Following is a partial list of notable faculty (either past, present or visiting) of
New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin.
In 1832, the ...
. As of 2014, among NYU's past and present faculty, there are at least 159
Guggenheim Fellows
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...
, over 7
Lasker Award
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winners, and at least 68 are currently elected to the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, and ...
.
Nobel laureates
*Nobel laureates
Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman (; he, דניאל כהנמן; born March 5, 1934) is an Israeli-American psychologist and economist notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, as well as behavioral economics, for which he was award ...
,
Myron Scholes and
Robert A. Mundell gave lectures at
New York University Tandon School of Engineering
The New York University Tandon School of Engineering (commonly referred to as Tandon) is the engineering and applied sciences school of New York University. Tandon is the second oldest private engineering and technology school in the United Sta ...
as part of the
NYU Tandon School of Engineering Lynford Lecture Series
Every year, the New York University Tandon School of Engineering hosts the Lynford Lecture Series which brings in a prominent thinker who explains complex information and important ideas with clarity and concision. The lecture series is sponsored b ...
.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Members of the National Academy of Sciences
Members of the National Academy of Engineering
Guggenheim Fellows
MacArthur Fellows
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Bryan Stevenson
Bryan Stevenson (born November 14, 1959) is an American lawyer, social justice activist, law professor at New York University School of Law, and the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative. Based in Montgomery, Alabama, h ...
, professor at School of Law
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Subhash Khot
Subhash Khot (born June 10, 1978 in Ichalkaranji) is an Indian-American mathematician and theoretical computer scientist who is the Julius Silver Professor of Computer Science in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York Univers ...
, professor at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
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Julia Wolfe
Julia Wolfe (born December 18, 1958) is an American composer and professor of music at New York University. According to ''The Wall Street Journal'', Wolfe's music has "long inhabited a terrain of its own, a place where classical forms are re ...
, professor at Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.
Also won a Pulitzer Prize.
Rhodes Scholars
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Peter Blair Henry, professor at Stern School of Business
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John Brademas
Stephen John Brademas Jr. (March 2, 1927 – July 11, 2016) was an American politician and educator originally from Indiana. He served as Majority Whip of the United States House of Representatives for the Democratic Party from 1977 to 1981 at ...
, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science
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Sujit Choudhry
Sujit Choudhry is a lawyer, legal scholar, and expert in comparative constitutional law.
He is also an internationally recognized authority on comparative constitutional law. For over 20 years, he has been an advisor for constitution building, g ...
, professor at School of Law. He also served as the Dean of the
UC Berkeley School of Law
The University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (commonly known as Berkeley Law or UC Berkeley School of Law) is the law school of the University of California, Berkeley, a public research university in Berkeley, California. It is one of 1 ...
, and as Associate Dean of the
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...
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James McNaughton Hester
James McNaughton Hester (19 April 1924 – 31 December 2014) was an internationally recognized educator.
Hester was born in Chester, Pennsylvania. He spent his boyhood at various stations to which his father, a United States Navy Chaplain, was ...
, former professor and Dean of both undergraduate and graduate schools of arts and science at NYU. He became 11th President of NYU.
National Medals for Science, Technology and Innovation, Arts and Humanities recipients
Abel Prize recipients
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Louis Nirenberg
Louis Nirenberg (February 28, 1925 – January 26, 2020) was a Canadian-American mathematician, considered one of the most outstanding mathematicians of the 20th century.
Nearly all of his work was in the field of partial differential equat ...
, professor at Courant
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Peter Lax
Peter David Lax (born Lax Péter Dávid; 1 May 1926) is a Hungarian-born American mathematician and Abel Prize laureate working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics.
Lax has made important contributions to integrable systems, fluid ...
, professor at Courant
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S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan, professor at Courant
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Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov
Mikhael Leonidovich Gromov (also Mikhail Gromov, Michael Gromov or Misha Gromov; russian: link=no, Михаи́л Леони́дович Гро́мов; born 23 December 1943) is a Russian-French mathematician known for his work in geometry, ana ...
, professor at Courant
College of Arts and Science (undergraduate and graduate)
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Julia Jones-Pugliese (1909–1993), national champion fencer and fencing coach
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Nickolas Muray
Nickolas Muray (born Miklós Mandl; 15 February 1892 – 2 November 1965) was a Hungarian-born American photographer and Olympic saber fencer.
Early and personal life
Muray was born in Szeged, Hungary, and was Jewish. His father Samu Mandl was ...
(born Miklós Mandl; 1892–1965), Hungarian-born American photographer and Olympic fencer
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Elisha Netanyahu
Elisha Netanyahu ( he, אֱלִישָׁע נְתַנְיָהוּ; December 21, 1912 – April 3, 1986) was an Israeli mathematician specializing in complex analysis. Over the course of his work at the Technion he was the Dean of the Faculty of ...
, mathematician, former Dean of the Faculty of Sciences at
Technion.
Benjamin Netanyahu
Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu (; ; born 21 October 1949) is an Israeli politician who served as the ninth prime minister of Israel from 1996 to 1999 and again from 2009 to 2021. He is currently serving as Leader of the Opposition and Chairman of ...
, Prime Minister of Israel, is his nephew.
Tandon School of Engineering (formerly Polytechnic School of Engineering)
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
This is a small selection of Courant's famous faculty over the years and a few of their distinctions:
Stern School of Business
Tisch School of the Arts
Gallatin School of Individualized Study
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Sinan Antoon
Sinan Antoon ( ar, سنان أنطون), is an Iraqi poet, novelist, scholar, and literary translator. He has been described as "one of the most acclaimed authors of the Arab world." He is an associate professor at the Gallatin School of Individ ...
, Iraqi Novelist and Poet
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Taylor Antrim, Novelist and Journalist
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Mitchell Joachim, Sustainable Design, TED Senior Fellow
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Myles Jackson, Historian of Science and Technology
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John Sexton
John Edward Sexton (born September 29, 1942) is an American lawyer, academic, and author. He is the Benjamin F. Butler Professor of Law at New York University where he teaches at the law school and NYU's undergraduate colleges. Sexton served as t ...
, President of NYU teaches the seminar "Baseball as a Road to God"
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E. Frances White, former Dean, historian of Africa, African American Studies
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Frank Leon Roberts, writer, commentator, activist
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
School of Law
NYU Law has the second highest number of faculty who are members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences with 19 inductees, behind only Harvard.
Some of NYU's notable professors include:
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Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Maria Sotomayor (, ; born June 25, 1954) is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was nominated by President Barack Obama on May 26, 2009, and has served since ...
,
Associate Justice
Associate justice or associate judge (or simply associate) is a judicial panel member who is not the chief justice in some jurisdictions. The title "Associate Justice" is used for members of the Supreme Court of the United States and some state ...
of the
Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that involve a point o ...
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Preet Bharara
Preetinder Singh Bharara (; born October 13, 1968) is an Indian-born American lawyer, author, podcaster and former federal prosecutor who served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2009 to 2017. He is curren ...
, Former
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York is the chief federal law enforcement officer in eight New York counties: New York (Manhattan), Bronx, Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, Orange, Dutchess and Sullivan. Establishe ...
*
William Allen William Allen may refer to:
Politicians
United States
*William Allen (congressman) (1827–1881), United States Representative from Ohio
*William Allen (governor) (1803–1879), U.S. Representative, Senator, and 31st Governor of Ohio
*William ...
(Corporate Law, Chancellor of Delaware)
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Alberto Alemanno
Alberto Alemanno (born 30 April 1975 in Turin, Italy) is an academic, author, public interest lawyer, and civic entrepreneur. He is Jean Monnet Professor in EU Law at HEC Paris since 2009, permanent Visiting scholar, Visiting Professor at the Un ...
(European Union Law)
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Philip Alston
Philip Geoffrey Alston is an Australian international law scholar and human rights practitioner. He is John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, and co-chair of the law school's Center for Human Rights and Globa ...
(Human Rights)
* Jose Alvarez (International Law)
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Anthony Amsterdam
Anthony Guy Amsterdam (born September 12, 1935) is an American lawyer and University Professor Emeritus at New York University School of Law. In 1981, Alan Dershowitz called Amsterdam “the most distinguished law professor in the United States. ...
(Criminal Law, Capital Punishment)
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Rachel Barkow
Rachel Elise Barkow (née Selinfreund; born 1971) is an American professor of law at the New York University School of Law. She is also faculty director of the Center on the Administration of Criminal Law. Her scholarship focuses on administrat ...
(Administrative Law, Criminal Law and Procedure)
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Dorit Beinisch
Dorit Beinisch ( he, דורית ביניש; born February 28, 1942) was the 9th president of the Supreme Court of Israel. Appointed on September 14, 2006, after the retirement of Aharon Barak, she served in this position until February 28, 2012 ...
(National Security Law)
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Jerome A. Cohen (Chinese Law)
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Lawrence Collins (Transnational Litigation)
* Donald Donovan (
International Arbitration, International Investment Law)
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Richard Epstein
Richard Allen Epstein (born April 17, 1943) is an American legal scholar known for his writings on torts, contracts, property rights, law and economics, classical liberalism, and libertarianism. He is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at ...
(Law and Economics, Torts, Health Law & Policy)
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Cynthia Estlund
Cynthia Estlund (born 1957) is the Catherine A. Rein Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law.
Career
Estlund teaches labor law, employment law, and property law and has published numerous articles on the subject of labor and em ...
(Labor Law, Employment Law, Property)
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Samuel Estreicher (Labor Law, Employment Law, Administrative Law)
* Franco Ferrari (Sale of Goods, European Union Law, International Arbitration)
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Barry Friedman
Frazier Mohawk (born Barry Friedman, December 12, 1941 – June 2, 2012) was an American record producer and sometime photographer, publicist, circus owner, and farmer.
Life and career
Friedman attended the Happy Valley School in California. H ...
(Constitutional Law)
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David W. Garland (Criminal Law, Sociology)
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Stephen Gillers (
Legal Ethics)
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Douglas H. Ginsburg (
Administrative Law
Administrative law is the division of law that governs the activities of government agency, executive branch agencies of Forms of government, government. Administrative law concerns executive branch rule making (executive branch rules are gener ...
)
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Trevor Morrison (Dean, Constitutional Law)
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Samuel Issacharoff
Samuel Issacharoff (born 1954) is an American law professor, whose scholarly work focuses on constitutional law, voting rights and civil procedure.
Career
Issacharoff graduated from Binghamton University in 1975 and Yale Law School in 1983. He ...
(Procedure, Democracy)
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Sally Katzen
Sally Katzen (born November 22, 1942) is an American lawyer, legal scholar, and government official. Katzen was a member of the Obama-Biden Transition Project's Agency Review Working Group responsible for the Executive Office of the President and ...
(Administrative Law)
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Benedict Kingsbury
Benedict William Kingsbury (born 1961) is Vice Dean and Director of the Institute for International Law and Justice at New York University and a leading scholar in international law and diplomacy. He was recently also announced as a faculty direct ...
(International Law)
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John Koeltl
John George Koeltl (; born October 25, 1945) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan.
Education
Koeltl was born in New York City. He graduated from Regis High Scho ...
(Constitutional Litigation)
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Theodor Meron
Theodor Meron, (born 28 April 1930) is an Israeli-American judge. He served as a judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), and the International Residual M ...
(International Law)
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Arthur R. Miller
Arthur Raphael Miller (born June 22, 1934), is a leading scholar in the field of American civil procedure and a University Professor at New York University and Chairman of The NYU Sports & Society Program.
Early life and education
Miller was b ...
(Civil Procedure, Copyright, and Privacy)
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Thomas Nagel
Thomas Nagel (; born July 4, 1937) is an American philosopher. He is the University Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus at New York University, where he taught from 1980 to 2016. His main areas of philosophical interest are legal philosophy, ...
(Legal Philosophy)
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Burt Neuborne
Burt Neuborne (born January 1, 1941) is the Norman Dorsen Professor of Civil Liberties at New York University School of Law and the founding legal director of the Brennan Center for Justice.Richard Pildes
Richard H. Pildes is the Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law at the New York University School of Law and a leading expert on constitutional law, the Supreme Court, the system of government in the United States, and legal issues concern ...
(Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Election Law)
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Richard Revesz
Richard L. Revesz (born May 9, 1958) is an American lawyer and academic. He is the director of the American Law Institute and the Lawrence King Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law. He served as the Dean of the New York Univer ...
(Environmental Law)
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Catherine Sharkey (Tort Law, Empirical Legal Studies)
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John Sexton
John Edward Sexton (born September 29, 1942) is an American lawyer, academic, and author. He is the Benjamin F. Butler Professor of Law at New York University where he teaches at the law school and NYU's undergraduate colleges. Sexton served as t ...
(Civil Procedure)
* Linda J. Silberman (
Conflict of Laws
Conflict of laws (also called private international law) is the set of rules or laws a jurisdiction applies to a case, transaction, or other occurrence that has connections to more than one jurisdiction. This body of law deals with three broad t ...
, Civil Procedure, International Arbitration)
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Bryan Stevenson
Bryan Stevenson (born November 14, 1959) is an American lawyer, social justice activist, law professor at New York University School of Law, and the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative. Based in Montgomery, Alabama, h ...
(Criminal Law, Capital Punishment)
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Jeremy Waldron
Jeremy Waldron (; born 13 October 1953) is a New Zealand professor of law and philosophy. He holds a University Professorship at the New York University School of Law, is affiliated with the New York University Department of Philosophy, and was ...
(Legal Philosophy)
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Joseph H. H. Weiler
Joseph Halevi Horowitz Weiler (born 2 September 1951) is a South African-American academic, currently serving as European Union Jean Monnet Chair at New York University Law School and Senior Fellow of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European ...
(International Law)
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Kenji Yoshino
Kenji Yoshino (born May 1, 1969) is a legal scholar and the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law. Formerly, he was the Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His work involve ...
(Constitutional Law, LGBT Rights)
Grossman School of Medicine
Silver School of Social Work
Notable faculty include:
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James Jaccard, Professor of Social Work
NYU Abu Dhabi
Notable faculty include:
NYU Shanghai
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Chen Jian (academic)
Chen Jian is Hu Shih Professor of History and China-US Relations emeritus at Cornell University. His specialties include modern Chinese history, history of Chinese-American relations, and Cold War international history. He is also Zijiang Distin ...
, visiting professor from
Cornell University
Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...
, Chinese history and international relations
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Jeffrey Lehman, former president of Cornell, Dean of
University of Michigan
, mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth"
, former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821)
, budget = $10.3 billion (2021)
, endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...
law school
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Joanna Waley-Cohen
Joanna Waley-Cohen (born 1952) is the Provost for New York University Shanghai and Silver Professor of History at New York University, where she has taught Chinese history since 1992. As Provost, she serves as NYU Shanghai's chief academic office ...
, former head of the NYU New York History department
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Eitan Zemel, associate Chancellor for Strategy and Dean of Business
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Lin Fanghua
Fanghua Lin (; born March 11, 1959), also written as Fang-Hua Lin, is a Chinese-born American mathematician. He is currently the Silver Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He applies rigorous analy ...
, associate Provost for the Quantitative Disciplines, also Silver Professor at the
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (commonly known as Courant or CIMS) is the mathematics research school of New York University (NYU), and is among the most prestigious mathematics schools and mathematical sciences research cente ...
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Yu Lizhong
Yu Lizhong (; born September 14, 1949) was the first Chancellor of New York University Shanghai, having held this position from 2012 to 2020. Yu was awarded the title of Chancellor Emeritus of NYU Shanghai upon his retirement. Yu Lizhong joined NY ...
, former president of
East China Normal University
East China Normal University (ECNU) is a comprehensive Public university, public research university in Shanghai, China. It was formed in 1951 by the merger of the Great China University (est. 1924) and Kwang Hua University (est. 1925) and origin ...
* Jun Zhang, Professor of Physics and Mathematics, Fellow of American Physical Society
Professor emeriti and other notable faculty
New York University Presidents
New York University founders
Founders of NYU include:
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Morgan Lewis (governor)
Morgan Lewis (October 16, 1754 – April 7, 1844) was an American lawyer, politician, and military commander. The second son of Francis Lewis, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, Lewis fought in the American Revolutionary War and the W ...
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Albert Gallatin
Abraham Alfonse Albert Gallatin (January 29, 1761 – August 12, 1849) was a Genevan– American politician, diplomat, ethnologist and linguist. Often described as "America's Swiss Founding Father", he was a leading figure in the early years ...
See also
References
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