PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED
STATES:
George Washington, James Monroe,
Andrew Jackson, James Polk,
James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson,
James Garfield, William
McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt,
William Howard Taft, Warren G.
Harding, Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Harry S. Truman - Grand Master,
Lyndon B. Johnson (EA only),
Gerald R. Ford
VICE PRESIDENTS OF THE
UNITED STATES:
George Clinton, Elbridge Gerry,
Daniel D. Tompkins, Richard M.
Johnson, George M. Dallas,
William R. King, John C.
Breckenridge, Andrew Johnson,
Schuyler Colfax, Adlai E.
Stevenson, Garret A. Hobart,
Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas R.
Marshall, Henry A. Wallace,
Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B.
Johnson (E.A. only), Hubert H.
Humphrey, Gerald R. Ford
SUPREME COURT JUSTICES:
Hugo L. Black, John Blair, Jr.,
Samuel Blatchford, Henry
Baldwin, Harold H. Burton, James
F. Byrnes, John Catton, Thomas
C. Clark, John H. Clarke,
William Cushing, Willis Van
Devanter, William O. Douglas,
Oliver Ellsworth, Stephen J.
Field, John M. Harlan, Robert H.
Jackson, Joseph E. Lamar, John
Marshall, - Chief Justice U.S.
Supreme Court 1801 - 1835,
Thurgood Marshall, Stanley
Mathews, Sherman Minton, William
H. Moody, Samuel Nelson, William
Paterson, Mahlon Pitney, Stanley
F. Reed, Wiley B. Rutledge,
Potter Stewart, Noah H. Swayne,
Thomas Todd, Robert Trimble,
Frederick M. Vinson, Earl
Warren, Levi Woodbury, William
B. Woods
ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
SIGNERS:
Daniel Carroll, Jonathan Bayard
Smith, Henry Laurens, John
Dickison, John Harvie, John
Hancock, Cornelius Harnett,
Daniel Roberdeau
DECLARATION OF
INDEPENDENCE SIGNERS:
William Ellery RI, Benjamin
Franklin PA, John Hancock MA,
Joseph Hewes NC, William Hooper
NC, Robert Treat Paine MA,
Richard Stockton NJ, George
Walton GA, William Whipple NH,
Eldridge Gerry MA
U.S. CONSTITUTION SIGNERS:
George Washington, Gunning
Bedford Jr., Benjamin Franklin,
John Blair, David Brearley,
Rufus King, John Dickinson,
Jacob Broom, Daniel Carroll,
Jonathan Dayton, Nicholas
Gilman, James McHenry
NEW YORKERS:
Fiorella H. La Guardia - Mayor
of New York 1930s & 40s, General
Omar Bradley - West Point Lodge
No.877, NY
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AMERICA'S EARLY PATRIOTS: (other
than Presidents):
Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock,
Paul Revere, John Paul Jones,
Marquuis de Lafayette, Rufus
King, James Otis, Baron von
Steuben, Joseph Warren, James
Otis - "Taxation without
Representation is Tyranny",
Benedict Arnold - (temporary
patriot)
AMERICAN POLITICS:
Aaron Burr, George McGovern,
Barry Goldwater - U.S. Senator -
Presidential Candidate, Thomas
E. Dewey - Governor of New York,
Alf Landon, Wendell Wilke,
William Jennings Bryant - U.S.
Secretary of State, Henry Clay -
Speaker of the U.S. House of
Representatives, Benjamin
A.Gilman - , Robert Livingston -
American statesman and diplomat
- Louisiana Territory, Charles
E. Schumer - U.S. House of
Representatives, Fiorello
LaGuardi - Mayor of New York
City, Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr -
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury,
Estes Kefauver - U.S. Senator -
Presidential Candidate, Lewis
Cass - U.S. Senator, Henry Dodge
- U.S. Senator, Samuel J. Ervin
Jr. - U.S. Senator, Edmund G.
Ross - U.S. Senator, Stuart
Symington - U.S. Senator, Henry
"Scoop" Jackson - U.S. Senator,
Thomas Hart Benton - U.S.
Senator, Robert J. "Bob" Dole -
U.S. Senator - Presidential
Candidate, Michael B. Enzi -
U.S. Senator, Sam Nunn - U.S.
Senator, Strom Thurmond - U.S.
Senator, George C. Wallace -
Governor, William King -
Governor, Frederick Bates -
Governor, John A. Quitman -
Governor, Shadrach Bond -
Governor, Roy Barnes - Governor
WORLDWIDE POLITICAL
LEADERS:
Winston Churchill - British
Leader, Simon Bolivar -
"Liberator" of S America, Edmund
Burke, Benito Juarez - President
of Mexico, Edward VII - King of
England, Edward VIII - King of
England - Abdicated after 1
year, George VI - King of
England during WWII, Bernardo
O'Higgins, José de San Martin,
Francisco de Paula Santander,
José Rizal, José Marti, Pandit
Nehru, Lajos Kossuth, Jonas
Furrer, Guiseppe Mazzini, Eduard
Benes - President of
Czechoslovakia, Sir John A.
MacDonald - Prime Minister of
Canada, Sir John J. C. Abbott -
Prime Minister of Canada, Sir
Robert L. Borden - Prime
Minister of Canada, Viscount R.
B. Bennett - Prime Minister of
Canada, Sir Mackenzie Bowell -
Prime Minister of Canada, John
G. Diefenbaker - Prime Minister
of Canada, Charles H. Allen -
1st Governor of Puerto Rico,
King Kamehameha, III, IV, & V -
Monarchs of Hawaii, King David
Kalakaua - last Monarch of
Hawaii, Miguel Aleman -
President of Mexico
MILITARY LEADERS:
Omar Bradley, John J. Pershing,
General Douglas McArthur -
Commander of Armed Forces in the
Philipines, General Winfield
Scott, Captain Eddie
Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle -
Famous Air Force Pilot, General
Mark Clark, General George C.
Marshall, General Henry "Hap" -
Commander of the Army Air Force,
Admiral Richard E. Byrd - Flew
over the North Pole, John Paul
Jones - First Admiral of the
U.S. Navy, Marquis de Lafayette
- Supporter of American Freedom,
Charles Lindbergh - First pilot
to cross the Atlantic, General
George B. McClelland - Army of
the Potomac, Presidential
candidate against Abraham
Lincoln, faced General Robert E.
Lee at the Battle of Antietam
and twice Governor of New
Jersey, Major General Richard
Montgomery - First General of
the Continental Army killed in
the Battle for Quebec, Audy
Murphy - most decorated soldier
of WWII, Robert E. Peary - First
man to reach the North Pole in
1909, Eddie Rickenbacker - Air
Force Ace Pilot, Alfred von
Tirpitz - German Naval officer
responsible for submarine
warfare, Stuart Symington -
First Secretary of the U.S. Air
Force, General Omar Bradley -
West Point Lodge No.877, NY ,
Admiral William Leahy, Admiral
Ernest King, Admiral Chester
Nimitz, Admiral William 'Bull'
Halsey, General John Pershing,
General Carl Spaatz
REPUBLIC OF TEXAS:
Sam Houston 2nd & 4th President
of the Republic of Texas,
Stephen Austin- Father of Texas,
Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie,
Colonel William B. Travis, David
G. Burnett - 1st President of
the Republic of Texas, Anson
Jones - 5th President of the
Republic of Texas, Mirabeau B.
Lamar - 3rd President of the
Republic of Texas, (and, it
should be added, General Santa
Ana)
EARLY AMERICAN PIONEERS:
Joseph Brant - Chief of the
Mohawks 1742-1807, Christopher
"Kit" Carson - Frontiersman,
Scout & Explorer, WIlliam Clark
- Explorer, Meriweather Lewis -
Explorer (Lewis & Clark),
William "Buffalo Bill" Cody -
Indian fighter, Wild West Show,
Samuel Colt - Firearms Inventor
MUSIC & FINE ARTS:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (and his
father, Leopold), Ludwig von
Beethoven, Jean Sibelius, Franz
Liszt, Josef Haydn, Irving
Berlin, Gutzon Borglum, Charles
W. Peale, Alfons M. Mucha, John
Philip Sousa, both Gilbert &
Sullivan, George Gershwin,
George M. Cohan, Count Basie,
Nat King Cole, Giacomo
Meyerbeer, Signmund Romberg,
Edward E. Bagley - "National
Emblem" march, Duke Ellington,
Francis Scott Key
ENTERTAINERS:
John Wayne, Red Skelton, Clark
Gable, W.C. Fields, Will Rogers,
Burl Ives, Roy Rogers, Danny
Thomas, Ernest Borgnine, Oliver
Hardy, Tom Mix, Audie Murphy,
Gene Autry, Wallace Beery, Eddie
Cantor, Eddie Arnold, Roy Acuff,
Cecil B. DeMille, Louis B.
Mayer, Michael Richards
"Kramer", Brad Paisley (& his
keyboardist Kendall Marcy) -
received their 32° AASR on
10-28-06.
INDUSTRY & LABOR:
John Wanamaker, S.S. Kresge,
J.C. Penney, John Jacob Astor,
John L. Lewis, Dave Thomas -
founder of Wendys, Charles Adams
- NHL Developer, Harold Alfond -
Dexter Shoe Company, Lloyd
Balfour - Jewelry Lawrence Bell
- Bell Aircraft Corp.,
Bartholomew Berthold Ballington
Booth- Volunteers of America,
Walter P Chrysler - Chrysler
Corporation, Andre Citroen -
Motor car manufacturer, Samuel
Colt - Firearms, Robert E. B.
Baylor - Baylor University, John
T. Desaguliers - Planetarium,
WIlliam Henry Dow - Dow Chemical
Co., Edwin L. Drake - Oil
industry, W.E.B. DuBois -
Co-founder of the NAACP, Jean
Henri Dunant - Red Cross,
Eberhard Faber - Eberhard Faber
Pencil Company, Sir Alexander
Fleming - Penicillin, Henry Ford
- Ford Motor Company, Richard J.
Gatling - Gatling Gun, King C.
Gillette - Gillette Safety Razor
Co., Samuel Gompers, Joseph
Ignace Guillotin - Guillotine,
Richard M. Hoe - Inventor,
Edward Jenner - Vaccination,
Melvin Jones - Lions
International, Simon Lake -
Submarine, Frank S. Land - Order
of DeMolay, Sir Thomas Lipton -
Tea, John B. MacLean - MacLeans
Magazine, Hart Massey - Farm
equipment, Dr. William and
Charles Mayo - Mayo Clinic,
Fredrick Maytag - Washing
machine, Clyde L. McCoy -
wah-wah - trumpet, Andrew Mellon
- Gulf Oil Corporation, George
Jacob Mercherle - Founder of
State Farm Insurance, Franz
Anton Mesmer - Mesmerism, Albert
Abraham Michelson - Speed of
light, John Molson - Molson
Breweries, Jacques Etienne
Montgolfier - Hot-air balloon,
Ransom E. Olds - Olds Motor
Company, George Pullman -
Sleeping car on train, David
Sarnoff - RCA, Antoine Joseph
Sax - Saxophone, Julius Earl
Schaefer - Boeing, Wichita (Amasa)
Leland Stanford - Railroad,s
Andrew T. Still - Osteopathy,
John W. Teets - Dial
Corporation, Jack Warner -
Warner Brothers, Darryl F.
Zanuck - 20th Century
Productions, C.D. Bradham -
Pepsi Cola Company, Avery
Bundage - US Olympic president,
Curtis Carlson - Radisson
Hotels, Dr. Gordon Farhrni -
Iodized salt, Col. Harland
Sanders - KFC, Walter Sheaffer -
Sheaffer Pen Co., Amedeo Obici -
Planters Peanut Co., John Fitch
- The Steamboat Grock - Swiss
Circus Clown, Charles C. Hilton
- American Hotelier, Dr. Robert
Morris - Poet and Founder of the
Order of Eastern Star, James C.
Penny - Retailer, George
Schoonover - Founder "The
Builder", Zebulon Pike - "Pike's
Peak"
ADVENTURERS:
Meriwether Lewis & William
Clark, Charles A. Lindberg, Kit
Carson, Roald Amundsen, Adm.
Richard Byrd, Commodore Robert
Peary, Bro. Nathaniel Palmer, a
discoverer of Antarctica honored
on a US postage stamp.
PHILOSOPHERS:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
Gotthold E. Lessing, Voltaire
(Francois Marie Arouet)
SPORTS:
Ty Cobb - Baseball, Earl Bryan
Combs - Baseball, Jack Dempsey -
Boxer, Rogers Hornsby -
Baseball, Theodore A. Lyons -
Baseball, James Naismith -
Invented the game of basketball,
Arnold Palmer - Golf , "Sugar
Ray" Robinson - Prizefighter,
Alex G. Spanos - Owner of the
San Diego Chargers, Sir
Frederick Arthur Stanley -
Stanley Cup, Mickey Cochrane -
Baseball, Tris Speaker -
Baseball, Bart Starr - Football,
Cy Young - Baseball, Bob Feller,
Paul "Dizzy" Trout, Harry Carey,
Dell Rice, Jimmy Fox, Joe Tinker
(of "Tinker to Evers to
Chance"), , Jack Arthur Johnson
ASTRONAUTS:
Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr.,
Leroy Gordon Cooper, Donn F.
Eisele, Virgil I. Grissom, Edgar
D. Mitchell, Walter M. Schirra,
Jr., Thomas P. Stafford, Paul J.
Weitz, James B. Irwin, John
Glenn.
WRITERS:
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Sir
Walter Scott, Rudyard Kipling,
Robert Burns, Wassily I. Maikow,
Heinrich Heine, Jean P.C. de
Florian, Leopoldo Lugoner,
Antonio de Castro Alves, James
Boswell, Alexander Pushkin,
Arthur Conan Doyle, Jonathan
Swift, Oscar Wilde, Francis J.
Bellans - Pledge of Allegiance,
Josiah Henson - "Uncle Tom's
Cabin", William Shakespeare,
Carlo Collodi - "Pinocchio",
Felix Salten - "Bambi", Edward
Gibbon - "Decline and Fall of
the Roman Empire", Harold
Lincoln Gray - "Little Orphan
Annie", Aleksandr Sergeyvich
Pushkin - Russian Poet, Jonathan
Swift - "Gulliver's Travels",
Booker T. Washington, George
Trendle - "Lone Ranger"
LAW:
John Marshall, Earl Warren,
Thurgood Marshall, J. Edgar
Hoover - Director of the FBI,
Thomas Dewey - Lawyer
MEDICINE:
Drs. Alexander Fleming, Jules
Bordet, Antoine DePage, Edward
Jenner, Charles W. and William
Mayo, Karl and William Menninger
SCIENCE:
Hans C. Orsted, Jons Jakob Frk.
von Berzelius, Alfred Edmund
Brehm, Luther Burbank, Johan
Ernst Gunnerus, Albert Abraham
Michelson, Gaspard Monge, C.F.S.
Hahnemann, Pedro N. Arata,
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel,
Alexander Fleming, James
Smithson
MEXICAN'S:
MANUEL GOMEZ FARIAS (vice
president of México) VICENTE
GUERRERO (president of México)
MIGUEL HIDALGO Y COSTILLA
(started the independence war)
IGNACIO ZARAGOZA. (general of
the army that defeated the
french invasors) PORFIRIO DIAZ
MORI (president of México)
BENITO JUAREZ GARCIA (president
of México) ALVARO OBREGON
(president of México) FRANCISCO
I. MADERO (started the Méxican
Revolution an was President of
México) MANUEL AVILA CAMACHO
(president of Mexico) VENUSTIANO
CARRANZA (president of México,
signed the actual constitution
in 1917) EMILIO PORTES GIL
(president of México) MIGUEL
ALEMAN VALDES (president of
México) JOSE MARIA PINO SUAREZ
(vice president of mexico)
ADOLFO LOPEZ MATEOS (president
of México) MARIO MORENO "CANTINFLAS"
(comedian) IGNACIO MANUEL
ALTAMIRANO (writer) ALFREDO
CHAVERO (historian) RODOLFO
SANCHEZ TABOADA (general,
secretary of state, founder of
the revolutionary institutional
party, P.R.I, that ruled over
seventy years.), Lazaro
Cardenas. Cardenas served as
President of Mexico from
1934-1940.
As well as... Clyde
Beaty - Animal Trainer, Clifford
Berryman - Cartoonist, Gutzon &
Lincoln Borglum - Father & son
who carved Mt. Rushmore, Marcelo
delPilar - "Father of Philippine
Masonry", W E B DuBois - Founder
of the NAACP, James W. Marshall
- Discovered Gold at Sutter's
Mill in California in 1848,
Ringling Brothers - Circus
brothers, Lowell Thomas -
American radio commentator -
Lawrence of Arabia, Bertel
Thorvaldsen - Danish sculptor,
Steven J. Trachtenberg -
President of George Washington
University, Robert Pershing
Wadlow - Tallest human on record
being almost 9 feet tall,
Matthew Webb - English Channel,
William White - Baylor
University, Meredith Willson -
The Music Man - 76 Trombones,
Percy Wootton, M.D. - AMA
President, Florenz Ziegfeld -
Ziegfeld's Follies, Anton Cermak
- Mayor of Chicago, Fritz
Freleng - Cartoonist, Daniel
Carter Beard - Boy Scouts,
Frederic A. Bartholdi - Designed
the Statue of Liberty, Father
Francisco Calvo - Father of
Freemasonry in Costa Rica,
Geoffrey Fisher - Archbishop of
Canterbury, Cornelius Hedges -
Father of Yellowstone National
Park, James Hoban - Architect
for U.S. Capital, Aga Khan III -
Statesman, Harry S. New -
Postmaster established Airmail,
Charles F. Papst - Coined
"Athlete's Foot", Harry Houdini,
Blackstone, Norman Vincent
Peale, Thomas J. Watson,
Giuseppe Garibaldi, Cecil J.
Rhodes, Marvin Zindler, . and
many, many more. |