Unitarian Universalism has a rich heritage of leaders in arts and letters, politics, science, and humanitarianism. To drop a few names from our "family tree":

John Adams
(1735-1826). 2nd President of the United States (1797-1801). American diplomat.

John Quincy Adams
(1767-1848). 6th President of the United States (1825-1829). Son of John Adams, 2nd President of the United States.

Louisa May Alcott
(1832-1888). American author.

Susan B. Anthony
(1820-1906). American suffragist.

Clara Barton
(1821-1912). Founder of the American Red Cross Society.

Alexander Graham Bell
(1847-1922). American (Scottish-born) inventor of the telephone.

Olympia Brown

ee. cummings
(1894-1962). American poet.

Charles Dickens
(1812-1870). English novelist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882). American essayist and poet.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
(1804-1864). American author.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
(1809-1894). American physician and author.

Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826). 3rd President of the United States (1801-1809).

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807-1882). American poet.

Samuel Morse
(1791-1872). American artist and inventor.

Theodore Parker
(1810-1860). American Unitarian clergyman.

Beatrix Potter
(1866-1943). British writer and illustrator.

Joseph Priestley
(1733-1804). English clergyman and chemist.

Paul Revere
(1735-1818). American patriot and silversmith.

Albert Schweitzer
(1875-1965). French theologian, philosopher, missionary physician, and music scholar.

Adlai Stevenson
(1835-1914). American politician. Vice-President of the United States (1893-1897).

Lucy Stone
(1818-1893). American suffragist.

William Howard Taft
(1857-1930). 27th President of the United States (1909-1913). Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (1921-1930).

Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862). American writer.

Daniel Webster
(1782-1852). American statesman and orator.

Frank Lloyd Wright
(1867-1959). American architect.