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Famous Masonic Presidents

Masonic Presidents of the United States of America

	George Washington First President 1731-1799 Initiated Nov. 4, 1752, Passed March 3, 1753, Raised August 4, 1753 all in Fredericksburg Lodge (later No. 4) at Fredericksburg, Va. Charter Master, Alexandria Lodge No. 22, Alexandria, Va., April 28, 1788 and reelected Dec. 20 1788.
	James Monroe Fifth President 1758-1831 Initiated in Williamsburg Lodge No. 6 at Williamsburg, Va., Nov. 9, 1775, but there is no record of his taking any further degrees.
	Andrew Jackson Seventh President 1767-1829 Grand Master of Tennessee, 1822-23. His lodge is unknown but he is said to have attended at Clover Bottom Lodge under the Grand Lodge of Kentucky.
	James E. Polk Eleventh President 1795-1849 Initiated, Passed, and Raised in Columbia Lodge No. 31, Columbia, Tenn then was Exalted a Royal Arch Mason in La Fayette Chapter No. 4 at Columbia in 1825.
	James Buchanan Fifteenth President 1791-1868 Initiated December 11, 1816, in Lodge 43, at Lancaster, PA. Passed and Raised in 1817. Worshipful Master in 1825 and also Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania.
	Andrew Johnson Seventeenth President 1808-1875 Initiated, Passed and Raised in Greeneville Lodge No. 119 now No. 3 at Greeneville, Tenn. in 1851. He received the Scottish Rite degrees in the White House in 1867.
	James A. Garfield Twentieth President 1831-1881 Initiated and Passed in Magnolia Lodge No. 20, Columbus, Ohio, and Raised in Columbus Lodge No.3O, 1864.
	William McKinley Twenty Fifth President 1843-1901 Initiated, Passed, and Raised in Hiram Lodge No. 10 in Winchester, West Virginia in 1865.
	Theodore Roosevelt Twenty Sixth President 1858-1919 Initiated, passed, and raised in Matinecock Lodge No. 806, Oyster Bay, N.Y. in 1901.
	William H. Taft Twenty Seventh President 1857-1930 Made a Mason at sight in Kilwinning Lodge No. 356, Cincinnati, Ohio in 1901.
	Warren G. Harding Twenty Ninth President 1865-1923 Initiated in Marion Lodge No. 7O, Marion, Ohio, 1901. He received no other degree until after becoming President. He was Passed and Raised in Marion Lodge in 1920.
	Franklin D. Roosevelt Thirty Second President 1882-1945 Initiated, Passed, and Raised in Holland Lodge No. 8, New York City, in 1911
	Harry S. Truman Thirty Third President 1884-1972 He received his degrees in Belton Lodge No 450; organized and became a charter member of Grandview No. 618 in Missouri. Elected Grand Master of Masons in Missouri in 1940. He always claimed this was the greatest honor that had ever come to him.
	Gerald R. Ford Thirty Eighth President 1913-2006 He received his degrees in Malta Lodge No. 405, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Brother Ford was the 1974 recipient of the NY Grand Lodge Distinguished Achievement Award, by the Grand Lodge of New York.

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Michael S. Romano

District Deputy and Ritual Instructor

RW Michael Holt DDGM
RW Douglas A. Patrick DRI

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