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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 WILLIAMS

  American merchant, and a delegate for Connecticut to the Continental Congress in 1776, and a signatory of the Declaration of Independence

  1731 - 1811
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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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  Aaron BURR

  Third Vice President of the United States under President Thomas Jefferson

  1756 - 1836
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  Matthew THORNTON

  Irish-born signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Hampshire

  1713 - 1803
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  Anthony COLBY

  American businessman and politician, 20th Governor of New Hampshire

  1792 - 1873
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  Daniel WALDO

  American clergyman, Chaplain of the House of Representatives

  1762 - 1864
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  Félix Julien Jean BIGOT DE PREAMENEU

  French politician

  1747 - 1825
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  Joseph-François MICHAUD

  French historian and publicist

  1767 - 1839
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  Pierre DE ROQUESANTE

  French magistrate

  1619 - 1707
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  Reuben H. WALWORTH

  American lawyer and politician, he was the last Chancellor of New York

  1788 - 1867
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  John ADAIR

  American pioneer, soldier, and politician, he was the eighth Governor of Kentucky

  1757 - 1840
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  Benjamin HARDIN

  Secretary of State of Kentucky

  1784 - 1852
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  Martin D. HARDIN

  American politician and lawyer from Kentucky

  1780 - 1823
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  Rufus P. SPALDING

  American politician, lawyer and judge from Ohio

  1798 - 1886
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  Abel P. UPSHUR

  American lawyer, judge and politician from Virginia

  1790 - 1844
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  Joseph DESHA

  9th Governor of Kentucky

  1768 - 1842
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  Robert R. LIVINGSTON

  American lawyer, politician, diplomat from New York, and a Founding Father of the United States

  1746 - 1813
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  William BINGHAM

  American statesman, President pro tempore of the United States Senate

  1752 - 1804
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  Persifor Frazer SMITH

  U.S. Army officer during the Seminole Wars and Mexican-American War, as well as one of the last governors of California before it became a state

  1798 - 1858