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Freemason Founding Fathers

39 men signed the U.S. Constitution. 13 were Freemasons.

Gunning Bedford, Jr., 1st Grand Master of Delaware
John Blair, 1st Grand Master of Virginia
David Brearley, 1st Grand Master of New Jersey
Jacob Broom, officer in his Lodge
Daniel Carroll, Mason who participated in the Masonic cornerstone laying of the U.S. Capitol, with George Washington
Jonathan Dayton, Member of Temple Lodge No. 1 in Elizabethtown, NJ
John Dickinson, Member of a Lodge in Dover, Delaware
Benjamin Franklin, Grand Master of Pennsylvania
Nicholas Gilman, Member of a St. John's Lodge No. 1, Portsmouth, N.H.
Rufus King, Member of St. John's Lodge, Newburyport, Massachusetts
James McHenry, Member of Spiritual Lodge No. 23, Maryland (raised 1806, "struck off" 1809)
William Paterson, Member of Trenton Lodge No. 5
George Washington, Raised in the Lodge at Fredericksburg (now Fredericksburg Lodge No. 4), named but did not actively serve as Charter Master of Alexandria Lodge No. 22 in 1788-1789

56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. 9 were Freemasons.

William Ellery, First Lodge of Boston, 1748
Benjamin Franklin, Grand Master of Pennsylvania, 1734
John Hancock, became a Mason in Merchants Lodge No. 277 in Quebec, affiliated with Saint Andrew's Lodge in Boston, 1762
Joseph Hewes or Howes, Unanimity Lodge No. 7, visited in 1776, and buried with Masonic funeral honors
William Hooper, Member of Hanover Lodge in Masonborough, N.C.
Robert Treat Paine, Attended Massachusetts Grand Lodge in 1759
Richard Stockton, Charter Master of St. John's Lodge in Princeton NJ 1765
George Walton, Solomon's Lodge No. 1, in Savannah GA
William Whipple, St. John's Lodge, Portsmouth NH 1752

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Freemason Founding Fathers

US Presidents who were Freemasons