Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography
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This project is an activity of the Unitarian Universalist Historical Society and is funded in part by the Fund for Unitarian Universalism. More about the Project
Recent Dictionary News
The following are the articles most recently added to the Dictionary. To see a complete list of what is available (over 300 biographies so far) and what is planned (many hundreds more), please click on the alphabetical indices on the sidebar. The search feature, also on the sidebar, may be used to find all references to a given person. Articles may also be found by clicking on the categories listed below the news.
- 10/19 new article: Matteo Gribaldi, by Peter Hughes
- 9/23 new article: Zoltan Nagy, by Charles A. Howe
- 8/12 new article: Celio Secondo Curione, by Peter Hughes
- 6/13 new image: William Vidler, image provided by Liz Lawson
- 5/31 new article: The Niemirycz Family, by Kazimierz Bem
- 4/15 new article: Millard Fillmore, by Walter Herz
- 3/12 new article: Robert Edward Green, by Alan Seaburg and Eugene R. Widrick
- 3/10 new article: Leonard Mason, by Charles Eddis
- 3/7 new article: John Godbey, by Charles A. Howe
- 1/11 new article: William Rice, by Alan Seaburg
- 12/23 new article: Mary Billings, by Barbara Coeyman
- 12/13 new article: Richard Lloyd Jones, by Peter Hughes
- 11/25 new article: Herman Bisbee, by Charles A. Howe
- 10/16 new article: William Roberts, by Thurairaja Mylvaganam
- 10/4 new article: Sir John Carter, by Alan Ruston
- 9/20 new articles: Jenkin Lloyd Jones and Susan Charlotte Barber Lloyd Jones, by Cathy Tauscher and Peter Hughes
- 8/19 new article: Frances Dana Barker Gage, by Sandra Parker
- 6/19 new article: Orello Cone, by Charles A. Howe
- 6/7 new article: Robert Millikan, by Jerry Frazee
- 6/7 new article: Jean Mayer, by Alan Seaburg
- 5/6 new article: Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, by Alan Ruston
- 4/22 new article: Henry Bergh, by Mark Ferguson
- 4/21 new article: Richard Cabot, by Amy Dahlberg Chu
- 3/18 new article: Lee Sullivan McCollester, by Alan Seaburg
- 3/18 new category page: Educators
- 3/17 new articles: Isaac Morgan Atwood and John Murray Atwood, by Charles A. Howe
- 2/26 new article: William Howard Taft, by Walter Herz
- 2/24 new article: Caroline Bartlett Crane, by Renee Zimelis Ruchotzke
- 2/12 new article: The Ballou Family, by Peter Hughes: includes more than a dozen people, including the children of Hosea Ballou and Adin Ballou; and David Ballou, Silas Ballou, and Sullivan Ballou.
- 1/31 new article: Andrew Kuroda, by Alan Seaburg
- 1/25 new article: Alphonso Taft, by Walter Herz
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Featured Occupation
American Presidents
There have been five Presidents of the United States who were Unitarian: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, Millard Fillmore, and William Howard Taft. All of these are now featured in the Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography. In addition we have Adlai Stevenson, a two-time presidential candidate, and John Calhoun, a vice-president. We also have articles on British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and New Zealand Prime Minister Robert Stout. Another British Prime Minister, Lord John Russell, though not himself a Unitarian, was married to a prominent Unitarian, Lady Frances Russell. Both are featured in the article on the Russell Family. Other famous Unitarian "First Ladies" are Charlotte Masaryk (of Czechoslovakia) and, of course, John Adams's wife, Abigail Adams.
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