Van Nuys Masonic Lodge 450 F&AM
14750 Sherman Way, Van Nuys, Ca 91406

OUR FAMOUS BROTHER MASONS

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Presidents of the United States of America

George Washington - 1789 - 1797	James Monroe - 1817 -1825
Andrew Jackson - 1829 - 1837	James K. Polk - 1845 - 1849.
James Buchanan - 1857-1861	Andrew Johnson - 1865 - 1869
James A. Garfield - 1881	William McKinley - 1897 - 1901
Theodore Roosevelt - 1901 - 1909	William H. Taft - 1909 - 1913
Warren G. Harding - 1921 - 1923	Franklin D. Roosevelt - 1933 – 1945
Harry S. Truman - 1945 - 1953	Gerald R. Ford - 1974 – 1977

Leaders - Other Countries

Sir John J.C. Abbott- Canadian Prime Minister	Miguel Aleman - Mexican President
Eduard Benes - President of Czechoslovakia	Viscount R.B. Bennett - Canadian Prime Minister
Sir Robert L. Borden - Canadian Prime Minister	Sir Mackenzie Bowell - Canadian Prime Minister
Winston Churchill - British Prime Minister	John G. Diefenbaker - Canadian Prime Minister
Edward VII - Prince of Wales and King of Great Britain	Edward VIII - King of Great Britain
Charles H. Allen - First Governor of Puerto Rico	George VI - King of Great Britain
Benito Juarez - President of Mexico	King David Kalakaua - Last monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom
King Kamehameha, III, IV, and V - Monarchs of the Hawaiian Kingdom	Sir John A. MacDonald - Prime Minister of Canada
John Diefenbaker - Canadian Prime Minister	Manuel L. Quezon - President, Philippines
Josè P. Rizal, M.D. - Martyr, Genius, Philippine National Hero, Poet, Linguist, Writer.	Emilio L. Agunaldo - The first president of the Philippine Republic
Andres Bonifacio, Philippine Hero	Josè P. Laurel - President 2nd            Republic-Philippines
Marcelo H. del Pilar - Father of Philippine Masonry	Brain of Philippine Revolution Sublime Paralytic
Bishop Gregorio Aglipay Revolutionary Priest & Soldier	Manuel L. Quezon - President Philippines - The First Filipino Grand MAster of the Philippines

U.S. Senators

Lloyd Bentsen	Thomas Hart Benton
Lewis Cass	Robert J. Dole
Henry Dodge	Michael B. Enzi
Samual J. Ervin Jr.	Sam Nunn
Edmund G. Ross	Strom Thurmond
Stuart Symington	Barry Goldwater
Henry "Scoop" Jackson

Explorers

William Clark	Meriwether Lewis
Admiral Robert E. Perry	Bruce, James of Kinnaird
Admiral Richard E. Byrd	Christopher "Kit" Carson
Henry Larsen

Frontiersmen

Steven F. Austin	James Bowie
William "Buffalo Bill" Cody	David "Davey" Crockett

Supreme Court Justices

Henry Baldwin - Associate Justice	Hugo L. Black
John Blair, Jr.	Samuel Blatchford
Harold H. Burton	James F. Byrnes
John Catton	John H. Clarke
Thomas C. Clark	William Cushing
Willis Van Devanter	William O. Douglas
Oliver Ellsworth	Stephen J. Field
John M. Harlan	Robert H. Jackson
Joseph E. Lamar	John Marshall
Thurgood Marshall	Stanley Mathews
Sherman Minton	William H. Moody
Samuel Nelson	Mahlon Pitney
Stabley F. Reed	Wiley B. Rutledge
Potter Stewart	Noah H. Swayne
Thomas Todd	Robert Trimble
Frederick M. Vinson	Earl Warren
Levi Woodbury	William B. Woods
William Paterson

Masonic Signers of
"Declaration of Independence"

Benjamin Franklin	John Hancock
Joseph Hewes	William Hopper
Robert Treat Paine	Richard Stockton
George Walton	George Washington
William Whipple

Masonic Signers of
"The Articles of Confederation"

Daniel Carroll	Jonathan Bayard Smith
Henry Laurens	John Dickison
John Harvie	John Hancock
Cornelius Harnett	Daniel Roberdeau

Masonic Signers of
"The Constitution of the United States"

George Washington	Gunning Bedford Jr.
Benjamin Franklin	John Blair
David Brearley	Rufus King
John Dickinson	Jacob Broom
Daniel Carroll	Jonathan Dayton
Nicholas Gilman	James McHenry
William Patterson

Governors

Roy Barnes - Georgia	Frederick Bates – Missouri
Shadrach Bond - Illinois	William King  - Maine
John A. Quitman - Mississippi	George C. Wallace – Alabama

Composers

Edward E. Bagley - 'National Emblem' march	Irving Berlin
George M. Cohan	Duke Ellington - American jazz
Franz Joseph Haydn - Austrian composer	Bengt Johansson - Finnish composer
Karl L. King - March composer	Pekka Kostiainen - Finnish composer
Stevan Mokranjac - Serbian composer	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Austrian composer
John Stafford Smith	John Phillip Sousa  - U.S. Marine Band
Jean Sibelius - Finnish composer

Magicians

Alexander Herrmann	Blackstone
Harry Houdini	Howard Thurston

Aviators

Bernt Balchen	Claire Chennault
James H. Doolittle	Charles Lindbergh
Eddie Rickenbacker	Wiley Post

Authors and Poets

Hermann Bahr	William Shakespeare – Writer
Francis J. Bellans - Pledge of Allegiance	Robert Burns
Samuel L. Clemens - Mark Twain	Carlo Collodi - 'Pinocchio'
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes	Edward Gibbon - Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Sir William S. Gilbert - H.M.S. Pinafore	Harold Lincoln Gray - Little Orphan Annie
Josiah Henson - Uncle Tom's Cabin	Frank Reed Horton - Textbook author
Francis Scott Key - National Anthem	Rudyard Kipling - British writer
Felix Salten - Creator of Bambi	Aleksandr Sergeyvich Pushkin - Russian poet
Sir Walter Scott - Novelist and poet	Robert W. Service - Canadian poet
Alexander Petrovich Sumarkov - Russian dramatist and poet	Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels
Voltaire - French writer	Booker T Washington - Educator and author
Edgar Guest - American Poet	George Trendle - Creator Lone Ranger

Military Leaders

General Henry "Hap" Arnold	Admiral Arleigh Burke
General Omar N. Bradley	William J. Crowe Jr.
General James Doolittle	Nicholas Herkimer - Brigadier General
Sam Houston American general	Mikhail Kutuzov - Russian field marshal
General Douglas MacArthur	General John Joseph Pershing "Black Jack"
General George E. Pickett	General Rufus Putnam
Admiral Alfred Von Tirpitz	Colonel William B. Travis
Major General Lewis Wallace	General Joseph Warren, M.D.
Admiral Ernest King	Admiral William Rayborne
Admiral William A. Sizemore

Entertainers

Gene Autry	Carl Ballintine
Wallace Beery	Mel Blanc
Monte Blue	Ernest Borgnine
William "Buffalo Bill" Cody	Ben DeBar – Shakesperian
Douglas Fairbanks	W.C. Fields
Glen Ford	Clark Gable
Arthur Godfrey	Oliver Hardy
	Burl Ives
Elmo Lincoln - 'Tarzan of the Apes' (1918)	Harold C. Lloyd
Tom Mix	Audie Murphy
Michael Richards - "Kramer"	Roy Rogers
Will Rogers	Telly Savalas
Peter Sellers	Charles "Tom Thumb" Stratton
Carl "Alalfa" Switzer	Danny Thomas
Red Skelton	John - "The Duke" Wayne
Eddie Cantor	Norm Crosby
Jonathan Winters	Don Defore
Bud Abbott	Foster Brooks
Joe E. Brown	Charles Coburn
Royal Dano	Kris Kristofferson

Country and Western Singers

Roy Acuff	Eddie Arnold
Roy Clark	Charlie Walker
Ray Stevens	Billy J. Parker - Country Music DJ
Carl Perkins

Astronauts

Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin
John H. Glenn Jr.	Virgil "Gus" Grissom
Edgar D. Mitchell	Walter M. Schirra
Gordon Cooper	Paul Weitz
Fred Haise	Don Eisle
Thomas Stafford

Musicians

Louis Armstrong	Monroe Althouse - Director, Ringgold Band
William "Count" Basie	Nat 'King' Cole
Al Jolson	Paul Whiteman
Tony Martin	Mel Tillis
Charles "Buck" Trent

Businessmen and Developers

Charles Adams - NHL Developer	Harold Alfond - Dexter Shoe Company
Lloyd Balfour - Jewelry	Lawrence Bell - Bell Aircraft Corp.
Bartholomew Berthold	Ballington Booth- Volunteers of America
Walter P Chrysler - Chrysler Corporation	Andre Citroen - Motor car manufacturer
Samuel Colt - Firearms	Robert E. B. Baylor - Baylor University
John T. Desaguliers - Planetarium	WIlliam Henry Dow - Dow Chemical Co.
Edwin L. Drake - Oil industry	W.E.B. DuBois - Co-founder of the NAACP
Jean Henri Dunant - Red Cross	Eberhard Faber - Eberhard Faber Pencil Company
Sir Alexander Fleming - Penicillin	Henry Ford - Ford Motor Company
Richard J. Gatling - Gatling Gun	King C. Gillette - Gillette Safety Razor Co.
Joseph Ignace Guillotin - Guillotine	Richard M. Hoe – Inventor
Edward Jenner - Vaccination.	Melvin Jones - Lions International
Simon Lake - Submarine	Frank S. Land - Order of DeMolay
Sir Thomas Lipton - Tea	John B. MacLean - MacLeans Magazine
Hart Massey - Farm equipment	Dr. William and Charles Mayo - Mayo Clinic
Fredrick Maytag - Washing machine	Clyde L. McCoy - wah-wah – trumpet
Andrew Mellon - Gulf Oil Corporation	George Jacob Mercherle - Founder of State Farm Insurance
Franz Anton Mesmer - Mesmerism	Albert Abraham Michelson - Speed of light
John Molson - Molson Breweries	Jacques Etienne Montgolfier - Hot-air balloon
Ransom E. Olds - Olds Motor Company	George Pullman - Sleeping car on train
David Sarnoff - RCA	Antoine Joseph Sax – Saxophone
Julius Earl Schaefer - Boeing Wichita	(Amasa) Leland Stanford - Railroads
Andrew T. Still - Osteopathy	John W. Teets - Dial Corporation
Dave Thomas - Wendy's	Jack Warner - Warner Brothers
Darryl F. Zanuck - 20th Century Productions	C.D. Bradham - Pepsi Cola Company
Avery Bundage - US Olympic president	Curtis Carlson - Radisson Hotels
Dr. Gordon Farhrni - Iodized salt	Col. Harland Sanders – KFC
Walter Sheaffer - Sheaffer Pen Co.	Amedeo Obici - Planters Peanut Co.
John Fitch - The Steamboat	Grock - Swiss Circus Clown
Charles C. Hilton - American Hotelier	Dr. Robert Morris - Poet and Founder of the Order of Eastern Star
James C. Penny - Retailer	George Schoonover - Founder "The Builder"
Zebulon Pike - "Pike's Peak"

Sports

Ty Cobb - Baseball	Earl Bryan Combs – Baseball
Jack Dempsey - Boxer	Rogers Hornsby – Baseball
Theodore A. Lyons - Baseball	James Naismith - Invented the game of basketball
Arnold Palmer - Golf Professional	"Sugar Ray"Robinson – Prizefighter
Alex G. Spanos - Owner of the San Diego Chargers	Sir Frederick Arthur Stanley - Stanley Cup
Mickey Cochrane - Baseball	Tris Speaker – Baseball
Bart Starr - Football	Cy Young – Baseball

Film Directors/Producers

Cecil B. DeMille	Louis B. Mayer
William Wyler

Miscellaneous

Clyde Beaty - Animal Trainer	Clifford Berryman – Cartoonist
Gutzon & Lincoln Borglum - Father & son who carved Mt. Rushmore	William Jennings Bryan - US Secretary of State
Henry Clay - Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives	Marcelo delPilar - "Father of Philippine Masonry"
Benjamin A. Gilman - Congressman	J. Edgar Hoover - Director of the FBI
Hubert H. Humphrey - Vice President under Lyndon Johnson	Reverend Jesse Jackson - Minister and American civil rights leader and politician
John Paul Jones - Naval hero	Robert Livingston - American statesman and diplomat - Louisiana Territory
James W. Marshall - Discovered Gold at Sutter's Mill in California in 1848	Ringling Brothers - Circus brothers
Stuart Symington - First Secretary of the U.S. Air Force	Lowell Thomas - American radio commentator, Lawrence of Arabia
Bertel Thorvaldsen - Danish sculptor	Steven J. Trachtenberg - President, George Washington University
Robert Pershing Wadlow - Tallest human on record being almost 9 feet tall	Charles E. Schumer – Congressman
Matthew Webb - English Channel	William White - Baylor University
Meridth Willson - The Music Man - 76 Trombones!	Percy Wootton, M.D. - AMA President
Florenz Ziegfeld - Ziegfeld's Follies	Anton Cermak - Mayor of Chicago
Thomas Dewey - Lawyer	Fritz Freleng – Cartoonist
Fiorello LaGuardi - Mayor of New York	Daniel Carter Beard Boy Scouts
Frederic A. Bartholdi - Designed the Statue of Liberty	Joseph Brant - Chief of the Mohawaks
Father Francisco Calvo - Father of Freemasonry in Costa Rica	Geoffrey Fisher - Archbishop of Canterbury
Cornelius Hedges - Father of Yellowstone National Park	Patrick Henry – Patriot
James Hoban - Architect for U.S. Capital	Aga Khan III – Statesman
Marquis de Lafayette - Supporter of American Freedom	Harry S. New - Postmaster established Airmail
James Otis - "Taxations without Representation is Tyranny" Noted for:	Charles F. Papst - Coined "Athletes Foot"
Paul Revere - Famous American	Simon Bolivar "El Liberator" - Liberator of Four (4) South America Countries and creator of Bolivia

 Text format was copied from the AASR San Diego Website
With permission from Bro. Bob Powell, K.·.C.·.C.·.H.·.

Courtesy of WB Gani Hernandez

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