Stephen Emery

Peggy Eaton

1799–1879 (age 80)

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Wife of Secretary of War John Eaton whose social status sparked the Petticoat Affair scandal.

Philip Barton Key

1757–1815 (age 58)

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Philip Barton Key (1757-1815) was a Maryland lawyer and politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Herman Hollerith

1860–1929 (age 69)

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

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.

Joseph Henry

1797–1878 (age 81)

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First Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and pioneering physicist.

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.