History Bracketology

I placed these matchups on some message boards because I was curious and had nothing better to do. The names were taken from an Atlantic Monthly Article from 2006. I ranked them according to the article and split them into the four brackets.

Here are the results to Round 1:


Early American 1607-1815
1. George Washington - 16. Greene (Washington wins)
2. Thomas Jefferson - 15. John Jay (Jefferson wins)
3. Alexander Hamilton - 14. Eli Whitney (Hamilton wins)
4. Ben Franklin - 13. Daniel Shays (Franklin wins)
5. James Madison - 12. Abigail Adams (Madison wins)
6. Thomas Paine - 11. Sam Adams (Paine wins)
7. John Adams - 10. Jonathan Edwards (Adams wins)
8. Lewis and Clark - 9 Noah Webster (Lewis and Clark win)

Antebellum to 1815-1865
1. Abraham Lincoln - 16. John C Calhoun (Abe wins)
2. John Marshall -15. Robert E. Lee (Marshall wins)
3. Andrew Jackson - 14. Horace Mann (Jackson wins)
4. Walt Whitman - 13. JQ Adams (Adams wins)
5. Elizabeth Cady Stanton - 12. Joseph Smith (Smith wins)
6. Henry Clay - James K Polk (Clay wins)
7. Ralph Waldo Emerson - 10. Frederick Douglass (Douglass wins)
8. Samuel Morse - 9. William Lloyd Garrison (Garrison wins)

Reconstruction Through World War II (1865-1945)
1. FDR - 16. Eleanor Roosevelt (FDR wins)
2. Thomas Edison - 15. Susan B. Anthony (Edison wins)
3. Woodrow Wilson - 14. JP Morgan (Morgan wins)
4. John D Rockefeller - 13. William Jennings Bryan (Rockefeller wins)
5. US Grant - 12. Albert Einstein (Einstein wins)
6. Henry Ford - 11. Alexander Graham Bell (Ford wins)
7. TR - 10. The Wright Brothers (TR wins)
8. Mark Twain - 9. Andrew Carnegie (Carnegie wins)

Modern Era (1945-2009)
1. MLK - 16. Betty Friedan (MLK wins)
2. Ronald Reagan - 15. Elvis (Reagan wins)
3. Harry Truman - 14. Richard Nixon (Nixon wins)
4. Ike - 13. Sam Walton (Ike wins)
5. Earl Warren - 12. George Marshall (Marshall wins)
6. Jonas Salk - 11. Bill Gates (Salk wins)
7. Jackie Robinson - 10. Robert Oppenheimer (Oppenheimer wins)
8. Rachel Carson - 9. LBJ (LBJ wins)