George Washington's Death Mask
The first 7 Presidents of the USA were born as British citizens.*The 8th, Martin Van Buren, was born to a family of Dutch descent and spoke Dutch as his primary language.
The 9th, William Harrison, was also born a British citizen (b. 1773).
The 10th, John Tyler, was elected Vice President but did not win election as President after succeeding Harrison.
The 1st elected President born an American citizen and who spoke English as his primary language was James Polk, #11!
James Polk
James Polk, however, was not baptized (his father was a deist).He later became a Freemason (like Washington, FDR & probably Jefferson).
Historians rank him, in aggregate, as the 10th greatest President.
Freemasons
The
Founding Fathers were, for the most part, Deists. Freemasonry offered
these men of destiny a sort of spiritual home to accompany the New
Republic. They were very much persuaded by the thinking of the likes of
Newton, Locke, Voltaire & other Enlightenment philosophers. Deism
was radically different from mainstream Christianity and, along with
Theism, embraced a cosmic spirituality - one in which the universe is
more than matter - being, in fact, "alive". It sounds almost
stereotypical to say, but they were visionaries in every sense of the
word.*Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, J.Q. Adams, Jackson
050211
No comments:
Post a Comment