who was William Lloyd garrison?
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white norhterner slave abolitionist during pre civil war times.  He wrote the antislavery paper "The Liberator." History test tomorrow? me 2. :-D
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Lieutenant General Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller\n\nFor the details:http://www.polaris.net/~jrube/text/puller.htm
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You betcha!  Go to the National Park Service's Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System at http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ and click on "soldiers."  When that comes up, type in the name "Elsasser" (and if you want, "Pennsylvania").  \nI typed in just the name and got a very long list---most from Pennsylvania.
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James W.C. Pennington\n\nAfrican-American Minister, Teacher, Abolitionist\n\n\nThe man who made himself Dr. James William Charles Pennington was born Jim Pembroke, a slave in Maryland. Clearly an exceptionally intelligent young boy, he was apprenticed by his master to a stonemason and then to a blacksmith. When he was about twenty, altercations between his parents and their master, punctuated by savage whippings, made him determined to escape north to freedom. His journey was hair-raising, as slave catchers apprehended and held him for a time, though he managed a second escape. Eventually, travelling by the North Star, he made his way to Pennsylvania, where a Quaker harbored him and began his formal education.\n\nIn 1828 Pennington relocated to New York City, working as a blacksmith and attending school at night. Under the spiritual guidance of Dr. S.H. Cox, a Presbyterian minister, he cultivated a devout Christianity. And he began to involve himself in abolitionist activities as well, participating in several national conventions of free African-Americans in Philadelphia in the early 1830s. Here he met William Lloyd Garrison, Simeon S. Jocelyn and Lewis Tappan -- the latter two, of course, would be key associations in the abolitionist management of the Amistad Africans. And he began teaching in a school for black children in Newtown, Long Island.\n\nIn 1834 Pennington relocated again, to New Haven, where he audited classes at Yale and meanwhile became a pastor at the Temple Street Congregational Church. Within four years he completed his studies and was ordained a minister. He set up his first ministry back in Newtown, but moved several years later to Hartford, where he became minister of the black Congregational Church (also called the Talcott Street Church) and teacher at the church's school for African-American children. Under Pennington's leadership the church played a leading role in the abolitionist movement, hosting the Connecticut Anti-Slavery Society at one point, and in 1843 resolving to ban slaveholders from taking communion or taking the pulpit. He travelled widely through the state, meeting with other African-American ministers, and frequently delivered sermons in other churches, both black and white, while inviting ministers of both races to preach in the Talcott Street Church. \n\nPennington's brand of abolitionism was distinctly evangelical and closely tied to other moral reform movements. In 1833, while attending one of the national conventions of free blacks, he joined a call for the creation of temperance societies for African-Americans; thereafter he played a leading role in Connecticut's black temperance society. And while he firmly eschewed colonization schemes (which proposed returning freed American slaves to Africa), he did support efforts to send missionaries to Africa: his sense of African society was colored by a conviction that "benighted" Africans languishing (as he saw it) in semi-savage heathenism.\n\nOver the late-1830s and early-1840s Pennington frequently contributed to the Colored American, and after that paper folded he briefly edited his own paper, the Clarksonian. He also published sermons, addresses, and longer projects. In 1841 he wrote what has been described as the first history of African-America: A Text Book of the Origin and History &c. &c. of the Colored People -- though really it is a treatise on the pre-historical and historical evolution of race and blackness. His most enduring work, The Fugitive Blacksmith (1850), told of his boyhood in slavery and escape to freedom; it became one of the most important American slave narratives. \n\nPennington's autobiography publicly revealed his slave past (something he kept secret for years) just as a federal Fugitive Slave Law facilitated the recapture of runaways. One year after he publishedThe Fugitive Blacksmith, associates of Pennington arranged formally to buy his freedom from his former master's est
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Teddy Roosevelt \nat least he had REAL Military experience.
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Norman Mailer\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Mailer
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Lloyd Hall was born in Elgin, Illinois, on June 20, 1894 and had an interesting family background. Hall's grandmother came to Illinois via the "Underground Railroad' at the age of sixteen. His grandfather came to Chicago in 1837 and was one of the founders of the Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church. He later became the church's first pastor in 1841. Hall’s parents, Augustus and Isabel, were both high school graduates. \n\nAlthough Hall was born in Elgin, he was raised in another town in Illinois called Aurora and was raised by his father Augustus Hall and mother Isabel Hall. His father was a Baptist minister and son of the first pastor of the Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church, which was the first African American church in Chicago. Hall's mother was a high school graduate whose mother had fled to Illinois via the Underground Railroad at the age of sixteen. It was through the strict teachings and respect of others by his parents that Hall was able to overcome adversity and succeed as a scientist.
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Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States (1963–1969). After serving a long career in the U.S. Congress, Johnson became the thirty-seventh Vice President; in 1963, he succeeded to the presidency following President John F. Kennedy's assassination. He was a major leader of the Democratic Party and as President was responsible for the passage of key civil rights legislation and Medicare, a major "War on Poverty", as well as the acceleration of the war in Vietnam. He was elected in a landslide in 1964 but his reelection bid in 1968 collapsed as his party fell apart, and he announced that he would not seek re-election.
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Kudo's for some good work, although I doubt that many liberals will buy into these facts.  I would like to take issue with one area of contention and that is the Viet Nam war.  It is true that JFK sent in advisors to contain the communists, but it was the old hawk Lydon Baines Johnson that escalated the war and sent in troops.  I believe that Viet Nam was Johnson's war.  After he lost the stomach to continue, when he had Charlie on his knees following the Tet offensive, the old fool announced that he was hanging up his spurs.  Johnson too, was a democrat and a shameless coward.  The loss of that war should  be credited solely to LBJ.
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Demnark Vessey (free born black man) was the orcestrator of what would have been the largest slave revolt on the history of the US.  but someone told and he was excecuted along with many others\n\nhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p2976.html
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Pershing, who became the famous General during WWI.
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Go to your unit.  There should be a wall with photos on it.\n\non the left will be George W. Bush (or Rick Perry depending how it is set up because the National Guard has 2 chains of command) and it will tell you.
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Bill Clinton answered that when he basically did nothing about the attack on the USS Cole. Liberals hate anything military (more or less)
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warren gamaliel harding\nserved 1921-1923 (died in office)
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Various sources credit Lieutenant-Colonel William J. Clear, or Lieutenant-Colonel William Casey, but the phrase is most often attributed to journalist Ernie Pyle\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheists_in_foxholes
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10th president: John Tyler\n\nLansing, Michigan
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Who was he?? I want to know what he was on!