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Henry A. Wallace
Name at birth: Henry Agard WallaceHenry A. Wallace of Iowa was the vice president of the United States under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, from 1941 until 1945. Wallace was Roosevelt's second…Henry J. Kaiser
Name at birth: Heinrich KaiserHenry John Kaiser was an American entrepreneur who made his fortune in the industrial boom of the first half of the 20th century, and who founded the medical care…William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison had the shortest term in office of any American president: 32 days, in 1841. Harrison was the son of Benjamin Harrison, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. William…King Henry II
Grandson to King Henry I, Henry II came to the throne when King Stephen died in 1154. Henry II was an educated and able monarch during his reign, but he went down in history as the guy who had…Henry David Thoreau
Name at birth: David Henry ThoreauHenry David Thoreau was a 19th century American writer, best known for his back-to-nature journals and poems, including Walden, or a Life in the Woods. A former…Henry Paulson, Jr.
Henry Merritt Paulson, Jr. was United States Secretary of the Treasury from July of 2006 until January of 2009. A graduate of Dartmouth University (1968) and Harvard Business School (1970), Paulson…John Henry Newman
John Henry Newman was a leading priest in the Church of England whose conversion to Catholicism was a major event of the 1840s. Newman was a popular speaker and a scholar at Oxford, making his…Henri Cartier-Bresson
Frenchman Henri Cartier-Bresson is often called "the father of photojournalism" for his photos of famous events and people from the 1930s to the 1970s. He studied painting and literature in the…Henry Morton Stanley
Name at birth: John RowlandsBorn into poverty, John Rowlands left Wales and in 1858 arrived in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he took the name Henry Stanley. He fought as a Confederate in the U.S.…Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a giant of 19th century American literature, a celebrated poet whose work included "Paul Revere's Ride" and the long narrative poems The Song of Hiawatha and Evangeline…Trending
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