| |  | James Monroe (April 28, 1758 - July 4, 1831) was the fifth President of the United States (1817-1825), and the fourth Virginian to hold the office.... |  | William Howard Taft (September 15 1857 - March 8 1930) was an American politician, the twenty-seventh President of the United States, the tenth... |  | Jefferson Finis Davis was an American politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to... |  | Lewis Cass (October 9, 1782 - June 17, 1866) was an American military officer and politician. He was the nominee of the Democratic Party for... |  | Henry Knox (July 25, 1750 - October 25, 1806) was an American bookseller from Boston who became the chief artillery officer of the Continental Army... |  | Elihu Root (February 15, 1845 - February 7, 1937) was an American lawyer and statesman and the 1912 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the... |  | William Eustis was an early American statesman. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and studied at the Boston Latin School before he entered... |  | Simon Cameron (March 8, 1799 - June 26, 1889) was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of War for Abraham Lincoln at the... |  | Henry Dearborn was an American physician, statesman and veteran of both the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. Born in North Hampton,... |  | Alphonso Taft (November 5, 1810 - May 21, 1891) was the Attorney General and Secretary of War under President Ulysses S. Grant and the founder of... | |
