Some Famous Masons in History

 

Benjamin Franklin 1 of 13 Masonic signers of Constitution of the U.S.
John Hancock 1of9 Masonic signers of Declaration of Independence
David G. Burnett 1st President of the Republic of Texas
Sam Houston 2nd&4th President of the Republic of Texas
Mirabeau B. Lamar 3rd President of the Republic of Texas
Anson Jones 5th President of the Republic of Texas
Gene Autry Actor
Ernest Borgnine Actor
W.C. Fields Actor
Clark Gable Actor
Arthur Godfrey Actor
Will Rogers Actor
Peter Sellers Actor
John Wayne Actor
Oliver Hardy Actor - Comedian
James Bowie Alamo
Colonel William B. Travis Alamo
Ransom E. Olds American automobile pioneer
Sugar Ray Robinson American Boxer
Roy Rogers American cowboy and screen star
David Crockett American Frontiersman and Alamo fame
Charles C. Hilton American Hotelier
Andrew T. Still American Physician who devised treatment of Osteopathy
Edwin L Drake American Pioneer of the Oil industry
Rogers Hornsby An original member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
Geoffrey Fisher Archbishop of Canterbury 1945 - 1961
James Hoban Architect for the U.S. Captial
Edwin E. Aldrin Astronaut
Virgil Grissom Astronaut
Elliot Richardson Attroney General
Walter P. Chrysler Automotive fame
Charles Lindbergh Aviator
Earle Bryan Combs Baseball Hall of Fame
Ty Cobb Baseball Player
Dr. William and Charles Mayo Began Mayo Clinic
Lawrence Bell Bell Aircraft Corp.
Winston Churchill British Leader
George M. Cohan Broadway star
Lowell Thomas Brought Lawrence of Arabia to public notice
George Pullman Built first sleeping car on train.
Simon Lake Built first submarine successfull in open sea.
Richard J. Gatling Built the 'Gatling Gun'
Father Francisco Calvo Catholic Priest who started Freemasonry in Costa Rica 1865
John W. Teets Chairman and Presiden of Dial Corporation
John Marshall Chief Justice U.S. Supreme Court 18 1 -1835
Joseph Brant Chief of the Mohawks 1742 - 18 7
Joseph Fort Newton Christian Minister
Jacques Etienne Montgolfier Co developer of the first practical hot air balloon
Robert Livingston Co-Negotiator for purchase of Louisiana Territory
Darryl F. Zanuck Cofounder of 2 th Century Productions in 1933
Charles F. Papst Coined the term 'Athletes Foot'
Bob Hope Comedian
General Douglas MacArthur Commander of Armed Forces in Philillines
General Henry 'Hap' Arnold Commander of the Army Air Force
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer
Jean Sibelius Composer (Finland)
Duke Ellington Composer Arranger and Stylist
Roy Clark Country Western Star
Harold Lincoln Gray Creator of 'Little Orphan Annie'
Felix Salten Creator of Bambi
John Joseph Pershing Decorated American Soldier
Frederic A. Bartholdi Designed the Statue of Liberty
William Wyler Director of 'Ben Hur'
J. Edgar Hoover Director of FBI
James W. Marshall Discovered Gold at Sutter's Mill California 1848
William H. Dow Dow Chemical Co.
Leland Stanford Drove the gold spike linking the intercontinetal railroad
Booker T Washington Educator and author
W.E.B. BuBois Educator/scholar
Irving Berlin Entertainer
Harold C. Lloyd Entertainer
Red Skelton Entertainer
Charles 'Tom Thumb' Stratton Entertainer
William Clark Explorer
Meriwether Lewis Explorer
Al Jolson Fame as the first 'talking picture' the Jazz Singer
General James Doolittle Famous Air Force Pilot
Paul Revere Famous American
James Otis Famous for 'Taxations without Representation is Tyranny'
Gutzon & Lincoln Borglum Father and Son who carved Mt. Rushmore
David Sarnoff Father of T.V.
Stephen F. Austin Father of Texas
Cornelius Hedges Father' of Yellowstone National Park
Louis B. Mayer Film producer who merged to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Samuel Colt Firearms inventor
Elmo Lincoln First actor to play Tarzan of the Apes (1918)
John H. Glenn First American to orbit the earth in a space craft
Robert E. Peary First man to reach the North Pole (19 9)
Matthew Webb First man to swim the English Channel (1875)
Admiral Richard E. Byrd Flew over North Pole
Robert E. B. Baylor Founder Baylor University
Daniel Carter Beard Founder Boy Scouts
Norman Vincent Peale Founder of 'Guidepost'
George Schoonover Founder of 'The Builder'
Jean Henri Dunant Founder of the Red Cross
Dave Thomas Founder of Wendys Restaurant
Frank S. Land Founder Order of DeMolay
Andre Citroen French Engineer and motor car manufacturer
Christopher 'Kit' Carson Frontiersman scout and explorer
Alfred Von Tirpitz German Naval officer responsible for submarine warfare
King C. Gillett Gillett Razor Co.
Arnold Palmer Golf Pro
DeWitt Clinton Governor and founder of Public School System (NY)
Eddie Rickenbacker Great American Air Force Ace
Nat 'King' Cole Great ballad singer
Eberhard Faber Head of the famous Eberhard Fabor Pencil Company
Samual J. Ervin Jr Headed 'Watergate' committee
Florenz Ziegfeld His Ziegfeld's Follies began in 19 7
Buffalo Bill' William Cody Indian fighter Wild West Show
Josiah Henson Inspired the novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'
Sir Alexander Fleming Invented Penicillin
Richard M. Hoe Invented the rotory press revolutinizing newspaper printing
Antoine Joseph Sax Invented the Saxophone (1846)
Edward Jenner Inventor - Vaccination
James Naismith Inventor of Basketball
Joseph Ignace Guillotin Inventor of the 'Guillotin'
John Theophilus Desaguliers Inventor of the planetarium
John Fitch Inventor of the Steamboat
Louis Armstrong Jazz Musician
Lloyd Balfour Jewelry
Jr. Blair John Supreme Court Justice
Paul Whiteman King of Jazz'
John Philip Sousa Led the U.S. Marine Band from 188 -1892
Simon Bolivar Liberator' of South America
Jose San Martin Liberator' of South America
Harry Houdini Magician
Samuel L. Clemens Mark Twain - writer
Fredrick Maytag Maytag
Omar N. Bradley Military leader
   
Audie Murphy Most decorated American Soldier of WWII.
John Paul Jones Naval Commander
Melvin Jones One of the founders of the Lions International
William 'Count' Bassie Orchestra leader/composer
Patrick Henry Patriot
Henry Ford Pioneer Automobile Manufacturer
Harry S. New Postmaster General who established Airmail
Franz Anton Mesmer practiced Mesmerism which led to Hypnotism
Sir John J.C. Abbott Prime Minister of Canada 1891-92
Benito Juarez President of Mexico
James Buchanan President of the U.S.
Gerald R. Ford President of the U.S.
James A. Garfield President of the U.S.
Warren G. Harding President of the U.S.
Andrew Jackson President of the U.S.
Andrew Johnson President of the U.S.
William McKinley President of the U.S.
James Monroe President of the U.S.
James Knox Polk President of the U.S.
Franklin D. Roosevelt President of the U.S.
Theodore Roosevelt President of the U.S.
William Howard Taft President of the U.S.
Harry S. Truman President of the U.S.
George Washington President of US 1st
Governor George C. Wallace Presidential Candidate who was nearly assasinated
Sir John A. MacDonald Prime Minister of Canada 1867-73 & 1878-91
Sir Mackenzie Bowell Prime Minister of Canada 1894-96
Sir Robert L. Borden Prime Minister of Canada 1911-192
Viscount R.B. Bennett Prime Minister of Canada 193 -35
John G. Diefenbaker Prime Minister of Canada 1957-63
Karl A. Menninger Psychiatrist famous for treating mental illness
Jack Kemp Quarterback Buffalo Bills Congressman
Leland Stanford Railroads & Stanford University
James C. Penny Retailer
Aleksander Pushkin Russian Poet
Douglas Fairbanks Silent film actor
Jack Dempsey Sports
Albert Abraham Michelson Successfully measured the speed of light in 1882
Marquis de Lafayette Supporter of Amerian Freedom
Henry Baldwin Supreme Court Justice
Hugo L. Black Supreme Court Justice
Samuel Blatchford Supreme Court Justice
Harold H. Burton Supreme Court Justice
James F. Byrnes Supreme Court Justice
John Catton Supreme Court Justice
Thomas C. Clark Supreme Court Justice
John H. Clarke Supreme Court Justice
William Cushing Supreme Court Justice
Willis Van Devanter Supreme Court Justice
William O. Douglas Supreme Court Justice
Oliver Ellsworth Supreme Court Justice
Stephen J. Field Supreme Court Justice
John M. Harlan Supreme Court Justice
Robert H. Jackson Supreme Court Justice
Joseph E. Lamar Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall Supreme Court Justice
Stanley Mathews Supreme Court Justice
Sherman Minton Supreme Court Justice
William H. Moody Supreme Court Justice
Samuel Nelson Supreme Court Justice
William Paterson Supreme Court Justice
Mahlon Pitney Supreme Court Justice
Stanley F. Reed Supreme Court Justice
Wiley B. Rutledge Supreme Court Justice
Potter Stewart Supreme Court Justice
Noah H. Swayne Supreme Court Justice
Thomas Todd Supreme Court Justice
Robert Trimble Supreme Court Justice
Frederick M. Vinson Supreme Court Justice
Earl Warren Supreme Court Justice
Levi Woodbury Supreme Court Justice
William B. Woods Supreme Court Justice
Robert Pershing Wadlow Tallest human on record being almost 9 feet tall
Sir Thomas Lipton Tea
Robert Burns The National Poet of Scotland
Tom Mix U.S. Marshal turned actor. Stared in over 4 western films
Joel R. Poinsett U.S. Minister to Mexico who developed the flower: Poinsettia
Sam Nunn U.S. Senator
Robert Dole US Senator
Jack Warner Warner Brothers Fame
Sir William S. Gilbert Was the librettis for 'Pirates of Penzance'
Rudyard Kipling Writer
Sir Walter Scott Writer
Edward Gibbon Writer - Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Italian Adventurer Casanova writer and entertainer
Carlo Collodi Writer of Pinocchio
Sir Author Conan Doyle Writer- Sherlock Holmes
Lewis Wallace Wrote 'Ben Hur'
Johathan Swift Wrote Gulliver's Travels
John Stafford Smith Wrote the music that became the US National Anthem.
Francis Scott Key Wrote U.S. National Anthem
George VI  
Grock Famous Swiss Clown
Ringling Brothers All 7 brothers and their father were Masons.
Voltaire

 

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