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156 famous people found
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George S. PATTON
United States Army officer
1885 - 1945
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Lewis Strauss
American government official, businessman, philanthropist, and naval officer
1896 - 1974
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George Armstrong CUSTER
United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars
1839 - 1876
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Douglas MacARTHUR
American general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army
1880 - 1964
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Ambrose BURNSIDE
American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island
1824 - 1881
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Lewis POWELL
American Confederate soldier who attempted to assassinate William Henry Seward as part of the Lincoln assassination plot
1844 - 1865
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John A. LOGAN
American soldier and political leader
1826 - 1886
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George B. MCCLELLAN
Major general during the American Civil War and the Democratic presidential nominee in 1864
1826 - 1885
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Braxton Bragg
American army officer during the Second Seminole War and Mexican–American War and Confederate army officer who served as a general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War
1817 - 1876
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Edmund Kirby SMITH
United States Army officer who fought in the Mexican–American War, president of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company
1824 - 1893
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Earl Winfield SPENCER JR.
Pioneering U.S. Navy pilot, first husband of Wallis Simpson, who later went on to marry Edward VIII
1888 - 1950
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Claire Lee CHENNAULT
American military aviator best known for his leadership of the "Flying Tigers" and the Republic of China Air Force in World War II
1893 - 1958
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James J. ARCHER
Lawyer, officer in the United States Army during the Mexican-American War, Brigadier General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War
1817 - 1864
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John Charles FREMONT
American military officer, math instructor, explorer, author, U.S. Senator, and politician
1813 - 1890
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Isaac C. KIDD
American Rear Admiral in the United States Navy, he was killed on the bridge of USS Arizona during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
1884 - 1941
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Franklin VAN VALKENBURGH
Last captain of the USS Arizona, he was killed when the Arizona exploded and sank during the attack on Pearl Harbor
1888 - 1941
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Millard HARMON
Lieutenant general in the United States Army Air Forces during the Pacific campaign in World War II
1888 - 1945
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David FARRAGUT
Flag officer of the United States Navy during the American Civil War
1801 - 1870
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Sylvanus THAYER
Also known as "the Father of West Point", he was an early superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point
1785 - 1872
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John Jacob ASTOR IV
American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel in the Spanish-American War, and a prominent member of the Astor family
1864 - 1912