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Born November 3, 1723 • New Castle • Delaware
Died February 4, 1761 (aged 37) • Princeton • New Jersey
Subjects Of Study Nonconformist
Role In Great Awakening
Francis H. Pierpont
American politician
Gilbert Tennent
American Presbyterian clergyman
Sunday, Billy
Billy Sunday
American evangelist
George Whitefield
George Whitefield
British clergyman
Thomas Walker
American physician
George Washington
George Washington
president of United States
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
president of United States
Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards
American theologian
James Monroe
James Monroe
president of United States
Asher B. Durand: portrait of James Madison
James Madison
president of United States
Billy Graham
Billy Graham
American evangelist
Patrick Henry
Patrick Henry
American statesman
John Tyler
John Tyler
president of United States
Harry F. Byrd
Harry F. Byrd
American politician
Aimee Semple McPherson
Aimee Semple McPherson
American religious leader
Nat Turner
Nat Turner
American enslaved person and bondsman
Jemima Wilkinson
American religious leader
Pernell Whitaker
American boxer
Kaine, Tim
Tim Kaine
United States senator
Edmund Randolph
Edmund Jennings Randolph
United States statesman