Famous Masons
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Signers of the Constitution of the United States

Abraham Baldwin

James McHenry

Gunning Bedford Jr.

James Madison

John Blair

Alexander Martin

William Blount

Robert Morris

David Brearley

William Paterson

Daniel Carroll

William Pierce  
William Richardson

Davie Charles Pinckney

Jonathan Dayton

Edmund Randolph

Oliver Ellsworth

George Read

Benjamin Franklin 

Roger Sherman

Elbridge Gerry

George Walton

Refus King

George Washington

John Langdon

George Wythe

 

John Lansing Jr.

 

 

 Signers of the Declaration of Independence

Benjamin Franklin , PA  John Hancock, MA
William Hooper ,NC    Richard Stockton, NJ
William Ellery, RI  George Walton, GA
William Whipple,NH Joseph Hewes, NC
 Robert Treat Paine, MA  

Patriots

 John Blair - 1732-1800

Benjamin Franklin - 1706-1790,

John Hancock - 1737-1793

Rufus King - 1755-1827

Henry Knox - 1750-1806

George Mason - 1725-1792

James Otis - 1725-1783

Thomas Paine - 1737-1809

Peyton Randolph -

Paul Revere - 1735-1818

Joseph Warren -

 

 

Pioneers

 Samuel Colt - 1814-1862

David 'Davy' Crockett - 1786-1836

Richard Gatling - 1818-1903

Sam Houston - 1793-1863

William Barret Travis - 1809-36,

 

 

 Astronaut

 Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr. -

Neil Armstrong

Gordon Cooper

Don Eisele

John H. Glenn

Virgil Grissom

Wally Schirra

Edgar Mitchell

Thomas Stafford

James Webb

Fred Haise

 

Edgar Mitchell

 

Explorers

 Richard E. Byrd -

Christopher "Kit" Carson

William Clark

Meriwether Lewis

Charles Lindbergh

Robert E. Peary

Zebulon Pike

Donald MacMillan

 
   

 

 

 Musicians/Composers

 Roy Acuff -

Eddy Arnold

Johann Christian Bach

William "Count" Basie

Irving Berlin - 1888-1989

Roy Clark

George M. Cohan - 1878-1942

Nat "King" Cole - 1919-1965

Edward "Duke" Ellington - 1899-1974

Burl Ives

Al Jolson - 1886-1950

Francis Scott Key - 1779-1843

Glenn Miller - 1909-1944

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - 1756-1791

Roy Rogers

John Stafford Smith

John Phillip Sousa - 1854-1932

Mel Tillis

Paul Whiteman

Brad Pasley

Franz Joseph "Papa" Hayden - 1732-1809   Franz Liszt - 1811-1886  
Jakob Ludwig F. Mendelssohn - 1809-1847   Jakob Ludwig F. Mendelssohn - 1809-1847  
Jean Sibelius - 1865-1957   Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan - 1842-1900  
       
       
       

 Film and TV Stars

 Gene Autry - 1907-

Mel Blanc -1908-1989

Ernest Borgnine Cecil B. DeMille - 1881-1959
Walter Elias "Walt" Disney - 1901-1966 Douglas Fairbanks, Sr
W. C. Fields -1880-1946 William Clark Gable - 1901-1960
Arthur Godfrey - 1903-1983 Oliver Hardy - 1892-1957
Buster Keaton - 1895-1966 Arthur Stanley Jefferson "Stan" Laurel - 1890-1965
Elmo Lincoln Louis B. Mayer - 1885-1957
Tom Mix Roy Rogers
Will Rogers Richard "Red" Skelton - 1913-1997
 Tom Thumb" Stratton - 1838-1883 Danny Thomas
John "The Duke" Wayne - 1907-1979    
       
   

 Entertainers

 Casanova - Italian adventurer, writer and entertainer                                          

Buffalo Bill Cody 

Norm Crosby  

Paul Harvey

Bob Hope

Harry Houdini  August Ringling  
Charles Stratton   Enrico Wallenda  
Florenz Ziegfeld      

 

 

 Sports

 Ty Cobb - Baseball 

 Mickey Cochrane

Earle Bryan Combs                                                  

Jack Dempsey - Boxer

Rogers Hornsby - Original member of the Baseball Hall of Fame           

Jack Kemp -

Vince Lombardi - Football                                                                   

James Naismith - Inventor of Basketball

Ray Nitschke - Football                                                                      

Arnold Palmer - Golf Pro

Sugar Ray Robinson - Boxer                                                               

Bart Starr - Football

Honus Wagner -                                                             

Matthew Webb - 1st to swim the English Channel (1875)

Cy Young - 

                                      

Author/Writers

 Robert Burns - The National Poet of Scotland  

Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Tom Sawyer

 

Carlo Collodi - Writer of Pinocchio

 

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Writer - Sherlock Holmes

 

Edward Gibbon - Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

 

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe - 1749-1832, German poet & dramatist

 

Edgar Guest - 1881-1959, Englih-born American journalist

 

Alex Haley - Author, Roots

 

Francis Scott Key - American Poet, The Star-Spangled Banner

 

Rudyard Kipling - Mother Lodge; and The Man Who Would Be King

 

Chrales W. Moore -

 

Dr. Robert Morris - Poet and Founder of the Order of Easter Star

 

Aleksander Pushkin - Russian Poet

 

Sir Walter Scott - Scottish author

 

William Shakespeare - English playwright & poet

 

Johathan Swift - Irish-born English satirist, author Gulliver's Travels

 

Leo Tolstoi - 1828-1910, Russian author and philosopher

 

Voltaire - 1694-1778, French author and philosopher

 

Lewis Wallace - American general, diplomat & author Ben Hur

 

H.G. Wells - 1866-1946, English author, Time Machine

 
 Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde - 1854-1900, Irish poet, playwright & writer  

 Business Leaders

 Lloyd Balfour - Jewelry        

Lawrence Bell - Bell Aircraft Corporation

 

Walter P. Chrysler - Automotive                             

 

Andre Citroen - French Engineer and motor car manufacturer

 

William H. Dow - Dow Chemical Company

 

Edwin L. Drake - American Pioneer of the Oil Industry           

 

Bob Evans - Bob Evans' Restraunts

 

Eberhard Faber - Head of Eberhard Fabor Pencil Co             

 

Henry Ford - Automotive

 

King C. Gillette - Gillette Razor Company                          

 

Samel Gompers - English-born American labor leader

 

Charles C. Hilton - Hotelier                                                   

 

Frank Hoover - Hoover Vacuum

 

Ephraim Kirby - Kirby Vacuum                                         

 

Sebastian S. Kresge -

 

John L. Lewis -                                                                 

 

Sir Thomas Lipton - Lipton Tea Company

 

Ben Marcus -                                              

 

Louis B. Mayer - 1885-1957, Russian-born, motion-picture producer

 

Fredrick Maytag - Maytag                                                

 

Jacob Morton -

 

Abraham Nieman                                                             

 

 Ransom E. Olds - Automobile

 

Frank Phillips                                                                   

 

Harland Sanders

 

David Sarnoff                                                                  

 

John W. Teets - Chairman and President of Dial Corp

 

James C. Penny - Retailer                                                

 

Dave Thomas - Wendy's Restaurant

Jack Warner                                                           

Darryl F. Zanuck - Co-founder of 20th Century Productions

 

War Heroes

 Henry Harley ('Hap') Arnold - 1886-1950, American Air-force officer  

Omar Nelson Bradley - 1893-1981, American military leader

James Harold ('Jimmy') Doolittle - 1896-1993, American Army office & Aviator

Douglas MacArthur - 1880-1964, American general

George C. Marshall - 1880-1959, American soldier, diplomat & statesman (Nobel 1953)

 

Audie Murphy - 1924-1971, Most decorated American Soldier of WWII and actor

Oliver Hazard Perry - 1785-1819, American Naval officer

 

John Joseph ('Black Jack') Pershing - 1860-1948, American Army officer

Edward Vernon ('Eddie') Richenbacker - 1890-1973, American Aviator

 

Charles Summerall

 
Alfred vonTirpitz - 1849-1930, German Navel officer responsible for submarine warfare  

Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright - 1883-1953, American general

 

 Religious Leaders

 James Anderson                                                                      

Frances Bellamy

Rev. William Booth                                               

Geoffray Fisher - Archbishop of Canterbury, 1945-1961

Father Francisco Calvo - Catholic Priest stated Freemasonry in Costa Rica, 1865

J.T. Desaguliers                                                      

Rev. Jesse Jackson

Joseph Fort Newton                                               

G. Bromley Oxnam

Norman Vincent Peale

                                                                           Education Leaders

 Robert E.B. Baylor - 1793-1873, Founder of Baylor University

Ezra Cornell - 1807-1874                                               

Samuel Kirkland -

Roscoe Pound                                                                

 Cecil Rhodes

Leland Stanford                                                               

John Warren

Booker T. Washington

 Health Care

 Jean Henri Dunant - 1828-1910, Swiss philanthropist & Founder of the Red Cross  

Sir Alexander Fleming - 1881-1955, British Inventor of Penicillin, Nobel 1945

 

Sir Frederick Hopkins - 1861-1947, English biochemist, Nobel 1929

 

Edward Jenner - 1749-1823, English Inventor of the Vaccination

 

Dr. Chrales King

 

Dr. Charles Mayo - 1865-1939, Founder of the Mayo Clinic

 

Dr. William Mayo - 1861-1939, Founder of the Mayo Clinic

Karl A. Menninger - Psychiatrist for treating mental illness

 

Franz Anton Mesmer - Practiced Mesmerism, which led to Hypnotism

 

Dr. Andrew Still - 1828-1917, American pioneer osteopath

 

 Political Figures

 Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill - 1874-1965, English Prime Minister

DeWitt Clinton - 1769-1828, American politician

Bob Dole -

Barry Goldwater - 1909

Hubert Humphrey - 1911-1978

Gilbert Lafayette -

Robert R. Livingston

 

James A. Rhodes

Trent Lott -

Sam Nunn -

Strom Thurmond

Joseph Warren -

 Harry S. Truman President & Grand Master

 George Washington 1732 - 1799

James Monroe 1758 - 1831

Andrew Jackson 1767 - 1845

James K. Poke 1795 - 1849

 James Buchanan 1791 - 1868

Andrew Johnson 1808 - 1875

James A. Garfield  1831 - 1881
William McKinley 1843 - 19011
Theodore Roosevelt 1858 - 1919
William H. Taft 1857 - 1930
Warren G. Harding 1865 - 1923
Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882 - 1945

 Lyndon B. Johnson 1908 - 1973

Gerald R. Ford 1913 - 2006

 

Artisans

 Frederic A. Bartholdi - Designed the Statue of Liberty                

Gutzon Borglum - Carved Mt. Rushmore

Lincoln Borglum - Carved Mt. Rushmore                                    

John Fitch -

James Hoban - Architect for the U.S. Capitol                              

William Schaw -

 International Patriots

Simon Bolivar - 1783-1830, Venezuelan soldier & South American liberator

Giuseppe Garibaldi - 1807-1882, Italian general & nationalist leader

 Benito Juarez - 1806-1872, Mexican statesman

Lajos Kossuth - 1802-1894, Hungarian revolutionary patriot & statesman

Marquis de Lafayette - 1757-1834, French military, politician & revolutionary leader

Giuseppe Mazzini - 1805-1872, Italian revolutionary patriot

Jose Rizal - 1861-1896, Philippine national leader

Supreme Court Justice

Henry Baldwin OliverEllsworth Samuel Nelson
Hugo L. Black Stephen J. Field Stanley F. Reed
John Blair Jr John M. Harlen Wiley B. Rutledge
Samuel Blatchford Robert H. Jackson Potter Stewart
Harold H. Burton Joseph E. Lamar Noah H. Swayne
James F. Byrnes John Marshall Thomas Todd
John Catton Thurgood Marshall Robert Trimble
Thomas C. Clark Stanley Mathews Frederick M. Vinson
John H. Clarke Sherman Minton Earl Warren
William Cushing William H. Moody Levi Woodbury
Willis Van Devanter William Paterson William B. Wood
William O Douglas Maholn Pitney  

 

 Inventors

 John Theophilus Desaguliers - Inventor of the Planetarium               

John Fitch - Inventor of the Steamboat

Richard J. Gatling - Inventor of the "Gattling Gun"                 

Joseph Igrace Guillotin - Inventor of the "Guillotine"

Richard M. Hoe - Inventor of the Rotary Press            

Simon Lake - Built first submarine successfully in open sea

Albert Abraham Michelson - measured speed of light, 1882      

Antoine Joseph Sax - Inventor of the Saxophone

 Founders

 Robert E.B. Baylor - Founder of Baylor University

Daniel Carter Beard - Founder of the Boy Scouts

Cornelius Hedges - "Father" of Yellowstone National Park

Melvin Jones - One of the founders of the Lions International

Frank S. Land - Founder of the Order of DeMolay

Harry S. New - Postmaster General who established Airmail

Leland Stanford - Founder of Stanford Univ., placed the 'Gold Spike' for railroad

Norman Vincent Peale - Founder of the "Guidepost"

George Pullman - Founder of the first sleeping car on trains

George Schoonover - Founder of "The Builder"

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