The following list is merely a snapshot of brothers who have brought Acacia to prominence. The list of Acacia brothers includes initiated and honorary members of Acacia.[1]
Notable alumni
Politics and government[2]
- 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
Sports[3]
- 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
Business[4]
- 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
Higher education[5]
- 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
- J Thomas Forbes, Indiana 1990 - CEO, IU Alumni Association at Indiana University
Science[6]
- 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
Arts and entertainment[7]
- 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
- 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
Miscellaneous or multiple[8]
- Walter Elmer Ekblaw, Illinois 1907 - originator of "Homecoming"
- Hiram Bingham III, Yale 1915 - explorer; discovered Machu Picchu; US Senator
- H. L. 'Tom' Sebring, Kansas State 1920 - judge for the Nuremberg Trials; head football coach at the University of Florida
- Clifton Hillegass, Nebraska 1938 - creator of CliffsNotes
- Frank S. Land, Missouri - founder of DeMolay'
References
- ^ "Notable Acacians". Acacia. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
- ^ "Notable Acacians". Acacia. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
- ^ "Notable Acacians". Acacia. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
- ^ "Notable Acacians". Acacia. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
- ^ "Notable Acacians". Acacia. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
- ^ "Notable Acacians". Acacia. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
- ^ "Notable Acacians". Acacia. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
- ^ "Notable Acacians". Acacia. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
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