#Freemason BOOKER T. WASHINGTON (1856-1915) was an educator, author and leader in the African-American community at the turn of the 20th century. (Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts)
FUN FACT: Most people are aware that the Statue of Liberty was a gift from France. However, many are not aware that a #Freemason designed the statue and there is a Masonic plaque at its base.
#Freemason Theodore Roosevelt (1858 – 1919) was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th U.S. President from 1901 to 1909.
Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) was the 96th Supreme Court Justice of the United States, serving from October 1967 until October 1991, and its first African-American justice. He was also a #Freemason.
PAUL REVERE was a #Freemason. He was initiated into St. Andrew's Lodge, and became a Royal Arch Mason in 1769. Revere was a patriot in the American Revolution. The sculpture below to honor him stands in modern-day Boston.
#Freemason EDWARD JENNER (1749-1823) is credited for discovering the scientific principles of immunization and for engineering the vaccine for smallpox. His dream of a world without smallpox became reality 56 years after his death, when the World Health Organization declared smallpox an eradicated disease. (Lodge of Faith and Friendship No. 449, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, 1802.)