Posted on 11/22/2006 7:51:12 AM PST by Borges
1 Abraham Lincoln 2 George Washington 3 Thomas Jefferson 4 Franklin D. Roosevelt 5 Alexander Hamilton 6 Benjamin Franklin 7 John Marshall 8 Martin Luther King Jr. 9 Thomas Edison 10 Woodrow Wilson 11 John D. Rockefeller 12 Ulysses Grant 13 James Madison 14 Henry Ford 15 Theodore Roosevelt 16 Mark Twain 17 Ronald Reagan 18 Andrew Jackson 19 Thomas Paine 20 Andrew Carnegie 21 Harry Truman 22 Walt Whitman 23 Wright Brothers 24 Alexander Graham Bell 25 John Adams 26 Walt Disney 27 Eli Whitney 28 Dwight D. Eisenhower 29 Earl Warren 30 Elizabeth Cady Stanton 31 Henry Clay 32 Albert Einstein 33 Ralph Waldo Emerson 34 Jonas Salk 35 Jackie Robinson 36 William Jennings Bryan 37 J.P. Morgan 38 Susan B. Anthony 39 Rachel Carson 40 John Dewey 41 Harriet Beecher Stowe 42 Eleanor Roosevelt 43 W.E.B. DuBois 44 Lyndon Baines Johnson 45 Samuel F.B. Morse 46 William Lloyd Garrison 47 Frederick Douglass 48 Robert Oppenheimer 49 Frederick Law Olmsted 50 James K. Polk 51 Margaret Sanger 52 Joseph Smith 53 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 54 Bill Gates 55 John Quincy Adams 56 Horace Mann 57 Robert E. Lee 58 John C. Calhoun 59 Louis Sullivan 60 William Faulkner 61 Samuel Gompers 62 William James 63 George Marshall 64 Jane Addams 65 Henry David Thoreau 66 Elvis Presley 67 P.T. Barnum 68 James D. Watson 69 James Gordon Bennett 70 Lewis and Clark 71 Noah Webster 72 Sam Walton 73 Cyrus McCormick 74 Brigham Young 75 George Herman "Babe" Ruth 76 Frank Lloyd Wright 77 Betty Friedan 78 John Brown 79 Louis Armstrong 80 William Randolph Hearst 81 Margaret Mead 82 George Gallup 83 James Fenimore Cooper 84 Thurgood Marshall 85 Ernest Hemingway 86 Mary Baker Eddy 87 Benjamin Spock 88 Enrico Fermi 89 Walter Lippmann 90 Jonathan Edwards 91 Lyman Beecher 92 John Steinbeck 93 Nat Turner 94 George Eastman 95 Sam Goldwyn 96 Ralph Nader 97 Stephen Foster 98 Booker T. Washington 99 Richard Nixon 100 Herman Melville
He's #66.........
Lyndon Johnson #44? That's funny. Harry Truman #21, that's laugh out loud funny. Nate Truner #93, that's roll around on the floor funny. Since I don't see Edwin Armstrong or Philo Farnsworth on the list, it's hard to take it seriously.
Agree with both observations.
Because it didn't include swine.
Who was James Gordon Bennett (#69)?
Old Marge Sanger, the euthanasia and eugenics advocate, not to mention abortion..............and a Nazi sympathizer to boot......
OOPPS, my bad.
> I agree with Elvis because of his influence on music for the last 50 years. <
Maybe he should be somewhere on the list, due perhaps more to his contribution to the breakdown of social norms than his influence on popular music.
And when it comes to music alone, Elvis should be lower on the list than Louis Armstrong, who influenced American popular music more than anybody else during the 20th century.
Like her or not, she was definitely influential.
Probably the Monroe Doctrine ... Adams is still thought of as one of the most important American diplomats of all time...
James Gordon Bennett (Sr.) (1 September 1795 – 1 June 1872), was the founder, editor and publisher of the New York Herald and a major figure in the History of American newspapers.
James Gordon Bennett, Jr. (May 10, 1841 in New York City – May 14, 1918 in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, Alpes-Maritimes, France), was publisher of the New York Herald, founded by his father, James Gordon Bennett, Sr.
Music is not the life of society, no more than the cartoons are. Include Scott Adams with his "Dilbert" there, then. Life of society is how people relate to one another and to their groups in socially important situations [i.e. the "gesundheit"/"bless you" does not count, and neither does Elvis' output]. Ditto for Hefner [fails the situational social importance test].
I heard recently a little more about Eisenhower....that lowered him on MY list......supposedly he found Roosevelt's daughter VERY nice....and she put a good word in for him to Daddy.....and his career went up from there.....
Booker T. is not politically correct. Loved his organ fills on "Green Onions" though.
I thought the same.
The three biggest land gains in U.S. history were made under Grant (Alaska, aka "Seward's Folly"), Jefferson (The Louisiana Purchase), and Polk (Texas, California, "New Mexico").
Yet Polk is number 50 (compare to Grant at 12 and TJ at 3). Sigh.
And "Operation Wetback" in 1954. That was before all this PC nonsense.
I see they followed PC rules coming up with that list.
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