- Ward MacAllister
Self-Appointed Leader of the “Four Hundred” of New York. “A Prince of Cooks and Coats.” It was not much: it was rank presumption; it was nonsense, absurd. “There’s no such thing possible in America as class distinction; in fact, it does not exist, cannot exist; the ‘Four Hundred’ of New York is a joke, a by-word, a stupendous folly.” - Thomas Jefferson
The “People’s” President, 1800. - Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln - Lyman Trumbull
Lyman Trumbull - Edwin M. Stanton
Edwin M. Stanton