Past Potentates

Celebrating the past as we move into the future.

1896-1897 — John Henry Cavanaugh *
1898-1912 — Ernest Allen Cutts — Imperial Potentate 1921-1922 *
1913-1916 — Robert Jesse Travis *
1917-1918 — Robert Lee Colding *
1919-1920 — Davis Freeman *
1921-1926 — Robert B. Hubert *
1927-1928 — John W. Blount *
1929-1930 — Walter D. Jones *
1931-1932 — Olin F. Fulmer *
1933 — John J. Cornell *
1934-1935 — Anton F. Solms *
1936 — Orrie E. Bright *
1937-1938 — George W. Hunt *
1939-1940 — Wilkes S. MacFeeley *
1941 — Benjamin S. Well *
1942-1943 — Thomas M. Hoynes *
1944-1945 — B.B. Heery *
1946-1947 — John C. Helmken *
1948 — W. Furman King *
1949 — Morris Slotin *
1949 — George M. Sanders *
1950 — Harold B. Coolidge *
1951 — Judge A. R. MacDonnell *
1951 -1952 — W. E. Sickel *
1953 — Jules Victor Sr. *
1954 — Henry W. Jenkins Jr. *
1955 — John W. Sanders *
1956 — Robert E. Falligant *
1957 — P. LeRoy Meadows *
1958 — R. Earl Rogers *
1959 — Robert M. Sieg *
1960 — William H. Mock *
1961 — W. Harold Sigman *
1962 — Sidney E. Disher *
1963 — Edward A. Perkins *
1964 — George E. Oliver *
1965 — J. Curtis Lewis *
1966 — T. Walker Tinley Jr. *
1967 — Sidney F. Strickland *
1968 — Carl W. Seiler *
1969 — Frank E. Fesler *
1970 — William A. Porter *
1971 — William B. Gathings *
1972 — George F. Mill *
1973 — Roy C. Nelson *
1974 — Alton I Rushing *
1975 — Hoyt D. Jordan *
1976 — William V. Tyson Jr. *
1977 — Benjamin Silverman *
1978 — Dock B. Donaldson Jr. *
1979 — George F. Hendry *
1980 — George N. Wotherspoon *
1981 — Ewell S. Byrd Sr. *
1982 — Sidney Jenkins *
1983 — J. Floyd Pittman *
1984 — H. Harry Evans *
1985 — John W. Lassiter *
1986 — Thomas Newsome*
1987 — William C. Griffin *
1988 — Larson C. Strange*
1989 — Lester Claxton
1990 — W. E. (Billy) Phillips*
1991 — Calvin Hodges
1992 — C. Freddie Johnson *
1993 — Edwin “Ed” L. Coleman *
1994 — Jack. L. Hepner *
1995 — Charles H. Stokes
1996 — Franklin D. Rivenbark *
1997 — Ronald L. McIntosh
1998 — Albert Nelson, Jr.*
1999 — Dan R. Hodges *
2000 — George Parker
2001 — C. S. Kaney
2002 — Dale Barnard
2003 — Warren Brown
2004 — C. E. “Gene” Cowart *
2005 — J. Brooks Gaudry, III
2006 — Alfred D. Waite
2007 — David L. Blissett*
2008 — C. Mack Griffin
2009 — John B. Johnson, III
2010 — Phillip R. Davis
2011 — Robert Kozlowski (expelled)
2012 — Michael Stanley
2013 — Howard Cooper*
2014 — Charlie Brewer
2015 — James “JJ” L. Johns, Sr.
2016 — David W. Armstrong
2017 — Howard Jay Robbins
2018 — Clyde V. Bowie
2019 — Micah Donaldson
2020 — Ralph “Buddy” Grayson
2021 — Freddie L. Humphries, Jr.
2022 — Steve Lingle
2023 — Robbie Moore


* Deceased