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The Atlantic Unveils 100 Most Influential Americans List
Yahoo ^ | 11/22/06

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


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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

And your point is?


201 posted on 11/22/2006 11:24:45 AM PST by wordsofearnest (Zachary Taylor s/h finished the job.)
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To: Alberta's Child

Excellent point!


202 posted on 11/22/2006 11:36:29 AM PST by Renkluaf
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To: Jim Noble

Ditto that.


203 posted on 11/22/2006 11:50:52 AM PST by My2Cents
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To: Chi-townChief

He invented rock guitar. Major oversight.


204 posted on 11/22/2006 11:51:59 AM PST by My2Cents
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To: meandog
"Barry Goldwater"

Without a doubt, Goldwater was the most influential politician of the 1960s, and one of the most influential of the 20th Century. While he lost in a landslide, his influence some 40 years later is much greater than that of the one who beat him in 1964. What other "loser" of a presidential election can make that claim.

205 posted on 11/22/2006 11:55:02 AM PST by My2Cents
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To: Borges
DuBois is a hero to Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan and others who now make a living off of black victimhood. His influence was indeed great in convincing large numbers of blacks that the virtues of self reliance and personal responsibility are a waste of time in America.
206 posted on 11/22/2006 11:56:36 AM PST by spinestein (There is no pile of pennies so large that I won't throw two more on top.)
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To: dead
84 Thurgood Marshall

How was he more influential than any other liberal on the SC over the last couple hundred years?

As a lawyer, he argued Brown vs. Board Of Education before the SC.

207 posted on 11/22/2006 12:11:09 PM PST by wideminded
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To: Steve_Seattle; samson1097
It's said the elder Bennett pioneered the modern American newspaper with his New York Herald.

Was the elder Bennett really a more "influential American" than Pulitzer or Hearst who came later or his own contemporaries Horace Greeley of the Tribune and Henry Raymond of the Times?

Probably since Bennett came before Pulitzer and Hearst he was more influential in history than they were, but in mid-19th century America Greeley was far more important than the shady Bennett was.

208 posted on 11/22/2006 12:11:59 PM PST by x
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
re: Louis Sullivan

Thanks.
209 posted on 11/22/2006 12:13:43 PM PST by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, avoid the moor, where the powers of darkness are exalted.")
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To: alisasny
>>>>96 is pretty disturbing.<<<<

51 and 81 even more - Margaret Sanger and Margaret Mead

210 posted on 11/22/2006 12:15:51 PM PST by DTA (Mr. President, Condy is asleep at the wheel !)
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To: Borges

Most certainly not with me- I'm tone deaf [glory be] and thus immune to the audible baboonery.


211 posted on 11/22/2006 12:17:40 PM PST by GSlob
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To: JamesP81
When Abraham Lincoln is listed as more influential than any of the Framers, there's something wrong with the list. Or the author has an agenda.

Or you have an agenda.

I think the reasoning may be that there are several founders -- Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton -- and votes split between them, while Lincoln is clearly the most important figure in 19th century America.

For whatever it's worth, I would put Washington above Lincoln. The founding and the Constitution were more important than what came after, but it's at least arguable that the great change in our history came in the 19th, rather than the 18th century.

212 posted on 11/22/2006 12:18:49 PM PST by x
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To: Geostorm
I would say that Charles Steinmetz may have been more interested in transmission, but Tesla provided the brainpower to harness the rotating magnetic field.

Tesla was less of a businessman, and more of a thinker. See all of his patents, and concepts (including his lead in radio over Marconi), and relize that a super genius died penniless. Nikola spawned the concept of single and three phase power, and motors. He was out there on the cutting edge, what he contributed to mankind , will doubtfully ever be fully appreciated.
213 posted on 11/22/2006 12:20:05 PM PST by Issaquahking (Trust can't be bought)
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To: Red Badger
>>>>>>>No Nikola Tesla, either......<<<<<<<

It would be interesting to make a simulation and wipe off the contribution of each person on the list to the American way of life.

Wipe off Tesla's contribution and simulation would have to continue with pencil and paper. During daylight.

214 posted on 11/22/2006 12:20:23 PM PST by DTA (Mr. President, Condy is asleep at the wheel !)
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To: wordsofearnest

My point is that the physical appearance of developed areas of the US would be very different without Olmstead. That is influence.


215 posted on 11/22/2006 12:21:04 PM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (I went down in 1964 for Barry Goldwater with all flags flying! This is just a blip!)
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To: razzle

More streets are named after MLK than Edison. But I avoid all the MLK streets because they tend to be in high crime areas.


216 posted on 11/22/2006 12:25:15 PM PST by pleikumud
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To: GSWarrior
No fair. Why do Lewis and Clark count as one?

Same reason the Wright Brothers do, apparently.

And what, no Chuck Noll?

SD

217 posted on 11/22/2006 12:36:20 PM PST by SoothingDave (Save the Cheerleader. Save the World.)
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To: pleikumud

Speaking of street names, Bolling Air Force Base in Washingtom DC is on a street named Malcolm X Blvd. Can you believe this (I read the autobiography of Malcolm X and he was no saint). I worked at Bolling for a while.


218 posted on 11/22/2006 12:40:41 PM PST by razzle (Democrat "Science" - embryo cloning, global warming, and darwinism)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

> Influence doesn't necessarily mean positive effects...we're still dealing with impacts of LBJ's policies and actions. <

I'd never say that LBJ lacked influence. But I do maintain that Samuel F. B. Morse has had an influence much greater than that of ole Lyndon.

[Who ever heard of the "Johnson" code?]


219 posted on 11/22/2006 12:48:56 PM PST by Hawthorn
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To: My2Cents

> If it weren't for Polk, the entire Southwest would be equivalent to a third-world nation <

Maybe. But if Andrew Jackson hadn't won the Battle of New Orleans, the whole Mississippi River Basin plus the Southwest might now be a part of Canada!


220 posted on 11/22/2006 12:54:43 PM PST by Hawthorn
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