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Freemason: Benjamin Franklin

Blake Bowden

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January 6, 1706 O.S. - April 17, 1790

American printer — he published the first book in the colonies, Anderson’s Constitutions of 1723 — author, postmaster, statesman, scientist and philosopher, Franklin was instrumental in the formation of the United States.

Initiated: February 1730-1
Secretary: 1735-38
St. John’s Lodge, Philadelphia
Junior Grand Warden: June 24, 1732
Grand Master: June 24, 1734
Provincial Grand Master, Boston: June 10, 1749
Provincial Grand Master, Philadelphia: June 1760
Deputy Grand Master: March 13, 1750
Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania
Venerable Master: 1779-80, 1782
Loge des Neuf Soeurs, Paris
 

Warrior1256

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He was! It was a shame that, because of a dust up over Grand Lodge jurisdiction, he was denied a Masonic funeral.
 
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