He also belonged to the comparatively obscure and ridiculously named International Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo. endeavoring to use Masonry to my political disadvantage."Īfter his presidency, Roosevelt wrote about traveling the world and visiting Masonic lodges in Nairobi and the Azores. In his letters, he chastised one alleged Mason for attempting to use his position in the society for political advantage (which is against the rules of Freemasonry), and complained about another situation in a letter to a friend, writing that one foe was ".
However, Roosevelt also ran into occasional snags with the society. He went into the place where the idea of our government was realized as far as it is humanly possible for mankind to realize a lofty idea." When Brother George Washington went into a lodge of the fraternity, he went into the one place in the United States where he stood below or above his fellows according to their official position in the lodge. "One of the things that attracted me so greatly to Masonry, that I hailed the chance of becoming a mason, was that it really did act up to what we, as a government and as a people, are pledged to - of treating each man on his merits as a man. In his speech, he reflected on some of his own reasons for joining the Freemasons: President Roosevelt addressed the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania in 1902 on the anniversary of Washington's initiation. The Theodore Roosevelt Center has digitized many of the 26th president's letters - some of which reference his Masonic activities. However, the name lived on with William and Mary's student newspaper and the secret society itself re-surged in 1972, under the name the Flat Hat Club. The group pretty much died out when the Revolutionary War interrupted classes. Perks included exclusive parties in the upper rooms of the local taverns, according to " Mr. Members identified themselves with a secret handshake, along with a silver badge inscribed with the words "stabilitas et fides" (stability and faith, which is now the motto of William and Mary's campus newspaper). stood for "Fraternitas, Humanitas, et Cognitio" - Latin for "brotherhood, humanity, and knowledge." However the group became known as the Flat Hat Club, probably a reference to the mortarboards all students wore in those days. society, confined to the number of six students only, of which I was a member, but it had no useful object. In one 1819 letter, the third US president reflected on his experience in the secret society: ". Society at the College of William and Mary, but that doesn't mean he was impressed by the group. Thomas Jefferson may have been a member of the F.H.C.
There's even a George Washington Masonic National Memorial, which was dedicated in 1932 and finally completed in 1970. The first president's Masonic ties followed him his entire life - and beyond. 1 in New York (the book, as Mental Floss reports, was randomly opened to Genesis 49:13: "Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea and he shall be for an haven of ships and his border shall be to Zidon"). During the ceremony, he swore his oath on a Bible from St. Masonic influences came into play at Washington's first inauguration. Washington stayed in touch with his Masonic brothers for the rest of his life. Washington had lost his older brother Lawrence to tuberculosis only a few months earlier, effectively becoming head of the household. 4 at the age of 20, according to Mount Vernon's official website. Washington joined the Order of the Freemasons early in his life, entering Fredericksburg Lodge No. In Ron Chernow's " Washington: A Life," he notes that the future president may have been attracted to the Masonic Order's adherence to Enlightenment ideals. That's because George Washington was also the country's first ever Masonic president. The first president of the US also happened to be rather involved in a secret society.
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