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William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) built his media empire after inheriting the San Francisco Examiner from his father. He challenged New York World publisher Joseph Pulitzer by buying the rival New York Journal, earning attention for his “yellow journalism.” Hearst entered politics at the turn of the century, winning two terms to the U.S. House of Representatives but failing in his bids to become U.S. president and mayor of New York City. -
Joesph Pulitzer
Joseph Pulitzer emigrated to the United States in 1864. In 1868 he became a newspaper reporter. In 1871 he bought a share of that paper and resold it. In 1874 he acquired another paper and sold its franchise Joseph Pulitzer helped set the pattern of the modern newspaper. In his time, he was one of the most powerful U.S. journalists. -
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), the Scottish-born American scientist best known as the inventor of the telephone, worked at a school for the deaf while attempting to invent a machine that would transmit sound by electricity. Bell was granted the first official patent for his telephone in March 1876, though he would later face years of legal challenges to his claim that he was its sole inventor, resulting in one of history’s longest patent battles -
Thomas Alva Edison
The Power Of Electricity In 1876, Thomas Alva Edison Became A Pioneer On The New Industrial Frontier When He Established The Worlds First Reseach Laboratory In Menlo Park , New Jersey. There Edison Perfected The Incandescent Light-Bulb Patented In 1880 And Later Ivented An Entire System For Producing And Distributing Electic Power. -
Boss Tweed
Boss tweed became head of tammy hall new york city's powerful democratic political machine in 1886.. In between 1869 and 1871 Boss tweed led the tweed ring a group of corrupt politicians in defrauding the city. -
Chester Alan Arthur
Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, 1829 – November 18, 1886) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 21st President of the United States (1881–1885); he succeeded James A. Garfield upon the latter's assassination. At the outset, succeeded by embracing the cause of civil service reform. -
Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison defeated the incumbent President Grover Cleveland in the election of 1888. However, in his bid for re-election in 1892, Harrison was defeated by Cleveland making it the only time an incumbent president was defeated by a former president. -
Willam Howard Traft
William Howard Taft worked as a judge in Ohio Superior Court and in the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals before accepting a post as the first civilian governor of the Philippines in 1900. -
Gifford Pinchot
Pinchot served as the first Chief of the United States Forest Service from 1905 until his firing in 1910, and was the 28th Governor of Pennsylvania, serving from 1923 to 1927, and again from 1931 to 1935. He was a member of the Republican Party for most of his life, though he also joined the Progressive Party for a brief period.
