[showme_the_Glory]

Wasn’t there a mason or 2 signature on the declaration of independence?

[Jewbacca]

The kooks are out in force today.

[scbison]

I think 8 or 9

[Jewbacca]

10ish of the 58 or so.

So 15%, give-or-take.

[SMARTY]

I thought every President except Kennedy was a Mason

[bdfromlv]

As I read it, the reference to masons was a compliment to the religious nature of the fraternity not a denouncement.

[thackney]

Confirmed Masonic Membership of the following:
William Ellery, RI
Benjamin Franklin, PA
John Hancock, MA
Joseph Hewes, NC
William Hooper, NC
Robert Treat Paine, MA
Richard Stockton, NJ
George Walton, GA
William Whipple, NH

Membership Rumored, but not Proven by Records:
Elbridge Gerry, MA
Thomas Jefferson, VA
Richard Henry Lee, VA
Thomas McKean, DE
Robert Morris, PA
Thomas Nelson, Jr., VA
John Penn, NC
Benjamin Rush, PA
Roger Sherman, CT
James Smith, PA
John Witherspoon, NJ

http://www.pagrandlodge.org/programs/masedu/signersdeclaration.html