# List of Acacia members

The following list includes initiated and honorary members of Acacia.

## Academia

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

## Business

* 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
* Frank S. Land, Missouri - founder of the Order of DeMolay
* Lewis H. Wentz, Oklahoma 1927 - oil businessman

## Entertainment

* Scott Houston, Indiana 1980 - public television personality; public speaker; known as "Piano Guy"
* Nic Pizzolatto, LSU - creator and writer of the TV series True Detective

## Literature

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

## Politics

* John Moore Allison, Nebraska 1927 - diplomat; Ambassador to Japan; Assistant Secretary of State under Truman
* Hiram Bingham III, Yale 1915 - US Senator, Governor of Connecticut, and explorer who discovered Machu Picchu
* William G. Bray, Indiana 1927 - US Congressman, Indiana
* William Jennings Bryan, Nebraska 1908 - Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson; orator
* Homer E. Capehart, Indiana 1959 - US Senator, Indiana
* Arthur Capper, Kansas State 1916 - Governor and US Senator, Kansas
* Frank Carlson, Kansas State 1948 - US Congressman; US Senator; Governor of Kansas
* Wilburn Cartwright, Oklahoma 1920 - US Congressman, Oklahoma
* Francis H. Case, Northwestern 1923 - US Congressman, South Dakota
* Ovie Clark Fisher, Texas 1926 - US Congressman, Texas; writer
* J. Edward Hutchinson, Michigan 1933 - US Congressman, Michigan
* James 'Jim' Kolbe, Northwestern 1961 - US House Representative, Arizona
* Harry G. Leslie, Purdue 1907 - Governor of Indiana
* Paul V. McNutt, Harvard 1914 - Governor of Indiana
* Steve Scalise, LSU 1986 - Current US Congressman, Louisiana
* Conrad G. Selvig, Minnesota 1906 - US Congressman, Minnesota
* David Sholtz, Yale 1914 - Governor of Florida
* William Howard Taft, Yale 1913 - 27th President of the United States of America
* Homer Thornberry, Texas 1930 - US Congressman, Texas
* Jim Watson, Carleton University 1998 - Member of Provincial Parliament (Minister), Mayor of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (1997–2000) (2010–2022)
* Ralph Yarborough, Texas 1926 - US Senator, Texas

## Science

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

## Sports

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