Eli Whitney
Inventor of the cotton gin, during the economy of the Antebellum South
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)
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Acquisitions Assistant at the Sterling Memorial Library of Yale University, novelist, horror fiction writer, poet
1918-1990 (72)
Josiah Willard Gibbs
Linguist, theologian, father of Willard Gibbs, professor at Yale
1790-1861 (71)
Larry Summers
US Treasury Secretary from 1999-2001, economist known for the revolving door project, banker, financier, former president at Harvard, director of the National Economic Council from 2009-2010, pioneer of the deregulation of derivatives which led to the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 (FDR New Deal), crypto enthusiast, director at Xapo Bank, Block, OpenAi
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Lyman Beecher
Presbyterian minister, protestant militant, revolutionary writer, author of A Plea for the West
1775-1863 (88)
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Noah Webster
Lexicographer, grammar teacher, lecturer, creator of American Spelling Book in 1783, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language in 1806, and then the Websters dictionary in 1828, journalist, essayist on the Constitutional Convention, lobbyist
1758-1843 (85)
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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)
Scooter Libby living
Republican politician aka Lewis Libby, attorney, former lawyer and chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney
1950- (75)
J. Willard Gibbs
Scientist, chemist, theoretical physicist, inventor, co-discovery of thermodynamics
1839-1903 (64)
William Huntington Russell
Businessman, co-founder of Yale's secret society Order of the Skull and Bones under the innocuous name of Russell Trust Association
1809-1885 (76)