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a mayor of New Orleans from September 7, 1815, to May 1, 1820. He was a member of an influential Creole family allied by marriage to Esteban Rodríguez Miró, one of the last Spanish Governors of Louisiana. He was brought to the mayoralty by the resignation of the previous mayor, Nicolas Girod, but subsequently served two full terms, to which he was elected by landslide majorities; after which he declined further terms. His tenure was chiefly marked by the first officially recorded outbreak of yellow fever, and the subsequent creation of the city's first Board of Health in 1817.
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John Clopton1756, Feb 71776
 
18161816, Sep 11
 a United States Representative from Virginia. He served as first lieutenant and as captain in the...
Frederick Kemmelmeyer1752/531782
 
18161823 ca
 Frederick Kemmelmeyer advertised that he was an artist for the first time in a Baltimore newspape...
Friedrich Maximilian Klinger1752, Feb 171773
 
18171831, Feb 25
 a German dramatist and novelist. His play Sturm und Drang (1776) gave name to the Sturm und Drang...
Isaac Shelby1750, Dec 111774
 
18181826, Jul 18
 the first and fifth Governor of Kentucky and served in the state legislatures of Virginia and Nor...
John Young1742 ca1780
 
18191835, Dec 17
 a British subject who became an important military advisor to KamehamehaI during the formation of...
Philip J. Schuyler1768, Jan 211796
 
18191835, Feb 21
 an American politician from New York. Schuyler lived in Rhinebeck, where he managed farms and est...
Alexander Murray1755, Jul 121773
 
18211821, Oct 6
 an officer who served in the Continental Navy, the Continental Army, and later the United States ...
Molly Pitcher1744, Oct 131777
 
18221832, Jan 22
 a nickname given to a woman said to have fought in the American Battle of Monmouth, generally bel...
Jose de San Martin1778, Feb 251808
 
18221850, Aug 17
 an Argentine general and the prime leader of the southern part of South America's successful stru...
Joseph Bloomfield1753, Oct 181775
 
18231823, Oct 3
 the fourth Governor of New Jersey. The township of Bloomfield, New Jersey is named for him. He at...
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney1746, Feb 251769
 
18251825, Aug 16
 an early American statesman of South Carolina, Revolutionary War veteran, and delegate to the Con...
William Hull1753, Jun 241775
 
18251825, Nov 29
 an American soldier and politician. He fought in the American Revolution and was appointed as Gov...
William Clark [2]1770, Aug 11789
 
18291838, Sep 1
 an American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor. Along with Meriwether Lewi...
Gilbert du Motier1757, Sep 61771
 
18301834, May 20
 in the U.S. often known simply as Lafayette, was a French aristocrat and military officer who fou...
Simon Bolivar1783, Jul 241807
 
18301830, Dec 17
 a Venezuelan military and political leader who played a leading role in the establishment of Vene...
Cornplanter1750s ca1816
 
18311831
 a Seneca war chief and diplomat. As a chief warrior, Cornplanter fought in the French and Indian ...
Davy Crockett1786, Aug 171813
 
18361836, Mar 6
 a 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier, and politician. He is commonly referred...
James Bowie1796, Apr 101814
 
18361836, Mar 6
 a 19th-century American pioneer, who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution, culminating...
Henry Atkinson17821808
 
18421842, Jun 14
 a United States army officer. He was a native of Person County, North Carolina. He entered the Un...
Morgan Lewis1754, Oct 161774
 
18441844, Apr 7
 an American lawyer, politician, and military commander. The second son of Francis Lewis, a signer...
Charles XIV John1763, Jan 261818
 
18441844, Mar 8
  King of Sweden (as Charles XIV John) and King of Norway (as Charles III John) from 1818 until hi...
Henry Sargent1770, Nov 251793
 
18451845, Feb 21
  American painter and military man, was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts. In 1793 Sargent went t...
Kazimierz Lux17801795
 
18461846
 an officer of the Polish Legions and a pirate in the Caribbean Sea during the early 19th century....
Wilhelm Freiherr von Biela1782, Mar 191802
 
18491856, Feb 18
 a German-Austrian military officer and amateur astronomer. In the field of astronomy, he speciali...
William Miller1782, Feb 151809
 
18491849, Dec 20
 an American Baptist preacher who is credited with beginning the mid-19th century North American r...
Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov1787, Aug 261809
 
18561869, May 2
 a Finno-Russian nobleman, military commander and statesman. He was made adjutant general in 1817 ...
Charles Hamilton Smith1776, Dec 261787
 
18591859, Sep 21
 an English artist, naturalist, antiquary, illustrator, soldier, and spy. His military career bega...
Lewis Cass1782, Oct 91806
 
18601866, Jun 17
 an American military officer, politician, and statesman. He represented Michigan in the United St...
Winfield Scott1786, Jun 131807
 
18611866, May 29
 a United States Army general and unsuccessful presidential candidate of the Whig Party in 1852. K...
Sam Houston1793, Mar 21812
 
18611863, Jul 26
 an American politician and soldier, best known for his role in bringing Texas into the United Sta...
Ethan A. Hitchcock1798, May 181817
 
18671870, Aug 5
 a career United States Army officer and author who had War Department assignments in Washington, ...
Sir James Brooke1803, Apr 291819
 
18681868, Jun 11
 a British soldier and adventurer who founded the Raj of Sarawak in Borneo. He ruled as the first ...
Antoine-Henri Jomini1779, Mar 61798
 
18691869, Mar 24
 a Swiss officer who served as a general in the French and later in the Russian service, and one o...
Sir Edward Sabine1788, Oct 141818
 
18711883, Jun 26
 an Irish astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist, explorer, soldier and the 30th President of the...
Major Ridge1771 ca1790
 
1921839
 a Cherokee leader, a member of the tribal council, and a lawmaker. As a warrior, he fought in the...
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