Military
267 famous people found
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George Rogers CLARK
American soldier from Virginia and the highest ranking American military officer on the northwestern frontier during the American Revolutionary War
1752 - 1818 -
Alfred GIBBS
Career officer in the United States Army (Regular Army) who served as a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War
1823 - 1868 -
Rufus KING
Newspaper editor, educator, U.S. diplomat, and a Union brigadier general in the American Civil War
1814 - 1876 -
Charles KING
United States soldier and a distinguished writer
1844 - 1933 -
John E. WOOL
Officer in the United States Army during three consecutive U.S. wars: the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War
1784 - 1869 -
Cornelius Wendell WICKERSHAM
United States army officer, a lawyer and an awarded author of philatelic literature
1885 - 1968 -
Abraham WHIPPLE
American revolutionary commander in the Continental Navy
1733 - 1819 -
Ebenezer SPROAT
American officer of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, a pioneer to the Ohio Country, and one of the founders of Marietta, Ohio
1751 - 1805 -
Cadwallader C. WASHBURN
American businessman, politician, and soldier noted for founding what would later become General Mills
1818 - 1882 -
James M. WARNER
New England manufacturer and a brevet brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War
1836 - 1897 -
Earl VAN DORN
United States Army officer, fighting with distinction during the Mexican-American War and against several tribes of Native Americans
1820 - 1863 -
John Horton SLAUGHTER
American lawman, Civil War soldier, and gambler
1841 - 1922 -
William SMALLWOOD
American planter, soldier and politician
1732 - 1792 -
Winfield SCOTT
United States Army general, and unsuccessful presidential candidate of the Whig Party in 1852
1786 - 1866 -
Norman SCHWARZKOPF
United States Army general, while serving as Commander-in-Chief, United States Central Command, he lead all coalition forces in the Persian Gulf War
1934 - 2012 -
William ROSECRANS
American inventor, coal-oil company executive, diplomat, politician, and United States Army officer
1819 - 1898 -
Peter Buell PORTER
American lawyer, soldier and politician who served as United States Secretary of War from 1828 to 1829
1773 - 1844 -
William Edward PECK
U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
1821 - 1865 -
Zebulon Baird VANCE
Confederate military officer in the American Civil War, the 37th and 43rd Governor of North Carolina, and U.S. Senator
1830 - 1894 -
Robert Brown POTTER
Lawyer and a Union Army general in the American Civil War
1829 - 1887