Joseph Hayes Acklen was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Louisiana from 1878 to 1881.

Adelicia Hayes Franklin Acklen Cheatham was an American planter and slave trader. She became the wealthiest woman in Tennessee and a plantation owner in her own right after the 1846 death of her first husband, Isaac Franklin. As a successful slave trader, he had used his wealth to purchase numerous plantations, lands, and slaves in Tennessee and Louisiana.