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| x Thomas Davenport |
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Jul 9, 1802 | Williamstown | Deceased Person |
Thomas Davenport (9 July 1802 – 6 July 1851) was a Vermont blacksmith who invented the first American DC electrical motor in 1834.
He lived in Forest Dale, a village near the town of Brandon.
As early as 1834, he developed a battery-powered electric...
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| x Alvin Adams |
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Jun 16, 1804 | Andover | Deceased Person |
Alvin Adams (June 16, 1804 – September 2, 1877) was the founder of Adams and Company, a forerunner to Adams Express, one of the first companies to act as a carrier for express shipments by rail in the United States. Adams and Company provided...
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| x Ted Bundy |
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Nov 24, 1946 | Burlington | Deceased Person |
Theodore Robert "Ted" Bundy, born Theodore Robert Cowell (November 24, 1946 – January 24, 1989), was an American serial killer active between 1973 and 1978. He twice escaped from county jails before his final apprehension in February 1978. After...
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| x Lucius Lyon |
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Feb 26, 1800 | Shelburne | Deceased Person |
Lucius Lyon (February 26, 1800–September 24, 1851) was a U.S. statesman from the state of Michigan. He was born in Shelburne, Vermont, where he received a common school education and studied engineering and surveying. He moved to Bronson, Michigan,...
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| x Jim Jeffords |
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May 11, 1934 | Rutland City | Politician |
James Merrill "Jim" Jeffords (born May 11, 1934) is a former U.S. Senator from Vermont. He served as a Republican until 2001, when he left the party to become an independent.
Jeffords was born in Rutland, Vermont, the son of Marion Hausman and Olin...
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| x William Wells |
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Dec 14, 1837 | Waterbury | Deceased Person |
William Wells, Jr. (December 14, 1837 – April 29, 1892) was a businessman, politician, and general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He received a Medal of Honor for gallantry at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Wells was born in Waterbury,...
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| x Stephen A. Douglas |
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Apr 23, 1813 | Brandon | Deceased Person |
Stephen Arnold Douglas (April 23, 1813 – June 3, 1861), son of Stephen Arnold Douglass and Sarah Fisk, was an American politician from the western state of Illinois, and was the Democratic Party nominee for President in 1860. He lost to the...
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| x John Wolcott Stewart |
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Nov 24, 1825 | Middlebury | Deceased Person |
John Wolcott Stewart (November 24, 1825–October 29, 1915) was an American lawyer and politician from Vermont. He served as Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives and as governor of Vermont before serving in the United States House of...
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| x Benjamin S. Roberts |
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Nov 18, 1810 | Manchester | Deceased Person |
Benjamin Stone Roberts (November 18, 1810 – January 29, 1875) was an American lawyer, civil engineer, and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Roberts was born in Manchester, Vermont. He graduated from the United States...
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| x Alden Partridge | Feb 12, 1785 | Norwich | Deceased Person |
Alden Partridge, (February 12, 1785 - January 17, 1854) was an American author, legislator, officer, surveyor, an early superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York and a controversial pioneer in U.S. military...
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| x Julian Scott |
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Feb 14, 1846 | Johnson | Deceased Person |
Julian A. Scott (February 14, 1846 – July 4, 1901) was born in Johnson, Vermont and was a Union Army drummer during the American Civil War who received America's highest military decoration the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Lee's...
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| x Chester A. Arthur |
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Oct 5, 1829 | Fairfield | US Vice President |
Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, 1829 – November 18, 1886) was an American politician who served as the 21st President of the United States. Arthur was a member of the Republican Party and worked as a lawyer before becoming the 20th Vice President...
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| x Luke P. Poland |
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Nov 1, 1815 | Westford | Deceased Person |
Luke Potter Poland (November 1, 1815 – July 2, 1887) was a United States Senator and Representative from Vermont. Born in Westford, he attended the common schools and Jericho Academy. He taught at schools and studied law, being admitted to the bar...
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| x George Dewey |
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Dec 26, 1837 | Montpelier | Deceased Person |
George Dewey (December 26, 1837 – January 16, 1917) was an admiral of the United States Navy. Many historians called him the "hero of Manila." He is best known for his victory (without the loss of a single life of his own forces due to combat; one...
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| x Abram A. Hammond |
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Mar 21, 1814 | Brattleboro | Deceased Person |
Abram Adams Hammond (March 21, 1814–August 27, 1874) was twelfth governor of the U.S. state of Indiana. He succeeded to the office upon the death of Governor Ashbel P. Willard and completed the remaining three months of Willard's term.
Abram Adams...
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| x Rachel Oakes Preston | Mar 2, 1809 | Vernon | Deceased Person |
Rachel (Harris) Oakes Preston (2 March 1809-1 February 1868) was a Seventh Day Baptist who persuaded a group of Adventist Millerites to accept Saturday, instead of Sunday, as Sabbath. This Sabbatarian group organized as the Seventh-day Adventist...
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| x Orson Bean |
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Jul 22, 1928 | Burlington | Film actor |
Orson Bean (born July 22, 1928) is an American film, television, and stage actor. He appeared frequently on televised game shows in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, but is perhaps best known as a long-time panelist on the television game show To Tell the...
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| x Jody Williams |
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Oct 9, 1950 | Putney | Award Winner |
Jody Williams (born October 9, 1950 in Brattleboro, Vermont, USA) is an American teacher and aid worker who received the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with the campaign she worked for, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). Williams...
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| x Hyrum Smith |
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Feb 9, 1800 | Tunbridge | Deceased Person |
Hyrum Smith (February 9, 1800 – June 27, 1844) was the older brother of Joseph Smith, Jr. and a leader in the early Latter Day Saint movement. Hyrum was born in Tunbridge, Vermont, the second son of Joseph Smith, Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith. Hyrum...
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| x Ernest Thompson |
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Nov 6, 1949 | Bellows Falls | Film director |
Ernest Thompson (born Richard Ernest Thompson; November 6, 1949) is an American writer, actor, and director.
Thompson was born in Bellows Falls, Vermont. He spent his early years in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine, moving to Maryland as a...
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| x Elisha Otis |
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Aug 3, 1811 | Halifax | Deceased Person |
Elisha Graves Otis (August 3, 1811 – April 8, 1861) invented a safety device that prevented elevators from falling if the hoisting cable broke. He worked on this device while living in Yonkers, New York in 1852, and had a finished product in 1854....
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| x Redfield Proctor, Jr. |
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Apr 13, 1879 | Rutland | Deceased Person |
Redfield Proctor, Jr. (April 13, 1879 – February 5, 1957) was a U.S. politician who served as the Governor of Vermont from 1923 to 1925.
He was born and lived his entire life in Rutland County, Vermont. His father, Redfield Proctor, was a prominent...
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| x Charles B. Stoughton |
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Oct 31, 1841 | Chester | Deceased Person |
Charles Bradley Stoughton (October 31, 1841 – January 17, 1898) was an officer and regimental commander in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Stoughton was born in Chester, Vermont, the son of Henry Evander and Laura (Clark) Stoughton.....
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| x William Rutherford Mead |
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Aug 20, 1846 | Brattleboro | Architect |
William Rutherford Mead (August 20, 1846 – June 19, 1928) was an American engineer, a part of the McKim, Mead, and White firm.
He was born in Brattleboro, Vermont. His sister, Elinor, later married novelist William Dean Howells, and his younger...
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| x Robert Stafford |
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Aug 8, 1913 | Rutland City | Film editor |
Robert Theodore Stafford (August 8, 1913 – December 23, 2006) was an American politician from Vermont. In his lengthy career, he served as the Governor of Vermont, a United States Representative, and a U.S. Senator. A Republican, Stafford was...
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| x Rene Kirby | Feb 27, 1955 | Burlington | Film actor |
Rene Kirby (born February 27, 1955) is an American film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his performance in the Farrelly Brothers' film Shallow Hal. In this film he plays the role of Walt, a man who, like Kirby himself, was born...
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| x Bill W. |
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Nov 26, 1895 | Dorset | Deceased Person |
William Griffith Wilson (November 26, 1895 – January 24, 1971), also known as Bill Wilson or Bill W., was the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), a fellowship of 100,800 support groups world-wide dedicated to helping alcoholics achieve sobriety...
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| x James Van Ness |
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1808 | Burlington | Deceased Person |
James Van Ness (1808 Burlington, Vermont - December 28, 1872) was mayor of San Francisco, USA from 1855 to 1856.
He was the son of Dutch-American Vermont Governor Cornelius Van Ness and father-in-law of future San Francisco mayor Frank McCoppin....
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| x William Freeman Vilas |
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Jul 9, 1840 | Chelsea | Deceased Person |
William Freeman Vilas (July 9, 1840 – August 28, 1908) was a member of the Democratic Party who served in the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1891 to 1897. He was a prominent Bourbon Democrat.
Vilas was born in Chelsea, Vermont,...
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| x Benjamin Alvord |
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Aug 18, 1813 | Rutland | Deceased Person |
Benjamin Alvord (August 18, 1813 – October 16, 1884) was an American soldier, mathematician, and botanist.
Alvord was born in Rutland, Vermont, where he developed an interest in nature. He attended the United States Military Academy and displayed a...
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| x L. M. Shaw |
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Nov 2, 1848 | Morristown | Deceased Person |
Leslie Mortier Shaw (November 2, 1848 – March 28, 1932) was an American businessman, lawyer and politician.
Born in Morristown, Vermont, he became a lawyer and banker, and in 1898 became Governor of Iowa, serving until 1902. He then became United...
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| x John E. Weeks | Jun 14, 1853 | Salisbury | Deceased Person |
John Eliakim Weeks (June 14, 1853 – September 10, 1949) was an American politician from Vermont. He served as Governor of Vermont from 1927 to 1931. He served as a Vermont state court judge from 1884 to 1886, and 1902 to 1904. Weeks was a member of...
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| x Carlton Fisk |
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Dec 26, 1947 | Bellows Falls | Baseball Player |
Carlton Ernest "Pudge" Fisk (born December 26, 1947) is a former Major League Baseball catcher who played for 24 years with both the Boston Red Sox (1969, 1971-1980) and Chicago White Sox (1981-1993). Known by the nickname "Pudge" due to his 6'2",...
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| x James P. Leddy | 1942 | Burlington | Politician |
James P. Leddy (born 1942) was a Democratic member of the Vermont State Senate, who represented the Chittenden senate district.
James Leddy was first elected to the Vermont State Senate in 1998 and continued in that office through 2006.
Leddy was...
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| x Wallace M. Greene |
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Dec 27, 1907 | Waterbury | Deceased Person |
General Wallace Martin Greene, Jr. (December 27, 1907 – March 8, 2003) was a four-star United States Marine Corps general who served as the 23rd Commandant of the Marine Corps from January 1, 1964 to December 31, 1967. At the end of his term as...
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| x John Deere |
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Feb 7, 1804 | Rutland | Deceased Person |
John Deere (February 7, 1804 – May 17, 1886) was an American blacksmith and manufacturer who founded Deere & Company— the largest agricultural and construction equipment manufacturers in the world. Born in Rutland , Vermont, Deere moved to Illinois...
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| x Silas H. Jennison | May 17, 1791 | Shoreham | Deceased Person |
Silas Hemenway Jennison (May 17, 1791 – September 30, 1849) was an American Whig politician.
Jennison was born in Shoreham, Vermont to Levi Jennison and Ruth Hemenway. He married Marilla Hanks Bush on May 3, 1814 and they had five children; Lurana...
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| x Patrick Leahy |
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Mar 31, 1940 | Montpelier | Politician |
Patrick Joseph Leahy (born March 31, 1940) is the senior United States Senator from Vermont. He is a member of the Democratic Party, the first and only Democratic United States Senator in Vermont's history, the current chairman of the Senate...
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| x John Humphrey Noyes |
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Sep 3, 1811 | Brattleboro | Deceased Person |
John Humphrey Noyes (September 3, 1811 – April 13, 1886) was an American utopian socialist. He founded the Oneida Community in 1848. He coined the term "free love".
Noyes was born in Brattleboro, Vermont, and was not even 21 before he started...
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| x Hezekiah Bradley Smith |
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Jul 24, 1816 | Windsor County | Deceased Person |
Hezekiah Bradley Smith (July 24, 1816 – November 3, 1887), was an American inventor and a Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1879-1881.
Smith was...
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| x John C. Caldwell |
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Apr 17, 1833 | Lowell | Deceased Person |
John Curtis Caldwell (April 17, 1833 – August 31, 1912) was a teacher, a Union general in the American Civil War, and an American diplomat.
Caldwell was born in Lowell, Vermont. He graduated from Amherst College in 1855 and moved to Maine, where he...
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| x Daniel Willard | Jan 28, 1861 | Hartland | Deceased Person |
Daniel Willard was a railroad executive best known as the president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from 1910 to 1941. He served on or headed several government railroad commissions in World War I and appeared on the cover of Time magazine in...
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| x Thomas O. Seaver | Dec 23, 1833 | Cavendish | Deceased Person |
Thomas Orville Seaver (December 23, 1833 – July 11, 1912) rose to the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army during the American Civil War and received America's highest military decoration the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Spotsylvania...
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| x Willis Sweet | Jan 1, 1856 | Alburgh | Deceased Person |
Willis Sweet (January 1, 1856 – July 9, 1925) was the first United States Representative from Idaho. Sweet served as a Republican in the House from 1890 to 1895, representing the state at-large.
Sweet was a candidate for United States Senate in 1896...
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| x Frank C. Partridge |
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1861 | Middlebury | Deceased Person |
Frank Charles Partridge (1861-1943) was a United States Senator from Vermont.
Partridge graduated from Amherst College in 1882 and from the Columbia University Law School in 1884. He worked as a lawyer in Rutland and then worked in the marble...
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| x John LeClair |
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Jul 5, 1969 | St. Albans | Hockey Player |
Jonathan Clark LeClair (born July 5, 1969 in St. Albans, Vermont) is an American professional ice hockey player. He most recently played left wing for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL), who released him on December 14, 2006...
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| x Steve Wisniewski | Apr 7, 1967 | Rutland City | Football player |
Steve Wisniewski (born April 7, 1967, in Rutland, Vermont) is a former professional American football player. An eight-time Pro Bowler, he played in the National Football League for 13 seasons as an offensive guard with the Oakland/Los Angeles...
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| x Carroll S. Page |
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Jan 10, 1843 | Westfield | Deceased Person |
Carroll Smalley Page (January 10, 1843 - December 3, 1925) was a United States Senator and Governor of Vermont. Born in Westfield, Vermont, he attended the common schools, People's Academy in Morrisville and Lamoille Central Academy in Hyde Park. He...
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| x George F. Edmunds |
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Feb 1, 1828 | Richmond | Deceased Person |
George Franklin Edmunds (February 1, 1828 – February 27, 1919) was a Republican U.S. Senator from Vermont from 1866 to 1891.
Born in Richmond, Vermont, Edmunds attended common schools and was privately tutored as a child. After being admitted to the...
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| x Bing Russell | May 5, 1926 | Brattleboro | TV Actor |
Bing Russell (May 5, 1926 – April 8, 2003) was an American actor, and was the father of Golden Globe-nominated actor Kurt Russell.
Russell was born Neil Oliver Russell in Brattleboro, Vermont, the son of Ruth (née Vogel), and Warren Russell. Russell...
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| x Henry L. Bowles | 1866 | Athens | Deceased Person |
Henry Leland Bowles was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. He was born in Athens, Vermont on January 6, 1866. He attended the district schools at Kendricks Corner and Vermont Academy. At the age of eighteen, he moved to Osage, Iowa...
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| x Henry Rice |
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Nov 29, 1816 | Waitsfield | Deceased Person |
Henry Mower Rice (November 29, 1816 – January 15, 1894) was an American politician.
Henry Rice was born on November 29, 1816, in Waitsfield, Vermont. Because of his father's death when Rice was quite young, he lived with friends. After primary...
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| x Truman Seymour |
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Sep 24, 1824 | Burlington | Deceased Person |
Truman Seymour (September 24, 1824 – October 30, 1891) was an a career soldier and an accomplished painter. He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War, rising to the rank of brigadier general. He commanded the Union troops at the...
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| x Edwin Brant Frost | Jul 16, 1866 | Brattleboro | Deceased Person |
Edwin Brant Frost II (July 16, 1866 – May 14, 1935) was an American astronomer.
He was born in Brattleboro, Vermont. His father, Carlton Pennington Frost, was dean of Dartmouth Medical School.
Frost graduated from Dartmouth in 1886. He continued his...
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| x Brian Dubie |
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Mar 9, 1959 | Burlington | Politician |
Brian E. Dubie (born March 9, 1959 in Burlington, Vermont) is an American politician, currently serving as the Lieutenant Governor of Vermont. He is a member of the Republican Party and is a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor of...
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| x Charles E. Phelps | May 1, 1833 | Guilford | Deceased Person |
Charles Edward Phelps (May 1, 1833 – December 27, 1908) rose to the rank of Brigadier General in the U.S. Army in the Civil War, served as a city councilman, a U.S. Congressman from the third district of Maryland, and received the Medal of Honor....
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| x Lane Dwinell |
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Nov 14, 1906 | Newport | Deceased Person |
Lane Dwinell (November 14, 1906 – March 27, 1997) was an American manufacturer and Republican politician from Lebanon, New Hampshire. Born in 1906 in Newport, Vermont, he served in and led both houses of the New Hampshire legislature before his two...
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| x Ida May Fuller |
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Sep 6, 1874 | Brattleboro | Deceased Person |
Ida May Fuller (September 6, 1874 – January 1975) was the first American citizen to receive a monthly benefit Social Security check. She received the check, amounting to $22.54, on January 31, 1940.
Fuller was born on a farm outside Ludlow, Vermont....
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| x Duane Graveline |
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1931 | Newport | Military Person |
Duane Edgar Graveline (MD, MPH) is a medical doctor and former NASA Astronaut. He is one of the 6 scientists selected in 1965 in NASA's fourth group of astronauts for Apollo. He is most famous for being immersed in water for 7 days as part of his...
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| x Calvin Coolidge |
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Jul 4, 1872 | Plymouth | US Vice President |
John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. (July 4, 1872 – January 5, 1933) was the 30th President of the United States (1923–1929). A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor...
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