Famous Masons
Brother Franklin Delano Roosevelt
January 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945
President Roosevelt, more comonly known as FDR was initiated on October 10, 1911, passed November 14, 1911, and raised November 12, 1911 in Holland Lodge No. 8, in New York City. On March 26, 1930, he became a Shriner in Cyrus Temple, AAONOMS
He received his 32nd degree from the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite in the Albany Consistory on March 30, 1931. He was also a member of Greenwood Forest, Tall Cedars of Lebanon in Warwick, New York. On October 30, 1931, he was made a Prophet at Sight in Tri-Po-Bed Grotto, MOVPER (Mystic Order Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm) of Poughkeepsie, New York. Franklin Roosevelt held a number of honorary memberships in various Masonic lodges, among them in the Architect Lodge, No. 519, New York, where he raised his sons, Franklin, Jr. and James, on November 7, 1935. He was also an Honorary Grand Master of Georgia, and, in 1934, was made Honorary Grand Master of the Order of Demolay.
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