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