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John Sullivan

John Sullivan (1740–1795) was a Continental Army general during the American Revolution who defeated the British-allied Iroquois in New York in 1779. Sullivan served in both the First and Second Continental Congresses and became a brigadier general in the Contintental Army in 1775. He led troops at the Battle of Long Island, at which he was captured but soon released. He also took part in battles at Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, and Germantown. He wintered with Washington at Valley Forge in 1777–1778, and in 1779 was ordered to lead a...

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Aaron Burr

Aaron Burr (1756–1836) was an influential politican and the third vice president of the United States. Though he had a prominent career before his rivalry with Alexander Hamilton, Burr is best remembered for killing Hamilton in a duel in 1804. Burr was born in New Jersey and educated at Princeton (then the College of New Jersey). In 1775 he joined the Continental Army to fight in the Revolutionary War. After the war, Burr practiced law in New York City and in 1784 was elected to the state assembly. He continued his political career in the...

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Rufus King

Rufus King (1755–1827) was one of the framers of the US Constitution. King served in the Massachusetts state legislature from 1783 to 1784 and then in Congress, where he was responsible for the resolution calling for a Constitutional Convention in 1787. An ardent Federalist, King supported the strong central government created by the Constitution and advocated for the document’s ratification. King was also an opponent of slavery who supported compensated emancipation and in 1785 introduced a congressional resolution prohibiting slavery in...

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Joseph Smith

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William Tweed

William “Boss” Tweed (1823–1878) was a the New York City political boss who ran the corrupt Tammany Hall ring, controlling much of city and state government in New York between the early 1860s and 1871.

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Horace Greeley

Horace Greeley (1811–1872) was the influential editor of the New York Daily Tribune. Greeley founded the Tribune in 1841 and edited the paper for more than thirty years. Greeley used the paper as a platform for reform causes. He opposed slavery, tobacco and alcohol use, gambling, and prostitution. Greeley also supported westward expansion. In 1854, after the disintegration of the Whig Party, Greeley became involved in the newly formed Republican Party and used the Tribune to promote its anti-slavery platform....

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William Seward

William Henry Seward (1801–1872) was a US senator from New York and later secretary of state in the Cabinet of President Abraham Lincoln. Seward was an abolitionist, and he helped Lincoln revise the Emancipation Proclamation before it was issued. Seward was also attacked on the night of Lincoln’s assassination but survived to serve as secretary of state to Andrew Johnson. In that office he negotiated the 1867 purchase of Alaska.

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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) was the twenty-sixth...

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Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton (1947– ) is the US secretary of state and a former First Lady and US senator. Hillary Rodham grew up in suburban Illinois and attended Wellesley before earning a law degree at Yale. There she met Bill Clinton, whom she married in 1975. While Bill served as governor of Arkansas, Hillary ran a successful law practice and worked on issues affecting children and the disadvantaged. After Bill’s election to the presidency in 1992, the Clintons set out to reform health care. Bill appointed Hillary head of the Task Force on National...

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Joseph Brant

Joseph Brant, or Thayendanegea, (1743–1807) was the Mohawk chief who led the British-allied Iroquois during the American Revolution. Brant, at the direction of his English brother-in-law, Sir William Johnson, was educated at Moor’s Charity School for Indians in Connecticut, where he learned English and converted to the Anglican faith. He fought for the British in the French and Indian War and later received a captain’s commission in 1775. In 1776, Brant emerged as a leader of loyalists and the British-allied Iroquois. He led forces in the...