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Learn Who The Famous People Born On February 15Th Are âSusan B. Anthony ! And More!!!
Learn Who The Famous People Born on February 15th Are –Susan B. Anthony !   And More!!!
 ABRAHAM CLARK was born in Elizabethtown, New Jersey in 1726.  While he was young his father hired a tutor to teach him surveying. While working as a surveyor he taught himself law and went into practice. He became known as “the poor man’s councilor†as he offered to defend those who couldn’t afford a lawyer. He married Sarah Hatfield in 1748 and they had 10 children together. During this time he entered politics as a clerk of the Provincial Assembly and later became the High Sheriff of Essex County, and was elected to the Provincial Congress in 1775. In 1776 Clark was appointed as a delegate to the Continental Congress. They arrived in Philadelphia in June 28, 1776 and signed the Declaration of Independence in July.He remained in the Continental Congress through 1778, and then from 1780-1783 and 1786-1788.  He died in 1794 from sunstroke.Â
 SUSAN B. ANTHONY  was born (1820) and raised in West Grove, near Adams, Massachusetts.  She was a prominent civil rights leader who played a large role in the 19th century women’s rights movement to introduce women’s suffrage into the U.S. She traveled all over the U.S. and Europe and gave 75-100 speeches each year about women’s rights for 45 years. Anthony also took a prominent role in the anti-slavery movement in New York. At the age of 29 she was secretary for the Daughters of Temperance.  In 1850, two people especially inspired her to give all her energies to the Women’s Rights cause; Horace Greeley, and Lucy Stone. Then in 1851 she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton in Seneca Falls, New York. They became fast friends and traversed the country together giving speeches and trying to persuade the government that men and women should be treated equally. She and Frederick Douglass were good friends, but they butted heads over the issue of equal rights – he believed in granting suffrage to black men but not women. She was arrested for illegally voting in the 1872 presidential election. She never did pay the fine. Anthony and Stanton founded the National Women’s Suffrage Association (1869) .  Anthony was vice president at large until 1892 when she became its president.  Susan B. Anthony died of heart disease in 1906. She was 86.
 ELIHU ROOT  was born in Clinton, New York in 1845. He was a lawyer, statesman and the 1912 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the “prototype of the 20th century ‘wise man’ who shuttled between high-level government positions in Washington, D.C., and private-sector legal practice in New York City.â€Â (Wikipedia)He was educated at Hamilton College and New York University School of Law.His wife was Clara Wales, and they had three children; Edith (wife to U.S. Grant), Elihu, Jr. (became a lawyer), and Edward Wales (became President of Art at Hamilton College). His political career; U.S. Secretary of War (1899-1904) under William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. His accomplishments during that time were reform of the organization of the U.S. Military; enlarging West Point and establishing the U.S. Army War College and the General Staff. In 1905 President Roosevelt named him Secretary of State. In 1909 he was elected U.S. Senator from New York and served until 1915. For his work to bring nations together via arbitration and cooperation Root received the Nobel Peace Prize. (d.1937-age 91)
JOHN SIDNEY BLYTH BARRYMORE  was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1882. He was an American actor spanning the years 1903-1941. He first gained fame as a stage actor in light comedy, then high drama and finally in groundbreaking portrayals in plays such as Hamlet and Richard III. Today John Barrymore is mostly known for his roles in movies such as Don Juan (1926), Grand Hotel (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933),  and Twentieth Century (1934). He was a member of a “multi-generational theatrical dynasty – he was brother of Lionel and Ethel Barrymore and grandfather of Drew Barrymore. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. (d. 1942, Los Angeles, California)
 CESAR JULIO ROMERO, JR  was born in New York City in 1907.  A Cuban American film and television star, he was The Joker  in Batman television series. When Batman was made into a film in 1966, he was the first to play the Joker in a motion picture. In 1929 his parents lost their sugar import business in the Stock Market Crash and his acting abilities enabled him to support his large family. In 1942 he joined the U.S. Coast Guard and served in the Pacific during World War II. He was aboard the USS Cavalier and saw action at Tinian and Saipan.  From the 1930s thru the 1950s he played “Latin loversâ€Â  He was in The Cisco Kid series of six Westerns from 1939-1941. Romero danced and did comedy in films such as Week-End in Havana and Springtime in the Rockies during the 1940s.  He was a villain in The Thin Man in 1934, and he co-stared with Tyrone Power in the 1947 Technicolor epic, Captain from Castile. Some interesting roles he played on television were that of Don Diego’s uncle in some Zorro episodes, and as the head of THRUSH in France in The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Romero never married and it was known around the Hollywood set that he was a confirmed bachelor. (d. 1994)
 ALLAN ARBUS born in New York City in 1918. He is an actor most notable for his role as Dr. Sidney Freedman on the television series M*A*S*H*. During the 40s he was a photographer for the U.S. Army and later set up a photographic advertising business with his wife. He and his wife Amy Arbus had one of their photos in Edward Steichen’s photo exhibition The Family of Man. Allan and Amy were divorced in 1969 and he was later married to Mariclare Costello. He had a lead role in Robert Downey’s film Greaser’s Palace (1972) and stared opposite Bette Davis in Scream, Pretty Peggy (1973). He was also in W.C. Fields and Me (1976). These led to his role in the M*A*S*H* series.Â
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