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100 most influential Americans

By thomas andrew duval
Created Nov 29 2006 - 10:23pm

1. Abraham Lincoln

2. George Washington

3. Thomas Jefferson

4. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

5. Alexander Hamilton

6. Benjamin Franklin

7. John Marshall

8. Martin Luther King Jr.

9. Thomas Edison

10. Woodrow Wilson

11. John D. Rockefeller

12. Ulysses S. Grant

13. James Madison

14. Henry Ford

15. Theodore Roosevelt

16. Mark Twain

17. Ronald Reagan

18. Andrew Jackson

19. Thomas Paine

20. Andrew Carnegie

21. Harry Truman

22. Walt Whitman

23. Wright Brothers

24. Alexander Graham Bell

25. John Adams

26. Walt Disney

27. Eli Whitney

28. Dwight Eisenhower

29. Earl Warren

30. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

31. Henry Clay

32. Albert Einstein

33. Ralph Waldo Emerson

34. Jonas Salk

35. Jackie Robinson

36. William Jennings Bryan

37. J.P. Morgan

38. Susan B. Anthony

39. Rachel Carson

40. John Dewey

41. Harriet Beecher Stowe

42. Eleanor Roosevelt

43. W.E.B. DuBois

44. Lyndon Baines Johnson

45. Samuel F.B. Morse

46. William Lloyd Garrison

47. Frederick Douglass

48. Robert Oppenheimer

49. Frederick Law Olmsted

50. James K. Polk

51. Margaret Sanger

52. Joseph Smith

53. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

54. Bill Gates

55. John Quincy Adams

56. Horace Mann

57. Robert E. Lee

58. John C. Calhoun

59. Louis Sullivan

60. William Faulkner

61. Samuel Gompers

62. William James

63. George Marshall

64. Jane Addams

65. Henry David Thoreau

66. Elvis Presley

67. P.T. Barnum

68. James D. Watson

69. James Gordon Bennett

70. Lewis and Clark

71. Noah Webster

72. Sam Walton

73. Cyrus McCormick

74. Brigham Young

75. George Herman "Babe" Ruth

76. Frank Lloyd Wright

77. Betty Friedan

78. John Brown

79. Louis Armstrong

80. William Randolph Hearst

81. Margaret Mead

82. George Gallup

83. James Fenimore Cooper

84. Thurgood Marshall

85. Ernest Hemingway

86. Mary Baker Eddy

87. Benjamin Spock

88. Enrico Fermi

89. Walter Lippmann

90. Jonathan Edwards

91. Lyman Beecher

92. John Steinbeck

93. Nat Turner

94. George Eastman

95. Sam Goldwyn

96. Ralph Nader

97. Stephen Foster

98. Booker T. Washington

99. Richard Nixon

100. Herman Melville


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