Most Worshipful Past Grand Masters

William H. Layne #1 *    1873-1875

James H. Ralston #3 *    1875-1876

Alfred Manning #1 * 1877

A.B. Harris #6 * 1878

Walter H. Burr #2 * 1879-1880

F.O. Cross #3 * 1881

John Godett #1 * 1882

John J. Brayton #2 * 1883

L.H. Perry #3 * 1884

Walter H. Burr #2 * 1885

Thomas Stewart #1 * 1886-1887

F.O. Cross #3 * 1888-1889

J.T. Johnson #1 * 1890-1891

George A. Jenkins #5 * 1892

William H. Effort #6 * 1893

Walter Mitchell #3 * 1894-1895

C.C. Ringgold #8 * 1896

Robert L. Reed #1 * 1897-1898

Charles H. Walker #4 * 1899

Charles Beamon #8 * 1900-1902

William Hargett #1 * 1903-1905

Walter P. Gladding #5 * 1906-1907

William Hargett #1 * 1908-1909

William Tribbett #1 * 1910-1911

Joseph Hatcher #5 * 1912-1914

George W. Crawford #1 * 1915-1916

James Fitch #5 * 1917

William Tribbett #1 * 1918

Fredrick B. Gray #5 * 1919-1920

Josjua Bullock #3 * 1921

Joseph Hatcher #5 * 1922

William P. Norcum #6 * 1923-1925

Collins L. Fitch #1 * 1926

Edward B. Jones #14 * 1927-1928

J.M. Granville #5 * 1929

John P. Graham #1 * 1930-1932

William A. Lively #4 * 1933-1934

Winifield S. Taylor #6 * 1935-1936

William Hickman #1 *    1940-1941

John R. Leeks #11 * 1942-1943

Fred N. Groves #6 * 1944-1945

Leslie I. Duncan #3 * 1946-1949

Joseph N. Allsop #4 * 1949-1951

Harvey A. Walker #14 * 1951-1953

Haskell Holman #5 * 1953-1955

J. Elmer Dixon #3 * 1955-1957

T. Ralph Watts #3 * 1957-1959

Charles L. Twyman #6 * 1959-1961

Leroy E. Fitch #1 1961-1963

John E. Rogers #3 * 1963-1966

Rudolph Loncke #6 * 1966-1968

Frank A. Jacobs #12 * 1968-1970

George Van Jacobs #12 * 1970-1972

Madison Bolden #3 * 1972-1974

Enoch A. Parker #4 * 1974-1976

Theodore W. Hatcher #5 *   1976-1978

Preston L. Pope #3 * 1978-1981

Vernal P. Davis #17 * 1981-1983

Benjamin F. Whitaker #14 *   1983-1985

Horace Blue #7 1985-1988

Lewis Myrick, Sr. #17*   1988-1990

Thaddeus Holman, Sr. #14 * 1990-1993

Michael S. Bivens #3 1993-1995

Robert E. Williamson #11 *   1995-1997

Marvin Miller #1 *   1997-1999

Clarence Windley #1 1999-2002

Alexander Jarvis #3 2002-2004

Floyd E. Bagwell #22 2004-2007

Michael L. Ferguson #5   2007-2009

Ronald A. Thomas, Sr. #1 2009-2012

Charles L. Robinson, Jr.  #20*   2012-2015

Ellis G. Simpson, Jr. #17 * 2015-2017

David Pinkins #22 2017-2021

Arnold L Holmes #1 2021-2022

Alfred Grady, Jr. #17 2022-2024

Daniel L. Blackmon #6  2024 Present

*=deceased

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