Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
John Adams |
Head of State |
30-Oct-1735 |
4-Jul-1826 |
2nd President of the U.S. |
Susan B. Anthony |
Activist |
15-Feb-1820 |
13-Mar-1906 |
Women's rights advocate |
Thomas Hart Benton |
Politician |
14-Mar-1782 |
10-Apr-1858 |
US Senator from Missouri, 1821-51 |
John C. Calhoun |
Politician |
18-Mar-1782 |
31-Mar-1850 |
US Vice President, champion of the South |
Salmon P. Chase |
Politician |
13-Jan-1808 |
7-May-1873 |
Secretary of the Treasury, 1861-64 |
Grover Cleveland |
Head of State |
18-Mar-1837 |
24-Jun-1908 |
22nd & 24th US President, 1885-89 & 1893-97 |
De Witt Clinton |
Politician |
2-Mar-1769 |
11-Feb-1828 |
Twice Governor of New York |
Jefferson Davis |
Head of State |
3-Jun-1808 |
6-Dec-1889 |
President of the Confederacy |
Stephen Decatur |
Military |
5-Jan-1779 |
22-Mar-1820 |
US Naval commander, fought at Tripoli |
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Head of State |
14-Oct-1890 |
28-Mar-1969 |
34th US President, 1953-61 |
Edward Everett |
Politician |
11-Apr-1794 |
15-Jan-1865 |
Governor of Massachuetts, 1836-40 |
Benjamin Franklin |
Diplomat |
17-Jan-1706 |
17-Apr-1790 |
American founding father |
Ulysses S. Grant |
Head of State |
27-Apr-1822 |
23-Jul-1885 |
Eighteenth President of the United States |
Alexander Hamilton |
Government |
11-Jan-1757 |
12-Jul-1804 |
Primary author of The Federalist Papers |
Andrew Jackson |
Head of State |
15-Mar-1767 |
8-Jun-1845 |
7th US President, 1829-37 |
Thomas Jefferson |
Head of State |
13-Apr-1743 |
4-Jul-1826 |
3rd US President, 1801-09 |
John F. Kennedy |
Head of State |
29-May-1917 |
22-Nov-1963 |
35th US President, 1961-63 |
Abraham Lincoln |
Head of State |
12-Feb-1809 |
15-Apr-1865 |
16th US President, 1861-65 |
James Madison |
Head of State |
16-Mar-1751 |
28-Jun-1836 |
4th US President, 1809-17 |
Daniel Manning |
Government |
16-May-1831 |
24-Dec-1887 |
US Secretary of the Treasury, 1885-87 |
William L. Marcy |
Politician |
12-Dec-1786 |
4-Jul-1857 |
US Secretary of State, 1853-57 |
John Marshall |
Judge |
24-Sep-1755 |
6-Jul-1835 |
US Chief Justice, 1801-35 |
William McKinley |
Head of State |
29-Jan-1843 |
14-Sep-1901 |
25th US President, 1897-1901 |
Robert Morris |
Politician |
31-Jan-1734 |
7-May-1806 |
Financed the Revolutionary War |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Head of State |
30-Jan-1882 |
12-Apr-1945 |
US President during WWII |
Sacagawea |
Explorer |
c. 1787 |
20-Dec-1812 |
Lewis and Clark expedition translator |
William Henry Seward |
Politician |
16-May-1801 |
10-Oct-1872 |
Mastermind behind Seward's Folly |
Edwin M. Stanton |
Politician |
19-Dec-1814 |
24-Dec-1869 |
Secretary of War during the Civil War |
Alexander Hamilton Stephens |
Politician |
11-Feb-1812 |
4-Mar-1883 |
Confederate Vice President |
George Washington |
Head of State |
22-Feb-1732 |
14-Dec-1799 |
1st US President, 1789-97 |
Daniel Webster |
Politician |
18-Jan-1782 |
24-Oct-1852 |
The completest man |
Woodrow Wilson |
Head of State |
28-Dec-1856 |
3-Feb-1924 |
28th US President, 1913-21 |
William Windom |
Politician |
10-May-1827 |
29-Jan-1891 |
US Secretary of the Treasury 1881, 1889-91 |
Silas Wright |
Politician |
24-May-1795 |
27-Aug-1847 |
US Senator from New York, 1833-44 |