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