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Over the course of centuries and across several continents, many famous leaders (civil, judicial and miltary), sports figures, writers, entertainers, pioneers and astronauts have all been members of our fraternity and carry the title of Brother.

AMERICAN PRESIDENTS
 

James Buchanan
Gerald R. Ford
James A. Garfield
Warren G. Harding
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Johnson
William McKinley
James Monroe
James K. Polk
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
William H. Taft
Harry S. Truman
George Washington

U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICES
 

Hugo L. Black
John Blair, Jr.
Samuel Blatchford
Henry Baldwin
Harold H. Burton
James F. Byrnes
John Catton
Thomas C. Clark
John H. Clarke
William Cushing
Willis vanDevanter
William O. Douglas
Oliver Ellsworth
Stephen J. Field
John M. Harlan
Robert H. Jackson
Joseph E. Lamar
John Marshall (Chief Justice 1801 - 1835)
Thurgood Marshall
Stanley Mathews
Sherman Minton
William H. Moody
Samuel Nelson
William Paterson
Mahlon Pitney
Stanley F. Reed
Wiley B. Rutledge
Potter Stewart
Noah H. Swayne
Thomas Todd
Robert Trimble
Frederick M. Vinson
Earl Warren
Levi Woodbury
William B. Woods

MILITARY
 
General Henry "Hap" Arnold Commander of the Army Air Force
General Omar N. Bradley WWII military leader
Admiral Richard E. Byrd Flew over the North Pole
General James Doolittle Famous Air Force pilot
Admiral John Paul Jones First Admiral of the U.S. Navy
Marquis de Lafayette French supporter of American freedom
Charles Lindbergh Aviator
General Douglas MacArthur Commander of armed forces in the Philippines
General George Marshall General of the Armies
General George B. McClellan General Army of the Potomac, Presidential candidate against Abraham Lincoln, Twice Governor of New Jersey
General Richard Montgomery 1st General Officer of the Continental Army
Audie Murphy Most decorated soldier of WWII
Admiral Robert E. Perry First man to reach the North Pole (1909)
General John J. Pershing Decorated American General
Eddie Rickenbacker Great American Air Force ace of WWI
Admiral Alfred Von Tirpitz German Navy officer responsible for submarine warfare

SPORTS
 
Ty Cobb An original member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
Earl B. Combs Baseball Hall of Fame
Jack Dempsey Heavyweight boxing champion
Rogers Hornsby Baseball Hall of Fame
James Naismith Inventor of basketball
Arnold Palmer Golf pro

ACTORS and WRITERS
 

Gene Autry

Actor
Ernest Borgnine Actor
Robert Burns The National Poet of Scotland
Casanova Italian adventurer, writer and entertainer
George M. Cohen Broadway music writer
Carlo Collodi Author of "Pinocchio"
Sir Conan Doyle Author of "Sherlock Holmes"
Douglas Fairbanks Actor
W.C. Fields Actor and comedian
Clark Gable Actor
Edward Gibbon Arthor of "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"
Arthur Godfrey Radio personality
Harold L. Gray Creator of "Little Orphan Annie"
Oliver Hardy Actor and comedian
Bob Hope Comedian
Al Jolson Actor
Rudyard Kipling Author
Elmo Lincoln 1st actor to play "Tarzan"
Tom Mix U.S. Marshall turned actor
Aleksander Pushkin Russian poet
Roy Rogers Actor
Will Rogers Actor, comedian and writer
Sir Walter Scott Writer
Peter Sellers Actor
William Shakespeare Writer
Red Skeleton Actor and comedian
Jonathan Swift Author of "Gulliver's Travels"
Voltaire French writer and philosopher
Lewis Wallace Author of "Ben Hur"
John Wayne Actor
William Wyler Director of "Ben Hur"

MUSICIANS and ENTERTAINERS
 
"Count" William Bassie Orchestra leader and composer
Irving Berlin Song writer
Roy Clark Country/western star
"Little" Jimmy Dickens Grand Ole' Opry star
Duke Ellington Orchestra leader and composer
Harry Houdini Magician
Francis Scott Key Composer of the words for the U.S. National Anthem
Harold C. Lloyd Entertainer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer
Ringling Brothers All 7 brothers and their father were Masons
Antione J. Sax   Inventor of the Saxophone
Jean Sibelius Finnish composer
John Stafford Smith Composer of the music for the U.S. National Anthem
John Philip Sousa Orchestra leader and composer
Charles Stratton Entertainer known as "Tom Thumb"
Mel Tillis Country singer
Paul Whiteman The "King of Jazz"

GOVERNMENT LEADERS
 
Sir John J.C. Abbott Prime Minister of Canada 1891-92
Viscount R.B. Bennett Prime Minister of Canada 1930-35
Sir Robert L. Borden Prime Minister of Canada 1911-20
Sir Mackenzie Bowell Prime Minister of Canada 1894-96
Winston Churchill Prime Minister of Great Britain
John G. Diefenbaker Prime Minister of Canada 1957-63
Edward VII King of England
Edward VIII King of England
Samuel J. Ervin, Jr. U.S. Senator
George VI King of England
Sir John A. MacDonald Prime Minister of Canada 1867-73 and 1878-91
Sam Nunn U.S. Senator
George C. Wallace Governor of Alabama

AMERICAN ASTRONAUTS
 
Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin
Neil Armstrong
John H. Glenn
Virgil "Gus" Grissom

EARLY AMERICAN PIONEERS
 
Stephen F. Austin The "Father of Texas"
James Bowie Fought and died at the Alamo
Joseph Brandt Chief of the Mohawks 1742 - 1807
David G. Burnett 1st President of the Republic of Texas
Christopher "Kitt" Carson Frontiersman, scout and explorer
William Clark Explorer
William "Buffalo Bill" Cody Indian fighter
Samuel Colt Firearms inventor
David "Davey" Crockett Frontiersman

Patrick Henry

Patriot

Sam Houston

2nd and 4th President of the Republic of Texas

Anson Jones

5th President of the Republic of Texas

Mirabeau B. Lamar

3rd President of the Republic of Texas

Meriwether Lewis

Explorer

Robert Livingston

Co-negotiator for the purchase of the Louisiana Territory

James W. Marshall

Discovered gold at Sutter's Mill, california

Paul Revere

Patriot

Colonel William B. Travis

Fought and died at the Alamo

SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE and THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
 

Declaration of Independence

Constitution

William Ellery Gunning Bedford, Jr.
Benjamin Franklin John Blair
John Hancock David Brearley
Joseph Hewes Jacob Broom
William Hooper Daniel Carroll
Robert T. Paine Jonathan Dayton
Richard Stockton John Dickinson
George Walton Benjamin Franklin
William Whipple Nicholas Gilman
  Rufus King
  James McHenry
  William Paterson
  George Washington

OTHER FAMOUS MASONS
 
Lloyd Balfour Founder of Balfour Jewelry
Frederic A. Barthodi Designed the Statue of Liberty
Robert E. B. Baylor Founder of Baylor University
Daniel C. Beard Founder of the Boy Scouts
Lawrence Bell Founder of Bell Aircraft Corporation
Gutzo & Lincoln Borglum Father and Son who carved Mount Rushmore
Walter P. Chrysler Founder of Chrysler Corporation
Andre Citroen Founder of the Citroen Automobile Company
John T. Desaguliers Inventor of the planetarium
William H. Dow Founder of Dow Chemical Corporation
Edwin L. Drake American pioneer of the oil industry
Jean Henri Dunant Founder of the Red Cross
Geoffrey Fisher Archbishop of Canterbury 1945-61
John Fitch Inventor of the steamboat
Sir Alexander Fleming Inventor of penicillin
Henry Ford Founder of Ford Motor Company
Richard J. Gatling Inventor of the "Gatling Gun"
King C. Gillette Founder of the Gillette Razor Company
Joseph I. Guillotin Inventor of the "Guillotin"
Cornelius Hedges "Father" of Yellowstone National Park
Josiah Henson Inspired the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Charles C. Hilton Founder of Hilton Hotels
James Hoban Architect of the U.S. Capital
Richard M. Hoe Inventor of the rotary press (newspapers)

Edgar J. Hoover

Director of the F.B.I.

Edward Jenner

Inventor of vaccinations

Melvin Jones

Co-founder of the Lions International

Simon Lake

Built the 1st submarine

Frank S. Land

Founder of the Order of DeMolay

Sir Thomas Lipton

Founder of the Lipton Tea Company

Louis B. Mayer

Film producer

Dr's. Charles & William Mayo

Founders of the Mayo Clinic

Frederick Maytag

Founder of the Maytag Corporation

Albert A. Michelson

1st person to successfully measure the speed of light

Jacques E. Montgolfier

Co-developer of the hot air ballon

Harry S. New

Postmaster General who established "Airmail"

Ransom E. Olds

Founder of the Oldsmobile Automobile Company

Norman Vincent Peale

Founder of "Guidepost"

James C. Penney

Founder of J.C. Penney

George Pullman

Inventor of the "Pullman" sleeping car

Felix Salten

Creator of "Bambi"

David Sarnoff

"Father" of television

Leland Stanford

Founder of Stanford University

John W. Teets

Chairman and President of Dial Corporation

Dave Thomas

Founder of Wendy's

Robert T. Wadlow

Tallest human on record, standing almost 9 feet tall

Jack Warner

Founder of Warner Brothers Corporation

Matthew Webb

1st person to swim the English Channel (1875)

Darryl F. Zanuck

Co-founder of 20th Century Productions

Florenz Ziegfeld

Founder of the "Ziegfeld Follies"

 

 

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