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>Joe Biden became a Freemason just one day before leaving office.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Hall_Freemasonry

 

There have been many other notable Masons who were affiliated with Prince Hall originated Grand Lodges, including:

 

A. G. Gaston, entrepreneur.[32]

Al Green, American singer, songwriter, and record producer.[33]

Benjamin Hooks,[34] civil rights leader and government official.

Booker T. Washington, Educator, Civil Rights leader.[35]

Charles Rangel,[36] US Representative

Duke Ellington Harlem Renaissance Jazz musician and composer.[37]

Elijah Cummings,[36] US Representative

George Middleton, Boston, Massachusetts, Grand Master 1809–1810. Commander, Bucks of America, a unit of black soldiers during the American Revolution. The unit received a flag from Governor John Hancock for its faithful service. Middleton was also a founder of the African Benevolent Society.[38]

Harry Albro Williamson, prolific researcher and writer on the subject of black Freemasonry.[39]

James Monroe Whitfield, Abolitionist poet from Exeter, NH. Author of "America and other Poems" 1853. In 1864–1869 he was Grand Master of the California order of Prince Hall Masons. Originally a member of Hannibal #1. He is buried in the Masonic Cemetery in San Francisco.[40]

Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights leader.[41]

John Conyers,[36] US Representative

John T. Hilton, Grand Master 1826–1827 Hilton helped organize the National Grand Lodge of Prince Hall Freemasonry and served as the first National Grand Master. Hilton was the Grand Master of the National Grand Lodge of North America for ten years.[42]

Emmanuel Lewis, former child actor, known for Webster.[43]

John Lewis,[36] US Representative

Kweisi Mfume,[44][45] US Representative

Norris Wright Cuney, American politician, businessman, union leader, and civil rights activist; 1st (1875–1876) and 4th (1879–1881) Grand Master, Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Texas.[46][47]

Ralph Metcalfe,[36] US Representative

Kwame Nkrumah, politician, political theorist and revolutionary, Prime Minister, 1952 - 1960; President of Ghana, 1960 - 1966[48]

Richard Pryor, Comedian, Actor.[49]

Sugar Ray Robinson, Hall of Fame boxer.[50]

Thomas Dalton, Boston, Massachusetts, Grand Master 1831–1832, son-in-law of Barzillai Lew. He and David Walker oversaw the publication of John T. Hilton's An Address, Delivered Before the African Grand Lodge of Boston, No. 459, June 24th, 1828, by John T. Hilton: On the Annual Festival, of St. John the Baptist (Boston, 1828).[51]

Thurgood Marshall, lawyer, first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States.[52]

Walker Lewis, Lowell, Massachusetts, Grand Master 1829–1830. After the African Lodge declared its independence from the Grand Lodge of London and became its own African Grand Lodge, Walker Lewis was the Grand Master of African Grand Lodge #1 for 1829 and 1830.[53]

Louis Stokes,[54] US Representative