Did you know he was a Mason?
George Washington became a Master Mason on August 4th,
1753, in his hometown of Fredericksburg, Virginia
U.S. Presidents
Confirmed Masons
| George Washington |
1789-1797 |
| James Monroe |
1817-1825 |
| Andrew
Jackson |
1829-1837 |
| James Polk |
1845-1849 |
| James Buchanan |
1857-1861 |
| Andrew Johnson |
1865-1869 |
| James Garfield |
1881-1881 |
| William McKinley |
1897-1901 |
| Theodore Roosevelt |
1901-1909 |
| William Howard Taft |
1909-1913 |
| Warren C. Harding |
1921-1923 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt |
1933-1945 |
| Harry S. Truman |
1945-1953 |
| Lyndon B. Johnson |
1963-1969 |
| Gerald R. Ford |
1974-1977 |
Abraham Lincoln was not a Freemason. He did apply for
membership in Tyrian Lodge, Springfield, Ill., shortly after his nomination
for the presidency in 1860 but withdrew the application because he felt that
his applying for membership at that time might be construed as a political
ruse to obtain votes. He advised the lodge that he would resubmit his
application again when he returned from the presidency. Lincoln never returned. On the death of the president, Tyrian Lodge
adopted, on April 17, 1865, a resolution to say "that the decision of
President Lincoln to postpone his application for the honours of
Freemasonry, lest his motives be misconstrued, is the highest degree
honorable to his memory."
Lyndon Johnson received his first degree on
October 30, 1937. After receiving the degree he found that his congressional
duties (elected in 1937) took so much time he was unable to pursue the
masonic degrees.
Did you know he was not a Mason?
Below is a list of Famous Masons
| Walt Disney |
| David Crockett |
| John Glenn |
| Charles Lindbergh |
| Douglas MacArthur |
| John Wayne |
| Paul Revere |
| Louis Armstrong |
| Winston Churchill |
| Nat King Cole |
| Benjamin Franklin |
| Wolfgang Mozart |
| Mark Twain |
George Bush has also on numerous
occasions been referred to as a Freemason. The confusion as to President
Bush being a member arises from the swearing in ceremonies at his
inauguration. President Bush took his oath of office on the George
Washington Bible which belongs to St. Johns Lodge in New York City.
Because the Bible belonged to a Masonic Lodge many writers assumed he was a
Freemason. The Bible was used at the request of the Joint Congressional
Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies. This Bible was first used on April
30, 1789, by the Grand Master of the Masons in
New York,
to administer the oath of office to George Washington, the first president.
Other presidents who took their oath of
office with this Bible are Warren G. Harding, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Jimmy
Carter.
