POLITICIAN  &  PRESIDENT  PHYSICIANS 

 

 Josiah Bartlett 1729 – 1795

David Cobb 1748 – 1830

Edward Hand 1744 – 1802

Benjamin Rush 1745 – 1813

Matthew Thornton 1714 – 1803

Oliver Wolcott 1726 – 1797

 

 

 

 

Independence Day in the United States an annual holiday commemorating the formal adoption by the Continental Congress of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, in Philadelphia. Although the signing of the Declaration was not completed until August, the Fourth of July holiday has been accepted as the official anniversary of United States independence and is celebrated in all states and territories of the United States.

 

 

 

                                              

        L.Gurakuqi 1879 – 1925               F. Alberghetti 1762 – 1851                  H.L.Bynoe 1921 –

Albania   Study and Finance Minister                 Italian politician                   First Governor of Grenada

 

Georges Clemenceau 1841 – 1929

French physician, statesman, journalist, and formulator (with the United States and Great Britain) of the Treaty of Versailles.

 

Clemenceau was born on September 28, 1841, at Mouilleron-en-Pareds, in the Vendée. Although educated as a doctor, he became interested in politics and journalism. In 1865, during the American Civil War, he went to the United States, where he taught French and riding in Stamford, Connecticut, and was a war correspondent for Paris Temps. In 1869 Clemenceau returned to France, where he practiced medicine, but he was soon involved in the events leading to the overthrow of Napoleon III.

 

 

José P. Rizal 1861 – 1896

is Filipino doctor, novelist, and nationalist martyr. The son of a wealthy Filipino planter, Rizal was born in Calamba, Luzon. He studied medicine in Madrid and Paris and later in Germany, where he published his novel “Noli me tangere”, attacking the evils of Spanish rule in the Philippines. This and a second novel, “El filibusterismo” (The Reign of Greed), won him wide recognition and helped spark a reform movement in the Philippines. Rizal was critical of the power exercised by Roman Catholic religious orders in his country and demanded political rights and equality for Filipinos, but he stopped short of advocating independence. After practicing medicine for a time in Hong Kong, he returned to Manila in 1892. The authorities there exiled him to the island of Mindanao. When a Filipino revolt broke out in 1896, Rizal was accused of having inspired it. Convicted of sedition by a military court, he was executed in Manila. He is honored as a national hero in the Philippines.

 

Ernesto Guevara, che Guevara 1928 – 1967

South American revolutionary and political leader whose refusal to espouse either capitalism or orthodox Communism made him a hero to the New Left radicals of the 1960’s. Born into a middle-class family in Rosario, Argentina, Guevara received a medical degree from the University of Buenos Aires in 1953. Convinced that violent revolution was the only remedy for South America's social inequities, in 1954 he went to Mexico, where he joined exiled Cuban revolutionaries under Fidel Castro. In the late 1950’s, he played an important role in Castro's guerrilla war (1956-1959) against the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. After Castro came to power in Cuba (1959), Guevara was appointed minister of industry (1961-1965). A strong opponent of United States influence in the so-called Third World, he influenced the Castro regime in its movement towards the political left and the transfer of traditional economic ties from the United States to the Communist bloc. The author of two books on guerrilla warfare, Guevara advocated peasant-based revolutionary movements in the developing countries. He disappeared from Cuba in 1965, reappearing the following year in Bolivia as an insurgent leader of the Bolivian peasants and tin-miners against the military government. He was captured by the Bolivian army and shot near Vallegrande on October 9, 1967.

 

 

Sun Yat-Sen 1866 – 1925

Chinese revolutionary leader, revered as the father of republican China, who was instrumental in overthrowing (1911) the Manchu (Qing) dynasty and founding (1912) the Republic of China. In China he is also called Sun Zhongshan (Sun Chung-shan).

 

Sun was born on November 12, 1866, the son of poor peasants in Xiangshan (Hsiang-shan) in the southern province of Guangdong (Kwangtung). In 1879 he joined his elder brother in Honolulu, where he attended missionary schools. He returned to China in 1883 and later moved to Hong Kong, where he was baptized a Christian and married. He received a medical education and became physician in Hong Kong in 1892.