Famous Masons
 

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.  - Robert Burns, Poet Laureate of Freemasonry, Scotland
 

Presidents of the United States

George Washington
James Monroe
Andrew Jackson
James K. Polk
James Buchanan
Andrew Johnson
James A. Garfield
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Warren G. Harding
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Lyndon B. Johnson (received first degree only)
Gerald R. Ford

In addition to the 14 Presidents listed above
8 Vice Presidents and 42 Justices of the Supreme Court have been Masons

Signers of the Articles of Association

Edward Biddle
Richard Caswell
John Dickinson
Joseph Hewes
William Hooper
Charles Humphreya
Robert Treat Paine
Peyton Randolf
John Sullivan
George Washington

Signers of the Declaration of Independence

William Ellery
Benjamin Franklin
John Hancock
Joseph Hewes
William Hooper
Robert Treat Paine
Richard Stockton
George Walton
William Whipple

Signers of the Constitution of the United States

Bunning Bedford, Jr.
John Blair
David Brearley
Jacob Broom
Daniel Carroll
Jonathan Dayton
John Dickerson
Benjamin Franklin
Nicholas Gilman
Rufus King
James McHenry
William Paterson
George Washington

Signers of the Articles of Confederation

Thomas Adams
Daniel Carroll
John Dickinson
William Ellery
John Hancock
Cornelius Harnett
Henry Laurens (South Carolina)
Daniel Roberdeau
Jonathan Baynard Smith

Thirty-three Masons served as General Officers of the Continental Army
Eight Masons served as Aides and military Secretaries to George Washington.

Actors

Edwin Booth
Eddie Cantor
David Garick
Arthur Godfrey
Al Jolson
Harry Lauder
Michael (Cramer) Richards
Red Skelton

Authors

James Boswell
Robert Burns
A. Conan Doyle
Edward Gibbons
Goethe
Edgar A. Guest
Will Rogers
Alexander Pope
Lowell Thomas
Mark Twain
Voltaire
Sir Walter Scott

Auto Industry

Walter P. Chrysler
Henry Ford
William S. Knudson
Charles W. Nash
Ranson E. Olds
Harry C. Stutz
Charles E. Wilson

Astronauts

Edwin "Buzz" Aldren
Gordon Cooper
John Glen
Virgil Grissom
Wally Schirra

Aviators

Claire L. Chennault
James H. Doolittle
Charles A. Lindbergh
Eddie Rickenbacker

Business

John Jacob Astor
Albert Blatz
King C. Gillette
Henry Crown
Frank G. Gruen
Frederick L Maytag
James Cash Penny
George Pullman
Col. Harland Sanders
David Sarnoff
W. Clement Stone
Dave Thomas (Wendy’s)
John Wannamaker

Circus Performers

Clyde Beatty (Ringling Brothers)
Emmett Kelly
Karl Wallenda

Clergymen

Hosea Ballou
Preston Bradley
Joseph Fort Newton
Dr Norman Vincent Peal
Daniel Poling
Forrest Haggard

Entertainers

Roy Acuff
Eddie Arnold
Roy Clark
Norm Crosby
Burl Ives
"Grandpa" Jones
Will Rogers
Danny Thomas
Mel Tillis

Explorers

Ronald Amundsen
Bernt Amundsen
Richard R. Byrd
Lewis and Clark
Donald B. Macmillan
Robert E. Peary
Labor Leaders
Samuel Gompers
John L. Lewis

Music Composers

Johann S. Bach
Irving Berlin
Ludwig Van Beetoven
George M. Cohan
Gilbert and Sullivan
Haydn
Franz Liszt
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Sigmund Romberg
Jean Sibelius
John P Sousa
Richard Wagner

Magicians

Harry Blackstone
Alexander Hermann
Harry Houdini
Harry Keller
Howard Thurston

Military

Omar Bradley
General Cornwallis
Henry Dearborn
George Rogers Clark
Duke of Wellington
David C. Farragut
John Paul Jones
Garibaldi
Douglas MacArthur
Audie Murphy
John Pershing
Jonathan Wainwright
George Washington

Movie Producers

Cecil B. DeMille
David W. Griffith
Louis B. Mayer
Florenz Siegfeld
Jack B. Warner
Adolf Zukor

Movie Stars

Gene Autry
George Bancroft
Wallace Beery
Ernest Borgnine
George Brent
Eddie Cantor
Charles Coburn
Clark Gable
Oliver Hardy
Tom Mix
Roy Rogers
John Wayne
Jonathan Winters

Physicians

Josiah Bartlett
Alexander Fleming
Edward Jenner
Charles W. Mayo
William J. Mayo
Karl Menniger
Joseph Warren


Source: The Masonic Service Association, 8120, Fenton Street, Silver Spring, Md.

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