Welcome to Pickaway Lodge #23

Welcome to Pickaway Lodge #23
113½ South Court St.,Circleville, Ohio

Masons Who Were Presidents of the United States

	George Washington: 1st President, Initiated Nov. 4, 1752, Passed March 3, 1753, Raised Aug. 4, 1753 all in Fredericksburg Lodge (later No. 4) at Fredericksburg, Va.
	James Monroe: 5th President, born 1758; died 1831. Initiated in Williamsburg Lodge No. 6 at Williamsburg, Va., Nov. 9, 1775.
	Andrew Jackson: 7th President, born 1767, died 1829.(Dates of Initiation, Passing and Raising are all unknown) Grand Master of Tennessee, 1822-23.
	James K. Polk: 11th President, born 1795; died 1849. Initiated, Passed, and Raised in Columbia Lodge No. 31, Columbia, Tenn.
	James Buchanan: 15th President, Born 1791; died 1868;(1857-1861). Initiated December 11, 1816, in Lodge 43, at Lancaster, PA. Passed and Raised in 1817.
	Andrew Johnson: 17th President, born 1808 died 1875; Initiated, Passed and Raised in Greeneville Lodge No. 119 now No. 3 at Greeneville, Tenn. in 1851.
	James A. Garfield: 20th President, born 1831; died 1881; Initiated and Passed in Magnolia Lodge No. 20, Columbus, Ohio, and Raised in Columbus Lodge No.3O, 1864.
	William McKinley: 25th President, born 1843; died 1901; Initiated, Passed, and Raised in Hiram Lodge No. 21 in Winchester, Virginia in 1865.
	Theodore Roosevelt: 26th President, born 1858, died 1919. Initiated, Passed, and Raised in Matinecock Lodge No. 806, Oyster Bay, N. Y. in 1901.
	William H. Taft: 27th President, born 1857; died 1930. Made a Mason at sight in Kilwinning Lodge No. 356, Cincinnati, Ohio in 1901.
	Warren G. Harding: 29th President born 1865; died 1923. Initiated in Marion Lodge No. 7O, Marion, Ohio, 1901, Passed and Raised in Marion Lodge in 1920.
	Franklin D. Roosevelt: 32nd President, born 1882; died 1945. Initiated, passed, and raised in Holland Lodge No. 8, New York City, in 1911.
	Harry S. Truman: 33rd President, born 1884; died 1972. Initiated, Passed, and Raised in Belton Lodge No 450, Lamar, Missouri.
	Lyndon B. Johnson: 36th President of the US. Initiated on October 30, 1937, in Johnson City Lodge 561, Johnson City, Texas.
	Gerald Ford: 38th President, born July 14, 1913. Received the degrees in Malta Lodge No. 405, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Other Notable Masons in Politics

VICE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES:
George Clinton, Elbridge Gerry, Daniel D. Tompkins, Richard M. Johnson, George M. Dallas, William R. King, John C.
Breckenridge, Andrew Johnson, Schuyler Colfax, Adlai E. Stevenson, Garret A. Hobart, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas R.
Marshall, Henry A. Wallace, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson (E.A.), Hubert H. Humphrey, Gerald R. Ford.

SUPREME COURT JUSTICES:
Hugo L. Black, John Blair, Jr., Samuel Blatchford, Henry Baldwin, Harold H. Burton, James F. Byrnes, John Catton, Thomas
C. Clark, John H. Clarke, William Cushing, Willis Van Devanter, William O. Douglas, Oliver Ellsworth, Stephen J. Field, John
M. Harlan, Robert H. Jackson, Joseph E. Lamar, John Marshall, - Chief Justice U.S. Supreme Court 1801 - 1835, Thurgood
Marshall, Stanley Mathews, Sherman Minton, William H. Moody, Samuel Nelson, William Paterson, Mahlon Pitney, Stanley
F. Reed, Wiley B. Rutledge, Potter Stewart, Noah H. Swayne, Thomas Todd, Robert Trimble, Frederick M. Vinson, Earl
Warren, Levi Woodbury, William B. Woods.

SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE:
William Ellery RI, Benjamin Franklin PA, John Hancock MA, Joseph Hewes NC, William Hooper NC, Robert Treat Paine
MA, Richard Stockton NJ, George Walton GA, William Whipple NH, Eldridge Gerry MA.

SIGNERS OF THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION:
Daniel Carroll, Jonathan Bayard Smith, Henry Laurens, John Dickison, John Harvie, John Hancock, Cornelius Harnett, Daniel
Roberdeau.

SIGNERS OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION:
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.

AMERICA'S EARLY PATRIOTS:
Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Paul Revere, John Paul Jones, Marquuis de Lafayette, Rufus King, James Otis, Baron von
Steuben, Joseph Warren, James Otis.

AMERICAN POLITICIANS:
Aaron Burr, George McGovern, Barry Goldwater - U.S. Senator - Presidential Candidate, Thomas E. Dewey - Governor of
New York, Alf Landon, Wendell Wilke, William Jennings Bryant - U.S. Secretary of State, Henry Clay - Speaker of the U.S.
House of Representatives, Benjamin A.Gilman - , Robert Livingston - American statesman and diplomat - Louisiana Territory,
Charles E. Schumer - U.S. House of Representatives, Fiorello LaGuardi - Mayor of New York City, Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr -
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Estes Kefauver - U.S. Senator - Presidential Candidate, Lewis Cass - U.S. Senator, Henry
Dodge - U.S. Senator, Samuel J. Ervin Jr. - U.S. Senator, Edmund G. Ross - U.S. Senator, Stuart Symington - U.S. Senator,
Henry "Scoop" Jackson - U.S. Senator, Thomas Hart Benton - U.S. Senator, Robert J. "Bob" Dole - U.S. Senator -
Presidential Candidate, Michael B. Enzi - U.S. Senator, Sam Nunn - U.S. Senator, Strom Thurmond - U.S. Senator, George
C. Wallace - Governor, William King - Governor, Frederick Bates - Governor, John A. Quitman - Governor, Shadrach Bond
- Governor, Roy Barnes - Governor.

MILITARY LEADERS:
Omar Bradley, John J. Pershing, General Douglas McArthur - Commander of Armed Forces in the Philipines, General Winfield
Scott, Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle - Famous Air Force Pilot, General Mark Clark, General George C.
Marshall, General Henry "Hap" - Commander of the Army Air Force, Admiral Richard E. Byrd - Flew over the North Pole,
John Paul Jones - First Admiral of the U.S. Navy, Marquis de Lafayette - Supporter of American Freedom, Charles Lindbergh
- First pilot to cross the Atlantic, General George B. McClelland - Army of the Potomac, Presidential candidate against
Abraham Lincoln, faced General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Antietam and twice Governor of New Jersey, Major General
Richard Montgomery - First General of the Continental Army killed in the Battle for Quebec, Audy Murphy - most decorated
soldier of WWII, Robert E. Peary - First man to reach the North Pole in 1909, Eddie Rickenbacker - Air Force Ace Pilot,
Alfred von Tirpitz - German Naval officer responsible for submarine warfare, Stuart Symington - First Secretary of the U.S. Air
Force, General Omar Bradley - West Point Lodge No.877, NY , Admiral William Leahy, Admiral Ernest King, Admiral
Chester Nimitz, Admiral William 'Bull' Halsey, General John Pershing, General Carl Spaatz.

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