Washington Elias Hudson was an American politician, Ku Klux Klansman, and lawyer who served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives, the Oklahoma Senate, and on the board of the Grand River Dam Authority.

He attended the Woolwine Training School in Nashville and graduated from South Kentucky College in 1890.

He was a supporter of Governor Robert L. Williams and chaired the oil and gas committee in the house.

On January 5, 1922, the Oklahoma Ku Klux Klan was officially incorporated as the Tulsa Benevolent Association with Hudson as its chairman.

[5] In 1943, William Rogers incorporated Hudson's school into the University of Tulsa College of Law.