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About Freemasonry

Freemasonry is the world's oldest and largest fraternal organization. It's members may be found in every free country in the world. There are over one million Freemasons in the United States alone.


A candidate for initation must be a man, free born, unmutilated, and of mature age. A belief in the existence of God as the Grand Architect of the Universe and in a resurrection to a future life.

Below is a list of famous Masons:
Aldrin, Edwin E. - Astronaut
Appleton, Sir Edward Victor - Nobel Prize Winner for physics in 1947
Armstrong, Neil - Astronaut
Austin, Stephen F. - Father of Texas
Berlin, Irving - Entertainer
Borglum, Gutzon & Lincoln - Father and Son who carved Mt. Rushmore
Borgnine, Ernest - Actor
Bradley, Gen. Omar N. - Military leader
Bruce, James - Discovered the source of the Blue Nile in Abyssinia 1770
Buchanan, James - President of the U.S.
Byrd, Admiral Richard E. - Flew over North Pole
Carson, Christopher "Kit" - Frontiersman, scout and explorer
Chrysler, Walter P. - Automotive fame
Churchill, Winston - British Leader
Clark, Roy - Country Western Star
Clark, William - Explorer
Clemens, Samuel L. - Mark Twain - writer
Cody, "Buffalo Bill" William - Indian fighter, Wild West Show
Colt, Samuel - Firearms inventor
Cooper, Leroy Gordon - Astronaut
Crockett, David - American Frontiersman of Alamo fame
De Mille, Cecil B - Film producer-director
Dempsey, Jack - Boxer
Desaguliers, John Theophilus - Inventor of the planetarium
Doyle, Sir Author Conan - Writer - Sherlock Holmes
Dunant, Jean Henri - Founder of the Red Cross
Faber, Eberhard - Head of the famous Eberhard Fabor Pencil Company
Fairbanks, Douglas - Silent film actor
Fields, W.C. - Actor
Fleming, Sir Alexander - Invented Penicillin
Ford, Gerald R. - President of the U.S.
Ford, Henry - Pioneer Automobile Manufacturer
Franklin, Benjamin - 1 of 13 Masonic signers of Constitution of the U.S.
Gable, Clark - Actor
Garfield, James A. - President of the U.S.
Gibbon, Edward - Author of "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"
Gillett, King C. - Gillett Razor Co.
Glenn, John H. - First American to orbit the earth in a space craft
Godfrey, Arthur - Actor
Gray, Harold Lincoln - Creator of "Little Orphan Annie"
Grissom, Virgil - Astronaut
Hancock, John - 1of 9 Masonic signers of Declaration of Independence
Harding, Warren G. - President of the U.S.
Hardy, Oliver - Actor - Comedian
Hilton, Charles C. - American Hotelier
Hoban, James - Architect for the U.S. Capital
Hoe, Richard M. - Invented the rotary press
Hope, Bob - Comedian
Houdini, Harry - Magician
Houston, Sam - 2nd & 4th President of the Republic of Texas
Irwin, James Benson - Astronaut
Jackson, Andrew - President of the U.S.
Jenner, Edward - Inventor - Vaccination
Johnson, Andrew - President of the U.S.
Jones, Melvin - One of the founders of the Lions International
Kane, Elisha Kent - Arctic explorer
Key, Francis Scott - Wrote U.S. National Anthem
King, Charles Glen - Isolated vitamin C
Kipling, Rudyard - Writer
Lake, Simon - Built first submarine successful in open sea.
Land, Frank S. - Founder Order of DeMolay
Lewis, Meriwether - Explorer
Lincoln, Elmo - First actor to play Tarzan of the Apes (1918)
Lindbergh, Charles - Aviator
Lipton, Sir Thomas - Founder Lipton Tea Company
Liszt, Franz von - Hungarian composer
Lloyd, Harold C. - Entertainer
MacArthur, General Douglas - Commander of Armed Forces in Philillines
Mayer, Louis B. - Film producer who merged to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Mayo, Dr. William and Charles - Founded the Mayo Clinic
Maytag, Fredrick - Maytag
McKinley, William - President of the U.S.
Michelson, Albert Abraham - Successfully measured the speed of light in 1882
Mix, Tom - U.S. Marshal turned actor. Stared in over 400 western films
Monroe, James - President of the U.S.
Montgolfier, Jacques Etienne - Co-developer of the first practical hot-air balloon
Morris, Dr. Robert - Poet and Founder of the Order of Eastern Star
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus - Composer
Naismith, James - Inventor of Basketball
New, Harry S. - Postmaster General who established Airmail
Newton, Joseph Fort - Christian Minister
O'Connell, Daniel - Irish patriot
Olds, Ransom E. - American automobile pioneer
Ostwald, Wilhelm - Nobel prize-winner in chemistry 1909
Palmer, Arnold - Golf Pro
Peary, Robert E. - First man to reach the North Pole (1909)
Pershing, John Joseph - Decorated American Soldier
Pike, Zebulon - Pike's Peak named after him
Polk, James Knox - President of the U.S.
Pope, Alexander - English poet and satirist
Pullman, George - Built first sleeping car on train.
Richet, Charles Robert - Nobel prize-winner in medicine and physiology 1913
Ringling Brothers - All 7 brothers and their father were Masons.
Rogers, Roy - American cowboy and screen star
Rogers, Will - Actor
Roosevelt, Franklin D. - President of the U.S.
Roosevelt, Theodore - President of the U.S.
Sabatini, Raphael - English novelist "The Sea Hawk" "Captain Blood"
Salten, Felix - Creator of Bambi
Sarnoff, David - Father of T.V.
Sax, Antoine Joseph - Invented the Saxophone (1846)
Scott, Robert Falcon - English polar explorer
Scott, Sir Walter - Writer
Sellers, Peter - Actor
Sexson, Mark - Minister & Founder: Intl. Order of Rainbow for Girls
Shackelton, Sir Ernest H - English explorer
Skelton, Red - Entertainer
Smith, John Stafford - Wrote the music that became the US National Anthem.
Sousa, John Philip - Led the U.S. Marine Band from 1880 - 1892
Stanford, Leland - Founded Stanford University
Still, Andrew T. - American Physician who devised treatment of Osteopathy
Streseman, Gustav - Nobel Peace prize-winner 1926
Swift, Johathan - Wrote Gulliver's Travels
Taft, William Howard - President of the U.S.
Thomas, Lowell - Brought Lawrence of Arabia to public notice
Tirpitz, Alfred Von - German Naval officer responsible for submarine warfare
Travis, Colonel William B. - Alamo
Truman, Harry S. - President of the U.S.
Voltaire - French writer and philosopher
Wallace, Lewis - Wrote "Ben Hur"
Warner, Jack - Warner Brothers Fame
Washington, George - President of US, 1st
Wayne, John - Actor
Webb, Matthew - First man to swim the English Channel (1875)
Wellington, Arthur, Duke of - Defeated Napoleon at Waterloo
Wilde, Oscar - Writer
Wyler, William - Director of "Ben Hur"
Zanuck, Darryl F. - Co-founder of 20th Century Productions in 1933