This is the highest individual decoration betowed by the Supreme
Council, voted very rarely to 33° Masons, and then only for the most exceptional
and extraordinary service. As of October 1997 there were forty-four living
members who have received this honor including former president Gerald Ford. Robert Carlyle
Byrd....................................................Charleston, West
Virginia Bodies Martin D.
Carlin.............................................................Washington,D.C.
Bodies Walter Scott
Downs....................................................Alexandria, Virginia
Bodies Gerald R.
Ford..............................................................Northern
Masonic Jurisdiction Forrest D.
Haggard......................................................Kansas City,
Missouri Bodies Melvin Guy
Hall.............................................................St.Louis/Joplin,
Missouri Bodies Wood Wilson
Lovell.....................................................Atlanta, Georgia
Bodies Chester Earl
McCarty...................................................Portland, Oregon
Bodies Aemil
Pouler...................................................................Greenville,
South Carolina Bodies John Jacob
Rhodes......................................................Phoenix, Arizona
Bodies
Carl Julian
Sanders.......................................................Dothan, Alabama
Bodies
William Donald Schaefer..............................................Baltimore,
Maryland Bodies William Gene
Sizemore.................................................Jacksonville,
Fl./Washington DC Bodies William H. Stafford,
Jr....................................................Tallahassee, Florida
Bodies J.
Strom Thurmond........................................................Columbia,
South Carolina Bodies Joe D. Waggoner,
Jr......................................................Shreveport, Louisiana
Bodies
Clarence L. Bartholic.....................................................Rocky
Mt Consistory, Denver, Co Bodies Quinn Henderson
Becker............................................Monroe, Louisiana
Bodies
John William
Boettjer....................................................Alexandria, Virginia
Bodies
Thomas A. Boles.............................................................Los
Angeles, California Bodies Ernest
Borgnine..............................................................Los
Angeles/Long Beach, CA Bodies Curtis L.
Carlson.............................................................Minneapolis,
Minnesota Bodies Donald B.
Constine........................................................San Francisco,
California Bodies Norman L.
Crosby...........................................................Long Beach,
California Bodies Robert L. Dillard,
Jr.........................................................Dallas, Texas
Bodies
Robert Joseph Dole.......................................................Salina,
Kansas Bodies Marvin E.
Fowler..............................................................Washington,
DC Bodies
John Paul Hammerschmidt..........................................Ft. Smith,
Arkansas Bodies Rex R.
Hutchens..............................................................Tuscon,
Arizona Bodies Trent
Lott...........................................................................Gulfport,
Mississippi Bodies Paul Eddie
Manners........................................................Atlanta, Georgia
Bodies
Sidney S.
McMath.............................................................Little Rock,
Arkansas Bodies William Henson Moore,
III...............................................Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Bodies
Herman Nickerson, Jr.....................................................New
Bern, North Carolina Bodies Samuel A.
Nunn................................................................Macon,
Georgia Bodies Elvio
Sciubba....................................................................Rome,
Italy Bodies Alan K.
Simpson...............................................................Sheridan,
Wyoming Bodies Harold Edward
Stassen................................................ .Saint Paul, Minnesota
Bodies R.
Dave
Thomas................................................................Miami,
Florida Bodies S. Arch
Thompson............................................................McAlester,
Oklahoma Bodies Stephen Joel
Trachtenberg............................................Washington, DC
Bodies
James T. Tresner,
II...........................................................Guthrie, Oklahoma
Bodies
Eugene Allen
Wright.........................................................Seattle,
Washington Bodies Sam G.
Kapourales...........................................................Charleston,
West Virginia Bodies Henry O.
Dormann.............................................................Washington,
DC Bodies
Donald P.
Garrido...............................................................Balboa,
Panama Canal Bodies James W.
Keebaugh..........................................................Alliance,
Nebraska Bodies Charles E.
Grassley............................................................Des Moines,
Iowa Bodies L. Melvin
Tillis.......................................................................Joplin,
Missouri Bodies Fred W.
McPeake.................................................................Knoxville,
Tennessee Bodies Ned E.
Wick...........................................................................Deadwood,
South Dakota Bodies Robert R.
Lyons...................................................................Alexandria,
Virginia Bodies S. Brent
Morris......................................................................Baltimore,
Maryland Bodies Joe L.
Allbritton....................................................................Houston,
Texas Bodies
