minister
Dorothea Dix
laissez-faire economics
Henry George
Woodrow Wilson
Abraham Lincoln
Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914) was a naval strategist, historian, and leading advocate of a powerful American navy who influenced the thinking of Teddy Roosevelt and other government leaders.
Dorothea Dix is widely regarded as a leading advocate for humane treatment for the mentally ill in the 19th century. She fought for better living conditions and treatments for individuals with mental illnesses, leading to improved standards of care and the creation of many mental health institutions.
The five leading causes of death in the 18th and 19th Centuries were complications from injuries, smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera, and yellow fever.
Cotton
John Adams was the second president of the United States and a leading advocate of independence from Great Britain.
Walter Rauschenbusch
The leading American advocate of Social Darwinism was William Graham Sumner, a sociologist and political economist. He believed in survival of the fittest as an essential law of nature that should also govern human society, advocating against government intervention in economic and social affairs.