Important People of the American Revolution |
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Adams, John - Second President of the United States |
Adams, Samuel - American Revolutionary |
Adams, John Quincy - Sixth President of the United States |
Adams, Abigail Smith - Wife of John Adams, second president of the United States |
Allen, William - Loyalist - former mayor of Philadelphia |
Allen, Ethan - American Revolutionary War patriot, hero, and politician. |
Arnold, Benedict - American General who defected from the American to the British side |
Askin, John - Loyalist fur trader, merchant and official in Upper Canada. |
Bowles, William Augustus - Loyalist and Maryland-born English adventurer |
Brant, Joseph - Mohawk leader and Loyalist during the American Revolution |
Brown, Thomas Burnfoot - British Loyalist during the American Revolution |
Cooper, Myles - Loyalist and President of King's College (Columbia University |
Dickinson, John - American Statesman and member of the Pennsylvania Assembly |
Draper, Mary - Woman who helped soldiers during The American Revolution |
Franklin, Benjamin - American Statesman |
Franklin, William - Loyalist, Govenor of New Jersey, Son of Ben Franklin |
Frederick, George William - King of Great Britain and King of Ireland during the American Revolution |
Galloway, Joseph - Loyalist and politician |
Girty, Simon - Loyalist and Liaison between Native Americans and Britain |
Greene, Nathanael - American General during the American Revolutionary War |
Hancock, John - American Politician, Entrepreneur, and Soldier |
Henry, Patrick - Founding father of American Revolutionary War and governor of Virginia |
Howe, John - Loyalist printer during the American Revolution |
Hutchinson, Thomas - Last British royal governor of colonial Massachusetts |
Jay, John - The First Chief Justice of the United States |
Jefferson, Thomas - Third US President and Co-Author of the Declaration of Independence |
Jones, John Paul - Captain of the American Navy - "I have not yet begun to fight" |
Knox, Henry - First United States Secretary of War |
Lee, Richard Henry - American Statesman |
Lee, Francis Lightfoot - Active in Virginia politics and signer of the Declaration of Independence |
Madison, James - Fourth President of the United States |
Monroe, James - Fifth President of the United States |
Moore, Margaret Catharine - Helped the colonists during the Battle of Cowpens. |
Paine, Thomas - Author of "Common Sense" and Revolutionary |
Prescott, William - American colonel in the Revolutionary War |
Revere, Paul - American Activist and Artisan |
Rush, Benjamin - Signatory of the Declaration of Independence |
Warren, Joseph - Doctor, Soldier and Statesman of the American Revolution |
Washington, George - First President of the United States |
Wheatley, Phillis - First published African author in America |
Wilson, James - Signer of the Declaration of Independence |