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Continental Army soldier who was captured and executed by the British in 1776; famously said, 'I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.'

First Secretary of the Treasury; killed by Aaron Burr in a duel in 1804

President of the Second Continental Congress; known for his large and stylish signature on the Declaration of Independence

President from 1921 to 1923; presidency was tainted by the Teapot Dome Scandal

Led U.S. forces against American Indians at the 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe; 9th president of the U.S.

Lost the popular vote in the 1876 presidential election, but won the electoral college vote; oversaw the end of Reconstruction

Publisher who built America's largest newspaper chain; known for 'yellow journalism' that pushed the U.S. into war with Spain in 1898

Governor of Virginia from 1776 to 1779 and from 1784 to 1786; best remembered for his 'Give me liberty, or give me death!' speech

Old West gunfighter and gambler; killed in 1876 while holding a 'Dead Man's Hand' in poker

Accused by Whittaker Chambers in 1948 of being a Communist and Soviet spy; charged with two counts of perjury, but never indicted for espionage

General president of the Teamsters from 1958 to 1971; mysteriously disappeared in July 1975

Supreme Court justice from 1902 to 1932; one of the most influential common law judges

Quaker president who served from 1929 to 1933; one of two presidents to be elected without electoral experience or high military rank

Instrumental figure in the founding of the FBI; director of the FBI from 1935 to 1972

First and third president of Texas; only person to become governor of two different states (Texas and Tennessee)

Awarded the first U.S. patent for a sewing machine in 1846; served as a private in the Union Army during the Civil War

Lost to Woodrow Wilson in the 1916 presidential election; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1930 to 1941

Lead author of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; Vice President under Lyndon Johnson

Author associated with the Harlem Renaissance; wrote the 1937 novel 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'

Puritan who was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637; established the settlement of Portsmouth in what would become Rhode Island

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