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Aaron Burr
American Vice President and politician (1756–1836)
Abigail Adams
First Lady of the United States from 1797 to 1801
Alexander Hamilton
American founding father and statesman
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and a Founding Father of the United States
Dolley Madison
First Lady of the United States from 1809 to 1817
George Mason
American delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention
Gouverneur Morris
American Founding Father and politician
John Hancock
American Patriot and statesman during the American Revolution (1737–1793)
John Jay
American politician, diplomat, and Founding Father
John Winthrop
English leader of Massachusetts Bay Colony (1587–1649)
Martha Washington
First Lady of the United States from 1789 to 1797
Patrick Henry
18th-century American attorney, planter, orator, and politician
Robert Morris (financier)
Anglo-American merchant and politician (1734–1806)
Samuel Adams
American statesman, political philosopher, governor of Massachusetts, and Founding Father of the United States
William Bradford (governor)
17th-century English separatist leader
William Penn
Colonial American writer and religious thinker (1644–1718)