Grand Lodge of Tennessee

Formation Freemasonry in Tennessee began in 1789 when St. Tammany Lodge #1 was organized in Nashville under dispensation from the Grand Lodge of North Carolina. In 1855, the Masonic University was purchased by the Presbyterian Church and renamed Stewart College in honor of the college's president. Stewart College was later renamed "Southwestern Presbyterian College" in 1875, and renamed "Southwestern" when the school moved to Memphis, Tennessee, in 1925. It was later renamed Rhodes College in 1984. The original campus of the Masonic University is now the site of Austin Peay State University. ==Grand Masters==

Notable Grand Masters from Tennessee include: , a lawyer politician in Nashville, was elected the first Grand Master at the formation of the Grand Lodge of Tennessee. served as Grand Master in 1831. He later served as the second Governor of the State of Arkansas from 1840-1844. , 7th President of the United States (1829-1837), served two terms as Grand Master in 1822 and 1823. , Grand Master in 1873 (pictured with his insignia as Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite's Supreme Council), was the U.S. House of Representatives' Minority Leader from 1899 to 1903. • 1813: Thomas Claiborne • 1817: Wilkins F. Tannehill • 1822: Andrew Jackson • 1831: Archibald Yell • 1849: Robert Looney Caruthers • 1870: John C. Brown • 1873: James D. Richardson ==See also==