His biography for Abraham Lincoln earned him enough money to travel to New England and meet the great writers, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, James Russell Lowell, and Walt Whitman (Edwin H., 288). ... Henry James, another great American author, was born in New York City in 1843. As a young child, Henry James had only private tutors. ... Henry James was the first writer to introduce the theme of an American in Europe. ... Henry James died on February 28, 1916. ...

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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) - American writer, philosopher, and naturalist who believed in the importance of individualism. ... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) - American poet, one of the most popular and celebrated poets of his time. ... James Russell Lowell was born in 1819 and died in 1891. ... James Mercer Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, and educated at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. ... Sandburg also wrote what is generally considered the definitive biography of United States president Abraham Lincoln. ...

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Other people running Jackson's main rivals were Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, and William H. ... The Texas War resulted in the loss of American heroes Davie Crockett and James Bowie Occupation before politics Jackson's first occupation was when he was thirteen and joined the Continental Army as a courier. ... Jackson's true reasons for supporting the U.S. annexation were the back James K. ...

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