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34 famous people found
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Cotton MATHER
New England Puritan minister, prolific author, and pamphleteer
1663 - 1728 -
John TAYLOR OF CAROLINE
American politician and writer, United States Senator from Virginia
1753 - 1824 -
Sarah Moore GRIMKÉ
American abolitionist, writer, and member of the women's suffrage movement
1792 - 1873 -
Clement Clarke MOORE
American writer and Professor of Oriental and Greek Literature
1779 - 1863 -
William Cullen BRYANT
American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post
1794 - 1878 -
Catharine SEDGWICK
American novelist
1789 - 1867 -
John NORVELL
American newspaper editor and one of the first U.S. Senators from Michigan
1789 - 1850 -
Washington IRVING
American author, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat
1783 - 1859 -
Pierre Charles L'ENFANT
French-born American architect and civil engineer best known for designing the layout of the streets of Washington, D.C.
1754 - 1825 -
Ethan ALLEN
Farmer, businessman, land speculator, philosopher, writer, and American Revolutionary War patriot, hero, and politician
1737 - 1789 -
David HOADLEY
American architect
1774 - 1839 -
Noah WEBSTER
American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author
1758 - 1843 -
Francis Scott KEY
American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, from Georgetown, who wrote the lyrics to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner"
1779 - 1843 -
John James AUDUBON
French-American ornithologist, naturalist, hunter, and painter
1785 - 1851