List of Improved Order of Red Men members
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North American fraternal members
The Improved Order of Red Men is a fraternal organization established in North America in 1834. Following is a list of some of the notable members of the Redmen.
- Charles F. Burgman – labor unionist[1]
- George Snook – businessman[2]
- Huston Wyeth – industrialist and businessman[3]
Government
Law
- William H. Atwell – judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas[6]
- John Boyd Avis – New Jersey Senate; judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey[7][8]
- J. Sidney Bernstein – New York Supreme Court justice, New York State Assembly[5]
- Lloyd Llewellyn Black – judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington[9]
- John M. Daniel – Attorney General of South Carolina, South Carolina House of Representatives[10]
- Paul Farthing – chief justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois[11]
- Clarke C. Fitts – Vermont Attorney General and Vermont House of Representatives[12]
- David Ezekiel Henderson – judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina[13]
- Lafayette F. Mosher – Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court[14]
- George W. Ray – judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York; United States House of Representatives[5]
- Ray B. Smith – lawyer and politician
- Robert E. Woodside – justice of the Pennsylvania Superior Court; Pennsylvania House of Representatives[15]
- Albert Dutton MacDade – Pennsylvania State Senate, judge of the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, and district attorney of Delaware County[16]
Military
Politics
Vice President
- Alben W. Barkley – Vice President of the United States, United States Senate, United States House of Representatives
U.S. Senate
- Thomas G. Burch – United States Senate and United States House of Representatives[18]
- Clarence Dill – United States Senator and United States House of Representatives[19]
- Ernest W. Gibson – United States Senate and United States House of Representatives[12]
- Luke Lea – United States Senator and publisher of The Tennessean[20]
- Morris Sheppard – United States Senate and United States House of Representatives[21]
- Samuel M. Shortridge – United States Senate[22]
- Morris Sheppard – United States Senate and United States House of Representatives[23]
U.S. House of Representatives
- Charles Laban Abernethy – United States House of Representatives[13]
- Charles Marley Anderson – United States House of Representatives[24]
- Glenn M. Anderson – Lieutenant Governor of California, United States House of Representatives[22]
- Sol Bloom – United States House of Representatives; entertainment impresario, sheet music publisher[11]
- John J. Boylan – United States House of Representatives, New York State Senate, New York State Assembly[5]
- Charles H. Brand – United States House of Representatives[25]
- Joseph R. Bryson – United States House of Representatives, South Carolina Senate, South Carolina House of Representatives[26]
- Jo Byrns – Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Tennessee House of Representatives[20]
- Goodloe Byron – United States House of Representatives, Maryland Senate, Maryland House of Delegates[26]
- William P. Connery Jr. – United States House of Representatives[27]
- S. Hubert Dent Jr. – United States House of Representatives[28]
- Frederick H. Dominick – United States House of Representatives, South Carolina House of Representatives[10]
- Harry L. Englebright – United States House of Representatives[22]
- Finly Hutchinson Gray – United States House of Representatives[29]
- Harry L. Haines – United States House of Representatives[30]
- Pehr G. Holmes – United States House of Representatives[31]
- George Huddleston – United States House of Representatives[28]
- Edward A. Kenney – United States House of Representatives[27]
- William Larrabee – United States House of Representatives[11]
- Clarence F. Lea – United States House of Representatives[22]
- Robert Leggett – United States House of Representatives[22]
- Bert Lord – United States House of Representatives, New York Senate, New York State Assembly[21]
- Henry C. Loudenslager – United States House of Representatives[8]
- John McDuffie – United States House of Representatives, Alabama House of Representatives, judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama[28]
- Charles D. Millard – United States House of Representatives[5]
- Will E. Neal – United States House of Representatives[19]
- Samuel J. Nicholls – United States House of Representatives, South Carolina House of Representatives[10]
- Choice B. Randell – United States House of Representatives[32]
- Eugene E. Reed – United States House of Representatives[33]
- John Buchanan Robinson – United States House of Representatives, Pennsylvania State Senate, and Pennsylvania House of Representatives[34]
- J. Edward Russell – United States House of Representatives and Ohio Senate[35]
- Henry E. Stubbs – United States House of Representatives[22]
- Malcolm C. Tarver – United States House of Representatives[25]
- Benjamin I. Taylor – United States House of Representatives[5]
- J. Alfred Taylor – United States House of Representatives and Speaker of the West Virginia House of Delegates[19]
- Clark W. Thompson – United States House of Representatives[23]
- Ralph E. Updike – United States House of Representatives[18]
- Elmer H. Wene – United States House of Representatives, New Jersey Senate[30]
- John Stephens Wood – United States House of Representatives[25]
Governors
- Raymond E. Baldwin – Governor of Connecticut, United States Senator, associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors[36]
- Cole L. Blease – Governor of South Carolina, United States Senator, President Pro Tempore of the South Carolina Senate[10]
- R. Gregg Cherry – Governor of North Carolina, North Carolina Senate, Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives[10]
- William G. Conley – Governor of West Virginia, Attorney General of West Virginia[37]
- Louis Lincoln Emmerson – Governor of Illinois[11]
- Levi K. Fuller – Governor of Vermont, Lieutenant Governor of Vermont, Vermont Senate[38]
- Louis F. Hart – Governor of Washington[17]
- Marcus H. Holcomb – Governor of Connecticut, Attorney General of Connecticut, Connecticut Senate[36]
- Olin D. Johnston – Governor of South Carolina, United States Senate, South Carolina House of Representatives[10]
- John G. Townsend Jr. – Governor of Delaware, United States Senate, Delaware House of Representatives[39]
- John H. Trumbull – Governor of Connecticut, Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, and Connecticut Senate[36]
- William M. Tuck – Governor of Virginia, United States House of Representatives, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, Virginia Senate[18]
Lt. Governor
State legislature
- Albert E. Anderson – Maine House of Representatives[40]
- Martin B. Bailey – Illinois Senate and Illinois House of Representatives[11]
- Richard J. Baldwin – Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives; Pennsylvania State Senate[41]
- George C. Brownell – President of the Oregon State Senate, Oregon House of Representatives[42]
- Joseph H. Brownell – New York State Assembly[43][5]
- Charles S. Butler – New York State Assembly[44]
- Hampton J. Cheney – Tennessee Senate[45]
- Abraham Curry – Nevada Territorial Legislature; founder of Carson City, Nevada[46]
- Thomas C. Desmond – New York Senate; president and chief engineer of the Newburgh Ship Yards[27]
- Owen J. Dever – New York State Assembly[47]
- Martin W. Deyo – New York Senate, New York State Assembly[5]
- James Augustus Fox – Massachusetts House of Representatives, Massachusetts Senate[48]
- William J. Grattan – New York State Senate, New York State Assembly[5]
- Abraham Greenberg – New York State Senate, New York State Assembly[5]
- Arthur C. Greene – Iowa House of Representatives[49]
- Robert B. Groat – New Jersey Senate and newspaper publisher[50]
- John W. Haigis – editor and publisher of the Greenfield Recorder, Massachusetts Senate, Massachusetts House of Representatives[27]
- Emory S. Harris – Vermont House of Representatives[51]
- Conrad Hasenflug – New York State Senate[5]
- Joseph T. Higgins – New York State Assembly
- Epenetus Howe – New York State Assembly[52]
- Samuel A. Jones – New York State Assembly, New York State Senate[5]
- Rufus King Jordan – Maine House of Representatives[40]
- Frederick W. Kavanaugh – New York State Senate[5]
- Anson F. Keeler – Connecticut Senate and Connecticut State Comptroller[36]
- Edgar C. Levey – Speaker of the California State Assembly[53]
- Charles E. Loizeaux – New Jersey Senate[54]
- James Male – New York State Assembly[55]
- Thomas A. McWhinney – New York State Assembly[56][5]
- Edward E. Moore – Indiana Senate and Los Angeles City Council
- William Newcorn – New Jersey General Assembly[57]
- George H. Newhall – Massachusetts House of Representatives, Mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts[27]
- Olin T. Nye – New York State Assembly[5]
- Duncan T. O'Brien – New York State Senate[5]
- Roy M. Page – New York State Senate[5]
- Thomas Pearce – Maryland House of Delegates[58]
- A. J. Rosier – Wyoming Senate[59]
- Arthur J. Ruland – New York State Assembly[60]
- Nelson Ruttenberg – New York State Assembly[61]
- Vincent Thomas – California State Assembly[22]
- Charles F. Tupper – New York State Assembly
- John Van Schaick – New York State Senate[62]
- Julius Volker – New York State Assembly[5]
- William W. Wemple – New York State Assembly[5]
- Forman E. Whitcomb – New York State Assembly[63][5]
State other
- Walter D. Guilbert – Ohio State Auditor[19]
- Andrew Russel – Treasurer of Illinois[11]
- Henry Wulff – Treasurer of Illinois[11]
Local
- James L. Key – Mayor of Atlanta[25]
- William Lamb – Mayor of Norfolk, Virginia; newspaperman, and Confederate States Army officer[18]
- George Sidney Marshall – Mayor of Columbus
Sports
- Kirtley Baker – professional baseball player with the Baltimore Orioles, Pittsburgh Alleghenys, and Washington Senators[64]
- Harry Arista Mackey – college footaball player and coach; mayor of Philadelphia[30]
References
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