Abraham "Abe" Lincoln
16th President of the United States from 1861-1865, National Union Party politician, statesman aka Abe Lincoln, assassinated at Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth, died at Petersen House (near the White House) at the end of the American Civil War, abolished slavery, greenbacks were interest-free US dollars
1809-1865 (56)
occ.treas.gov
Al Gore living
activist investor, co-chairman of Generation Investment Management (GIM), politician, VP of the United States from 1993-2001 for Bill Clinton, philanthropist, environmentalist, documentary filmmaker of Inconvenient Truth, founder of Current TV (sold it to Al Jazeera), climate change activist, founder of Climate TRACE, co-founder of Gore and Blood carbon trading firm
1948- (76)
Allen Dulles
First director of the CIA from 1953-1961, created the National Security Council, Sullivan & Cromwell, a media propaganda initiative called "Operation Mockingbird", president of Council on Foreign Relations for 1946-1950, the "great land divide" of Eastern Europe, author of The Craft of Intelligence in 1963, served on the Warren Commission for the assassination of JFK
1893-1969 (76)
Ashli Babbitt
Military veteran, conservative activist, fatally shot while entering the Washington US Capitol building on Jan 6 (J6)
Barack Obama living
44th President of the United States from 2009-2017, first black president of America, documentary filmmaker at Higher Ground Productions, Marxist lecturer at Chicago University
1961- (63)
barackobama.com
J. William Fulbright
US senator of Arkansas from 1945-1974, statesman, politician, US Senate Committe on Foreign Relations
1905-1995 (90)
britannica.com
Bill Marriott living
Billionaire businessman, hotelier, owner of 11.28% and executive chairman of Marriott International hotels from 1985-2022
1932- (92)
news.marriott.com
Cathy Konrad living
Film producer of Scream, Scream 2, Walk the Line, 3:10 to Yuma, Girl Interrupted, Kids, Wireless movie, founder of Cat Entertainment
1963- (61)
David L. Boren living
US senator from Oklahoma from 1979-1994, lawyer, Democratic Party politician, 21st governor of Oklahoma from 1975-1979
1941- (83)
congress.gov
David Gergen living
Political commentator, politics, publicist, public relations for the White House, founder of With Honor Action (With Honor Fund)
1942- (82)
david-gergen.com
David Osborne living
NY Times bestselling author of 7 books including Reinventing America's Schools, senior advisor to Al Gore, senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), author of The Price of Government (2004); The Reinventor's Fieldbook (2000), Banishing Bureaucracy (1997), Reinventing Government (1992), Laboratories of Democracy (1988)
1951- (73)
reinventgov.com
David Rubenstein living
Billionaire financier, lawyer, attorney, chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) since 2017, co-founder and co-chairman of Carlyle Group private equity firm, interviewer, podcaster on The David Rubenstein Show, author of The American Story, How to Lead, The American Experiement, How to Invest, chairman of Duke University, Smithsonian Institution, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
1949- (75)
cfr.org
Eric Schmidt living
billionaire tech executive, futurist, pioneer in cloud computing, founder of Innovation Endeavors, Schmidt Foundation, AI enthusiast, former chairman and CEO of Alphabet (Google) from 2001-2015
1955- (69)
x.com
Fiona Hill living
Politician, writer, political activist, foreign affairs, linked to "RussiaGate" impeachment and Donald Trump
1965- (59)
linkedin.com
Frederick P. Hitz living
Inspector General at the CIA, intelligence officer, espionage, spycraft, tradecraft, author of The Great Game
1939- (85)
penguinrandomhouse.com
George Vanderbilt
Steamboats, industrialist, railroads, art collector
1862-1914 (52)
Jerome "Jay" Powell
Banker aka Jerome Powell, lawyer, 16th chair of the US Federal Reserve since 2018, former editor-in-chief of the Georgetown Law Journal
federalreserve.gov
Jean-Pierre Landau living
Executive Director for France from 1989-1993, civil servant, politician, General Inspection of Finances in 1974
1946- (78)
jeanpierrelandau.com
John Hinckley Jr.
Criminal who attempted the assassination of US President Ronald Reagan on March 30th, 1981
Joseph E. Davies
American diplomat, Commissioner of Corporations in 1912, 1st chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 1915
1876-1958 (82)
Kenneth Feld living
Billionaire, CEO of Feld Entertainment, operating Barnem & Bailey, Ringling Bros. Circus, Disney Live, Disney on Ice, Monster Jam, AMA Supercross, Broadway theatre
1948- (76)
feldentertainment.com
Michael Froman
Vice Chairman and President of Strategic Growth at Mastercard, Lawyer, politician, US trade representative from 2013-2017
cfr.org
Michael C. Ruppert
investigative journalist, peak oil whistleblower, writer, author of Crossing The Rubicon, documentary filmmaker of Collapse, political activist, 911 whistleblower, NWO whistleblower
1951-2014 (63)
Robert McFarlane
Lieutenant colonel, US army general, US National Security Advisor from 1983-1985, military veteran in the Vietnam war
brown.edu
Ron Klain living
Democratic politician, Chief of Staff for Joe Biden, attorney, political consultant, Ebola czar, synthetic biology
1961- (63)
Tucker Carlson living
TV presenter, podcaster on the Tucker Carlson Network (TCN), keynote speaker on the Sworn Enemy Tour, conservative news anchor, former TV host of Tucker Carlson Tonight (FOX News), political commentator, politics, founder of Last Country, Inc.
1969- (55)
foxnews.com
Woodrow Wilson
28th President of the United States from 1913-1921, Democratic politician, socialist, governor of New Jersey, co-founder of Chatham House, also known as the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA), co-founder of the US Federal Reserve Bank (the FED), author of The New Freedom
1856-1924 (68)