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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: edcoil

He's #66.........


61 posted on 11/22/2006 8:18:30 AM PST by Red Badger (New! HeadOn Hemorrhoid Medication for Liberals!.........Apply directly to forehead.........)
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To: Borges

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.


62 posted on 11/22/2006 8:18:31 AM PST by stop_fascism
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To: My2Cents
IMHO, Robinson did more to crack segregation and prejudice in this nation than any other person. Probably should have had Branch Rickey right up there with him.

Agree with both observations.

63 posted on 11/22/2006 8:19:26 AM PST by MACVSOG68
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To: stockpirate

Because it didn't include swine.


64 posted on 11/22/2006 8:19:31 AM PST by unkus
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To: Borges

Who was James Gordon Bennett (#69)?


65 posted on 11/22/2006 8:19:38 AM PST by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, avoid the moor, where the powers of darkness are exalted.")
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To: bootless

Old Marge Sanger, the euthanasia and eugenics advocate, not to mention abortion..............and a Nazi sympathizer to boot......


66 posted on 11/22/2006 8:20:20 AM PST by Red Badger (New! HeadOn Hemorrhoid Medication for Liberals!.........Apply directly to forehead.........)
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To: Red Badger

OOPPS, my bad.


67 posted on 11/22/2006 8:20:46 AM PST by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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To: Kirkwood

> 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.


68 posted on 11/22/2006 8:20:57 AM PST by Hawthorn
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To: Borges
These lists are always interesting because they are so subjective. Any list can have holes shot in it, but this is as good a list as any other.

Surprised that Milton Friedman, Steve Jobs or Frank Sinatra didn't make the cut.
69 posted on 11/22/2006 8:20:59 AM PST by Patinator
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To: Red Badger
51 Margaret Sanger !?!?!?!?!?!?!............

Like her or not, she was definitely influential.

70 posted on 11/22/2006 8:21:06 AM PST by MACVSOG68
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To: wireman

Probably the Monroe Doctrine ... Adams is still thought of as one of the most important American diplomats of all time...


71 posted on 11/22/2006 8:21:09 AM PST by jonathanmo
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To: Steve_Seattle

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.


72 posted on 11/22/2006 8:21:23 AM PST by samson1097
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To: Kirkwood

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].


73 posted on 11/22/2006 8:21:38 AM PST by GSlob
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To: samson1097

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.....


74 posted on 11/22/2006 8:21:54 AM PST by goodnesswins (I think the real problem is islamo-bombia! (Rummyfan))
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To: Vigilanteman

Booker T. is not politically correct. Loved his organ fills on "Green Onions" though.


75 posted on 11/22/2006 8:22:27 AM PST by stop_fascism
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To: Huck

I thought the same.


76 posted on 11/22/2006 8:22:52 AM PST by goodnesswins (I think the real problem is islamo-bombia! (Rummyfan))
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To: Borges
Two glaring omissions:

Werner VonBraun (German first, but American later) and then, the dude who first imported Gummy Bears to the U.S.
77 posted on 11/22/2006 8:23:11 AM PST by Pukin Dog (I will vote for Hillary Clinton for President, before I will vote for John McCain.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

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.


78 posted on 11/22/2006 8:23:22 AM PST by rabscuttle385 (Sic Semper Tyrannis * Allen for U.S. Senate in '08)
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To: samson1097

And "Operation Wetback" in 1954. That was before all this PC nonsense.


79 posted on 11/22/2006 8:23:31 AM PST by Cobra64 (Why is the War on Terror being managed by the DEFENSE Department?)
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To: Borges

I see they followed PC rules coming up with that list.


80 posted on 11/22/2006 8:23:39 AM PST by caver (Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
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