American abolitionists

American author and humorist (1835–1910)

president of the United States from 1837 to 1841

Rutherford Birchard Hayes was the 19th president of the United States, serving from 1877 to 1881. He served as Cincinnati's city solicitor from 1858 to 1861 and was known as a staunch abolitionist who defended refugee slaves in court proceedings. At the start of the Civil War, Hayes left a fledgling political career to join the Union army. He was wounded five times, most seriously at the Battle of South Mountain in 1862. Hayes earned a reputation for bravery in combat, rising in the ranks to serve as brevet major general. After the war, he was a prominent member of the "Half-Breed" faction of the Republican Party. Hayes served in Congress from 1865 to 1867 and was elected governor of Ohio, serving two consecutive terms from 1868 to 1872 and half of a third two-year term from 1876 to 1877 before his swearing-in as president.

American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist (1842–1914)

American showman and politician (1810–1891)

English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)

vice president of the United States from 1873 to 1875

American lawyer, orator, and politician (1833-1899)

American suffragist, editor (1838-1927)

American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819-1891)

American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery (1807-1892)

American physician, educator, and author (1746-1813)

American folk hero and lawman (1837–1876)

American Unitarian clergyman (1780–1842)

American lawyer and politician (1814–1869)

American feminist and doctor (1832–1919)

American politician (1832-1918)

American feminist activist (1810–1892)

American minister (1825–1921)

American activist (1795-1852)

American religious leader, writer and educator (1792–1875)

first Union general to be killed in the American Civil War

American jurist (1816–1888); Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1874 to 1888

American government official; United States Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869 (1802–1878)

State Senator from Tennessee, Senator and U.S. Representative from Missouri (1782–1858)

United States politician (1818–1905)

first American law professor, a noted classics scholar, a Founding Father of the United States and a Virginia judge

American lawyer and judge, signer of the US Declaration of Independence (1731-1814)

American Civil War soldier, Christian minister, Ohio politician, lawyer, journalist, and writer

American politician (1748-1828)

American politician (1773–1833)

American politician (1806–1869)

American poet, nationalist, polemicist, sea captain and newspaper editor (1752-1832)

American lawyer and politician (1800–1878)

German revolutionary and journalist (1805-1870)

American politician (1833–1912)

Polish-American physician

American abolitionist (1823–1893)

American philanthropist, schoolteacher (1839-1915)

American Presbyterian minister and American Temperance Society co-founder (1775–1863)

American Union general during the Civil War (1802–1886)

Union Army general, politician (1817-1900)

Salem witch trial judge; early abolitionist; chief justice of Massachusetts

American sailor, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (1792–1872)

American politician (1813-1894)

American lawyer and politician (1812–1887)

Union Army general (1807-1894)

American magician, illusionist, actor and former slave

United States Army officer and physician, abolitionist, journalist, and writer (1812–1885)

American inventor and machinery manufacturer

American journalist and government official (1819–1897)

American abolitionist and suffragist (1824-1894)

American physician

German-born American educator, lawyer, poet, and public official

American Senator and Union Army general (1814–1866)

American educator 1804-1894

United States politician (1801–1877)

African-American entrepreneur (1814-1904)

movement to end slavery in the United States

American Quaker preacher and writer 1720-1772