American History's ~  Most Influential Quotable Quotes

"One has a right to paint one's dreams." ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Who are the most influential figures in American history? In December 2006, The Atlantic Monthly released its list of the Top 100, compiled by a panel of 10 historians. Here are the results...

1 Abraham Lincoln
2 George Washington
3 Thomas Jefferson
4 Franklin D. Roosevelt
5 Alexander Hamilton
6 Benjamin Franklin
7 John Marshall
8 Martin Luther King
9 Thomas Edison

10 Woodrow Wilson
11 John D. Rockefeller
12 Ulysses S. Grant
13 James Madison
14 Henry Ford
15 Theodore Roosevelt
16 Mark Twain

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17 Ronald Reagan
18 Andrew Jackson
19 Thomas Paine

20 Andrew Carnegie
21 Harry S Truman
22 Walt Whitman
23 Wright Brothers
24 Alexander Graham Bell
25 John Adams
26 Walt Disney

27 Eli Whitney
28 Dwight Eisenhower
29 Earl Warren
30 Elizabeth Cady Stanton
31 Henry Clay
32 Albert Einstein
33 Ralph Waldo Emerson

34 Jonas Salk
35 Jackie Robinson
36 William Jennings Bryan
37 J. P. Morgan
38 Susan B. Anthony
39 Rachel Carson
40 John Dewey
41 Harriet Beecher Stowe
42 Eleanor Roosevelt

43 W.E.B. Du Bois
44 Lyndon Baines Johnson
45 Samuel Morse
46 William Lloyd Garrison
47 Frederick Douglass
48 J. Robert Oppenheimer
49 Frederick Law Olmsted
50 James K. Polk
51 Margaret Sanger
52 Joesph Smith, Jr.

53 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
54 Bill Gates
55 John Quincy Adams
56 Horace Mann
57 Robert E. Lee
58 John C. Calhoun
59 Louis Sullivan

60 William Faulkner
61 Samuel Gompers
62 William James
63 George Marshall
64 Jane Addams
65 Henry David Thoreau
66 Elvis Presley

67 P.T. Barnum
68 James D. Watson
69 James Gordon Bennett
70 Lewis & Clark
71 Noah Webster
72 Sam Walton
73 Cyrus McCormick
74 Brigham Young
75 Babe Ruth

76 Frank Lloyd Wright
77 Betty Friedan
78 John Brown
79 Louis Armstrong
80 William Randolph Hearst
81 Margaret Mead
82 George Gallup
83 James Fenimore Cooper
84 Thurgood Marshall
85 Ernest Hemingway

86 Mary Baker Eddy
87 Benjamin Spock
88 Enrico Fermi
89 Walter Lippmann
90 Jonathan Edwards
91 Lyman Beecher
92 John Steinbeck

93 Nat Turner
94 George Eastman
95 Sam Goldwyn
96 Ralph Nader
97 Stephen Foster
98 Booker T. Washington
99 Richard Nixon
100 Herman Melville