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OCR Page 1 of 5SPEECH DELIVERED BY HONORABLE HARRY S. TRUMAN
St.Louis, Missouri - October 4th, 1937.
Brethren:
I consider it a very great privilege to appear before you to-
day to talk of the Constitution and the part Freemasonry played
in its creation. Nearly every colony had Lodges of Freemasons
previous to the Revolution, and a number of the greatest leaders
of Colonial times were members and leaders in the Fraternity.
Thirty two of the fifty five members of the Constitutional
Convention which assembled in Philadelphia in May 1787 were Freemas-
ons. Twenty one of the thirty nine who signed the finished
document on September 17,1787 were Freemasons.
Washington who presided over the Convention was the fir: st Master
of Alexandria Lodge, which now bears his name; and acted as
Grand Master of Maryland when he laid the corner stone of the
Capitol. Benjamin Franklin was Grand Master of Pennsylvania;
Gunning Bedford Jr., first Grand Master of Delaware; John Blair,
first Grand Master of Virginia; David Brearley, first Grand
Master of New Jersey; William Davie, Grand Master of North
Carolina; Edmund Randolph, Grand Master of Virginia. It was
through the Fraternity that much of the correspondence between
leaders of the Revolutionary times was carried on. They had a
common ground on which to meet and we know that thirty two members
of the Constitutional Convention were thoroughly grounded in the
teachings of Freemasonry.
TRUMANT
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