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401 famous people found
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Francis Burton HARRISON
American statesman who served in the United States House of Representatives and was appointed Governor-General of the Philippines
1873 - 1957 -
Hiester CLYMER
American political leader from the state of Pennsylvania
1827 - 1884 -
Lewis Stuyvesant CHANLER
New York lawyer and politician
1869 - 1942 -
Maria WESTON CHAPMAN
American abolitionist
1806 - 1885 -
Wendell PHILLIPS
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer
1811 - 1884 -
William A. CHANLER
American soldier, explorer, and politician who served as U.S. Representative from New York
1867 - 1934 -
John Winthrop CHANLER
American lawyer and a U.S. Representative from New York
1826 - 1877 -
Cornelia COLE FAIRBANKS
Second Lady of the United States
1852 - 1913 -
Frances Adeline SEWARD
American politician
1805 - 1865 -
William H. SEWARD
American politician, he engineered the 1867 purchase of Alaska from Russia in an act that was ridiculed at the time as "Seward's Folly"
1801 - 1872 -
Butler AMES
American politician, engineer, soldier and businessman
1871 - 1954 -
José Antonio CARRILLO
Californio rancher, officer, and politician in the early years of Mexican Alta California and U.S. California
1796 - 1862 -
Benjamin BUTLER
American lawyer and politician
1818 - 1893 -
Alben W. BARKLEY
Lawyer and politician from Kentucky who served in both houses of Congress and as the 35th Vice President of the United States from 1949 to 1953
1877 - 1956 -
Oliver WINCHESTER
American businessman and politician
1810 - 1880 -
Elwood MEAD
American professor, politician and engineer
1858 - 1936 -
John A. QUITMAN
American politician and soldier, 10th Governor of Mississippi
1798 - 1858 -
William Paul JARRETT
Sheriff and congressional delegate representing the Territory of Hawaii
1877 - 1929 -
Geoffrey CHESHIRE
English barrister, scholar and influential writer on law
1886 - 1978 -
Nathan L. BACHMAN
United States Senator from Tennessee
1878 - 1937