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Stonewall Jackson
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Stonewall Jackson
Educator, General / 1824 - 1863
Stonewall Jackson was a leading Confederate general during the U.S. Civil War, commanding forces at Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville.
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William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin of Largs
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William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin of Largs
Physicist, Academic Author / 1824 - 1907
Lord Kelvin was an Irish physicist who developed a temperature scale based on absolute zero, named the Kelvin scale.
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Ambrose Burnside
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Ambrose Burnside
General, U.S. Governor / 1824 - 1881
Ambrose Burnside is best known for his leadership as a general of the Union army in the Civil War, and for originating the fashion of sideburns in the United States.
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Leland Stanford
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Leland Stanford
Entrepreneur, U.S. Representative, U.S. Governor / 1824 - 1893
Amasa Leland Stanford was a U.S. entrepreneur and a builder of the first transcontinental railroad. He also served in the U.S. Senate.
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Gustav Kirchhoff
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Gustav Kirchhoff
Physicist / 1824 - 1887
German physicist Gustav Kirchoff became the first scientist to show that electric current flows at the speed of light through a conductor. -
James Mitchell Ashley
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- Famous Congressional Representatives
James Mitchell Ashley
Governor, U.S. Representative / 1824 - 1896
James Mitchell Ashley was best known as a U.S. congressman and abolitionist who laid the foundation to pass the 13th Amendment, outlawing slavery.
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