• Sherman Adams - governor & Pres. Eisenhower Chief of Staff
• Thomas Bailey Aldrich - author & poet
• Josiah Bartlett - signer of the Declaration of Independence
• Styles Bridges - governor & US Senator
• Salmon Chase - Supreme Court Justice, co-founder of Republican Party
• Lewis Downing - founder of Abbot & Downing, builders of the Concord Coach
• Hannah Dustin - Colonial woman captured by Native Americans. First woman in the US to have a statue erected in her honor
• Mary Baker Eddy - founder of the Christian Science Church
• Carlton Fisk - baseball player
• Amos Fortune - freed slave who settled in NH
• Robert Frost - poet
• Nicholas Gilman - NH representative at the Constitutional Convention
• Sarah Josepha Hale - editor, author & influential in getting Thanksgiving Day as a national holiday
• Donald Hall - poet & children's book author
• John Langdon - NH representative at the Constitutional Convention
• John Mason - one of the founders of the colony of NH
• Edward MacDowell - composer
• Christa McAuliffe - teacher & astronaut
• Franklin Pierce - President of the United States
• Robert Rogers - soldier, French & Indian Wars
• Augustus Saint Gaudens - sculptor
• Alan Shepard - astronaut
• David Souter - current Supreme Court Justice
• John Stark - Revolutionary War general and author of "Live free or die, death is not the worst of evils"
• John Sullivan - Revolutionary War general
• Celia Thaxter - poet
• David Thomson - one of the founders of the colony of NH
• Matthew Thornton- signer of the Declaration of Independence
• Daniel Webster - senator, orator, and presidential candidate
• Benning Wentworth - 1st Royal Governor of NH 1741
• William Whipple- signer of the Declaration of Independence
• Henry Wilson - Vice President of the US
• Elizabeth Yates - author & winner of the Newbery Medal

New Hampshire Biographies Internet links

Famous New Hampshirites - very brief biographies from NH State website

Famous people in NH history

Framers of Freedom - Revolutionary War heroes and heroines

NH Notables - click on "NH notables" in left sidebar to get list

NH War Heroes

Biography Websites - look up the name in one of these resources

Don't forget that you can go to World Book On-line and look up the name of a person from New Hampshire or
go to Grolier online!

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