Grand Encampment Knights Templar, U.S.A.

Past Grand Sword Bearers

From 1816

Conclave

Year

Name

Where From

I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
XIII
XIV
XV
XVI
XVII
XVIII
XIX
XX
XXI
XXII
XXIII
XXIV
XXV
XXV
XXVI
XXVII
XXVIII
XXIX
XXX
XXXI
XXXII
XXXIII
XXXIV
XXXV
XXXVI
XXXVII
XXXVIII
XXXIX
XL
XLI
XLII
XLIII
XLIII
XLIV

1816
1819
1826
1829
1832
1835
1838
1841
1844
1847
1850
1853
1856
1859
1862
1865
1868
1871
1874
1877
1880
1883
1886
1889
1892
1892
1895
1898
1901
1904
1907
1910
1913
1916
1919
1922
1925
1928
1931
1934
1937
1940
1943
1946
1946
1949

Jonathan Schieffelin
Ebenezer Wadsworth
Thomas Hubbard
Ezra Griswold
Jacob Amee
Simon Wiggins Robinson
Christian G. Peters
Joel G. Candee
Charles Whitlock Moore
William Field
William Field
David Clark
Willis Pierson Coleman
Robert M. Henderson
James Stirratt
Ezra L. Stevens
William Barrett
Charles Rankin Woodruff
John Henry Brown
Charles William Carter
Henry Bates Stoddard
John Ralph Parson
Nicholas Van Slyck
Myron M. Parker
George Cooper Connor
Thomas Owen Morris
Edgar S. Dudley
Arthur MacArthur
Charles C. Vogt
Joseph Kyle Orr
Jehiel W. Chamberlin
Frederick C. Thayer
William Leslie Sharp
Frank L. Nagle
Robert S. Teague
Isaac H. Hettinger
Harry Gilmore Pollard
John Campbell
Joseph Hercus Milans
Caleb Byron Lear
Walter Stover
Walter Allen DeLamater
William Moseley Brown
Louis Henry Wieber
Paul Miller Moore
Charles Vernon Eddy

New York, NY
Nassau, NY
Pomfret, CT
Delaware, OH
Boston, MA
Boston, MA
Baltimore, MD
New York, NY
Boston, MA
Pawtucket, RI
Pawtucket, RI
Hartford, CT
New Orleans, LA
Lexington, MO
Baltimore, MD
Washington, D.C.
Nashua, NH
Louisville, KY
Wyandotte, KS
Norwich, CT
Bryan, TX
St. Louis, MO
Providence, RI
Washington, D.C.
Chattanooga, TN
Nashville, TN
Lincoln, NE
Troy, NY
Louisville, KY
Atlanta, GA
St. Paul, MN
Waterville, ME
Chicago, IL
Newtonville, MA
Montgomery, AL
Kansas City, MO
Lowell, MA
Seattle, WA
Washington, D.C.
Ridgewood, NJ
Watertown, SD
Rhinebeck, NY
Arlington, VA
Cleveland, OH
Aliquippa, PA
Winchester, VA

For Triennial Conclave Only
(After Amendment of Section 20, Constitution and Statutes, 44th Triennial Conclave, 1949)

Conclave

Year

Name

Where From

XLV
XLVI
XLVII
XLVIII
XLIX
L
LI
LII
LIII
LIV
LV
LVI
LVII
LVIII
LIX
LX
LXI
LXII
LXIII
LXIV
LXV
LXVI

1952
1955
1958
1961
1964
1967
1970
1973
1976
1979
1982
1985
1988
1991
1994
1997
2000
2003
2006
2009
2012
2015

Harvey Earl Teller
Harry Donald MacDonald
Rall Bell Cowden
James Gerard Stranch
Cal Eli Anderson
Glenne Roy McArthur
Frank LaMont Bourke
Arthur Gus Coots
Charles A. Howard, Jr.
Hugh E. Hossle
Armun D. Jones
Blair C. Mayford
James M. Wilson, Jr.
Gordon J. Brenner
James E. Moseley
John O. Bond, Sr.
Lloyd A. Herbert
D. Samuel Tennyson
James N. Karnegis
Franklin C. Boner
Terry L Plemons
Lauren R. Handeland

San Francisco, CA
Colorado Springs, CO
Midland, TX
Greenwood, SC
Chicago, IL
Huron, SD
Portland, ME
Dalhart, TX
Aberdeen, SD
Ames, IA
Manda, ND
St. Peters, MO
Floydada, TX
Pompton Plains, NJ
Macon, GA
South Berwick, ME
Gretna, LA
Rock Hill, SC
Elkhorn, NE
Newark, OH
Chattanooga, TN
Wisconsin

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