Key Figures in U.S. Imperialism and World War

Imperialism and World War: List of People

Prominent leaders drove America onto the world stage. Theodore Roosevelt expanded global reach with naval power, while Woodrow Wilson led the nation through World War I. Military figures like John J. Pershing commanded forces, establishing the U.S. as an influential global superpower.

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1826	Birth of William Crowninshield Endicott (Location: Salem, Massachusetts, United States)
1828	Birth of James Woodrow (Location: Carlisle, England, United Kingdom)
1835	Birth of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Location: Florida, Missouri, United States)
1837	Birth of Robert Gould Shaw (Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States)
1838	Birth of John Hay (Location: Salem, Indiana, United States)
1840	Birth of Alfred Thayer Mahan (Location: West Point, New York, United States)
1842	Birth of William James (Location: New York City, New York, United States)
1845	Birth of Elihu Root (Location: Clinton, New York, United States)
1850	Birth of Henry Cabot Lodge (Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States)
1856	Birth of Thomas Woodrow Wilson (Location: Staunton, Virginia, United States) Birth of Thomas Woodrow Wilson (Location: Staunton, Virginia, United States)
1857	Birth of William Howard Taft (Location: Cincinnati, Ohio, United States)
1858	Birth of George Carter Glass (Location: Lynchburg, Virginia, United States) Birth of Edward Mandell House (Location: Houston, Texas, United States)
1860	Birth of Ellen Louise Axson (Location: Savannah, Georgia, United States) Birth of Leonard Wood (Location: Winchester, New Hampshire, United States)
1862	Birth of Claude Augustus Swanson (Location: Swansonville, Virginia, United States (still remaining as an unincorporated community in Pittsylvania County))
1863	Death of Robert Gould Shaw
1866	Birth of Charles Francis Adams III (Location: Quincy, Massachusetts, United States)
1868	Birth of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (Location: Great Barrington, Massachusetts, United States) Birth of John Nance Garner (Location: Near Detroit, Texas, United States)
1871	Birth of James Weldon Johnson (Location: Jacksonville, Florida, United States) Birth of Cordell Hull (Location: Near Birdsall, Tennessee, United States (birthplace was Olympus, in what was then Overton County and is now Pickett County))
1872	Birth of Edith Bolling Galt Wilson (Location: Wytheville, Virginia, United States)
1874	Birth of Jesse Holman Jones (Location: Robertson County, Tennessee, United States (around present-day Springfield))
1877	Birth of Thomas Terry Connally (Location: Near Hewitt, Texas, United States) Birth of Alben William Barkley (Location: Near Lowes, Kentucky, United States)
1880	Birth of George Catlett Marshall Jr. (Location: Uniontown, Pennsylvania, United States)
1881	Birth of Byron Patton Harrison (Location: Crystal Springs, Mississippi, United States)
1882	Birth of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Location: Hyde Park, New York, United States) Birth of James Francis Byrnes (Location: Charleston, South Carolina, United States)
1884	Birth of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (Location: New York City, New York, United States)
1886	Birth of Randolph Silliman Bourne (Location: Bloomfield, New Jersey, United States)
1889	Birth of A. Philip Randolph (Location: Crescent City, Florida, United States)
1890	Birth of Harry Lloyd Hopkins (Location: Sioux City, Iowa, United States)
1892	Birth of Robert Houghwout Jackson (Location: Spring Creek Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania, United States. The area is still around Spring Creek and is not an independent city)
1893	Birth of Dean Gooderham Acheson (Location: Middletown, Connecticut, United States)
1896	Birth of William Yandell Elliott (Location: Murfreesboro, Tennessee, United States)
1900	Death of William Crowninshield Endicott Birth of Claude Denson Pepper (Location: Near Dudleyville, Alabama, United States)
1902	Birth of Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (Location: Nahant, Massachusetts, United States)
1903	Birth of John Davis Lodge (Location: Washington D.C., United States)
1904	Birth of George Frost Kennan (Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States)
1905	Death of John Hay
1907	Death of James Woodrow
1910	Death of Samuel Langhorne Clemens Death of William James
1914	Death of Ellen Louise Axson Death of Alfred Thayer Mahan
1918	Death of Randolph Silliman Bourne
1924	Death of Thomas Woodrow Wilson Death of Thomas Woodrow Wilson Death of Henry Cabot Lodge
1927	Death of Leonard Wood
1930	Death of William Howard Taft
1937	Death of Elihu Root
1938	Death of Edward Mandell House Death of James Weldon Johnson
1939	Death of Claude Augustus Swanson
1941	Death of Byron Patton Harrison
1945	Death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1946	Death of Harry Lloyd Hopkins Death of George Carter Glass
1954	Death of Charles Francis Adams III Death of Robert Houghwout Jackson
1955	Death of Cordell Hull
1956	Death of Alben William Barkley Death of Jesse Holman Jones
1959	Death of George Catlett Marshall Jr.
1961	Death of Edith Bolling Galt Wilson
1962	Death of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
1963	Death of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois Death of Thomas Terry Connally
1967	Death of John Nance Garner
1971	Death of Dean Gooderham Acheson
1972	Death of James Francis Byrnes
1979	Death of William Yandell Elliott Death of A. Philip Randolph
1985	Death of Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. Death of John Davis Lodge
1989	Death of Claude Denson Pepper
2005	Death of George Frost Kennan

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