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José de San Martín

José Francisco de San Martín y Matorras

Argentina

1778-02-25 – 1850-08-17 (72 years old)

Liberated three South American nations and chose voluntary self-exile after the Guayaquil Conference to avoid fratricidal civil war among the liberators.

Boulogne-sur-Mer, France

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Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet

Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet

Kingdom of Great Britain

1788 – 1850 (62 years old)

Father of modern British policing who created the Metropolitan Police ('Bobbies'), founded the modern Conservative Party, and repealed the Corn Laws in 1846.

Drayton Bassett (Staffordshire), United Kingdom

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John C. Calhoun

John Caldwell Calhoun

United States

1782 – 1850 (68 years old)

Seventh US Vice President, Secretary of War, and South Carolina Senator who formulated the political doctrines of Nullification and the Concurrent Majority.

Charleston, South Carolina, United States

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Muhammad Ali of Egypt

محمد علي باشا

Ottoman Empire (Greece)

1769 – 1849 (80 years old)

Visionary Ottoman commander acclaimed as the 'Founder of Modern Egypt', who eliminated Mamluk hegemony, introduced long-staple cotton, built state industries, and founded the dynasty that governed Egypt until 1952.

Cairo, Egypt

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John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams

United States

1767-07-11 – 1848-02-23 (80 years old)

Renowned as one of the greatest diplomats in American history and an uncompromising champion of abolitionism in Congress.

Washington, D.C., United States

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Bernardo O'Higgins

Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme

Chile

1778-08-20 – 1842-10-24 (64 years old)

Founding Father of Chile; laid the institutional, educational, and naval foundations of the sovereign Chilean republic.

Lima, Peru

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Francisco de Paula Santander

Francisco Jose de Paula Santander y Omana

Viceroyalty of New Granada

1792 – 1840 (48 years old)

Founding Father and Vice President of Gran Colombia acclaimed as 'The Man of the Laws' (El Hombre de las Leyes), whose administrative and fiscal genius organized the armies of liberation and founded Colombia's modern constitutional, legal, and public education systems.

Bogota, Colombia

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Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

France

1754-02-02 – 1838-05-17 (84 years old)

Regarded as one of the most brilliant diplomats in world history, ensuring European equilibrium and France's place among great powers after Napoleon's fall.

Paris, France

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Jose Bonifacio

Jose Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva

Colonial Brazil

1763 – 1838 (74 years old)

Renowned mineralogist who discovered four new minerals (including petalite, which led to the discovery of lithium), and statesman revered as the 'Patriarch of Brazilian Independence' who guided Prince Pedro to declare independence from Portugal in 1822.

Santos (Sao Paulo), Brazil

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Diego Portales

Diego José Pedro Víctor Portales y Palazuelos

Chile

1793 – 1837 (43 years old)

Dominant Chilean statesman and businessman who established the stable constitutional framework of the Chilean Republic under the 1833 Constitution.

Santiago, Chile

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James Madison

James Madison

United States

1751-03-16 – 1836-06-28 (85 years old)

Designed the core institutional framework of American democracy, institutional checks and balances, and guaranteed constitutional civil liberties.

Montpelier, Virginia, United States

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John Marshall

John Marshall

United States

1755 – 1835 (79 years old)

Fourth Chief Justice of the United States who served for thirty-four years, established the principle of judicial review in Marbury v. Madison, and made the Supreme Court a co-equal branch.

Richmond, Virginia, United States

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Ioannis Kapodistrias

Ιωάννης Καποδίστριας

Republic of Venice

1776 – 1831 (55 years old)

First Governor of independent Greece (1828–1831) and former Foreign Minister of the Russian Empire who drafted the Swiss Federal Constitution, founded the modern Greek state, modern agriculture, and public education.

Corfu, Greece

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James Monroe

James Monroe

United States

1758 – 1831 (73 years old)

Fifth US President and last of the Virginia Dynasty whose 'Era of Good Feelings' saw the Missouri Compromise, the acquisition of Florida, and the historic Monroe Doctrine.

Richmond, Virginia, United States

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Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein

Heinrich Friedrich Karl Reichsfreiherr vom und zum Stein

Holy Roman Empire

1757 – 1831 (73 years old)

Visionary Prussian statesman who abolished serfdom, introduced municipal self-government, and coordinated the anti-Napoleonic Coalition in Russia and Germany.

Frücht (Rhineland-Palatinate), Germany

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Simon Bolivar

Simon Jose Antonio de la Santisima Trinidad Bolivar

Venezuela

1783 – 1830 (47 years old)

Supreme Liberator 'El Libertador' of South America whose military and political campaigns liberated Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia from the Spanish Empire, serving as the first President of Gran Colombia.

Caracas, Venezuela

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Antonio Jose de Sucre

Antonio Jose de Sucre y Alcala

Venezuela

1795 – 1830 (35 years old)

Grand Marshal of Ayacucho, beloved lieutenant to Simon Bolivar, who won the decisive Battle of Ayacucho in 1824 that permanently ended Spanish colonial rule in South America, serving as the first constitutional President of Bolivia.

Quito, Ecuador

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George Canning

George Canning

Kingdom of Great Britain

1770 – 1827 (57 years old)

Visionary British Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister who recognized the independence of Latin American republics, famously declaring: 'I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old'.

London, United Kingdom

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