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~ Albert Gallatin Mackey ~
- Albert Gallatin Mackey was a native of Charleston, South
Carolina, and a graduate of the Medical College there. He was a member
of St. Andrews Lodge No. 10 in that city, afterwards affiliating with
Solomon's Lodge No. 1. He served as Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge
of South Carolina from 1843 to 1866. He was active in York Rite and
Scottish Rite Masonry. He was past Grand Warden of the Grand
Encampment Knights Templar. He was crowned Sovereign Grand Inspector
General and for years was Secretary General of the Ancient and Accepted
Scottish Rite of the Southern Jurisdiction.
- Albert Gallatin Mackey's outstanding scholarship has had a
most profound effect upon Freemasonry. He is justly regarded as among
the great, if not the greatest of all, Masonic authorities. To his
research is due many of the more important developments of Masonic law,
jurisprudence, and symbolism. His work and services as a historian are
unsurpassed.
- The Albert Gallatin Mackey Medal is the highest honor
within the power of the Grand Master to confer upon an individual. It
is to be given only for distinguished service to country or Freemasonry,
without regard to state, nation or individual Grand Lodge to which the
recipient may belong.
- The face of the medal bears a likeness of the great South
Carolina Mason, Albert Gallatin Mackey; the obverse, the Seal of the Grand
Lodge.
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