Some Notable & Famous Masons
Men of Character And Integrity Join the Masons
Most are men who go about their jobs and professions with no hint that
they are Freemasons except for the way they lead their lives. Many are
recognizable by name, face, or accomplishment. George Washington and thirteen
other Presidents, 18 of the 45 U.S. Vice Presidents (40%) and forty-two
Justices of the Supreme Court have been Masons. There are currently about 4
Million Masons worldwide.
Quite likely one of your neighbors is a Mason.
We are proud that our former Congressman the R:. W:.
Benjamin A. Gilman, a 33° Mason, is a member of Hoffman Lodge #412.
He was last elected to his 15th term in the U.S. House of Representatives on
Nov. 7, 2000.
Congressman Gilman served for three two-year terms (1995-2001) as Chairman of
the House International Relations Committee.
PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES: For details and photos see our Presidents Page
George Washington, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, James Polk, James Buchanan,
Andrew Johnson, James Garfield, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William
Howard Taft, Warren G. Harding, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman - Grand
Master, Lyndon B. Johnson (EA), Gerald R. Ford
VICE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES:
George Clinton, Elbridge Gerry, Daniel D. Tompkins, Richard M. Johnson, George
M. Dallas, William R. King, John C. Breckenridge, Andrew Johnson, Schuyler
Colfax, Adlai E. Stevenson, Garret A. Hobart, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas R.
Marshall, Henry A. Wallace, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson (E.A.), Hubert
H. Humphrey, Gerald R. Ford
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, -
Chief Justice U.S. Supreme Court 1801 - 1835, 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
8 SIGNERS OF THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION:
Daniel Carroll, Jonathan Bayard Smith, Henry Laurens, John Dickison, John
Harvie, John Hancock, Cornelius Harnett, Daniel Roberdeau
10 SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE:
William Ellery RI, Benjamin Franklin PA, John Hancock MA, Joseph Hewes NC,
William Hooper NC, Robert Treat Paine MA, Richard Stockton NJ, George Walton
GA, William Whipple NH, Eldridge Gerry MA
12 SIGNERS OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION:
George Washington, Gunning Bedford Jr., Benjamin Franklin, John Blair, David
Brearley, Rufus King, John Dickinson, Jacob Broom, Daniel Carroll, Jonathan
Dayton, Nicholas Gilman, James McHenry
NEW YORKERS:
Fiorella H. La Guardia - Mayor of New York 1930s & 40s, General Omar
Bradley - West Point Lodge No.877, NY
NEW YORK GOVERNORS:
19 of our Governors of our state have been Masons. Listed with date of
election name and location of his Lodge: George Clinton, 1777 and again in
1801, Warren Lodge 17 NYC; Morgan Lewis, 1804, Masters Lodge 5, Albany; Daniel
D. Tompkins, 1807, Hiram Lodge 72, Mt. Pleasant; DeWItt Clinton, 1817, Holland
Lodge 8, NYC; Joseph C. Yates, 1822, St. Georges Lodge 6, Schnectady, Hathaniel
Pitcher, 1828, Livingston Lodge 28, Sandy Hill; John T. Hoffman, 1868; John
Adams Dix, 1872; Roswell P. Flower, 1891, Watertown Lodge 49; Frank S. Black,
1896, King Soloman's Primitive Lodge, 91 Troy; Theodore Roosevlet, 1898,
Matinecock Lodge 806, Oyster Bay; Benjamin B. Odell Jr., 1900, Newburgh Lodge
309; Frank W. Higgins,1904, Olean Lodge 242; John Alden Dix, 1910, Senate Lodge
456, Glens Falls; William Sulzer, 1912, Republic Lodge 690, NYC; Charles S.
Whitman, 1914, Albion Lodge 27, NYC; Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1928, Holland Lodge
8, NYC; Herbert H. Lehman, 1932, Justice Lodge 753, NYC; and Thomas E. Dewey,
1942, Hane Lodge 454, NYC
AMERICA'S EARLY PATRIOTS: (other than Presidents):
Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Paul Revere, John Paul Jones, Marquuis de
Lafayette, Rufus King, James Otis, Baron von Steuben, Joseph Warren, James Otis
- "Taxation without Representation is Tyranny", Benedict Arnold -
(temporary patriot)
AMERICAN POLITICS:
Aaron Burr, George McGovern, Barry Goldwater - U.S. Senator - Presidential
Candidate, Thomas E. Dewey - Governor of New York, Alf Landon, Wendell Wilke,
William Jennings Bryant - U.S. Secretary of State, Henry Clay - Speaker of the
U.S. House of Representatives, Benjamin A.Gilman - , Robert Livingston -
American statesman and diplomat - Louisiana Territory, Charles E. Schumer -
U.S. House of Representatives, Fiorello LaGuardi - Mayor of New York City,
Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr - U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Estes Kefauver - U.S.
Senator - Presidential Candidate, Lewis Cass - U.S. Senator, Henry Dodge - U.S.
Senator, Samuel J. Ervin Jr. - U.S. Senator, Edmund G. Ross - U.S. Senator,
Stuart Symington - U.S. Senator, Henry "Scoop" Jackson - U.S.
Senator, Thomas Hart Benton - U.S. Senator, Robert J. "Bob" Dole -
U.S. Senator - Presidential Candidate, Michael B. Enzi - U.S. Senator, Sam Nunn
- U.S. Senator, Strom Thurmond - U.S. Senator, George C. Wallace - Governor,
William King - Governor, Frederick Bates - Governor, John A. Quitman -
Governor, Shadrach Bond - Governor, Roy Barnes - Governor
WORLDWIDE POLITICAL LEADERS:
Winston Churchill - British Leader, Simon Bolivar - "Liberator" of S
America, Edmund Burke, Benito Juarez - President of Mexico, Edward VII - King
of England, Edward VIII - King of England - Abdicated after 1 year, George VI -
King of England during WWII, Bernardo O'Higgins, José de San Martin,
Francisco de Paula Santander, José Rizal, José Marti, Pandit
Nehru, Lajos Kossuth, Jonas Furrer, Guiseppe Mazzini, Eduard Benes - President
of Czechoslovakia, Sir John A. MacDonald - Prime Minister of Canada, Sir John
J. C. Abbott - Prime Minister of Canada, Sir Robert L. Borden - Prime Minister
of Canada, Viscount R. B. Bennett - Prime Minister of Canada, Sir Mackenzie
Bowell - Prime Minister of Canada, John G. Diefenbaker - Prime Minister of
Canada, Charles H. Allen - 1st Governor of Puerto Rico, King Kamehameha, III,
IV, & V - Monarchs of Hawaii, King David Kalakaua - last Monarch of Hawaii,
Miguel Aleman - President of Mexico
MILITARY LEADERS:
Omar Bradley, John J. Pershing, General Douglas McArthur - Commander of Armed
Forces in the Philipines, General Winfield Scott, Captain Eddie Rickenbacker,
Jimmy Doolittle - Famous Air Force Pilot, General Mark Clark, General George C.
Marshall, General Henry "Hap" - Commander of the Army Air Force,
Admiral Richard E. Byrd - Flew over the North Pole, John Paul Jones - First
Admiral of the U.S. Navy, Marquis de Lafayette - Supporter of American Freedom,
Charles Lindbergh - First pilot to cross the Atlantic, General George B.
McClelland - Army of the Potomac, Presidential candidate against Abraham
Lincoln, faced General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Antietam and twice
Governor of New Jersey, Major General Richard Montgomery - First General of the
Continental Army killed in the Battle for Quebec, Audy Murphy - most decorated
soldier of WWII, Robert E. Peary - First man to reach the North Pole in 1909,
Eddie Rickenbacker - Air Force Ace Pilot, Alfred von Tirpitz - German Naval
officer responsible for submarine warfare, Stuart Symington - First Secretary
of the U.S. Air Force, General Omar Bradley - West Point Lodge No.877, NY ,
Admiral William Leahy, Admiral Ernest King, Admiral Chester Nimitz, Admiral
William 'Bull' Halsey, General John Pershing, General Carl Spaatz
REPUBLIC OF TEXAS:
Sam Houston 2nd & 4th President of the Republic of Texas, Stephen Austin-
Father of Texas, Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, Colonel William B. Travis, David G.
Burnett - 1st 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, (and, it should be added, General Santa Ana)
EARLY AMERICAN PIONEERS:
Joseph Brant - Chief of the Mohawks 1742-1807, Christopher "Kit"
Carson - Frontiersman, Scout & Explorer, WIlliam Clark - Explorer,
Meriweather Lewis - Explorer (Lewis & Clark), William "Buffalo
Bill" Cody - Indian fighter, Wild West Show, Samuel Colt - Firearms
Inventor
MUSIC & FINE ARTS:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (and his father, Leopold), Ludwig von Beethoven, Jean
Sibelius, Franz Liszt, Josef Haydn, Irving Berlin, Gutzon Borglum, Charles W.
Peale, Alfons M. Mucha, John Philip Sousa, both Gilbert & Sullivan, George
Gershwin, George M. Cohan, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, Giacomo Meyerbeer,
Signmund Romberg, Edward E. Bagley - "National Emblem" march, Duke
Ellington, Francis Scott Key
ENTERTAINERS:
John Wayne, Red Skelton, Clark Gable, W.C. Fields, Will Rogers, Burl Ives, Roy
Rogers, Danny Thomas, Ernest Borgnine, Oliver Hardy, Tom Mix, Audie Murphy,
Gene Autry, Wallace Beery, Eddie Cantor, Eddie Arnold, Roy Acuff, Cecil B.
DeMille, Louis B. Mayer, Michael Richards "Kramer", Brad Paisley
(& his keyboardist Kendall Marcy) - received their 32° AASR on
10-28-06.
INDUSTRY & LABOR:
John Wanamaker, S.S. Kresge, J.C. Penney, John Jacob Astor, John L. Lewis, Dave
Thomas - founder of Wendys, Charles Adams - NHL Developer, Harold Alfond -
Dexter Shoe Company, Lloyd Balfour - Jewelry Lawrence Bell - Bell Aircraft
Corp., Bartholomew Berthold Ballington Booth- Volunteers of America, Walter P
Chrysler - Chrysler Corporation, Andre Citroen - Motor car manufacturer, Samuel
Colt - Firearms, Robert E. B. Baylor - Baylor University, John T. Desaguliers -
Planetarium, WIlliam Henry Dow - Dow Chemical Co., Edwin L. Drake - Oil
industry, W.E.B. DuBois - Co-founder of the NAACP, Jean Henri Dunant - Red
Cross, Eberhard Faber - Eberhard Faber Pencil Company, Sir Alexander Fleming -
Penicillin, Henry Ford - Ford Motor Company, Richard J. Gatling - Gatling Gun,
King C. Gillette - Gillette Safety Razor Co., Samuel Gompers, Joseph Ignace
Guillotin - Guillotine, Richard M. Hoe - Inventor, Edward Jenner - Vaccination,
Melvin Jones - Lions International, Simon Lake - Submarine, Frank S. Land -
Order of DeMolay, Sir Thomas Lipton - Tea, John B. MacLean - MacLeans Magazine,
Hart Massey - Farm equipment, Dr. William and Charles Mayo - Mayo Clinic,
Fredrick Maytag - Washing machine, Clyde L. McCoy - wah-wah - trumpet, Andrew
Mellon - Gulf Oil Corporation, George Jacob Mercherle - Founder of State Farm
Insurance, Franz Anton Mesmer - Mesmerism, Albert Abraham Michelson - Speed of
light, John Molson - Molson Breweries, Jacques Etienne Montgolfier - Hot-air
balloon, Ransom E. Olds - Olds Motor Company, George Pullman - Sleeping car on
train, David Sarnoff - RCA, Antoine Joseph Sax - Saxophone, Julius Earl
Schaefer - Boeing, Wichita (Amasa) Leland Stanford - Railroad,s Andrew T. Still
- Osteopathy, John W. Teets - Dial Corporation, Jack Warner - Warner Brothers,
Darryl F. Zanuck - 20th Century Productions, C.D. Bradham - Pepsi Cola Company,
Avery Bundage - US Olympic president, Curtis Carlson - Radisson Hotels, Dr.
Gordon Farhrni - Iodized salt, Col. Harland Sanders - KFC, Walter Sheaffer -
Sheaffer Pen Co., Amedeo Obici - Planters Peanut Co., John Fitch - The
Steamboat Grock - Swiss Circus Clown, Charles C. Hilton - American Hotelier,
Dr. Robert Morris - Poet and Founder of the Order of Eastern Star, James C.
Penny - Retailer, George Schoonover - Founder "The Builder", Zebulon
Pike - "Pike's Peak"
ADVENTURERS:
Meriwether Lewis & William Clark, Charles A. Lindberg, Kit Carson, Roald
Amundsen, Adm. Richard Byrd, Commodore Robert Peary, Bro. Nathaniel Palmer, a
discoverer of Antarctica honored on a US postage stamp.
PHILOSOPHERS:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gotthold E. Lessing, Voltaire (Francois Marie
Arouet)
SPORTS:
Ty Cobb - Baseball, Earl Bryan Combs - Baseball, Jack Dempsey - Boxer, Rogers
Hornsby - Baseball, Theodore A. Lyons - Baseball, James Naismith - Invented the
game of basketball, Arnold Palmer - Golf , "Sugar Ray" Robinson -
Prizefighter, Alex G. Spanos - Owner of the San Diego Chargers, Sir Frederick
Arthur Stanley - Stanley Cup, Mickey Cochrane - Baseball, Tris Speaker -
Baseball, Bart Starr - Football, Cy Young - Baseball, Bob Feller, Paul
"Dizzy" Trout, Harry Carey, Dell Rice, Jimmy Fox, Joe Tinker (of
"Tinker to Evers to Chance"), , Jack Arthur Johnson
ASTRONAUTS:
Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr., Leroy Gordon Cooper, Donn F. Eisele,
Virgil I. Grissom, Edgar D. Mitchell, Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Thomas P.
Stafford, Paul J. Weitz, James B. Irwin, John Glenn.
WRITERS:
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Sir Walter Scott, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Burns,
Wassily I. Maikow, Heinrich Heine, Jean P.C. de Florian, Leopoldo Lugoner,
Antonio de Castro Alves, James Boswell, Alexander Pushkin, Arthur Conan Doyle,
Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde, Francis J. Bellans - Pledge of Allegiance, Josiah
Henson - "Uncle Tom's Cabin", William Shakespeare, Carlo Collodi -
"Pinocchio", Felix Salten - "Bambi", Edward Gibbon -
"Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", Harold Lincoln Gray -
"Little Orphan Annie", Aleksandr Sergeyvich Pushkin - Russian Poet,
Jonathan Swift - "Gulliver's Travels", Booker T. Washington, George
Trendle - "Lone Ranger"
LAW:
John Marshall, Earl Warren, Thurgood Marshall, J. Edgar Hoover - Director of
the FBI, Thomas Dewey - Lawyer
MEDICINE:
Drs. Alexander Fleming, Jules Bordet, Antoine DePage, Edward Jenner, Charles W.
and William Mayo, Karl and William Menninger
SCIENCE:
Hans C. Orsted, Jons Jakob Frk. von Berzelius, Alfred Edmund Brehm, Luther
Burbank, Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Albert Abraham Michelson, Gaspard Monge, C.F.S.
Hahnemann, Pedro N. Arata, Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, Alexander Fleming, James
Smithson
MEXICAN'S:
MANUEL GOMEZ FARIAS (vice president of México) VICENTE GUERRERO
(president of México) MIGUEL HIDALGO Y COSTILLA (started the
independence war) IGNACIO ZARAGOZA. (general of the army that defeated the
french invasors) PORFIRIO DIAZ MORI (president of México) BENITO JUAREZ
GARCIA (president of México) ALVARO OBREGON (president of México)
FRANCISCO I. MADERO (started the Méxican Revolution an was President of
México) MANUEL AVILA CAMACHO (president of Mexico) VENUSTIANO CARRANZA
(president of México, signed the actual constitution in 1917) EMILIO
PORTES GIL (president of México) MIGUEL ALEMAN VALDES (president of
México) JOSE MARIA PINO SUAREZ (vice president of mexico) ADOLFO LOPEZ
MATEOS (president of México) MARIO MORENO "CANTINFLAS"
(comedian) IGNACIO MANUEL ALTAMIRANO (writer) ALFREDO CHAVERO (historian)
RODOLFO SANCHEZ TABOADA (general, secretary of state, founder of the
revolutionary institutional party, P.R.I, that ruled over seventy years.),
Lazaro Cardenas. Cardenas served as President of Mexico from 1934-1940.
As well as... Clyde Beaty - Animal Trainer, Clifford Berryman -
Cartoonist, Gutzon & Lincoln Borglum - Father & son who carved Mt.
Rushmore, Marcelo delPilar - "Father of Philippine Masonry", W E B
DuBois - Founder of the NAACP, James W. Marshall - Discovered Gold at Sutter's
Mill in California in 1848, Ringling Brothers - Circus brothers, Lowell Thomas
- American radio commentator - Lawrence of Arabia, Bertel Thorvaldsen - Danish
sculptor, Steven J. Trachtenberg - President of George Washington University,
Robert Pershing Wadlow - Tallest human on record being almost 9 feet tall,
Matthew Webb - English Channel, William White - Baylor University, Meredith
Willson - The Music Man - 76 Trombones, Percy Wootton, M.D. - AMA President,
Florenz Ziegfeld - Ziegfeld's Follies, Anton Cermak - Mayor of Chicago, Fritz
Freleng - Cartoonist, Daniel Carter Beard - Boy Scouts, Frederic A. Bartholdi -
Designed the Statue of Liberty, Father Francisco Calvo - Father of Freemasonry
in Costa Rica, Geoffrey Fisher - Archbishop of Canterbury, Cornelius Hedges -
Father of Yellowstone National Park, James Hoban - Architect for U.S. Capital,
Aga Khan III - Statesman, Harry S. New - Postmaster established Airmail,
Charles F. Papst - Coined "Athlete's Foot", Harry Houdini,
Blackstone, Norman Vincent Peale, Thomas J. Watson, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Cecil
J. Rhodes, Marvin Zindler, . and many, many more.
The membership of Freemasonry, by and large, is made up of average men.
Its ranks include laborers, clerks, merchants, tradesmen, lawyers, enlisted and
commissioned members of the armed forces, doctors, statesmen, farmers,
salesmen...the whole spectrum.
If you would like to be a Mason - all you need to do is ask a Mason, or go to our page about membership.
| Thanks and a tip 'o the hat to: On 2-16-07 - M:.W:.Roger W. Read, Past Grand Master of Connecticut 1999 - added Bro. Nathaniel Palmer, a discoverer of Antarctica honored on a US postage stamp. On 10-23-02 - James Lewallen, Sr. Warden, Fellowship Lodge #1385 AF & AM Odessa, Texas - added Lazaro Cardenas, Pres. of Mexico On 9-9-02 - Michael Hoge added Eldridge Gerry On 2-21-02 - Bro. Thomas V. Houser P.M. - added the New Yorkers and some more military names. On 8-14-02 - Ernesto Guerrero Aguilar, Secretary of the Lodge "Julio Glockner Lodoza 61#3." Great Orient of Puebla Grand Lodge "Benemerito Ejercito De Oriente" of A.A.S.R. Masons - added the list of Famous Mexican's. Brothers, Got more famous Masons? Drop us an email - We'll list you in these credits! |
