~ 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.