- George Washington
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 led America's Continental Army to victory over Britain in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), and in 1789 was elected the first President of the United States of America. He served two four-year terms from 1789 to 1797, winning reelection in 1792. - Martha Washington
Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (June 2, 1731 - May 22, 1802) was the wife of George Washington, the first president of the United States. Although the title was not coined until after her death, Martha Washington is considered as the first First Lady of the United States. During her lifetime, she was simply known as "Lady Washington". - Denzel Washington
Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is a American actor and director. He has garnered much critical acclaim for his portrayals of several real-life figures, such as Steve Biko, Malcolm X, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, and Herman Boone. - Graceland
Graceland is the name of the large white-columned estate that once belonged to Elvis Presley, located at 3734 Elvis Presley Boulevard in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. It currently serves as a museum that was opened to the public in 1982, and was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on November 7, 1991. On March 27, 2006, Gale Norton, United States Secretary of the Interior, designated Graceland a National Historic Landmark—joining the White House, the Alamo, … - Russell Sage
Russell Sage (4 August 1816 - 22 July 1906) was a financier and politician from New York. Sage was born at Verona in Oneida County, New York. He received a public school education and worked as a farm hand until he was 15, when he became an errand boy in a grocery conducted by his brother, Henry R. Sage, in Troy, New York. He had a part interest in 1837-1839 in a retail grocery in Troy, and in a wholesale store there in 1839-1857. - Ben Gordon
Benjamin (Ben) Gordon (born April 4, 1983 in London, England, UK) is an American National Basketball Association player for the Chicago Bulls. He played shooting guard for the University of Connecticut in college and grew up in Mount Vernon, New York. - Lawrence Washington
Lawrence Washington (1718-1752) was George Washington's half-brother and mentor. He married Anne Fairfax (1728-1761), daughter of Colonel William Fairfax of Belvoir, himself a land agent for his cousin, Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron. George accompanied his brother Lawrence to the warm springs at Bath (present-day Berkeley Springs, West Virginia), which Lawrence visited frequently to cure his ailments. - George Washington Parke Custis
George Washington Parke Custis (April 30, 1781 - October 10, 1857), the adopted son (and also stepgrandson) of United States President George Washington, was a nineteenth-century American writer, orator, and agricultural reformer. Through his mother Eleanor Calvert Custis Stuart, he was a great-grandson of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore. He was the grandson of Martha Washington through her first marriage to Daniel Parke Custis. - John Gray
John Gray (January 6, 1764-March 29, 1868) was one of the candidates for last surviving U.S. veteran of the American Revolutionary War. He was advertised as such by journalist James Dazell and as of 1876 was believed by the Pension Office of the U.S. Department of the Interior to be the last surviving veteran. His claim to the "last surviving veteran" of the War depends primarily on the failure of his competitors Daniel F. Bakeman and George Fruits, who died a year, … - John Harris
John Harris (born in Camden, South Carolina in 1949) is the author of "Numerican Nation: A Self Portrait", in which he chronicles the first thirty years of his life and his views on United States politics from the perspective of the descendants of slavery. He moved to Mount Vernon, New York in 1958. He graduated from Mount Vernon High School, then continued on to Central Connecticut State University where he earned a bachelors degree in Political Science. - Bushrod Washington
Bushrod Washington (June 5, 1762 - November 26, 1829) is perhaps most noted for his long career on the U.S. Supreme Court as one of the Justices that made up the Marshall Court. The nephew of George Washington, he authored the famous opinion of "Corfield v. Coryell", 6 Fed. Cas. 546 (C.C.E.D. Penn. 1823), while riding circuit as an Associate Justice. - Cl Smooth
C.L. Smooth (born Corey Penn, October 8 1968) in New Rochelle, New York is an American rapper from Mount Vernon, New York and the vocal half of the influential hip-hop duo Pete Rock & CL Smooth. After the pair split in 1995 Pete Rock, whose work with CL had garnered him a reputation as one of the finest producers in hip-hop, went on to produce (and remix) tracks for dozens of marquee-name and/or well-respected acts, … - Jean-Antoine Houdon
Jean-Antoine Houdon was a French neoclassical sculptor. Houdon is famous for his portrait busts and statues of philosophers, inventors and political figures of the Enlightenment. Houdon's subjects include Denis Diderot (1771), Benjamin Franklin (1778-09), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1778), Voltaire (1781), Molière (1781), George Washington (1785-88), Thomas Jefferson (1789), Louis XVI (1790), Robert Fulton, 1803-04, and Napoléon Bonaparte (1806). - John Parke Custis
John Parke Custis was a Virginia planter and stepson of George Washington. He was most likely born at White House, his parents' plantation in New Kent County, Virginia. He was the son of Daniel Parke Custis, a wealthy planter, and Martha Dandridge Custis. After the death of his father in 1757, he inherited almost 18,000 acres (73 km²) of land. In 1759 his mother married George Washington and moved with her children to Mount Vernon. - John Augustine Washington
John Augustine Washington (1736-1787) was the brother of George Washington and the third son of Mary Ball Washington and Augustine Washington. He was a member of the County Committee of Safety at the Revolutionary War. He married Hannah Bushrod in 1756, and lived with her in the family estate, Mount Vernon. He is also an ancestor to the late Diana, Princess of Wales. - Henry Walters
Henry Walters (1848 - 1931) was an American rail magnate (Atlantic Coast Line) and founder of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. When William Walters, his father, died in 1894, he bequeathed his collection to his son, Henry, who greatly expanded the scope of acquisitions, including his astounding purchase of the contents of a palace in Rome that contained over 1,700 pieces. - Vast Aire
Vast Aire (born Theodore Arrington on February 5, 1978) is a rapper from New York City. He is one half of the New York rap duo Cannibal Ox, which consists of himself and fellow rapper Vordul Mega. He is also a member of the rap group Atoms Family. He was born in Mount Vernon, New York, then lived in Jamaica, Queens before moving to Harlem, where he became acquainted with the underground rap scene, performing in many clubs while still a teenager. - Michael Imperioli
James Michael Imperioli (born March 26, 1966 in Mount Vernon, New York), commonly known as Michael Imperioli, is an Emmy-Award winning Italian-American actor who is best known for his role as Christopher Moltisanti on "The Sopranos". He also appears as Det. Ed Green's temporary replacement, Det. Nick Falco, in the popular TV drama series "Law & Order". In addition to his role on "The Sopranos", … - John Barrowman
John Barrowman (born 11 March, 1967 in Mount Vernon, Glasgow) is a British-American actor, musical performer, dancer, singer, and TV presenter who has lived and worked both in the United Kingdom and the United States. He currently lives in the UK. He became a United States citizen in 1985, and holds dual US/UK citizenship. Barrowman is best known on British television for his acting and his presenting work on theatre. - Eliot L. Engel
Eliot Lance Engel (born February 18, 1947) is an American Democratic politician from the U.S. state of New York who currently represents the New York State 17th Congressional District (map). The district encompasses portions of the Bronx, Westchester County, and Rockland County. It includes such neighborhoods as Riverdale, Woodlawn, Norwood and Wakefield in the Bronx, Mount Vernon and parts of Yonkers in Westchester, and the towns of Ramapo, Orangetown, … - Samuel Washington
Samuel Washington is a brother of United States President George Washington. He was born on November 16, 1734 at Pope's Creek, Wakefield, Westmoreland County, Virginia. Samuel served numerous posts in Stafford County, Virginia including justice of the peace, county magistrate, county sheriff, militia officer, and parish vestryman. He resided at Mount Vernon from 1735 to 1738. - George Beck
George Beck was an artist and poet who flourished in America during the early republic era. Beck was born in England in 1749. He was employed as an instructor in mathematics at Woolwich from 1776, but was afterward dismissed. He emigrated to the United States in 1795, and was employed in painting pictures. One of his paintings, "The Great Falls of the Potomac" (1796) was purchased by President George Washington. - Jeffrey H. Schwartz
Jeffrey Hugh Schwartz, PhD, (b. March 6, 1948) is an American physical anthropologist and professor of biological anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Schwartz' research involves the methods, theories, and philosophies in evolutionary biology, including the origins and diversification of primates. He has studied and analyzed human and primate skeletons and archaeological remains, focusing much of his research on dentofacial morphology. - David Gardiner
David Gardiner (1784-February 28, 1844) was the father of Julia Gardiner Tyler, wife of U.S. President John Tyler. Gardiner was a descendant of Lion Gardiner and lived on Gardiners Island in East Hampton, New York. He was educated at Yale University and was a member of the New York State Senate from the 1st District from 1824 to 1827. He and his daughter were invited by President Tyler for a trip on the Potomac River aboard the USS "Princeton" on February 28, 1844. - Jamar Davis
Jamar Davis (born 1983), also known as "The Pharmacist", is an American streetball basketball player who currently plays on the Ball4Real World Tour. He is a five-foot-ten and weighs 190 pounds. He was member of the And1 Mixtape Tour from 2004-2006. He was born and raised in Mount Vernon and the Bronx, New York. He grew up in dire conditions where his two brothers were involved in using and dealing drugs. As a result, drug users had made attempts to kill them. - Catherine MacAulay
Mrs. Catherine Macaulay (1731‑1791) was an English historian. A daughter of John Sawbridge of Olantigh, a landed proprietor from Kent, she was an advocate of republicanism, and a sympathiser with the French Revolution. She wrote a "History of England from the Accession of James I to the Elevation of the House of Hanover" (8 volumes, 1763‑83), which had great popularity in its day, some critics, e.g. Horace Walpole, placing it above Hume. - T. J. Oshie
T.J. Oshie (born December 23, 1986 in Mount Vernon, Washington, USA) is an American professional ice hockey center. He was drafted by the St. Louis Blues in the first round, 24th overall, in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft. Oshie played high school hockey for Warroad High School in Warroad, Minnesota. After playing one season in the United States Hockey League with the Sioux Falls Stampede, Oshie entered the University of North Dakota. - Felicia Sanders
Felicia Sanders was a singer of traditional pop music. She was born Felice Schwartz in Mount Vernon, New York and, in the 1940s sang both with big bands and on the radio, based in Los Angeles, California. She stopped singing to get married, but was bored with stay-at-home life, and in 1950 returned to singing, in a nightclub in Hollywood, "Café Gala." She was heard there by Benny Carter, who thought enough of her to recommend her to Mitch Miller, … - Lawrence Colburn
Lawrence Colburn is a United States Army veteran who, while serving as a helicopter gunner in the Vietnam War, earned a place in history for being one of three servicemen who intervened in the March 16, 1968 My Lai Massacre. Born in Coulee City, Washington, Colburn grew up in Mount Vernon, with his father (a veteran contractor from World War II), mother and three sisters, … - Frances P. Bolton
Frances Payne Bolton (March 29, 1885 - March 9, 1977) was a Republican politician from Ohio. She served in the United States House of Representatives. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Bolton was the granddaughter of Henry B. Payne. Active in public health, nursing education and other social service, education, and philanthropic work, she succeeded her husband, Chester C. Bolton, in office a few months after his death in 1939. - Nellie Quander
Nellie Quander (b. February 11, 1880, Washington, D.C., - d. October 23, 1961) to John Pierson Quander and Hannah Bruce Ford Quander. John Pierson Quander was a direct descendant of Nancy and Charles Quander, Nancy having been among the slaves freed by President George Washington in his last will and testament. Hannah Bruce Ford Quander was a direct descendant of West Ford, the slave-born putative son of Bushrod Washington, nephew of George Washington. - Elzy Burroughs
Elzy Burroughs (1771/77-1825) was an American stonemason, engineer, lighthouse builder and keeper. A native of Stafford County, Virginia, Elzy Burroughs' family leased and operated a sandstone quarry in the Aquia Creek area of Stafford County. Known as Aquia sandstone, material from quarries in this area was utilized in the construction of Mount Vernon, the U.S. Capitol building, the White House, … - Julio Ribeiro
Julio Cézar Ribeiro Vaughan (Sabará, 16 April of 1845 - Santos, 1 November of 1890), was the son of George Washington Vaughan and the grandson of Samuel Vaughan, a personal friend of George Washington. A mantel piece in Mount Vernon (plantation) house is a gift of his to Washington. Best known as Julio Ribeiro, he was a writer and a grammarian. His best known book is "A Carne" (The Flesh). He was born in 1845 and died in 1890. - Roswell Lamson
Roswell Hawkes Lamson (about 1840 - 14 August 1903) was an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. Born in Iowa, Lamson was appointed to the United States Naval Academy on 20 September 1858. After graduating in 1862, he saw action in the Civil War. He commanded USS "Mount Vernon" in joint Army-Navy operations on the Wansemont River, and he played an important role in the capture of batteries at Hills Point. - Augustine Washington Jr.
Colonel Augustine Washington, Jr. was the second son of Augustine Washington and Jane Butler, and George Washington's half-brother. Augustine married Anne (or Ann) Aylett who was born in 1726 at "Nominy Plantation." According to the will of Augustine Washington Sr., the land now known as Mount Vernon first was willed to Lawrence Washington (brother of Augustine Jr.). However, … - Ray Cummings
Ray Cummings (Raymond King Cummings) was an author of Science Fiction, rated one of the "founding fathers of the Science Fiction pulp genre". He was born August 30, 1887 in New York and died January 23, 1957 in Mount Vernon. Cummings worked with Thomas Edison as a personal assistant and technical writer from 1914 to 1919. His most highly regarded work was the novel "The Girl in the Golden Atom" published in 1922. - Terry Vaughn
Terry Vaughn (born 1 April 1973) is an American football referee who currently resides in Mount Vernon. He has been a full international referee for FIFA since 2004. He was selected as a referee for the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Canada, where he refereed the match between Jordan and Zambia on July 1, 2007. - Chuck Stobart
Charles R. "Chuck" Stobart is currently the offensive coordinator at Ohio State. He is widely considered one of the top offensive coordinators in all of football. He started his coaching career at Berne High School in Sugar Grove. He coached one year at Gallipolis, and four years at Mount Vernon, before serving as an offensive coordinator at Marshall in 1965. In 1966, he served as the quarterbacks coach at Cincinnati. - Loren Fletcher
Loren Fletcher (April 10, 1833 - April 15, 1919) was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota; born in Mount Vernon, Kennebec County, Maine; he attended the public schools and Maine Wesleyan Seminary, Kents Hill, Maine; moved to Bangor in 1853; was a stonecutter, clerk in a store, and an employee of a lumber company; moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1856 and engaged in manufacturing and mercantile pursuits, … - William Brockenbrough
William Brockenbrough (July 10, 1778 to December 10, 1838) was born in Tappahannock in Essex County, Virginia, USA, the son of Dr. John Brockenbaugh and Sarah Roane. He attended the College of William and Mary in 1798. He studied law and then went into private practice. In 1802-03 he represented Essex County in the House of Delegates and became a member of the Council of State in May, 1803.
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