Impact
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Name
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Killed Alexander Hamilton; fled to Europe after being charged with treason
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Aaron Burr
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Crime boss that ran a multi-million dollar crime operation during the Prohibition era
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Al Capone
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CIA officer turned KGB double agent convicted of espionage in 1994 sentenced to life in prison
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Aldritch Ames
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Soviet spy convicted of perjury in 1950, served only 44 months in prison
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Alger Hiss
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U.S. President impeached for violating the Tenure of Office Act
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Andrew Johnson
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Revolutionary War hero who later betrayed the U.S.
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Benedict Arnold
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Former chairman of the NASDAQ stock market; confessed operator of the largest Ponzi scheme in world history and the largest financial fraud in U.S. history.
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Bernie Madoff
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U.S. President impeached for lying under oath about sexual allegations
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Bill Clinton
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Assassinated James A. Garfield
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Charles J. Guiteau
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Mobster crimelord dubbed "the father of organized crime," initiated the first Commission
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Charles "Lucky" Luciano
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U.S. President who controversially decided to invade Iraq
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George W. Bush
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U.S. President who did little to prevent the Great Depression and expected it to solve itself
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Herbert Hoover
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U.S. President who did nothing to prevent the nation from falling into the Civil War
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James Buchanan
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Former president of the Confederate States; poor political leader
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Jefferson Davis
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Assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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James Earl Ray
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Founder and leader of the People's Temple cult, initiating mass suicide/murder
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Jim Jones
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Great Depression era gangster having robbed 24 banks and escaped jail twice
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John Dillinger
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Assassinated Abraham Lincoln
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John Wilkes Booth
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Fomer senator exacerbated the Red Scare, claiming several government officials were working for the Soviet Union without evidence
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Joseph McCarthy
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Convicted Soviet spy sentenced to death in 1951
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Julius Rosenberg
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Assassinated John F. Kennedy
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Lee Harvey Oswald
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Assassinated William McKinley
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Leon Czolgosz
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Anti-semetic who claims to be the true Jesus Christ; leader of Nation of Islam
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Louis Farrakhan
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U.S. President who crashed a booming economy and worsened it with ineffective policies
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Martin Van Buren
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U.S. President who signed the Fugitive Slave Act, setting the stage for black codes
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Millard Fillmore
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Chief Justice whose decision in United States v. Cruikshank effectively disabled the federal government from protecting the freed blacks from white southern terrorists during Reconstruction
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Morrison Waite
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Confederate army general who formed the Ku Klux Klan after losing the Civil War
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Nathan Bedford Forrest
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U.S. President most known for corruption and Watergate scandal
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Richard Nixon
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Chief Justice who decided Dred Scott and Ex Parte Merryman
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Roger B. Taney
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U.S. President who ended the Reconstruction era by allowing the South to return to harsh discrimination after promising to protect the rights of Black Americans
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Rutherford B. Hayes
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Domestic terrorist responsible for 1995 Oklahoma City bombing killing 168 and injuring 680
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Timothy McVeigh
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U.S. President known for corruption in Teapot Dome scandal
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Warren G. Harding
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Corrupt politician most notable as the "boss" of Tammany Hall and political machines
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William M. Tweed
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