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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Charles Greeley Abbot
Astronomer
31-May-1872 17-Dec-1973 Solar energy
Robert Aderholt
Politician
22-Jul-1965   Congressman, Alabama 4th
Daniel Akaka
Politician
11-Sep-1924   US Senator from Hawaii
Herbert Henry Asquith
Head of State
12-Sep-1852 15-Feb-1928 UK Prime Minister, 1908-16
Warren R. Austin
Politician
12-Nov-1877 25-Dec-1962 US Senator from Vermont, 1931-46
Malcolm Baldrige
Politician
4-Oct-1922 25-Jul-1987 US Secretary of Commerce 1981-87
Simeon E. Baldwin
Politician
5-Feb-1840 30-Jan-1927 Governor of Connecticut, 1911-15
George Bancroft
Historian
3-Oct-1800 17-Jan-1891 A History of the United States
Joel Barlow
Poet
25-Mar-1754 24-Dec-1812 The Hasty Pudding
Charles Montgomery Barnes
Business
8-Sep-1833 19-May-1907 Founder of Barnes & Noble
Henry Ward Beecher
Religion
24-Jun-1813 8-Mar-1887 American Congregationalist preacher
Mary Ann Bickerdyke
Activist
19-Jul-1817 8-Nov-1901 "Mother to the boys in Blue"
Jacob Bigelow
Botanist
27-Feb-1787 10-Jan-1879 American Medical Botany
James G. Blaine
Politician
31-Jan-1830 27-Jan-1893 Twice US Secretary of State
Robert O. Blood
Politician
10-Nov-1887 3-Aug-1975 Governor of New Hampshire, 1941-45
Wesley Bolin
Politician
1-Jul-1909 4-Mar-1978 Governor of Arizona, 1977-78
Lizzie Borden
Criminal
19-Jul-1860 1-Jun-1927 Presumed axe murderer
David Josiah Brewer
Judge
20-Jan-1837 28-Mar-1910 US Supreme Court Justice, 1890-1910
John W. Bricker
Politician
6-Sep-1893 22-Mar-1986 Governor of Ohio, 1939-45
Henry Billings Brown
Judge
2-Mar-1836 4-Sep-1913 US Supreme Court Justice, 1891-1906
John Brown
Activist
9-May-1800 2-Dec-1859 Led the raid on Harpers Ferry
Quentin N. Burdick
Politician
19-Jun-1908 8-Sep-1992 US Senator from North Dakota, 1960-92
Ernest Burgess
Sociologist
16-May-1886 27-Dec-1966 Introduction to the Science of Sociology
Horace Bushnell
Religion
14-Apr-1802 17-Feb-1876 Nature and the Supernatural
Abiram Chamberlain
Politician
7-Dec-1837 15-May-1911 Governor of Connecticut, 1903-05
Anthony Comstock
Activist
7-Mar-1844 21-Sep-1915 New York Society for the Suppression of Vice
Calvin Coolidge
Head of State
4-Jul-1872 5-Jan-1933 30th US President, 1923-29
Grace Coolidge
First Lady
3-Jan-1879 8-Jul-1957 Wife of US President Calvin Coolidge
George Henry Corliss
Inventor
2-Jun-1817 21-Feb-1888 Corliss valve and steam engines
John Cotton
Religion
4-Dec-1585 23-Dec-1652 First Church of Boston
Norris Cotton
Politician
11-May-1900 24-Feb-1989 US Senator from New Hampshire, 1954-74
Homer S. Cummings
Attorney
30-Apr-1870 10-Sep-1956 US Attorney General, 1933-39
John Curwen
Musicologist
14-Nov-1816 16-May-1880 Tonic Sol-fa Method
Joseph E. Davies
Diplomat
29-Nov-1876 9-May-1958 US Ambassador to the USSR, 1937-38
Geena Davis
Actor
21-Jan-1956   Earth Girls Are Easy
Nathaniel Davis
Diplomat
12-Apr-1925 16-May-2011 US Ambassador to Chile, 1971-73
Howard Dean
Politician
17-Nov-1948   Chairman of the Democratic Party
John Deere
Business
7-Feb-1804 17-May-1886 Invented the self-scouring plow
George H. Dern
Government
8-Sep-1872 27-Aug-1936 Governor of Utah, 1925-33
Walt Disney
Business
5-Dec-1901 15-Dec-1966 Founder of Disney empire
Sanford Ballard Dole
Politician
23-Apr-1844 9-Jun-1926 Governor of Hawaii, 1900-03
Timothy Dwight
Educator
14-May-1752 11-Jan-1817 President of Yale, 1795-1817
Lane Dwinell
Politician
14-Nov-1906 27-Mar-1997 Governor of New Hampshire, 1955-59
Jonathan Edwards
Religion
5-Oct-1703 22-Mar-1758 American Puritan theologian
Oliver Ellsworth
Judge
29-Apr-1745 26-Nov-1807 US Chief Justice, 1796-1800
Stephen J. Field
Judge
4-Nov-1816 9-Apr-1899 US Supreme Court Justice, 1863-97
Irving Fisher
Economist
27-Feb-1867 29-Apr-1947 The Theory of Interest
John Ambrose Fleming
Engineer
29-Nov-1849 19-Apr-1945 Invented the vacuum tube
Charles Goodyear
Inventor
29-Dec-1800 1-Jul-1860 Invented rubber vulcanization process
Bob Graham
Politician
9-Nov-1936   US Senator from Florida, 1987-2005
Hugh Gregg
Politician
22-Nov-1917 24-Sep-2003 Governor of New Hampshire, 1953-55
Judd Gregg
Politician
14-Feb-1947   US Senator from New Hampshire, 1993-2011
Robert P. Griffin
Politician
6-Nov-1923   US Senator from Michigan, 1966-79
Ernest Howard Griffiths
Physicist
15-Jun-1851 3-Mar-1932 The Thermal Measurement of Energy
Edward J. Gurney
Politician
12-Jan-1914 14-May-1996 US Senator from Florida, 1969-74
Brett Guthrie
Politician
18-Feb-1964   Congressman, Kentucky 2nd
Samuel Guthrie
Doctor
1782 19-Oct-1848 Discovered chloroform
L. B. Hanna
Politician
9-Aug-1861 23-Apr-1948 Governor of North Dakota, 1913-17
Robert Hawke
Head of State
9-Dec-1929   Prime Minister of Australia, 1983-91
Lemuel Haynes
Religion
18-Jul-1753 18-Sep-1833 Abolitionist preacher
Samuel Hopkins
Religion
17-Sep-1721 20-Dec-1803 Hopkinsian, opponent of slavery
Hubert Humphrey
Politician
27-May-1911 13-Jan-1978 US Vice President, 1965-69
Robert S. Ingersoll
Diplomat
28-Jan-1914 22-Aug-2010 CEO of Borg-Warner, 1958-72
William M. Jardine
Educator
16-Jan-1879 17-Jan-1955 US Secretary of Agriculture, 1925-29
Jeff Jarvis
Blogger
12-Sep-1954   Founder of Entertainment Weekly
Jim Jeffords
Politician
11-May-1934   US Senator from Vermont, 1989-2007
Edward C. Kendall
Scientist
8-Sep-1886 4-May-1972 Adrenocortical hormones
Bob Kerrey
Politician
27-Aug-1943   Governor and Senator from Nebraska
Mark Kirk
Politician
15-Sep-1959   US Senator from Illinois
Frank Knox
Politician
1-Jan-1874 28-Apr-1944 US Secretary of the Navy, 1940-44
Everett J. Lake
Politician
8-Feb-1871 16-Sep-1948 Governor of Connecticut, 1921-23
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Astronomer
4-Jul-1868 12-Dec-1921 Cepheid variable
George L. Lilley
Politician
3-Aug-1859 21-Apr-1909 Governor of Connecticut, 1909
John A. Love
Politician
29-Nov-1916 21-Jan-2002 Governor of Colorado, 1963-73
George Perkins Marsh
Author
15-Mar-1801 23-Jul-1882 Ecologist and camel enthusiast
Cotton Mather
Religion
12-Feb-1663 13-Feb-1728 Pastor at Boston North Church
Rollo May
Psychologist
21-Apr-1909 22-Oct-1994 Love and Will
Jonathan Mayhew
Religion
8-Oct-1720 9-Jul-1766 Congregationalist minister, anti-Royalist
George P. McLean
Politician
7-Oct-1857 6-Jun-1932 Governor and Senator from Connecticut
George Herbert Mead
Philosopher
27-Feb-1863 26-Apr-1931 Pragmatist, social behaviorist
Paul W. Merrill
Astronomer
15-Aug-1887 19-Jul-1961 S-process of nucleosynthesis
Sherrill Milnes
Singer
10-Jan-1935   Operatic baritone, Metropolitan Opera
Dwight L. Moody
Religion
5-Feb-1837 22-Dec-1899 Revivalist, founder Northfield Mt. Hermon
William W. Morgan
Astronomer
3-Jan-1906 21-Jun-1994 Spiral arms of the Milky Way Galaxy
Chip Pashayan
Politician
27-Mar-1941   Congressman from California, 1979-91
Jerry M. Patterson
Politician
25-Oct-1934   Congressman from California, 1975-85
Paul L. Patterson
Politician
18-Jul-1900 31-Jan-1956 Governor of Oregon, 1952-56
Jane Pierce
First Lady
12-Mar-1806 2-Dec-1863 Wife of US President Franklin Pierce
Wesley Powell
Politician
13-Oct-1915 6-Jan-1981 Governor of New Hampshire, 1959-63
Lucian W. Pye
Scholar
21-Oct-1921 5-Sep-2008 Sinologist
Kim M. Robak
Politician
4-Oct-1955   Lt. Governor of Nebraska, 1993-99
Henry Roberts
Politician
22-Jun-1853 1-May-1929 Governor of Connecticut, 1905-07
Marilynne Robinson
Novelist
1947   Housekeeping
James A. Ryder
Business
28-Jul-1913 25-Mar-1997 Founder of Ryder System
George E. Sangmeister
Politician
16-Feb-1931 7-Oct-2007 Congressman from Illinois, 1989-95
Pat Schroeder
Politician
30-Jul-1940   Congresswoman from Colorado, 1973-97
David Skaggs
Politician
22-Feb-1943   Congressman from Colorado, 1987-99
Nick Smith
Politician
5-Nov-1934   Congressman from Michigan, 1993-2005
Huntley N. Spaulding
Politician
29-Oct-1869 14-Nov-1955 Governor of New Hampshire, 1927-29
Robert T. Stafford
Politician
8-Aug-1913 23-Dec-2006 Governor and Senator from Vermont
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Novelist
14-Jun-1811 1-Jul-1896 Uncle Tom's Cabin
Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.
Politician
26-Mar-1740 7-Aug-1809 Governor of Connecticut, 1797-1809
Togiola Tulafono
Politician
28-Feb-1947   Governor of American Samoa
Arthur Vandenberg
Politician
22-Mar-1884 18-Apr-1951 US Senator from Michigan, 1928-51
Lewis Waterman
Inventor
20-Nov-1836 1-May-1901 Fountain pen
Noah Webster
Lexicographer
16-Oct-1758 28-May-1843 Webster's Dictionary
Frank B. Weeks
Politician
20-Jan-1854 2-Oct-1935 Governor of Connecticut, 1909-11
Frank White
Politician
12-Dec-1856 23-Mar-1940 Governor of North Dakota, 1901-05
Wallace H. White, Jr.
Politician
6-Aug-1877 31-Mar-1952 US Senator from Maine, 1931-49
William F. Whiting
Business
20-Jul-1864 31-Aug-1936 US Commerce Secretary, 1928-29
Ray Lyman Wilbur
Educator
13-Apr-1875 26-Jun-1949 President of Stanford University, 1916-43
Thornton Wilder
Novelist
17-Apr-1897 7-Dec-1975 The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Henry Wilson
Politician
16-Feb-1812 22-Nov-1875 Vice President under Grant
CeCe Winans
Singer
8-Oct-1964   Alone in His Presence
John Wise
Religion
1652 8-Apr-1725 A Vindication of New England Churches
Oliver Wolcott, Jr.
Politician
11-Jan-1760 1-Jun-1833 Connecticut Governor, Treasury Secretary
Harry H. Woodring
Politician
31-May-1890 9-Sep-1967 US Secretary of War, 1936-40
Rollin S. Woodruff
Politician
14-Jul-1854 30-Jun-1925 Governor of Connecticut, 1907-09
William Jenkins Worth
Military
1-Mar-1794 7-May-1849 Namesake of Fort Worth, TX
Andrew Young
Politician
12-Mar-1932   Mayor of Atlanta, 1982-90
C. C. Young
Politician
28-Apr-1869 24-Dec-1947 Governor of California, 1927-31



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