Past Most Excellent Grand High Priests

1822-46  William Schley (1/2)                 11-20-1858

1847-53  William T. Gould (2)                 07-18-1882

1854-61  Philip T. Schley (7/3)               08-31-1862

1862-68  Samuel S. Lawrence (13)        10-02-1890

1869-71  Moses P. Kellogg (34)             11-25-1889

1872-73  George W. Adams (3)             01-05-1893

1874-77  Luther J. Glenn (16)                06-09-1886

1878       William J. Johnson (12)           05-12-1886

1879-80  James W. Oslin (55)                01-09-1906

1881-83  Charles E. Lambdin (51)         03-03-1888

1884       William A. Graham (12)           02-24-1904

1885       Andrew M. Wolihin (15)           02-22-1897

1886-94  James W. Taylor (8)                12-15-1925

1895-97  Charles Wessolowsky (15)      07-08-1904

1898-00  Henry C. Burr (10)                   03-15-1901

1901       Henry Banks (11)                     06-03-1920

1902       Robert L. Colding (3)               10-21-1927

1903       Alexandrian M. Lambdin (51)  07-06-1909

1904       Young A. Wright (54)               05-12-1911

1905       John C. Joiner (16)                  12-26-1927

1906       J. Luther Gable (40)                01-12-1929

1907       Thomas F. Moody (31)            01-14-1927

1908       Luther M. Heard (25)               01-20-1917

1909      Jacob A. Walton (7)                  06-01-1925

1910      William F. Bowe (2)                  08-25-1932

1911      John R. Wilkinson (16)             04-07-1915

1912      William G. England (41)            03-26-1931

1913      Joe P. Bowdoin (92)                 08-07-1942

1914      Frank O. Miller (18)                   03-17-1937

1915      Hiram Warner Hill (52)              01-13-1934

1916      J. Furman Bell (6)                     12-03-1940

1917      Thomas H. Jeffries (16)            11-06-1948

1918      Elliot W. Parish (3)                    10-13-1963

1919      Andrew S. Harvey (26)             11-22-1946

1920      Joseph C. Greenfield (16)        12-20-1920

1921      Welby C. Jordan (K01)             01-16-1954

1922      Augustus G. Miller (9)               07-31-1931

1923      Clarence H. Andrew (104)        08-20-1930

1924      Early H. Johnson (7)                 09-06-1947

1924      Edgar A. McHan [Hon.] (24)     07-12-1928

1925      William A. Sims (16)                 11-24-1952

1926      Hugh W. Taylor (31)                 05-18-1966

1927      W. Frank Wells (97)                  11-07-1947

1928      John Swain (3)                          01-02-1944

1929      William B. Graham (12)            07-02-1931

1930      Charles L. Bass (93)                 12-29-1937

1930      Josiah T. Clarke (Hon.) (2)       05-13-1950

1931      Charles Percival Taylor (155)   01-14-1934

1932      Joseph A. Moore (6)                 09-04-1972

1933      Charles R. McCord (4)              03-22-1938

1934      John B. Russell (32)                 01-20-1955

1935      N. H. Ballard (Hon) (66)            02-19-1936

1935      Francis A. Johnson (97)           03-31-1940

1936      B. Palmer Axson (G03)             05-23-1943

1937      Newman N. Johnson (22)         11-03-1972

1938      Paul H. Ponder (158)                11-23-1967

1938      P.T. McCutchen (Hon.) (34)     03-27-1947

1939      Jack G. Standifer (44)              11-20-1972

1940      Thomas W. Sewell (34)              6-25-1966

1941      J. Warner Neal (7)                    11-19-1960

1942      John W. Riley (6)                      01-06-1949

1943      E. Paul Newhard (62)               05-16-1963

1944      J. Tillman Morgan (74)              09-20-1969

1945      Bartis E. Goodman (16)            01-09-1959

1946      Emanuel W. Rhoden (91)         10-20-1962

1947      W. Furman King (G03)             11-07-1950

1948      Daniel W. Locklin (K01)            10-09-1988

1949      James R. Belflower (47)           10-07-1981

1950      John W. Ball, Jr. (112)              03-09-1958

1951      William J. Penn, Jr. (15)           07-30-1959

1951      Arthur T. Harrison (66)              11-29-1954

1952      Thomas C. Sanders (155)        11-27-1974

1953      David L. Paulk (32)                   04-23-1979

1954      John H. Haddock (4)                 03-03-1981

1955      J. Willard Register (7)               04-24-1999

1956      Cecil F. Hall (33)                       11-01-1979

1957      Austin P. Phillips (94)               03-18-1981

1958      Lyndon S. Patterson (10)          05-07-1958

1958      Jay D. Barton (2)                      03-09-1981

1959      Harry M. Stanley, Jr. (119)       07-24-1992

1960      Raymond E. Keen (30)             08-06-1999

1961      James C. Newton (54)              06-06-1970

1961      G. Hice Gilbert (149)                 08-19-1985

1962      E. Alton Rogers (6)                   06-24-2001

1963      Ralph C. James (158)              06-14-1989

1964      Charles H. Bush (131)              12-20-1969

1965      James M. Head (63)                 03-11-1999

1966      Joseph R. Richardson (26)       01-27-1990

1967      James E. Moseley (10)             02-10-2017

1967      Merrill D. Payton (15)              02-12-1997

1968       Ira R. Huffaker (16)                 05-21-1973

1969      Thomas J. Brake, Jr. (10)          09-24-1971

1970      Herman E. Freeman (G03)       08-01-1984

1971      Graydon W. Kitchens (122)      08-12-1987

1972      John M. McClurd, Sr. (66)        04-17-2001

1973      William M. Drinnon (4)              02-03-1987

1974      Richard S. Sagar (98)               12-11-2013

1975      J. Lewis Lester (87)                  05-26-2009

1976      Charlie O. Murphy (155)           11-21-1992

1977      Marvin E. Oldham (K01)           08-13-2000

1978      H. Grady Keith (27)

1979      John Benny Allen (64)             10-24-2017

1980      Felix Gersten (7)                      06-10-1993

1981      Rufus C. Johnson, Jr. (52)        04-07-2000

1982      James T. Stanley (98)               05-02-1991

1983      William M. Hutcheson (16)       03-25-2010

1984      C. Downing Pate (Hon.) (107)  10-25-1997

1984      Bobby Joe Townsend (83)        09-20-2014

1985      Grady T. Bozeman (28)            05-10-2007

1986      Steven V. Carter (90)               11-11-2017

1987      J. Walter Cowart (G03)             09-11-2001

1988      William E. Cantrell (144)

1989      P. Woodrow Houston (44)        06-30-1994

1990      George E. Jones (18)               08-27-1993

1991      James E. Miller (73)                  04-21-2013

1992      John S. Perry (75)                    09-04-1995

1993      Ernest J. Gaines (49)               11-23-1995

1994      Ruben Martinez (75)               03-28-2021

1995      Joe E. Turner (10)

1996      William J. Bird (70)                   02-15-2021

1997      William Henry Lewis (107)        06-07-1998

1998      Leon S. (Sam) Lee, III (15)

1999      Joseph P. Suttles (37)               09-11-2019

1999      Wilford H. Hall (80)                   07-12-2014

2000      Wayne H. Garrett (64)

2000      Ted H. Hendon (Hon.) (50)       04-27-2007

2001      William D. Miles (16)               03-04-2017

2002      Earl D. Harris (Hon.) (71)          07-23-2002

2002      A. Joseph Clark (K01)

2003      Eli A. Stafford (G03)                  2-22- 2007

2004      Emmett R. Johns (4)

2005      Hugh F. Watson (13)

2006      Robert L. Gill (9)

2007      Charles L. Taylor, Jr. (21)         09-05-2010

2008      Drewey W. Hendry, Sr. (63)    02-02-2021

2009      C. Danny Wofford (84)

2009      Wade C. Smith (24)

2010      J. Timothy Ingram (28)

2011      William L. Montgomery (73)   11-13-2020

2012      Jimmy T. Porter (79)                11-29-2015

2013      Clyde E. Griffin (G03)

2014      Michael H. Wilson (71)

2015      James T. Farmer (10)                03-06-2016

2016      William F. Shepard (66)

2017      Mark A. Bradley (84)

2017      Bobby B. Simmons (4) 

2018      Stephen C. Higgins (135)

2018      Gary D. Lemmons (61)

2019      James W. Tate (73)

2019      Andre E. Lovas (34)

2020      Michael H. Sampsell (13/87)

2021      John Henry Johnson (47)

2022     C. Hendry Howard (9)