Joseph Drumheller (September 25, 1900 – April 18, 1970) was an American chemical engineer and politician in the state of Washington.

[1][2] He attended local public schools and then received a bachelor of sciences degree in chemical engineering from the University of Washington in 1923.

The following year, he married Katharine Corbin and the couple had two children: Mary K. and Frederick C. The divorced in 1928 and he remarried in 1936, to Dorothea Limacher.

[1] During his first stint on the board, he pushed for the state Democratic Party to conduct an internal investigation to expel any suspected communists.

He gifted the University of Washington the Drumheller Fountain, which sits in the center of Frosh Pond, for its centennial celebration in 1961.