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Thomas Jefferson
president of the United States from 1801 to 1809 (1743–1826)
James Madison
President of the United States from 1809 to 1817 (1751–1836)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American philosopher (1803–1882)
Henry David Thoreau
American essayist, poet, and philosopher (1817–1862)
Thomas Paine
American Founding Father, philosopher, and political activist (1737–1809)
Emma Goldman
Russian-born American anarchist (1869–1940)
William James
American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist (1842–1910)
John Dewey
American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer (1859–1952)
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first U.S. secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795 under the presidency of George Washington. He also founded America's first political party, the Federalist Party, in 1791.
George Santayana
Spanish-American philosopher
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
John C. Calhoun
vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832 (1782–1850)
W. E. B. Du Bois
American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)
Elbert Green Hubbard
American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer (1860–1935)
Amos Bronson Alcott
American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer (1799-1888)
Mary Whiton Calkins
American philosopher and psychologist (1863–1930)
Josiah Royce
American philosopher (1855–1916)
William Graham Sumner
American sociologist (1840–1910)
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
American minister (1825–1921)
Frances Wright
American activist (1795-1852)
Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz
American educator, naturalist, writer (1822-1907)
Judith Sargent Murray
American writer and advocate for women's rights (1751-1820)
Ernest Fenollosa
American art historian and orientalist (1853-1908)
Walter Russell
American artist (1871-1963)
Paul Carus
American philosopher (1852–1919)
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
American philosopher and theologian (1836-1903)
Noah Porter
American academic (1811-1892)
Cassius Jackson Keyser
American mathematician and journalist of pronounced philosophical inclinations (1862-1947)
Borden Parker Bowne
American philosopher (1847–1910)
Rufus Jones
American writer (1863-1948)
Anna Brackett
American philosopher
Chauncey Wright
American philosopher and mathematician (1830–1875)
William Torrey Harris
American philosopher (1835–1909)
Thomas Cooper
American economist, college president and political philosopher (1759–1839)
Orestes Brownson
American activist (1803–1876)
Moncure Daniel Conway
American abolitionist minister and radical writer. (1832–1907)
Patrick Francis Healy
American Jesuit educator (1834-1910)
Paul Elmer More
American journalist, critic, essayist and Christian apologist (1864-1937)
James Edwin Creighton
American philosopher (1861-1924)
George Holmes Howison
American philosopher
Thomas Davidson
Scottish-American philosopher and lecturer (1840-1900)
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American zoologist and philosopher (1862–1916)
Anna Willess Williams
American model and philosopher
Henry Brewster Stanton
abolitionist, social reformer, philosopher (1805-1887)
Francis Bowen
United States philosopher, writer, and educationalist (1811–1890)
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Swiss-American philosopher (1839–1895)
James Elliot Cabot
American philosopher and author (1821–1903)
Henry James, Sr.
American Swedenborgian theologian (1811–1882)
Kersey Graves
American philosopher
John Stallo
American diplomat
George Herbert Palmer
American philosopher (1842–1933)
Sidney Edward Mezes
American philosopher (1863–1931)
Timothy Brosnahan
American Jesuit educator
James Marsh
American philosopher, Congregational clergyman and president of the University of Vermont
George Lansing Raymond
American philosopher (1839–1929)
Henry Philip Tappan
President of the University of Michigan
George Sylvester Morris
American philosopher (1840-1889)