FAMOUS LEFT-HANDED LEADERS (political and ancient)
- Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.), Macedonian conqueror
- Bill Bradley, U.S. Senator and basketball player
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), French emperor
- McGeorge Bundy, former Presidential advisor
- George Bush (b. 1924), U.S. President
- Fidel Castro (b. 1926), Cuban dictator
- Charlemagne (742-814), emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
- Bill Clinton (b. 1948??), U.S. President
- Bob Dole (is left-handed due to war injury on right hand), Senator and 1996 Presidential candidate
- Edward III (1312-1377), king of England
- Elizabeth II (b. 1926), queen of England
- Gerald Ford (b. 1913), U.S. President (is left-handed only when sitting down --throws a ball, plays golf, and writes on a blackboard right-handed)
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), U.S. statesman and scientist (he wrote and published a treatise on the left hand)
- James Garfield (1831-1881), U.S. President (ambidextrous)
- George II (1683-1760), king of England
- George VI (1895-1952), king of England
- Ruth Bader Ginsberg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- Daniel Inouye, U.S. Senator
- Joan of Arc (c. 1412-1431), French national heroine
- Anthony Kennedy, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- Louis XVI (1754-1793), king of France
- Robert McNamara (b. 1916), U.S. Statesman
- Martha Mitchell (1918-1976), U.S. political celebrity
- Oliver North (b. 1943), former White House aide
- William Perry (b. 1927), served as U.S. Under Secretary of Defense
- Ramses II (13th century B.C.), Egyptian pharaoh
- Ronald Reagan, U.S. President (was born a lefty, but forced to switch early in life)
- Nelson Rockefeller (1908-1979), U.S. Vice-President
- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf (b. 1934), U.S. General
- Hugh Scott, Senator
- Tiberius (42 B.C.-A.D. 37), Roman emperor
- Harry Truman (1884-1972), U.S. President
- Victoria (1819-1901), queen of England
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