Provincial Premiers
John Buchanan
Duff Roblin
William Davis
Alberta
Peter Lougheed
Manitoba
Douglas Campbell: P.M. Assiniboine Lodge No. 7, Portage La Prairie.
Newfoundland
Joseph Smallwood
Saskatchewan
James Thomas Milton Anderson: (C) September 9, 1929- June 19, 1934 [b. July 23, 1878- d. 1946] i. March 26, 1921 - Banner Lodge No. 154, Regina.
Thomas Clement Douglas: (CCF) July 10, 1944 - 1961 [b. October 20, 1904, d. March 7, 1995] i. April 1, 1935, Wayburn Lodge No, 20 GRS, Wayburn.
William Melville Martin: (L} October 20, 1916 - April 22, 1922 [b. August 23, 1876, d. June 21, 1970] i. 1900, Harriston Lodge No. 262, Harriston, Ontario. Grand Master: 1927.
William John Patterson: (L) November 1, 1937 - July 10, 1944 [b. May 13, 1886, d. June 10, 1976] i. February 9, 1909, Evening Star Lodge No. 10, Grenfell.
Wilbert Ross Thatcher: (L) May 22, 1964 - June 30, 1971 [b. May 24, 1917, d. August 23, 1971] i. April 6, 1956, St. George's Lodge No. 136, Moose Jaw.

Noted Canadians
Chief Joseph Brant
Chief Tecumseh
General James Wolfe
Sam Steele, N.W.M.P.
Henry Larsen, R.C.M.P.
W.R. "Wop" May, bush pilot
Lord Thompson of Fleet, publisher
Samuel Bronfman, businessman
Palmer Cox, creator of The Brownie stories
John D. Eaton, Eaton's stores
Oscar Peterson, musician
John Molson, founder Molson Breweries
Sir Sandford Fleming, creator of first Canadian stamp and standard time
Lord Stanley, Governor General
Earl de Gray, Governor General
Charles Mair, poet
Glenn Ford, actor
Tim Horton, hockey star
Gordon Sinclair, broadcaster
James A. Naismith, inventor of basketball
"Wipper" Billy Watson, Canadian wrestling legend
John B. MacLean, founder MacLeans magazine
Hart Massey, Massey-Ferguson farm equipment
E. B. Eddy, founder of the E.B. Eddy Match Company

Noted British Columbian Freemasons

British Columbia Premiers
John F. McCreight, first premier of B.C.
Amor de Cosmos, first lodge secretary in the province
George A. Walkem
Robert Beaven
Alexander Davie
John H. Turner
Edward Prior
Sir Richard McBride
William J. Bowser
Harland C. Brewster
John D. MacLean
Byron "Boss" Johnson
W.A.C. Bennett

Lieutenant-Governors
Thomas McInnes
Sir Francis S. Barnard
Edward Prior
Walter C. Nichol
Robert R. Bruce
W.C. Woodward
Clarance Wallace
John Nicholson
Walter S. Owen

Business & Politics, etc.
Nat Bailey, founder of White Spot restaurants
Robert Butchart, owner of Butchart Gardens, Victoria
Sir Arthur Currie, Commander Canadian Forces W.W.I
Robert Cromie, founder Vancouver Sun newspaper
Hewitt Bostock, founder Vancouver Province newspaper
Gordon Gibson Sr., lumberman
J.H. Bloedell, partner in British Columbia forestry giant Mac-Blo
Alfred Wallace, founder Burrard shipyards
Major James S. Matthews, City of Vancouver Archivist
Bishop A.W. Sillitoe, first Bishop of New Westminster
Charles Woodward, founder of Woodward stores
Ernie Winch, politician, labour activist
Austin C. Taylor, sportsman, businessman
Gerald G. McGeer, senator, mayor of Vancouver
Fred "Cyclone" Taylor, Hockey Hall of Fame
Arthur Delamont, musician
Thomas G. Norris, Supreme Court judge
Victor Dryer, Supreme Court Judge

Victoria Cross holders
Alexander Dunn
Sir Richard Turner
Cyrus W. Peck
Robert Shankland
Robert MacBeath
Robert Hanna

Internationally Known Freemasons

Antiquarians
Elias Ashmole

American founders
Benjamin Franklin - St. John's Lodge Philadelphia, PA
Buffalo Bill Cody
Davey Crockett
Kit Carson
Sam Houston
Paul Revere

Artists
Alphonse Mucha, i. 1898, Paris, founder of Czech Freemasonry

Astronauts
John Glenn - Concord Lodge No.688 Concord, OH

Business & Politics
John Jacob Astor, financier. W.M. Holland Lodge No.8 (1798)
Thomas Bradley, mayor of Los Angeles
Robert J. Dole, senator(Russell Lodge No. 177, Russell, Kansas)
Medgar W. Evers, civil rights leader
Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company
Barry M. Goldwater, senator. (Arizona Lodge No. 2, Phoenix, May 12, 1931)
Charles Hilton, founder of Hilton Hotel chain
Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader.
John H. Johnson, publisher Ebony and Jet Magazines
J.C. Penny, department store founder
Andre Citroen, founder Citroen Motor Car Co.
Baron Nathan Mayer Rothschild, i. Oct. 24, 1802: Emulation Lodge No. 12, London
Joel R. Poinsett, USA Secretary of War, Master: Solomon's Lodge No. 1, Charleston, introduced Freemasonry into Mexico, and the pointsetta to America
Col. Harlan Sanders, Kentucky Fried Chicken
Morris Sachs, Sachs 5th Ave.
Carl B. Stokes, mayor of Cleveland
Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's Restaurants
Andrew Young, mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
Whitney M. Young, director of National Urban League

Diplomats
Chevalier D'Eon De Beaumont

Education
Booker T. Washington - Grand Master, Massachusetts, PHA

Entertainment
Bud Abbott
Eddie Albertson
Cliff Arquette - Ravenwood Lodge No.777, Chicago
Ernest Borgnine
Wallace Beery
Mel Blanc
Eddie Cantor
Charles Correll (Amos) - Trio Lodge No. 57, Chicago
Freeman Gosden (Andy) - Petersburg Lodge No. 15, VA
William DeBeck - North Shore Lodge No. 936, Chicago
Cecil B. DeMille, actor, playwright, director. Prince of Orange Lodge No. 16, New York.
Glenn Ford
Douglas Fairbanks
Hoot Gibson
Clark Gable - Beverly Hills Lodge No.528 CA
Harold Gray - Lombard Lodge No. 1098, Lombard, IL
Oliver Hardy
Jean Hersholt
Harry Houdini, i. Aug 21, 1923, St. Cecile Lodge No. 568, New York
Buck Jones
Emmott Kelly
Wayne King - Paul Revere Lodge No. 998
Harold Lloyd
Harpo Marx
Tom Mix
Conrad Nagel
Carroll O'Connor
Tyrone Power
Dick Powell
Richard Pryor - Henry Brown Lodge No. 22, Peoria, IL
Charles "Chic" Sale - Urbana Lodge N0. 157, Urbana, IL
Ringling Brothers
Will Rogers
Red Skelton
Peter Sellers
Frank Skinner - Benevolent lodge No.52, Meredosia, IL
Danny Thomas
Hal Brent Wallis - Prudence Lodge No. 958, Chicago
John Wayne
Billy Wilder
Chill Wills
Jonathan Winters
Ed Wynn
Allan Young, (Mr. Ed)
Darry l F. Zanuck
Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. - Accordia Lodge No.277

Explorers
Roald Amundsen
Richard E. Byrd
Lewis and Clark
Cpt. James Cook
Matthew Henson
Charles Lindbergh - R: Keystone No. 243 MO 1926
Lord Minto, Governor General of India
Sir Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore, r. July 5, 1813, Lodge De Vriendschap, Sourabaya
Robert F. Scott
Sir Ernest Shackelton

Human Rights
John Brown

Literature
Robert Burns
Sir Winston Churchill
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Edward Gibbon, historian, i. Dec. 19, 1774, Lodge of Friendship No. 3
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe i. June 23, 1780, Lodge Amalia, Weimer
Alex Haley
Rudyard Kipling
Norman Vincent Peale (Midwood Lodge No. 1062, Brooklyn, NY. May 31, 1898)
Alexander Pope
Robert Service (Yukon Lodge No. 45, Dawson City, 1912)
Sir Walter Scott
Jonathan Swift
Mark Twain
Lew Wallace
Voltaire i. : April 7, 1778, Lodge of the Nine Sisters, Paris, France
Oscar Wilde

Military
Pierre Beauregard
Omar Bradley - West Point Lodge No.877, NY
Sir Guy Carleton
Mark Clark
Lord Cornwallis
Jimmy Doolittle
Viscount Jellicoe
Ernest King
Lord Kitchener
Curtis Lemay
George C. Marshall
Douglas MacArthur (Manila Lodge No. 1, Phillipines)
Lord Mountbatten
Audie Murphy
Lord Nelson
John Paul Jones
John Pershing
Field Marshal Suvorov
Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz
Duke of Wellington - E.A.: December 7, 1790, Lodge at Trim No. 494, Meath, Ireland

Monument Creators
Alexander Eiffel, designer of the Eiffel Tower
Christopher Wren, St. Pauls Cathedral, Lodge of Antiquity No. 2, London (attributed)
James Smithson, founder Smithsonian Institute
Sir Joseph Banks, Kew Gardens, London.
Gutzon Borglum, Mount Rushmore
Frederick Bartholdi, Statue of Liberty

Music Composers Johann Christian Bach Irving Berlin - Munn Lodge No.190 New York City, NY Ludwig van Beethoven George Michael Cohan (1878-1942)-Yankee Doodle Dandy Gilbert & Sullivan W.C. Handy Franz Haydn Jerome Kern Franz Liszt Wolfgang Mozart Hans Schuler Jean Julius Sibelius John Phillip Sousa Country Western Eddy Arnold Roy Acuff Rex Allen Gene Autry - Catoosa Lodge No. 185, Catoosa, Oklahoma: 1927 Roy Clark Jim Davis Ferlin Husky Burl Ives Eddy Peabody Tex Ritter Jimmy Rodgers Roy Rogers - Hollywood Lodge No. 355, Hollywood. 1946 Mel Tillis Hank Thompson Jazz Louis Armstrong - Montgomery Lodge No.18, NY PHA William "Count" Basie - Wisdom Lodge No. 102, Chicago James Herbert "Eubie" Blake Nat "King" Cole - Waller Lodge No.49, Los Angeles, CA PHA Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington - Social No. 1 PHA DC 1932 Lionel Hampton Al Jolson Jimmie Lunceford Tony Martin Oscar Peterson Alois Sax (inventor of Saxophone) Thomas "Fats" Waller Paul Whiteman

Scientists and inventors Vannevar Bush. Samuel Colt - Hartford, CN Erasmus Darwin (1732-1802) physician and botonist. i. at St. David's Lodge No. 36, Edinburgh in 1754. Harold Eugene Edgerton (1903-1990) professor of electrical engineering, MIT. Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955), inventor of penicillin. Sancta Maria Lodge No. 2682, London (1909), past Junior Grand Warden [AQC 104] Sir Sandford Fleming (1827-1915), creator of first Canadian stamp and standard time. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (b. 1738) Lodge of the Nine Sisters. [AQC 104] Edward Jenner (1749-1823), physician, discoverer of smallpox vaccine. C.W. Mayo, founder of Mayo Clinic. William James Mayo (1861-1939), surgeon. Charles Horace Mayo (1865-1939), surgeon. Jacques and Joseph Montgolfier, inventors of the hot air balloon. Jacob Perkins (1766-1849), mechanical engineer and inventor; printed first penny postage stamp in 1840. James F. Smathers, inventor of the electric typewriter, Gate City Lodge No 522, Kansas City. James Smithson, founder of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC. James Watt (1736-1819) inventor of the steam engine. i. 1763. Sports Arnold "Red" Auerbach George Brent Avery Bundage Ty Cobb - Royston Lodge No.426 Detroit, MI Jack Dempsey - Kenwood Lodge No.800 Chicago, IL Jake Gaudaur Tim Horton Jack Johnston Willie Mays Arnold Palmer Branch Rickey Sugar Ray Robinson Cy Young USA Presidents George Washington - i. 11/4/1752 Fredericksburg Lodge No. 4, Virginia James Monroe - i. 11/9/1775 Williamsburgh Lodge No. 6, Virginia Andrew Jackson - i. Harmony Lodge No. 1 Tennessee James Knox Polk - r. 9/4/1820 Columbia Lodge No. 31, Tennessee David R. Atchison - Ex-officio president: March 4, 1849 member: Platte Lodge No. 56, Mo. James Buchanan - r. 1/24/1817 Lodge No. 43, Pennsylvania Andrew Johnson - i. 1851, Greenville Lodge No. 119, Tennessee James A. Garfield - r. 11/22/1864, Columbus Lodge No. 20, Ohio William McKinley - r. 4/3/1865, Hiram Lodge No. 21, Virginia Theodore Roosevelt - r. 4/24/1901, Matinecock Lodge No. 806, Oyster Bay William Howard Taft - made a mason at sight 2/18/1909. affiliated Kilwinning Lodge 356, Ohio Warren G. Harding - r. 8/13/1920, Marion Lodge No. 70, Ohio Franklin Delano Roosevelt - r. Nov. 28. 1911 Harry S. Truman - i. 02/09/1909, Belton Lodge No. 450 r. 03/18/1909, Belton Lodge No. 450 Lyndon Baines Johnson - (EA) i. October 30, 1937 Gerald Ford - r. May 18, 1951, Columbia Lodge No. 3 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 honourable to his memory." Lyndon Johnson received his first degree on October 30, 1937. After receiving the degree he found that his congressional duties--he was elected in 1937--took so much time he was unable to pursue the masonic degrees. Ronald Reagan has often been referred to as a Freemason. President Reagan is not a Freemason although he is an honourary member of the Imperial Council of the Shrine. President Reagan has on numerous occasions been involved in Shrine and masonic functions throughout his career. The confusion as to his membership arises from a ceremony held in the Oval Office of the White House on February 11th, 1988, when a group of Freemasons presented President Reagan with a certificate of honour from the Grand Lodge of Washington, D.C., then he was made an Honourary Scottish Rite mason. The title of Freemason can only be conferred by a recognized Grand Lodge of Freemasons. In Reagan's case this was not done, probably because the ceremonies would have taken a full day to confer and the president's time was limited; therefore, President Reagan should only be referred to as a Shriner or Scottish Rite mason. The Shrine and Scottish Rite, in North America, are concordant bodies and cannot confer the title Freemason on any person. George Bush has also on numerous occasions been referred to as a Freemason. Neither he nor his son, George W. Bush, are Freemasons. The confusion as to President Bush being a member arises from the swearing in ceremonies at his inauguration. 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