Amelia Earhart was the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean, both as a passenger in 1928, and as a a pilot in 1932. She disappeared during a round the world flight in 1937. Birthplace: Atchison.
The thirty-fourth president of the United States, Dwight David Eisenhower rose to fame as commander of the World War Two Allied forces in Europe. His two terms as president saw the end of the Korean War and school integration in the South. He is buried in Abilene where a center has been built in his honor. Birthplace: Denison, Texas.
Carry Nation believed that alcohol was a killer of men, and she vowed to make the United States free of bars, taverns and liquor. Starting with taverns in Kansas, she carried a hatchet and would destroy taverns by throwing stones and bricks at the bottles. Her early efforts led to the eventual establishment of Prohibition. Birthplace: Garrard County, Kentucky.
William Allen White was known as the 'Sage of Emporia,' a journalist whose fair and thoughtful writing made him a hero to many. He won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing for a piece on the need for free speech. Birthplace: Emporia.
