Out of all the titans in American history -- Presidents and generals, inventors and entrepreneurs, reformers and revolutionaries -- have you ever wondered who the best of the best were? Well, we here at RWN wondered about that, too, and that's why we decided to email more than a hundred bloggers to get their opinions. Representatives from the following 49 blogs responded...

4ranters, Abode Of Amritas, The Agitator, The American Mind, Betsy's Page, Catholic Samurai, Courtney, Croooow Blog, Curmudgeonly & Skeptical, Cut On The Bias, Dcthornton.blog, Dean's World, Dr. Weevil, Ed Driscoll, Cam Edwards, Kim Du Toit, Dumb Celebs, Fraters Libertas, A Gaggle Of Girls (And One Guy), Gut Rumbles, IMAO, Ipse Dixit, JunkYardBlog, Little Tiny Lies, Midwest Conservative Journal, Moxie, North Georgia Dogma, #2 Pencil, Outside The Beltway, Patio Pundit, The Mind Of Man, One Hand Clapping, Poliblog, Ravenwood's Universe, Right We Are, Right Thinking From The Left Coast, Right Wing News, Scrappleface, Sgt. Stryker's Daily Briefing, Silflay Hraka, The Southern California Law Blog, Social Reject, The Spoons Experience, Tom Conservative Vs. Amy The Ultra-Liberal Kitty-Cat, The Ville, The Yale Diva, Yourish, Wizbang, Zogby Blog.

All bloggers were allowed to make anywhere from 1-20 selections. Rank was determined simply by the number of votes received. Also, it's worth keeping in mind that this was a fairly Conservative group of bloggers and their selections reflected that. Well, that's enough about the rules -- without further adieu, the greatest figures in American history are as follows (with the number of votes following each selection)...

Honorable Mentions: Harriet Tubman (5), Jonas Salk (5), Douglas MacArthur (5), Rush Limbaugh (5), Alexander Graham Bell (5), Robert E. Lee (6), Milton Friedman (6), Andrew Carnegie (6), Bill Gates (7), Andrew Jackson (8)

19) Harry Truman (9)
19) Dwight D. Eisenhower (9)
19) Frederick Douglass (9)
17) Thomas Paine (10)
17) Ulysses S. Grant (10)
14) Orville & Wilbur Wright (11)
14) Mark Twain (11)
14) George S. Patton (11)
13) Alexander Hamilton (13)
12) Henry Ford (14)
10) Franklin Delano Roosevelt (15)
10) Martin Luther King Jr (15)
8) Teddy Roosevelt (17)
8) John Adams (17)
7) James Madison (18)
6) Thomas Edison (21)
5) Ben Franklin (28)
4) Abe Lincoln (31)
3) George Washington (35)
1) Ronald Reagan (36)
1) Thomas Jefferson (36)

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