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Other Famous American Cousins

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Ethan Allen (January 21, 1738 [O.S. January 10, 1737] – February 12, 1789)
was a farmer, businessman, land speculator, philosopher, writer, lay
theologian, American Revolutionary War patriot, and politician. He is best
known as one of the founders of Vermont and as the leader of the Green
Mountain Boys who seized the initiative early in the American Revolution
with the capture of Fort Ticonderoga.
Ethan Allen

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Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an
American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the CBS
Evening News for 19 years (1962–1981). He reported many events from
1937 to 1981, the Nuremberg trials; combat in the Vietnam War;
Watergate; the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and civil rights
pioneer Martin Luther King Jr.; and the U.S. space program, from Project
Mercury to the Moon landings to the Space Shuttle.
Walter Cronkite

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William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the
27th president of the United States (1909–1913) and the tenth chief
justice of the United States (1921–1930), the only person to have held
both offices. Taft was elected president in 1908, the chosen successor
of Theodore Roosevelt, but was defeated for re-election by Woodrow
Wilson in 1912 after Roosevelt split the Republican vote by running as

William Howard Taft a third-party candidate. In 1921, President Warren G. Harding appointed
Taft to be chief justice, a position in which he served until a month before
his death.

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Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was an
American painter and illustrator. His works have a broad popular appeal in
the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most
famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for The
Saturday Evening Post magazine over nearly five decades. Norman
Rockwell was a prolific artist, producing more than 4,000 original works in

Norman Rockwell his lifetime including portraits of Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy,
Johnson, and Nixon.
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