# Should I join the Masons?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-join-the-masons/403778>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 11, 2007, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-join-the-masons/403778 "2007-05-11T23:53:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-join-the-masons/403778/61 "2007-05-16T01:52:28Z")

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thanks to all for the responses. Although most of you seem to doubt the clarity of your responses, I can identify. When I decided to become “a man of the cloth” I chose a particular religious order by virtue of my familiarity with them and their works more than for an alignment with their stated philosophy. So I know what you mean.

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**Author:** ![AHoosierMama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@AHoosierMama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHoosierMama)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-join-the-masons/403778/62 "2007-05-16T15:40:48Z")

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[QUOTE=Zsofia]  
Many people also join the Masons in America because of Freemasonry’s association with the Founding Fathers and such; QUOTE]

Seems like I head once that something like 90% of American presidents were Masons. Can anyone corroborate?

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**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2007, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-i-join-the-masons/403778/63 "2007-05-16T15:56:55Z")

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[QUOTE=AHoosierMama]

[QUOTE=Zsofia]  
Many people also join the Masons in America because of Freemasonry’s association with the Founding Fathers and such; QUOTE]

Seems like I head once that something like 90% of American presidents were Masons. Can anyone corroborate?  
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Nope, only about a third IIRC. I think there have been around 15 plus or minus a couple that weren’t _Master_ Masons (seems at least one never went beyond the Entered Apprentice, and Clinton was de Molay but never initiated). Ford was the last Mason to hold the office, I think.

[Some Famous Masons](http://www.calodges.org/no406/FAMASONS.HTM)

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