Notable Members
- Granville Pearl Aikman(1858–1923), State of Kansas District Judge and suffragist[9]
- A. Ames, four-time mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Louis Armstrong, jazz trumpeter and singer[10][11]
- Kirtley Baker, National Leaguebaseball player[12]
- Hugo Black, U.S. Supreme Court Justice[13]
- Clifford Cleveland Brooks, member of the Louisiana State Senatefrom 1924 to 1932 from northeast Delta parishes[14]: 71
- William Jennings Bryan, U.S. Secretary of State and presidential candidate[15]
- Robert Byrd, U.S. Senator[16]
- Benjamin Cardozo, U.S. Supreme Court Justice[17]
- Leopold Caspari, member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature[18]
- Robert E. Lee Chancey, 44th mayor of Tampa.[19]
- Brevet Major Augustus P. Davis, founder of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War[20]
- Carl Day, member of the Kentucky House of Representatives[21]
- Eliot Engel, Congressman, New York[22]
- John W. Grabiel, Republican gubernatorial nominee in Arkansas in 1922 and 1924[23]
- Leroy Milton Grider(1854–1919), California real-estate developer[24]
- Warren G. Harding, U.S. President[25]
- William S. Hayward, mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, co-founder of Citizens Bank[26]
- Daniel Hoan, socialistand 32nd mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 1916 to 1932 [27]
- Charles Tisdale Howard, U.S. Attorney for South Dakota, Speaker of the South Dakota House of Representatives[28]
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey, U.S. Vice President[29]
- George Rubin Hutto, prominent American educator and civil rights activist[30]
- Bob Jones, Sr., founder of Bob Jones University, prominent evangelist[31]
- Claud H. Larsen, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly[32]
- John Ellis Martineau, Governor of Arkansas, U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas[33]
- Frank McDonough, member of both houses of the Wisconsin Legislature[34]
- William McKinley, U.S. President[35]
- Charles W. Miller, 18th Indiana Attorney General[36]
- Oscar H. Montgomery, Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court[37]
- Robert Pfeifle, 3rd mayor of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
- Sun Ra, free jazz musician
- Alexander P. Riddlelieutenant governor of Kansas
- Bradbury Robinson, pioneering American football player, physician, conservationist, and local politician.
- John Buchanan Robinson, U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania’s 6th congressional district (1891–1897)[38]
- Nelson A. Rockefeller, U.S. Vice President[35]
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. President, who joined in 1936, during his presidency[4]: 185
- Charles Schumer, U.S. Senator[35]
- Ele Stansbury, 23rd Indiana Attorney General[39]
- Park Trammell, U.S. Senator from Florida[40]
- Leroy Valliant(Shakespeare Council) chief justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri[41]
- Lew Wallace, author, territorial governor of New Mexico, major general (U.S. Army), diplomat[42]
