John Hawkins had a list of the The Greatest Figures In American History as polled by some of the top right-leaning bloggers. Hawkins also posted his own personal list of the 20 greatest Americans. Hawkins personal list was as follows:
20) William Tecumseh ShermanI came across this via Betsy Newmark who has her own list. Betsy also points to this list by Don Surber.
19) Douglas MacArthur
18) George S. Patton
17) Albert Einstein
16) Henry Ford
15) Martin Luther King
14) Alexander Graham Bell
13) Thomas Edison
12) John Adams
11) Ulysses S. Grant
10) Alexander Hamilton
9) Teddy Roosevelt
8) Tom Paine
7) Andrew Jackson
6) Ronald Reagan
5) James Madison
4) Ben Franklin
3) Thomas Jefferson
2) Abe Lincoln
1) George Washington
Personally I am very much in tune with the list John Hawkins came up with. So in tune that I won't even offer my own. I will make one observation though. It disappoints me that when lists like this about the greatest Americans are made that Otto Frederick Rohwedder never seems to get so much as an honorable mention. He's the man credited with inventing sliced bread. What's greater than sliced bread?
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