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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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  Joseph R. WALKER

  American mountain man and experienced scout

  1798 - 1876
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  William H. PRESCOTT

  American historian and Hispanist, who is widely recognized by historiographers to have been the first American scientific historian

  1796 - 1859
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  Lucretia MOTT

  American Quaker, abolitionist, a women's rights activist, and a social reformer

  1793 - 1880
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  Sybil LUDINGTON

  Heroine of the American Revolutionary War who is famous for her night ride on April 26, 1777 to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British

  1761 - 1839
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  Rufus PUTNAM

  Colonial military officer during the French and Indian War, and a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War

  1738 - 1824
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  Benjamin WEST

  Anglo-American painter of historical scenes around and after the time of the American War of Independence

  1738 - 1820
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  James KILBOURNE

  American surveyor and politician from Ohio

  1770 - 1850
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  Daniel Elliott HUGER

  United States Senator from South Carolina

  1779 - 1854
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  Lucius ELMER

  Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey's 1st district

  1793 - 1883
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  Joseph BLOOMFIELD

  4th Governor of New Jersey

  1753 - 1823
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  Joseph HIESTER

  Fifth Governor of Pennsylvania

  1752 - 1832
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  Henry SCHOOLCRAFT

  American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist

  1793 - 1864
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  Elbridge GERRY

  American statesman and diplomat, 5th Vice President of the United States

  1744 - 1814
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  Walter LEAKE

  United States Senator from Mississippi and third Governor of Mississippi

  1762 - 1825
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  Martha JEFFERSON

  Wife of Thomas Jefferson, who was the third President of the United States

  1748 - 1782
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  Samuel WARD, JR.

  American Revolutionary War soldier and delegate to the secessionist Hartford Convention

  1756 - 1832
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  Benjamin CHEW

  Fifth-generation American, Quaker-born legal scholar, prominent and successful Philadelphia lawyer

  1722 - 1810
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  José Antonio CARRILLO

  Californio rancher, officer, and politician in the early years of Mexican Alta California and U.S. California

  1796 - 1862
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  Alexander HAMILTON

  Founding Father of the United States

  1757 - 1804