List of Acacia brothers

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

Notable alumni

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
• Clarence M. Young, Yale 1910 - Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, appointed by President Hoover
• 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
• Wendell Berge, Nebraska 1924 - US Assistant Attorney General
• 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)

Sports

• Chester L. Brewer, Missouri 1911 - past head football coach at both Missouri and Michigan State; past Athletic Director of Missouri; Homecoming originator
• Thomas E. Jones, Wisconsin 1913 - Hall of Fame track coach
• 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
• Addison 'Kayo' Exum Warren, North Carolina 1927 - professional and collegiate boxer
• 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
• Clive A. Follmer, Illinois 1953 - 1953 Big 10 Athlete of the Year; professional baseball player
• Frank Allen Indiana 1956 - former IU Athletic Director
• Paul Coward, Purdue 1956 - All-America soccer player
• 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

• Herbert A. Kern, Minnesota 1914 - founder of Chicago Chemical Company, later changed to Nalco
• Lewis H Wentz, Oklahoma 1927 - oil businessman
• J. Dennis Bassett, Kansas State 1956 - President of Worldwide Poultry / Cargill Co.
• Robert Pfahl, Cornell 1958 - VP of iNEML; recipient of Electronic Goes Green Award
• Edgar H. Grubb, Penn State 1959 - Executive VP and CFO of Transamerica Corp.
• Leonard ‘Lee’ Kearney, Oregon State 1959 - Senior Executive of Peter Kiewit Sons' Construction
• Robert Forney, Indiana 1960 - former President of Chicago Stock Exchange; current President and CEO of the Global Foodbanking Network
• David Baum, Indiana 1961 - President of SSI Technologies Inc.
• Dennis Chookaszian, Northwestern 1962 - Chairman and CEO of CNA Insurance Companies; professor at University of Chicago Booth School of Business
• Kriss Cloninger III, Texas 1966 - President and CEO of Aflac
• John F. Hoffner, Purdue 1966 - Executive VP and CFO of Jack in the Box Inc.
• Edward S. Knight, Texas 1971 - Executive VP and General Counsel of NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc.
• William H Strong, Purdue 1971 - Vice Chairman of Morgan Stanley
• Andy Westlund, Oregon State 1971 - VP of Global Logistics at Amazon.com
• Ronald Kase, Purdue 1978 - venture capitalist, NEA
• David A. Evans, Rensselaer 1979 - inventor of high capacity tantalum capacitor; President of Evans Capacitor Company
• William D. Stock, Rensselaer 1983 - founder and CEO of Power Stop, L.L.C.
• Erik B. Pedersen, Minnesota 1984 - private businessman; Target Corporation, US Bank.
• Cameron Herold, Carleton 1988 - private businessman; former COO of 1-800-GOT-JUNK?; author; entrepreneurial coach ^[1]

Higher education

• 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
• Arthur Simeon Watts, Ohio State 1911 - educator; Watts Hall is dedicated in his name at Ohio State
• Leland David Bushnell, Kansas State 1913 - educator; Bushnell Hall at KSU is dedicated in his name
• Audrey A. Potter, Kansas State 1920 - educator in the field of engineering; buildings are dedicated in his name at Purdue and Purdue-Calumet
• Ernest H. Hahne, Nebraska 1921 - past President of Miami University (Ohio); Hahne Hall is dedicated in his name
• Bland L. Stradley, Ohio State 1921 - educator; Stradley Hall is dedicated in his name at Ohio State
• 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)
• Samuel Justus McKinley, Harvard 1928 - past President of Emerson College, Boston
• Burton W. Gorman, Indiana 1930 - educator; the Burton W. Gorman Teaching Award is dedicated in his name
• William L. Henning, Wisconsin 1931 - educator; Henning Building is dedicated in his name at Penn State
• Charles E. MacQuigg, Cornell 1935 - educator; MacQuigg Hall is dedicated in his name at Ohio State
• Robert E. Vivian, USC 1947 - educator; Vivian Hall is dedicated in his name at USC
• Claude R. Sowle, Northwestern 1947 - past President of Ohio University
• L. Dennis Smith, Indiana 1956 - President Emeritus, University of Nebraska
• Kenneth L. Schwab, Purdue 1966 - President, Centenary College

Science

• William F. Durand, Stanford 1904 - NASA pioneer
• Wallace E Pratt, Kansas 1907- pioneer in the petroleum field
• Wheeler P. Davey, Penn State 1910 - X-ray pioneer; Davey Lab is dedicated in his name at Penn State
• Alexander Wetmore, Kansas 1912 - ornithologist
• Karl M. Dallenbach, Cornell 1913 - psychologist
• Emmett B. Carmichael, Colorado 1918 - chemist
• Harold E. Edgerton, Nebraska 1924 - pioneer in the electronic flash, pertaining to photography
• Lloyd Berkner, Minnesota 1926 - physicist
• Theodore P. Hall, Syracuse 1927 - pioneer in airplane design
• 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
• David Fischell, Cornell 1972 - biomedical engineer; inventor of the heart stent

Arts and entertainment

• Arthur H Carhart, Iowa State 1916 - early conservationist and writer
• Edward Everett Dale, Harvard 1917 - historian, writer
• John Mel Hickerson, Iowa 1920 - author
• Paul E. Barr, Indiana 1928 - artist and painter
• Harry H. Lunn, Michigan 1951 - photographer and collector
• James ‘Jim’ Hamil, Kansas 1958 - artist and painter
• Philip Bobbitt, Texas 1965 - author and constitutional theorist
• Scott Houston, Indiana 1980 - public television personality; public speaker; known as "Piano Guy"
• Ed Ulbrich, Illinois 1984 - film visual effects producer; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Fight Club
• 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

• Walter Elmer Ekblaw, Illinois 1907 - originator of "Homecoming"
• Reid T. Muller, Rensselaer 1980 - MD, FACC, FACP, FCCP; Colonel, US Air Force; heart specialist
• 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
• David P. Osborne, Penn State 1935 - naval surgeon; performed the JFK autopsy; worked on LBJ
• Clifton Hillegass, Nebraska 1938 - creator of CliffsNotes
• Frank S. Land, Missouri - founder of DeMolay'

References

External links

• Acacia Fraternity official website: notable alumni