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Massachusetts natives lead New York Hall of Fame tribute
Nine Americans inducted at the New York University ceremony include seven Bay State natives with Harvard ties. Names featured include John Quincy Adams, George Bancroft, James Fenimore Cooper, Patrick Henry, Elias Howe, James Russell Lowell, Horace Mann, John Lothrop Motley, and Joseph Story, highlighting Massachusetts influence in early American history and education.
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Elmq Scott Watson
New York University
Bane University
Massachusetts
New York
Old Bay State
Harvard
John Quincey Adams
Braintree
Mays
Washington
Holland
Madison
Russia
Great Britain
United States
Adams
England
America
Monroe
Spain
Florida
Andrew Jackson
House of Representatives
Jaelson
Congress
George Bancroft
Worcester
Europe
James K. Polk
Bancroft
United States Naval Academy
Annapolia
dJamea Fenimore Cooper
Burlington
N. J
Cooperstown
N. Y
Patrick Henry
Studley
Henry
Continental Congress
Virginia
Charlotte County
Elias Howe
Bay State
Spencer
Mass
Howe
Bridgeport
Conn
James Roszell Lowell
Cambridge
Lowell
Harvard Law School
Atlantic Monthly
North American Review
Ward
Horace Main
Franklin
Brown University
Massachusetts Board of Education
Mann
Antioch College
Ohio
Alstory
John Lothrop Motley
Dorchester
Masa
Barvard
Germany
Dutch Republic
Austria
Motley
Joseph Story
Marblehead
Salem
Supreme Court of the United States