256 Year Old Celebrities
1. Elizabeth Monroe (1768)
American Politician
Wife of the fifth President of the United States, James Monroe, and served as the First Lady of the United States from 1817 to 1825. She became friends with Napoleon Bonaparte's family...
2. Maria Reynolds (1768)
Family Member
Wife of James Reynolds, but more notably was known as the mistress of Alexander Hamilton in 1791-1792. She was at the center of America's first political sex scandal.
3. Joseph Fourier (1768)
Mathematician Physicist And Hist
French mathematician and physicist who started the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations. He also discovered the greenhouse effect.
4. Samuel Paynter (1768)
American Politician
A member of the Federalist Party who served as Governor of Delaware from 1824 to 1827, and was in the Delaware General Assembly.
5. Benjamin Carr (1768)
American Composer
Composer, singer, and teacher who was one of the founding members of The Musical Fund Society.
6. Dolley Madison (1768)
First Lady Of The United States
Wife of James Madison, who was the President of the United States from 1809 to 1817. She was known for being a charismatic, fashionable and witty First Lady of the...
7. Joseph Yates (1768)
Politician
Remembered best for holding office in the early 1820s as seventh Governor of New York, this Democratic-Republican Party politician was also the president of New York's Schenectady Savings Bank and...
8. William King (1768)
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9. Jeremiah Cosden (1768)
American Politician
Jeremiah Cosden was an American politician. He was elected as a Democratic-Republican and presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Seventeenth Congress and served from March 4 1821 to March...
10. Joseph-Bernard Planté (1768)
Canadian Politician
Joseph-Bernard Planté was a notary and political figure in Lower Canada. He was born in Pointe-aux-Trembles in 1768 and studied at the Petit Séminaire de Québec. He articled as a...
11. Reuben Atwater (1768)
American Politician
Reuben Atwater also known as Reuben Attwater was the Secretary of Michigan Territory and served as acting governor during 1811–1812.
12. Samuel C. Crafts (1768)
American Politician
Samuel Chandler Crafts was a United States Representative Senator and the 12th Governor of Vermont. Born in Woodstock Connecticut Crafts graduated from Harvard College in 1790 and moved in 1791...
13. Nakşidil Sultan (1768)
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Nakşidil Sultan was the consort of Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid I and Valide Sultan to her son Mahmud II. There is a legend that she was the same person as...
14. Hugh Holmes (Virginia politician) (1768)
American Politician
Hugh Holmes was a Virginia politician. He represented Frederick County in the Virginia House of Delegates and served as that body's Speaker from 1803 until 1805.
15. Charles Calvert (MP) (1768)
British Politician
Charles Calvert was a wealthy English brewer and Member of Parliament in the early 19th century. Calvert was the third son of Southwark brewer Felix Calvert and was educated at...
16. David Victor Belly de Bussy (1768)
French Officer
General David Victor Belly de Bussy was a French officer during the Napoleonic Wars.
17. Christopher Ellery (1768)
American Politician
Christopher Ellery was a United States Senator from Rhode Island. Born in Newport he graduated from Yale College in 1787 studied law was admitted to the bar and commenced practice...
18. Tecumseh (1768)
Leader Of The Shawnee
Tecumseh was a Native American leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy which opposed the United States during Tecumseh's War and the War of 1812. Tecumseh has become...
19. Jean-Louis Lefebvre de Cheverus (1768)
French Bishop Of Boston And Cath
Jean-Louis Anne Madelain Lefebvre de Cheverus French archbishop and later cardinal was the first Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Boston Massachusetts in the United States.
20. Benjamin Pond (1768)
American Politician
Benjamin Pond was a United States Representative from New York.
21. William Rickford (1768)
British Politician
Rickford was an English banker and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1818 to 1841. Rickford was the son of William Rickford who established the Aylesbury...
22. Charles Caron (1768)
Canadian Politician
Charles Caron was a farmer and political figure in Lower Canada. He signed his name Charle Caront. He was born Charles-François Caron in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies in 1768. Caron began farming on...
23. John Taliaferro (1768)
American Politician
John Taliaferro was a nineteenth-century politician lawyer and librarian from Virginia.
24. Jeremiah La Touche Cuyler (1768)
United States Federal Judge
Jeremiah La Touche Cuyler was a United States federal judge. Born in New York New York Cuyler read law in 1789 to enter the bar. He was in private practice...
25. Leonard Covington (1768)
American Politician
Leonard Wailes Covington was a United States Army Brigadier General and a member of the United States House of Representatives.
26. Joseph Desha (1768)
American Politician
Joseph Desha was a U. S. Representative and the ninth governor of the U. S. state of Kentucky. After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes Desha's Huguenot ancestors fled...
27. Samuel S. Seward (1768)
American Lawyer And Politician
28. Jeremiah Mason (1768)
American Politician
Jeremiah Mason was a United States Senator from New Hampshire.
29. John Cole, 2nd Earl Of Enniskillen (1768)
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30. George Watson (1768)
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31. John Woodworth (New York) (1768)
New York State Attorney General
John Woodworth was an American lawyer and member of the Woodworth political family.
32. Willie Blount (1768)
American Politician
Blount was an American politician who served as Governor of Tennessee from 1809 to 1815. Blount's efforts to raise funds and soldiers during the War of 1812 earned Tennessee the...
33. James Mangles (1768)
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34. Wilhelm von Dörnberg (1768)
German General
Caspar Ferdinand Freiherr von Dörnberg was a German general. He was also known as 'Aufstandsdörnberg' or 'Uprising Dörnberg' for his part in the German campaign of the Napoleonic Wars. He...
35. Christopher G. Champlin (1768)
American Politician
Christopher Grant Champlin was a United States Representative and Senator from Rhode Island. Born in Newport he completed preparatory studies was graduated from Harvard College in 1786 and continued his...
36. George Calvert (1768)
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37. Robert Stopford (1768)
Bishop Of Fulham; Bishop Of Pete
Robert Wright Stopford KCVO CBE PC was a British Anglican bishop.
38. Charles Tottenham (1768)
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39. Richard Valentine Morris (1768)
American Politician
Richard Valentine Morris was a United States Navy officer.
40. Jonathan Hatch Hubbard (1768)
American Politician
Jonathan Hubbard redirects here. For those of a similar name see Jon Hubbard Jonathan Hatch Hubbard was an American lawyer and politician. He served as a U. S. Representative from...
41. Sir Henry Hoghton, 7th Baronet (1768)
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42. Lazaros Kountouriotis (1768)
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43. Sir William Welby, 2nd Baronet (1768)
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44. Joseph C. Yates (1768)
Governor Of New York
Joseph Christopher Yates was an American lawyer politician. statesman and founding trustee of Union College.
45. George Clarke (1768)
Politician And Architect
George Clarke the son of Sir William Clarke enrolled at Brasenose College Oxford in 1676. He was elected a Fellow of All Souls College Oxford in 1680. He became Judge...
46. Nicolas Hentz (1768)
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Nicolas Hentz was a French politician. He was a député for Moselle to the National Convention. He joined the tobacco expedition to Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania and a letter by him...
47. Thomas Mann Randolph (1768)
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48. David Sherman Boardman (1768)
American Politician
David Sherman Boardman was an American lawyer judge and state assemblyman in the early United States. The youngest child of Deacon Sherman and Sarah Boardman he lived for nearly his...
49. Ezra Darby (1768)
American Politician
Ezra Darby was a U. S.
50. Jean Isidore Harispe (1768)
Marshal Of France
Jean Isidore Harispe 1st Comte Harispe was a distinguished French soldier of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars as well as a of the following period. Harispe was created a Marshal...