ASTRONAUTS
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Aldrin, Edwin E. - Astronaut;
second man on the moon
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Armstrong, Neil - Astronaut; first
man on the moon
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Cooper, Gordon - astronaut
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Eisle, Don - Astronaut
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Glenn, John H. - Astronaut, and
U.S. Senator
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Grissom, Virgil - Astronaut
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Haise, Fred - astronaut
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Michell, Ed - Astronaut
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Shirra, Wally - astronaut
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Stafford, Tom - astronaut
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BUSINESS
LEADERS
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Astor, John Jacob - financier
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Balfour, Lloyd - jewelry
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Bell, Lawrence - Bell Aircraft
Corp.
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Carnegie, Andrew - Philanthropist
and steel industry industrialist
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Chrysler, Walter P. - Chrysler
Corporation
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Citroen, Andre - French Engineer
and motor car manufacturer
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Dow, William H. - Dow Chemical Co.
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Drake, Edwin L - American Pioneer
of the Oil industry
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Faber, Eberhard - Head of the
famous Eberhard Fabor Pencil Company
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Ford, Henry - Pioneer Automobile
Manufacturer
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Fuller, Alfred - Fuller Brush
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Gannett, Frank E. - Hobosco Lodge
No. 716, Ithaca, NY - media empire
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Gillett, King C. - Gillett Razor
Co.
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Hilton, Charles C. - Hilton Hotels
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Lipton, Sir Thomas - Lipton Tea
Company
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Maytag, Fredrick - Maytag
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Mellon, Andrew W. - Banker
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Olds, Ransom E. - American
automobile pioneer
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Penny, James C. - J.C. Pennys
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Teets, John W. - Chairman and
President of Dial Corporation
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Thomas, Dave - Wendys Restaurants
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EDUCATORS
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BuBois, W.E.B. - Educator/scholar
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Washington, Booker T - educator,
inventor, author
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ENTERTAINMENT
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Autry, Gene - actor; Catoosa Lodge
No. 185, Oklahoma
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Borgnine, Ernest - actor
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Cody, "Buffalo Bill"
William F. - Indian fighter, Wild West Show - Platte Valley Lodge No. 32,
North Platte, NE
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Cohan, George M. - Broadway star
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Costello, Lou - comedian
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DeMille, Cecil B.
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Fairbanks, Douglas - actor
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Fields, W.C. - actor
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Gable, Clark - actor
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Gibson, Hoot - cowboy actor; Truth
Lodge No. 628, Los Angeles, CA
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Godfrey, Arthur - actor
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Grock - Swiss Circus Clown
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Hardy, Oliver - actor
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Hope, Bob - comedian
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Houdini, Harry - magician
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Irving, Sir Henry - English Actor
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Kean, Edmund - English Actor
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Lincoln, Elmo - First actor to
play Tarzan of the Apes (1918)
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Lloyd, Harold C. - actor
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Mayer, Louis B. - film producer
who merged to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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Mix, Tom - U.S. Marshal turned
western actor
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Richards, Michael - comedian
(Kramer of "Seinfeld" fame)
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Ringling Brothers - all 7 brothers
and their father
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Rogers, Roy - actor; Hollywood
Lodge No. 255, California
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Rogers, Will - actor; Claremore
Lodge No. 53, Oklahoma
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Sellers, Peter - actor
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Skelton, Red - comedian
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Sloane, Sir John - English Artist
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Stratton, Charles "Tom
Thumb" - Entertainer
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Thomas, Danny - actor
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Thomas, Lowell - radio
announcer/newsman
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Thornhill, Sir James - English
Artist
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Warner, Jack - Warner Brothers
fame
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Wayne, John - Academy Award
winning actor; Marion McDaniel Lodge No. 56, Tucson, AZ
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Wolfitt, Sir Donald - English
Actor
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Wyler, William - file director
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Zanuck, Darryl F. - Co-founder of
20th Century Productions
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Ziegfeld, Florenz - Ziegfeld's
Follies
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Zoffany, John - Artist
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FOUNDERS
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Baylor, Robert E. B. - founder
Baylor University
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Beard, Daniel Carter - founder Boy
Scouts
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Dunant, Jean Henri - founder of
the Red Cross
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Ford, Henry - founder Ford Motor
Company - Palestine Lodge No. 357, Detroit, MI
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Gompers, Samuel - founder of the
AFL - Dawson Lodge No. 16, Washington, DC
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Gompers, Samuel - Jewish
immigrant, founder of American Federation of Labor.
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Hedges, Cornelius -
"Father" of Yellowstone National Park
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Jones, Melvin - One of the
founders of the Lions International
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Land, Frank S. - Founder Order of
DeMolay
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Mayo, Dr. William and Charles -
founded the Mayo Clinic - Rochester Lodge No. 21, Rochester, MN
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Peale, Norman Vincent - founder of
"Guidepost"
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Sanders, Harland (Colonel
Sanders')- Founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken Restaurant
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Schoonover, George - Founder of
"The Builder"
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Sexson, William Mark - founder
International Order of Rainbow Girls
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Stanford, Leland - drove the gold
spike linking the intercontinetal railroad and founded Stanford University
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INVENTORS
& SCIENTISTS
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Banks, Sir Joseph - English
Scientist
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Colt, Samuel - firearms inventor
|
Desaguliers, John Theophilus -
Inventor of the planetarium
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Fitch, John - inventor of the
steamboat
|
Fleming, Sir Alexander - invented
Penicillin
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Gatling, Richard J. - built the
"Gatling Gun"
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Guillotin, Joseph Ignace -
Inventor of the "Guillotin"
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Hoe, Richard M. - invented the
rotary press, revolutionizing newspaper printing
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Jenner, Edward - invented
vaccination
|
Lake, Simon - built first
submarine successful in open sea.
|
Menninger, Karl A. - Psychiatrist
famous for treating mental illness
|
Mesmer, Franz Anton - practiced
Mesmerism which led to Hypnotism
|
Michelson, Albert Abraham -
Successfully measured the speed of light in 1882
|
Montgolfier, Jacques Etienne -
Co-developer of the first practical hot-air balloon
|
Papst, Charles F. - Coined the
term "Athletes Foot"
|
Pike, Albert - Revolutionized
American Freemasonry
|
Poinsett, Joel R. - U.S. Minister
to Mexico who developed the flower: Poinsettia
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Pullman, George - built first
sleeping car on train.
|
Salten, Felix - Creator of Bambi
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Sarnoff, David - father of
television
|
Sax, Antoine Joseph - invented the
saxophone
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Spilsbury, Sir Bernard - English
Scientists
|
Still, Andrew T. - American
Physician who devised treatment of Osteopathy
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MILITARY
|
Allen, Ethan - General,
Revolutionary War; Windsor, Vermont
|
Arnold, Benedict - American
General and Later Tratior
|
Arnold, General Henry
"Hap" - Commander of the Army Air Force - Union Lodge No. 7,
Jnction City, MO
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Bonaparte, Napolean
|
Boomer, Walter - Commander of
Marine forces during Desert Storm
|
Bradley, Omar N. - General, U.S.
Army
|
Byrd, Richard
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Chenault, Claire L.
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Clark, Mark
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Doolittle, General James - General,
famous Air Force Pilot
|
Farragut, David G. - Admiral in
U.S. Civil War - Naval Lodge No. 87, Mare Island
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Garibaldi, Giuseppe - the
"George Washington" of Italy - Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of
Palermo
|
Herkimer, Nicholas - Brigadier
General, American Revolution - St. Patricks Lodge No. 8, Johnstown, NY
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Jackson, Thomas Jonathan -
"Stonewall" - General in Confederate Army
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John Barry - the Father of the
American Navy - Old Lodge No. 2, Philadelphia
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Jones, John Paul - Founder and
first admiral of the U.S. Navy - St. Bernard Lodge No. 122 (now St. Cuthbert
No. 41)
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King, Ernest J. - Admiral USN
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Knox, Henry - first U.S. Secretary
of War - St. Johns Regimental Lodge, Morristown, NJ
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LaMay, Curtis E. - General USAF
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MacArthur, General Douglas - Commander
of Armed Forces in Philillines - Manila Lodge No. 1, Manila, Philippines
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Marshall, George - General USA
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McClellan, George B. - General,
Union Army
|
Montgomery, Richard - Major
General Continental Army and First General of the Army to be killed in battle.
Dec 31, 1775.
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Murphy, Audie - most decorated
American Soldier of WWII
|
Perry, Matthew Calbraith -
Commodore; responsible for opening relations with Japan; Holland Lodge No. 8,
New York City
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Pershing, John Joseph
"Blackjack" - General - Lincoln Lodge No. 19, Lincoln, NE
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Pickett, George E. - Maj. Gen.
(CSA), led "Pickett's Charge" at Gettysburg - Blandford Lodge,
Petersburg, VA
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Rickenbacker, Eddie - great
American Air Force Ace
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Scott, Winfield - Dinwiddlie Lodge
No. 23, Virginia
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Stark, John - Major General in
U.S. Revolution War, "Green Mountain Boys" - Masters Lodge No. 2,
Albany, NY
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Stillwell, Joseph
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Tirpitz, Alfred Von - German Naval
officer responsible for submarine warfare
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Wainwright, Jonathan M. - American
General of the Bataan Peninsula - Union Lodge No. 7, Junction City, KS
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Wayne, Anthony - "Mad
Anthony"
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MUSICIANS
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Armstrong, Louis - jazz musician
|
Bach, Johann Christian -
Musician/Composer
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Bassie, William "Count"
- orchestra leader/composer
|
Berlin, Irving - composer/entertainer
|
Bishop, Sir Henry - Musician
|
Clark, Roy - country western star;
Jenks Lodge No. 497, Oklahoma
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Cohan, George M. - composer
|
Cole, Nat 'King' - singer
|
Ellington, Duke - composer,
arranger and stylist
|
Ellington, Duke - Composer, Arranger
and Stylist
|
Gilbert & Sullivan - composers
|
Haydn, Joseph - composer
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Jolson, Al - St. Cecile Lodge No.
568, New York
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Kern, Jerome David - American
composer, "Show Boat" - Gramatan Lodge No. 927, Bronxville, NY
|
Listz, Frank - composer
|
Monckton, Lionel - Musician
|
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus -
composer
|
Sibelius, Jean - Composer
(Finland)
|
Smith, John Stafford - Wrote the
music that became the US National Anthem.
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Sousa, John Philip - composer -
Hiran Lodge No. 10, Washington, DC
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Sullivan, Sir Arthur - Musician
|
Wagner, Richard - composer
|
Wesley, Samuel - Musician
|
Whiteman, Paul - "King of
Jazz"
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OTHERS
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Bancroft, Edward - Private
Secretary to Benjamin Franklin in Paris and employ of British Secret Service.
The first spy (mole) employed in a US embassy.
|
Casanova - Italian Adventurer,
writer and entertainer
|
Hogarth, William - English Artist
|
Radcliff, Charles - First Grand
Master of The Grand Lodge of France and last British nobleman beheaded in
Tower of London in 1745.
|
Wadlow, Robert Pershing - Tallest
human on record being almost 9 feet tall
|
Webb, Matthew - First man to swim
the English Channel (1875)
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PIONEERS
& EXPLORERS
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Burton, Sir Richard - English
Explorer
|
Byrd, Admiral Richard E. - flew
over North Pole - Federal Lodge No. 1, Washington, DC
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Carson, Christopher
"Kit" - Frontiersman, scout and explorer; Montezuma Lodge No. 109,
New Mexico.
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Clark, William - Explorer (Lewis
& Clark)
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Crockett, David - Frontiersman and
Alamo fame
|
Lewis, Meriwether - Explorer
(Lewis & Clark)
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Lindbergh, Charles - Aviator -
Keystone Lodge No. 243, St. Louis, MO
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Livingston, Robert - Co-Negotiator
for purchase of Louisiana Territory
|
Marshall, James W. - Discovered
Gold at Sutter's Mill California 1848
|
New, Harry S. - Postmaster General
who established Airmail
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Oglethorpe, James - Conceived of
Colony of Georgia to be settled by British debtors from the prisons. Started
first lodge in Georgia in 1732.
|
Peary, Robert E. - First man to
reach the North Pole (1909) - Kane Lodge No. 451, NY
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Scott, Capt. Robert Falcon -
English Explorers
|
Shackleton, Sir Ernest - English
Explorer
|
RELIGIOUS
|
Baker, James C. - Bishop,
Methodist Church
|
Ballou, Hosea - founder,
Universalist Church
|
Bradley, Preston - founder of
Peoples Church
|
Calvo, Father Francisco - Catholic
Priest who started Freemasonry in Costa Rica 1865
|
Evans, Hugh I. - National Head of
the Presbyterian Church, USA
|
Fisher, Geoffrey - Archbishop of
Canterbury 1945 - 1961
|
Herbert, Bishop Percy - Bishop of
Norwich
|
Jackson, Reverend Jesse - Minister
|
King, Thoams Starr
|
Low, Titus - President of
Methodist Council of Bishops
|
Newton, Joseph Fort - Christian
Minister
|
Peale, Reverend Dr. Norman Vincent
- Methodist Episcopal Minister and author
|
Smith, Joseph - Founder of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
|
Young, Brigham - Second President
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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SCULPTORS
|
Bartholdi, Frederic A. - designed
the Statue of Liberty - Alsacre-Lorraine Lodge, France
|
Borglum, Gutzon & Lincoln -
father and son who carved Mt. Rushmore
|
Hoban, James - architect for the
U.S. Captial
|
Pike, Zebulon - Pike's Peak named
after him
|
Schadow, Johann G. - Prussian
Court
|
Schweizer, J. Otto
|
SPORTS
|
Brundage, Avery - U.S. Olympics -
North Shore Lodge No. 937, Chicago, IL
|
Cobb, Ty - baseball
|
Combs, Earle Bryan - Baseball Hall
of Fame
|
Dempsey, Jack
|
Dempsey, Jack - boxing
|
Hornsby, Rogers - baseball
|
Hubbel, Carl - baseball; Meeker
Lodge No. 479, Oklahoma
|
Naismith, James - inventor of
Basketball - Roswell Lee Lodge, Springfield, MA
|
Palmer, Arnold - golf
|
Robinson, Sugar Ray - boxing
|
Young, Cy - baseball
|
U.S.
PATRIOTS
|
Bellamy, Ralph - wrote
"Pledge of Allegiance"
|
Bowie, James - Alamo
|
Clark, George Rogers -
frontiersman - Abraham Lodge No. 8, Louisville, KY
|
Franklin, Benjamin - signer of the
U.S. Constitution; St. John's Lodge of Philadelphia; Past Provincial Grand
Master of Pennsylvania
|
Hale, Nathan - "I regret that
I have but one life to give to my country" - St. John's Lodge No. 1, Rhode
Island
|
Hancock, John - signer of the
Declaration of Independance
|
Henry, Patrick
|
Key, Francis Scott - wrote the
"Star Spangled Banner" (U.S. National Anthem)
|
Lafayette, Marquis de - French
supporter of Amerian Freedom
|
McHenry, James - signer of the
U.S. Constitution - Spiritual Lodge No. 23, Maryland
|
Otis, James - "Taxation
without Representation is Tyranny"
|
Revere, Paul - "Midnight
Ride" - St. Andrews Lodge & Grand Master of Massachusetts
|
Travis, Colonel William B. - Alamo
|
U.S.
POLITICAL LEADERS
|
Austin, Stephen F. - Father of
Texas - Louisiana Lodge No. 109, St. Genevieve, MO
|
Brant, Joseph - Chief of the
Mohawks (1742-1807)
|
Bryant, William Jennings - former
Secretary of State - Temple Lodge No. 247, Miami, FL
|
Burnett, David G. - 1st President
of the Republic of Texas
|
Clay, Henry - U.S. Senator - Grand
Master in Kentucky
|
Clinton, DeWitt - Governor of New
York and instigator of the Erie Canal - Grand Master of New York
|
Dole, Bob - former U.S.
Senator/Majority Leader, Kansas; Russell Lodge No. 177, Kansas
|
Ervin Jr, Samual J. - Headed
"Watergate" committee
|
Goldwater, Barry - U.S. Senator
|
Hoover, J. Edgar - Director of FBI
|
Houston, Sam - 2nd & 4th
President of the Republic of Texas - Holland Lodge No. 1, Houston, TX
|
Jones, Anson - 5th President of
the Republic of Texas
|
Kalakaua, David - King of the
Hawaiian Islands
|
Kemp, Jack - former U.S.
Senator/Secretary of HUD, New York; Fraternal Lodge No. 625 in Hamburg, NY
|
La Guardia, Fiorella H. - La
Guardia Airport, Mayor of New York 1930's & 40's - Garibaldi Lodge No.
542, NYC
|
Lamar, Mirabeau B. - 3rd President
of the Republic of Texas
|
Nunn, Sam - former U.S. Senator
|
Rayburn, Sam - Speaker of the
House - Constantine Lodge No. 13, Bonham, TX
|
Stevenson, Adlai E. Stevenson -
U.S. Vice President - Metamora Lodge No. 82, Metamora, IL
|
Wallace, Governor George C. -
Presidential Candidate who was nearly assasinated
|
U.S.
PRESIDENTS
|
Buchanon, James - Lodge No. 43,
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
|
Ford, Gerald R. - Malta Lodge No.
465, Grand Rapids, Michigan
|
Garfield, James A. - Magnolia
Lodge No. 20, Columbus, Ohio
|
Harding, Warren G. - Marion Lodge
No. 70, Marion, Ohio
|
Jackson, Andrew - Harmony Lodge
No. 1, Nashville, Tennessee
|
Jefferson, Thomas -
Charlottesville Lodge No. 90, Charlottesville, Virginia
|
Johnson, Andrew - Greenville Lodge
No. 119, Greenville, Tennessee
|
Madison, James - Hiram Lodge,
Westmoreland County, Virginia
|
McKinley, William - Hiran Lodge
No. 21, Winchester, New York
|
Monroe, James - Williamsburg Lodge
No. 6, Williamsburg, Virginia
|
Polk, James K. - Lodge No. 31,
Columbia, Tennessee
|
Roosevelt, Franklin D. - Holland
Lodge No. 8, New York City
|
Roosevelt, Theodore - Matinecock
Lodge No. 806, Oyster Bay, New York
|
Taft, William Howard - Occasional
Lodge, Cincinnati, Ohio
|
Truman, Harry S. - Belton Lodge
No. 450, Missouri
|
Washington, George -
Fredericksburg Lodge, Fredericksburg, Virginia
|
U.S.
SUPREME COURT JUSTICES
|
Baldwin, Henry
|
Black, Hugo L. - Birmingham Temple
Lodge No. 836, Birmingham, AL
|
Blair, Jr., John
|
Blatchford, Samuel
|
Burton, Harold H.
|
Byrnes, James F.
|
Catton, John
|
Clark, Thomas C.
|
Clarke, John H.
|
Cushing, William - St. Andrews
Lodge, Boston
|
Davis, David
|
Devanter, Willis Van
|
Douglas, William O.
|
Ellsworth, Oliver - Chief Justice
|
Field, Stephen J.
|
Harlan, John M.
|
Jackson, Robert H.
|
Jay, John - Chief Justice
(1789-1795)
|
Lamar, Joseph E.
|
Marshall, John - Chief Justice
(1801-1835) - Grand Master of Virginia (1793 & 1794)
|
Marshall, Thurgood
|
Mathews, Stanley
|
McLean, John
|
Minton, Sherman
|
Moody, William H.
|
Nelson, Samuel
|
Paterson, William
|
Pitney, Mahlon
|
Reed, Stanley F.
|
Rutledge, John - Chief Justice
|
Stewart, Potter
|
Story, Joseph
|
Swayne, Noah H.
|
Taft, William H. - Chief Justice
|
Todd, Thomas
|
Trimble, Robert
|
Van Devanter, Willis
|
Vinson, Frederick M.
|
Warren, Earl - Chief Justice
|
Woodbury, Levi
|
Woods, William B.
|
WORLD
LEADERS
|
Abbott, Sir John J.C. - Prime
Minister of Canada 1891-92
|
Aguinaldo, Emilio - Phillippine
Patriot and General
|
Aleman, Miguel - Mexican president
1947-52)
|
Benes, Eduard - President of
Czechoslovakia 1939-48)
|
Bennett, Viscount R.B. - Prime
Minister of Canada 1930-35
|
Bjornsson, Sveinn - 1st President
of Iceland
|
Bolivar, Simon - Liberator of
South America
|
Bonaparte, Napolean and his four
brothers
|
Borden, Sir Robert L. - Prime
Minister of Canada 1911-1920
|
Bowell, Sir Mackenzie - Prime
Minister of Canada 1894-1896
|
Burke, Edmund - Irish-born British
politician and writer
|
Canning, George - British Prime
Minister 1827
|
Churchill, Lord Randolph - British
politician who led the so-called Fourth Party
|
Churchill, Winston S. - former
Prime Minister, United Kingdom
|
Diefenbaker, John G. - Prime
Minister of Canada 1957-63
|
Edward VII
|
Edward VIII
|
Francis II - Holy Roman Emperor 1768-1806
|
Frederick The Great - King of
Prussia 1740-86
|
George I - King of Greece 1845 -
1913
|
George II - King of Greece 1922 -
1947
|
George VI - King of England during
W.W. II
|
Gustavus VI Adolphus - King of
Sweden 1792 - 1809
|
King Charles XIII - King of Sweden
1748-1818
|
Leopold I - King of Belgium
1831-65
|
MacDonald, Sir John A. - Prime
Minister of Canada 1867-73 & 1878-91
|
Peter the Great - Emperor of
Russia 1689 - 1725
|
Rhodes, Cecil - Prime Minister of
Cape Colony 1890
|
William I - King of Prussia 1861 -
1888
|
William II - King of the
Netherlands 1792 - 1849
|
William IV - King of England
1830-37
|
WRITERS
|
Burns, Robert - National Poet of
Scotland; St. David's Lodge No. 174, Tarbolton, Scotland.
|
Clemens, Samuel L. - Mark Twain -
Polar Star Lodge No. 79, St. Louis, MO
|
Collodi, Carlo -
"Pinocchio"
|
Doyle, Sir Author Conan - Sherlock
Holmes
|
Gibbon, Edward - "Decline and
Fall of the Roman Empire"
|
Goethe, Wolgang von
|
Gray, Harold Lincoln - Creator of
"Little Orphan Annie"
|
Guest, Edgar A. - Poet; "The
Lambskin Apron" - a 33 Degree Mason.
|
Henson, Reverend Josiah - Inspired
the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
|
Kipling, Rudyard
|
Pope, Alexander - Writer
|
Pushkin, Alexander - Russian poet
|
Schiller, Friedrich
|
Scott, Sir Walter
|
Shakespeare, William
|
Swift, Johathan - "Gulliver's
Travels" - Goat-at-the-Foot-of-the-Haymarket No. 16, England
|
Voltaire - French writer and
philosopher
|
Wallace, Lewis - "Ben
Hur"
|
Wilde, Oscar
|