[MattinNJ]

Benjamin Franklin, helped draft the Declaration ofindeepndence, statesman extrordinaire(got the French into the war), inventor, renaissance man, etc...American Icon. All around stud.

Hamilton, for better or worse, had a major impact on our banking system, helped capitalism flourish, but ultimately may have doomed us to statism.

An argument can be made for Ford, Tesla, the Wright Brothers, Edison, etc...for their inventions.

Jonas Salk obviously deserves mention. However, I would go with the tremendously underrated Morton (invented anesthesia-imagine life without that).

Militarily, Patton and MaCarthur were giants. The South had much better generals but lost so their impact is minimalized and Grant is out because he became president.

1) Franklin

2) Hamilton

3) Morton

4) Tesla

5) Salk

[DieHard the Hunter]

> An argument can be made for Ford, Tesla, the Wright Brothers, Edison, etc...for their inventions.

Except the Wright Brothers didn’t “invent” the motorized aeroplane. That distinction belongs to Richard Pearse, a Canterbury farmer from New Zealand.