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Famous People from New Hampshire
New Hampshire
Biographies, Famous People from New Hampshire
Alexander McGillivray
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Robert Frost (1874 - 1963) Poet that
won four Pulitzer Prizes in poetry; lived in
Derry and Franconia.
- Sarah Josepha Hale (1788 - 1879)
Author and journalist who wrote "Mary Had a
Little Lamb"; born on a New Hampshire farm.
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John Irving (1942 - ) Famous author;
born in Exeter.
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Christa McAuliffe (1948 - 1986)
Teacher that died in the space shuttle
Challenger explosion on January 28, 1986;
taught in Concord.
- Bob Montana (1920 - 1975) Creator
of the comic strip Archie in 1942; lived in
Manchester.
- Franklin Pierce (1804 - 1869) The
14th President of the United States
(1853-1857); born in Hillsborough.
- Eleanor Porter (1868 - 1920)
Children’s author that wrote Pollyanna; born
in Littleton.
- Alan B. Shepard Jr. (1923 - 1998)
Became the first American in space when he
orbited the earth in the rocket Freedom 7 in
May 1961; born in East Derry.
- Earl Silas Tupper (1907 - 1983)
Founder of Tupperware; born in Berlin.
- Eleazar Wheelock (1711 - 1779)
Founded Dartmouth College in 1769 in the city
of Hanover, he also served as the first
president.
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Henry Wilson (born Jeremiah Jones
Colbath) (1812 - 1875) Vice President of the
United States under President Ulysses Grant,
was born in Farmington.
More Famous People of
New Hampshire
- Salmon Portland Chase jurist,
Cornish
- Ralph Addams Cram architect,
Hampton Falls
- Charles Anderson Dana editor,
Hinsdale
- Mary Morse Baker Eddy founder,
religious leader, Bow
- William Pitt Fessenden politician,
Boscawer
- Sam Walter Foss journalist, poet
- Daniel Chester French sculptor,
Exeter
- Horace Greeley journalist,
politician, Amherst
- Benjamin F. Keith theater
entrepreneur, Hillsboro
- John Langdon political leader,
Portsmouth
- Harlan F. Stone jurist,
Chesterfield
- Daniel Webster statesman, Salisbury
- Joseph Worcester Lexicographer,
Bedford
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