Grand Cross Court of Honour
Thirty-Third Degree
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
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