Famous Masons

 

U.S. Presidents

George Washington ------- 1st President of the U.S. 1789 - 1797  

James Monroe –-------------5th President of the U.S. 1817 - 1825

Andrew Jackson –-----------7th President of the U.S. 1829 - 1837

James Knox Polk –--------11th President of the U.S. 1845 - 1849 

James Buchanan –---------15th President of the U.S. 1857 - 1861  

Andrew Johnson –----------17th President of the U.S. 1865 - 1869

James A. Garfield –--------20th President of the U.S. 1881  

William McKinley –--------25th President of the U.S. 1897 - 1901 

Theodore Roosevelt –-26th President of the U.S. 1901 -1909                                                

William Howard Taft –----27th President of the U.S. 1909 - 1913 

Warren G. Harding –------29th President of the U.S. 1921 - 1923

Franklin D. Roosevelt –--32nd President of the U.S. 1933 - 1945   

Harry S. Truman –---------33rd President of the U.S. 1945 - 1953                                            

Gerald R Ford –------------38th President of the U.S. 1974 -1977                                                   

                                                   

Supreme Court Justices

                                                                    Hugo L. Black                                                           John Blair Jr.

                                                                    Samuel Blatchford                                                    Henry Baldwin

                                                                    Harold H. Burton                                                      James F. Byrnes

                                                                    John Catton                                                               Thomas C. Clark

                                                                    John H. Clarke                                                         William Cushing

                                                                    Willis Van Devanter                                                William O. Douglas

                                                                    Oliver Ellsworth                                                       Stephen J. Field

                                                                    John M. Harlan                                                       Robert H. Jackson

                                                                    Joseph E. Lamar                                                     John Marshall 

                                                                    Thurgood Marshall                                                 Stanley Mathews

                                                                    Sherman Minton                                                     William H Moody

                                                                    Samuel Nelson                                                        William Paterson

                                                                    Mahlon Pitney                                                         Stanley F. Reed

                                                                    Wiley B. Rutledge                                                   Potter Stewart  

                                                                    Noah H. Swayne                                                     Thomas Todd

                                                                    Robert Trimble                                                       Frederick M. Vinson

                                                                    Earl Warren                                                            Levi Woodbury  

                                                                    William B. Woods

 

Government Leaders

 

Sir John J.C. Abbott - Prime Minister of Canada 1891-92

Viscount R.B. Bennett, - Prime Minister of Canada 1930-35

Sir Robert L. Borden - Prime Minister of Canada 1911-1920

Sir Mackenzie Bowell - Prime Minister of Canada 1894-96

Winston Churchill - British Leader

John G. Diefenbaker - Prime Minister of Canada 1957-63

Edward VII - King of England

Edward VIII - King of England who abdicated the throne in less than 1 year

George VI - King of England during W.W. II

Sir John A. MacDonald - Prime Minister of Canada 1867-73 & 1878-91

Sam Nunn - U.S. Senator

Governor George C. Wallace - Presidential Candidate who was nearly assassinated

 

Early American Pioneers

Stephen F. Austin - Father of Texas

James Bowie - Alamo

Joseph Brant - Chief of the Mohawks 1742 - 1807

David G. Burnett - 1st President of the Republic of Texas

Christopher "Kit" Carson - Frontiersman, scout and explorer

William Clark - Explorer

William "Buffalo Bill" Cody - Indian fighter, Wild West Show

Samuel Colt - Firearms inventor

David Crockett - American Frontiersman and Alamo fame

Patrick Henry - Patriot

Sam Houston - 2nd & 4th President of the Republic of Texas

Anson Jones - 5th President of the Republic of Texas

Mirabeau B. Lamar - 3rd President of the Republic of Texas

Meriwether Lewis - Explorer

Robert Livingston  - Co-Negotiator for purchase of Louisiana Territory

Paul Revere - Famous American

Colonel William B. Travis - Alamo

 

 

Actors/Writers

 

Gene Autry - Actor

Ernest Borgnine - Actor

Robert Burns - The National Poet of Scotland

Casanova - Italian Adventurer, writer and entertainer

Samuel L. Clemens - Mark Twain - writer

George M Cohan - Broadway star

Carlo Collodi - Writer of Pinocchio

Sir Author Conan Doyle - Writer - Sherlock Holmes

Douglas Fairbanks - Silent film actor

W.C. Fields - Actor

Clark Gable - Actor

Edward Gibbon - Writer - Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Arthur Godfrey - Actor

Harold Lincoln Gray - Creator of "Little Orphan Annie

Oliver Hardy - Actor - Comedian

Bob Hope - Comedian

Rudyard Kipling - Writer

Elmo Lincoln - First actor to play Tarzan of the Apes (1918)

Tom Mix - U.S. Marshal turned actor. Stared in over 400 western films

Alexander Pushkin, - Russian Poet

Roy Rogers - American cowboy and screen star

Will Rogers - Actor

Sir Walter Scott - Writer

Peter Sellers - Actor

William Shakespeare - Writer

Jonathan Swift - Wrote Gulliver's Travels

Voltaire - French writer and philosopher

Lewis Wallace - Wrote "Ben Hur"

John Wayne - Actor

Musicians/Entertainers

William "Count" Bassie - Orchestra leader/composer

Irving Berlin - Entertainer

Roy Clark - Country Western Star

Little Jimmy Dickens - Grand Ole Opry Star

Duke Ellington - Composer, Arranger and Stylist

Al Jolson - Fame as the first 'talking picture' the Jazz Singer

Francis Scott Key - Wrote U.S. National Anthem

Harold C Lloyd - Entertainer

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Composer

Antoine Joseph Sax - Invented the Saxophone (1846)

Jean Sibelius - Composer (Finland)

Red Skelton - Entertainer

John Stafford Smith - Wrote the music that became the US National Anthem.

John Philip Sousa - Led the U.S. Marine Band from 1880 - 1892

Charles "Tom Thumb" Stratton - Entertainer

Mel Tillis - Country Singer

Paul Whiteman - "King of Jazz

 

Astronauts

Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr. - Gemini XII, Apollo 11

Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr. - Mercury 9, "Faith 7", Gemini V

Don F. Eisele - Apollo 7

John H. Glenn, Jr. 3 - Mercury 6, "Friendship 7"

Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom - Mercury 4 "Liberty Bell 7", Gemini 3, Apollo 1

James Irwin - Apollo 15

Edgar D. Mitchell - Apollo 14

Walter M. Schirra, Jr. - Mercury 8 "Sigma 7", Gemini VI, Apollo 7

Thomas P. Stafford - Gemini VII, Gemini IX-A, Apollo 10, Apollo 18

Paul J. Weitz - Skylab 2, Challenger (STS-6)

 

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