Abbreviated Bios

Medgar Evers was an important civil rights leader in Mississippi.  He was assassinated in 1963.

Frederick Gates was the man most responsible for the rise in scientific medicine which led to Big Pharma.

David Hosack was not only the attending physician at the Hamilton-Burr duel, he also found the first botanic garden in America to train medical students.  He was the first American doctor to regularly use the stethoscope.

William Jennings Bryan, the Old Commoner, was a 3-time presidential candidate who later became a Secretary of State. Sadly, he is only remembered for a wildly inaccurate portrayal of him in the movie "inherit the Wind." Learn who he really was.

Andrew Mellon served 3 Presidents as Secretary of State and helped create the Roaring 20s economy.  He made a big profit from it, too.

Albert G. Spalding helped establish baseball as America's National Pastime and created a sporting goods company that still supplies sports equipment to people around the world.

henry Morris is considered the "Father of Creation Science" and was partly responsible for the lessening belief in the theory of evolution.

Luther Burbank experimented with plants by cross breeding them in order to create disease resistant and tastier fruits and vegetable, most of which we still eat today.

Henry J. Kaiser was an amazing businessman who built dams, brought the steel industry to California, constructed ships during WWII, made the Jeep brand popular around the world and created the HMO.  

John C. Calhoun is considered a villain of American History.  He considered slavery to be a positive for society. Some progressives are stealing his ideas today.