Mayor of Chicago from 1955 to 1976; instrumental in JFK's victory in Illinois in the 1960 presidential election
Founded a distillery in 1866 that still produces one of the world's most popular whiskeys
Defended John Scopes in the 1925 'Monkey Trial'; leading member of the ACLU
Placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in response to the 1970 Marin County courthouse incident; candidate for vice president in 1980 and 1984 for the Communist Party
Secretary of War from 1853 to 1857; first and only president of the Confederacy
Helped to establish the Catholic Worker Movement; editor of the Catholic Worker newspaper from 1933 to 1980
Candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2004 presidential election; chairman of the DNC from 2005 to 2009
Invented the first commercially successful steel plow in 1837; served as mayor of Moline, Illinois for 2 years
Governor of New York from 1943 to 1954; lost to Harry Truman in the 1948 presidential election
Reclusive nineteenth-century poet known for morose but deep poetry
Blues musician credited with helping music transition from blues to rock and roll; known for playing rectangular guitar
Depression-era gangster and bank robber; shot and killed by federal agents in Chicago in 1934
Won a total of 22 Oscar awards; created Mickey Mouse in 1928
Activist who created the first generation of American mental asylums; Superintendent of Army Nurses during the Civil War
Fired the first shot in defense of Fort Sumter; widely remembered as the supposed inventor of baseball
Designer of the Kansas-Nebraska Act; Democratic nominee for president in the 1860 election
Escaped from slavery in 1838; orator and writer who became a leading figure in the abolitionist movement
First African-American to earn a doctorate from Harvard; co-founder of the NAACP in 1909
Longest-serving governor in Massachusetts history; lost to George H.W. Bush in the 1988 presidential election
Secretary of State under President Eisenhower; architect of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)
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