The Great Americans…
Longest Definitive U.S. Stamp Set
The popular Great Americans Series honors Americans from all walks
of life and their contributions to society. In addition to being the largest
series of face-different stamps, it’s also the longest-running series of
definitive stamps. Sixty-four stamps are in the complete set, all important
individuals who were leaders in education, the military, literature, the arts,
and human and civil rights. Included in this impressive set are:
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Sylvanus Thayer, US Army engineer who, as superintendent of the US
Military Academy at West Point for 16 years, instituted professional
standards and high ideals of duty, honor, and loyalty.
• Sequoyah, a Cherokee Indian who developed a system of writing for his
people. He used his new alphabet to record ancient tribal customs and
became the first Native American historian.
•
Thomas H. Gallaudet, educational philanthropist who founded the
first school for the deaf. Gallaudet University in Washington, DC,
established and named in his honor after his death, is the only liberal
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arts college for deaf people in the world.
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Frank C. Laubach, a missionary and educator who founded Laubach
Literacy International in the 1930s, the world’s first volunteer literacy
organization.
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Pearl Buck, author who wrote sympathetically about life in China. In all
her 65 books, she encouraged greater understanding between the peoples
of Asia and the West. In 1932, she won the Pulitzer Prize for The Good
Earth; in 1938, the Nobel Prize for Literature.
(See page 63 for Great Americans #2168/97 & page 83 for #2933/43.)
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Dorothea Dix Igor StravinskyHenry ClayCarl Schurz Pearl Buck Walter LippmannAbraham Baldwin
Humanitarian Composer Statesman Journalist Author Journalist Statesman
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Henry KnoxSylvanus ThayerRichard Russell Alden PartridgeCrazy Horse,Sinclair Lewis
Revolutionary War General Educator Statesman Educator American Indian Chief Author
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Rachel Carson George MasonSequoyahRalph BuncheThomas H. Gallaudet Harry S. TrumanJohn J. Audubon
Environmentalist Statesman Cherokee Indian Diplomat Educator 33rd US President Naturalist
1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869
Frank C. Laubach
Educator
Charles R. Drew, M.D.
Surgeon
Robert Millikan
Scientist
Grenville Clark
Author
Lillian M. Gilbreth
Industrial Engineer
Chester W. Nimitz
WWII Admiral
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