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Hi again! I thought since homeschooling is so controversial, I would include a page of "Famous Homeschoolers". Some folks who don't understand homeschooling, or think we're wrong for doing so, just might be surprised to know who else was homeschooled! Enjoy!

Famous Homeschoolers

Artists

Claude Monet, Leonardo da Vinci, Jamie Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, John Singleton Copley

Inventors

Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Alec Issigonis, Cyrus McCormick, The Wright Brothers, Blaise Pascal, Pierre Curie, Albert Einstein, Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver

Statesmen

Winston Churchill, Konrad Adenauer, Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, William Penn, Henry Clay

Composers and Musicians

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Anton Bruckner, Felix Mendelssohn, Francis Poulenc,
Conlon Nancarrow, Irving Berlin, Yehudi Menuhin

Writers

Agatha Christie, C.S. Lewis, George Bernard Shaw, Noel Coward, D.H. Lawrence,
Hans Christian Anderson, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Margaret Mead, Sean O'Casey,
Rumer Godden, Brett Harte, Phillis Wheatley, Mercy Warren, Pearl S. Buck

Miscellaneous

Charles Chaplin - Actor, Florence Nightingale - Nurse, John Burroughs - Naturalist,
Charles Louis Montesquieu - Philosopher, Albert Schweitzer - Physician,
George Rogers Clark - Explorer, Andrew Carnegie - Industrialist, Bill Ridell - Newspaperman,
Will Rogers - Humorist, Tamara McKinney - World Cup Skier, Jim Ryan - World Runner,
Ansel Adams - Photographer, John Stuart Mill - Economist,
John Paul Jones - father of the American Navy, Clara Barton - started the Red Cross,
Abigail Adams - wife of John Adams, Martha Washington - wife of George W.,
Venus and Serena Williams

Religious Leaders

Joan of Arc, Brigham Young, John & Charles Wesley,
Jonathan Edwards, John Owen, William Cary, Dwight L. Moody, John Newton

American University Educators

Frank Vandiver (President - Texas A&M), Fred Terman (President - Stanford),
William Samuel Johnson (President Columbia), John Witherspoon (President of Princeton)

American Presidents

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, James Madison,
William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Abraham Lincoln, Theordore Roosevelt,
Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt

US Constitutional Convention Delegates

George Washington - 1st President of the U.S., James Madison - 4th President of the U.S.,
John Witherspoon - President of Princeton U., Benjamin Franklin - inventor and statesman,
William S. Johnson - President of Columbia C., George Clymer - U.S. Representative,
Charles Pickney III - Governor of S. Carolina, John Francis Mercer - U.S. Representative,
George Wythe - Justice of Virginia High Court, William Blount - U.S. Senator,
Richard D. Spaight - Governor of N. Carolina, John Rutledge - Chief Justice U.S. Supr Court,
William Livingston - Governor of New Jersey, Richard Basset - Governor of Delaware,
William Houston - lawyer, William Few - U.S. Senator, George Mason

United States Supreme Court Judges

John Jay, John Marshall, John Rutledge

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