PAST GRAND SWORD BEARERS FROM 1816
Conclave | YEAR | NAME | FROM CITY/STATE | Conclave | YEAR | NAME | FROM CITY/STATE |
I | 1816 | Jonathan Schieffelin | New York, NY | XXIV | 1889 | Myron M. Parker | Washington, D.C. |
II | 1819 | Ebenezer Wadsworth | Nassau, NY | XXV | 1892 | George Cooper Connor | Chattanooga, TN |
III | 1826 | Thomas Hubbard | Pomfret, CT | | | Thomas Owen Morris | Nashville, TN |
IV | 1829 | Ezra Griswold | Delaware, OH | XXVI | 1895 | Edgar S. Dudley | Lincoln, NE |
V | 1832 | Jacob Amee | Boston, MA | XXVII | 1898 | Arthur MacArthur | Troy, NY |
VI | 1835 | Simon Wiggins Robinson | Boston, MA | XXVIII | 1901 | Charles C. Vogt | Louisville, KY |
VII | 1838 | Christian G. Peters | Baltimore, MD | XXIX | 1904 | Joseph Kyle Orr | Atlanta, GA |
VIII | 1841 | Joel G. Candee | New York, NY | XXX | 1907 | Jehiel W. Chamberlin | St. Paul, MN |
IX | 1844 | Charles Whitlock Moore | Boston, MA | XXXI | 1910 | Frederick C. Thayer | Waterville, ME |
X | 1847 | William Field | Pawtucket, RI | XXXII | 1913 | William Leslie Sharp | Chicago, IL |
XI | 1850 | William Field | Pawtucket, RI | XXXIII | 1916 | Frank L. Nagle | Newtonville, MA |
XII | 1853 | David Clark | Hartford, CT | XXXIV | 1919 | Robert S. Teague | Montgomery, AL |
XIII | 1856 | Willis Pierson Coleman | New Orleans, LA | XXXV | 1922 | Isaac H. Hettinger | Kansas City, MO |
XIV | 1859 | Robert M. Henderson | Lexington, MO | XXXVI | 1925 | Harry Gilmore Pollard | Lowell, MA |
XV | 1862 | James Stirratt | Baltimore, MD | XXXVII | 1928 | John Campbell | Seattle, WA |
XVI | 1865 | Ezra L. Stevens | Washington, D.C. | XXXVIII | 1931 | Joseph Hercus Milans | Washington, D.C. |
XVII | 1868 | William Barrett | Nashua, NH | XXXIX | 1934 | Caleb Byron Lear | Ridgewood, NJ |
XVIII | 1871 | Charles Rankin Woodruff | Louisville, KY | XL | 1937 | Walter Stover | Watertown, SD |
XIX | 1874 | John Henry Brown | Wyandotte, KS | XLI | 1940 | Walter Allen DeLamater | Rhinebeck, NY |
XX | 1877 | Charles William Carter | Norwich, CT | XLII | 1943 | William Moseley Brown | Arlington, VA |
XXI | 1880 | Henry Bates Stoddard | Bryan, TX | XLIII | 1946 | Louis Henry Wieber | Cleveland, OH |
XXII | 1883 | John Ralph Parson | St. Louis, MO | | | Paul Miller Moore | Aliquippa, PA |
XXIII | 1886 | Nicholas Van Slyck | Providence, RI | XLIV | 1949 | Charles Vernon Eddy | Winchester, VA |
PAST GRAND SWORD BEARERS APPOINTED
For Triennial Conclave Only
(After Amendment of Section 20, Constitution and Statutes,
44th Triennial Conclave, 1949)
CONCLAVE | YEAR | NAME | WHERE FROM |
XLV | 1952 | Harvey Earl Teller | San Francisco, CA |
XLVI | 1955 | Harry Donald MacDonald | Colorado Springs, CO |
XLVII | 1958 | Rall Bell Cowden | Midland, TX |
XLVIII | 1961 | James Gerard Stranch | Greenwood, SC |
XLIX | 1964 | Cal Eli Anderson | Chicago, IL |
L | 1967 | Glenne Roy McArthur | Huron, SD |
LI | 1970 | Frank LaMont Bourke | Portland, ME |
LII | 1973 | Arthur Gus Coots | Dalhart, TX |
LIII | 1976 | Charles A. Howard, Jr. | Aberdeen, SD |
LIV | 1979 | Hugh E. Hossle | Ames, IA |
LV | 1982 | Armun D. Jones | Manda, ND |
LVI | 1985 | Blair C. Mayford | St. Peters, MO |
LVII | 1988 | James M. Wilson, Jr. | Floydada, TX |
LVIII | 1991 | Gordon J. Brenner | Pompton Plains, NJ |
LIX | 1994 | James E. Moseley | Macon, GA |
LX | 1997 | John O. Bond, Sr. | South Berwick, ME |
LXI | 2000 | Lloyd A. Herbert | Gretna, LA |
LXII | 2003 | D. Samuel Tennyson | Rock Hill, SC |
LXIII | 2006 | James N. Karnegis | Elkhorn, NE |
LXIV | 2009 | Franklin C. Boner | Newark, OH |
LXV | 2012 | Terry L Plemons | Chattanooga, TN |
LXVI | 2015 | Lauren R. Handeland | Wisconsin |