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| Fannie Lou Hamer | fought for African American participation in democracy |
| Alexander Hamilton | one of two of The Federalists Papers |
| John Hancock | president of continental congress and first to sign the constitution |
| Patrick Henry | member of the Virginia Legislature and opposed the Stamp Act |
| Thomas Hobbes | English philosopher his work is called Leviathan |
| Sam Houston | senator and representative of Texas |
| Anne Hutchinson | held sermons at home—religiously strong |
| Andrew Jackson | South Carolina’s first congressmen and senator—general in the war of 1812 |
| John Jay | first chief of justice of the supreme court in 1789 |
| Thomas Jefferson | first secretary of state and help make the Declaration |
| Andrew Johnson | first president to be impeached and let slaves be citizens |
| Lyndon B Johnson | assumed presidency under John F. Kennedy |
| Martin Luther King Jr | strong supporter of the colored people being segregated |
| Richard Henry Lee | wanted Great Britian to have independence |
| Robert E Lee | commander of the confederates during the Civil War |
| Abraham Lincoln | 16th president—assassinated after Civil War was over |
| John Locke | philosopher—his most important work is second Treatise of Civil Government |
| Matthew Lyon | ”founded the town “Haven” and helped write Vermont’s constitution” |
| Douglas MacArthur | fought in WWI and was West Points superintendent |
| James Madison | 4th president and considered a founding father of the constitution and the United states |
| John Marshall | longest serving Chief Justice in Supreme Court history |
| Thurgood Marshall | first African American to serve on the supreme court |
| George Mason | “Father of the Bill of Rights” and “Father of the United States” |
| Baron de Montesquieu | came up with the three branches of government (executive, judicial, and legislative) |
| Gouverneur Morris | author of the Preamble of the Constitution |
| Sandra Day | first female Supreme Court justice |
| James Otis | lawyer and patriot leader |
| Thomas Paine | published Common Sense |
| Alice Paul | women suffragist |
| William Penn | founded Pennsylvania |
| Edmund Randolph | forgotten founder |
| Ronald Regan | made national interest and foreign policy a priority |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt | founder of New Deal |
| Theodore Roosevelt | used bully pulpit to advance his ideas |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | political and philosophical writer |
| Benjamin Rush | signed Declaration of Independence influenced founding fathers |
| Roger Sherman | suggested the Connecticut Compromise |
| Upton Sinclair | spoke out against unregulated capitalism and wrote the Jungle |
| Melancton Smith | opposed ratification of Constitution |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | wrote the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | writings changed America’s view of slavery |
| Abigail Adams | Advised John Adams |
| John Adams | Drafted Declaration of Independence and was 2nd President |
| John Quincy Adams | 6th President and active in House of Representatives |
| Samuel Adams | Organized Boston Tea Party, signed Declaration of Independence, and supported Bill of Rights |
| Susan B. Anthony | Founded National Women’s Suffrage Association |
| Hugo Black | Associate Justice of Supreme Court – strict Constitution interpreter |
| Sir William Blackstone | Wrote Commentaries on the Laws of England which helps to interpret U.S. Constitution |
| The Wright Brothers | Invented first airplane |
| William Jennings Bryan | Secretary of State for Wilson, supported prohibition and women’s suffrage |
| Aaron Burr | Vice President and shot Alexander Hamilton |
| John C. Calhoun | Served as Vice President twice, on the Senate, and House of Representatives |
| Andrew Carnegie | Helped form US Steel Company |
| Charles Carroll of Carrollton | Signed Declaration of Independence |
| Carrie Chapman Catt | President NAWSA and founded League of Women Voters |
| Cesar Chavez | Founded the United Farm Workers |
| Henry Clay | Speaker of the House five times and established Compromise of 1850 |
| Bill Clinton | President twice and almost impeached for his intern scandal |
| Clarence Darrow | Defended John Scopes in the Scopes Monkey Trial |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America |
| John Dickinson | Authored important documents supporting America’s Independence |
| Stephan Douglas | Proposed the Kansas-Nebraska-Act and participated in Lincoln-Douglas debates |
| Frederick Douglas | Worked for equal rights for slaves and women |
| Thomas Edison | Created phonograph and light bulb |
| Benjamin Franklin | Drafted Declaration of Independence and purpose Treaty of Paris |
| Angelina Grimke | Spoke against slavery and for women’s rights |
| Richard Nixon | President involved in Watergate Scandal and resigned |
| Robert Morris | Signed Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation |
| Henry David Thoreau | as a citizen refused to support the war with Mexico and wrote Civil Disobedience inspiring others |
| Mary Beth Tinker | school girl who lead an opposition movement in her school against the Vietnam war |
| Alexis de Tocqueville | political scientist that analyzed American democracy |
| Harriet Tubman | escaped slave that helped other slaves to freedom |
| Mercy Otis Warren | early supporter of independence and called the Conscience of American Revolutionary |
| George Washington | Commander-in Chief of Virginia Continental Army |
| Daniel Webster | lawyer and public speaker |
| Ida B. Wells | brought national attention to the crime of lynching |
| James Wilson | credited with the formation of Electoral College |
| Woodrow Wilson | negotiated the Treaty of Versailles |
| John Witherspoon | signed the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation, and supported the Constitution |
| John Peter Zenger | printed the first political newspaper |
