notable people

John Winthrop

Puritan leader known for the phrase 'City upon a Hill'.

Roger Williams

Founded Rhode Island and advocated for the separation of church and state.

Anne Hutchinson

Religious dissenter in Massachusetts.

Benjamin Franklin

Enlightenment thinker and diplomat.

George Washington

Commander of the Continental Army and the first President of the United States.

Thomas Paine

Author of 'Common Sense', a pamphlet advocating for independence.

Thomas Jefferson

Author of the Declaration of Independence and the third President of the United States.

Alexander Hamilton

Federalist and first Secretary of the Treasury.

James Madison

Known as the 'Father of the Constitution' and the fourth President of the United States.

John Adams

The second President of the United States and a Federalist.

Aaron Burr

Vice President who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel.

Tecumseh

Native American leader who resisted U.S. expansion.

Andrew Jackson

The seventh President known for expanding suffrage and the Trail of Tears.

Henry Clay

Known as the 'Great Compromiser' and proposed the American System.

John C. Calhoun

Advocated for states' rights and nullification.

Frederick Douglass

Former slave and prominent abolitionist.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Advocated for women's rights and organized the Seneca Falls Convention.

Dorothea Dix

Reformer in mental health care.

Horace Mann

Education reformer known for advocating public education.

Abraham Lincoln

The 16th President who issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

Ulysses S. Grant

Union general who later became President.

Robert E. Lee

Confederate general during the Civil War.

Jefferson Davis

President of the Confederate States.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Author of 'Uncle Tom’s Cabin', which highlighted the issues of slavery.

John Brown

Radical abolitionist who believed in using violence to end slavery.

Thaddeus Stevens

Radical Republican during the Reconstruction era.

Andrew Carnegie

Industrialist who led the steel industry and was a philanthropist.

John D. Rockefeller

Established an oil monopoly during the Gilded Age.

Jane Addams

Leader of the settlement house movement.

Booker T. Washington

Advocated for vocational education for African Americans.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Civil rights leader and founder of the NAACP.

Theodore Roosevelt

Trust-buster and conservationist, 26th President.

Woodrow Wilson

President during WWI and proposed the Fourteen Points.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Introduced the New Deal and led the country during WWII.

Herbert Hoover

President when the Great Depression started.

Harry Truman

President who authorized the dropping of atomic bombs and initiated the Cold War.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

General in WWII who later became President.

Joseph McCarthy

Known for anti-communism during the Red Scare.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Leader of the Civil Rights Movement advocating for nonviolent protest.

Malcolm X

Advocate for Black Power and racial pride.

John F. Kennedy

President during the Cuban Missile Crisis and a proponent of Civil Rights.

Lyndon B. Johnson

President known for the Great Society and involvement in Vietnam.

Richard Nixon

President marked by the Watergate scandal and détente with the Soviet Union.

Ronald Reagan

President associated with the Conservative Revolution and the end of the Cold War.

George W. Bush

President during the 9/11 attacks and War on Terror.

Barack Obama

First African American President and implemented the Affordable Care Act.