Right Wing News: Top 20 greatest Americans

We were honored to be asked to participate in the Right Wing News latest blogger poll to name our picks for the top twenty greatest Amercans along with these other fine bloggers who responded:

The Absurd Report, Ankle Biting Pundits, Argghhhh!, The Baseball Crank, Betsy's Page, Blackfive, BlameBush!, BizzyBlog, Blue Crab Boulevard, Brainster's Blog, BrothersJudd Blog, Chez Diva, The Club For Growth Blog, Damian Penny, DANEgerus Weblog, Ed Driscoll, Dummocrats, Eckernet, Freeman Hunt, GayPatriot, GOPProgress, Guardian Watchblog, IMAO, Iowa Voice, Isaac Schrödinger, James Hudnall, Jeff Gannon - A Voice of the New Media, The Kallini Brothers, Kung Fu Quip, Mark In Mexico, Right Angle Blog, Right Wing News, Don Singleton, Solomonia, Southern Appeal, The Squiggler, Stolen Thunder, Stop The ACLU, Don Surber, Toys In The Attic, WILLisms

The rules were simple:

All bloggers were allowed to make anywhere from 1-20 unranked selections. Rank was determined simply by the number of votes received. Without further ado, the greatest figures in American history according to the right side of the blogosphere are as follows (with the number of votes following each selection)...

Click here to see the end result at Right Wing News.

Our own list included most of those on the final list, although we made an effort to include a few more women. Since we were limited to twenty, this meant knocking a few of the guys off the list. If we had stuck strictly with men, our list would have been nearly similar to RWN, with the exception of Roosevelt, Grant, Einstein and Douglas. We agree they have a place on such a list and had we been asked for 25 names, probably would have included them.

Here is our original unnumbered list:

Benjamin Franklin

George Washington

Abraham Lincoln

Martin Luther King

Ronald Reagan

Thomas Edison

John Adams

Jonas Salk

Thomas Paine

Alexander Graham Bell

Henry Ford

Wright Brothers

Andrew Carnegie

Juliet Gordon Low

Susan B. Anthony

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Abigail Adams

Thomas Jefferson

Bill Gates

Lewis and Clark

Comments

[onetoomany]

Lewis and Clark are two different people

Meriwether Lewis & William Clark