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Masonic Factoid:

Of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, 17 are believed to have had Masonic affiliations:

Benjamin Franklin
Elbridge Gerry
John Hancock
William Hooper
Richard Stockton.
Matthew Thornton
George Walton
William Whipple
Roger Sherman
Josiah Bartlett
Philip Livingston
Joseph Hewes
Robert Treat Paine
John Penn
Lyman Hall
William Ellery
Thomas Nelson, Jr

 

Links to popular Masonry Sites

Fezzes, Sphinxes, & Secret Handshakes
(Washington Post article)

 



 

Presidential Masons

 

 

George Washington
1st President 1789-1797
Raised August 4, 1753
Fredericksburg Lodge

 

James Monroe
5th President 1817-1825
Raised November 9, 1775 Williamsburg Lodge

 

Andrew Jackson
7th President 1829-1837 Raised in Harmony Lodge Nashville, Tennessee

 

James Knox Polk
11th President  1845-1849
Raised September 4, 1820
Columbia Lodge No. 31 Columbia, Tennessee

 

James Buchanan
15th President 1857-1861 Raised January 24, 1817 Lodge No. 43
Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

 

Andrew Johnson
17th President  1865-1869
Raised May, 1851
Greeneville Lodge No. 119 Greeneville, Tennessee

 

James Abram Garfield
20th President  1881
Raised November 22, 1864
Columbus Lodge No. 30 Columbus, Ohio

 

William McKinley
25th President  1897-1901
Raised May 3, 1865
Hiram Lodge No. 21
Winchester, Virginia

 

Theodore Roosevelt
26th President  1901-1909
Raised April 24, 1901
Matinecock Lodge No. 806
Oyster Bay, New York

 

William Howard Taft
27th President  1909-1913
Raised February 18, 1909
Scottish Rite Cathedral
Cincinnati, Ohio

 

Warren Gamaliel Harding
29th President  1921-1923 Raised August 27, 1920
Marion Lodge No. 70
Marion, Ohio.

 

Franklin Delano Roosevelt
32nd President  1933-1945 Raised November 28, 1911
Holland Lodge No. 8
New York, New York

 

Harry S. Truman
33rd President  1945-1951
Raised March 18, 1909
Belton Lodge No. 450
Belton, Missouri

 

Gerald R. Ford, Jr.
38th President  1974-1977
Raised May 18, 1951
Columbia Lodge No. Washington, D.C.

 

Lyndon Baines Johnson
36th President  1963-1969
Entered Apprentice degree Johnson City Lodge No. 561, Johnson City, Texas
October 30, 1937. Did not advance.