UNION, NEW JERSEY
Our Masonic Founding Fathers
In a time when travel was by horseback and sailing ship,
Masonry spread with amazing speed.
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By 1731, when Benjamin Franklin joined the fraternity, there were already several lodges in the Colonies, and Masonry spread rapidly as America expanded west. In addition to Franklin, many of the Founding Fathers -- men such as George Washington, Paul Revere, Joseph Warren, and John Hancock -- were Masons. Masons and Masonry played an important part in the Revolutionary War and an even more important part in the Constitutional Convention and the debates surrounding the ratification of the Bill of Rights. Many of those debates were held in Masonic lodges.
William Elery, Rhode Island
Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania
John Hancock, Massachusetts
Joseph Hewes, North Carolina
William Hooper, North Carolina
Robert Paine, Massachusetts
Richard Stockton, New Jersey
George Walton, Georgia
William Whipple, New Hampshire
Signers of the Declaration of Independence
George Washington
James Monroe
Andrew Jackson
James Polk
James Buchanan
Andrew Johnson
James Garfield
William McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
Howard Taft
Alexander Martin
Robert Morris
William Paterson
William Pierce
Charles Pinckney
Edmund Randolph
George Read
Roger Sherman
George Walton
Masonic Presidents
Abraham Baldwin
Gunning Bedford Jr.
John Blair
William Blount
David Brearley
Daniel Carroll
William Richardson Davie
Jonathan Dayton
Oliver Ellsworth
Benjamin Franklin
Elbridge Gerry
Refus King
John Langdon
John Lansing Jr.
James McHenry
James Madison
Warren Harding
Harry Truman
Franklin Roosevelt
Gerald Ford
Masonic Signers of the Constitution
Masonic Patriots
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John Blair 1732-1800
Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, statesman, diplomat, author, scientist and printer
Francis Scott Key Wrote our National Anthem
John Hancock 1737-1793, merchant, politician and Revolutionary leader
Rufus King 1755-1827, politician and diplomat
Henry Knox 1750-1806, American Revolutionary soldier and public official
George Mason 1725-1792, American Revolutionary statesman
James Otis 1725-1783, Famous for "Taxation without representation is tyranny"
Thomas Paine 1737-1809, English-born American author & Revolutionary leader
Peyton Randolph 1735-1818, American silversmith, engraver and Revolutionary patriot
Paul Revere
Joseph Warren