Presidents and other
Important Americans
|
| John Adams -president |
Born
1736 Braintree, MA
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| John Quincy Adams- president |
Born 1767
Braintree, MA
|
| George H. W. Bush -president |
Born
1924 in Milton, MA |
| Michael Stanley Dukakis-
Former Mass. Govornor |
Born 1933
in Brookline, MA |
| John F. Kennedy-president |
Born 1917
Brookline, MA |
| Samuel Adams-patriot |
Born 1722
Boston, MA
|
| Susan B. Anthony -woman
suffragist |
Born 1820
Adams, MA
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| Paul Revere-silversmith and
Revolutionary War figure |
Born 1735
Boston, MA
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| Benjamin Franklin-statesman and
scientist |
Born 1706
Boston, MA |
| John Hancock- statesman |
Born 1737
Braintree, MA
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| David Souter- jurist |
Born 1939
Melrose, MA
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| Lucy Stone woman
-suffragist |
Born 1818,
West Brookfield , MA
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Oliver Wendell Holmes- jurist
|
Born 1841
Boston, MA
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Authors, Poets, Artists
|
| Louisa May Alcott - writer |
1832–1888
Spent Early years in MA
|
| Horatio Alger -novelist |
Born 1832
Revere, MA
|
| John Cheever- novelist |
Born 1912
Quincy, MA
|
| William Cullen
Bryant -poet and editor |
Born 1794
Cummington, MA
|
| E.E. Cummings - poet |
1894 cambridge
|
| Emily Dickinson- poet |
Born 1830
Amherst, MA
|
| Ralph Waldo Emerson
-philosopher, orator and poet |
1803 Boston
|
| Nathaniel
Hawthorne -novelist |
Born
1804 Salem, MA
|
| Amy Lowell- poet |
Born 1874
Brookline, MA
|
| James Russell Lowell -poet |
Born 1819
Cambridge, MA
|
| Robert Lowell-poet |
Born 1917
Boston, MA
|
| Herman Melville -writer |
1819-1891
1850 moved to Pittsfield, MA
|
| Edgar Allan Poe- writer |
Born 1809
Boston, MA
|
| Dr. Seuss (Theodore
Geisel) -author and illustrator |
Born 1904
Springfield, MA
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| Henry David Thoreau -author |
Born 1817
Concord, MA
|
| John Greenleaf
Whittier -poet |
Born 1817 near
Haverhill, MA
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Artists and Performers
|
| Leonard Bernstein
-conductor |
Born
1918 Lawrence, MA |
| John Singleton Copley- painter |
Born 1738
Boston, MA
|
| Bette Davis -actress |
Born 1908
Lowell MA |
| Jacques d'Amboise- ballet dancer |
Born1934
Dedham, MA |
| Cecil B. DeMille -film director |
Born 1881
Ashfield, MA |
| Geraldine Farrar -soprano,
actress |
Born1882
Melrose, MA |
| Winslow Homer -painter |
Born 1836
Boston, MA |
| Samuel F. B. Morse-
painter and inventor |
Born 1791
Charlestown, MA |
| Norman Rockwell- artist |
1894-1978
Lived last 25 years in Stockbridge, MA |
Barbara Walters- TV commentator
|
Born 1929
Boston, MA |
| James McNeill Whistler -painter |
Born 1834
Lowell, MA |
Other Important
Americans
|
| Bronson Alcott- educator and
social reformer |
Born 1799
Wolcott, MA |
| Clara Barton- American Red
Cross
founder |
Born 1821
North Oxford, MA |
| Luther Burbank- horticulturalist |
Born 1847
Lancaster, MA |
| Buckminster Fuller- architect
and educator |
Born 1895
Milton, MA |
| Robert Goddard -father of modern
rocketry |
Born 1882
Worcester, MA |
| Elias Howe- inventor |
Born
1819 Spencer, MA |
| Horace Mann- educator |
Born 1796
Franklin, MA |
| Eli
Whitney- inventor |
Born 1765
Westboro, MA |