GRAND CHAPTER, ROYAL ARCH MASONS of TENNESSEE
Most Excellent Past Grand High Priests
* indicates the brother has passed.
If you have any of the Past Grand’s missing Bios, please send them to the York Rite Grand Sec so we can fill in the ones we are missing.
Thanks.
Year
Name
Chapter #
2019-20
Steven Glenn Barnett
*
198
2018
Richard Ronald Petty, Jr.
49
2017
Ronald Jasper Coates
123
2016
David C. Swaim, Sr.
204
2015
Luther Junior Gafford
137
2014
Robert Glenn Officer
87
2013
Donald Barrow
*
168
2012
Ralph Denny Friday
131
2011
George Bruce Jackson
234
2010
Don Yates Woody
*
225
2009
Thomas Dale Bowne
*
220
2008
Ronald C Dougherty
4
2007
Douglas Gene Pair
132
2006
Michael Carroll Lett
184
2005
Milton Ray Hager
1
2004
Jake M. Akers, Sr
*
215
2003
Daniel C. Jeter, Jr.
*
238
2002
Harold E. Scott
2
2001
Mack E. Johnson
*
168
2000
Charles P. Gallups
*
49
1999
Roger E. Winningham
234
1998
Richard E. Van Tassell
225
1997
Benjamin W. Surrett
*
138
1996
David T Hart
*
123
1995
Gilbert Brown
*
132
1994
Robert B. Taylor
*
164
1993
Edward L. Davis
*
197
1992
William H. Egbert
*
22
1991
J. Jacques Sweeney
*
220
1990
Robert E. Gooch
*
3
1989
J. Rye Garton
*
159
1988
Marshall A. Stinnett
*
186
1987
James E. Moss
*
210
1986
Jerry W. Richards
185
1985
Samuel D. Haga
*
195
1984
Bob F. Stephenson
*
150
1983
Darius L. Cullipher
*
221
1982
Horace P. Raper
*
74
1981
C. Everett Blanton, Jr.
*
1
1980
James H. Rook
*
22
1979
William B. Anderson
*
184
1978
E. Oakley Wynne
*
197
1977
Rufus D. Rice
*
9
1976
William R. Patton
*
164
1975
Frank T. Lee, Sr.
*
62
1974
Roy C. Murdock
*
225
1973
Rufus G. Obrecht
*
208
1972
Ralph W. C. Lambert
*
197
1971
H. Gordon Higgs
*
129
1970
Marshall E. Rasnake
*
212
1969
Joe C. Foster
*
4
1968
John L. Lamb
*
22
1967
George A. Peters
*
214
1966
Russell B. Tandy
*
234
1965
States M. Welborn
*
178
1964
Kelso H. Renfro
*
207
1963
Charles O. Bledsoe
*
187
1962
David H. Vaughn
*
185
1961
Bruce Blair
*
220
1960
George F. Brookhart
*
199
1959
Lawrence J. Sharp
*
79
1958
Lawrence J. Sharp
*
112
1957
W. David Mcanulty
*
132
1956
Lyman L. Worrell
*
24
1955
John M. Brown
*
123
1954
Richard T. Poole
*
22
1953
Virden Z. Cline
*
83
1952
Lucien C. Connell
*
197
1951
R. Kelley Roney, Sr.
*
1
1950
Emary B. Blankenbecler
*
195
1949
Granville V. Elmore
*
193
1948
John T. Stewart
*
168
1947
Sylvan D. Shamblin
*
186
1946
W. R. Singleton
*
25
1945
Otway Yates
*
77
1944
Frank Knox Harle
*
39
1943
John T. Woodfin, Jr
*
150
1942
Frank M. Quinn
*
138
1941
W. Phelan Douglas
*
198
1940
Hugh O. Edwards
*
1
1939
W. Harry Dudley
*
129
1938
H. Mack Barnett
*
184
1937
William J. Sanders
*
193
1936
B. Tate Dawkins
*
204
1935
W. Henry Blackwell
*
131
1934
Maurice L. Hester
*
3
1933
Charles A. Snodgrass
*
208
1932
Arch E. McClanahan
*
1
1931
James H. Epps
*
21
1930
E. B. Duke
*
210
1929
A. G. Hudson
*
185
1928
James I. Walker
*
186
1927
C. F. Bunbury
*
22
1926
A. C. Morgan
*
3
1925
J. Windfield Darby
*
157
1924
John G. Greer
*
138
1923
C. H. Byrn
*
150
1922
John Wetzler
*
144
1921
F. E. Bartley
*
79
1920
Angus G. Bowen
*
1
1919
Joseph A. Fowler
*
95
1918
J. H. Swan
*
141
1917
Charles H. Smart
*
1
1916
Philip N. Matlock
*
125
1915
Samuel W. Williams
*
145
1914
Charles M. Hunt
*
153
1913
M. F. Flenniken
*
24
1912
Junius Hobson
*
144
1911
A. N. Sloan
*
49
1910
Jesse T. Spaulding
*
147
1909
Andrew P. Trogden
*
99
1908
Charles A. Comstock
*
199
1907
Samuel Slager
*
22
1906
George L. Cowan
*
2
1905
W. D. Good
*
135
1904
Fred C. Watkins
*
178
1903
George P. Chandler
*
24
1902
D. E. Shields
*
79
1901
W. S. Findlay
*
87
1900
A. S. Meyers
*
22
1899
E. S. Miller
*
131
1898
Caswell A. Goodle
*
32
1897
Isaac J. Thurman
*
99
1896
William D. Henderson
*
74
1895
A. G. Kimbrough
*
27
1894
James H. Mccalister
*
79
1893
John T. Williamson
*
4
1892
John B. Garrett
*
107
1891
Alex C. Robeson
*
74
1890
Thomas O. Morris
*
1
1889
N. F. Harrison
*
27
1888
Lewis R. Eastman
*
107
1887
W. R. Shaver
*
55
1886
Bradford Nichol
*
107
1885
William S. Matthews
*
95
1884
David J. Pierce
*
49
1883
James D. Richardson
*
23
1882
William E. Eastman
1
1880
Gideon R. Gwynne
25
1879
John H. Bullock
*
14
1878
Benjamin F. Haller
*
95
1877
John S. Pride
*
114
1876
H. M. Aken
*
24
1875
Algernon S. Curry
*
31
1874
Wilber F. Foster
*
1
1873
Joseph M. Anderson
*
25
1872
John W. Paxton
*
24
1871
A. J. Wheeler
*
22
1870
William H. Armstrong
*
3
1869
John M. Hughes
*
59
1868
William Maxwell
*
19
1867
Townsend A. Thomas
*
3
1866
Jonathan S. Dawson
*
14
1865
John Frizzell
*
31
1861
Rev. Jonathan Huntingdon
*
1
1860
William H. Whiton
*
4
1859
Robert S. Moore
*
3
1858
Robert S. Moore
*
3
1857
Robert J. Chester
*
9
1856
Solomon W. Cochran
*
33
1855
Solomon W. Cochran
*
33
1854
Edward W. Kenney
*
27
1853
Edward W. Kenney
*
27
1852
J. M. Gilbert
*
15
1851
A. M. Hughes
*
4
1850
A. M. Hughes
*
4
1849
Charles Arnold Fuller
*
4
1848
P. G. Stiver Perkins
*
2
1847
P. G. Stiver Perkins
*
2
1846
Dyer Pearl
*
1
1845
Dyer Pearl
*
1
1844
Dyer Pearl
*
1
1843
James H. Thomas
*
4
1842
Henry F. Beaumont
*
3
1841
Edmund Dillahunty
*
4
1840
Edmund Dillahunty
*
4
1839
Moses Stevens
*
1
1838
Benjamin S. Tappan
*
2
1837
Benjamin S. Tappen
*
2
1836
Dyer Pearl
*
1
1835
T. S. Alderson
*
4
1834
Moses Stevens
*
1
1833
Jacob Foute
*
6
1832
Hezekiah Ward
*
4
1831
Hezekiah Ward
*
4
1830
William G. Dickenson
*
2
1829
Wilkins Tannehill
*
1
1828
Moses Stevens
*
1
1827
William G. Hunt
*
1
1826
William G. Hunt
*
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