The Democratic Party chose for its presidential candidate a hero of the Civil War -- General Winfield Scott Hancock of Pennsylvania.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

An African American man named John Henry was the hero of former slaves and the people who built the railroads.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

In nineteen ninety-nine, Walter Plowright won the World Food Prize as a hero of the fight against rinderpest.

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And it nominated a hero of the Spanish-American War, New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt, as vice president.

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His father,Arthur MacArthur, was a hero of the American Civil War and continued to serve in the army after the war ended in eighteen sixty-five.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

Paul Bunyan was a hero of North America's lumberjacks, the workers who cut down trees.

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But Claudio wrongly accuses Hero of being with another man and refuses to marry her.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

The Nobel committee called George Babbitt the popular hero of the American middle class.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

Not surprisingly, America's sixteenth president is a hero of another former Illinois lawmaker.

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Pecos Bill was a larger than life hero of the American West.

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Thurlow Weed, one of the important Whig leaders in the state of New York, remembered how the people had loved Jackson, the hero of the War of 1812.

VOA: special.2009.01.22

Commodore William Bainbridge was a hero of that war.

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He was the military hero of the Civil War.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

There was a strange look in his eye as he leaned toward me and whispered C Privately C he is a complete fool. He meant,of course, the hero of our dinner.

VOA: special.2010.03.27