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#134 A.: F.: & A.: M.:

James Buchanan        Gerald R. Ford                James A. Garfield 

Warren G. Harding      Andrew Jackson            Andrew Johnson

Lyndon Johnson          William McKinley           James Monroe

James K. Polk              RonaldReagan                Franklin D. Roosevelt 

Theodore Roosevelt   William Howard Taft       Harry S. Truman

George Washington

Oliver Ellsworth                 John Jay                             John Marshall

Frederick M. Vinson          Earl Warren

plus 39 total Justices.

Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin      Neil Armstrong                Virgil L. Grissom

Edgar D. Mitchell               Walter “Wally” Schirra    Thomas Stafford

Paul J. Weitz

plus others

Bud Abbott (Comedian)                                                              Roy Acuff (Country & Western singer)  

Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin (Second man on moon)                       Grover C. Alexander (Hall of Fame baseball pitcher)  

Rex Allen (Western actor)                                                           Roald Amundsen (Polar explorer)

Sir Edward Victor Appleton (Discovered the Ionosphere)          Louis Armstrong (Jazz musician)

Neil Armmstrong (First man on moon)                                       Eddy Arnold (Country & Western singer)

General Hap Arnold (Creator and first head of U. S. Air Force) 

 John Jacob Astor (Financier)                                               Stephen Austin (Texas leader)                                                   

 Gene Autry (Western singer, actor)                                        Johan Christian Bach (Composer)

 Frederic Auguste Bartholdi (Statue of Liberty sculptor)        William “Count” Basie (Musician)

 Daniel Carter Beard (Boy Scouts founder)                            Clyde Beatty (Lion tamer, circus owner)                                     

Wallace Beery (Actor)                                                            Lawrence Bell (Bell Aircraft founder)                                         

Francis Bellamy (Wrote “Pledge of Allegance”)                   “Chief” Bender (Hall of Fame baseball pitcher)                          

Thomas Hart Benton (Painter)                                              Irving Berlin (Composer, “White Christmas”)                    

Ludwig Van Beethoven (Composer)                                    Harry Blackstone (Magician)                                                      

Mel Blanc (“Man of 1,000 voices)

Simon Bolivar (“Liberator of South America, “Father” of Bolivia) Napoleon Bonaparte (French emperor)

Daniel Boone (Outdoorsman)                                                   Jules Bordet (Developed whooping coough vaccine, Nobel)

Gutzon and Lincoln Borglum (Mount Rushmore sculptors—and two of the four Presidents are Masons) 

 Ernest Borginine (Actor)                                                           James Boswell (Writer)

Jim Bowie (Invented Bowie knife, Alamo defender)                 General Omar Bradley (WWII general, first Chief-of-Staff)

William Jennings Bryan (Politician, great orator)                     Luther Burbank (Botanist, researcher)

Admiral Arleigh A. Burke (WWII admiral)                                 Robert Burns (Scottish national poet)

Sir Richard Burton (Greatest 19th Century explorer, writer)

Rear Admiral Richard Byrd (Explorer, first man to North and South Poles)

Rod Cameron (Western actor)                                                   Eddie Cantor (Comedian, singer)

Kit Carson (Frontier scout, explorer)                                        Alexander Jay Cartwright (Probably true inventor of baseball)

Casanova (Italian adventurer, writer)                                     Marc Chagall (Renown modern painter)

Jean Francois Chalgrin (Designed Arc De Triomphe De L’Etoile in Paris)

Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault (WWII Flying Tigers)               Andre Citroen (European car maker)

Roy Clark (Country-Western singer)                                       Walter P. Chrysler (Industrialist, car manufacturer)

Sir Winston S. Churchill (Soldier, author, two-time Prime Minister of England including WWII)

William Clark (Frontier explorer)                                          Henry Clay (Politician, revolutionary)

Samuel Langhorn “Mark Twain” Clemens (Author/humorist)

DeWitt Clinton (Invented railroad locomotive)

“Ty” Cobb (Hall of Fame baseball player and one of the best ever batters)

William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody (Pony Express rider, scout, Medal of Honor winner, buffalo hunter, showman)

George M. Cohan (Broadway entertainer)                           Nat “King” Cole (Singer)

Samuel Colt (Made “six gun” famous)                                 Davy Crockett (Frontier explorer, Alamo defender)

Cecil B. De Mille (Movie producer)                                    Jack Dempsey (Famous heavyweight boxer, perhaps best ever)

John T. Desaguliers (Invented the planetarium)     

Billy Dixon Renowned 7/8-mile shot at Adobe Walls with Sharps .45-90 rifle.

Lt. George Dixon (First submarine commander)                 

Maj. Gen. James R. Doolittle (Flew first outside loop, first instrument landing,and led B-25s from carrier Hornet to bomb Japan in 1942)

Stephen A. Douglas (Politician)                                         William H. Dow (Founder Dow Chemical Company)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author)                                        Edwin L. Drake (Drilled first oil well)

Henri Dunant (Creator of Red Cross)                                   Gustave A. Eiffel (Engineer, builder of Eiffel Tower)

”Duke” Ellington (Jazz musician)                                      Bob Evans (Founder of Bob Evans Restaurants)

John Elway Twice Superbowl winning quarterback, 50,000-plus NFL yards

Douglas Fairbanks Sr. (Actor)                                       Bob “Rapid Robert” Feller (Baseball fastball strike-out pitcher)

W. C. Fields (Comedian, actor)                                     John Fitch (Invented steamboat)

Sir Alexander Fleming (Scientist, discoverer of penicillin)

Gerald Ford (U.S.A. President)                                      Glenn Ford (Actor)

Henry Ford (Industrialist, car manufacturer, began assembly line)

Benjamin Franklin (Statesman, diplomat, inventor, signer of  Declaration of Independence)

Clark Gable (Actor, “Gone with the Wind”)                      Richard Jordan Gatling (Gatling gun inventor)

Gilbert & Sullivan (Composers)                                       King Camp Gillette (Inventor of razor blade shaver)

John Glenn (Astronaut, first American to orbit Earth)      Arthur Godfrey (Entertainer)

Johann Von Goethe (Author, poet)                                 Barry Goldwater (Senator, Goldwater Fellowships)

Charles Goodnight (Texas Ranger, cattle king, Western cattle trail maker)

Curt Gowdy (Sports broadcaster)                                    Albert Belmont Graham (Father of 4-H Clubs)

Virgil “Gus” Grissom (Astronaut)                                  Edgar A. Guest (Writer)

Gustavus V (King of Sweden)                                        Alexander Hamilton (Signer of Declaration of Independence)

Lional Hampton (Musician)                                      John Hancock (Signer of Declaration of Independence with large script)

William C. Handy (Musician, singer, song writer)         Oliver Hardy (Comedian, “Laurel & Hardy”)

Franz Joseph Haydn (Composer)                                Cornelius Hedges (“Father” of Yellowstone National Park)

Charles C. Hilton (Hilton Hotels)                                    James Hoban (Designed original and rebuilt White House)

Richard M. Hoe (Invented rotary press)                        Will Hogarth (English painter)

J. Edgar Hoover (Director of F.B.I.)                                Frank G. Hoover (Made vacuum cleaner popular)

Bob Hope (Comedian, actor)                                       Rogers Hornsby (Hall of Fame baseball,one of the best ever batters)

Harry Houdini (Magician, entertainer)                          General Sam Houston (Texas leader Mexican War)

Burl Ives (Singer, entertainer)                                     President Andrew Jackson (General, U.S.A. President)

Edward Jenner (Developed vaccine against smallpox)      Al Jolson (Singer, entertainer)

Captain John Paul Jones (Revolutionary War hero: “Surrender? I have not yet begun to fight!”)

Melvin Jones )Founder Lions International)                  Benito Pablo Juarez (President, leader of Mexican revolution)

King Kamehameha (Hawaii ruler)                                    Emmett Kelly (Famous circus clown)

Francis Scott Key (Wrote “The Star Spangled Banner”)    Rudyard Kipling (Author, poet)

Henry Knox (Washington’s Sceretary of War, created U. S. Military Academy)

Marquis de Lafayette (French general aided America in Revolutionary War)

Fiorello LaGuardia (New York City’s most flamboyant mayor)

Frank S. Land (Founder of the Masonic Order of DeMolay)

Benjamin Latrobe (“Father of American architecture”, rebuilt Capitol building)

Captain James Lawrence (“Don’t give up the ship” War of 1812)

Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee (Famous Civil War cavalry general)

Meriwether Lewis (Frontier explorer)      Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh (First solo NYC to Paris, fighter pilot, aviator!)

Sir Thomas J. Lipton (Tea magnate, ocean racing sailboat captain)

Franz Liszt (Pianist, composer)                                               Harold Lloyd (Actor, comedian)

John Loudon MacAdam (Macadamizing or “blacktopping” roads)

General Douglas MacArthur (Pacific commander and general WWII and Korean War, took Japanses surrender, Japan Administrator)

James Madison (“Father of the Constitution”, U.S.A. President)

James W. Marshall (Discovered gold at Sutter’s Mill, California in1848)

John Marshal (Chief Justice Supreme Court)

General George C. Marshall (WWII general, developed Marshall Plan to aid Europe after WWII)

Peter C. Marshall (Minister, speaker)                                     Thurgood Marshall (Supreme Court Justice)

“Christy” Matheson (Hall of Fame baseball pitcher)                Louis B. Mayer (M-G-M movie executive)

Dr. Charles H. Mayo (Co-established Mayo Clinic)                William W. Mayo (Co-established Mayo Clinic)

Frederick Maytag (Industrialist, car manufacturer that led to “Jeep”)

John L. McAdam (Invented “tarmac” or blacktop roads)

Geroge Jacob Mecherle (Founder State Farm Mututal Insurance Companies)

Lauritz Melchior (Opera singer)                                        Charles F. and Karl A. Menninger (Established Menninger Clinic)

Edwin T. Meredith (Founder Meredith Publishing Company—Successful Farming and Better Homes & Gardens)

Albert Michelson (Co-discoverer of the speed of light)          Tom Mix (Cowboy actor in 400 films)

John Molson (Molson brewing)                                           James Monroe (U.S.A. President, Monroe Doctrine)

Jacques E. Montgolfier (Co-developer first hot air balloon)  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Classical era’s greatest omposer)

Audie Murphy (WWII Medal of Honor,  most decorated soldier WWII, actor)

Eddie Murphy (Comedian, actor)                                          James Naismith (Invented basketball)

Admiral Horatio Nelson (Greatest of all British sea warriors)   Harry S. New (Postmaster general established airmail)

Samuel Nicholas (Creator of U. S. Marine Corps)          Ernest Nys (Established code for the humane POW treatment)

Daniel O’Connell (Irish “Liberator”)                                  Hans Christian Oersted (“Father” of electromagnetism)

Wilhelm Ostwald (Founder modern physical chemistry)       Arnold Palmer (Golf professional)

Nathaniel B. Palmer (Discoverer of Antarctica—Palmer Station)

Norman Vincent Peale (Minister, speaker, writer)           Commodore Robert E. Peary (Explorer, first to reach North Pole)

James C. Penny (Established J. C. Penny stores, merchant)

Commodore Matthew Perry (“Opened” Japan to American trade)

General John “Blackjack” Pershing (Led expedition into Mexico against Pancho Villa, in charge of Allies WWI)

Alvert Pike (Masonic author of “Morals and Dogma”, ritual writer

Joel Poinsett (Ambassador, brought Christmas flower from Mexico)

Roscoe Pound (Jurist, author)                                  George M. Pullman (Developed railroad dining and sleeping cars)

Aleksandr Pushkin (Russian poet)                           Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles (Founder of Singapore)

Ronald Reagan (President U. S. A.)                          Admiral William E. Reynolds (First U. S. Coast Guard admiral)

Paul Revere (Silversmith, “The British are coming!” Revolutionary War alerter)

Charles Richet (Discovered allergies)          Eddie Rickenbacker (Aviator, leading WWI American ace, airline executive)

Branch Rickey (Baseball executive)                           Ringling Brothers (Largest circus in world)

Tex Ritter (Western actor)                                      Sugar Ray Robinson (Pound-for-pound, probably best boxer ever)

Jimmie Rodgers (Singer)                                     Roy Rogers (Cowboy singer, actor)

Will Rogers (Humorist, actor)                                     Sigmund Romberg (Composer)

Theodore Roosevelt ((U.S.A. President), cattleman, NYC Police Commissioner, leader up San Juan hill Spanish American War, first president to preserve national parks, first U. S. A. president to win Nobel Peace Prize, “Teddy  Bear” named for him)

Brig. General Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (WWII hero, Medal of Honor)

Franklin D. Roosevelt (four-term U.S.A. President)                    Felix Salten (Wrote “Bambi”)

Jose de San Martin (Liberator of Peru)                                          Harlan Sanders (Founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken)

David Sarnoff (“Father” of American  TV)                                    Antoine Joseph Sax (Invented the saxophone)

Robert Scott (English explorer)                                                     Randolph Scott (Actor)

Sir Walter Scott (Writer, poet)                                                   Peter Sellers (Actor)

Sir Ernest Shackleton (Antarctic explorer, great leader)         Christian Sharps (Inventer of Sharps beech-loading rifle)

Jean Sibelius (Composer)                                                   “Red” Skelton (Comedian)

Joseph Smith (Founder Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints)

James Smithson (Legacy provided for foundation of Smithsonian Institution)

John Philip Sousa (Composer “Stars and Stripes Forever”, band director)

Tris Speaker (One of best baseball players.                          Leland Stanford (Railroad tycoon, founder Stanford University))

Andrew Still (Founded Osteopathy)                            General “Vinegar Joe” Stillwell (General WWII SE Asia)

Jonathon Swift (Authorl poet, “Gulliver’s Travels”                   Danny Thomas (Entertainer)

Dave Thomas (Foounder Wendy’s)                                        Lowell Thomas (Writer, broadcaster, speaker)

Henry David Thoreau (Poet, naturalist, essayist)                     William Thornton (Original designer of White House)

Mel Tillis (Singer)                                                                 Harry S. Truman (U.S.A. President)

Roscoe Turner (“Smiling Jack” comic strip cartoonist)              

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire (Author, “Enlightenment” philosopher)

Robert Pershing Wadlow (Tallest human on record)               General Jonathan M. Wainwright (Famous WWII general)

Oscar of the Waldorf {Probably most famous chef ever)       Lewis Wallace (Writer, “Ben Hur”)

Thomas Ustick Walter (Designed Capitol’s flanking wings and dome)

John Wanamaker (Department store founder, merchant)         Earl Warren (Chief Justice, Supreme Court)

Jack Warner (Producer, head of Warner Brothers Pictures)      

Booker T. Washington (Educator and first Tuskegee Institute teacher)

George Washington (General of Continental Army, first President of U.S.A.—plus 33 of his Revolutionary War generals were Masons)

Thomas J. Watson (IBM CEO who founded the computer power)                  John Wayne (Actor)

Captain Matthew Webb (First person to swim the English Channel)

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, (English general who at Waterloo finally defeated Napoleon)

Paul Whiteman (“King of Jazz”)                                         Oscar Wilde (Wit and dramatist)

Benjamin D. Wilson (Astronomer, Mt. Wilson Observatory named for him)

Sir P. G. Wodehouse (Author)                            Grant Wood (Painter)

General Leonard C. Wood (Colonel Spanish American War, Cuba Administrator, stamped out Yellow Fever)

Steve Wozniak (Co-founder of Apple Computer, Inc.)

Sir Christopher Wren (Architect, builder of St. Paul’s Cathedral)

Orville and Wilbur Wright (First heavier than air flight, manufacturers of aircraft)

Brigham Young (Minister, led Mormans to the “Promised Land”

Denton “Cy” Young (Hall of Fame baseball pitcher, maybe best ever)

Darryl F. Zanuck (Movie executive)                  Florenz Ziegfeld (“Ziegfeld Follies”

Thanks to Chett Peterson for this information.