AMERICAN GENERATIONS
PURITAN
BIRTH YEARS: 1584 - 1614
LIFESPAN: 1584 - 1694
SAMPLE MEMBERS: John Winthtrop, William Berkeley, John Cotton, Richard Mather, Myles Standish, John Rolfe, Anne Hutchinson, Roger Williams
CAVALIER
BIRTH YEARS: 1615 - 1647
LIFESPAN: 1615 - 1727
SAMPLE MEMBERS: Jacob Leisler, Elisha Cooke, Increase Mather, Samuel Williad, Benjamin Church, Nathaniel Bacon, Metacomet, William Kidd
GLORIOUS
BIRTH YEARS: 1648 - 1673
LIFESPAN: 1648 - 1753
SAMPLE MEMBERS: James Blair, Gurdon Saltonstall, Cotton Mather, Robert Beverly, Pete Schuyler, "King" Carter, John Wise, Hannah Dustin
ENLIGHTENMENT
BIRTH YEARS: 1674 - 1700
LIFESPAN: 1674 - 1780
SAMPLE MEMBERS: James Logan, Elisha Cooke, Jr., John Peter Zenger, Samuel Johnson, William Shriley, Cadwallader Colden, James Franklin, William Byrd II
AWAKENING
BIRTH YEARS: 1701 - 1723
LIFESPAN: 1701 - 1803
SAMPLE MEMBERS: Benjamin Franklin, Peyton Randolph, Jonathan Edwards, John Witherspoon, Eliza Pickney, Israel Putnam, Samuel Adams, Crispus Attucks
LIBERTY
BIRTH YEARS: 1724 - 1741
LIFESPAN: 1724 - 1821
SAMPLE MEMBERS: George Washington, John Adams, Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine, Ethan Allen, Benedict Arnold, Paul Revere, Daniel Boone
REPUBLICAN
BIRTH YEARS: 1742 - 1766
LIFESPAN: 1742 - 1846
SAMPLE MEMBERS: Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Marshall, Alexander Hamilton, John Paul Jones, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Abigail Adams
COMPROMISE
BIRTH YEARS: 1767 - 1791
LIFESPAN: 1767 - 1871
SAMPLE MEMBERS: Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Washington Irving, Meriwether Lewis, Samuel F.B. Morse, Dolly Madison, Davy Crockett
TRANSCENDENTAL
BIRTH YEARS: 1792 - 1821
LIFESPAN: 1792 - 1901
SAMPLE MEMBERS: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Ralph Waldo Emmerson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Sherman, Robert E. Lee, Nat Turner, John Brown
GILDED
BIRTH YEARS: 1822 - 1842
LIFESPAN: 1822 - 1922
SAMPLE MEMBERS: Ulysses Grant, Grover Cleveland, Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Wild Bill Hickok, Sitting Bull
PROGRESSIVE
BIRTH YEARS: 1843 - 1859
LIFESPAN: 1843 - 1939
SAMPLE MEMBERS: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, John Dewey, Henry James, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, John Phillip Souza, Booker T. Washington
MISSIONARY
BIRTH YEARS: 1860 - 1882
LIFESPAN: 1860 - 1962
SAMPLE MEMBERS: Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, Upton Sinclair, W.E.B. DuBois, Albert Einstein, Henry Ford, William Jennings Bryan, Jane Addams
LOST
BIRTH YEARS: 1883 - 1900
LIFESPAN: 1883 - 1980
SAMPLE MEMBERS: Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Ernest Hemmingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Patton, Al Capone, Humphrey Bogart, Mae West
G.I.
BIRTH YEARS: 1901 - 1924
LIFESPAN: 1901 -
SAMPLE MEMBERS: John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Ann Landers, John Steinbeck, Robert Oppenheimer, William Westmoreland, Charles Lindbergh, Walt Disney
SILENT
BIRTH YEARS: 1925 - 1942
LIFESPAN: 1925 -
SAMPLE MEMBERS: Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, Martin Luther King, Jr., Phillip Roth, Neil Armstrong, Carl Sagan, Woody Allen, Gloria Steinem
BOOM
BIRTH YEARS: 1943 - 1960
LIFESPAN: 1943 -
SAMPLE MEMBERS: Bill Bradley, William Bennett, Gary Trudeau, Peggy Noonan, Steven Jobs, Oliver North, Angela Davis, Steven Spielberg
13th
BIRTH YEARS: 1961 - 1981
LIFESPAN: 1961 -
SAMPLE MEMBERS: Amy Carter, Samantha Smith, Michael Lewis, Brett Easton Ellis, Mary Lou Retton, Tom Cruise, Michael J. Fox, Mike Tyson
MILLENNIAL
BIRTH YEARS: 1982 - 2003?
LIFESPAN: 1982 -
SAMPLE MEMBERS: Jebbie Bush, Dooney Waters, Cecilia Chichan, "Baby M", Jessica McClure, Hilary Morgan
* LIFESPAN - From first birthyear to age 80 of last cohort
This information is provided for reference interest. This is taken from the book
"Generations, The History of America's Future, 1584-2069" by William Strauss and Neil Howe, 1991.
A book I highly recommend to all genealogists.
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