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Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first U.S. secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795 under the presidency of George Washington. He also founded America's first political party, the Federalist Party, in 1791.
Sherwood Anderson
American writer (1876–1941)
Buffalo Bill
American frontiersman and showman (1846–1917)
Albert Pike
American author, poet, orator, editor, lawyer, jurist and Confederate States Army general Associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, Freemason (1809–1891)
Billy Mitchell
United States Army general during World War I (1879–1936)
William Crawford Gorgas
22nd Surgeon General of the United States Army
Edward S. Holden
American astronomer (1846-1914)
Walter Krueger
American general (1881-1967)
John C. Pemberton
Confederate Army officer (1814–1881)
George Washington Goethals
United States Army officer and civil engineer (1858–1928)
John Taliaferro Thompson
United States Army officer (1860-1940)
Joseph Wheeler
Confederate Army general (1836-1906)
Tasker H. Bliss
8th Chief of Staff of the United States Army (1917-1918)
Isaac Newton Lewis
American soldier and inventor of the Lewis gun (1858–1931)
Return J. Meigs Jr.
American politician 1764-1825
Charles Martin
Oregon politician (1863-1946)
Peyton C. March
9th Chief of Staff of the United States Army (1864–1955)
Guy Henry
United States Army general and noted equestrian (1875–1967)
Malin Craig
American politician (1875-1945)
Ben Lear
United States Army General (1879–1966)
Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr.
United States Army general; First African American general officer in the U.S. Army and in the U.S. Military (1877-1970)
Lawrence Tyson
United States Senator from Tennessee
Fox Conner
United States Army general (1874-1951)
Henry Ossian Flipper
American soldier, formerly enslaved person, and first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point (1856–1940)
Charles Pelot Summerall
American military officer (1867–1955); US Army Chief of Staff from 1926 to 1930
William Sidney Graves
United States Army general in World War I
Henry Tureman Allen
(1859-1930) United States Army general
Silas Soule
American Union Army officer
Robert Lee Bullard
United States Army general (1861-1947)
Edward Lawrence Logan
United States general (1875-1939)
Frederick Funston
United States Army general, Medal of Honor recipient and botanist (1865 – 1917)
George Van Horn Moseley
United States Army general (1874–1960)
George Owen Squier
United States Army general (1865–1934)
Bertram Tracy Clayton
United States Army officer and politician (1862–1918)
James Harbord
United States Army Lieutenant General and President of RCA (1866–1947)
Edwin Burr Babbitt
United States general
John Clem
Army soldier (1851–1937)
Herbert Mayhew Lord
Director of the United States Bureau of the Budget (1859-1930)
Charles E. Kilbourne
United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
John Leonard Hines
(1868-1968) former Chief of Staff of the United States Army
Samuel S. Carroll
Union Army general Union General during the American Civil War
Hugh Aloysius Drum
United States Army general (1879–1951)
Charles E. Stanton
American army officer
Samuel Escue Tillman
Career military educator
William Nafew Haskell Jr.
American military officer
Albert Leopold Mills
United States Army Major General, Medal of Honor awardee (1854-1916)
Henry Pinckney McCain
United States general (1861–1941)
Butler Ames
American politician, engineer, soldier and businessman (1871-1954)
George LeRoy Irwin
United States general
Joseph Pierce
American soldier of Chinese origin (1842-1916)
Dennis Edward Nolan
(1872-1956) United States Army general, American football coach
William Murray Black
United States Army Chief of Engineers (1855-1933)
Benjamin Alvord, Jr.
United States Army general
Harry Hill Bandholtz
American general (1864–1925)
Lansing Hoskins Beach
engineer in the United States Army Corps of Engineers
Samuel W. Ferguson
Confederate States Army general (1834–1917)
Charles Clarendon Ballou
United States Army major general
John Henry Parker
United States general (1866-1942)
Stanley H. Ford
United States general (1877–1961)
Nelson Margetts
American polo player