Famous Masons

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Are you thinking of becoming a Freemason?

The membership of Freemasonry, by and large – is made up of average men. Its ranks include laborers, clerks, merchants, auto mechanics, lawyers, members of the armed forces, doctors, statesmen, tradesmen, farmers, salesmen……the whole spectrum of common everyday professions.

So maybe you DO have what it takes to join some of the most distinguished men of their time.  All men came into this world the same as you and me………….upside down and naked. Great men be come great because of what they decide to do with their lives.  A simple query on the Internet will reveal literally ten’s-of-thousands of famous Freemasons who have left their mark on history.

Here’s a quick and short list of some of most recognizable Masons. Some of these names may just surprise you:

[This List Is NOT All-Inclusive]

US Presidents:

  • George Washington
  • James Buchanan
  • Gerald R. Ford
  • James A. Garfield
  • Warren G. Harding
  • Andrew Jackson
  • Andrew Johnson
  • Lyndon B. Johnson
  • William McKinley
  • James Monroe
  • James Knox Polk
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • William Howard Taft
  • Harry S. Truman

Founding Fathers and The American Revolution:

  • Benjamin Franklin – 1 of 13 Masonic signers of Constitution of the U.S.
  • John Hancock – 1of 9 Masonic signers of Declaration of Independence
  • Paul Revere
  • John Paul Jones
  • LaFayette (Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette)
  • James Otis
  • Rufus King
  • Baron Von Steuben
  • Joseph Warren

Republic Of Texas and Defenders Of The Alamo:

  • Stephen Austin
  • James Bonham
  • Jim Bowie
  • David Crockett
  • Almaron Dickenson
  • Sam Houston
  • Col. William Barrett Travis

United States 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, 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

 Astronauts:

  • Edwin E. (Buzz) Aldrin
  • Neil Armstrong
  • John H. Glenn
  • Virgil Grissom

Military:

  • Audie Murphy – Most Decorated American Soldier of WWII – U.S. Army
  • General Henry “Hap” Arnold – United States Army Air Force
  • Omar N. Bradley – United States Army
  • Admiral Richard E. Byrd – United States Navy
  • General Mark Clark – United States Army
  • General James Doolittle – United Stated Air Force
  • John Philip Sousa – United States Marine Corps
  • John Paul Jones – First Admiral Of the United States Navy
  • Charles Lindbergh – United States Army
  • Major General Merritt Austin Edson – United States Marine Corps
  • General Douglas MacArthur – United States Army
  • General George C. Marshall – United States Army
  • General George B. McClellan – United States Army
  • Major General Richard Montgomery – 1st General Officer of the Continental Army
  • Audie Murphy – United States Army
  • Alfred M. Gray – United States Marine Corps
  • Robert E. Peary – United States Navy
  • John Joseph Pershing – United States Army
  • Eddie Rickenbacker – United States Air Force
  • Alfred Von Tirpitz – German Naval Officer

Actors/Writers:

  • Gene Autry – Actor
  • Ernest Borgnine – Actor
  • Robert Burns – The National Poet of Scotland
  • Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) Writer
  • George M. Cohan – Broadway Actor
  • Carlo Collodi – Writer “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”
  • Tom Mix – Former U.S. Marshal Turned Famous Western Actor
  • Aleksander 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

SPORTS

  • Ty Cobb – Baseball Player
  • John Elway – Super Bowl Winning Quarterback
  • Earle Bryan Combs – Baseball Hall of Fame
  • Shaquille O’Neal – Basketball
  • Jack Dempsey – Boxer
  • Rogers Hornsby – Original member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
  • James Naismith – Inventor of Basketball
  • Arnold Palmer – PGA Golf Pro
  • Scottie Pippin – Basketball
  • Red Auerbach – Basketball coach
  • Sugar Ray Robinson – Boxing
  • Honus Wagner – Baseball

MUSICIANS/ENTERTAINERS:

  • William “Count” Bassie – Orchestra Leader/Composer
  • Brad Paisley – Country Music Singer and Songwriter
  • Ludwig Von Beethoven – World Famous Composer
  • Irving Berlin – Entertainer
  • Roy Clark – Country Western Star
  • George M. Cohen – American Entertainer, Playwright, Composer
  • Nat King Cole – Singer
  • Duke Ellington – Composer, Arranger and Stylist
  • George Gershwin – American Composer and Pianist
  • Josef Haydn – Prolific Composer of the Classical Period
  • Al Jolson – American Entertainer
  • Francis Scott Key – Writer of the United States National Anthem
  • Franz Listz – Hungarian Piano Virtuoso and Composer
  • Harold C. Lloyd – Entertainer
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Composer
  • Antoine Joseph Sax – Inventor of the Saxophone
  • Jean Sibelius – Composer
  • Red Skelton – Entertainer
  • Mel Tillis – Country Singer
  • Paul Whiteman – American Bandleader, Composer, Orchestral Director and violinist

GOVERNMENT AND POLITICAL 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
  • Simon Bolivar – Venezuelan Statesman, Military Leader and President of Columbia.
  • William Jennings Bryant – Former United States Secretary of State
  • Winston Churchill – Former British Prime Minister and Military Leader
  • Thomas E. Dewey – Former Governor of New York
  • 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 A Year
  • George VI – King of England during W.W. II
  • Barry Goldwater – Former United States Senator
  • Hubert Humphrey – Former Vice President of the United States
  • Benito Juarez – Mexican Lawyer and President of Mexico 1858 – 1872
  • Sir John A. MacDonald – Prime Minister of Canada 1867-73 & 1878-91
  • José Marti – Cuban Revolutionary Who Advocated for Independence From Spain
  • George McGovern – Former U. S. Senator
  • Sam Nunn – Former United States Senator
  • Governor George C. Wallace – Presidential Candidate
  • Wendell Wilke – Former Corporate Lawyer and Republican Party Nominee for President

OTHER FAMOUS MASONS:

  • Lloyd Balfour – Jewelry Designer
  • Frederic A. Bartholdi – Designed the Statue of Liberty
  • Robert E. B. Baylor – Founder Baylor University
  • Daniel Carter Beard – Founder of the Boy Scouts
  • Lawrence Bell – Bell Aircraft Corp.
  • Gutzon & Lincoln Borglum – Father and Son Who Carved Mt. Rushmore
  • W.E.B. BuBois – Renowned Educator/Scholar
  • Father Francisco Calvo – Catholic Priest Who Started Freemasonry in Costa Rica 1865
  • Walter P. Chrysler – Chrysler Automotive
  • Andre Citroen – French Engineer and Auto Manufacturer
  • John Theophilus Desaguliers – Inventor of the Planetarium
  • William H. Dow – Dow Chemical Co.
  • Edwin L. Drake – American Pioneer of the Oil Industry
  • Jean Henri Dunant – Founder of the Red Cross
  • Samuel J. Ervin Jr – Headed “The Watergate Committee”
  • Eberhard Faber – Head of the famous Eberhard Faber Pencil Company
  • Geoffrey Fisher – Archbishop of Canterbury 1945 – 1961
  • John Fitch – Inventor of the Steamboat
  • Sir Alexander Fleming – Invented Penicillin
  • Henry Ford – Pioneer Automobile Manufacturer
  • Richard J. Gatling – Inventor of the Gatling Gun
  • Sir William S. Gilbert – Librettis for “Pirates of Penzance”
  • King C. Gillette – Gillette Razor Company
  • Joseph Ignace Guillotin – Pioneering Doctor and Inventor of the Guillotine
  • Cornelius Hedges – Lawyer, Judge and Creator of the National Parks System
  • Josiah Henson – Author, Abolitionist and Minister Who Inspired The Novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
  • Charles C. Hilton – Famous American Hotelier
  • James Hoban – Architect for the U.S. Capitol Building
  • Richard M. Hoe – Invented the Rotary Press
  • J. Edgar Hoover – Director of FBI
  • Harry Houdini – Magician and Entertainer
  • Melvin Jones – One of the Founders of Lions International
  • Simon Lake – Inventor of the Modern Submarine
  • Frank S. Land – Founder Order of DeMolay
  • Sir Thomas Lipton – Self-Made Entrepreneur, Merchant and Yachtsman. Creator of the Lipton Tea Brand
  • James W. Marshall – Discovered Gold at Sutter’s Mill California 1848
  • Louis B. Mayer – American Film Producer and Co-Founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in 1924
  • Dr. William and Charles Mayo – Founders of the Mayo Clinic
  • Fredrick Maytag – Once President and Chairman of the Maytag Appliance Company
  • Karl A. Menninger – Renowned Psychiatrist Famous For Treating Mental Illness
  • Albert Abraham Michelson – Successfully Measured the Speed of Light in 1882
  • Jacques Etienne Montgolfier – Co-Developer of the 1st Practical Hot-Air Balloon
  • Harry S. New – Postmaster General Who Established Airmail
  • Ransom E Olds – American Automobile Pioneer
  • James Otis – Massachusetts Lawyer and American Revolutionary Politician 
  • James C. Penny – American Mega-Retailer
  • Joel R. Poinsett – U.S. Minister to Mexico Who Developed The Poinsettia Flower/Plant
  • George Pullman – Built the First Sleeping Car To Be Used On A Train
  • Ringling Brothers – All 7 Brothers and Their Father Were Masons
  • Felix Salten – Creator of Bambi
  • David Sarnoff – American Businessman and Pioneer of American Radio and Television
  • George Schoonover – Founded The National Masonic Research Society
  • Leland Stanford – Drove the Gold Spike Linking The Intercontinental Railroad/Founder Of Stanford University
  • Andrew T. Still – American Physician Who Devised Treatment of Osteopathy
  • John W. Teets – Chairman and President of Dial Corporation
  • Dave Thomas – Founder of Wendy’s Restaurant
  • Lowell Thomas – Brought Lawrence of Arabia To Public Notice
  • Robert Pershing Wadlow – Tallest Human On Record Being Almost 9 Feet Tall
  • Jack Warner – Warner Brothers Film Studios
  • Matthew Webb – First Man To Swim The English Channel 1875
  • William Wyler – Director of “Ben Hur”
  • Darryl F. Zanuck – Co-Founder of 20th Century Productions 1933

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