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Carl Lotus Becker
1873 – 1945
Becker was a professor of History at Cornell University. He was one of the preeminent American historians in the first half of the 20th century and wrote a number of significant books such as his study of The Declaration of Independence (1922) and The Heavenly City of the Eightenth-Century Philosophers (1932).
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