Please change my vote from MLK to Thomas Edison.
Oooooh…dramatic tension!
We appear to have another tie
Edison 4
Anthony 4
Douglass 2
Roosevelt (T) 1
I will again break the tie. Edison was a jerk; Anthony wasn’t. There are other men still on the list, but no other women. Edison has never been on a U.S. coin; Anthony has. Edison is now gone. That leaves:
Susan B. Anthony: Suffrage activist
Frederick Douglass: Abolitionist, orator
Benjamin Franklin: Scientist, statesman, inventor
Martin Luther King Jr.: Preacher, orator, humanitarian
Abraham Lincoln: President, emancipator, writer
Franklin D. Roosevelt: President, reformer, statesman
Theodore Roosevelt: President, conservationist, statesman
George Washington: President, general, statesman
Still one vote each, with one person eliminated each round. The current round will end at noon EST on Weds. March 17.
King.
T Roosevelt
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
By the way, Edison has appeared on a U.S. coin, albeit a commemorative silver dollar not released into circulation.
Frederick Douglass
Douglass.
MLK
Martin Luther King Jr.
Thank you! Ignorance fought.
Frederick Douglass gets my vote this round.
Teddy.
Theodore Roosevelt
I thought this was Greatest American, not greatest President. Do you people know how ridiculously kick-ass Theodore was?
He propelled America onto the world stage.
Won a Nobel Peace prize for ending a war.
Wrote scholarly and popular books. The Naval war of 1812 was used as a war college text on both sides of the Atlantic.
Was a rancher, hunter, explorer, war hero, dandy, amateur scientist, reformer, diplomat, discoverer and several others things I am forgetting.
He was shot in the chest giving a speech but quickly accessed he could hold of immediate medical attention and gave a 45 minute speech that was said to be quite rousing and then got medical aid.
In the cold Dakota winter, he hunted down and captured live two desperadoes and brought them to justice with only the aid of two of his ranch hands.
There is a large river named for him as his expedition discovered this tributary to the Amazon.
The Panama canal was basically him.
The Great White Fleet was him.
Please check at least the wiki article for a quick review of how much more he was than just a top President. The man was simply amazing beyond belief.
Jim (all of the above was from memory, please excuse any small mistakes and omissions.)
You forgot the National Parks.
Huge oversight on my part, thank you.
I’ll back off of Teddy. I’d like to vote for FDR but it seems futile this round.
Therefore, my vote goes to:
Frederick Douglass
Plus trust-busting, clean food and drink legislation, and dining in the White House with Booker T. Washington despite Southern angst.
Quite a guy.