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
Actually, he has had a profound influence on the American body politic - that is to say, American politicians religiously follow his insight into people - just remember the dictum "there's a sucker born every minute" and you too could become speaker of the house of representatives, or maybe even first lady!
Because of the influence of evangelical Christianity in America, Edwards should be ranked ahead of Joseph Smith and Mary Baker Eddy.
Interesting that they list Babe Ruth and Jackie Robinson but they don't list the guys that invented the slider and the splitter.
He was a famous preacher and theologian during the period known as the "Great Awakening" in the 1700's- a religious revival in the then colonies which led to the creation of many new Christian denominations.
I don't understand why James Monroe isn't on the list. The Monroe Doctrine is critical to understanding American foreign policy. The first five presidents should all have been the top of the list, leading with George Washington. Abraham Lincoln deserves to be on the list, but not as #1.
When I read it in College we reffered to it as 'Readers in the Hands of an Angry Writer'. :-)
I'm sure I'm on a few people's "_hit List".
The absence of D.W. Griffith is startling.
I support Thomas Paines' inclusion. His words at the right time helped us win the American Revolution. Without him, Washington would have had a much more difficult time keeping the army together.
I agree that Nader shouldn't be on the list, nor Babe Ruth.
If it weren't for Polk, the entire Southwest would be equivalent to a third-world nation, swarming with Mexicans...Uh, wait a minute....
Barry Goldwater? Leland Stanford? Mariano Vallejo? Sam Houston? Daniel Boone? David Crockett? Crazy Horse? Nathan B. Forrest? Tecumseh? Edward Teller? Bill Bridger? Jim Thorpe? et al....left out. I do not see how persons such as Betty Friedan, Earl Warren, Rachel Carson, William Lloyd Garrison or George Gallup could top these.
He did more than desegregate a game. Baseball was "America" back then.
Why not Babe Ruth?
I just don't consider an athlete one of the most influential 100 people in America. I know they're important to some people, but not that high. I still can't believe that James Monroe is not on this list. The Monroe Doctrine?
I might not be American, but I do know this.
If george washington isn't the greatest American, nobody is.
LOL!!!!
Earl was so influential that the junior high that I attended bearing his name has been renamed!
Funny thing is, my niece is now in 7th grade at the same school in Castro Valley, CA.
Don't know what it was renamed as, nor do I care.
The women on the list!!!!!
I hadn't heard of a lot of them and when I looked them up, they are with the women's movement, a sex anthropologist, an environmentalist. All very liberal.
Doesn't Sally Ride get counted as being influential.
Are there any women that have done things that aren't liberal?
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