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RESULTS

NUMBER ONE
the GREATEST american EVER

*drumroll please*
Martin Luther King, Jr., minister, civil rights leader, activist. 17 votes.

2. Thomas Jefferson, philosopher, Founding Father, President. 16 votes
2. Abraham Lincoln, President. 16 votes
3. Benjamin Franklin, inventor, Founding Father. 13 votes
4. Thomas Edison, inventor. 11 votes
5. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President. 9 votes
6. George Washington, Founding Father, President. 7 votes
7. Ronald Reagan, President. 6 votes
8. Homer Simpson, fictional character, 5 votes
9. Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander in WWII, President. 4 votes
9. Alexander Hamilton, Founding Father. 4 votes
10. James Madison, Founding Father, President. 3 votes
10. Mark Twain, author. 3 votes
10. Richard Feynman, scientist of some sort. 3 votes
10. Albert Einstein, physicist. 3 votes

11.
Norman Borlaug - 2
Thomas Paine - 2
Enrico Fermi - 2
Henry Ford - 2
Bob Dylan - 2
Eugene Debbs - 2
Nikola Tesla - 2
Orville Wright & Wilbur Wright - 2
Emma Goldman - 2
Texas Walker Ranger - 2
John Marshall - 2
Frederick Douglass - 2
Mr. T - 2
Jimi Hendrix - 2

12.
George Patton - 1
JP Morgan - 1
Andrew Carnagie - 1
John D Rockefeller - 1
Cesar Chavez - 1
Jesus Christ - 1
Edgar Allan Poe - 1
Jon Stewart - 1
Hellen Keller - 1
George Walker Bush - 1
MacGyver - 1
James T Kirk - 1
John "Hannibal" Smith - 1
Ann Coulter - 1
Nathan Bedford Forrest - 1
Thomas DeLay - 1
Steven Jobs - 1
John Holt - 1
Betty Friedan - 1
Susan B Anthony - 1
Duke Ellington - 1
Andrew WK - 1
Bill Gates - 1
Bill Clinton - 1
Johnny Cash - 1
Michael Jackson - 1
Rodney King - 1
Drew Carey - 1
Angelina Jolie - 1

Voila! There it is--the 25 greatest Americans (with some ties.)

revised 1 - most mistakes corrected

Last edited by mrmitchell on 02-05-2005 at 06:13

	01-05-2005 11:00									#122
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When was Mark Twain President?

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I also find it interesting that he was a founding father, given that he was born 60 years after the American revolution...

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and he's not sure if Franklin was president.

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Alexander Hamilton was never president, but he was the secretary of the treasury

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where's my vote for Bill Gates?

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Don't forget:

quote: 10. Richard Feynmann, Author. 3 votes

mitch, why don't you describe the rest of the guys for us?

	02-05-2005 03:38									#128
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Not bad. But MLK #1 is hard to accept. The real cause for racial equality in America was

1) WWII; and

2) Brown v. Board of Education.

Earl Warren, in other words.

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I would have had Benedict Arnold as #1, but there's no accounting for taste.

MtG

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I note that three in my list are not even counted (Rockefeller, Carnegie, and JP Morgan). Whatta shock.

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Corrected, even for whiny people

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and the HONORABLE MENTION

goes to:

TED STRIKER

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quote: Originally posted by mrmitchell and the HONORABLE MENTION goes to: TED STRIKER