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Centurions on Stamps 1847 Asher B. Durand Artist 1894 Daniel Chester French Sculptor 1936 Theodore Steinway Piano manufacturer 1850 Frederic E. Church Artist 1895 Rudyard Kipling Author, Nobel Laureate 1937 Statesman 1855 Richard Morris Hunt Architect 1897 Edwin Austin Abbey Artist 1938 John Northrop Chemist, Nobel Laureate 1858 James Renwick, Jr. Architect 1899 Cass Gilbert Architect 1940 Harold C. Urey Chemist, Nobel Laureate 1858 Samuel F. B. Morse Artist, Telegraph inventor 1904 Howard Pyle Artist 1945 Edward Herbert Bennett Architect 1859 Emanuel Leutze Artist 1904 Leo S. Rowe Diplomat 1945 Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. Secretary of State 1859 Frederick Law Olmsted Landscape architect 1904 28th U.S. President, Nobel Laureate 1946 John Foster Dulles Secretary of State 1862 Albert Bierstadt Artist 1910 Neurosurgeon 1947 Edward R. Murrow journalist 1865 Winslow Homer Artist 1910 Michael Pupin , author 1948 Dwight D. Eisenhower 34th U.S. President 1866 Henry Hobson Richardson Architect 1911 Thomas Hunt Morgan Geneticist, Nobel Laureate 1952 Adlai Stevenson U.N. Ambassador and statesman 1867 Chester A. Arthur 21st U.S. President 1912 Adolph Alexander Weinman Sculptor 1954 Dean Cornwell Artist 1870 Louis Comfort Tiffany Designer 1912 Alexis Carrel Biologist, Nobel Laureate 1954 Walker Evans Photographer 1875 Octave Chanute Aviation pioneer 1912 Harlan F. Stone Chief Justice of the Supreme Court 1955 Alan G. Kirk U.S. Admiral 1881 Samuel P. Langley Aviation pioneer 1913 27th U.S. President, Ch. Justice Supr. Court 1955 Charles E. Bohlen Diplomat 1882 Charles Follen McKim Architect 1914 Oswald Garrison Villard Co-founder NAACP 1955 R. Buckminster Fuller Inventor 1882 Thomas Moran Artist 1915 Lincoln Ellsworth Antarctic explorer 1955 Roger Tory Peterson Ornithologist 1884 26th U.S. President, Nobel Laureate 1915 W. L. Mackenzie King 10th Prime Minister of Canada 1958 Richard Rodgers Composer 1886 Augustus Saint-Gaudens Sculptor 1915 William James Mayo Surgeon 1958 Robert Penn Warren Author and poet 1886 Stanford White Architect 1918 James Earle Fraser Sculptor 1958 William Brennan Supreme Court Justice 1886 Secretary of State, Nobel Laureate 1919 Charles Dana Gibson Artist 1960 Secretary of State, Nobel Laureate 1890 Grover Cleveland 22nd and 24th U.S. President 1919 Charles Evans Hughes Chief Justice of the Supreme Court 1960 Ogden Nash Poet 1891 Arthur Burdett Frost Artist 1919 31st U.S. President 1960 Yehudi Menuhin Musician 1891 John Bassett Moore Jurist 1919 YMCA peace leader, Nobel Laureate 1965 I. M. Pei Architect 1892 Carl Schurz Educator 1919 Paul Manship Sculptor 1967 Aaron Copland Composer Century Clubhouse, 1857-1890, 109 E. 15th Street, 1922 Franklin D. Roosevelt 32nd U.S. President 1967 Benny Goodman Musician Present Century Clubhouse, 7 West 43rd Street 1923 Grenville Clark Lawyer, author 1967 Dean Acheson Secretary of State McKim, Mead and White. 1923 Ignace Jan Paderewski Polish diplomat / pianist 1967 J. Robert Oppenheimer Physicist Architects, 1891 1924 George W. Goethals Panama Canal engineer 1968 Philip Johnson Architect 1924 William Allen White Newspaper editor 1969 James Cagney Actor 1924 John Barrymore Actor 1969 Theodor Seuss Geisel Author and artist 1924 Lee Lawrie Sculptor 1971 Polykarp Kusch Physicist, Nobel Laureate

1924 Vilhjalmur Stefansson Arctic explorer 1972 Yousuf Karsh Photographer 1925 John Frank Stevens Engineer 1974 I. I. Rabi Physicist, Nobel Laureate 1926 Vincent Massey Governor General of Canada 1975 Willard Libby Chemist, Nobel Laureate 1927 Robert A. Millikan Physicist, Nobel Laureate 1980 Wassily Leontief Economist, Nobel Laureate 1930 Andrew W. Mellon Secretary of the Treasury 1983 Bruce J. Graham Architect 1930 John Dewey Educator 1984 Murray Gell-Mann Physicist, Nobel Laureate 1930 Thornton Wilder Playwright 1989 Beverly Sills Opera singer 1930 Walter Lippmann Journalist 1989 Frank O. Gehry Architect 1931 Charles Keck Sculptor 1989 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis First lady, editor/preservationist 1933 John Held, Jr. Artist 1989 Toni Morrison Author, Nobel Laureate 1933 Richard E. Byrd Explorer 1990 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Historian, author 1934 Stephen Vincent Benét Author 1991 Henry Koehler Artist 1935 Henry R. Luce Publisher 1991 James D. Watson Molecular biologist, Nobel Laureate