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Offline Arlo

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« Reply #30 on: December 04, 2007, 06:05:05 PM »
Might be easier for some to declare who'd they'd vote "off the island" so to speak.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_of_Fame_for_Great_Americans

Classification of honorees
 
The first 50 names were required to include representatives of a majority of 15 classes:

authors and editors
business men
inventors
missionaries and explorers
philanthropists and reformers
clergymen and theologians;
scientists
engineers and architects
lawyers and judges
musicians, painters, and sculptors
physicians and surgeons
rulers and statesmen
soldiers and sailors
teachers
distinguished men and women outside of these classes

George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Daniel Webster
Benjamin Franklin
Ulysses S. Grant
John Marshall
Thomas Jefferson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Robert Fulton
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Washington Irving
Jonathan Edwards
Samuel F. B. Morse
David G. Farragut
Henry Clay
George Peabody
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Peter Cooper
Eli Whitney
Robert E. Lee
Horace Mann
John James Audubon
James Kent
Henry Ward Beecher
Joseph Story
John Adams
William Ellery Channing
Gilbert Stuart
Asa Gray

Later groups

Added in 1905:

John Quincy Adams
James Russell Lowell
Mary Lyon
William T. Sherman
James Madison
John Greenleaf Whittier
Emma Willard
Maria Mitchell

Added in 1910:
 
Beecher Stowe
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Edgar Allan Poe
James Fenimore Cooper
Phillips Brooks
William Cullen Bryant
Frances E. Willard
Andrew Jackson
George Bancroft
John Lothrop Motley

Added in 1915:
 
Alexander Hamilton
Mark Hopkins
Francis Parkman
Louis Agassiz
Elias Howe
Joseph Henry
Charlotte Cushman
Rufus Choate
Daniel Boone

Added in 1920:

William Thomas Morton
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Roger Williams
Patrick Henry
Alice Freeman Palmer
James Buchanan Eads

Added in 1925:

Edwin Booth
John Paul Jones

Added in 1930:

James McNeill Whistler
James Monroe
Matthew F. Maury
Walt Whitman

Added in 1935:

William Penn
Simon Newcomb
Grover Cleveland

Added in 1940:

Stephen Foster

Added in 1945:

Booker T. Washington
Thomas Paine
Walter Reed
Sidney Lanier

Added in 1950:

William C. Gorgas
Woodrow Wilson
Susan B. Anthony
Alexander Graham Bell
Theodore Roosevelt
Josiah W. Gibbs
 
Added in 1955:

Wilbur Wright *
Thomas J. Jackson
George Westinghouse

Added in 1960:

Thomas Alva Edison
Henry David Thoreau
Edward A. MacDowell

Added in 1965:

Jane Addams
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Sylvanus Thayer
Orville Wright *

Added in 1970:

Albert A. Michelson
Lillian Wald

Added in 1973:

George Washington Carver
Louis D. Brandeis
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John Philip Sousa

Added in 1976:

Clara Barton
Luther Burbank
Andrew Carnegie

The inductees voted on in 1976 (and Brandeis) do not have busts at the Hall.

 Nominees not elected

In addition to Constance Woolson and Jefferson Davis, the following people were nominated at least once but not elected:

John C. Calhoun, Horace Greeley, Ephraim McDowell, Richard M. Hoe, Adoniram Judson, Henry Wheaton, Hiram Powers, Louisa May Alcott, Dorothea Dix, Alice Cary, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, Theodore Dwight Woolsey, Martha Washington, Francis Wayland, Frederick Edwin Church, Sarah Franklin Bache, Horace Bushnell, Mary Washington, Matthew Simpson, William Austin Burt, Ottmar Mergenthaler, John Eliot (missionary), Helen Hunt Jackson, Robert L. Stevens, John Jay, Samuel Adams, Sacagawea, Benjamin Thompson, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, Cyrus McCormick, Henry George, George Rogers Clark, Charles Follen McKim, Henry Barnard, Borden Parker Bowne, Edward Austin Sheldon, Peter Bulkeley, Lucretia Mott, Elena Petrovna Blavatsky, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, John Singleton Copley, Andrew Johnson, William Henry Harrison, Chester Alan Arthur, Benjamin Harrison, S. Weir Mitchell, William Brewster (Pilgrim), William James, Warren G. Harding, William Beaumont, Elizabeth Blackwell, Benjamin Peirce, Robert McCormick, James K. Patterson, Elizabeth Seton, Calvin Coolidge, Paul Dunbar, John Ireland (archbishop), Judah Touro, William Henry Welch, Joyce Kilmer, George Caleb Bingham, Paul M. Warburg, John Stevens (inventor), Karl Landsteiner, Jacob Schiff, Nikola Tesla, Noah Webster, Henry Ford, Charles Evans Hughes, Fiorello La Guardia, Babe Ruth, John Shaw Billings, Gilbert N. Lewis, Crawford Long, George M. Cohan, Al Jolson, Lou Gehrig, Johnny Appleseed, Amelia Earhart, Chief Joseph, Wyatt Earp, Huey Long, Will Rogers.

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« Reply #31 on: December 04, 2007, 06:10:17 PM »
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Originally posted by lasersailor184
Actually, it was this guy who really helped us to win.
Incorrect.   Baron Von Steuben didn't enter the Revolutionary War until February 1778 (I believe).    Saratoga was the turning point of the Revolutionary War in October of 1777.    General John Burgoyne surrendering was a huge blow to the British.  

Most American?   It's a tough question.  

Steve McQueen?    He was a teenager committing crimes, went to a "boys reform school", joined the USMC, Actor, Racer and the "Anti-Hero".  

Audie Murphy?  We all know of his accomplishments.

George Washington?   I'd put him near the top of the list as well.  


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« Reply #32 on: December 04, 2007, 06:12:34 PM »



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« Reply #33 on: December 04, 2007, 07:20:53 PM »
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Originally posted by Masherbrum
Incorrect.   Baron Von Steuben didn't enter the Revolutionary War until February 1778 (I believe).    Saratoga was the turning point of the Revolutionary War in October of 1777.    General John Burgoyne surrendering was a huge blow to the British.  


Saratoga gave the French the confidence that the revolution might not fail, so the french hired the Baron von Steuben.  It wasn't necessarily the battle that signaled that the Americans would win from then on out.  It signaled that we had a chance, and there was hope in helping us.  

The Baron von Steuben taught the american troops how specifically to counter British tactics.  This alone was the cause of many winning campaigns from there on out.



And it is true that Benedict Arnold does have a bad reputation.  The truth is that he was the best leader the Americans had in the revolution.  He did not change sides UNTIL the american politicians royally (pun fully intended) screwed him over.
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« Reply #34 on: December 04, 2007, 07:24:24 PM »
Make up your mind .... Stoob or Bennie, dude. ;) :aok

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« Reply #35 on: December 04, 2007, 07:34:06 PM »



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Offline Mark Luper

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« Reply #36 on: December 04, 2007, 07:52:37 PM »
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Originally posted by Neubob
Henry Ford
Thomas Edison
Steve Jobs and Steven Wozniak
Larry Page and Sergei Brin

And anybody else whose innovative spirit spurred and created the industries that built this nation, and will continue to propel this nation forward.

Nothing is more American than the ability to think freely, the courage to act on it, the perseverance to bring it to fruition, and the humanity to accept the fruits of its success without guilt.


Hear! Hear! I do also agree with most of the other picks in this discussion.

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« Reply #37 on: December 04, 2007, 08:02:13 PM »


Lee Greenwood


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« Reply #38 on: December 04, 2007, 08:14:04 PM »
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Make up your mind .... Stoob or Bennie, dude. ;) :aok


I wasn't saying who I thought was the best American at all.  I was only pointing out that Washington wasn't the cause of us winning the revolution.
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« Reply #39 on: December 04, 2007, 08:19:08 PM »
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He's up there on my list.

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« Reply #40 on: December 04, 2007, 08:21:49 PM »
Quote was: "Without this guy, wouldn't be an America that we would recognize."

Not ....  "This guy was the cause of us winning the revolution.."

(Not that your example was, either.)

Just sayin'. :)
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