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Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
politician, postmaster, lawyer, statesperson, farmer, military officer
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
theatre manager, botanist, politician, painter, philosopher, theologian, jurist, art critic, music critic, librarian, poet, physicist, literary, playwright, autobiographer, diplomat, statesperson, polymath, aphorist, diarist, mineralogist, zoologist, art theorist, lawyer, composer, librettist, visual artist, art historian
- Leipzig University, University of Strasbourg
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
politician, diplomat
- homeschooling, Boston Latin School
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
journalist, diplomat, autobiographer, businessperson, editor, suffragist, abolitionist, orator, film editor, caulker, politician
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)
autobiographer, biographer, politician
- Harrow School, Winchester College
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
pastor, preacher, civil rights advocate, human rights activist, peace activist, pacifist, politician
- Morehouse College, Crozer Theological Seminary
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
philosopher, politician, entrepreneur, journalist, opinion journalist
- Thetford Grammar School
William Beckford (1760-1844)
politician, architect, plantation owner, art collector