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Charles Sumner
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Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner
🇺🇸 United States
1811 – 1874 (63 years old)

Fierce Radical Republican Senator from Massachusetts who led the abolitionist cause in Congress, survived a brutal caning on the Senate floor, and championed Reconstruction civil rights.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Benito Juarez
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Benito Juarez

Benito Pablo Juarez Garcia
🇲🇽 Viceroyalty of New Spain
1806 – 1872 (66 years old)

First indigenous President of Mexico (1858–1872), full-blooded Zapotec lawyer who enacted 'La Reforma' separating church and state, defeated French imperial invasion under Emperor Maximilian, and defended Mexican democratic sovereignty, hailed as 'Benemérito de las Américas'.

Mexico City, Mexico
Thaddeus Stevens
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Thaddeus Stevens

Thaddeus Stevens
🇺🇸 United States
1792 – 1868 (76 years old)

Formidable Radical Republican leader in the House of Representatives during the Civil War and Reconstruction who drafted the 14th Amendment and led the impeachment of Andrew Johnson.

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
Daniel Webster
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Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster
🇺🇸 United States
1782 – 1852 (70 years old)

Foremost American constitutional orator and Whig statesman who served twice as Secretary of State and proclaimed 'Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!'.

Marshfield, Massachusetts, United States
Henry Clay Sr.
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Henry Clay Sr.

Henry Clay Sr.
🇺🇸 United States
1777 – 1852 (75 years old)

Revered as 'The Great Compromiser', Speaker of the House, Secretary of State, and Kentucky Senator who preserved the Union through the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.

Lexington, Kentucky, United States
Lin Zexu
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Lin Zexu

林則徐
🇨🇳 Qing Dynasty China
1785 – 1850 (65 years old)

Imperial Commissioner of the Qing dynasty whose destruction of 20,000 chests of British opium at Humen ignited the First Opium War and inaugurated modern Chinese resistance to imperialism.

Fuzhou (Fujian), China
Jose Gervasio Artigas
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Jose Gervasio Artigas

Jose Gervasio Artigas
🇺🇾 Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata
1764 – 1850 (86 years old)

National Hero and Founding Father of Uruguay, celebrated as the 'Protector of the Free Peoples' (Protector de los Pueblos Libres), who led the 1811 Oriental Exodus and formulated the revolutionary 1815 Agrarian Regulation favoring the dispossessed.

Montevideo, Uruguay
Jose de San Martin
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Jose de San Martin

Jose Francisco de San Martin y Matorras
🇦🇷 Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata
1778 – 1850 (72 years old)

Argentine general and prime liberator of southern South America who executed the legendary 1817 Crossing of the Andes, liberated Chile at Chacabuco and Maipu, and proclaimed the sovereign independence of Peru as its Protector.

Buenos Aires, Argentina
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