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Vice president from 1905 to 1909; namesake of the second largest city in Alaska
Admiral in the U.S. Navy during the Civil War; victorious at the Battle of Mobile Bay in 1864
Author of 'The Sound and the Fury' and 'As I Lay Dying'; winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature
Mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988; author of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban
Associate director of the FBI from 1972 to 1973; admitted to being 'Deep Throat' in 2005
Representative from New York from 1979 to 1985; Walter Mondale's running mate in the 1984 presidential election
Whig president who served from 1850 to 1853; co-founder of the University at Buffalo
Presbyterian minister and leader in the Second Great Awakening; president of Oberlin College from 1851 to 1866
Jazz vocalist famous for her scat singing; known as the 'First Lady of Song'
Author of 1925's 'The Great Gatsby'; member of the 'Lost Generation' of the 1920s
Speaker of the House from 1989 to 1995; ambassador to Japan from 1997 to 2001
President from 1974 to 1977; granted Richard Nixon a pardon in 1974
Developed the first affordable automobile; popularized the use of the assembly line
Lieutenant general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan
Invented bifocals and the lightning rod; first U.S. ambassador to France
First presidential candidate for the Republican Party; soldier in the Mexican-American War and Civil War
Wrote the 1963 book 'The Feminine Mystique'; first president of the National Organization for Women
Influential economist who advised President Reagan; received the 1976 Nobel Prize in Economics
Poet known for 1916's 'The Road Not Taken'; received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry
Credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat; designed the first working submarine in the 1790s
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