Elvis Jacob Stahr Jr. (March 9, 1916 – November 11, 1998) was an American government official, college president and administrator.

[4] He graduated Omicron Delta Kappa in 1936, and was a member of Sigma Chi and the National Society of Pershing Rifles, a Reserve Officer Training Corps fraternal organization.

[5] With University President Herman Lee Donovan and Justice Thurgood Marshall, he helped desegregate the law school.

[6] During the Korean War, he took a 16-month leave of absence to serve as special assistant to Secretary of the Army Frank Pace Jr.

[5] Stahr served as Secretary of the Army in 1961 and 1962,[5] during the Berlin crisis and the Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion, aimed at ousting Fidel Castro from power.

Under Stahr's leadership, the Audubon Society undertook a campaign to increase its influence and membership, which in 10 years more than quadrupled to almost 400,000.

As president of the Audubon Society, Stahr led efforts to preserve the Florida Everglades from commercial and industrial development, fought for accords on international whaling practices and campaigned successfully to liberalize U.S. tax laws to allow charitable organizations to lobby on public policy issues.