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~ Famous Freemasons ~

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
List of Famous Freemasons: 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

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
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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
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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
  • Red Skelton
  • Michael Richards

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

Aviators

  • Claire L. Chennault
  • James H. Doolittle
  • Charles A. Lindbergh
  • Edie Rickenbacker

Business

  • John Jacob Astor
  • Albert Blatz
  • King C. Gillette
  • Henry Crown
  • Frank G. Gruen
  • Frederick L Maytag
  • James Cash Penny
  • Col. Harland Sanders
  • George Pullman
  • David Sarnoff
  • W. Clement Stone
  • John Wannamaker
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Circus Performers

  • Clyde Beatty (Ringling Brothers)
  • Emmett Kelly
  • Karl Wallenda

Clergymen

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

Music Composers

  • Johann C. Bach
  • Irving Berlin
  • George M. Cohan
  • Gilbert and Sullivan
  • Haydn
  • Franz Liszt
  • Mozart
  • Sigmund Romberg
  • Jean Sibelius
  • John P Sousa
  • Richard Wagner

Explorers

  • Ronald Amundsen
  • Bernt Amundsen
  • Richard R. Byrd
  • Lewis and Clark
  • Donald B. Macmillan
  • Robert E. Peary

Labor Leaders

  • Samuel Gompers
  • John L. Lewis

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
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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
  • Errnest 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
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Source: The Masonic Information Center, 8120, Fenton Street, Silver Spring, Md., a division of The Masonic Service Association.

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