"SOME
FAMOUS MASONS"
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Sir John J.C. Abbott - Canadian prime
minister 1891 - 92
Roy Acuff - country
singer
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin -
astronaut
Louis Armstrong - jazz
musician
Eddy Arnold - actor
Gen. Henry "Hap" Arnold - commander of
the army air force
Stephen F. Austin - father of
Texas
Gene Autry - actor
Johann Sebastian Bach -
composer
Henry Baldwin - Supreme Court
justice
Lloyd Balfour -
jeweler
Frederic A. Bartholdi - designed the
Statue of Liberty
William "Count" Basie - orchestra
leader/composer
Robert Baylor - founded Baylor
University
Daniel Carter Beard - founded Boy
Scouts
Wallace Beery -
actor
Ludwig Van Beethoven -
composer
Lawrence Bell - founded Bell Aircraft
Co.
Irving Berlin -
composer
Hugo Black - Supreme Court
justice
John Blair, Jr. - Supreme Court
justice
Samuel Blatchford - Supreme Court
justice
Simon Bolivar - liberated South
America
James Bonham - fought and died at the
Alamo
Sir Robert L. Borden - Canadian prime
minister 1911 - 20
Gutzon and Lincoln Borglum - father and
son who carved Mt. Rushmore
Ernest Borgnine -
actor
James Bowie - fought and died at the
Alamo
Gen. Omar Bradley - military leader
Joseph Brant - chief of the Mohawks 1742
- 1807
William Jennings Bryan - famous lawyer
and politician
James Buchanan - U. S.
president
Luther Burbank - famed
horticulturist
David G. Burnett - 1st president of the
Republic of Texas
Robert Burns - national poet of
Scotland
Aaron Burr - Revolutionary War
leader
Harold H. Burton - Supreme Court
justice
Adm. Richard E. Byrd - 1st human to fly
over the North Pole
James F. Byrnes - Supreme Court
justice
Father Francisco Calvo - founded
Freemasonry in Costa Rica in 1865
Eddie Cantor -
entertainer
Christopher "Kit" Carson - frontiersman,
scout and explorer
John Catton - Supreme Court
justice
Walter P. Chrysler - founded Chrysler
Motor Co.
Winston Churchill - British leader of
World War II
Andre Citroen - founder of Citroen Motors
Co.
Roy Clark - country western
singer
Thomas C. Clark - Supreme Court justice
William Clark - American
explorer
John H. Clarke - Supreme Court
justice
Samuel Clemens - writer known as Mark
Twain
DeWitt Clinton - governor of NY and
founder of public school system
Ty Cobb - baseball
player
William "Buffalo Bill" Cody - Wild West
entertainer
George M. Cohan -
entertainer
Nat "King" Cole -
entertainer
Carlo Collodi - writer of
"Pinocchio"
Samuel Colt - firearms inventer
Earle Bryan Combs - Baseball Hall of
Fame
James Cook - explorer and sea
captain
Davy Crockett - frontiersman and Alamo
defender
William Cushing - Supreme Court
justice
Cecil B. DeMille - film
producer
Jack Dempsey -
prizefighter
John Theophilus Desaguliers - inventor of
the planetarium
Willis Van Devanter - Supreme Court
justice
Almaron Dickenson - fought and died at
the Alamo
John Diefenbaker - Canadian prime
minister 1957 - 63
Robert Dole - U. S.
Senator
Jimmy Doolittle - famous air force
pilot
William O. Douglas - Supreme Court
justice
William H. Dow - founded Dow Chemical
Co.
Edwin L. Drake - oil industry
pioneer
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - author of
Sherlock Holmes
Jean Henri Dunant - founded the Red
Cross
Edward VII - king of
England
Edward VIII - king of England who
abdicated the throne within a year
Duke Ellington - composer, big band
leader
Oliver Ellsworth - Supreme Court
justice
Samuel J. Ervin, Jr. - headed Watergate
committee
Eberhard Faber - founded famous pencil
company
Douglas Fairbanks -
actor
Stephen J. Field - Supreme Court
justice
W. C. Fields -
entertainer
Geoffrey Fisher - Archbishop of
Canterbury 1945 - 61
John Fitch - invented the
steamboat
Sir Alexander Fleming - invented
penicillin
Gerald R. Ford - U.S.
president
Henry Ford - founded Ford Motor
Co.
Benjamin Franklin - signer of Declaration
of Independence
Clark Gable - actor
James A. Garfield - U.S.
president
Richard Gatling - invented the gatling
gun
George VI - king of England during World
War II
Edward Gibbon - author of "Decline and
Fall of the Roman Empire"
Sir William S. Gilbert - librettist of
Gilbert and Sullivan
King C. Gillette - founded Gillette Razor
Co.
John H. Glenn - astronaut and U.S.
senator
Arthur Godfrey -
entertainer
Barry Goldwater - U.S.
senator
Harold Lincloln Gray - "creator of Little
Orphan Annie"
D. W. Griffith - film
maker
Virgil "Gus" Grissom -
astronaut
John Hancock - signer of the Declaration
of Independence
George Fredrick Handel -
composer
Warren G. Harding - U.S.
president
Oliver Hardy -
comedian
John M. Harlan - Supreme Court
justice
Franz Joseph Haydn -
composer
Cornelius Hedges - founder of Yellowstone
National Park
Patrick Henry - American
patriot
Josiah Henson - inspire the novel "Uncle
Tom's Cabin"
Charles C. Hilton - founded Hilton
Hotels
James Hoban - architect for the U.S.
Capitol
Richard M. Hoe - inventor of the rotary
press
Edgar J. Hoover - director of the
FBI
Rogers Hornsby - member of the Baseball
Hall of Fame
Harry Houdini -
magician
Sam Houston - 2nd and 4th president of
the Republic of Texas
Hubert H. Humphrey - U.S.
Senator
Burl Ives - folk
singer/entertainer
Andrew Jackson - U.S.
president
Rev. Jesse Jackson -
activist/minister
Robert H. Jackson - Supreme Court
justice
Edward Jenner - inventor of the
"vaccination"
Andrew Johnson - U.S.
president
Jack Johnson - heavyweight
champ
Lyndon Johnson - U.S.
president
Al Jolson -
entertainer
Anson Jones - 5th president of the
Republic of Texas
John Paul Jones - naval
commander
Melvin Jones - co-founder of the Lions
International
Benito Juarez - Mexican
president
Jack Kemp - football
star/congressman
Francis Scott Key - author of U.S.
national anthem
Rudyard Kipling -
author
Rufus King - signer of the Declaration of
Independence
Simon Lake - built first successful open
sea submarine
Joseph E. Lamar - Supreme Court
justice
Mirabeau B. Lamar - 3rd president of the
Republic of Texas
Frank S. Land - founder of the Order of
DeMolay
Meriwether Lewis -
explorer
Elmo Lincoln - actor
Fiorello LaGuardia - mayor of New York
City
Charles A. Lindberg - aviator and first
solo transatlantic flight
Robert Livingston - co-negotiator for
purchase of Lousiana Territory
Harold C. Lloyd -
entertainer
Gen. Douglas MacArthur - WWII commander
of armed forces in Philippines
James W. Marshall - discovered gold at
Sutter's Mill in 1848
John Marshall - Chief Justice of Supreme
Court 1801 - 35
Thurgood Marshall -Supreme Court
justice
Stanley Mathews - Supreme Court
justice
Louis B. Mayer - film
producer
Drs. Charles and William Mayo - founded
Mayo clinic
Fredrick Maytag - founded appliance
company
George McGovern - U.S.
senator
William McKinley - U.S.
president
Andrew W. Mellon -
financier
Sherman Minton - Supreme Court
justice
Tom Mix - western
actor
James Monroe - U.S.
president
Jacques Montgolfier - co-developer of
first practical hot-air baloon
William H. Moody - Supreme Court
justice
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -
composer
Audie Murphy - most decorated American
soldier of WWII
James Naismith - invented game of
basketball
Samuel Nelson - Supreme Court
justice
Harry S. New - postmaster general who
founded airmail
Sir Isaac Newton -
scientist
Joseph Fort Newton - Christian
minister
Sam Nunn - U.S.
senator
Ransom E. Olds - founded Oldsmobile
autos
James Otis - famous for "Taxation without
representation is tyranny"
Arnold Palmer -
golfer
Charles F. Papst - coined the term
"athlete's foot"
William Paterson - Supreme Court
justice
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale - minister and
founder of "Guidepost"
Robert E. Peary - first human to reach
the North Pole
J.C. Penney - founded J.C. Penney's
stores
John Pershing - decorated American
soldier
Mahlon Pitney - Supreme Court
justice
Joel R. Poinsett - developed the
poinsettia plant
James Knox Polk - U.S.
president
George Pullman - developed first sleeping
car for trains
Alexander Pushkin - Russion
poet
Stanley Reed - Supreme Court
justice
Paul Revere - patriot who warned "The
British are coming"
Elliot Richardson - U.S. attorney
general
Eddie Rickenbacker - American flying
ace
The Ringling Brothers - founded the
famous circus
Sugar Ray Robinson - American
boxer
John A. Roebling - designer of Brooklyn
Bridge
Roy Rogers - cowboy and
entertainer
Will Rogers -
comedian
Franklin D. Roosevelt - U.S.
president
Theodore Roosevelt - U.S.
president
Wiley B. Rutledge - Supreme Court
justice
Felix Salten - creator of
"Bambi"
David Sarnoff - father of
Television
Antoine Joseph Sax - invented the
saxophone
Jerry "Tucker" Schatz - child
actor
Walter M. Schirra -
astronaut
George Schoonover - founded "The
Builder"
Winfield Scott - American general during
Mexican-American War
Jean Sibelius - Finnish
composer
Red Skelton -
comedian
John Stafford Smith - Wrote the music
that became the national anthem
Joseph Smith - founder of the
Mormons
John Philip Sousa - composer and head of
the Marine Band 1880 - 92
Leland Stanford - founder of Stanford
University / drove golden spike
Potter Stewart - Supreme Court justice
Dr. Andrew T. Still - developed treatment
for osteopathy
Charles Stratton - "Tom Thumb"
entertainer
Noah H. Swayne - Supreme Court
justice
William Howard Taft - U.S.
president
John W. Teets - chairman and president of
Dial soap company
Danny Thomas -
entertainer
Dave Thomas - founded "Wendy's" fast food
restaurant chain
Lowell Thomas - brought Lawrence of
Arabia to public notice
Strom Thurmond - U.S.
senator
Thomas Todd - Supreme Court
justice
Col. William B. Travis - defender of the
Alamo
Robert Trimble - Supreme Sourt
justice
Harry S. Truman - U.S.
president
Frederick M. Vinson - Supreme Court
justice
Voltaire - French writer and
philosopher
Lewis Wallace - author of Ben
Hur
Jack Warner - Hollywood film
producer
Earl Warren - Supreme Court
justice
Joseph Warren - signer of the Declaration
of Independence
Booker T. Washington - educator and
author
George Washington - 1st U.S.
president
Thomas J. Watson - founder of
IBM
John Wayne - actor
Matthew Webb - first human to swim the
English Channel
Paul Whiteman - big band
leader
Levi Woodbury - Supreme Court
justice
William B. Woods - Supreme Court
justice
William Wyler - Hollywood film
director
Darryl F. Zanuck - co-founder of 20th
Century Films
Florenz Ziegfeld - founded Ziegfeld's
Follies
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