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Many Famous Masons Throughout History

Question: What do Gerald Ford, Casanova, Oscar Wilde, Roy Acuff, Andrew Young, Houdini, Swami Vivekananda, Bob Dole, Clark Gable, Desmond Tutu, Kemal Ataturk, Florenz Ziegfeld, and Sam Nunn have in common?

Answer: They all were (or are) Masons.

Winston Churchill was one. So were Cornwallis and Washington; Mark Twain and Alex Haley; Bach and Basie; Gilbert and Sullivan; Roy and Will Rogers; Gatling and Guillotin; Thurgood Marshall and Strom Thurmond; Voltaire and von Goethe; Telly Savalas and Buffalo Bill Cody; even Davy Crockett and Santa Anna.

Here is a brief listing of Masons, all names you should recognize, but in no particular order:

Marquis de Lafayette
John Paul Jones
Patrick Henry
John Hancock
Ben Franklin
Tecumseh
Simon Bolivar
Louis Armstrong
Marc Chagall
Roy Clark
Duke Ellington
Jerome Kern
George M. Cohen
Wolfgang Mozart
John Philip Sousa
Arnold Palmer
Sugar Ray Robinson
Julian Bond
John Brown
William Jennings Bryan
Aaron Burr
Medger Evers
Jesse Jackson
George McGovern
Kweisi Mfume
George Wallace
Earl Warren
Gustav Eiffel
Booker T. Washington
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Rudyard Kipling


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