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Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
journalist, diplomat, autobiographer, businessperson, editor, suffragist, abolitionist, orator, film editor, caulker, politician
Thomas More (1478-1535)
philosopher, historian, theologian, politician, poet, statesperson, poet lawyer, judge, diplomat
- Lincoln's Inn, University of Oxford
William Caxton (1421-1492)
linguist, translator, publisher, diplomat, printer
Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798)
translator, poet, librarian, banker, diplomat, adventurer, autobiographer
- University of Padua
Lew Wallace (1827-1905)
military officer, lawyer, diplomat, politician, autobiographer, journalist, poet, jurist, military personnel
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
poet, diplomat, essayist, literary critic, journalist, pedagogue, publisher
- Harvard Law School, Harvard College
Bayard Taylor (1825-1878)
poet, diplomat, literary critic, journalist, critic, translator, politician, explorer, lyricist
William Le Queux (1864-1927)
journalist, diplomat