Find out more about the greatest 19th Century American Political Leaders, including Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Woodrow Wilson and Grover Cleveland.
Abraham Lincoln12 February 1809
American President.
Andrew Johnson29 December 1808
Theodore Roosevelt27 October 1858
26th U.S. President
Thomas Jefferson13 April 1743
3rd U.S. President
Ulysses S. Grant27 April 1822
President of the U.S.A
Woodrow Wilson28 December 1856
Father of the League of Nations
Herbert Hoover10 August 1874
31st U.S. President
Grover Cleveland18 March 1837
President of the U.S.A
William McKinley29 January 1843
President of the U.S.A
Warren G. Harding02 November 1865
President of the U.S
James Madison16 March 1751
4th President of the United States
Calvin Coolidge04 July 1872
President of the U.S.A
William Howard Taft15 September 1857
President of the U.S.A
James A. Garfield19 November 1831
President of the U.S.A
Eleanor Roosevelt11 October 1884
Former First Lady of the United States
Booker T. Washington05 April 1856
Jefferson Davis03 June 1808
Former President of the Confederate States of
Benjamin Harrison20 August 1833
23rd President of the United States
Chester A. Arthur05 October 1829
21st President of the USA
Franklin Pierce23 November 1804
Rutherford B. Hayes04 October 1822
President of the U.S.A
Huey Long30 August 1893
Politician
Robert Todd Lincoln01 August 1843
Politician, Son of Abraham Lincoln
William Jennings Bryan19 March 1860
Former United States Secretary of State
William H. Seward16 May 1801
Former United States Secretary of State
Éamon de Valera14 October 1882
Former President of Ireland
Henry A. Wallace07 October 1888
33rd Vice President of the U.S.A.
George B. McClellan03 December 1826
Soldier
Earl Warren19 March 1891
Hannibal Hamlin27 August 1809
15th Vice President of the U.S.A
Winfield Scott13 June 1786
Military Officer
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Charles Sumner06 January 1811
Politician
Salmon P. Chase13 January 1808
Sixth Chief Justice of the United States
George Hearst03 September 1820
Former United States Senator
Fiorello H. La Guardia11 December 1882
99th Mayor of New York City
John Foster Dulles25 February 1888
Former United States Secretary of State
Joshua Chamberlain08 September 1828
Educator & War Hero
John Nance Garner22 November 1868
32nd Vice President of the United States
Sam Rayburn06 January 1882
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
John C. Breckinridge16 January 1821
Former Vice President of the United States
Ambrose Burnside23 May 1824
Military Leader
Schuyler Colfax23 March 1823
17th Vice President of the U.S.A
Alben W. Barkley24 November 1877
35th Vice President of the U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge12 May 1850
Former American Senator
Charles Curtis25 January 1860
Former Vice President of the United States
James G. Blaine31 January 1830
Politician
Cordell Hull02 October 1871
Secretary of State, USA
Alf Landon09 September 1887
Governor of Kansas
Frances Perkins10 April 1880
Activist
Adlai Stevenson I23 October 1835
23rd Vice President of the United States
Charles G. Dawes27 August 1865
Vice President of the United States
Everett Dirksen04 January 1896
Former U.S. Senator
Henry Wilson16 February 1812
18th Vice President of the U.S.A
Norman Thomas20 November 1884
Charles W. Fairbanks11 May 1852
Former American senator
Garret Hobart03 June 1844
24th Vice President of the U.S.A
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
Clement Vallandigham29 July 1820
Politician
Levi P. Morton16 May 1824
22nd Vice President of the U.S.A
Gideon Welles01 July 1802
William A. Wheeler30 June 1819
19th Vice President of the U.S.A
Frank B. Kellogg22 December 1856
Lawyer, Politician
Stephen Douglas23 April 1813
The Designer of the Kansas–Nebraska Act
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
Bruce Fairchild Barton05 August 1886
American author
John Davis Long27 October 1838
Lawyer, Politician & Writer
David Dubinsky22 February 1892
Political leader
F D Roosevelt30 January 1882
32nd President of the United States
Alfred Emanuel Smith30 December 1873
Governor of New York
Tadeusz Kościuszko04 February 1746
Political Leader
Robert Smalls05 April 1839
Politician
Leland Stanford09 March 1824
Politician
John C. Frémont21 January 1813
Former Governor of California
Theodore Roosevelt Jr.13 September 1887
Military Leader
Prescott Bush15 May 1895
Politician
Hiram Rhodes Revels27 September 1827
Politician
Al Smith30 December 1873
Politician
Robert A. Taft08 September 1889
Politician
Margaret Chase Smith14 December 1897
Politician
Preston Brooks05 August 1819
Politician
W. Averell Harriman15 November 1891
Politician
James M. Cox31 March 1870
Politician
Thomas R. Marshall14 March 1854
Politician, Lawyer
Harry Hopkins17 August 1890
Politician
Walter Johnson06 November 1887
Baseball player
DeWitt Clinton02 March 1769
Politician
Carl Schurz02 March 1829
Politician
Samuel J. Tilden09 February 1814
Governor
Judah P. Benjamin06 August 1811
Politician
Henry L. Stimson21 September 1867
Politician