. 'Tom' Sebring, Kansas State 1920 - judge for the Nuremberg Trials; head football coach at the University of Florida

Business

• Lewis H Wentz, Oklahoma 1927 - oil businessman
• Dennis Chookaszian, Northwestern 1962 - Chairman and CEO of CNA Insurance Companies; professor at University of Chicago Booth School of Business
• David A. Evans, Rensselaer 1979 - inventor of high capacity tantalum capacitor; President of Evans Capacitor Company

Academia

• Roscoe Pound, Nebraska 1905, Harvard 1913 - educator; Bushnell Hall at KSU dedicated in his name
• Albert B Storms, Iowa State 1909 - President of Iowa State University
• Walter Williams, Missouri 1909 - President of University of Missouri; founder of Missouri School of Journalism
• Raymond A. Pearson, Iowa State 1924 - President of Iowa State University
• Stratton D Brooks, Missouri 1925 - President of University of Oklahoma (1912) and University of Missouri (1923)
• Claude R. Sowle, Northwestern 1947 - past President of Ohio University
• L. Dennis Smith, Indiana 1956 - President Emeritus, University of Nebraska
• Walter Elmer Ekblaw, Illinois 1907 - college professor who served as geologist, ornithologist and botanist on the Crocker Land Expedition

Science

• William F. Durand, Stanford 1904 - NASA pioneer
• Wallace E Pratt, Kansas 1907- pioneer in the petroleum field
• Alexander Wetmore, Kansas 1912 - ornithologist
• Karl M. Dallenbach, Cornell 1913 - psychologist
• Harold E. Edgerton, Nebraska 1924 - pioneer in the electronic flash, pertaining to photography
• Lloyd Berkner, Minnesota 1926 - physicist
• James E. Webb, North Carolina 1927 - high-ranking NASA official in the 1960s
• Jack Kilby, Illinois 1942 - Nobel Prize laureate in physics; inventor of the integrated circuit
• Laurence H. Snyder, Oklahoma 1949 - pioneer in genetics
• George J. Marrett, Iowa State 1957 - test pilot for USAF and Hughes Aircraft Company; author of four non-fiction books on aviation

Entertainment

• Scott Houston, Indiana 1980 - public television personality; public speaker; known as "Piano Guy"
• Mark Edward Smith, Missouri - actor and vocalist; Avatar and X-Men Origins: Wolverine
• Nic Pizzolatto, LSU - creator and writer of the TV series True Detective

Literature

• Arthur H Carhart, Iowa State 1916 - early conservationist and writer
• Edward Everett Dale, Harvard 1917 - historian, writer
• Jack Collom, Colorado A&M 1952 - poet, writer, teacher
• Philip Bobbitt, Texas 1965 - author and constitutional theorist
• Clifton Hillegass, Nebraska 1938 - creator of CliffsNotes

Miscellaneous

• Frank S. Land, Missouri - founder of the Order of DeMolay

External links

• Acacia Fraternity official website: notable alumni