Benjamin Franklin, initiated into the local Masonic …
Years: 1734 - 1734
Benjamin Franklin, initiated into the local Masonic Lodge in 1731, becomes Grand Master in 1734, indicating his rapid rise to prominence in Pennsylvania.
This same year, he edits and publishes the first Masonic book in the Americas, a reprint of James Anderson's Constitutions of the Free-Masons.
Franklin will remain a Freemason for the rest of his life.
