i need someone from american history...?

Question

someone else is already doing jackie robinson, martin luther king, thomas edison... does anyone know anyone else i could do? i can't do someone like george washington. hes too old. preferably not presidents...

oh and also, i have to write like an essay about their life.. incase you wanted to know what i needa do.. sooo thanks in advance!

Answer 1

how about John F. Kennedy oops a president... or maybe his son JFK Jr. or his mother Jacquelin Kennedy Onasis

or Alan B Sheppard, Walter Sherra, Gus Grissom ---deceased astronauts

or Babe Ruth---famous former Red sox turned Yankee great... the Yankee Stadium in NY has always been called "THE HOUSE THAT RUTH BUILT"..

or Eleanor Roosevelt---wife of former president FDR...very influential in politics, a real early activist and woman's rights worker...

Susan B. Anthony----woman's suffragetre movement---worked to get women the right to vote... 19th amendment...

Henry Houdini---famous worldwide magician... died while performing famous underwater escape trick....lets say FAILED escape trick.

or even Donald Trump----he has long been an entrepeneur building skyscrapers in New York, and buildings all over the country also involved in many fund raising events and one of the richest men in america--OR

Bill and Linda Gates---he the richest man in the WORLD, founder of Microsoft---certainly a man who changed the course of history.... his wife and he now fund a HUGE FOUNDATION to bring health and education to all parts of the world.... Ok now there's quite a few... each one can be looked up on the computer .....

Answer 2

John Glenn. United States Marine Corps pilot. First American astronaut to orbit our planet (featured in the movie, The Right Stuff). Popular hero. United States Senator from Ohio from 1974 to 1999. Presidential candidate in 1984. Back into space in 1998 on Space Shuttle Discovery at age 77.

Answer 3

Well, I'm not sure what grade level you're at or what the specifics of your assignment are, but I can throw out a few ideas.

Mary Jemison--settler captured by the Iroquois in New York during the French and Indian War and raised among them. She later married an Iroquois man and chose to live out her life among the Iroquois people.

Madeleine Albright--first woman to become Secretary of State, among lots of other interesting achievements.

Frederick Law Olmsted--was a great American landscape artist whose work included designing the grounds of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition (aka World's Fair) in Chicago, Central Park, the grounds of the US Capitol, and the entire park system of Buffalo, NY.


There's three good ones I'll bet nobody's chosen yet.

Answer 4

How about someone like John Glenn or Neil Armstrong or Chuck Yeager? They all had quite interesting lives.

Answer 5

Babe Ruth;MalcolmX; Billy Mitchell; General Patton

Answer 6

How about Susan B Anthony, or William Henery Harrison? Many people do not know who they are, but they are very interesting.

Answer 7

if your looking for a sports star how about Roberto Clemente an inventor heck why not bill gates? a peace keeper how about Rosa Parks....

Answer 8

elanor roosevelt, harriet tubman, frederick douglas, marilyn monroe, jim morrison, john smith, francis scott key, jimi hendrix, people from the weather underground... listen to "we didn't start the fire" by billy joel.... there's tons of historical references between about the mid 1940's to the late 1980's. good luck!!