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18th-century Protestants

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer (1712-1778)

Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten

German philosopher (b. 1714)

Horace Bénédict de Saussure

Genevan scientist (1740-1799)

Martha Jefferson Randolph

First Lady of the United States from 1801 to 1809

Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon

French Roman Catholic mystic

Genevan chemist (1750-1803)

Georges-Louis Le Sage

Genevan physicist, most known for his theory of gravitation, for his invention of an electric telegraph and his anticipation of the kinetic theory of gases (1724-1803)

Clement Comer Clay

American politician (1789-1866)

Increase Sumner

Governor of Massachusetts; Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Associate Justice