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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
Andrew Jackson15 March 1767
7th President of the United States
John Adams30 October 1735
2nd U.S. President
Aaron Burr06 February 1756
3rd Vice President of United States
James Madison16 March 1751
4th President of the United States
John Quincy Adams11 July 1767
James Buchanan23 April 1791
15th U.S. President
William Henry Harrison09 February 1773
Thomas Paine29 January 1737
Founding Father of the United States
John Tyler29 March 1790
10th U.S. President
Davy Crockett17 August 1786
Martin Van Buren05 December 1782
Zachary Taylor24 November 1784
Military Leader and the 12th President of United
James K. Polk02 November 1795
James Monroe28 April 1758
Fifth President of the USA
Paul Revere01 January 1735
Revolutionary
John C. Calhoun18 March 1782
7th Vice President of the U.S.A
Sam Houston02 March 1793
Former Governor of Texas
John Paul Jones06 July 1747
Scottish American Sailor
Henry Clay12 April 1777
Political Leader
Samuel Adams27 September 1722
Founding Father of the United States
John Hancock23 January 1737
Former President of the Continental Congress
Meriwether Lewis18 August 1774
Explorer, Politician
Tecumseh29 February 1768
Native American Leader
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
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben17 September 1730
Military Officer
Ethan Allen21 January 1738
Revolutionary War Hero
George Mason11 December 1725
Patriot, U.S. Statesman
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Chief Seattle1780 AD
Nathanael Greene07 August 1742
Military Commander
Anthony Wayne01 January 1745
Elbridge Gerry17 July 1744
Former Vice President of the United States
Benjamin Rush04 January 1746
Samuel Chase17 April 1741
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
William R. King07 April 1786
Shortest Serving Vice President of the U.S.A
Benjamin Tallmadge25 February 1754
Military Leader
James Wilson14 September 1742
Founding Fathers of the United States
Richard Mentor Johnson17 October 1780
9th Vice President of the U.S.A
George M. Dallas10 July 1792
11th Vice President of the U.S.A
John Dickinson08 November 1732
One of the Founding Fathers of the US
Benjamin Lincoln24 January 1733
Officer
Daniel D. Tompkins21 June 1774
Sixth Vice President of the U.S.A
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Caesar Rodney07 October 1728
Former Governor of Delaware
Edward Everett11 April 1794
Former American senator
Josiah Bartlett21 November 1729
Former Governor of New Hampshire
George Wythe1726 AD
American professor
Francis Hopkinson21 September 1737
Former United States District Judge
Lyman Hall12 April 1724
Signer of United States Declaration of
Robert Treat Paine11 March 1731
Former Massachusetts Attorney General
Luther Martin20 February 1748
Politician
Francis Lewis21 March 1713
Member of the United States House of
Matthew Thornton1714 AD
William Ellery02 December 1727
William Hooper17 June 1742
Former Delegate to the Continental Congress
Jonathan Edwards05 October 1703
American preacher
George Clinton26 July 1739
Fourth Vice President of the U.S.A
Archibald Alexander17 April 1772
American theologian
Abraham Whipple26 September 1733
Revolutionary Commander
John J. Crittenden10 September 1787
Politician
Francis Marion26 February 1732
Military officer
Charles Evans Hughes11 April 1862
Politician
Elizabeth Ann Seton28 August 1774
Teacher, Abbé, Memoirist, Nun
John Witherspoon05 February 1723
Politician, Theologian
Horatio Gates26 July 1727
Army General
Denmark Vesey1767 AD
Carpenters
Charles Grandison Finney29 August 1792
American minister
Joseph Brant29 February 1743
Military leader
Oliver Hazard Perry23 August 1785
Officer
Charles Carroll of Carrollton19 September 1737
Politician
Richard Henry Lee20 January 1732
Politician, Judge
DeWitt Clinton02 March 1769
Politician
Increase Mather21 June 1639
Clergyman
Albert Gallatin29 January 1761
Politician, Diplomat
James Wilkinson24 March 1757
Soldier
William Blount26 March 1749
Politician
Lewis Cass09 October 1782
Former United States Senator
John Colter1774 AD
Military Personnel
Israel Putnam07 January 1718
Army General
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney25 February 1746
Statesman
Haym Salomon07 April 1740
Businessman
Sybil Ludington05 April 1761
American Revolutionary
William H. Crawford24 February 1772
Politician
Oliver Ellsworth29 April 1745
Judge
Samuel Seabury30 November 1729
Bishop
Thomas Sumter14 August 1734
General
Edward Rutledge23 November 1749
Politician
Anson Jones20 January 1798
Politician
Henry Laurens06 March 1724
Politician
John Stark28 August 1728
Military Officer
Nancy Ward1738 AD
Political leader
Timothy Pickering17 July 1745
Politician
William Ellery Channing07 April 1780
Preacher