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. |