Vice Presidents of the U.S. & Freemasonry
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| President | Vice President(s) | Masonic connections, if any, of the Vice President(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1. George Washington 1789-1797 | John Adams | not a Freemason |
| 2. John Adams 1797-1801 | Thomas Jefferson | not a Freemason |
| 3. Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809 | Aaron Burr | not a Freemason |
| George Clinton | Freemason | |
| 4. James Madison 1809-1817 | ||
| Elbridge Gerry | Freemason | |
| 5. James Monroe 1817-1825 | Daniel D. Tompkins | Freemason |
| 6. John Quincy Adams 1825-1829 | John C. Calhoun | not a Freemason |
| 7. Andrew Jackson 1829-1837 | John C. Calhoun | not a Freemason |
| Martin Van Buren | not a Freemason | |
| 8. Martin Van Buren 1837-1841 | Richard M. Johnson | Freemason |
| 9. William H. Harrison 1841 | John Tyler | not a Freemason |
| 10. John Tyler 1841-1845 | none | not applicable |
| 11. James K. Polk 1845-1849 | George M. Dallas | Freemason |
| 12. Zachary Taylor 1849-1850 | Millard Fillmore | not a Freemason |
| 13. Millard Fillmore 1850-1853 | none | not applicable |
| 14. Franklin Pierce 1853-1857 | William R. King | Freemason |
| 15. James Buchanan 1857-1861 | John C. Breckenridge | Freemason |
| 16. Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 | Hannibal Hamlin | not a Freemason |
| Andrew Johnson | Freemason | |
| 17. Andrew Johnson 1865-1869 | none | not applicable |
| 18. Ulysses S. Grant 1869-1877 | Schuyler Colfax | Freemason |
| Henry Wilson | not a Freemason | |
| 19. Rutherford B. Hayes 1877-1881 | William A. Wheeler | not a Freemason |
| 20. James R. Garfield 1881 | Chester A. Arthur | not a Freemason |
| 21. Chester A. Arthur 1881-1885 | none | not applicable |
| 22. Grover Cleveland 1885-1889 | Thomas A. Hendricks | not a Freemason |
| 23. Benjamin Harrison 1889-1893 | Levi P. Morton | not a Freemason |
| 24. Grover Cleveland 1893-1897 | Adlai E. Stevenson | Freemason |
| 25. William McKinley 1897-1901 | Garret A. Hobart | Freemason |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Freemason | |
| 26. Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909 | Charles W. Fairbanks | Freemason |
| 27. William H. Taft 1909-1913 | James S. Sherman | not a Freemason |
| 28. Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921 | Thomas R. Marshall | Freemason |
| 29. Warren G. Harding 1921-1923 | Calvin Coolidge | not a Freemason |
| 30. Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929 | Charles G. Dawes | not a Freemason |
| 31. Herbert Hoover 1929-1933 | Charles Curtis | not a Freemason |
| 32. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933-1945 | John Nance Garner | not a Freemason |
| Henry A. Wallace | Freemason | |
| Harry S. Truman | Grand Master, ritualist, very active Freemason | |
| 33. Harry S. Truman 1945-1953 | Alben W. Barkley | not a Freemason |
| 34. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953-1961 | Richard M. Nixon | not a Freemason |
| 35. John F. Kennedy 1961-1963 | Lyndon B. Johnson | EA, but didn’t progress further |
| 36. Lyndon B. Johnson 1963-1969 | Hubert H. Humphrey | Freemason |
| 37. Richard M. Nixon 1969-1974 | Spiro T. Agnew | not a Freemason |
| Gerald R. Ford | Freemason | |
| 38. Gerald R. Ford 1974-1977 | Nelson A. Rockefeller | not a Freemason |
| 39. Jimmy Carter 1977-1981 | Walter F. Mondale | not a Freemason |
| 40. Ronald Reagan 1981-1989 | George H.W. Bush | not a Freemason |
| 41. George H.W. Bush 1989-1993 | Dan Quayle | not a Freemason |
| 42. Bill Clinton 1993-2001 | Al Gore | not a Freemason |
|
43. George W. Bush 2001-present |
Richard B. Cheney |
not a Freemason |
| Summary | 46 men have served as U.S. Vice President (41 have served as U.S. President) |
18 of the 46 U.S. Vice Presidents (39%) have been Freemasons |