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Presidents, lawmakers, judges, diplomats and commanders — the people who ran the country and argued about how.
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Legislator 60
President 45
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Judge 33
Cabinet Official 30
Military Commander 30
Governor 29
Vice President 21
Diplomat 20
Party Leader 20
Revolutionary 17
Activist 8
First Lady 7
Educator 6
Author 5
Intelligence Officer 4
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Michelle Obama b. 1964Political Leaders & StatecraftFirst Black First Lady who led national campaigns on childhood nutrition and military family support.
Bernie Sanders b. 1941Political Leaders & StatecraftVermont senator whose presidential campaigns moved single-payer health care into mainstream debate.
Thurgood Marshall 1908–1993Law & the JudiciaryFirst African American Supreme Court Justice and lead attorney in Brown v. Board of Education.
Samuel Adams 1722–1803Political Leaders & StatecraftRevolutionary organizer who helped mobilize resistance to British rule and build support for independence.
Al Gore b. 1948Political Leaders & StatecraftVice president and 2000 presidential candidate who became a leading advocate for climate policy.
Clarence Darrow 1857–1938Law & the JudiciaryDefense lawyer in the Leopold and Loeb, Scopes, and Sweet trials
Shirley Chisholm 1924–2005Political Leaders & StatecraftFirst Black woman elected to Congress and first woman to run for a major party's presidential nomination.
Betty Ford 1918–2011Political Leaders & StatecraftFirst Lady who spoke publicly about her breast cancer and her addiction and founded a treatment center.