- Bernie Sanders
Bernard "Bernie" Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is the current junior United States Senator from Vermont. Sanders was elected on November 7, 2006, and is presently a member of the 110th United States Congress. Before becoming Senator, Sanders represented Vermont's at-large district in the United States House of Representatives for 15 years. - Patrick Leahy
Patrick Joseph Leahy (born March 31, 1940) is the senior United States Senator from Vermont. He is a member of the Democratic Party, and is the current chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. - Peter Welch
Peter F. Welch (born May 2, 1947) is the United States Representative for the U.S. state of Vermont's at-large congressional seat. He also served as a Vermont State Senator (D-Windsor). Welch was the president "pro tempore" of the Vermont Senate. Welch was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1947. He attended local Catholic schools there (Holy Name Grammar School and Cathedral High School). - Ethan Allen
Ethan Allen (January 21 1738 – February 12 1789) was an early American revolutionary and guerrilla leader during the era of the Vermont Republic and the New Hampshire Grants. He fought against the settlement of Vermont by the Province of New York, and then for its independence in the American Revolutionary War. - Jim Jeffords
James Merrill "Jim" Jeffords (born May 11, 1934) is a former U.S. Senator from Vermont. He served as a Republican until 2001, when he left the party to become an independent. - William Henry
William Henry (March 22, 1788- April 16, 1861) was an American manufacturer and banker. He represented Vermont in the U.S. Congress from 1847 to 1851 - Brigham Young
Brigham Young (June 1, 1801 - August 29, 1877) was a leader in the Latter Day Saint movement. In 1847, Young became the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which is one of many churches that claim to be a continuation of the Church of Christ founded by Joseph Smith, Jr. in 1830. He was also the first governor of the Utah Territory. - John Deere
John Deere (February 7, 1804 - May 17, 1886) was an American blacksmith and manufacturer who founded Deere & Company- the largest agricultural and construction equipment manufacturers in the world. - George Aiken
George David Aiken (August 20, 1892 - November 19, 1984) was an American politician from Vermont. He served as Governor of Vermont from 1937 to 1941 and as a U.S. Senator from 1941 to 1975. Aiken was born in Dummerston in Windham County, Vermont, and graduated from Brattleboro High School while living in Putney, Vermont in 1909. A Republican, he was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives in 1931 and served as Speaker of the House from 1933 to 1935. - David Smith
David Smith (March 9, 1906 - May 23, 1965) was an American Abstract Expressionist sculptor best known for creating large steel abstract geometric sculptures. - Ross Powers
Ross Powers (born February 10, 1979)is a world champion halfpipe snowboarder from Stratton, Vermont. He led the U.S. sweep in the 2002 Winter Olympics men's halfpipe competition, one day after his 23rd birthday. This is the first time the Americans have swept a Winter Olympic event since the men's figure skaters did in 1956. Powers, with a score of 46.1, dominated the competition. - Ira Allen
Ira Allen (April 21, 1751-January 7, 1814) was one of the founders of Vermont and leaders of the Green Mountain Boys; he was born in Cornwall, Connecticut and was the brother of Ethan Allen. He was a member of the Vermont Legislature in 1776-77. Allen designed the Great Seal of Vermont and the seal of the University of Vermont. In 1780 he presented to the Legislature a memorial for the establishment of the University of Vermont. - Hannah Teter
Hannah Teter (born January 27 1987) is a female snowboarder from Belmont, Vermont, in the United States, known for her consistent and technical riding in the halfpipe. She won a gold medal in the women's halfpipe competition at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy. Teter hails from a famous snowboarding family. Her older brother Amen is a professional snowboarder and full-time manager and agent for Team Teter. - William Smith
William Smith (also found as William B. Smith born in Royalton, Vermont, was a leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and an early member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles, replacing Luke S. Johnson. William Smith was the 8th child of Joseph Smith, Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith. As such he was the younger brother of Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. - Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson is a cross-country skier from the United States. He was born and raised in Greensboro, Vermont and is a member of the U.S. 2006 Olympic Cross-Country Ski Team. He has been a Junior National Champ, an Overall "Supertour Champ," and a 3-Time All American. He is a four-time national champion, winning at the 2005 and 2006 championships, both held in Soldier Hollow, Utah. After attending Middlebury College, Johnson signed with Madshus skis, Alpina boots, … - John Dewey
John Dewey (October 20, 1859 - June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, whose thoughts and ideas have been greatly influential in the United States and around the world. He, along with Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, is recognized as one of the founders of the philosophical school of Pragmatism. - John Martin
John Martin (August 18 1820-?) of Peacham, Vermont was an American steamboat captain and businessman in Minneapolis, Minnesota involved in lumber and flour milling. In 1891, Martin led a merger of six mills to create Northwestern Consolidated Milling Company, at the time the world's second largest flour milling company after Pillsbury-Washburn. - Joseph Smith Jr.
Joseph Smith, Jr. (December 23, 1805 - June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader who founded the Latter Day Saint movement, a restorationist movement also known as Mormonism. Smith's followers declared him to be the first latter-day prophet, whose mission was to restore the original Christian church, said to have been lost soon after the death of Apostles because of an apostasy. - George Perkins Marsh
George Perkins Marsh (March 15, 1801 - July 23, 1882), an American diplomat and philologist, is considered by some to be America's first environmentalist. The Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in Vermont takes its name, in part, from Marsh. Born in Woodstock, Vermont to a prominent family, (his father had been a U.S. Senator,) Marsh graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1816 and from Dartmouth College with highest honors in 1820, … - Chester A. Arthur
Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, 1829 - November 18, 1886) was an American politician who served as the twenty-first President of the United States. Arthur was a member of the Republican Party and worked as a lawyer before becoming the twentieth vice president under James Garfield. While Garfield was mortally wounded by Charles Guiteau on July 2, 1881, he did not die until September 19, at which time Arthur was sworn in as president, serving until March 4, 1885. - David Zuckerman
David Zuckerman is a farmer and a Progressive member of the Vermont House of Representatives, representing Chittenden-3-4 district. Zuckerman ran for the Vermont House in 1994 while enrolled at the University of Vermont. He lost by only 59 votes, but came back two years later to become the fourth Progressive Party member to serve in the State House. - Seth Warner
Seth Warner was born in Roxbury, Connecticut. In 1763, he removed with his father to Bennington in what was then the ‘New Hampshire Grants’. He established there as a huntsman. Warner proved his qualities to the local community, and was elected Captain of the Green Mountain Boys, the local militia formed to resist New York authority over Vermont. With his cousin and the militia’s founder, Ethan Allen, he was outlawed, but never captured. - Robert Stafford
Robert Theodore Stafford was an American politician from Vermont. In his lengthy career, he served as the Governor of Vermont, a United States Representative, and a U.S. Senator. Republican Stafford was generally considered a moderate or liberal. He is best remembered for his staunch environmentalism, his work on higher education, and his support, as an elder statesman, for the 2000 Vermont law legalizing civil unions for gay couples. - Matthew Lyon
Matthew Lyon (July 14, 1749 - August 1, 1822), (father of Chittenden Lyon and great-grandfather of William Peters Hepburn), was a printer, farmer, soldier, and politician, serving as a United States Representative from Vermont and from Kentucky. Lyon was born near Dublin, in near by County Wicklow, Ireland, and attended school in Dublin. He began to learn the trade of printer in 1763 and immigrated to what would become the United States in 1765. - Bob Smith
Dr. Bob Smith (Robert Holbrook Smith, b. 8 August 1879; d. 16 November 1950) was a physician and surgeon from Akron, Ohio and co founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. He was also known as Dr. Bob. He was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, where he was raised, to Susan A. Holbrook and Walter Perrin Smith. After graduation from Dartmouth College in 1902, he completed medical school at the University of Michigan. - Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930 he became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters." His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American society and capitalist values. His style is at times droll, satirical, and yet sympathetic. - Hyrum Smith
Hyrum Smith was the older brother of Joseph Smith, Jr. and a leader in the early Latter Day Saint movement. Hyrum was born in Turnbridge, Vermont, the second son of Joseph Smith, Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith. Hyrum received a limited education, and established himself as a farmer. He married Jerusha Barden (1805-1837), on November 2, 1826, and had four daughters and two sons. After Jerusha's death, he married Mary Fielding in 1837, with whom he had a son, Joseph Fielding, … - James Wilson
James Wilson (March 15, 1763-1835) was the first maker of globes in the USA. Born in Londonderry, New Hampshire, Wilson farmed with his father and trained as a blacksmith, though had little other formal education. He moved to Bradford, Vermont in 1796 and became interested in cartography and taught himself map making. He invested in an encyclopedia and taught himself engraving and mapmaking with the intention of producing maps for the schoolchildren of America. - Frank Miller
Frank Miller (born January 27, 1957, is an American writer, artist and film director best known for his film noir-style comic book stories. He is one of the most widely-recognized and popular creators in comics, and is one of the most influential comics creators of his generation. - David Mamet
David Alan Mamet (born) is an American author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director. His works are known for their clever, terse, sometimes vulgar dialogue, arcane stylized phrasing, and for his exploration of masculinity. As a playwright, he received Tony nominations for "Glengarry Glen Ross" (1984) and "Speed-the-Plow" (1988). As a screenwriter, he received Oscar nominations for "The Verdict" (1982) and "Wag the Dog" (1997). - Tasha Tudor
Tasha Tudor, born Starling Burgess in Boston, Massachusetts, on August 28, 1915, is an American illustrator and author of children's books. She was named for her father, the naval architect Starling Burgess known as the Skipper. Although she was married as Starling Burgess io Thomas McCready in Redding, Connecticut, she has always published as Tasha Tudor. She eventually changed her name legally while living in New Hampshire. - James Kochalka
James Kochalka is an American cartoonist and rock musician who was born May 26th, 1967 and grew up in Springfield, Vermont. He currently lives in Burlington, Vermont. He attended the Maryland Institute College of Art and holds an MFA in painting. His first published comics work was around 1994. - Thomas Chittenden
Thomas Chittenden (January 6, 1730 - August 25, 1797) was an important figure in the founding of Vermont. Chittenden was born in East Guilford, Connecticut and moved to Vermont in 1774, where he founded the town of Williston. During the American Revolution, Chittenden was a member of a committee empowered to negotiate with the Continental Congress to allow Vermont to join the Union. - Bill W.
William Griffith Wilson (26 November 1895-24 January 1971) (also known as Bill Wilson or Bill W.), was the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), a fellowship of self-help groups dedicated to helping alcoholics recover from their addiction. According to the AA tradition of anonymity, Wilson was and still is commonly known as "Bill W." In 1934, in the course of his struggle with alcoholism, … - Tom Peters
Thomas J. Peters (born November 7, 1942) is an American writer and expert on business management practices, best-known for co-writing the classic book, "In Search of Excellence", with Robert H. Waterman, Jr. - Redfield Proctor
Redfield Proctor (June 1, 1831 - March 4, 1908) was a U.S. politician of the Republican Party. He served as Governor of Vermont from 1878 to 1880, as Secretary of War from 1889 to 1891, and as a United States Senator for Vermont from 1891 to 1908. Proctor was a native of Proctorsville (a village in Cavendish, Vermont), named after his family, in Rutland County, Vermont. His father, Jabez Proctor, was a farmer, a merchant, and a prominent local Whig politician. - Oliver Cowdery
Oliver Hervy Pliny Cowdery (3 October 1806 – 3 March 1850) was the primary participant with Joseph Smith, Jr. in the formative period of the Latter Day Saint movement from 1829 through 1836. He was one of the Three Witnesses of the Book of Mormon's Golden Plates. After the organization of the Church of Christ — as the early Latter Day Saint church was known — he became the Second Elder and an apostle of the church. - Anais Mitchell
Anaïs (uh-nay-is) Mitchell is an American singer-songwriter from Vermont. She attended Middlebury College. In 2002 Mitchell released "The Song They Sang When Rome Fell". In 2003 Mitchell was among the winners of the New Folk Competition at the Kerrville Folk Festival. Her second album, "Hymns for the Exiled" was released on the Waterbug Records label in 2004. On December 8, 2006, folk opera "Hadestown" debuted, … - Justin Smith Morrill
Justin Smith Morrill (April 14, 1810 - December 28, 1898) was a Representative (1855-1867) and a Senator (1867-1898) from Vermont, most widely remembered today for the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act that established federal funding for many of the nation's colleges and universities. - Thaddeus Stevens
Thaddeus Stevens, was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He, Charles Sumner, and John C. Frémont were the powerful leaders of the Radical Republicans during the American Civil War and Reconstruction. His biographer characterizes him as, "The Great Commoner, savior of free public education in Pennsylvania, …
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