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Born August 7, 1726 • Boston • Massachusetts
Died November 6, 1790 (aged 64) • Boston • Massachusetts
Title / Office governor (1785-1787), Massachusetts
Founder American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Role In Shays’s Rebellion
Suzan Shown Harjo
Native American activist
John Anthony Volpe
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William Weld
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John Adams
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Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge
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Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
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Stanley Milgram
Stanley Milgram
American social psychologist
Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams
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Fred H. Gage
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Mearsheimer, John J.
John J. Mearsheimer
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Stephen Greenblatt
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Horace Mann
Horace Mann
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Evelyn M. Witkin
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Fraser Stoddart
Fraser Stoddart
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Robert A. Dahl
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Susan L. Lindquist
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Daniel C. Dennett
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Robert O. Keohane
Robert O. Keohane
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Ha Jin
Ha Jin
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Louis Brus
Louis Brus
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