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Past Potentates of Sphinx Shrine

* Deceased

*Rial S. Peck 1896-1902
*James H. Jarman 1903
*William G. Simmons 1904-1905
*Stanley B. Bosworth 1906
*Joseph E. Root 1907
*Edward W. Pratt 1908
*Edward Mahl 1909
*John T. Henderson 1910
*George W. Klett 1911
*William W. Frayer 1912
*William F. Loomis 1913
*Walter S. Garde 1914
*Henry S. Strong 1915
*Thomas W. Morgan 1916
*Henry G. Toothaker 1917
*Clayton W. Rowley 1918
*Charles W. Heusted 1919
*Horace W. Eddy 1920
*Otis J. Hart 1921
*Louis C. Kingsbury 1922
*John H. Trumbull 1923
*Wilbur L. Scranton 1924
*George H. Gabb 1925
*Fred B. Griffin 1926
*Harry J. Beardsley 1927
*Norman C. Stevens 1928
*Stanley S. Gwillim 1929
*Walter H. Penfield 1930
*Merton W. Bassett 1931
*William F. Powell 1932
*William R. Stocking 1933
*Nathan B. Richards 1934
*Wilfred H. Dresser 1935
*Nathaniel J. Scott 1936
*William Hunter 1937
*Charles F. Coates 1938
*Idris Alderson 1939
*Harry H. Browne 1940
*John A. Peterson 1941
*Wilson A. Fenn 1942
*Raymond I. Longley 1943



*Richard M. Libby 1944
*Edward D. Heiman 1945
*Morris B. Payne 1946
*Daniel A. Read 1947
*M. Allyn Wadhams 1948
*Frank S. Jones 1949
*John Jepson 1950
*Harold C. Close, P.I.P. 1951
*Frank W. Beckwith 1952
*Lincoln R. Young 1953
*Harold K. Bonnick 1954
*Louis S. Thomas 1955
*Henri B. vanZelm 1956
*Philip R. Pratt 1957
*Burton M. Ryon 1958
*Jean E. Shepard 1959
*H. Fremont Alderson 1960
*Thom W. Corby 1961
*Arthur L. Wasserman 1962
*Arthur E. B. Tanner 1963
*Emory R. Morse 1964
*Frederick W. Becher 1965
*Stanley E. Peterson 1966
*Tom J. Lilly 1967
*Herbert C. Schick 1968
*Lloyd D. Beach 1969
*William F. Seelig 1970
*Franklyn B. Henderson 1971
*George W. Palmer 1972
*William O. Gadd 1973
*Eugene T. Crandall 1974
*Mitchell Esoian 1975
*Harry G. Shalett 1976
*Harold E. Turkington 1977
*Warren J. Blessing 1978
*Frederick W. Davis 1979
*Clarence A. Johnson 1980
*Alexander C. Penny 1981
*Richard B. Marshall 1982
*Roger W. Wishart 1983
*Fred R. Cramer 1984


*Donald H. Adams 1985
*Alfred L. Rossetto 1986
*William H. Rackle 1987
*William F. Carpenter 1988
*George H. Kleven 1989
*Edmund G. Sonntag 1990
*Robert E. Seaburg 1991
*Ronald E. Packer 1992
*Joseph P. Cirilli 1993
*Charles R. Clouse 1994
*James E. Mantz 1995
*John W. Hefferman 1996
*Vernon K. Cleaves 1997
*Donald L. Somers 1998
*Philip D. Thomas 1999
*David R. Blythe, Sr. 2000
*A. Harry W. Olsen, Jr. 2001
*Ronald K. Whitehead 2002
*Robert Rader 2003
William "Doc" Arquette 2004
Robert W. Harrison 2005
Richard Marshall 2006
Edward J. Pahl 2007
Samuel A. Frink 2008
*Richard Cassada 2009
*David W. McDonough, Sr. 2010
Raymond A. Basley, Jr.  2011
Jean P. Maheu  2012
*Howard "Skip" Northrop 2013
Terry Worster 2014
Richard K. White 2015 & 2020
David J. Herbert 2016
​John Taylor 2017
Martin Yanofsky 2018
​Bruce Fairclough 2019
Weston Bedore 2021
Victor L. Fettig 2022
Eric J. Pogg 2023
Nicholas S. DiRenzo (2024)
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