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
Paine was English.
He was certainly a US citizen (eventually) and influenced Americans, as he did the English & the French, but he could be found just as easily on a list of Influential Englishmen as Influential Americans
There are already 101 people on the list.
Entry #70 is "Lewis and Clark. That's two people.
You'll have to settle for #102.
True, but people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were technically "British," too!
Milton Friedman should be on this list. It's a glaring oversight, IMO.
Any list that does not include the great Stonewall Jackson does not count. And Lee at 57, is a travesity.
I think you are ascribing WAY TOO much importance to music. Although even Confucius and Plato warned about music insidiousness and power to corrupt ["the tunes of Chen are wanton", as Confucius put it].
Just when ya'll thought I couldn't get any lower than I already am...;-)
"[Jonathan Edwards] was a famous theologian and preacher during the period known as the 'Great Awakening' ..."
Thanks. I recall reading about the Great Awakening" many years ago, but the name didn't ring a bell. Is there a book on him and this period that you (or anyone else) can recommend?
Where is John Adams? We wouldn't have had a revolution if Adams hadn't been there in Boston keeping the pot stirred!
I would add Oprah. She was done more to screw up this nation than almost any single person in American history. There is a reason they call it the "Oprahsizing of America".
Influence doesn't necessarily mean positive effects...we're still dealing with impacts of LBJ's policies and actions.
I agree with Elvis because of his influence on music for the last 50 years.
Me, I'm working hard on get on the list of 100 Least Influential Americans.
Uh, oh, 
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Why is LBJ even on the list?
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