W. Freeland Kendrick

W. Freeland Kendrick (1873 [Potts, Florence J. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-936X(192610)26%3A10%3C745%3ATSHAGO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q "The Shriners' Hospitals: A General Outline of the history of the Founding of the Shriners' Hospitals for Crippled Children."] "The American Journal of Nursing", Vol. 26, No. 10 (Oct., 1926), pp. 746.] - March 20, 1953 [ [http://www.lulushriners.org/history.htm "History of the Shriners"] . Accessed March 24, 2008.] )was the Republican Mayor of Philadelphia from 1924-1928. He served as a delegate from Pennsylvania to the Republican National Convention in 1920, [ [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kendig-kennard.html#RXV061TAM W. Freeland Kendrick] at PoliticalGraveyard.com. Accessed March 24, 2008.] and served as the President of the Sesquicentennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1926. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=egCY3gLeOtUC&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9&dq=w+freeland+kendrick&source=web&ots=fFn4GBQbzN&sig=ca3crBRh3sN5GsVQjboiFx8fZRA&hl=en "Foreword"] in Austin, Erastus Long. "The Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition." Arno Press, 1976. p. 9. ISBN 978-0405076701]

Kendrick was also an active Shriner, serving as Potentate of Lulu Shrine from 1906-18, and again from 1920-23. He was elected Imperial Potentate from 1919-20 and served as the second chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Shriners from 1934-1949. [Shriners of North America. "A Short History: Shriners of North America and Shriners Hospitals for Children". September 2004 edition. p. 26.] While he was serving as Imperial Potentate, he put forth the resolution that created the Shriners Hospitals for Children. [Potts, Florence J. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-936X(192610)26%3A10%3C745%3ATSHAGO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q "The Shriners' Hospitals: A General Outline of the History of the Founding of the Shriners' Hospitals for Crippled Children."] "The American Journal of Nursing", Vol. 26, No. 10 (Oct., 1926), pp. 745-46.] From 1949 until his death, he served on the Board of Trustees for the Philadelphia Shriners Hospital. [ [http://www.lulushriners.org/history.htm "History of the Shriners"] . Accessed March 24, 2008.]

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