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The National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) is a fraternal organization consisting of sworn law enforcement officers in the United States. It reports a membership of over 355,000 members organized in 2,100 local chapters (lodges), state lodges, and the national Grand Lodge. The organization attempts to improve the working conditions of law ...
Combined elements of a fraternal order with a building and loan association. [58] Apparently defunct by the early 1920s. [59] Court of Honor – Founded in 1895 as a splinter group of the Home Forum. At the national convention of the Home Forum in May 1895, in Detroit, a group of insurgents from the Springfield, Illinois, and other locals bolted.
The National Grand Lodge was established June 24, 1847 in Boston, Massachusetts, by Grand Lodges which were of direct lineage to African Lodge No. 459.Those Grand Lodges were the African Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, First Independent African Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania and Hiram Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania.
This is a list of all verifiable organizations that claim to be a Masonic Grand Lodge in United States. A Masonic "Grand Lodge" (or sometimes "Grand Orient") is the governing body that supervises the individual "Lodges of Freemasons" in a particular geographical area, known as its "jurisdiction" (usually corresponding to a sovereign state or other major geopolitical unit).
The Grand Lodge's current home is 37th Street near 6th Avenue, sharing office space with the Workmens Circle. [79] National convention meets triennially. The Order is led by a "Grand Master", and the other "grand lodge" officers have a "grand" prefix. Has secret rituals, initiation ceremonies, and passwords. Motto "Friendship, Love Truth".
Former President Donald Trump accepted an invitation to attend the Fraternal Order of Police’s board meeting in Charlotte next week as he waits to hear about an endorsement.
Fraternal order; List of friendly and benefit societies; List of Masonic Grand Lodges; List of North American ethnic and religious fraternal orders; List of North American fraternal orders; List of social fraternities; List of social sororities and women's fraternities; Secret society; Service club; Social club
A fraternal order is a voluntary membership group organised as an order, with an initiation ritual and traits alluding to religious, chivalric or pseudo-chivalric orders, guilds, or secret societies. Fraternal orders typically have secular purposes, serving as social clubs, cultural organizations and providing a form of social welfare through ...