Albert G. Mackey

He served as Grand Lecturer and Grand Secretary of The Grand Lodge of South Carolina as well as Secretary General of the Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States.

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"Albert G. Mackey, the Highest Masonic authority on the Continent of America, in his Masonic Jurisprudence..." - Ancient Mystic Oriental Masonry By R. Swinburne Clymer pg. 184

"Albert G. Mackey, found  himself in Capitular Masonry, in which he rose to be Grand High Priest (1855 to 1867) and finally General Grand High Priest (1859 to 1868). Eminent Commander of South Carolina Commandery, No. 1, in 1842, he was later honoured by being made Past Grand Warden of the Grand Encampment of the United States.  Crowned with the 33rd and last degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite for the Southern Jurisdiction, he was an active member of the Supreme Council and served as Secretary General for many years. It was during this time that he was closely associated with another great American Mason, Albert Pike." (http://www.themasonictrowel.com/masonic_talk/stb/stbs/36-02.htm)