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Armour, Norman b. October 4, 1887 d. September 27, 1982
US Diplomat. As a career foreign service officer (1915 to 1945), he served as Minister or Ambassador to a dozen countries, including Haiti, where he arranged for withdrawal of United States Marines in the 1930s. He was Assistant Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 1947 to 1949, and joined with other retired diplomats in 1954 in protesting Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's attacks on the foreign service.
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Ball, George Wildman b. December 21, 1909 d. May 26, 1994
US Cabinet Official, US Diplomat. While serving as the Undersecretary of State from 1961 to 1966 in the administrations of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson, he became known as the main voice against the Vietnam War during the escalation in the 1960s. He resigned in 1966, and served as United States Ambassador to the United Nations from June 26 to September 25, 1968. He also served as unofficial adviser to President Jimmy Carter. (Bio by: Genet)
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Bayard, George Dashiell b. December 18, 1835 d. December 14, 1862
Civil War Union Brigadier General. After graduating from the US Military Academy in 1856, he served as a 1st Cavalry officer on the frontier and garrison duty. At the start of the Civil War, he was cavalry instructor at West Point, went sent for line duty as a Captain in the 4th Cavalry. In September 1861, he was appointed Colonel of the 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry, serving in the campaigns of the Shenandoah, Northern Virginia and on the Rappa-hannock. He was promoted Brigadier General in April...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Cause of death: Killed in action at the Battle of Fredericksburg
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Beach, Sylvia b. March 14, 1887 d. October 5, 1962
Author, Publisher. She was responsible for the publishing of James Joyce's work "Ulysses". He was an integral part of the American expatriate scene in Paris, France between the two world wars.
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Burr Sr., Aaron b. January 4, 1716 d. September 24, 1757
Educator and Founder of Princeton University. Born in Connecticut, he attended Yale College (now Yale University) where in 1735 he obtained his BA Degree in religious studies. Upon graduation, he became a Presbyterian Minister in Newark, New Jersey, where he also opened a school for classical studies, to earn extra money. In 1752, he married Esther Edwards, daughter of the Rev. Jonathan and Sarah Pierpont Edwards; their son Aaron Burr, Jr. would later become the third Vice President of the...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
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Burr Jr., Aaron b. February 6, 1756 d. September 14, 1836
3rd United States Vice President, Revolutionary War Continental Army Officer.
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Cleveland, Frances Folsom b. July 21, 1864 d. October 29, 1947
Presidential First Lady. President Grover Cleveland was a bachelor during the first fifteen months of his first term in office. His sister Rose was the official White House Hostess. Grover took a bride, Twenty one year old Frances Folsom, extremely beautiful, and twenty seven years younger then the President. They were married in the White House and she became the youngest First Lady in American history plus the only presidential couple to marry at a White House ceremony. Frances 'Frank'...[Read More] (Bio by: Donald Greyfield)
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Cleveland, Grover (Stephen) b. March 18, 1837 d. June 24, 1908
22nd and 24th United States President, New York Governor. A Democrat, he was first elected President in 1884, defeated in 1888, and reelected in 1892, becoming the only United States President to serve two non-consecutive terms. One of nine children of a Presbyterian minister, he was raised in upstate New York, becoming a lawyer in Buffalo. At age 44, he was elected Mayor of Buffalo in 1881, and later became Governor of New York. In 1885, he ran for President, and won with the support of...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
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Cleveland, Ruth b. October 3, 1891 d. January 7, 1904
American Folk Figure. The daughter and first child of President Grover Cleveland and First Lady Frances Cleveland, she died at the age of 12 from a bout of diphtheria. A myth arose that the candy bar "Baby Ruth" was named after her (partially perpetuated by the creators, the Curtis Candy Company). However, that myth has subsequently been debunked.
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Davies, Samuel b. November 3, 1723 d. February 4, 1761
A Presbyterian minister, Samuel Davies was one of the key leaders of the so-called Great Awakening that stirred immense religious impetus in the American colonies in the mid-1700s. He also raised funds for the creation of what became known as Princeton University.
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Dennett, Tyler b. June 13, 1883 d. December 29, 1949
Historian, Educator. He is best known for his book "John Hay" (1933), for which he won the 1934 Pulitzer Prize for biography. Dennett taught American history at Johns Hopkins University (1923 to 1924) and at Columbia University (1927 to 1928), and international relations at Princeton (1931 to 1934). He served as president of Williams College from 1934 to 1937. (Bio by: Fred Rousseau)
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Edwards, Jonathan b. October 5, 1703 d. March 22, 1758
Religious Leader. A Calvinist theologian, he led the religious revival that initiated "The Great Awakening". He served as President of Princeton University, and died in office after a smallpox inoculation. He preached famous sermon at Enfield, Connecticut "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."
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Field, Richard Stockton b. December 31, 1803 d. May 25, 1870
Civil War US Senator. He served as a New Jersey state Representative from 1833 to 1834, a member of the New Jersey General Assembly in 1837, and New Jersey Attorney General from 1838-1841, and United States Senator from New Jersey from 1862 to 1863. He was a professor at the Princeton Law School from 1847 to 1855. He was the grandson of Declaration of Independence Signer Richard Stockton.
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Gallup, George Horace b. November 18, 1901 d. July 26, 1984
Journalist. A statistician famous for his Gallup Poll, he pioneered work in public opinion and market research.
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Godel, Kurt b. April 28, 1906 d. January 14, 1978
Mathematician, Logician. Born in Brno, Moravia (now part of the Czech Republic), he studied in Vienna. He is best known for his two incompleteness theorems, published in 1931, which had an enormous impact on mathematical thought. At the beginning of World War II he moved to the United States and became a US citizen in 1948. As a professor at Princeton he was friends with Albert Einstein. Godel had an obsessive fear of being poisoned and he died of self-inflicted malnutrition. The...[Read More] (Bio by: Duke)
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Hunter, David b. July 21, 1802 d. February 2, 1886
Civil War Union Major General. He graduated from West Point an officer in the infantry in 1822 and served the Dragoons. In 1842, he was appointed the post of Paymaster of the Army and after the election of Abraham Lincoln to President, he was in charge of the escort of Lincoln to Washington D.C. At the start of the Civil War, he was Colonel in command of the 3rd US Cavalry when promoted Brigadier General of the Department of Washington. In August, 1862, he was promoted Major General commander...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
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Karge, Joseph b. July 4, 1823 d. December 27, 1892
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General, Educator. A Polish Cavalry officer who immigrated to the United States, his training turned the 1st New Jersey Volunteer Cavalry regiment from a dispirited, unruly mob to a well disciplined unit with an outstanding battle record. He was wounded in 1862, and while recovering at home, recruited the 2nd New Jersey Volunteer Cavalry. He commanded the regiment, then a brigade in the General Benjamin H. Grierson's successful cavalry raids in Tennessee and...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
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Kennan, George Frost b. February 16, 1904 d. March 17, 2005
US Diplomat, Author. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he was a career foreign service officer who was part of the first United States delegation to return to the Soviet Union, serving from 1933 to 1937. He was in Berlin at the outbreak of World War II, and was interned for six months. At the close of war he returned to Moscow to serve as the number two American diplomat there. Because of his extensive 1946 assessment (8,000 word telegram to Washington DC) that the Russians suffered from insecurity...[Read More] (Bio by: Fred Beisser)
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McCook, John James b. May 25, 1845 d. September 17, 1911
Folk Figure. One of "the Fighting McCooks", who had 17 members fight for the Union, he was at Kenyon College in 1862 when his attempt to enlist was denied because he was underage. He accompanied the 52nd Ohio Infantry as a volunteer aide, and was later commissioned a Lieutenant on the XXI Corps staff, Army of the Cumberland. Promoted to Captain in 1863, he transferred to the Army of the Potomac, was wounded at Spotsylvania, and received brevet promotions for heroism to Major, Lieutenant Colonel...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
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Menendez, Jose E. b. 1944 d. August 20, 1989
Murder Victim. While watching television with his wife, Kitty, they were murdered in the living room of their Beverly Hills home by their sons, Erik Galen and Joseph Lyle Menendez. Born in Havana, Cuba, in 1944, the youngest son of three children to an upper-middle class family, his father was a popular soccer player who owned his own accounting firm, while his mother was a swimmer who was elected to Cuba's Sports Hall...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
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