Henry David Thoreau
Walt Whitman
Orville and Wilbur Wright - Time to go, their invention was timely but not a huge leap.
Roger Williams
Thomas Edison - far more important that the Wrights but such an ass of a person. I cannot call him greatest.
G.W. Carver
T. Edison
J.F. Enders
T. Paine
W. Whitman
Are we eliminating only five names per round now? I think I missed that. Did it change at the same time the number of votes per player changed from 10 to 5?
I didn’t say that specifically, but Tom Scud correctly divined my intentions. 
John Franklin Enders
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Daniel Webster
John Marshall
Harriet Tubman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Thomas Paine
Jonas Salk
Daniel Webster
Orville and Wilbur Wright
I was planning on voting Ike and Truman this round but the consensus was a bit ahead of me on one count. I’ll weigh in against Salk in the Salk vs. Enders death match; I agree with whoever it was upthread who said it’s time for the Wrights to go.
Edison was a jerk but he was also astonishingly productive; any one of his several major inventions would have justified carrying him this far.
Sticking with Salk, Warren, and Webster, who survived despite the fact I picked them last round, and begrudgingly adding two men whose middle names are prominent:
George Washington Carver
Jonas Salk
Henry David Thoreau
Earl Warren
Daniel Webster
I’ll throw down in the Enders v. Salk face-off as well.
Jackie Robinson
Roger Williams
Frederick Douglass
Jonas Salk
Susan B. Anthony
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Walt Whitman
George Washington Carver
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk
Theodore Roosevelt
Henry David Thoreau
Daniel Webster
Walt Whitman.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John Franklin Enders
Jonas Salk
Daniel Webster
James Madison
Standings update:
1 Jonas Salk 6
2 Daniel Webster 5
2 Walt Whitman 5
4 Henry David Thoreau 4
5 George Washington Carver 3
5 Dwight D. Eisenhower 3
5 John Franklin Enders 3
5 Orville and Wilbur Wright 3
Thomas Edison 2
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 2
Thomas Paine 2
Earl Warren 2
Roger Williams 2
Susan B. Anthony
Frederick Douglass
James Madison
George Marshall
John Marshall
Jackie Robinson
Theodore Roosevelt
Harriet Tubman
George Washington Carver
John Franklin Enders
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Jonas Salk
Walt Whitman
As an Ohioan who has often visited Kitty Hawk, I’ll put in a word in defense for the Wright Brothers. They were amazingly skilled inventors and practical engineers; they had no formal training in aviation and taught themselves. They found that most of the previous research on wing structure and lift was just flat-out wrong, and so devised their own flight tests. They designed and built their own wind tunnel, engine, wings and propellers. They succeeded where many better-funded research efforts failed in devising a controlled, self-powered aircraft, and transformed an entire field of human accomplishment and transportation. In short, they have a fair claim to be the Greatest Americans.
George Washington Carver
Langston Hughes
Jim Thorpe
Walt Whitman
Edgar Allan Poe
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Henry David Thoreau
Thomas Edison
Dwight D. Eisenhower
James Madison
George Washington Carver
John Franklin Enders
Thomas Edison
Susan B. Anthony
Jackie Robinson
I’ll admit to a little bit of strategy here. Salk appears doomed, so I no longer need to harp on him. I don’t particularly think Susan B. Anthony needs to leave the list at this point, but I would like to save the Wright Brothers, who spearheaded the conquest of vertical space that has utterly transformed how we travel in, study, and think about our world. I considered throwing a vote against Earl Warren instead, but after reading about the decisions of his court, I think he edges Susan out.
Frederick Douglass
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
John Marshall
Henry David Thoreau
Walt Whitman
Seconded, in every respect.
You’re a round behind – Hughes, Thorpe, and Poe bit the dust yesterday. Here’s the complete list of the remaining contenders:
Susan B. Anthony: Suffrage activist
George Washington Carver: Agricultural botanist
Frederick Douglass: Abolitionist, orator
Thomas Edison: Inventor, workaholic
Dwight D. Eisenhower: President, war hero
John Franklin Enders: Modern vaccines pioneer
Benjamin Franklin: Scientist, statesman, inventor
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: Supreme Court Justice
Martin Luther King Jr.: Preacher, orator, humanitarian
Abraham Lincoln: President, emancipator, writer
James Madison: President, Framer, statesman
George Marshall: General, diplomat, statesman
John Marshall: Fourth Chief Justice
Thomas Paine: Political theorist, pamphleteer
Jackie Robinson: Athlete, activist, inspiration
Franklin D. Roosevelt: President, reformer, statesman
Theodore Roosevelt: President, conservationist, statesman
Jonas Salk: Polio vaccine inventor
Henry David Thoreau: Poet, naturalist, philosopher
Harriet Tubman: Civil rights advocate
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens): Humorist, “Huckleberry Finn”
Earl Warren: Chief Justice, governor
George Washington: President, general, statesman
Daniel Webster: Orator, advocate, statesman
Walt Whitman: Civil War poet
Roger Williams: Statesman, religious leader
Orville and Wilbur Wright: Aviation pioneers, inventors
Interesting note: Enders is the list’s only name that my computer’s spell checker flags.