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If your High school was named for somebody let us know the person and what they contributed to society. If it was not a HS any other school you went to will be fine.

I went to Samuel J Tilden High School, Brooklyn, NY.

Sammy J was a New York State governor who has the dubious distinction to have run for President 1876, won the popular vote but lost the election. He was the first but not the last. There was one other.... Who can name him?
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If your High school was named for somebody let us know the person and what they contributed to society. If it was not a HS any other school you went to will be fine.

I went to Samuel J Tilden High School, Brooklyn, NY.

Sammy J was a New York State governor who has the dubious distinction to have run for President 1876, won the popular vote but lost the election. He was the first but not the last. There was one other.... Who can name him?
Al Smith?
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Al Gore?
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My high school (private girls' school) was named for Saint Margaret. I don't know what she did but there is a lovely church named for her in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Al Gore?
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Al Gore?
No, he invented the internet!

While not a person but persons, Pensacola High School was named after the group of Native Americans of Muskogee tribes named Pensacola (closely related to Choctaws) as mentioned in early Spanish letters dated 1677.
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Sachem which means chief in Native American. Every junior high and grammar school then has a name such as Nokomis, Hiawatha, etc.
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Went to Rich Township High School - named for the Rich people.


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Augusta Military Academy

Named for the County of Augusta in Virginia.
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Well...Mr. South. There was also a Mr. North, Mr. East. Mrs.West and Ms. Central. These were in Columbus, Ohio.
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No, he (Al Gore) invented the internet!
Him and Benjamin Franklin together shortly after Ben discovered electricity! BTW, Al wound up using his prototype of the net to go crabbing for blue crab!

Anyway, I went to LaSalle Institute in Troy, NY. It was named after John Baptist de La Salle who founded the Brothers of the Christian Schools around 1679 in France. NO, I wasn't one of his students! De La Salle was canonized a saint of the Catholic Church on May 24, 1900 and proclaimed patron of all teachers of youth by Pope Pius XII on May 15, 1950. (more)
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Yamato High School, Tachikawa AFB, Japan, we were the samurai warriors. Guess it was fitting since we were in Japan.
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