John Alexander Logan was an American soldier and politician. He served in the Mexican–American War and was a general in the Union Army in the American Civil War. He served the state of Illinois as a state Representative,a U.S. Representative,and a U.S. Senator and was an unsuccessful candidate for Vice President of the United States as James G. Blaine's running mate in the election of 1884. As the 3rd Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic,he is regarded as the most important figure in the movement to recognize Memorial Day as an official holiday.
Major General John Porter Lucas was a senior officer of the United States Army who saw service in World War I and World War II. He is most remembered for being the commander of VI Corps during the Battle of Anzio in early 1944 during the Italian campaign of World War II.
Paul Howard Douglas was an American politician and Georgist economist. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as a U.S. senator from Illinois for eighteen years,from 1949 to 1967. During his Senate career,he was a prominent member of the liberal coalition.
Guy Vernor Henry was an American military officer and Medal of Honor recipient who served as military governor of Puerto Rico.
Julius Benjamin Richmond was an American pediatrician and public health administrator. He was a vice admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and served as the United States Surgeon General and the United States Assistant Secretary for Health during the Carter Administration,from 1977 to 1981. Richmond is noted for his role in the creation of the Head Start program for disadvantaged children,serving as its first national director.
Robert Roswell Palmer was an American historian at Princeton and Yale universities,who specialized in eighteenth-century France. His most influential work of scholarship,The Age of the Democratic Revolution:A Political History of Europe and America,1760–1800,examined the Atlantic Revolutions,an age of democratic revolution that swept Europe and the Americas between 1760 and 1800. He was awarded the Bancroft Prize in History for the first volume. Palmer also achieved distinction as a history text writer.
Charles Horace Mayo was an American medical practitioner and was one of the founders of the Mayo Clinic along with his brother William James Mayo,Augustus Stinchfield,Christopher Graham,Edward Star Judd Jr.,Henry Stanley Plummer,Melvin Millet,and Donald Balfour.
Frank Annunzio was an American politician from Chicago,Illinois.
Jack Richard Miller was an American politician and jurist who served as a Republican United States Senator from Iowa for two terms from 1961 to 1973. He later served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Robert Clymer Hendrickson was an American attorney,politician,and diplomat who served as a United States senator from New Jersey.
Richard Walker Bolling was a prominent American Democratic Congressman from Kansas City,Missouri,and Missouri's 5th congressional district from 1949 to 1983. He retired after serving for four years as the chairman of the powerful United States House Committee on Rules.
Franklin S. Forsberg,was an American publisher and diplomat.
David Stuart was a politician and lawyer who served as an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Born in Brooklyn,Stuart moved with his father to Michigan,where the younger Stuart was a lawyer. After serving for a term in the United States House of Representatives from 1853 to 1855,he moved to Chicago,Illinois,where he practiced law. His reputation was destroyed by a scandal relating to a divorce case. In 1861,Stuart raised two regiments for service in the American Civil War. On October 31 of that year,Stuart became the colonel of the 55th Illinois Infantry Regiment. He led a brigade at the Battle of Shiloh,where he was wounded in the shoulder on April 6,1862. After commanding a regiment during the Siege of Corinth later that year,Stuart was appointed brigadier general on November 29,1862. He led first a brigade,and then a division at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou in December,and also led a division at the Battle of Arkansas Post in January 1863. On March 11,1863,Stuart's promotion to brigadier general was rejected by the United States Senate for unknown reasons. He resigned from the army in April and returned to the practice of law,dying in 1868.
Anton Frank Maciejewski was an American businessman and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1939 to 1942.
Daniel John Ronan was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Thomas Leonard Owens was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
Major General Ernest Joseph "Mike" Dawley was a senior officer of the United States Army,best known during World War II for commanding the VI Corps during Operation Avalanche,the Allied landings at Salerno,Italy,in 1943. After the landings,he was relieved of his command by Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark,commander of the Fifth Army,and returned to the United States.
Steve Szabo is a former American football player and coach. He played football and lacrosse for the United States Naval Academy from 1961 to 1965. After four years of military service,Szabo held coaching positions with 18 collegiate and professional football teams from 1969 to 2011. He served as the head football coach at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania from 1985 to 1987,compiling a record of 15–15–1.
Thomas Goddard Bergin was an American scholar of Italian literature,who was "noted particularly for his research on Dante's Divine Comedy and for its translation". He was the Sterling Professor of Romance Languages at Yale University,and Master of Timothy Dwight College. He is the first poet to have his words launched into outer space to orbit the Earth.
