Famous American People
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| Susan B. Anthony | Susan B. Anthony fought for woman's rights and equality. She dedicated much of her adult life battling for the right to vote for woman and African Americans.
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| Thomas Edison | Thomas Edison was an inventor. He is best known for the invention of the electric light, the phonograph, and the telephone.
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| Benjamin Franklin | Benjamin Franklin was an American statesman and scientist. He helped Thomas Jefferson write the Declaration of Independence.
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| Thomas Jefferson | Thomas Jefferson was the third president of the United States and the author of the Declaration of Independence.
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| John F. Kennedy | John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 34th president of the United States. Youngest president and was assassinated by a sniper while riding in an open car in Dallas, Texas.
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| Martin Luther King Jr. | Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights leader. In 1964 the Civil Rights Bill was passed and Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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| Abraham Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the United States.He became a lawyer and a politician. Introduced the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 freeing all slaves in the United States.
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| George Washington | Commander-in-chief of Army as the colonists took up arms against the British. He successfully led his troops, helping to win America's independence. In 1789 he was elected the first president of the now United States of America.
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| Paul Revere | He was an American patriot during the American Revolution. On April 16, 1775 Paul Revere rode through the night to warn people that the British were coming.
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| Charles Lindbergh | Charles Lindbergh was a famous American aviator. On May 20, 1927, Charles Lindbergh took off in the "Spirit of St. Louis" and landed in Paris 33-1/2 hours later.
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