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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Georges Boulanger
Military
29-Apr-1837 30-Sep-1891 French general-turned-politician
David C. Broderick
Politician
4-Feb-1820 16-Sep-1859 US Senator from California, 1857-59
Preston S. Brooks
Politician
5-Aug-1819 27-Jan-1857 Beat Charles Sumner with a cane
B. Gratz Brown
Politician
28-May-1826 13-Dec-1885 Governor and Senator from Missouri
George Canning
Politician
11-Apr-1770 8-Aug-1827 Twice Foreign Secretary of Britain
Jonathan Cilley
Politician
2-Jul-1802 24-Feb-1838 US Congressman from Maine, 1837-38
Henry Clay
Politician
12-Apr-1777 29-Jun-1852 American statesman and orator
Stephen Decatur
Military
5-Jan-1779 22-Mar-1820 US Naval commander, fought at Tripoli
Henry Stuart Foote
Politician
20-Sep-1800 20-May-1880 Governor of Mississippi 1852-54
Button Gwinnett
Politician
1735 19-May-1777 Most valuable signature
Alexander Hamilton
Government
11-Jan-1757 12-Jul-1804 Primary author of The Federalist Papers
Andrew Jackson
Head of State
15-Mar-1767 8-Jun-1845 7th US President, 1829-37
Albert Sidney Johnston
Military
2-Feb-1803 6-Apr-1862 Confederate General felled at Shiloh
Mikhail Lermontov
Poet
15-Oct-1814 27-Jul-1841 A Hero of Our Time
Armistead Thomson Mason
Politician
4-Aug-1787 6-Feb-1819 US Senator from Virginia, 1816-17
Lachlan McIntosh
Military
17-Mar-1725 20-Feb-1806 Killed Button Gwinnett in a duel
Enver Pasha
Government
22-Nov-1881 4-Aug-1922 Young Turk leader, persecuted ethnic minorities
Aleksandr Pushkin
Poet
26-May-1799 10-Feb-1837 Russia's greatest poet
William Walker
Military
8-May-1824 12-Sep-1860 American "filibuster"
James Westcott
Politician
10-May-1802 19-Jan-1880 US Senator from Florida, 1845-49
Louis T. Wigfall
Politician
21-Apr-1816 18-Feb-1874 US Senator from Texas, 1859-61
John Wilkes
Politician
17-Oct-1725 26-Dec-1797 Colorful London radical


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