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Masons of Note
FDR Receives Posthumous Honor
At the Supreme Council Session on August 25, Brother and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was awarded the 33rd Degree.
Brother Roosevelt was made a Mason in Holland Lodge No. 8, New York City, on October 11, 1911. He joined the Albany Consistory in 1929. Despite being a somewhat active Mason (given his position), he was never elected to receive the 33rd Degree.
In 2013, Brother Roosevelt was the first recipient of the Daniel Tompkins Award for Distinguished Service.
“It is truly a shame that such a great man and Mason had never received proper recognition for all that he did for his country. I am glad we were able to remedy that this year,” Commander Glattly said.
Congressman John Lewis Laid to Rest
The Honorable John Lewis, 33°, passed to the Celestial Lodge on July 10, 2020 after a long fight with pancreatic cancer.
Brother Lewis was a member of the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Georgia since having been made a Mason at Sight in 1999. He was Coroneted a Sovereign Grand Inspector General at the 2011 session of the United Supreme Council in Atlanta.
Brother Lewis was the youngest speaker at the 1963 March on Washington (where Dr. Martin Luther King gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech). Illustrious Brother Lewis leaves behind a legacy of fighting for equality and justice for all.
He was laid to rest with Masonic honors on July 29th in the rotunda of the Georgia State Capitol.
