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No one person. It evolved over thousands of years from many sources. Look under ALPHABET in the Brittanica or any other good encyclopedia for a full history.

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There is no such thing as a purely "US" English alphabet, other than perhaps the US pronunciation of the last letter, Z, zed. The present English alphabet has been in use since Shakespeare's time (there were 3 letters used in Old English which survived to around Shakespeare's time, in some cases dropped when printing presses were introduced, and the source of the incorrect "Ye" word ).

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