Home of the United States Founding Father George Mason.

John Jay (December 12, 1745 - May 17, 1829) was an American politician, statesman, revolutionary, diplomat, a Supreme Court Chief Justice, and a Founding Father of the United States.

William Richardson Davie (June 22, 1756-November 5, 1820) was the Governor of North Carolina from 1798 to 1799. He was a Federalist and may be considered a "Founding Father of the United States."

This passage highlights passionate French explorer, Samuel de Champlain, in his conquest for new lands in present day Canada and his establishment of France's North American capital of Quebec. Click the "Samuel de Champlain Activities"...

John Muir National Historic Site is found in Martinez, California and was the home of famed naturalist, co-founder of the Sierra Club and proclaimed "Father of Our National Park System," John Muir. Find facts and quotes about John Muir...

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A general biographical sketch of the "Father of Civil Rights," found at the site of a memorial dedicated to Mr. Wilkins, who led the NAACP at the height of the Civil Rights movement.

In the oratory of more thn two thousand years Demosthenes stands in the front rank, and will always hold first place among the orators of the ancient world. He was born in 384 B.C. When he was only seven years of age, his father, a...

Founded of Mohammedanism, born in Mecca, Arabia, Aug. 20, 570 A.D.; died in Medina, June 8, 632. He descended from a good family of Arabians, but his father, Abdallah, died when he was yet an infant, and his mother, Amina, died when he...

The King of Epirus, being obliged, on the murder of his father, to seek safety by flight, found a home, parent, and tutor in Flaucus, King of illyria, where he remained for several years, till old enough to maintain his own right, and...

Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow (13 October 1821 - 5 September 1902) was a German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician. He is referred to as the "Father of Pathology," and founded...