James R. Killian

VP of MIT from 1945-1948, President of MIT from 1948-1959, chairman of MIT from 1959-1971, MBA engineer, helped to form NASA (1958) after Sputnik satellite news in 1957 from the USSR (Russia), statesman, editor at Technology Review

a.k.a.Dr. James Rhyne Killian, Jr.

life1904-1988 (84)

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websitekillianlectures.mit.edu

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Abraham "Abe" Lincoln

16th President of the United States from 1861-1865, National Union Party politician, statesman aka Abe Lincoln, assassinated at Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth, died at Petersen House (near the White House) at the end of the American Civil War, abolished slavery, greenbacks were interest-free US dollars
1809-1865 (56)
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Aldo Moro

Prime Minister of Italy, Christian Democrat Party politician, statesman, kidnaped by the Red Brigades in 1978 and shot to death (assassinated) with orders from the P2 Masonry

Alfred Milner

Chairman of the Inland Board of Revenue, founder of the British South Africa Company, statesman, high commissioner in southern Africa, socialist colonial governor of Cape Colony in 1897, imperialist of Egypt, banker, financier, co-founder of the Pilgrims Society and the Round Table (Committee of 300, the Olympians) with Cecil Rhodes in 1902
1854-1925 (71)
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Arnaldo Forlani living

43rd prime minister of Italy from 1980-1981, statesman, politician, deputy prime minister of Italy from 1983-1987
1925- (100)

Boris Godunov

Tsar of Russia (Muscovy/Moscow) from 1598-1605, statesman, chief advisor to Fyodor I from 1584-1598
1551-1605 (54)
britannica.com

Christian Michelsen

shipping magnate, Storting politician, 1st prime minister of an independent Norway from 1905-1907, dissolved the union between Sweden and the Kingdom of Norway in 1905
1857-1925 (68)

Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus

Patrician, statesman, farmer, pioneer of Roman civic virtues, dictator of elitism against the plebians (commoners), military leader of the early Roman Republic (Roman Kingdom), the Society of the Cincinnati is named after him founded by Henry Knox
519 BCE-430 BCE
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Georges Clemenceau

Prime Minister of France from 1906-1909 and 1917-1920, statesman, politician
1841-1929 (88)

Donald J. Trump living

45th & 47th President of the United States (POTUS) from 2016-2020 and since 2025, Republican Party politician of America First, Make America Great Again (MAGA), nationalist statesman, industrialist, real estate mogul, billionaire founder of Trump International Hotels & Resorts
1946- (79)
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George Clymer

Federalist Party politician, one of the founding fathers of the United States, signed the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution
1739-1813 (74)
ushistory.org

George Wythe

Classical scholar, the first law professor, lawyer, attorney general of Virginia, founding father of the United States
1726-1806 (80)

Gouverneur Morris

US statesman, one of the founding fathers of the United States, signatory on the articles of Confederation
1752-1816 (64)

Henry Cabot Lodge

Republican politician, US senator from Massachusetts from 1893-1924, statesman, historian
1850-1924 (74)
senate.gov

Jared Ingersoll

Lawyer, attorney, statesman, Federalist Party politician, signatory for the US constitution, one of the founding fathers of the United States
1749-1822 (73)
history.army.mil

Javier Milei living

President of Argentina since 2023, populist, statesman, Libertarian Party politician, economist, populist, nationalist, founder of Freedom Advances, professor of economics
1970- (55)

Jean Monnet

Administrator, diplomat, financier, one of the founding fathers of the European Union

John C. Calhoun

statesman, politician, US secretary of the War of 1812, VP of the United States from 1825-1832

John Dickinson

Politician aka Penman of the Revolution, scholar, solicitor, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, 12 Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania in 1767-1768
1732-1808 (76)

Lord Salisbury

Conservative politician, statesman

Lorenzo de' Medici

Renaissance banker, statesman, House of Medici, ruler of the Florentine Republic
1449-1492 (43)
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Niccolò Machiavelli

Renaissance historian, humanist, diplomat, statesman, nationalist, politician, philosopher, hated the Venetian mercenaries, author of The Prince in 1513 and published in 1932
1469-1527 (58)

Michael Hainisch

President of Austria from 1920-1928 at the end of World War I (WWI/WW1), politician, economist, statesman, political activist
1858-1940 (82)
britannica.com

Olof Palme

Prime Minister of Sweden from 1969-1976 and 1982-1986, assassinated in 1986, Swedish Social Democratic Party politician, nobleman, statesman
1927-1986 (59)

Pericles

Military general, statesman during the Golden Age who rebuilt Athens and the Parthenon between 447-432 BC

Raúl Alfonsín

President of Argentina from 1983-1989, lawyer, statesman, democratically elected official post military coup from 1976-1983, pioneer of Alfonsinisn as leader of the Radical Civic Union, father of modern democracy in Argentina

Richard Henry Lee

Statesman, pioneer of the Lee Resolution, one of the founding fathers of the United States of America
1732-1794 (62)
encyclopediavirginia.org

Roger Sherman

US senator from Connecticut, statesman, politician, one of the founding fathers of the United States, signatory on all four critical founding documents; the Continental Association, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the US Constitution
1721-1793 (72)