Know Your Notables -- Full Set

Let's see how many Americans you know!

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He received a patent for the telegraph and in 1844 sent the first message by telegraph in the U.S.

Alexander Graham Bell

Samuel Morse

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She was an abolitionist and she delivered her famous "Ain't I a Woman?" speech in 1851 advocating for equal rights for women and African Americans.

Sojourner Truth

Phillis Wheatley

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In 2001, he became the first African American to serve as U.S. Secretary of State.

In 1870, Hiram Revels became the first African American U.S. Senator.

Colin Powell

Hiram Revels

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He completed the Cherokee syllabary in 1821.

Black Hawk

Sequoyah

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She was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama in December 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger and has since been called by Congress “the first lady of civil rights.”

Sonia Sotomayor is a Supreme Court Justice.

Sonia Sotomayor

Rosa Parks

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He invented the Kodak camera, which was first sold to the public in 1888.

George Eastman

Henry Ford

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He was the first Supreme Court Chief Justice of the United States

Aaron Burr was the Vice President of the U.S. when he killed Alexander Hamilton in aduel in July 1804. In a separate matter, in 1807, he was arrested for treason, butwas acquitted at trial.

Aaron Burr

John Jay

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First Lady who was the wife of the 32nd President. After she was First Lady, she was a U.S. delegate to the United Nations and Chair of the United Nations Human Rights Commission.

Hillary Clinton was the wife of the 42nd President.