Which singers are freemasons

Blacksword wrote: I made my excuses and declined, having convinced myself I was being sucked into a world of drinking chickens blood and rough orgies with kidnapped drugged local virgins.. Is it just me or does this not seem like very logical decision-making?

A simple Google search will turn up many names of musicians and others supposedly in various Masonic Lodges. A jazz connection The 'Illuminati' who did exist at one time 18th century allegedly infiltrated Masonic Lodges in Europe and were disbanded by the authorities in Bavaria or Austria..? This has been written about many times. Some like Jim Marrs believe they essentially control the planet or at least those nations that matter It's out there but very interesting.

CPicard wrote: Free Masonery is not a secret society, it's a discreet society: in Paris, they have a museum open to the public, from tuesday to saturday, from Maybe not there but in Canada it is. All their windows are boarded up or blackened and I know someone who was a part of it and it's no wonder they don't want the public to see their ridiculous traditions.

Every little town here seems to have one of those good old boys clubs and if you leave like my friend did you might as well move out of town he did 'cause you are treated as an outcast. They probably fear you will spill the beans on their embarrassing antics. Cute outfits too by the way. Maybe some early Musique Concrete. It is a secret society as it operates within government and justice. There is nothing discreet about the nefarious back-room favours among fellow masons.

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Taft was elected president in , the chosen successor of Theodore Roosevelt, but was defeated for re-election by Woodrow Wilson in after Roosevelt split the Republican vote by running as a third-party candidate. In , President Warren G. Harding appointed Taft to be chief justice, a position in which he served until a month before his death. Taft was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in His father, Alphonso Taft, was a U.

Attorney General and Secretary of War. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 27 January — 5 December , baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.

Born in Salzburg, Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. At 17, Mozart was engaged as a musician at the Salzburg court but grew restless and travelled in search of a better position. While visiting Vienna in , he was dismissed from his Salzburg position. He chose to stay in the capital, where he achieved fame but little financial security.

During his final years in James Monroe. James Monroe ; April 28, — July 4, was an American statesman, lawyer, diplomat and Founding Father who served as the fifth president of the United States from to A member of the Democratic-Republican Party, Monroe was the last president of the Virginia dynasty; his presidency coincided with the Era of Good Feelings. He is perhaps best known for issuing the Monroe Doctrine, a policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas.

Born into a planter family in Westmoreland County, Photo: A. Mark Twain. Samuel Langhorne Clemens November 30, — April 21, , known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist this country has produced", and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". He served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper Glenn Ford.

Although he played many different types of roles in many different types of movies, Ford was best known for playing ordinary men in unusual circumstances. He was most prominent during Hollywood's Golden Age. Some of his most significant roles were as the lead or co-lead in Gilda and The Big Heat , both film noirs, and the high school angst film Blackboard Jungle , although it was for comedies or westerns which he received acting laurels, including three Golden Globe Nominations for Best Actor in a Comedy movie, winning for Pocketful of Will Rogers.

William Penn Adair Rogers November 4, — August 15, was an American stage and motion picture actor, vaudeville performer, cowboy, humorist, newspaper columnist, and social commentator from Oklahoma. As an entertainer and humorist, he traveled around the world three times, made 71 films 50 silent films and 21 "talkies" , and wrote more than 4, nationally syndicated newspaper columns.

By the mids Rogers was hugely popular in the United States, its leading political wit and the highest Cecil B. Between and , he made a total of 70 features, both silent and sound films.

He is acknowledged as a founding father of the American cinema and the most commercially successful producer-director in film history. His films were distinguished by their epic scale and by his cinematic showmanship. His silent films were more diverse in genre, among which included social dramas, comedies, Westerns, farces, morality plays, and historical pageants.

DeMille began his career as a stage actor in He later moved to writing and directing stage productions, some with Jesse Lasky, who was then a vaudeville Gene Autry. Orvon Grover "Gene" Autry September 29, — October 2, , nicknamed The Singing Cowboy, was an American singer, songwriter, actor, musician and rodeo performer who gained fame largely by singing in a crooning style on radio, in films, and on television for more than three decades beginning in the early s.

From to , Autry appeared in 93 films, and between and hosted The Gene Autry Show television series. During the s and s, he personified the straight-shooting hero—honest, Nat King Cole. He recorded over one hundred songs that became hits on the pop charts.

His trio was the model for small jazz ensembles that followed. Cole also acted in films and on television and performed on Broadway.

He was the first African American man to host an American television series. Duke Ellington. Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington April 29, — May 24, was an American composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from until his death over a career spanning more than fifty years. Born in Washington, D. In the s, his orchestra toured in Europe. Although widely considered to have been a pivotal figure in the history of jazz, Ellington embraced the phrase "beyond category" as a liberating principle and referred to his music as part of the more general category of American Music rather than to a George Wallace.

George Corley Wallace Jr. August 25, — September 13, was the 45th Governor of Alabama, a position he occupied for four terms, during which he promoted "low-grade industrial development, low taxes, and trade schools". He sought the United States presidency as a Democrat three times, and once as an American Independent Party candidate, unsuccessfully each time. He is best remembered for his staunch segregationist and populist views.

Wallace was known as "the most dangerous racist in America" and notoriously opposed desegregation and supported the policies of "Jim Crow" during the Civil Rights Movement, declaring in his inaugural address that he stood for "segregation now, Douglas MacArthur. He was one of only five to rise to the rank of General of the Army in the US Army, and the only one conferred the rank of field marshal in the Philippine Army.

Sugar Ray Robinson. Robinson's performances in the welterweight and middleweight divisions prompted sportswriters to create "pound for pound" rankings, where they compared fighters regardless of weight.

He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in He is widely regarded as the greatest boxer of all time, and in , Robinson was ranked number one on The Ring magazine's list of "80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years".

Robinson was 85—0 as an amateur with 69 of those victories coming by way of knockout, 40 in the first round. He turned professional in Michael Richards. Michael Anthony Richards born July 24, is an American actor, writer, television producer and comedian, widely known for his portrayal of Cosmo Kramer on the television sitcom Seinfeld, for which he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series three times.

Richards began his career as a stand-up comedian, first entering the national spotlight when he was featured on Billy Crystal's first cable TV special. He went on to become a series regular on ABC's Fridays. Prior to Seinfeld, he made numerous guest appearances on a variety of television shows, such as Cheers. John Philip Sousa. John Philip Sousa ; November 6, — March 6, was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era known primarily for American military marches.

Alford who is also known as "The March King". Sousa began his career playing violin and studying music theory and composition under John Esputa and George Felix Rudyard Kipling. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work. He is seen as an innovator in the art of the short story. His children's books are classics; one critic noted "a versatile and luminous narrative gift". Kipling in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was among Bud Abbott.

William Alexander "Bud" Abbott October 2, — April 24, was an American actor, best known for his film comedy double act, as straight man to Lou Costello. Groucho Marx declared Abbott "the greatest straight man ever. Peter Sellers. He performed in the BBC Radio comedy series The Goon Show, featured on a number of hit comic songs and became known to a worldwide audience through his many film characterisations, among them Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther series of films.

Born in Portsmouth, Sellers made his stage debut at the Kings Theatre, Southsea, when he was two weeks old. He began accompanying his parents in a variety act that toured the provincial theatres.

He first worked as a drummer and toured around England as a member of the Entertainments National Service Association Francis Scott Key. Francis Scott Key August 1, — January 11, was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet from Frederick, Maryland who is best known for writing a poem which later became the lyrics for the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner".

Key was inspired upon viewing the American flag still flying over the fort at dawn, and wrote the poem "Defence of Fort M'Henry", which was published a week later. The poem was adapted to the tune of the popular song "To Anacreon in Heaven. Bob Feller. Feller pitched from to and from to , interrupted only by a four-year engagement in the Navy. In a career spanning games, Feller pitched 3, innings and posted a win—loss record of —, with complete games, 44 shutouts, and a 3.

A prodigy who bypassed the minor leagues, Feller first played for the Indians at the age of His career was interrupted by four years of military Benedict Arnold. Benedict Arnold January 14, [O. January 3, ] — June 14, was an American military officer who served as a general during the American Revolutionary War, fighting for the American Continental Army before defecting to the British in George Washington had given him his fullest trust and placed him in command of the fortifications at West Point, New York.

Arnold planned to surrender the fort to British forces, but the plot was discovered in September and he fled to the British. His name quickly became a byword in the United States for treason and betrayal because he led the British army in battle against the very men whom he had once commanded. Arnold was born in the John Hancock. John Hancock January 23, [O.

January 12, ] — October 8, was an American merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is remembered for his large and stylish signature on the United States Declaration of Independence, so much so that the term "John Hancock" has become a synonym in the United States for one's signature.

Before the American Revolution, Hancock was one of the wealthiest men in the Thirteen Colonies, having inherited a profitable mercantile business from his uncle. He began his political career in Billy Wilder. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of the Hollywood Golden Age of cinema.

With The Apartment, Wilder became the first person to win Academy Awards as producer, director, and screenwriter for the same film. Wilder became a screenwriter in the late s while living in Berlin. After the rise of the Nazi Party, he left for Paris, where he made his directorial debut. He moved to Hollywood in , and in he had a hit when he co-wrote the Oliver Hardy. Oliver Norvell Hardy born Norvell Hardy, January 18, — August 7, was an American comic actor and one half of Laurel and Hardy, the double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted from to He appeared with his comedy partner Stan Laurel in short films, feature films, and cameo roles.

He was credited with his first film Outwitting Dad in In most of his silent films before joining producer Hal Roach, he was billed on screen as "Babe Hardy. Henry Clay. Henry Clay Sr. April 12, — June 29, was an American attorney and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives, served as 7th speaker of the U. House of Representatives, and served as the 9th U.

He received electoral votes for president in the , , and presidential elections and helped found both the National Republican Party and the Whig Party. For his role in defusing sectional crises, he earned the appellation of the "Great Compromiser. As a member of the Arnold Palmer.

Arnold Daniel Palmer September 10, — September 25, was an American professional golfer who is generally regarded as one of the greatest and most charismatic players in the sport's history. Nicknamed The King, he was one of golf's most popular stars and seen as a trailblazer, the first superstar of the sport's television age, which began in the s.

Palmer's social impact on behalf of golf was perhaps unrivaled among fellow professionals; his humble background and plain-spoken popularity helped change the perception of golf from an elite, upper-class pastime Irving Berlin. His music forms a great part of the Great American Songbook. He published his first song, "Marie from Sunny Italy", in , receiving 33 cents for the publishing rights, and had his first major international hit, "Alexander's Ragtime Band" in He also was an owner of the Music Box Theatre on Broadway.

It is commonly believed that Berlin could not read sheet music, and was such a limited piano Fields, was an American comedian, actor, juggler, and writer. Fields' comic persona was a misanthropic and hard-drinking egotist, who remained a sympathetic character despite his supposed contempt for children and dogs. His career in show business began in vaudeville, where he attained international success as a silent juggler.

He gradually incorporated comedy into his act and was a featured comedian in the Ziegfeld Follies for several years. He became a star in the Broadway musical comedy Poppy , in which he played a colorful small-time con man.

His subsequent stage and film roles were often Davy Crockett. David Crockett August 17, — March 6, was an American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier, and politician. He is commonly referred to in popular culture by the epithet "King of the Wild Frontier".

He represented Tennessee in the U. House of Representatives and served in the Texas Revolution. Crockett grew up in East Tennessee, where he gained a reputation for hunting and storytelling. He was made a colonel in the militia of Lawrence County, Tennessee and was elected to the Tennessee state legislature in In , he was elected to the U. Congress where he vehemently opposed many of the policies of President Andrew Jackson, especially the Indian Removal Act.

Jack Dempsey. William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey June 24, — May 31, , nicknamed "Kid Blackie" and "The Manassa Mauler", was an American professional boxer who competed from to , and reigned as the world heavyweight champion from to A cultural icon of the s, Dempsey's aggressive fighting style and exceptional punching power made him one of the most popular boxers in history. Many of his fights set financial and attendance records, including the first million-dollar gate.

Dempsey is ranked tenth on The Ring magazine's list of all-time heavyweights and seventh among its Top Greatest Punchers, while in the Associated Press voted him as the greatest fighter of the past Red Skelton. He was best known for his national radio and television acts between and , and as host of the television program The Red Skelton Show. He has stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in radio and television, and also appeared in burlesque, vaudeville, films, nightclubs, and casinos, all while he pursued an entirely separate career as an artist.

Skelton began developing his comedic and pantomime skills from the age of 10, when he became part of a traveling medicine show. He then spent time on a showboat, worked the burlesque circuit, and then Thomas Paine. January 29, ] — June 8, was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary. He authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution and inspired the patriots in to declare independence from Great Britain.

His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era ideals of transnational human rights. Historian Saul K. Padover described him as "a corsetmaker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination". Edgar Hoover. He was appointed as the director of the Bureau of Investigation — the FBI's predecessor — in and was instrumental in founding the FBI in , where he remained director for another 37 years until his death in at the age of Hoover has been credited with building the FBI into a larger crime-fighting agency than it was at its inception and with instituting a number of modernizations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories.

Later in life and after his Ty Cobb. He was born in rural Narrows, Georgia. Cobb spent 22 seasons with the Detroit Tigers, the last six as the team's player-manager, and finished his career with the Philadelphia Athletics.

In Cobb received the most votes of any player on the inaugural Baseball Hall of Fame ballot, receiving out of a possible votes Cobb is widely credited with Paul Revere. Paul Revere ; December 21, O. January 1, N. He is best known for his midnight ride to alert the colonial militia in April to the approach of British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, as dramatized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "Paul Revere's Ride" At age 41, Revere was a prosperous, established and prominent Boston silversmith.

He had helped organize an intelligence and alarm system to keep watch on the British military. Revere later served as a Massachusetts militia officer, though his service ended after the Penobscot Roy Rogers. He was one of the most popular Western stars of his era.

Known as the "King of the Cowboys", he appeared in over films and numerous radio and television episodes of The Roy Rogers Show. In many of his films and television episodes, he appeared with his wife, Dale Evans; his golden palomino, Trigger; and his German shepherd, Bullet.

His show was broadcast on radio for nine years and then on television from through In his later years, Rogers lent his name to Patrick Henry. Patrick Henry May 29, — June 6, was an American attorney, planter, and orator best known for his declaration to the Second Virginia Convention : "Give me liberty, or give me death!

Henry was born in Hanover County, Virginia, and was for the most part educated at home. After an unsuccessful venture running a store, and assisting his father-in-law at Hanover Tavern, Henry became a lawyer through self-study. Beginning his practice in , he soon became prominent through his victory in the Parson's Cause against the Anglican clergy. Henry was Willie Mays. Willie Howard Mays, Jr. He is regarded as one of the greatest baseball players of all time and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Mays won two National League NL Most Valuable Player MVP awards, he ended his career with home runs—third at the time of his retirement and currently fifth all-time—and won a record-tying 12 Gold Glove awards beginning in , when the award was introduced.

Mays shares the record of most All-Star David Paterson. David Alexander Paterson born May 20, is an American politician who served as the 55th Governor of New York, succeeding Eliot Spitzer and serving out nearly three years of Spitzer's term from March to the end of He is the first African American to hold that position and the second legally blind governor of any state after Bob C.

Riley, who was Acting Governor of Arkansas for 11 days in January In , he was elected to the New York state senate to a seat once held by his father, Tim Horton. He was a defenceman for 24 seasons in the National Hockey League. He died following a single-vehicle crash in , at the age of Also a successful businessman, Horton was the co-founder of the Tim Hortons fast-food restaurant chain. George Ryan. George Homer Ryan Sr. He is a member of the Republican Party. Ryan received national attention for his moratorium on executions in Illinois and for commuting more than death sentences to life sentences in He was later convicted of federal corruption charges and spent more than five years in federal prison and seven months of home confinement.

He was released from federal prison on July 3, Arthur Conan Doyle. Originally a physician, in he published A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and more than fifty short stories about Holmes and Dr.

The Sherlock Holmes stories are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. Doyle was a prolific writer; other than Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Harry Randall Truman.

He was the owner and caretaker of Mount St. Helens Lodge at Spirit Lake near the foot of the mountain, and he came to fame as a folk hero in the months preceding the volcano's eruption after he refused to leave his home despite evacuation orders. Truman is presumed to have been killed by a pyroclastic flow that overtook his lodge and buried the site under ft 46 m of volcanic debris. After Truman's death, his family and friends reflected on his love for the mountain.

In , Art Carney portrayed Truman in the docudrama film St. He was Douglas Fairbanks. He was best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films including The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro but spent the early part of his career making comedies.

Fairbanks was a founding member of United Artists. With his marriage to Mary Pickford in , the couple became Hollywood royalty and Fairbanks was referred to as "The King of Hollywood", a nickname later passed on to actor Clark Gable. Though widely considered as Harpo Marx. Arthur "Harpo" Marx born Adolph Marx; November 23, — September 28, was an American comedian, actor, mime artist, and musician, and the second-oldest of the Marx Brothers. In contrast to the mainly verbal comedy of his brothers Groucho Marx and Chico Marx, Harpo's comic style was visual, being an example of both clown and pantomime traditions.

He wore a curly reddish blonde wig, and never spoke during performances he blew a horn or whistled to communicate. He frequently used props such as a horn cane, made up of a lead pipe, tape, and a bulbhorn, and he played the harp in most of his films.

Samuel Adams. Samuel Adams September 27 [O. September 16] — October 2, was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a politician in colonial Massachusetts, a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, and one of the architects of the principles of American republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States.

Adams was born in Boston, brought up in a religious and politically active family. A graduate of Harvard College, he was an unsuccessful businessman and tax collector before concentrating on politics. He was an Elbridge Gerry. Elbridge Gerry ; July 17, O. July 6, — November 23, was an American politician and diplomat. He is known best for being the eponym of gerrymandering. Born into a wealthy merchant family, Gerry vocally opposed British colonial policy in the s, and was active in the early stages of organizing the resistance in the American Revolutionary War.

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