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Unitarian Universalism has a rich heritage of leaders in arts and letters, politics, science, and humanitarianism. To drop a few names from our "family tree":

 

John Adams
(1735-1826) 2nd President of the United States (1797-1801)

 

John Quincy Adams
(1767-1848) 6th President of the United States (1825-1829)

 

Louisa May Alcott
(1832-1888) author of "Little Women"

 

 

Susan B. Anthony
(1820-1906) famous suffragist

 

 

Clara Barton
(1821-1912) founder of the American Red Cross Society

 

 

P.T. Barnum
(1810-1891) famous showman and circus founder

 

 

Alexander Graham Bell
(1847-1922) inventor of the telephone

 

 

Olympia Brown
(1847-1922) first American woman to become a full time ordained minister

 

 

ee. cummings
(1894-1962) poet

 

 

Charles Dickens
(1812-1870) novelist, author of "A Christmas Carol"

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882) essayist and poet, author of "Self Reliance"

 

 

Fannie Farmer
(1857-1915) famous cookbook author

 

 

Millard Fillmore
(1800-1874) 13th president of the United States

 

 

Buckminster Fuller
(1895-1983) architect, futurist and visionary who named complex carbon structures

 


Nathaniel Hawthorne
(1804-1864) writer and essayist, author of "The Scarlet Letter"

 

 

Oliver Wendell Holmes
(1809-1894). US Supreme Court justice

 

 

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807-1882) poet

 

 

Herman Melville
(1819-1891) author of "Moby Dick"

 

 

Samuel Morse
(1791-1872) inventor of the single wired telegraph system

 

 

Paul Newman
(1925-2008) Academy Award winning actor and film director

 


Sylvia Plath
(1932-1963) poet and novelist, author of "The Bell Jar"

 

 

Beatrix Potter
(1866-1943) children's writer and illustrator, author of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit"

 

 

Joseph Priestley
(1733-1804) English chemist and clergyman, discovered oxygen

 

 

Christopher Reeve
(1952-2004) actor and spinal research activist, best known for role as "Superman"

 

 

Paul Revere
(1735-1818) American patriot and silversmith

 

 

May Sarton
(1912 1995) lesbian poet and novelist

 

 

Pete Seeger
(born 1919) folk singer and co-author of "Turn Turn Turn"

 


Rod Serling
(1924-1975) television screenwriter and creator of "The Twilight Zone"

 

Mary Shelley
(1797-1851) British novelist, best known as author of "Frankenstein"



Adlai Stevenson
(1835-1914) Vice-President of the United States (1893-1897)

 

 

Adlai Stevenson II
(1900-1965) Illinois governor and Democratic presidential candidate in 1952 and 1956

 

 

Lucy Stone
(1818-1893) American suffragist

 

 

William Howard Taft
(1857-1930) 27th President of the United States (1909-1913)

 

 

Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862) writer
and nautralist

 

 

Kurt Vonnegut
(1922-2007). prolific novelist, author of "Slaughterhouse Five"

 

 

Daniel Webster
(1782-1852) statesman and orator

 

 

Frank Lloyd Wright
(1867-1959) architect

 

 

 

Read more about these and other famous Unitarian Universalists at the online Dictionary of Unitarian Universalist Biography.


 
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