Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln was not a Freemason.  He did apply for membership in Tyrian Lodge, Springfield, Illinois shortly after his nomination for the Presidency in 1860,
but he withdrew the application because he felt that his applying for membership at that time might be construed as a political ruse to obtain votes.

He advised the Lodge that he would resubmit his application again when he returned from the Presidency.

    Of course, Lincoln never returned from the Presidency having been assassinated on April 14, 1865 by John Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theater, Washington DC while watching the play "My American Cousin". 

    On the death of the president, Tyrian Lodge adopted a resolution on April 17, 1865
to say "that the decision of President Lincoln to postpone his application for the honors of Freemasonry, lest his motives be misconstrued, is the highest degree honorable to his memory."