Find out more about the greatest 18th Century American Leaders, including George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and James Madison
George Washington22 February 1732
First U.S. President
Alexander Hamilton11 January 1755
Economist, Political Philosopher, Former U.S.
Thomas Jefferson13 April 1743
3rd U.S. President
John Adams30 October 1735
2nd U.S. President
John Quincy Adams11 July 1767
William Henry Harrison09 February 1773
John C. Calhoun18 March 1782
7th Vice President of the U.S.A
James Buchanan23 April 1791
15th U.S. President
James Madison16 March 1751
4th President of the United States
Aaron Burr06 February 1756
3rd Vice President of United States
Zachary Taylor24 November 1784
Military Leader and the 12th President of United
John Tyler29 March 1790
10th U.S. President
Martin Van Buren05 December 1782
Davy Crockett17 August 1786
James K. Polk02 November 1795
James Monroe28 April 1758
Fifth President of the USA
Sam Houston02 March 1793
Former Governor of Texas
Thomas Paine29 January 1737
Founding Father of the United States
Chief Seattle1780 AD
Paul Revere01 January 1735
Revolutionary
Henry Clay12 April 1777
Political Leader
Tecumseh29 February 1768
Native American Leader
Samuel Adams27 September 1722
Founding Father of the United States
John Paul Jones06 July 1747
Scottish American Sailor
John Hancock23 January 1737
Former President of the Continental Congress
Meriwether Lewis18 August 1774
Explorer, Politician
Patrick Henry29 May 1736
5th & 6th Governor of Virginia, Orator,
Thaddeus Stevens04 April 1792
Former United States Representative
Daniel Webster18 January 1782
Former United States Senator
Benjamin Tallmadge25 February 1754
Military Leader
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben17 September 1730
Military Officer
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Nathanael Greene07 August 1742
Military Commander
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Caesar Rodney07 October 1728
Former Governor of Delaware
Henry Knox25 July 1750
Former United States Secretary of War
Benjamin Rush04 January 1746
William R. King07 April 1786
Shortest Serving Vice President of the U.S.A
Anthony Wayne01 January 1745
Ethan Allen21 January 1738
Revolutionary War Hero
George Mason11 December 1725
Patriot, U.S. Statesman
Joseph Warren11 June 1741
Physician, Military Leader
Elbridge Gerry17 July 1744
Former Vice President of the United States
John Dickinson08 November 1732
One of the Founding Fathers of the US
Richard Mentor Johnson17 October 1780
9th Vice President of the U.S.A
Samuel Chase17 April 1741
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
George M. Dallas10 July 1792
11th Vice President of the U.S.A
Benjamin Lincoln24 January 1733
Officer
Daniel D. Tompkins21 June 1774
Sixth Vice President of the U.S.A
Edward Everett11 April 1794
Former American senator
Josiah Bartlett21 November 1729
Former Governor of New Hampshire
George Clinton26 July 1739
Fourth Vice President of the U.S.A
Francis Hopkinson21 September 1737
Former United States District Judge
George Wythe1726 AD
American professor
Robert Treat Paine11 March 1731
Former Massachusetts Attorney General
James Wilson14 September 1742
Founding Fathers of the United States
Lyman Hall12 April 1724
Signer of United States Declaration of
William Hooper17 June 1742
Former Delegate to the Continental Congress
Matthew Thornton1714 AD
William Ellery02 December 1727
Francis Lewis21 March 1713
Member of the United States House of
Jonathan Edwards05 October 1703
American preacher
Luther Martin20 February 1748
Politician
Abraham Whipple26 September 1733
Revolutionary Commander
Archibald Alexander17 April 1772
American theologian
Francis Marion26 February 1732
Military officer
Charles Evans Hughes11 April 1862
Politician
Horatio Gates26 July 1727
Army General
Sybil Ludington05 April 1761
American Revolutionary
Denmark Vesey1767 AD
Carpenters
Charles Carroll of Carrollton19 September 1737
Politician
Oliver Hazard Perry23 August 1785
Officer
DeWitt Clinton02 March 1769
Politician
Joseph Brant29 February 1743
Military leader
Richard Henry Lee20 January 1732
Politician, Judge
Elizabeth Ann Seton28 August 1774
Teacher, Abbé, Memoirist, Nun
Henry Dearborn23 February 1751
Former U.S. Congressman
Albert Gallatin29 January 1761
Politician, Diplomat
Israel Putnam07 January 1718
Army General
James Wilkinson24 March 1757
Soldier
John Colter1774 AD
Military Personnel
John Witherspoon05 February 1723
Politician, Theologian
Lewis Cass09 October 1782
Former United States Senator
Increase Mather21 June 1639
Clergyman
Thomas Sumter14 August 1734
General
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney25 February 1746
Statesman
Gabriel Prosser1776 AD
Blacksmith
Haym Salomon07 April 1740
Businessman
Edward Rutledge23 November 1749
Politician
John J. Crittenden10 September 1787
Politician
John Stark28 August 1728
Military Officer
Oliver Ellsworth29 April 1745
Judge
Henry Laurens06 March 1724
Politician
Thomas McKean19 March 1734
Lawyer, Politician, Judge
Sidney Rigdon19 February 1793
Religious Leader
William H. Crawford24 February 1772
Politician