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Presidents Who Were Masons
List of U S presidents and notable officials with Masonic ties across lodges and orders. Highlights Washington Adams Jefferson Monroe Buchanan Lincoln Garfield McKinley Roosevelt Taft Harding and Wilson era figures with lodge affiliations and roles. Also notes cabinet members and non Mason Hoover and Mellon clarify church affiliations. Ends with a note on a Russia postal mishap and a Texas pecan crop forecast.
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John Adams
St. John’s Lodge
Boston
Mass
Thomas Jefferson
Paris
France
Thomas Paine
James Monroe
St. John’s
Virginia
John Quincy Adams
Andrew Jackson
Philanthropic Lodge
Clover Bottom
Tenn
James K. Polk
Columbia
James Buchanan
Lancaster
Andrew Johnson
Greenville
James A. Garfield
Magnolia Lodge
Columbus
Ohio
Washington
D. C
Lodge of Perfection
William McKinley
Hiram Lodge
Winchester
Canton
Theodore Roosevelt
Matinecock Lodge
Oyster Bay
N. Y
William Howard Taft
Charles S. Hopkinson
Harry M. Daugherty
Fayette Lodge
Washington Court House
Henry C. Wallace
Pioneer Lodge
Des Moines
Iowa
Edwin Denby
Navy
Oriental Lodge
Detroit
Mich
James J. Davis
Noble
Will H. Hays
Herbert C. Hoover
Commerce
Friends Order
Salem
Oregon
Treasury
W. A. Mellon
Presbyterian Church
Charles 5. Hughes
John W. Weeks
Interior
Albert B. Fall
Masonic Fraternity