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
Ulysses S. Grant27 April 1822
President of the U.S.A
Harry S. Truman08 May 1884
33rd President of the United States
Robert E. Lee19 January 1807
Confederate General in the American Civil War
Harriet Tubman1820 AD
Woodrow Wilson28 December 1856
Father of the League of Nations
Douglas MacArthur26 January 1880
Andrew Johnson29 December 1808
Herbert Hoover10 August 1874
31st U.S. President
Grover Cleveland18 March 1837
President of the U.S.A
Eleanor Roosevelt11 October 1884
Wife of American President Franklin Delano
Warren G. Harding02 November 1865
President of the U.S
Jefferson Davis03 June 1808
Former President of the Confederate States of
William McKinley29 January 1843
President of the U.S.A
William Howard Taft15 September 1857
President of the U.S.A
James Madison16 March 1751
4th President of the United States
Calvin Coolidge04 July 1872
President of the U.S.A
James A. Garfield19 November 1831
President of the U.S.A
George Armstrong Custer05 December 1839
Military Officer
Stonewall Jackson21 January 1824
General
William Tecumseh Sherman08 February 1820
General in the Union Army During the American
Geronimo16 June 1829
Leader
Booker T. Washington05 April 1856
James Monroe28 April 1758
Fifth President of the USA
Benjamin Harrison20 August 1833
23rd President of the United States
Franklin Pierce23 November 1804
Chester A. Arthur05 October 1829
21st President of the USA
Sitting Bull1831 AD
Warrior
Rutherford B. Hayes04 October 1822
President of the U.S.A
Robert Todd Lincoln01 August 1843
Politician, Son of Abraham Lincoln
Millard Fillmore07 January 1800
President of the U.S.A
Huey Long30 August 1893
Politician
Omar Bradley12 February 1893
Former U. S. Army General
Nathan Bedford Forrest13 July 1821
Military commander
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Brigham Young01 June 1801
Second President of the Church of Jesus Christ of
William Jennings Bryan19 March 1860
Former United States Secretary of State
George Marshall31 December 1880
Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army
Earl Warren19 March 1891
Kit Carson24 December 1809
Explorer & Soldier
Henry A. Wallace07 October 1888
33rd Vice President of the U.S.A.
Smedley Butler30 July 1881
Eugene V. Debs05 November 1855
Union Leader
Joshua Chamberlain08 September 1828
Educator & War Hero
Charles Taze Russell16 February 1852
Christian Restoration Minister
John Foster Dulles25 February 1888
Former United States Secretary of State
Chief Joseph03 March 1840
Nez Perce leader
Sam Rayburn06 January 1882
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
Hannibal Hamlin27 August 1809
15th Vice President of the U.S.A
Mary Baker Eddy16 July 1821
Religious Leader, Founder of Christian Science,
Charles Sumner06 January 1811
Politician
Fiorello H. La Guardia11 December 1882
99th Mayor of New York City
John Nance Garner22 November 1868
32nd Vice President of the United States
John C. Breckinridge16 January 1821
Former Vice President of the United States
Salmon P. Chase13 January 1808
Sixth Chief Justice of the United States
Red Cloud1822 AD
Benjamin Tallmadge25 February 1754
Military Leader
Alben W. Barkley24 November 1877
35th Vice President of the U.S
Charles Curtis25 January 1860
Former Vice President of the United States
Schuyler Colfax23 March 1823
17th Vice President of the U.S.A
Cordell Hull02 October 1871
Secretary of State, USA
Norman Thomas20 November 1884
Alf Landon09 September 1887
Governor of Kansas
Samuel Chase17 April 1741
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
Charles G. Dawes27 August 1865
Vice President of the United States
Adlai Stevenson I23 October 1835
23rd Vice President of the United States
James G. Blaine31 January 1830
Politician
Clement Vallandigham29 July 1820
Politician
Everett Dirksen04 January 1896
Former U.S. Senator
Garret Hobart03 June 1844
24th Vice President of the U.S.A
Henry Wilson16 February 1812
18th Vice President of the U.S.A
Charles W. Fairbanks11 May 1852
Former American senator
Thomas A. Hendricks07 September 1819
21st Vice President of the U.S.A.
Levi P. Morton16 May 1824
22nd Vice President of the U.S.A
James S. Sherman24 October 1855
27th Vice President of the U.S.A
Black Kettle07 December 1803
Leader
William A. Wheeler30 June 1819
19th Vice President of the U.S.A
Frank B. Kellogg22 December 1856
Lawyer, Politician
Gideon Welles01 July 1802
George Patton11 November 1885
Military Officer
George W. Norris11 July 1861
Former US Senator
Robert M. La Follette, Sr.14 June 1855
Leader
John Henninger Reagan08 October 1818
Former United States Senator from Texas
Richard Henry Dana Jr.01 August 1815
Reputed U. S. Lawyer & Abolitionist
Stephen Douglas23 April 1813
The Designer of the Kansas–Nebraska Act
Bruce Fairchild Barton05 August 1886
American author
David Dubinsky22 February 1892
Political leader
John Davis Long27 October 1838
Lawyer, Politician & Writer
Éamon de Valera14 October 1882
Former President of Ireland
Alfred Emanuel Smith30 December 1873
Governor of New York
F D Roosevelt30 January 1882
32nd President of the United States
Joseph Smith23 December 1805
Prophet, Politician
Sun Yat-sen12 November 1866
Politician, Physician, Philosopher
John J. Pershing13 September 1860
Officer, Lawyer, Politician
Jimmy Doolittle14 December 1896
Aviator, Officer
Chester W. Nimitz24 February 1885
Officer