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Political Leaders & Statecraft

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Patrick Henry 1736–1799Political Leaders & StatecraftRevolutionary orator and Virginia leader remembered for mobilizing resistance and opposing centralized federal power.William Penn 1644–1718Political Leaders & StatecraftFounder of Pennsylvania who advanced representative government and religious toleration in colonial America.Huey Long 1893–1935Political Leaders & StatecraftLouisiana governor and senator whose Share Our Wealth program pressured New Deal policy before his assassination.Sam Houston 1793–1863Political Leaders & StatecraftCommander at San Jacinto who became president of the Republic of Texas and later its governor and senator.William H. Seward 1801–1872Political Leaders & StatecraftLost the presidency he was expected to win, then ran Lincoln's foreign policy and bought Alaska.John Hancock 1737–1793Political Leaders & StatecraftMerchant who presided over the Continental Congress and signed the Declaration first and largest.Al Smith 1873–1944Political Leaders & StatecraftFour-term governor of New York and the first Catholic nominated for president by a major partyNelson Rockefeller 1908–1979Political Leaders & StatecraftGovernor and unelected vice president whose drug laws set the template for mass incarceration.Strom Thurmond 1902–2003Political Leaders & StatecraftLong-serving South Carolina senator who ran as a segregationist Dixiecrat and later joined the Republican Party.John Winthrop 1588–1649Political Leaders & StatecraftLong-serving Massachusetts Bay governor whose vision of a covenant community influenced New England political culture.Samuel J. Tilden 1814–1886Political Leaders & StatecraftThe reform governor of New York who won the popular vote in 1876 and lost the presidencyRobert La Follette 1855–1925Political Leaders & StatecraftWisconsin governor and senator who led the Progressive movement against railroad and corporate influence.Adlai Stevenson II 1900–1965Political Leaders & StatecraftIllinois governor and two-time Democratic presidential nominee who later served as UN ambassador.