Famous Homeschoolers

Got this list on one of my Yahoogroups and thought it was pretty cool!

These folks never went to school!

PRESIDENTS

* George Washington
* Thomas Jefferson
* James Madison
* John Quincy Adams
* Abraham Lincoln
* William Henry Harrison
* Theodore F. Roosevelt
* Woodrow Wilson
* John Tyler
* Franklin D. Roosevelt

GOVERNORS

* Patrick Henry [VA]
* Charles Pickney III [SC]
* Richard D. Spaight [NC]
* William Livingston [NJ]
* Richard Bassett [DE]

U.S. SENATORS OR CONGRESSMEN

* William S. Johnson [CT]
* George Clymer [PA]
* John Francis Mercer [MD]
* William Blount [TN]
* William Few [GA]

COLLEGE PRESIDENTS

* John Witherspoon - Princeton
* Timothy Dwight - Yale
* William S. Johnson - Columbia


ARTISTS

* John Sngleton Copley
* Andrew Wyeth
* Rembrandt Peale
* Claude Monet
* Ansel Adams

PHILOSOPHER

* Charles Montesquieu

AUTHORS

* Mark Twain
* George Bernard Shaw
* Irving Berlin
* Charles Dickens
* C. S. Lewis

PREACHERS & MISSIONARIES

* John and Charles Wesley
* John Owen
* Jonathan Edwards
* William Carey
* Dwight L. Moody
* John Newton
* Hudson Taylor

CHIEF JUSTICES OF U.S. SUPREME COURT

* John Rutledge
* John Jay
* John Marshall


FAMOUS WOMEN

* Abigail Adams
* Mercy Warren
* Martha Washington
* Florence Nightingale
* Phyllis Wheatley
* Agatha Christie
* Pearl S. Buck

GENERALS

* "Stonewall" Jackson
* Robert E. Lee
* Douglas MacArthur
* George Patton

SCIENTISTS, ECONOMISTS, BUSINESSMEN

* Blaise Pascal
* Booker T. Washington
* Thomas Edison
* Benjamin Franklin
* Andrew Carnegie
* John Stuart Mill

COMPOSERS

* Anton Bruckner
* Felix Mendelssohn
* Amadeus Mozart
* Francis Poulenc

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Except why did the women need their own heading? Couldn't they have been put under authors or wherever else they fit? Other than that, really cool. :)