Find out more about the greatest 19th Century American Leaders, including Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Woodrow Wilson.
Abraham Lincoln12 February 1809
American President.
Theodore Roosevelt27 October 1858
26th U.S. President
Harriet Tubman1820 AD
Harry S. Truman08 May 1884
33rd President of the United States
Ulysses S. Grant27 April 1822
President of the U.S.A
Andrew Johnson29 December 1808
Woodrow Wilson28 December 1856
Father of the League of Nations
Robert E. Lee19 January 1807
Confederate General in the American Civil War
Herbert Hoover10 August 1874
31st U.S. President
William McKinley29 January 1843
President of the U.S.A
Douglas MacArthur26 January 1880
Grover Cleveland18 March 1837
President of the U.S.A
James Madison16 March 1751
4th President of the United States
Warren G. Harding02 November 1865
President of the U.S
William Howard Taft15 September 1857
President of the U.S.A
Calvin Coolidge04 July 1872
President of the U.S.A
Eleanor Roosevelt11 October 1884
Wife of American President Franklin Delano
James A. Garfield19 November 1831
President of the U.S.A
Nathan Bedford Forrest13 July 1821
Military commander
Jefferson Davis03 June 1808
Former President of the Confederate States of
George Armstrong Custer05 December 1839
Military Officer
Geronimo16 June 1829
Leader
William Tecumseh Sherman08 February 1820
General in the Union Army During the American
Chester A. Arthur05 October 1829
21st President of the USA
James Monroe28 April 1758
Fifth President of the USA
Huey Long30 August 1893
Politician
Benjamin Harrison20 August 1833
23rd President of the United States
Millard Fillmore07 January 1800
President of the U.S.A
Stonewall Jackson21 January 1824
General
Franklin Pierce23 November 1804
Rutherford B. Hayes04 October 1822
President of the U.S.A
Robert Todd Lincoln01 August 1843
Politician, Son of Abraham Lincoln
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Booker T. Washington05 April 1856
Sitting Bull1831 AD
Warrior
George Hearst03 September 1820
Former United States Senator
Brigham Young01 June 1801
Second President of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Henry A. Wallace07 October 1888
33rd Vice President of the U.S.A.
Omar Bradley12 February 1893
Former U. S. Army General
William Jennings Bryan19 March 1860
Former United States Secretary of State
George Marshall31 December 1880
Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army
Éamon de Valera14 October 1882
Former President of Ireland
Earl Warren19 March 1891
Kit Carson24 December 1809
Explorer & Soldier
Smedley Butler30 July 1881
Eugene V. Debs05 November 1855
Union Leader
Charles Taze Russell16 February 1852
Christian Restoration Minister
Joshua Chamberlain08 September 1828
Educator & War Hero
Hannibal Hamlin27 August 1809
15th Vice President of the U.S.A
Mary Baker Eddy16 July 1821
Religious Leader, Founder of Christian Science,
John Foster Dulles25 February 1888
Former United States Secretary of State
Chief Joseph03 March 1840
Nez Perce leader
Charles Sumner06 January 1811
Politician
Fiorello H. La Guardia11 December 1882
99th Mayor of New York City
John Bell Hood01 June 1831
Confederate General
Samuel Chase17 April 1741
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
Red Cloud1822 AD
John C. Breckinridge16 January 1821
Former Vice President of the United States
John Nance Garner22 November 1868
32nd Vice President of the United States
Salmon P. Chase13 January 1808
Sixth Chief Justice of the United States
Sam Rayburn06 January 1882
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
Charles Curtis25 January 1860
Former Vice President of the United States
Alben W. Barkley24 November 1877
35th Vice President of the U.S
Benjamin Tallmadge25 February 1754
Military Leader
Schuyler Colfax23 March 1823
17th Vice President of the U.S.A
Cordell Hull02 October 1871
Secretary of State, USA
James G. Blaine31 January 1830
Politician
Alf Landon09 September 1887
Governor of Kansas
Adlai Stevenson I23 October 1835
23rd Vice President of the United States
Everett Dirksen04 January 1896
Former U.S. Senator
Charles G. Dawes27 August 1865
Vice President of the United States
Henry Wilson16 February 1812
18th Vice President of the U.S.A
Garret Hobart03 June 1844
24th Vice President of the U.S.A
Clement Vallandigham29 July 1820
Politician
Norman Thomas20 November 1884
Charles W. Fairbanks11 May 1852
Former American senator
Thomas A. Hendricks07 September 1819
21st Vice President of the U.S.A.
James S. Sherman24 October 1855
27th Vice President of the U.S.A
Levi P. Morton16 May 1824
22nd Vice President of the U.S.A
Black Kettle07 December 1803
Leader
Gideon Welles01 July 1802
William A. Wheeler30 June 1819
19th Vice President of the U.S.A
Frank B. Kellogg22 December 1856
Lawyer, Politician
George W. Norris11 July 1861
Former US Senator
Stephen Douglas23 April 1813
The Designer of the Kansas–Nebraska Act
Robert M. La Follette, Sr.14 June 1855
Leader
George Patton11 November 1885
Military Officer
Richard Henry Dana Jr.01 August 1815
Reputed U. S. Lawyer & Abolitionist
John Henninger Reagan08 October 1818
Former United States Senator from Texas
David Dubinsky22 February 1892
Political leader
Bruce Fairchild Barton05 August 1886
American author
John Davis Long27 October 1838
Lawyer, Politician & Writer
Alfred Emanuel Smith30 December 1873
Governor of New York
F D Roosevelt30 January 1882
32nd President of the United States
Joseph Smith23 December 1805
Religious Leader
Sun Yat-sen12 November 1866
Politician, Physician, Philosopher
John J. Pershing13 September 1860
Officer, Lawyer, Politician