List of Acacia members
Acacia Fraternity is a social fraternity founded in 1904 at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.[1] It was founded by undergraduate Freemasons and was originally open only to men who were Masons, but dispensed with the Masonic prerequisite in 1933.[2] The following list includes notable initiated and honorary members of Acacia.[3]
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
- Francis W. Shepardson - professor of history at the University of Chicago and director of the Illinois Department of Registration and Education[4][5]
- 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
References
- ↑ Anson, Jack L.; Marchesani Jr., Robert F., eds. (1991). "Title Page". Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities (20th ed.). Indianapolis, IN: Baird's Manual Foundation, Inc. pp. III-1–3. ISBN 978-0-9637159-0-6. OCLC 25278937.
- ↑ Anson, Jack L.; Marchesani Jr., Robert F., eds. (1991). "Title Page". Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities (20th ed.). Indianapolis, IN: Baird's Manual Foundation, Inc. pp. III-1–3. ISBN 978-0-9637159-0-6. OCLC 25278937.
- ↑ "Notable Acacians". Acacia. Retrieved June 2, 2020.
- ↑ Smith, George Washington (1927). History of Illinois and Her People. Vol. 5. Chicago: The American Historical Society, Inc. p. 422 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "First Director of Education in State Dies". Illinois State Register. Springfield, Illinois. August 11, 1937. p. 2. Retrieved June 25, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.