Faces. By age 40, we each have the one we deserve. So said George Orwell.
Here are links to faces I’ve posted here, belonging to people I liked or disliked enough to profile. Some are current. Most are historical. All are interesting.
Click on the names and look in their eyes. Then decide if you’d want them home for dinner.
Presidents:
- John Quincy Adams
- Chester A. Arthur
President Grover Cleveland - George H.W. Bush
- George W. Bush
- Jimmy Carter
- Grover Cleveland
- Calvin Coolidge
- Gerald R. Ford
- James A. Garfield
- Ulysses Grant
- Warren G. Harding
- Herbert Hoover
- Abraham Lincoln
- Barack Obama
- Ronald Reagan
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Theodore Roosevelt
Anwar Sadat - Woodrow Wilson
Trouble makers:
- Susan B. Anthony
- Mel Brooks
- Red Cloud (Sioux chief)
- Eugene V. Debs
- James Fisk, Jr.
- Emma Goldman
- Jay Gould
- William Herbert Hunt and Nelson Bunker Hunt (The Hunt Brothers)
- William “Big Bill” Haywood
Comrade Trotsky - Gen. George B. McClellan
- Lucretia Mott
- Thomas Paine
- Leonard Peltier
- Leon Trotsky
- Santa Claus (as drawn by Tom Nast)
- Victoria Woodhull
Politicians:
- Rod Blagoyevich
- Blanche Bruce
- Joseph G. Cannon
- Al Franken
James and Lucretia Garfield - Horace Greeley
- Alan Greenspan
- Wladyslaw Jagiello (King of Poland, 1400s)
- Nicholas Longworth
- George W. Norris
- Henry Paulson
- Charles H. Percy
- Jozef Pilsudski (Polish independence, 1918)
- Anwar El Sadat (president of Egypt)
- William M. “Boss” Tweed
Lawyers:
Cops – Good and Bad:
- Marlborough Churchill
- William “Big Bill” Flynn
- J. Edgar Hoover
- Ms. Pat Garrett (wife of New Mexico sheriff, 1880s)
Celebs:
- Michael Jackson
- Caroline Kennedy
- Alice Longworth (1) (2)
“Uncle Joe” Cannon - Marilyn Monroe
- John Riggins
Artists (all types):
- Jacques Cousteau
- Thomas Nast
- Ocean Divers
- Molly Picon
- Ostrovsta Rebbe
- Saint Patrick
- Roger Staubach
- Anzia Yezierska