Moses C. Hanscom

Edwin M. Stanton

1814–1869 (age 55)

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U.S. Secretary of War under Presidents Lincoln and Johnson during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Herman Hollerith

1860–1929 (age 69)

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Inventor of the electric tabulating machine that revolutionized census data processing.

Joseph Henry

1797–1878 (age 81)

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First Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and pioneering physicist.

Myrtilla Miner

1815–1864 (age 49)

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Founder of the Institution for the Education of Colored Youth in Washington, D.C.

Katharine Graham

1917–2001 (age 84)

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Publisher of The Washington Post who led the newspaper through the Pentagon Papers and Watergate.

James G. Blaine

1830–1893 (age 63)

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U.S. Secretary of State and Speaker of the House who was a leading Republican figure in the Gilded Age.