"Congressional Gold Medal recipient"

George Washington male, deceased (1799) (Mount Vernon, Virginia, United States): President of the United States, Founding Father of the United States, Signers of the United States Constitution, Mount Vernon, Commander-In-Chief, Continental Army…CongressionalGoldMedalrecipient; George Washington was a central and critical figure in the founding of the United States, and is commonly referred to as father of the nation. He...

Norman Borlaug male, 95 years old: Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, CongressionalGoldMedalrecipient, Congressional Gold Medal, Mexican Academy of Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences…National Medal of Science recipient, Padma Vibhushan recipient, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, Vannevar Bush Award recipient; Norman Ernest Borlaug (born March 25 1914) is an American agricultural scientist, humanitarian, Nobel laureate, and has been called the father of...

Andrew Jackson male, deceased (1845): battle of new orleans, politician, United States military governor, American Revolutionary War prisoner, Seminole War, U.S. Military Governor…CongressionalGoldMedalrecipient; Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 - June 8, 1845) was the seventh President of the United States (1829-1837). He was also military governor of Florida...

Martin Luther King Jr. male, deceased (1968): I Have a Dream, assassinated, American Civil Rights Movement, nonviolence, Christian, peacemaker…Spingarn Medal winner, Congressional Gold Medal, Bronze Medallion recipient, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, presidential medal of freedom; Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of the main leaders of the American civil rights movement, a political activist, a Baptist minister, and is...

Ronald Reagan male, deceased (2004): President of the United States, Republican, governor of California, actor, actor-politician, Cold War…CongressionalGoldMedalrecipient, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient; Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981-1989) and the 33rd Governor of California...

Lady Bird Johnson female, deceased (2007): Claudia Alta (Lady Bird) Taylor Johnson, Scottish American, Congressional Gold Medal, presidential medal of freedom, English American, Second Ladies of the United States…CongressionalGoldMedalrecipient; Claudia Alta (Lady Bird) Taylor Johnson was the wife of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. Throughout her life, she was an advocate for...

Rosa Parks female, 96 years old (Montgomery, Alabama): African Americans' rights activist, vegetarian, montgomery bus boycott, civil disobedience, American Civil Rights Movement, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient…Spingarn Medal winner, CongressionalGoldMedalrecipient; Rosa Parks ( February 4 1913 a October 24 2005 ) was an African American civil rights activist whom the U.S. Congress later called "Mother of the...

Elie Wiesel male, deceased (1928): CongressionalGoldMedalrecipient, eliezer wiesel, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, knighthood, From transylvania, night; Eliezer Wiesel, KBE (commonly known as Elie Wiesel, born September 30, 1928) is a Romania-born American novelist, political activist, and Holocaust...

Tuskegee Airmen: United States Army officer, From Tuskegee, Alabama, 332nd Fighter Group, United States Army Air Forces, US Army Air Corps, Black history in the United States military…CongressionalGoldMedalrecipient; The Tuskegee Airmen was the popular name of a group of African American pilots who flew with distinction during World War II as the 332nd Fighter...

Thomas Edison male, deceased (1931): inventor, electricity, light bulb, phonograph, Businessman, incandescent light bulb…Edison Medal, CongressionalGoldMedalrecipient; Thomas Alva Edison (February 11 1847 - October 18 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly...

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