“Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know.”
| Dave Anderson, Writer (1929) |
| Sydney Carter, Poet (1915) |
| Emanuel Celler, Politician (1888) |
| Jeffery Deaver, Writer (1950) |
| Martin Delany, Soldier (1812) |
| Randall Jarrell, Poet (1914) |
| William Jay, Clergyman (1769) |
| L. Frank Baum, Author (1919) |
| William Allen Egan, Politician (1984) |
| B. C. Forbes, Journalist (1954) |
| Bret Harte, Author (1902) |