Famous Masons
U.S. Presidents
Buchanan, James – President of the US
Ford, Gerald R. – President of the US
Garfield, James A. – President of the US
Harding, Warren G. – President of the US
Jackson, Andrew – President of the US
Johnson, Andrew – President of the US
McKinley, William – President of the US
Monroe, James – President of the US
Polk, James Knox – President of the US
Roosevelt, Franklin D. – President of the US
Roosevelt, Theodore – President of the US
Taft, William Howard – President of the US
Truman, Harry S. – President of the US
Washington, George – 1st President of US
Supreme Court Justices
Black, Hugo L. – Supreme Court Justice
Blair, Jr., John – Supreme Court Justice
Blatchford, Samuel – Supreme Court Justice
Baldwin, Henry – Supreme Court Justice
Burton, Harold H. – Supreme Court Justice
Byrnes, James F. – Supreme Court Justice
Catton, John – Supreme Court Justice
Clark, Thomas C. – Supreme Court Justice
Clarke, John H. – Supreme Court Justice
Cushing, William – Supreme Court Justice
Devanter, Willis Van – Supreme Court Justice
Douglas, William O. – Supreme Court Justice
Ellsworth, Oliver – Supreme Court Justice
Field, Stephen J. – Supreme Court Justice
Harlan, John M. – Supreme Court Justice
Jackson, Robert H. – Supreme Court Justice
Lamar, Joseph E. – Supreme Court Justice
Marshall, John – Chief Justice US Supreme Court 1801 – 1835
Marshall, Thurgood – Supreme Court Justice
Mathews, Stanley – Supreme Court Justice
Minton, Sherman – Supreme Court Justice
Moody, William H. – Supreme Court Justice
Nelson, Samuel – Supreme Court Justice
Paterson, William – Supreme Court Justice
Pitney, Mahlon – Supreme Court Justice
Reed, Stanley F. – Supreme Court Justice
Rutledge, Wiley B. – Supreme Court Justice
Stewart, Potter – Supreme Court Justice
Swayne, Noah H. – Supreme Court Justice
Todd, Thomas – Supreme Court Justice
Trimble, Robert – Supreme Court Justice
Vinson, Frederick M. – Supreme Court Justice
Warren, Earl – Supreme Court Justice
Woodbury, Levi – Supreme Court Justice
Woods, William B. – Supreme Court Justice
Military
Arnold, General Henry “Hap” – Commander of the Army Air Force
Bradley, Omar N. – Military leader
Byrd, Admiral Richard E. – Flew expeditions to North Pole
Doolittle, General James – Famous Air Force Pilot
Hunley, Horace L. – Designed H. L. Hunley submarine
Jones, John Paul – First Admiral of the US Navy
Lafayette, Marquis de – Supporter of American Freedom
Lindbergh, Charles – Aviator
MacArthur, General Douglas – Commander of Armed Forces in Philippines
Marshall, George – General of the Armies
McClellan, General George B. – Army of the Potomac, Presidential candidate against Abe Lincoln, faced General Robert E. Lee at the battle of Antietam, and twice Governor of New Jersey.
Montgomery, Major General Richard – First General Officer of the Continental Army killed in the Battle for Quebec on Dec 31, 1775.
Murphy, Audie – Most decorated soldier of WWII, also starred in many movies after the war.
Peary, Robert E. – First man to reach the North Pole (1909)
Pershing, John Joseph – Decorated American Soldier
Rickenbacker, Eddie – Great American Air Force Ace
Tirpitz, Alfred Von – German Naval officer responsible for submarine warfare
Sports
Cobb, Ty – An original member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
Combs, Earle Bryan – A member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
Dempsey, Jack – 20th century boxing champion
Hornsby, Rogers – A member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
Naismith, James – Inventor of Basketball
Palmer, Arnold – Golf Pro
ActorsWriters
Autry, Gene – Actor
Borgnine, Ernest – Actor
Burns, Robert – The National Poet of Scotland
Casanova – Italian adventurer, writer and entertainer
Clemens, Samuel L. (Mark Twain) – writer
Cohan, George M. – Broadway star
Collodi, Carlo – Writer of Pinocchio
Doyle, Sir Author Conan – Writer of Sherlock Holmes
Fairbanks, Douglas – Actor
Fields, W.C. – Actor
Gable, Clark – Actor
Gibbon, Edward – Writer – Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Godfrey, Arthur – Actor
Gray, Harold Lincoln – Creator of “Little Orphan Annie”
Hardy, Oliver – Actor/Comedian
Kipling, Rudyard – Writer
Lincoln, Elmo – First actor to play Tarzan of the Apes (1918)
Mix, Tom – US Marshal turned actor, starred in over 400 western films
Pushkin, Aleksander – Russian Poet
Rogers, Roy – American cowboy and screen star
Rogers, Will – Actor
Scott, Sir Walter – Writer
Sellers, Peter – Actor
Shakespeare, William – Writer
Swift, Jonathan – Writer of Gulliver’s Travels
Voltaire – French writer and philosopher
Wallace, Lewis – Writer of Ben Hur
Wayne, John – Actor
MusiciansEntertainers
Bassie, William “Count” – Orchestra leader/composer
Berlin, Irving – Songwriter
Clark, Roy – Country Western Star
Dickens, Little Jimmy – Grand Ole Opry Star
Ellington, Duke – Composer, Arranger, and Stylist
Jolson, Al – Singer and comedian, starred in the first ‘talking picture’, The Jazz Singer
Key, Francis Scott – Wrote US National Anthem
Lloyd, Harold C. – Entertainer
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus – Composer
Sax, Antoine Joseph – Invented the Saxophone (1846)
Sibelius, Jean – Composer
Skelton, Red – Entertainer
Smith, John Stafford – Wrote the music that became the US National Anthem.
Sousa, John Philip – Composer, also led the US Marine Band from 1880 – 1892
Stratton, Charles “Tom Thumb” – Entertainer
Tillis, Mel – Country Singer
Whiteman, Paul – “King of Jazz”
Government Leaders
Abbott, Sir John J.C. – Prime Minister of Canada 1891-92
Bennett, Viscount R.B. – Prime Minister of Canada 1930-35
Borden, Sir Robert L. – Prime Minister of Canada 1911-1920
Bowell, Sir Mackenzie – Prime Minister of Canada 1894-96
Churchill, Winston – British Leader
Diefenbaker, John G. – Prime Minister of Canada 1957-63
Edward VII – King of England
Edward VIII – King of England
George VI – King of England during W.W. II
MacDonald, Sir John A. – Prime Minister of Canada 1867-73 & 1878-91
Nunn, Sam – US Senator
Wallace, Governor George C. – Presidential Candidate who was nearly assassinated
Astronauts
Aldrin, Edwin E. “Buzz”– Astronaut
Armstrong, Neil – Astronaut
Glenn, John H. – First American to orbit the earth in a space craft
Grissom, Virgil – Astronaut
Early American Pioneers
Austin, Stephen F. – Father of Texas
Bowie, James – Fought at the Alamo
Brant, Joseph – Chief of the Mohawks 1742 – 1807
Burnett, David G. – 1st President of the Republic of Texas
Carson, Christopher “Kit” – Frontiersman, scout and explorer
Clark, William – Explorer
Cody, William “Buffalo Bill” – Cavalry scout and soldier, head of his world-famous Wild West Show
Colt, Samuel – Firearms inventor
Crockett, David – American Frontiersman, fought at the Alamo
Henry, Patrick – Patriot
Houston, Sam – 2nd & 4th President of the Republic of Texas
Jones, Anson – 5th President of the Republic of Texas
Lamar, Mirabeau B. – 3rd President of the Republic of Texas
Lewis, Meriwether – Explorer
Livingston, Robert – Co-Negotiator for purchase of Louisiana Territory
Revere, Paul – Famous American
Travis, Colonel William B. – Fought at the Alamo
Signers of the Declaration of Independence
Franklin, Benjamin – 1 of 13 Masonic signers of Constitution of the US
Hancock, John – 1 of 9 Masonic signers of Declaration of Independence
Other Famous Masons
Balfour, Lloyd – Jeweler, founder of L.G. Balfour Company
Bartholdi, Frederic A. – Designed the Statue of Liberty
Baylor, Robert E. B. – Founder of Baylor University
Beard, Daniel Carter – Founder of the Sons of Daniel Boone, later merged with Boy Scouts of America
Bell, Lawrence – Bell Aircraft Corp.
Borglum, Gutzon & Lincoln – Father and Son who carved Mt. Rushmore
DuBois, W.E.B. – Educator/scholar
Calvo, Father Francisco – Catholic Priest who started Freemasonry in Costa Rica 1865
Chrysler, Walter P. – Automotive fame
Citroen, Andre – French Engineer and motor car manufacturer
Desaguliers, John Theophilus – Inventor of the planetarium
Dow, William H. – Dow Chemical Co.
Drake, Edwin L – American Pioneer of the Oil industry
Dunant, Jean Henri – Founder of the Red Cross
Ervin Jr., Samuel J. – Headed “Watergate” committee
Faber, Eberhard – Head of the famous Eberhard Faber Pencil Company
Fisher, Geoffrey – Archbishop of Canterbury 1945 – 1961
Fitch, John – Inventor of the Steamboat
Fleming, Sir Alexander – Invented Penicillin
Ford, Henry – Pioneer Automobile Manufacturer
Gatling, Richard J. – Built the “Gatling Gun”
Gilbert, Sir William S. – Librettist of “Pirates of Penzance” and other operettas
Gillette, King C. – Founder of Gillette Razor Co.
“Grock” – Swiss Circus Clown
Guillotin, Joseph Ignace – French physician, inspired the guillotine as a manner of painless execution
Hedges, Cornelius – “Father” of Yellowstone National Park
Henson, Josiah – Inspired the novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
Hilton, Charles C. – American Hotelier
Hoban, James – Architect for the US Capital
Hoe, Richard M. – Invented the rotary press, revolutionizing newspaper printing
Hoover, J. Edgar – Director of FBI
Houdini, Harry – Magician
Jenner, Edward – Inventor of vaccination
Jones, Melvin – One of the founders of the Lions International
Lake, Simon – Built first submarine successful in open sea.
Land, Frank S. – Founder Order of DeMolay
Lipton, Sir Thomas – Tea
Marshall, James W. – Discovered Gold at Sutter’s Mill California 1848
Mayer, Louis B. – Film producer who merged to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Mayo, Drs. William and Charles – Began Mayo Clinic
Maytag, Fredrick – Founder of the Maytag Company
Menninger, Karl A. – Psychiatrist famous for treating mental illness
Michelson, Albert Abraham – Successfully measured the speed of light in 1882
Montgolfier, Jacques Etienne – Co-developer of the first practical hot-air balloon
New, Harry S. – Postmaster General who established Airmail
Newton, Joseph Fort – Christian Minister
Olds, Ransom E. – American automobile pioneer
Otis, James – Famous for “Taxation without Representation is Tyranny”
Papst, Charles F. – Coined the term “Athletes Foot”
Peale, Norman Vincent – Founder of “Guidepost”
Penney, James C. – Retailer
Poinsett, Joel R. – US Minister to Mexico who introduced the Poinsettia flower to the US
Pullman, George – Built first sleeping car on train.
Ringling Brothers – All 7 brothers and their father were Masons.
Salten, Felix – Creator of Bambi
Sarnoff, David – Father of T.V.
Schoonover, George – Founder of “The Builder”
Stanford, Leland – Drove the gold spike linking the intercontinental railroad, founder of Stanford University
Still, Andrew T. – American Physician who devised treatment of Osteopathy
Teets, John W. – Chairman and President of Dial Corporation
Thomas, Dave – Founder of Wendy’s Restaurant
Thomas, Lowell – Brought Lawrence of Arabia to public notice
Wadlow, Robert Pershing – Tallest human on record, being almost 9 feet tall
Warner, Jack – Founder of Warner Brothers Studios
Webb, Matthew – First man to swim the English Channel (1875)
Wyler, William – Director of “Ben Hur”
Young, E. Orum – Attorney
Zanuck, Darryl F. – Co-founder of 20th Century Productions
Ziegfeld, Florenz – Producer of the Ziegfeld Follies 1907-1931
Louisiana Notable Masons
Allen, A. Leonard – US Congressman, Eastern Star Lodge #151, Winnfield
Allen, O.K. – Former Governor of Louisiana
Derbigny, Pierre A. C. B. – Fifth Governor of Louisiana
Dixon, John – Retired Supreme Court Justice of Louisiana, lives in Shreveport
Dixon, John – Grandfather of above, Major in Civil War from Winn Parish and served as Clerk of Court in Winn Parish, was on Police Jury later in Rapides Parish. Also was Justice of Peace later in DeSoto Parish.
Long, George Shannon “Shan” – Brother of Huey and Earl. Was a US Congressman from Louisiana, dentist, attorney, patent medicine inventor, and also served in the Oklahoma legislature. Was a member of Tulsa Lodge #425 and a 32nd degree.
McCain, J. Matt – Confederate hero and Winn Parish State Representative during Post Civil War. Cast the deciding, tie-breaking vote to end the corrupt Louisiana Lottery during Gov. Murphy Foster’s term, c. 1890s. McCain turned down huge bribes the night prior to the vote, believed to be around $100,000.00. He belonged to Montgomery Lodge.
Nungesser, Billy – Lt. Governor of Louisiana.
Passman, Otto – Lousiana Congressman who was a member of Collegetown Lodge, which is now Dee A. Strickland Lodge. Also Past Grand Master.
Rarick, John – Congressman from Baton Rouge-Feleciana Parish area.
Robinson, Johnny – LSU football great, all pro defensive back, college coach, now runs a boys’ home in Monroe.
Roemer, Buddy – Governor of Louisiana from Shreveport.
Sanders, J. Y. – Governor of Louisiana
Sanders, J. Y. Jr. – Louisiana Congressman
Waggoner, Joe D. – Louisiana Congressman
Walker, William – Lt. Col., 28th LA. Inf CSA, killed at Mansfield in 1864 – First WM of Eastern Star Lodge, Winnfield; also served as DDGM.
Wallace, George Moncure – Lead council for Gov. Huey P. Long, and Asst. Attorney General, he wrote much of the legislation which became Louisiana law. His name is on the cornerstone at the State Capitol in Baton Rouge.
Wallace, “Happy Jack” – Brother to above. Jack Wallace played major league ball for the Cubs, and was a minor league all-star team and manager. A member of Eastern Star Lodge.