U. S. Presidents who were Master Masons

George Washington (Virginia Mason) –  1st President, 1789 – 1797, Commanding General during American Revolution,   made a Mason August 4, 1753, in Fredericksburg Lodge No. 4, A.F. & A.M., Fredericksburg, Virginia.

James Monroe (Virginia Mason) – 5th President, 1817 – 1825, made a Mason November 9, 1775, in Williamsburg Lodge

No. 6, A.F. & A.M., Williamsburg, Virginia.

Andrew Jackson – 7th President, 1829 – 1837 Harmony Lodge No. 1, Nashville, Tennessee. In 1822 and 1823, he served as the Grand Master of Masons in Tennessee.

James Knox Polk – 11th President, 1845 – 1849, made a Mason September 4, 1820, in Columbia Lodge No. 31, F. & A.M., Columbia, Tennessee.

James Buchanan – 15th President, 1857 – 1861, made a Mason January 24, 1817, in Lodge No. 43, F. & A.M., Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Andrew Johnson – 17th President, 1865 – 1869, made a Mason May, 1851, in Greeneville Lodge No. 119 (now No. 3), F. & A.M., Greeneville, Tennessee.

James Abram Garfield – 20th President, 1881, made a Mason November 22, 1864, in Columbus Lodge No. 30 F. & A.M., Columbus, Ohio.

William McKinley (Virginia Mason) – 25th President, 1897 – 1901, made a Mason May 3, 1865, in Hiram Lodge No. 21, A.F. & A.M., Winchester, Virginia.

Theodore Roosevelt – 26th President, 1901 – 1909, made a Mason April 24, 1901, in Matinecock Lodge No. 806, F. & A.M., Oyster Bay, New York.

William Howard Taft – 27th President, 1909 – 1913 – Chief Justice Supreme Court 1921 – 1930, made a “Mason at Sight” in an “Occasional Lodge” called for that purpose on February 18, 1909, in the Scottish Rite Cathedral, Cincinnati, Ohio, by Charles S. Hoskinson, Grand Master of Masons in Ohio.

Warren Gamaliel Harding – 29th President, 1921 – 1923, made a Mason August 27, 1920, in Marion Lodge No. 70, F. & A.M., Marion, Ohio.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt – 32nd President, 1933 – 1945, made a Mason November 28, 1911, in Holland Lodge No. 8, F. & A.M., New York, New York, the same Lodge in which George Washington held Honorary membership.

Harry S. Truman – 33rd President, 1945 – 1951, made a Mason March 18, 1909, in Belton Lodge No. 450, A.F. & A.M., Belton, Missouri. He served as the Grand Master of Masons of Missouri in 1940. Initiated: February 9, 1909, Belton Lodge No. 450, Belton, Missouri. In 1911

Gerald R. Ford, Jr. – 38th President, 1974 – 1977. He was raised to the Sublime degree of Master Mason on May 18, 1951 in Columbia Lodge No. 3, F. &.A.M., of Washington, D.C., as a courtesy for Malta Lodge No. 465, F. & A.M. of Grand Rapids, Michigan.