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Abraham Lincoln12 February 1809
American President.
Harriet Tubman1820 AD
Abolitionist
Theodore Roosevelt27 October 1858
26th U.S. President
Thomas Jefferson13 April 1743
3rd U.S. President
Woodrow Wilson28 December 1856
Father of the League of Nations
Booker T. Washington05 April 1856
John Adams30 October 1735
2nd U.S. President
Ulysses S. Grant27 April 1822
18th U.S. President
Andrew Jackson15 March 1767
7th President of the United States
Herbert Hoover10 August 1874
31st U.S. President
Warren G. Harding02 November 1865
President of the U.S
Andrew Johnson29 December 1808
Eleanor Roosevelt11 October 1884
Former First Lady of the United States
Grover Cleveland18 March 1837
President of the U.S.A
Calvin Coolidge04 July 1872
President of the U.S.A
William McKinley29 January 1843
President of the U.S.A
Douglas MacArthur26 January 1880
Robert E. Lee19 January 1807
Confederate General in the American Civil War
William Howard Taft15 September 1857
President of the U.S.A
James Madison16 March 1751
4th President of the United States
James A. Garfield19 November 1831
President of the U.S.A
Benjamin Harrison20 August 1833
23rd President of the United States
Jefferson Davis03 June 1808
Former President of the Confederate States of
George Armstrong Custer05 December 1839
Military Officer
Franklin Pierce23 November 1804
Millard Fillmore07 January 1800
President of the U.S.A
James Monroe28 April 1758
Fifth President of the USA
Chester A. Arthur05 October 1829
21st President of the USA
William Tecumseh Sherman08 February 1820
General in the Union Army During the American
Rutherford B. Hayes04 October 1822
President of the U.S.A
Huey Long30 August 1893
Politician
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Stonewall Jackson21 January 1824
General
Eugene V. Debs05 November 1855
Union Leader
Robert Todd Lincoln01 August 1843
Politician, Son of Abraham Lincoln
Geronimo16 June 1829
Leader
Sitting Bull1831 AD
Warrior
Éamon de Valera14 October 1882
Former President of Ireland
William Jennings Bryan19 March 1860
Former United States Secretary of State
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.
John J. Pershing13 September 1860
US Army Officer During WW I
Nathan Bedford Forrest13 July 1821
Military commander
Omar Bradley12 February 1893
Former U. S. Army General
George B. McClellan03 December 1826
Soldier
George Marshall31 December 1880
Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army
Earl Warren19 March 1891
Kit Carson24 December 1809
Explorer & Soldier
William H. Seward16 May 1801
Former United States Secretary of State
Robert Gould Shaw10 October 1837
Military Personnel
Smedley Butler30 July 1881
Matthew C. Perry10 April 1794
Naval Officer
Frances Perkins10 April 1880
Activist
Winfield Scott13 June 1786
Military Officer
James Longstreet08 January 1821
General
Charles Taze Russell16 February 1852
Christian Restoration Minister
Hannibal Hamlin27 August 1809
15th Vice President of the U.S.A
Fiorello H. La Guardia11 December 1882
99th Mayor of New York City
John Nance Garner22 November 1868
32nd Vice President of the United States
Joshua Chamberlain08 September 1828
Educator & War Hero
George Hearst03 September 1820
Former United States Senator
John Foster Dulles25 February 1888
Former United States Secretary of State
Charles Sumner06 January 1811
Politician
Albert Pike29 December 1809
Military Leader
Philip Sheridan06 March 1831
Military Leader
Ambrose Burnside23 May 1824
Military Leader
Tadeusz Kościuszko04 February 1746
Political Leader
John C. Breckinridge16 January 1821
Former Vice President of the United States
Salmon P. Chase13 January 1808
Sixth Chief Justice of the United States
J. E. B. Stuart06 February 1833
Military Leader
Alben W. Barkley24 November 1877
35th Vice President of the U.S
Sam Rayburn06 January 1882
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
Mary Baker Eddy16 July 1821
Religious Leader
Benjamin Tallmadge25 February 1754
Military Leader
John Bell Hood01 June 1831
Confederate General
George Meade31 December 1815
Army Officer
Alfred Thayer Mahan27 September 1840
Naval Officer
Chief Joseph03 March 1840
Nez Perce leader
Braxton Bragg22 March 1817
Military Leader
Joseph E. Johnston03 February 1807
Officer
Henry H. Arnold25 June 1886
Military Leader
Red Cloud1822 AD
David Farragut05 July 1801
Officer
Henry Cabot Lodge12 May 1850
Former American Senator
George Dewey26 December 1837
Military Leader
Charles Curtis25 January 1860
Former Vice President of the United States
Schuyler Colfax23 March 1823
17th Vice President of the U.S.A
George Pickett16 January 1825
Army Officer
Alf Landon09 September 1887
Governor of Kansas
Adlai Stevenson I23 October 1835
23rd Vice President of the United States
Frances Xavier Cabrini15 July 1850
Nun
Cordell Hull02 October 1871
Secretary of State, USA
Clement Vallandigham29 July 1820
Politician
James G. Blaine31 January 1830
Politician
Charles G. Dawes27 August 1865
Vice President of the United States