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Archibald Alexander (theologian):

     Sheldon Whitehouse

Anne (Dudley) Bradstreet (poet):

     Frederick Stephen Upton

Daniel Carroll (signer of Articles of Confederation and U. S. Constitution):

     Michael Castle

Mrs. Ann Foster (victim of the Salem witch trials):

     Craig Campbell

Benjamin Franklin (American "Founding Father"):

     Michael Castle

Rev. Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen (minister of the Great Awakening):

     Rodney Frelinghuysen

Moses Grant (participant in the Boston Tea Party):

     Brian Baird

John Hart (signer of the Declaration of Independence):

     Steny Hoyer

Anne (Marbury) Hutchinson (religious activist):

     Ted Danson

     Chris Van Hollen

Henry Lahee (composer):

     Thomas Allen

George Linen (artist):

     Rodney Frelinghuysen

Gen. George Gordon Meade (Union general):

     Matthew Fox

Charles Willson Peale (artist):

     Dennis Blair

John Siney (early labor leader):

     Tim Holden

John Calvin Stevens (architect and artist):

     Thomas Allen

Henry John Whitehouse (Episcopal bishop of Illinois):

     Sheldon Whitehouse

Roger Williams (founder of Rhode Island):

     David Angell

William Price Williamson
(Engineer-in-Chief of Confederate Navy):

   
 Dennis Blair

William Wirt (U.S. Attorney-General, Anti-Masonic Presidential candidate):

     Dennis Blair

Oliver Wolcott (signer of Declaration of Independence):

     Aaron Peirsol

Frank Lloyd Wright
(architect):

     Anne Baxter