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
Sir Alexander Fleming
Discoverer of penicillin, an active London Mason who reached Grand Lodge rank.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Creator of Sherlock Holmes, initiated in Portsmouth while still a young doctor.
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Sir Ernest Shackleton
Antarctic explorer, initiated in the Navy Lodge in London weeks before sailing south with Scott.
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Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States, made a Mason in his hometown lodge on Long Island the year he became Vice President.
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Warren G. Harding
29th President of the United States, whose Masonic progress stalled for nineteen years after a blackball before he was raised in 1920.
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Will Rogers
Cherokee humorist, columnist and film star, a member of the Claremore lodge in Oklahoma.
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