- Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse (ca. 1840 - September 5, 1877) was a respected war leader of the Oglala Lakota, who fought against the U.S. federal government in an effort to preserve the traditions and values of the Lakota way of life. - Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Henry Rumsfeld (born July 9 1932) is a U.S. politician and businessman, who was the 13th Secretary of Defense under President Gerald Ford from 1975 to 1977, and the 21st Secretary of Defense under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2006. He is both the youngest (43 years old) and the oldest (74 years old) person to have held the position, as well as the only person to have held the position for two non-consecutive terms, and the second longest serving, … - John Tyler
John Tyler, Jr. (March 29, 1790 - January 18, 1862) was the tenth (1841-1845) President of the United States. A long-time Democrat-Republican, he was elected Vice President on the Whig ticket and on becoming president in 1841, broke with that party. His term as Vice President began on March 4, 1841 and one month later, on April 4, incumbent President William Henry Harrison died of what is today believed to have been viral pneumonia. - Daniel Webster
Daniel Webster (January 18 1782 - October 24 1852), was a leading American statesman during the nation's antebellum era. Webster first rose to regional prominence through his defense of New England shipping interests. His increasingly nationalistic views and the effectiveness with which he articulated them led Webster to become one of the most famous orators and influential Whig leaders of the Second Party System. - Al Capone
Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 - January 25, 1947), popularly known as "Scarface" Al Capone, was an American gangster who led a crime syndicate dedicated to the illegal trafficking of alcoholic beverages during the time of prohibition in the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Brooklyn, New York, to Neapolitan emigrants Gabriele and Teresina Capone, … - Salmon P. Chase
Salmon Portland Chase (January 13, 1808 - May 7, 1873) was an American politician and jurist in the Civil War era who served as U.S. Senator from Ohio and Governor of Ohio; as U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Abraham Lincoln; and as Chief Justice of the United States. Chase articulated the "Slave Power conspiracy" thesis well before Lincoln did, and he coined the slogan of the Free Soil Party, "Free Soil, Free Labor, … - Benjamin Rush
Dr. Benjamin Rush (December 24 1745 - April 19 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States. Rush lived in the state of Pennsylvania and was a physician, writer, educator, and humanitarian, as well as the founder of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Rush was also a signer of the Declaration of Independence and attended the Continental Congress. Later in life, he became a professor of medical theory and clinical practice at the University of Pennsylvania. - Dennis Banks
Dennis Banks (born April 12, 1937), a Native American leader, teacher, lecturer, activist and author, is an Anishinaabe born on Leech Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota. Banks is also known as Nowa Cumig ("Naawakamig" in the Double Vowel System); his name in the Ojibwe language means "In the Center of the Ground." - David Lane
David Eden Lane (November 2, 1938 - May 28, 2007) was an American white nationalist leader and author. A founding member of The Order, he died while serving a 190-year prison sentence in the Federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. Lane was a prominent figure in the White nationalist movement, seen by many as a political prisoner and a P.O.W.. He coined the 14 words, a white nationalist credo. - Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehot (3 February, 1826 - 24 March, 1877) was a nineteenth century British businessman, essayist and journalist, who wrote extensively about literature, government, economic affairs and other topics. Bagehot was born in Langport, Somerset, England. His father, Thomas Walter Bagehot, was Managing Director and Vice-Chairman of Stuckey's Banking Company. - David King
Sir David King ScD FRS is Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, and consequently head of the Office of Science and Innovation. He is also the Director of the Surface Science Research Group at the Department of Chemistry at University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Queens' College. He was Master of Downing College, Cambridge until 2000. In 1988, he was appointed 1920 Professor of Physical Chemistry at Cambridge, … - Michael Johns
Michael Johns (born September 8, 1964 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American health care executive, former federal government of the United States official and conservative policy analyst and writer. - Daniel Shays
Daniel Shays (c. 1747 - September 29, 1825) was a captain in the American Revolutionary War. He is mostly known for leading a small army of farmers in Shays' Rebellion, which was a revolt against the state government of Massachusetts from 1786-1787, and a seminal event in the history of the early United States. Many historians see the Rebellion as a major factor in the abandonment of the Articles of Confederation, the adoption of the United States Constitution, … - Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías
Hugo Chavez for President! Of the United States!! - Alfred B. Mullett
Alfred Bult Mullett (1834-1890) was a British-born American architect. His family emigrated to Glendale, Ohio near Cincinnati when Alfred was 11. He began working a few years later in the Cincinnati architectural office of Isaiah Rogers. Mullett later relocated to Washington, DC and in 1863 began working under Rogers in the Office of the Supervising Architect. - Wen Ho Lee
Wen Ho Lee (born December 21, 1939) is a Taiwanese-born American scientist who worked for the University of California at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and was accused of stealing secrets about the U.S.'s nuclear arsenal for the People's Republic of China (PRC) in December 1999. After investigators dropped these original accusations, the government conducted a new investigation and charged Lee with improper handling of restricted data, … - Tre Arrow
Tre Arrow, (born Michael James Scarpitti in 1974), a Florida native, is an environmental activist and politician who gained prominence in the U.S. state of Oregon in the late 1990s. Arrow is currently imprisoned in Canada, pending extradition by the United States Government to face charges of arson and conspiracy. - Louis Jones Jr.
Louis Jones, Jr. was a convicted murderer executed by lethal injection by the federal government of the United States. He was convicted of the February 18, 1995, murder of Private Tracie Joy McBride, after kidnapping her from Goodfellow Air Force Base in San Angelo, Texas. As of 2007, he is the most recent person executed by the federal government. McBride had been at Goodfellow for only nine days when Jones entered her house around 9 p.m. and kidnapped her at gunpoint, … - John Perkins
John Perkins (b. 28 January 1945 in Hanover, New Hampshire) is an activist and author. His best known book is "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man", an insider's account of exploitation or neo-colonization of Third World countries by a cabal of corporations, banks, and the United States government. His 2007 book, "The Secret History of the American Empire", … - John Linder
John Elmer Linder (born September 9 1942), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing Georgia's 7th congressional district (map). He was born in Deer River, Minnesota, was educated at the University of Minnesota, served in the United States Air Force, was a dentist and businessman, president of a lending institution, and a member of the Georgia House of Representatives before entering the House. - Albert J. Beveridge
Albert Jeremiah Beveridge (October 6, 1862, Highland County, Ohio - April 27, 1927, Indianapolis, Indiana) was a historian and United States Senator from Indiana. He was born in Ohio, admitted to the Indiana bar in 1887 and practiced law in Indianapolis. He graduated from Indiana Asbury University (now DePauw University) in 1885, with a Ph.B. degree. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. - Luis Posada Carriles
Luis Clemente Faustino Posada Carriles (born February 15, 1928) is a Cuban-born Venezuelan anti-Castro terrorist. A former CIA operative, Posada has been accused of involvement in various terrorist attacks and plots in the Western hemisphere, … - Walter Nixon
Walter Louis Nixon (born 1928 in Biloxi, Mississippi) is a former United States federal judge. He attended Tulane University Law School, graduating in 1951 and went into private practice in his hometown of Biloxi. He also served in the U.S. Air Force for a short stint between 1953 and 1955. In 1968 he was nominated by President Lyndon Johnson to a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi and was confirmed by the Senate on 6 June of that year. - John Stockwell
John R. Stockwell is a former CIA officer who became a critic of United States government policies after serving in the Agency for thirteen years serving seven tours of duty. After managing U.S. involvement in the Angolan Civil War as Chief of the Angola Task Force during its 1975 covert operations, he resigned and wrote "In Search of Enemies", a book which remains the only detailed, insider's account of a major CIA "covert action." - Paul Dundes Wolfowitz
Paul Dundes Wolfowitz (born December 22, 1943) is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, working on issues of international economic development, Africa and public-private partnerships. A former academic, diplomat, political and military strategist and policymaker, and former American government official, most recently, he served as president of the World Bank Group for two years. As U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense during the Presidency of George W. Bush, … - William Kent
William Kent (March 29, 1864-March 13, 1928) was an American who served as a United States Congressman representing the State of California. He spearheaded the movement to create the Muir Woods National Monument by donating land to the Federal Government for the Monument. Kent was born in Chicago, Illinois. His parents moved the family to Marin County in California in the year 1871. He graduated from Yale University in 1887, where he was a member of Skull & Bones. - Marion Tinsley Bennett
Marion Tinsley Bennett (1914-2000) served the United States for over 56 years in all three branches of the Federal government of the United States, having been a federal judge, a member of Congress, and a colonel in the Air Force Ready Reserves. Born in Buffalo, Missouri on June 6, 1914 to Philip Allen Bennett and Mary Bertha (Tinsley) Bennett, he attended Southwest Missouri State University and graduated from the School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis in 1938. - James Arcene
James Arcene was the youngest child executed in the United States. Arcene, a Cherokee boy, was hanged by the US federal government in Indiana, on June 18 1885, for his role in a robbery and murder committed when he was 10. It is unclear how much time passed between the crime and the execution, but in other cases of children executed prior to the 20th century, the elapsed time was as little as 6 months. - H. Jefferson Powell
H. Jefferson Powell has been professor of Law at Duke University since 1987. In 1999 the Duke Bar Association presented Powell with the "Excellence in Small Section Teaching" Award, and in the academic year 2001-2002, he was Duke University's "Scholar/Teacher of the year". - Joe Redner
Joseph R. "Joe" Redner, born "c." 1940, is the owner of the Mons Venus, a nude strip club in Tampa, Florida, and is known as the father of the nude lap dance. Redner has been engaged in legal battles with the Tampa City Council, which has tried to place restrictions on the strip club industry for 25 years. Mons Venus and Redner have filed suits that have reached the Supreme Court and have become case law in many court cases. - Levin Corbin Handy
Levin Corbin Handy (August 1855 - March 26, 1932) was an American photographer who worked during the 19th and early 20th century. Civil War photographer Mathew Brady was Handy's uncle by marriage, and Handy was apprenticed to him at age twelve. After a few years of working in Brady's studio, he was a skilled camera operator. Later, Handy became an independent photographer in Washington, D.C. In the 1880s, he formed a partnership with Samuel C. Chester; following that, … - Edith Nourse Rogers
Edith Nourse Rogers (March 19, 1881 - September 10, 1960) was an American social welfare volunteer and politician who was one of the first women to serve in the United States Congress. As of 2006, she is still the longest serving Congresswoman, and in her 35 years in the House of Representatives she was a powerful voice for veterans and sponsored seminal legislation, including the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (commonly known as the G. I. Bill of Rights), … - John Whitmire
John Harris Whitmire (born 1949) is the longest-serving of current members of the Texas State Senate representing District 15, which includes much of northern Houston. Whitmire was born 13 August 1949 in Hillsboro, Texas to James M. Whitmire and Marie Harris Whitmire, and graduated from Waltrip High School and the University of Houston. Whitmire served as the Acting Governor of Texas in 1993 as part of the Governor for A Day tradition. - Alvin Hansen
Alvin Harvey Hansen (1887-1975) was professor of Economics at Harvard University, and is best known for introducing Keynesian economics in the United States in the 1930s. In the late 1930s he argued that "secular stagnation" had set in, so that the American economy would never grow again, because all the growth ingredients had played out, including technological innovation. The only solution, he argued, was constant deficit spending by the federal government. - Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler
Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler (1770-1843) was born in Aarau, Switzerland. He was employed on the trigonometrical survey of Switzerland before he emigrated to the United States in 1805. He was acting professor of mathematics at West Point from 1807 to 1810. He was employed by the federal government of the United States by 1811 in an effort to begin a Coast Survey. An Act of Congress on February 10, 1807 had appropriated $50,000 to pay for the beginning of the work. - Frederick W. Lander
Frederick West Lander (December 17, 1821 - March 2, 1862) was a transcontinental United States explorer, general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and a prolific poet. Lander was born in Salem, Massachusetts, the son of Edward and Eliza West Lander. He was educated at the Norwich Military Academy in Vermont and took up the profession of civil engineering. - Alephonsion Deng
Alephonsion Deng (c. 1982 -) is a Sudanese writer. He is best known as the co-author of the book "They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys of Sudan", along with his brother Benson, cousin Benjamin and American author Judy Bernstein. In 1989, when Alephonsion was seven years old, his village in Southern Sudan was attacked by government troops. To avoid capture he ran into the night with many other young boys. - Francis R. Valeo
Francis Ralph Valeo (1916 - April 9, 2006) was the Secretary of the United States Senate and "ex officio" member of the Federal Election Commission. He was the defendant/appellee for the Federal government of the United States in Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1 (1976), in which the Supreme Court of the United States upheld federal limits on campaign contributions. Francis Valeo was the son of a shoe factory foreman. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. - Israel Hernández
Israel Hernández Plana is a Cuban judoka. At the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics he won bronze medals in the men's Half Lightweight (60-66kg) category. - Kevin Thompson
Kevin Thompson (born 1958 in Jarrow, South Tyneside, UK) is the former pastor of the Bay Area Family Church, a Unification Church congregation located in San Leandro, California. In 2006, he was indicted by a grand jury for violating the Lacey Act, a federal law which criminalizes the sale and purchase of certain protected species. On January 22, 2007, Thompson was sentenced to a year and a day in prison and, according to Kevin V. Ryan, …
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