Hamilton has occurred to me, as well, for that title. I don’t know enought about Morgan to comment but Chernow also has House of Morgan which I have been intending to read. Native New Yorkers like Teddy would qualify. Also things, such as 9/11 or the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Buffalo Bill Cody, showman
Billy Sunday, evangelist
Wyatt Earp, lawman
Carrie Chapman Catt, suffragist
Herbert Hoover, 32nd President
Henry A. Wallace, VP/SecAg
Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady
John Wayne, icon
Bix Beiderbecke, cornetist
Glenn Miller, bandleader
Grant Wood, artist
John L. Lewis, labor leader
Ann Landers, columnist
Fran Allison, TV personality
Abigail (Dear Abby) Van Buren, columnist
Peter (P.D.Q. Bach) Schickele, composer
Bob Feller, baseballer
Meredith Willson, composer
Jean Seberg, actress
James Van Allen, astrophysicist
Donna Reed, actress
Harry Reasoner, newsman
Hugh Sidey, journalist
Johnny Carson, comic/talk host
Cloris Leachman, actress
George Gallup, pollster
Andy Williams, singer
Dan Gable, wrestler/coach
Doug Henning, magician
Tom Arnold, actor
Bob Barr, wingnut
Kate Mulgrew, actress
Bill Bryson, author
Jake Johannsen, comic
Ashton Kutcher, actor
Elijah Wood, actor
My state of origin, Missouri. Here’s a few of our more famous stars:
Sheryl Crow
Robert Altman
Burt Bacharach
Josephine Baker
Yogi Berra
Bill Bradley
Martha Jane Canary (Calamity Jane)
George Washington Carver
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)
Walter Cronkite
T. S. Eliot
Redd Foxx
James W. Fulbright
John Goodman
Betty Grable
Jean Harlow
Edwin Hubble
James Langston Hughes
John Huston
Jesse James
Geraldine Page
James C. Penney
Marlin Perkins
Vincent Price
Ginger Rogers
Harry S. Truman
Dick Van Dyke actor
Dennis Weaver actor
Roy Wilkins civil rights leader, Saint Louis
And the Erie Canal. Totally transformed the state. Nelson Rockefeller, for his establishment of the SUNY system, was also very important in state history.
Good point about the Erie Canal.
Nelson, to me, comes under the heading of his grandfather – Senior, Junior and his wife, plus their six children and spouses I would include in “Rockefeller.”
MICHIGAN
Jeff Daniels (not born here, but long since adopted, and a really great guy)
Jerry Bruckheimer
Francis Ford Coppola
Jamie Hyneman
Sid Meier
Stevie Wonder
Glenn Frey
Bob Seger
Gerald Ford
Alfred Hershey
Johnny Benson
Chris Van Allsburg
William Boeing
Roger Chaffee
Jack Lousma
My own extremely partial and selective list, chosen from many and omitting the obvious auto industry and cereal people.
>Originally Posted by Napier
>Maryland
>George W. Bush
>??? Born in New Haven, Conn., and raised in Midland and Houston, Texas.
Exactly. Can you imagine how embarrassed Connecticut and Texas must be?
Tell me about it. Maryland, for all its flaws, at least did not bequeath George W. Bush to this great republic.
Washington State
Arts
Veronica Lake
Bing Crosby
Theodore Roethke
Jimi Hendricks
Kurt Cobain
David Guterson
Sherman Alexie
Politics
Henry M Jackson
Warren Magnuson
Tom Foley
Patty Murray
Business
Fredrich Weyerhaeuser
William Boeing
Jim Casey (founded UPS)
Marco Puretic (Invented Seine Power Block)
John W Nordstrom
Bill Gates
Paul Allen
Howard Schultz