Curated category
19th-century United States senators
- Waitman T. WilleyWaitman Thomas Willey was born on the 18th of October 1811 inside a log cabin near Buffalo Creek. His family needed him to work on their farm, so he could…
- Benjamin HarrisonBenjamin Harrison was born on the 20th of August 1833, on a farm by the Ohio River in North Bend, Ohio. He was the second of ten children born to John Scott…
- Andrew JacksonAndrew Jackson was born on the 15th of March 1767 in the Waxhaws region of the Carolinas. His parents were Scots-Irish colonists who had emigrated from…
- Andrew JohnsonAndrew Johnson was born in a two-room shack in Raleigh, North Carolina, on the 29th of December 1808. His parents Jacob and Mary were illiterate tavern…
- James BuchananJames Buchanan Jr. entered the world on the 23rd of April 1791 inside a log cabin called Stony Batter near Cove Gap in the Allegheny Mountains of southern…
- Jefferson DavisJefferson F. Davis was born on the 3rd of June 1808 at a family homestead in Davisburg, Kentucky. He was the youngest of ten children born to Jane and Samuel…
- William H. SewardOn the 16th of May 1801, William Henry Seward entered the world in Florida, New York. This small village sat north of New York City and west of the Hudson…
- Simon CameronOn the 8th of March 1799, a boy named Simon Cameron was born in Maytown, Pennsylvania. His father Charles had emigrated from Scotland in 1766 and fought with…
- Carl SchurzOn the 2nd of March 1829, Carl Christian Schurz was born in Liblar, a small town within the Rhine Province of Prussia. His father worked as a schoolteacher…
- John C. BreckinridgeJohn Cabell Breckinridge entered the world on the 16th of January 1821 at Thorn Hill. This estate sat near Lexington in Kentucky.
- John C. FrémontJohn Charles Frémont was born on the 21st of January 1813, in Savannah, Georgia. His parents were Anne Beverley Whiting and Charles Frémon, a French-Canadian…
- Ambrose BurnsideAmbrose Everts Burnside was born on the 23rd of May 1824 in Liberty, Indiana. He entered a family of nine children with Scottish and English roots.