Famous Freemason - Roscoe Pound

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Nathan Roscoe Pound was an American legal scholar and educator. He served as Dean of the University of Nebraska College of Law from 1903 to 1911 and Dean of Harvard Law School from 1916 to 1936. He was a member of Northwestern University, the University of Chicago Law School and the faculty at UCLA School of Law in the school's early years, from 1949 to 1952.

Pound is best known for advancing the "theory of social interests" in law, asserting that law must recognize the needs of humanity, and take contemporary social conditions into account. Pound's work inspired many including Franklin Delano Roosevelt who utilized Pound's theory in constructing the New Deal program of the 1930s.

Pound served on legal commissions throughout the world and is the author of numerous law texts. He has also written extensively on masonic law: Masonic Jurisprudence; Masonic Landmarks, The Data of Masonic Jurisprudence; Masonic Lawmaking ; Masonic Common Law; Lectures On The Philosophy of Freemasonry; Lectures on Masonic Jurisprudence and others.

Bro. Pound was Raised Lancaster Lodge No. 54, Lincoln, Nebraska in 1901, and Served as Worshipful Master in 1905. He was appointed Grand Orator of the Grand Lodge of Nebraska in 1907 and was later honored as a Honorary Past Grand Master.

He served as Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts in 1905 and was the Founding Master of the Harvard Lodge.