EVENT

See also Duel: Pistols.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Georges Boulanger	Military	29-Apr-1837	30-Sep-1891	French general-turned-politician
David C. Broderick	Politician	4-Feb-1820	16-Sep-1859	US Senator from California, 1857-59
Preston S. Brooks	Politician	5-Aug-1819	27-Jan-1857	Beat Charles Sumner with a cane
B. Gratz Brown	Politician	28-May-1826	13-Dec-1885	Governor and Senator from Missouri
George Canning	Politician	11-Apr-1770	8-Aug-1827	Twice Foreign Secretary of Britain
Jonathan Cilley	Politician	2-Jul-1802	24-Feb-1838	US Congressman from Maine, 1837-38
Henry Clay	Politician	12-Apr-1777	29-Jun-1852	American statesman and orator
Stephen Decatur	Military	5-Jan-1779	22-Mar-1820	US Naval commander, fought at Tripoli
Henry Stuart Foote	Politician	20-Sep-1800	20-May-1880	Governor of Mississippi 1852-54
Button Gwinnett	Politician	1735	19-May-1777	Most valuable signature
Alexander Hamilton	Government	11-Jan-1757	12-Jul-1804	Primary author of The Federalist Papers
Andrew Jackson	Head of State	15-Mar-1767	8-Jun-1845	7th US President, 1829-37
Albert Sidney Johnston	Military	2-Feb-1803	6-Apr-1862	Confederate General felled at Shiloh
Mikhail Lermontov	Poet	15-Oct-1814	27-Jul-1841	A Hero of Our Time
Armistead Thomson Mason	Politician	4-Aug-1787	6-Feb-1819	US Senator from Virginia, 1816-17
Lachlan McIntosh	Military	17-Mar-1725	20-Feb-1806	Killed Button Gwinnett in a duel
Enver Pasha	Government	22-Nov-1881	4-Aug-1922	Young Turk leader, persecuted ethnic minorities
Aleksandr Pushkin	Poet	26-May-1799	10-Feb-1837	Russia's greatest poet
William Walker	Military	8-May-1824	12-Sep-1860	American "filibuster"
James Westcott	Politician	10-May-1802	19-Jan-1880	US Senator from Florida, 1845-49
Louis T. Wigfall	Politician	21-Apr-1816	18-Feb-1874	US Senator from Texas, 1859-61
John Wilkes	Politician	17-Oct-1725	26-Dec-1797	Colorful London radical

Do you know something we don't?
Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile

Copyright ©2016 Soylent Communications