List of Improved Order of Red Men 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.

Business

Charles F. Burgman – labor unionist George Snook – businessman Huston Wyeth – industrialist and businessman

Government

John Robinson – United States Marshal James Farley – United States Postmaster General, New York Assembly

Law

William H. Atwell – judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas John Boyd Avis – New Jersey Senate; judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey J. Sidney Bernstein – New York Supreme Court justice, New York State Assembly Lloyd Llewellyn Black – judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington John M. Daniel – Attorney General of South Carolina, South Carolina House of Representatives Paul Farthing – chief justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois Clarke C. Fitts – Vermont Attorney General and Vermont House of Representatives David Ezekiel Henderson – judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina Lafayette F. Mosher – Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court George W. Ray – judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York; United States House of Representatives Ray B. Smith – lawyer and politician Robert E. Woodside – justice of the Pennsylvania Superior Court; Pennsylvania House of Representatives Albert Dutton MacDade – Pennsylvania State Senate, judge of the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, and district attorney of Delaware County

Military

James R. Hogg – United States Navy four star admiral John Davis Long – United States Secretary of the Navy, Governor of Massachusetts, United States House of Representatives, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, Massachusetts House of Representatives

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 Clarence Dill – United States Senator and United States House of Representatives Ernest W. Gibson – United States Senate and United States House of Representatives Luke Lea – United States Senator and publisher of The Tennessean Morris Sheppard – United States Senate and United States House of Representatives Samuel M. Shortridge – United States Senate Morris Sheppard – United States Senate and United States House of Representatives

U.S. House of Representatives Charles Laban Abernethy – United States House of Representatives Charles Marley Anderson – United States House of Representatives Glenn M. Anderson – Lieutenant Governor of California, United States House of Representatives Sol Bloom – United States House of Representatives; entertainment impresario, sheet music publisher John J. Boylan – United States House of Representatives, New York State Senate, New York State Assembly Charles H. Brand – United States House of Representatives Joseph R. Bryson – United States House of Representatives, South Carolina Senate, South Carolina House of Representatives Jo Byrns – Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Tennessee House of Representatives Goodloe Byron – United States House of Representatives, Maryland Senate, Maryland House of Delegates William P. Connery Jr. – United States House of Representatives S. Hubert Dent Jr. – United States House of Representatives Frederick H. Dominick – United States House of Representatives, South Carolina House of Representatives Harry L. Englebright – United States House of Representatives Finly Hutchinson Gray – United States House of Representatives Harry L. Haines – United States House of Representatives Pehr G. Holmes – United States House of Representatives George Huddleston – United States House of Representatives Edward A. Kenney – United States House of Representatives William Larrabee – United States House of Representatives Clarence F. Lea – United States House of Representatives Robert Leggett – United States House of Representatives Bert Lord – United States House of Representatives, New York Senate, New York State Assembly Henry C. Loudenslager – United States House of Representatives John McDuffie – United States House of Representatives, Alabama House of Representatives, judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama Charles D. Millard – United States House of Representatives Will E. Neal – United States House of Representatives Samuel J. Nicholls – United States House of Representatives, South Carolina House of Representatives Choice B. Randell – United States House of Representatives Texas State Historical Association Eugene E. Reed – United States House of Representatives John Buchanan Robinson – United States House of Representatives, Pennsylvania State Senate, and Pennsylvania House of Representatives J. Edward Russell – United States House of Representatives and Ohio Senate Henry E. Stubbs – United States House of Representatives Malcolm C. Tarver – United States House of Representatives Benjamin I. Taylor – United States House of Representatives J. Alfred Taylor – United States House of Representatives and Speaker of the West Virginia House of Delegates Clark W. Thompson – United States House of Representatives Ralph E. Updike – United States House of Representatives Elmer H. Wene – United States House of Representatives, New Jersey Senate John Stephens Wood – United States House of Representatives

Governors

Raymond E. Baldwin – Governor of Connecticut, United States Senator, associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors Cole L. Blease – Governor of South Carolina, United States Senator, President Pro Tempore of the South Carolina Senate R. Gregg Cherry – Governor of North Carolina, North Carolina Senate, Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives William G. Conley – Governor of West Virginia, Attorney General of West Virginia Louis Lincoln Emmerson – Governor of Illinois Levi K. Fuller – Governor of Vermont, Lieutenant Governor of Vermont, Vermont Senate Louis F. Hart – Governor of Washington Marcus H. Holcomb – Governor of Connecticut, Attorney General of Connecticut, Connecticut Senate Olin D. Johnston – Governor of South Carolina, United States Senate, South Carolina House of Representatives John G. Townsend Jr. – Governor of Delaware, United States Senate, Delaware House of Representatives John H. Trumbull – Governor of Connecticut, Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, and Connecticut Senate William M. Tuck – Governor of Virginia, United States House of Representatives, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, Virginia Senate

Lt. Governor

Alexander P. Riddle – Lieutenant Governor of Kansas

State legislature Albert E. Anderson – Maine House of Representatives Martin B. Bailey – Illinois Senate and Illinois House of Representatives Richard J. Baldwin – Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives; Pennsylvania State Senate George C. Brownell – President of the Oregon State Senate, Oregon House of Representatives Joseph H. Brownell – New York State Assembly Charles S. Butler – New York State Assembly Hampton J. Cheney – Tennessee Senate Abraham Curry – Nevada Territorial Legislature; founder of Carson City, Nevada Thomas C. Desmond – New York Senate; president and chief engineer of the Newburgh Ship Yards Owen J. Dever – New York State Assembly Martin W. Deyo – New York Senate, New York State Assembly James Augustus Fox – Massachusetts House of Representatives, Massachusetts Senate William J. Grattan – New York State Senate, New York State Assembly Abraham Greenberg – New York State Senate, New York State Assembly Arthur C. Greene – Iowa House of Representatives Robert B. Groat – New Jersey Senate and newspaper publisher John W. Haigis – editor and publisher of the Greenfield Recorder, Massachusetts Senate, Massachusetts House of Representatives Emory S. Harris – Vermont House of Representatives Conrad Hasenflug – New York State Senate Joseph T. Higgins – New York State Assembly Epenetus Howe – New York State Assembly Samuel A. Jones – New York State Assembly, New York State Senate Rufus King Jordan – Maine House of Representatives Frederick W. Kavanaugh – New York State Senate Anson F. Keeler – Connecticut Senate and Connecticut State Comptroller Edgar C. Levey – Speaker of the California State AssemblyDavis, Robert E. History of the Improved Order of Red Men and Degree of Pocahontas, 1765-1988. Waco: Davis Brothers Publishing Co.,1989. pp.617–618. Charles E. Loizeaux – New Jersey Senate James Male – New York State Assembly Thomas A. McWhinney – New York State Assembly Edward E. Moore – Indiana Senate and Los Angeles City Council William Newcorn – New Jersey General Assembly George H. Newhall – Massachusetts House of Representatives, Mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts Olin T. Nye – New York State Assembly Duncan T. O'Brien – New York State Senate Roy M. Page – New York State Senate Thomas Pearce – Maryland House of Delegates A. J. Rosier – Wyoming Senate Arthur J. Ruland – New York State Assembly Nelson Ruttenberg – New York State Assembly Vincent Thomas – California State Assembly Charles F. Tupper – New York State Assembly John Van Schaick – New York State Senate Julius Volker – New York State Assembly William W. Wemple – New York State Assembly Forman E. Whitcomb – New York State Assembly

State other

Walter D. Guilbert – Ohio State Auditor Andrew Russel – Treasurer of Illinois Henry Wulff – Treasurer of Illinois

Local

James L. Key – Mayor of Atlanta William Lamb – Mayor of Norfolk, Virginia; newspaperman, and Confederate States Army officer George Sidney Marshall – Mayor of Columbus

Sports

Kirtley Baker – professional baseball player with the Baltimore Orioles, Pittsburgh Alleghenys, and Washington Senators Harry Arista Mackey – college footaball player and coach; mayor of Philadelphia

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