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80 famous people found

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  Samuel MORSE

  American contributor to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs, and co-inventor of the Morse code

  1791 - 1872
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  Benjamin FRANKLIN

  American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America

  1706 - 1790
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  William Blount

  American Founding Father, statesman, farmer, and land speculator who signed the United States Constitution

  1749 - 1800
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  John Hart

  American Founding Father, farmer, and politician

  1713 - 1779
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  Harrison Gray OTIS

  American businessman, lawyer, and politician, becoming one of the most important leaders of the United States' first political party, the Federalists

  1765 - 1848
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  Eliphalet REMINGTON

  Founder of Remington Arms Co., Inc.

  1793 - 1861
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  Nathaniel Gorham

  American Founding Father, merchant, and politician

  1738 - 1796
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  Daniel Carroll

  American politician and plantation owner from Maryland and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States

  1730 - 1796
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  Anthony COLBY

  American businessman and politician, 20th Governor of New Hampshire

  1792 - 1873
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  Thomas WILLING

  American merchant, a Delegate to the Continental Congress from Pennsylvania and the first president of the First National Bank of the United States

  1731 - 1821
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  Walter LIVINGSTON

  American merchant, lawyer and politician

  1740 - 1797
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  Robert FULTON

  Colonial American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat

  1765 - 1815
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  Thomas Handasyd PERKINS

  Wealthy Boston merchant and an archetypical Boston Brahmin

  1764 - 1854
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  Daniel ROBERDEAU

  American merchant, member of the Continental Congress, and a signer of the Articles of Confederation

  1727 - 1795
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  Timothy MATLACK

  American brewer and beer bottler who emerged as a popular revolutionary leader and powerful official in the War of Independence

  1736 - 1829
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  John Palmer PARKER

  Founder of the Parker Ranch on the island of Hawaiʻi in Hawaii

  1790 - 1868
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  Charles GOODYEAR

  American inventor who developed a process to vulcanize rubber

  1800 - 1860
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  Commodore VANDERBILT

  American entrepreneur who built his wealth in shipping and railroads

  1794 - 1877
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  Moses Yale Beach

  American inventor, entrepreneur, philanthropist and publisher, who founded the Associated Press

  1800 - 1868
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  James Taylor Jr.

  American banker

  1769 - 1848