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Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson US president whose Fourteen Points and League of Nations failed to win the Senate’s ratification Political and party leadership · United States state institutions 1856–1924
Hugh Lincoln Cooper Hugh Lincoln Cooper The American colonel who brought General Electric turbines and dam-building expertise to the Soviet Union's showcase construction site Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1865–1937
William S. Graves William Sidney Graves General who led the American Expeditionary Force in Siberia in 1918–1920 and kept it strictly neutral in the Russian Civil War Military command · United States state institutions 1865–1940
Vernon Kellogg Vernon Lyman Kellogg An entomologist who carried scientific expertise into international relief Science and technology 1867–1937
W. E. B. Du Bois W. E. B. Du Bois "Capitalism cannot reform itself": father of the modern Negro liberation movement who joined the Communist Party at 93 Scholarship and theory · Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 1868–1963
Cordell Hull Cordell Hull An American diplomat who pressed for free trade and international institutions Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1871–1955
Herbert C. Hoover Herbert Hoover Master of famine relief and the 31st president, broken by the Great Depression Government and administration · United States state institutions 1874–1964
William D. Leahy William D. Leahy The five-star chief of staff who warned Roosevelt the Yalta Poland deal was 'so elastic' it could stretch from Yalta to Washington Military command · United States state institutions 1875–1959
William N. Haskell William N. Haskell An international relief commander amid famine Military command · United States state institutions 1878–1952
Walter Lyman Brown Walter Lyman Brown The relief administrator who turned aid into diplomacy Diplomacy and international organization · American Relief Administration (ARA) 1880–1955
George C. Catlett Marshall George C. Marshall The only American to head the Army, the State Department, and the Pentagon, organizer of Allied victory and architect of the Marshall Plan Military command · United States state institutions 1880–1959
Henry Beeuwkes Henry Beeuwkes The physician who organized medical relief amid famine Science and technology 1880–1959
William Z. Zebulon Foster William Zebulon Foster From leading the Great Steel Strike of 1919 to longest-serving leader of American communism Political and party leadership · Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 1881–1961
Franklin D. Delano Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt The only four-term president, who carried America through depression and war and spent his last strength at Yalta Government and administration · United States state institutions 1882–1945
George S. Patton George Smith Patton Jr. An aggressive commander of mobile warfare and military deception Military command · United States state institutions 1885–1945
Chester Nimitz Chester William Nimitz The admiral who reorganized Pacific power through intelligence and mobility Military command · United States state institutions 1885–1966
Anna Louise Strong Anna Louise Strong The American journalist who chronicled the Russian and Chinese revolutions from the inside, founder of Moscow News Literature and arts · Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 1885–1970
Frank Jack Fletcher Frank Jack Fletcher An operational commander of the carrier age Military command · United States state institutions 1885–1973
Raymond A. Spruance Raymond Ames Spruance A cool-headed carrier commander at Midway Military command · United States state institutions 1886–1969
John Reed John Reed From eyewitness of the Bolshevik Revolution to founder of the Communist Labor Party of America: an American buried at the Kremlin Wall Literature and arts · Independent activity 1887–1920
Alexander Vandegrift Alexander Vandegrift The general who defended Guadalcanal and the Marine Corps Military command · United States state institutions 1887–1973
Harry Hopkins Harry Hopkins A New Deal administrator turned wartime diplomatic envoy Government and administration · United States state institutions 1890–1946
John P. Lucas John Porter Lucas The cautious commander of Anzio Military command · United States state institutions 1890–1949
Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower The five-star general who led D-Day and warned America against the military-industrial complex Military command · United States state institutions 1890–1969
James P. Cannon James P. Cannon The labor organizer who read Trotsky's critique in Moscow and founded the American Trotskyist movement Political and party leadership · Socialist Workers Party (United States) 1890–1974
Earl Russell Browder Earl Russell Browder The CPUSA leader who declared Communism was 20th-century Americanism, and then dissolved his own party Political and party leadership · Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 1891–1973
Sumner Welles Sumner Welles US Under Secretary of State whose Welles Declaration of July 1940 refused to recognise the Soviet annexation of the Baltic states Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1892–1961
Omar Nelson Bradley Omar Nelson Bradley The U.S. Army commander who led the Normandy campaign Military command · United States state institutions 1893–1981
Robert Daniel Murphy Robert Daniel Murphy The diplomat who read the danger in Berlin first Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1894–1978
Mark W. Clark Mark W. Clark An Allied commander caught between military gains and civilian cost Military command · United States state institutions 1896–1984
Paul Leroy Robeson Paul Leroy Robeson The artist who turned 'Ol' Man River' into a hymn of struggle Literature and arts 1898–1976
Harry Haywood Harry Haywood Architect of the Comintern Black Belt thesis: Southern Blacks are an oppressed nation with the right to self-determination Political and party leadership · Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 1898–1985