John Ruskin (b. 1819 - d. 1900) Tutor to illuminated students such as Cecil Rhodes. Advocated a world empire. Spent his later years in an insane asylum. Rumored to have been a pedophile. [source:
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Rutherford B. Hayes (b. 1822 - d. 1893) Freemason and 19th President of the United States. Only president whose election was decided by a congressional commission. [source:
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George B. McClellan (b. 1826 - d. 1885) Freemason and Major General during the American Civil War. McClellan was the Democratic nominee opposing Lincoln in the 1864 presidential election. Received all three degrees of Freemasonry Dec. 9th, 1853, in Willamette Lodge No. 2, Portland, Oregon. [source:
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James A. Garfield (b. 1831 - d. 1881) 14° Freemason and 20th President of the United States. (assassinated) Initiated in Magnolia Lodge No. 20 of Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 22nd, 1861. The third degree was conferred to him by Columbus Lodge No. 30, Nov. 22nd, 1864. Garfield received the 4-14° ASSR (Southern Jurisdiction) on Jan. 2nd, 1872 from Albert Pike, in Washington D.C. At his funeral, nearly all the officers of the Grand Commandery of Ohio, 14 commanderies of that state, and 8 commanderies from adjacent jurisdictions were present and participated in the funeral cortege. [source:
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Ignatius L. Donnelly (b. 1831 - d. 1901) U.S. Congressman, populist, and writer. In 1882, Donnelly published Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, which detailed his theories concerning the mythical lost continent of Atlantis. Donnelly is credited with initiating the Atlantis mania that became such a feature of popular literature in the 20th century and contributed to the emergence of Mayanism. (non-codified eclectic collection of New Age beliefs) [source:
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Edwin Booth (b. 1833 - d. 1893) Freemason, Shakespearean actor, and older brother of American stage actor and assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Initiated in New York Lodge No. 330 on Sept 11th, 1857. Edwin once declared, "...to be Worshipful Master and to throw my whole soul in that work, with the candidate for my audience, and the lodge for my stage, would be greater personal distinction than to receive the plaudits of the people in the theaters of the world." [source:
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). Freemason and Austrian composer. Poisoned, died at age 35. Mozart's involvement in Freemasonry may have played a role in his death. Initiated in Austrian lodge Zur Wohltatigkeit on Dec. 14th 1784. Painting c. 1777. Note: Mozart's father Leopold Mozart, was also a Freemason and composer. [source:
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Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834). 33° Freemason and French military officer who was a general in the American Revolutionary War and a leader of the Garde Nationale during the bloody French Revolution. Lafayette was also made an honorary Grand Commander of Supreme Council of New York. More than 75 Masonic bodies in the U.S. have been named after him, including 39 lodges, 18 chapters, 4 councils, 4 commanderies, and 7 Scottish rite bodies. [source:
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Salomon Rothschild (1774-1855) - Vatican treasury banker. Wealthy Jewish founder and overseer of the Vienna, Austria branch of the Rothschild clan. Salomon Rothschild was quite possibly the paternal grandfather of Adolf Hitler. Hitler's father's mother was a maid in Salomon Rothschild mansion, and Salomon was a well-known womanizer. After she had become pregnant, she was abruptly dismissed. Interestingly, since this would have made Hitler part Jewish, investigating Hitler's family tree was illegal in Nazi Germany on pain of death. [source:
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Simón Bolívar (1783-1830) Freemason. Known as the "George Washington of South America" Bolívar used genocidal terror tactics to achieve his aims. He joined Freemasonry in Cadiz, Spain and received the Scottish Rite degrees in Paris and was knighted in a Commandery of Knights Templar in France in 1807. Bolívar founded and served as master of Protectora de las Vertudes Lodge No. 1 in Venezuela. The country of Bolivia is named after him. Bolívar also served as the president of Columbia, Peru, and Bolivia in the 1820's. Belonged to the Order and Liberty Lodge No. 2, Peru. Note: the Chequered floor. [source:
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Napoleon I (1769-1821) . Freemason and Emperor of France, 1805-14. Napoleon's four brothers - Joseph, Lucian, Louis, and Jerome, as well as his stepson, Eugene Beauharnais, his brother-in-law Murat, and nephew, Jerome, were all Freemason's. Most of them held high Masonic rank. Those who were chosen by Napoleon for high honor and office in the state were usually Freemasons. Of the six, who, with the emperor himself, formed the Grand Council of the Empire, five were certainly Freemasons, including Arch Chancellor Prince Jean Jacques Regis Cambaceres, an enthusiastic and active Mason. Of the nine lesser imperial officers of state, six at least were active Masons. Of the marshals of France who served under Napoleon, at least 22 of the first 30 were Freemasons. [source:
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Goethe (b. 1749 - d. 1832)