26th Masonic District Representing Florida's Space Coast

FAMOUS MASONS

BUSINESS LEADERS Balfour, Lloyd - jewelry Bell, Lawrence - Bell Aircraft Corp. Chrysler, Walter P. - Chrysler Corporation Dow, William H. - Dow Chemical Co. Ford, Henry - Pioneer Automobile Manufacturer Gannett, Frank E. - Hobosco Lodge No. 716, Ithaca, NY - media empire Gillett, King C. - Gillett Razor Co. Hilton, Charles C. - Hilton Hotels Lipton, Sir Thomas - Lipton Tea Company Maytag, Fredrick - Maytag Olds, Ransom E. - American automobile pioneer Penny, James C. - J.C. Pennys Thomas, Dave - Wendys Restaurants - Sol. D. Bayless Lodge No 359, Ft. Wayne, IN Teets, John W. - Chairman and President of Dial Corporation Wanamaker, John - Philadelphia retailer ENTERTAINMENT Armstrong, Louis - jazz musician Arnold, Eddy - singer Autry, Gene - actor; Catoosa Lodge No. 185, Oklahoma Bassie, William "Count" - orchestra leader/composer Beethoven, Ludwig van - composer Berlin, Irving - composer/entertainer Blake, James Herbert "Eubie" - composer/pianist Blanc, Mel - comedian Borgnine, Ernest - actor Cain, Michael - actor Clark, Roy - country western star; Jenks Lodge No. 497, Oklahoma Cody, "Buffalo Bill" William F. - Indian fighter, Wild West Show - Platte Valley Lodge No. 32, North Platte, NE Cohan, George M. - Broadway star Cole, Nat 'King' - singer Costello, Lou - comedian Crosby, Norm - comedian deMille, Cecil B. Ellington, Duke - composer, arranger and stylist Fairbanks, Douglas - actor Fields, W.C. - actor Gable, Clark - actor Gibson, Hoot - cowboy actor; Truth Lodge No. 628, Los Angeles, CA Gilbert & Sullivan - composers Gilbert, Sir William S. - Was the librettis for "Pirates of Penzance" Godfrey, Arthur - actor Hardy, Oliver - actor Harvey, Paul - radio personality Hope, Bob - comedian Houdini, Harry - magician Ives, Burl - singer and actor Jolson, Al - St. Cecile Lodge No. 568, New York Keaton, Buster - actor Kern, Jerome David - American composer, "Show Boat" - Gramatan Lodge No. 927, Bronxville, NY Lincoln, Elmo - First actor to play Tarzan of the Apes (1918) Lloyd, Harold C. - actor Mayer, Louis B. - film producer who merged to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Miller, Glenn - musician Mix, Tom - U.S. Marshal turned western actor Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus - composer North, Jay ("Dennis the Menace") - Lake Butler Lodge No. 52 F.& A.M., Florida Richards, Michael - comedian (Kramer of "Seinfeld" fame) - Plural member: Riviera Lodge No. 780 & Culver City-Foshay No. 467 (CA) Ringling Brothers - all 7 brothers and their father Rogers, Roy - actor; Hollywood Lodge No. 255, California Rogers, Will - actor; Claremore Lodge No. 53, Oklahoma Sellers, Peter - actor Skelton, Red - comedian Sousa, John Philip - composer - Hiran Lodge No. 10, Washington, DC Switzer, Carl "Alfalfa" - of "Little Rascals" fame Thomas, Danny - actor Thomas, Lowell - radio announcer/newsman Tillis, Mel - musician Wallenda, Enrico - circus legend Warner, Jack - Warner Brothers fame Wayne, John - Academy Award winning actor; Marion McDaniel Lodge No. 56, Tucson, AZ Wyler, William - file director Zanuck, Darryl F. - Co-founder of 20th Century Productions Ziegfeld, Florenz - Ziegfeld's Follies INVENTORS/DESIGNERS/FOUNDERS Bartholdi, Frederic A. - designed the Statue of Liberty - Alsacre-Lorraine Lodge, France Baylor, Robert E. B. - founder Baylor University Beard, Daniel Carter - founder Boy Scouts Borglum, Gutzon & Lincoln - father and son who carved Mt. Rushmore Colt, Samuel - firearms inventor Dunant, Jean Henri - founder of the Red Cross Fitch, John - inventor of the steamboat Fleming, Sir Alexander - invented Penicillin Ford, Henry - founder Ford Motor Company - Palestine Lodge No. 357, Detroit, MI Gatling, Richard J. - built the "Gatling Gun" Gompers, Samuel - founder of the AFL - Dawson Lodge No. 16, Washington, DC Hedges, Cornelius - "Father" of Yellowstone National Park Hoban, James - architect for the U.S. Captial Hoe, Richard M. - invented the rotary press, revolutionizing newspaper printing Jenner, Edward - invented vaccination for Small Pox Jones, Melvin - One of the founders of the Lions International Lake, Simon - built first submarine successful in open sea. Lipton, Sir Thomas - Tea Mayo, Dr. William and Charles - founded the Mayo Clinic - Rochester Lodge No. 21, Rochester, MN Peale, Norman Vincent - founder of "Guidepost" Pike, Zebulon - Pike's Peak named after him Pullman, George - built first sleeping car on train. Sanders, Harland "Colonel" - founded Kentucky Fried Chicken Sarnoff, David - father of television Sax, Antoine Joseph - invented the saxophone Stanford, Leland - drove the gold spike linking the intercontinetal railroad and founded Stanford University Thomas, Dave - founder of Wendy's Restaurants Washington, Booker T - educator, inventor, author KINGS OF ENGLAND Edward VII Edward VIII George VI MILITARY Allen, Ethan - General, Revolutionary War; Windsor, Vermont Arnold, General Henry "Hap" - Commander of the Army Air Force - Union Lodge No. 7, Jnction City, MO John Barry - the Father of the American Navy - Old Lodge No. 2, Philadelphia Bonaparte, Napolean Bradley, Omar N. - General, U.S. Army Doolittle, General James - General, famous Air Force Pilot Farragut, David G. - Admiral in U.S. Civil War - Naval Lodge No. 87, Mare Island Garibaldi, Giuseppe - the "George Washington" of Italy - Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Palermo Herkimer, Nicholas - Brigadier General, American Revolution - St. Patricks Lodge No. 8, Johnstown, NY Jackson, Thomas Jonathan - "Stonewall" - General in Confederate Army Jones, John Paul - Founder and first admiral of the U.S. Navy - St. Bernard Lodge No. 122 (now St. Cuthbert No. 41) Kitchener Lord Horatio Herbert, PM - La Concordia Lodge, Cairo, UGLE Knox, Henry - first U.S. Secretary of War - St. Johns Regimental Lodge, Morristown, NJ MacArthur, General Douglas - Commander of Armed Forces in Philillines - Manila Lodge No. 1, Manila, Philippines McClellan, George B. - General, Union Army Murphy, Audie - most decorated American Soldier of WWII Perry, Matthew Calbraith - Commodore; responsible for opening relations with Japan; Holland Lodge No. 8, New York City Pershing, John Joseph "Blackjack" - General - Lincoln Lodge No. 19, Lincoln, NE Pickett, George E. - Maj. Gen. (CSA), led "Pickett's Charge" at Gettysburg - Blandford Lodge, Petersburg, VA Rickenbacker, Eddie - great American Air Force Ace Scott, Winfield - Dinwiddlie Lodge No. 23, Virginia Stark, John - Major General in U.S. Revolution War, "Green Mountain Boys" - Masters Lodge No. 2, Albany, NY Wainwright, Jonathan M. - American General of the Bataan Peninsula - Union Lodge No. 7, Junction City, KS Wayne, Anthony - "Mad Anthony" PIONEERS/EXPLORERS Aldrin, Edwin E. - Astronaut; second man on the moon Byrd, Admiral Richard E. - flew over North Pole - Federal Lodge No. 1, Washington, DC Carson, Christopher "Kit" - Frontiersman, scout and explorer; Montezuma Lodge No. 109, New Mexico. Casanova - Italian adventurer, writer and entertainer Clark, William - Explorer (Lewis & Clark) Cooper, Gordon - Astronaut Crockett, David - Frontiersman and Alamo fame Glenn, John H. - Astronaut, and U.S. Senator Grissom, Virgil "Gus" - Astronaut Irwin, Jim - Astronaut Lewis, Meriwether - Explorer (Lewis & Clark) Lindbergh, Charles - Aviator - Keystone Lodge No. 243, St. Louis, MO Peary, Robert E. - First man to reach the North Pole (1909) - Kane Lodge No. 451, NY Shirra, Wally - astronaut POLITICAL LEADERS Austin, Stephen F. - Father of Texas - Louisiana Lodge No. 109, St. Genevieve, MO Brant, Joseph - Chief of the Mohawks (1742-1807) Bryant, William Jennings - former Secretary of State - Temple Lodge No. 247, Miami, FL Clay, Henry - U.S. Senator - Grand Master in Kentucky Clinton, DeWitt - Governor of New York and instigator of the Erie Canal - Grand Master of New York Churchill, Winston S. - former Prime Minister, United Kingdom; Rosemary Lodge 2851 Dole, Bob - former U.S. Senator/Majority Leader, Kansas; Russell Lodge No. 177, Kansas Garibaldi, Giuseppe - Italian freedom fighter Goldwater, Barry - former U.S. Senator, Arizona Hoover, J. Edgar - Director of FBI Houston, Sam - 2nd & 4th President of the Republic of Texas - Holland Lodge No. 1, Houston, TX Humphrey, Hubert H. - former U.S. VP & Senator, Minnesota Kemp, Jack - former U.S. Senator/Secretary of HUD, New York; Fraternal Lodge No. 625 in Hamburg, NY La Guardia, Fiorella H. - La Guardia Airport, Mayor of New York 1930's & 40's - Garibaldi Lodge No. 542, New York City Nunn, Sam - former U.S. Senator Rayburn, Sam - Speaker of the House - Constantine Lodge No. 13, Bonham, TX Stevenson, Adlai E. Stevenson - U.S. Vice President - Metamora Lodge No. 82, Metamora, IL SPORTS Brundage, Avery - U.S. Olympics - North Shore Lodge No. 937, Chicago, IL Cobb, Ty - baseball Dempsey, Jack - boxing Hornsby, Rogers - baseball Hubbel, Carl - baseball; Meeker Lodge No. 479, Oklahoma Naismith, James - inventor of Basketball - Roswell Lee Lodge, Springfield, MA Palmer, Arnold - golf Rickey, Branch - baseball legend Robinson, Sugar Ray - boxing Starr, Bart - football, Green Bay Packers Webb, Matthew - first man to swim the English Channel (1875) Young, Cy - baseball WRITERS Burns, Robert - National Poet of Scotland; St. David's Lodge No. 174, Tarbolton, Scotland. Clemens, Samuel L. - Mark Twain - Polar Star Lodge No. 79, St. Louis, MO Collodi, Carlo - "Pinocchio" Doyle, Sir Author Conan - Sherlock Holmes - Phoenix Lodge 257, Southsea Hampshire, UK Gibbon, Edward - "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" Guest, Edgar A. - Poet; "The Lambskin Apron" - a 33 Degree Mason. Kipling, Rudyard - Hope and Perseverance Lodge No. 782. E.C., Lahore, India Pushkin, Alexander - Russian poet Scott, Sir Walter - Lodge Saint David, No. 36, Edinburough, Scotland Shakespeare, William Swift, Johathan - "Gulliver's Travels" - Goat-at-the-Foot-of-the-Haymarket No. 16, England Tolstoi, Leo - author Voltaire - French writer and philosopher - Lodge of the Nine Sisters, Paris, France Wallace, Lewis - "Ben Hur" Wilde, Oscar - Apollo University Lodge No. 357 U.S. PATRIOTS Bellamy, Rev. Francis - authored U.S. Pledge of Allegiance Bowie, James - Alamo Clark, George Rogers - frontiersman - Abraham Lodge No. 8, Louisville, KY Franklin, Benjamin - signer of the U.S. Constitution; St. John's Lodge of Philadelphia; Past Provincial Grand Master of Pennsylvania Hale, Nathan - "I regret that I have but one life to give to my country" - St. John's Lodge No. 1, Rhode Island Hancock, John - signer of the Declaration of Independance Henry, Patrick Key, Francis Scott - wrote the "Star Spangled Banner" (U.S. National Anthem) Lafayette, Marquis de - French supporter of Amerian Freedom McHenry, James - signer of the U.S. Constitution - Spiritual Lodge No. 23, Maryland Otis, James - "Taxation without Representation is Tyranny" Revere, Paul - "Midnight Ride" - St. Andrews Lodge & Grand Master of Massachusetts Travis, Colonel William B. - Alamo U.S. PRESIDENTS Buchanon, James - Lodge No. 43, Lancaster, PA Ford, Gerald R. - Malta Lodge No. 465, Grand Rapids, MI Garfield, James A. - Magnolia Lodge No. 20, Columbus, OH Harding, Warren G. - Marion Lodge No. 70, Marion, OH Jackson, Andrew - Harmony Lodge No. 1, Nashville, TN Jefferson, Thomas - Charlottesville Lodge No. 90, Charlottesville, VA Johnson, Andrew - Greenville Lodge No. 119, Greenville, TN Madison, James - Hiram Lodge, Westmoreland County, VA McKinley, William - Hiran Lodge No. 21, Winchester, NY Monroe, James - Williamsburg Lodge No. 6, Williamsburg, VA Polk, James K. - Lodge No. 31, Columbia, TN Roosevelt, Franklin D. - Holland Lodge No. 8, New York, NY Roosevelt, Theodore - Matinecock Lodge No. 806, Oyster Bay, NY Taft, William Howard - initiated Occasional Lodge, Cincinnati, OH; affiliated Kilwinning Lodge No. 356, Cincinnati, OH Truman, Harry S. - Belton Lodge No. 450, MO Washington, George - Fredericksburg Lodge, Fredericksburg, VA U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICES Baldwin, Henry Black, Hugo L. - Birmingham Temple Lodge No. 836, Birmingham, AL Blair, Jr., John Blatchford, Samuel Burton, Harold H. Byrnes, James F. Catton, John Clark, Thomas C. Clarke, John H. Cushing, William - St. Andrews Lodge, Boston Davis, David Devanter, Willis Van Douglas, William O. Ellsworth, Oliver - Chief Justice Field, Stephen J. Harlan, John M. Jackson, Robert H. Jay, John - Chief Justice (1789-1795) Lamar, Joseph E. Marshall, John - Chief Justice (1801-1835) - Grand Master of Virginia (1793 & 1794) Marshall, Thurgood Mathews, Stanley McLean, John Minton, Sherman Moody, William H. Nelson, Samuel Paterson, William Pitney, Mahlon Reed, Stanley F. Rutledge, John - Chief Justice Stewart, Potter Story, Joseph Swayne, Noah H. Taft, William H. - Chief Justice Todd, Thomas Trimble, Robert Van Devanter, Willis Vinson, Frederick M. Warren, Earl - Chief Justice Woodbury, Levi Woods, William B. [back]