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Martin Van Buren | Martin Van Buren was an American lawyer, diplomat, and statesman who served as the eighth president of the United States from 1837 to 1841. |
Stephen Van Rensselaer | played a major role in the planning of the Erie Canal, serving as president of the second Canal Commission during the last fourteen years of his life. |
Denmark Vesey | was a free Black man and community leader in Charleston, South Carolina, who was accused and convicted of planning a major slave revolt in 1822. |
David Walker | was an American abolitionist, writer, and anti-slavery activist. Though his father was enslaved, his mother was free; therefore, he was free as well. |
George Washington | was an American Founding Father, politician, military officer, and farmer who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. |
Daniel Webster | Daniel Webster was an American lawyer and statesman who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress and served as the 14th and 19th U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore |
Thurlow Weed | Edward Thurlow Weed was a printer, New York newspaper publisher, and Whig and Republican politician. He was the principal political advisor to prominent New York politician William H. Seward |
Hugh Lawson White | An ardent strict constructionist and lifelong states' rights advocate, White was one of President Jackson's most trusted allies in Congress in the late 1820s and early 1830s. |
William Wirt | was an American author and statesman who is credited with turning the position of United States Attorney General into one of influence. He was the longest-serving attorney general in U.S. history. He was also the Anti-Masonic nominee for president |
Levi Woodbury | was an American attorney, jurist, and Democratic politician from New Hampshire |