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| 6042431987 | Hiram W. Johnson (1866-1945) | Elected Republican Governor of California in 1910, He oversaw numerous progressive reforms, including the passage of woman suffrage at the state level. In 1917 he entered the Senate, where he proved an isolationist in foreign affairs. He is famous for declaring that "the first casualty when war comes, is truth." | 0 | |
| 6042431988 | Florence Kelley (1859-1932) | A tireless crusader for women's and labor rights, She was Illinois's first chief factory inspector and a leader of the National Consumer's League, an organization dedicated to improving working conditions for women and children. She also went on to help found the NAACP. | 1 | |
| 6042431989 | Robert M. ("Fighting Bob") La Follette (1855-1925) | Hailing from Wisconsin, He was one of the most militant of the progressive Republican leaders. He served in the Senate and in the Wisconsin governor's seat, and was a perennial contender for the presidency, keeping the spirit of progressivism alive into the 1920s. | 2 | |
| 6042431990 | Henry Demarest Lloyd (1847-1903) | A muckraking journalist and reform leader whose book, Wealth Against Commonweath (1894), excoriated the sins of the Standard Oil Company. He became one of the leading intellectuals behind the progressive movement, influencing such figures as Clarence Darrow, Florence Kelley, and John Dewey. | 3 | |
| 6042431991 | John Muir (1838-1914) | This noted naturalist split with conservationists like Gifford Pinchot by trying to protect natural "temples" like the Hetch Hetchy Valley from development. In 1892 he founded the Sierra Club, which is now one of the most influential conservation organizations in the United States. His writings and philosophy shaped the formation of the modern environmental movement. | 4 | |
| 6042431992 | Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946) | A friend of Theodore Roosevelt, He was the head of the federal Division of Forestry and a noted conservationist who wanted to protect, but also use, the nation's natural resources, like forests and rivers. In 1922 he won election to the Pennsylvania governor's mansion, on the Republican ticket. | 5 | |
| 6042431993 | Jacob A. Riis (1849-1914) | Danish-born police reporter and pioneering photographer who exposed the ills of tenement living in his 1890 book illustrated with powerful photographs, How the Other Half Lives. His work led to the establishment of "model tenements" in New York City. | 6 | |
| 6042431994 | Thorstein Veblen (18577-1929) | An eccentric Norwegian-American economist who savagely attacked "predatory wealth" and "conspicuous consumption" in his most important book, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899). | 7 | |
| 6042431995 | Frances E. Willard (1838-1898) | This pious leader of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union wished to eliminate the sale of alcohol and thereby "make the world more homelike." Her ecumenical "do everything" reform sensibility encouraged some women to take the leap toward more radical causes like woman suffrage, while allowing more conservative women to stick comfortably with temperance work. | 8 |
