senatorDied: January 20, 2007 () Best Known as: popular Democratic Senator from Florida Former Senator from Florida who served three terms in the U.S. Senate…
businessman and owner of the New York YankeesBorn: 7/4/1930Birthplace: Rocky River, OhioDied: 7/13/2010 (Tampa, Fla.) George Michael Steinbrenner III started his first…
doctorBorn: August 8, 1941Died: May 31, 2009 (Kansas, USA) Best Known as: abortion doctor George Tiller became known as one of the only doctors in America who…
publisher, philanthropistBorn: 1829Birthplace: Baltimore, Md. Having begun his career when he opened a Philadelphia bookstore in 1847, he soon expanded into publishing. He is most known for having…
inventorBorn: 11/4/1884Birthplace: Dromore, County Down, Ireland He began working in his own business at age 16 in Belfast, and went on to build his own airplane, making the first flight in Ireland…
retailerBorn: 1833Birthplace: Augusta, Maine Hartford worked in stores in Boston and St. Louis before heading to New York City, where he and George F. Gilman opened the first of their stores known…
meatpackerBorn: 1860Birthplace: Buffalo, N.Y. Hormel settled in Austin, Minnesota after working throughout the Midwest, opening the George A. Hormel and Company meat packing business in 1891.…
lumber executiveBorn: 1926Birthplace: Seattle, Wash. He joined the family lumber business, Weyerhaeuser Company after graduating from Yale. He worked for 12 years, first as a mill foreman then…
educator, scientistBorn: 1864Birthplace: Diamond Grove, Mo. After a university in Kansas refused to admit him because he was African American, George Washington Carver attended Simpson College…
religious leader, historianBorn: 1849Birthplace: Bedford Springs, Pennsylvania Enlisting at 14, Williams fought for the North in the Civil War. In 1874, he became the first Black person to graduate…
