Famous Masons
Famous Masons
Many great men of history were also Freemasons. What is it about the Masonic Fraternity that attracted so many great men of history? From prodigys like Mozart to great leaders like George Washington and Winston Churchill. Great thinkers like Benjamin Franklin, and Gothe. Business leaders like JC Penny, Henry Ford, and Dave Thomas. Freemasons have had such a profound impact on the world.
The wisest and best of men in all ages have been encouragers and promoters of our Art, and have never deemed it derogatory to their dignity to level themselves with the Fraternity, to extend its privileges, and to patronize its assemblies.
Famous Masons
Lyndon B. Johnson
36th President of the United States, initiated an Entered Apprentice in his Hill Country home lodge in 1937 as a young congressman.
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Nat King Cole
Jazz pianist and singer, a member of a Prince Hall lodge in Los Angeles named for Fats Waller.
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Prince Hall
Abolitionist and founder of Prince Hall Freemasonry, the oldest Black Masonic tradition in the world.
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Red Skelton
Comedian and television star, raised in his hometown lodge, the oldest in Indiana.
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Robert Burns
Scotland's national poet, whose Masonic songs and farewell to his Tarbolton brethren are still recited in lodges.
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Rudyard Kipling
Author of The Jungle Book and the poem "The Mother-Lodge", initiated under age in Lahore by dispensation.
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