Difference between revisions of "Legacy"

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A legacy is anything a person leaves to someone else.

In law, the legacy of a testator includes the full body of bequests in his last will and testament.

In politics, the legacy of any politician, especially one leaving office, includes the full body of laws he authored, sponsored, or signed, judges he appointed, and policies he put into force and effect.

Legacies

Here are some examples of legacies continued long after the leader or creator passed from this world:

Frank Lloyd Wright (Arizona)
John Ashbrook (Ohio)
Russell Kirk (Michigan)
William Faulkner (Mississippi)
Ernest Hemingway (Illinois)^[1]
John Steinbeck (California)
Roberto Clemente (Pittsburgh)
American Gothic (Iowa)^[2]
Ludwig von Mises (Alabama)^[3]
Charles Schulz^[4]
Charlie Chaplin (Switzerland)^[5]
Salvador Dali (St. Petersburg, Florida)^[6]
Edmond Malone (Shakespeare scholar, The Malone Society is located online^[7])
Judy Garland (Grand Rapids, Minnesota)
Kurt Vonnegut (Indianapolis, Indiana)^[8]
Abraham Lincoln (Springfield, Illinois)^[9]
Walter Chrysler (Ellis, Kansas)^[10]
Robert Jackson, prominent conservative U.S. Supreme Court justice of the 20th century (Jamestown, New York)^[11]
Andy Warhol (Pittsburgh) - a spectacular 7-story gallery^[12]
Elvis Presley (Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee)
Charles Dickens (preserving his London home, at 48 Doughty Street)^[13]
Shakespeare Center LA (Los Angeles), funded by the State of California^[14]
H.L. Mencken (Baltimore)^[15]
Robert Frost (Derry, New Hampshire)^[16]
Ralph Waldo Emerson (Concord, Massachusetts)^[17]
General Lew Wallace, author of Ben-Hur (book) (Crawfordsville, Indiana)^[18]
Mark Twain (Hartford, Connecticut,^[19] where he wrote his later works, and Hannibal, Missouri,^[20] where he grew up)
C.S. Lewis (The Kilns, in Headington Quarry near Oxford, England^[21])
F. Scott Fitzgerald (three historical landmarks in St. Paul, Minnesota^[22])
Ross Perot (Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, Texas^[23])
William Jennings Bryan (his winter home in Miami, Florida, known as the Villa Serena)
"Shoeless" Joe Jackson (Greenville, South Carolina)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (New York City^[24])
Mickey Mantle (Commerce, Oklahoma^[25])
Rudyard Kipling^[26] (the Bateman's, a Jacobian house in Sussex, England^[27])
Claude Monet (his preserved home in Giverny, France.^[28])
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (homes in Portland, Maine and Cambridge, Massachusetts^[29])
George Orwell (Barnhill, Jura, is where Orwell wrote 1984 and it is available for rent; both the Orwell Foundation^[30] and the Orwell Society^[31] carry on the legacy of his work today)
Herman Melville (Arrowhead, where he wrote Moby-Dick, maintained today by the Berkshire County Historical Society in Pittsfield, Massachusetts^[32])
Roger Maris (Fargo, North Dakota, his hometown^[33])
Andrew Jackson (his home, called the "Hermitage", in Nashville, Tennessee^[34])
Grover Cleveland (his childhood home in New Jersey^[35])
Brigham Young (his home in Nauvoo, Illinois^[36])
Patrick Henry (his church in Richmond where he gave his famous speech "Give me liberty ... or give me death!"^[37])
Calvin Coolidge (birthplace and childhood home as preserved as a Vermont Historic Site, in Plymouth Notch^[38])
Paul Revere (the Paul Revere House in Boston^[39])
William Tyndale (the Little Sodbury Manor in Little Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England)

References

[1] â https://www.hemingwaybirthplace.com/

[2] â https://americangothichouse.org/american-gothic

[3] â https://mises.org/

[4] â https://schulzmuseum.org/about-schulz/schulz-biography/

[5] â https://charliechaplinmuseumfoundation.com/en/home/#structure

[6] â https://thedali.org/

[7] â https://malonesociety.com/about-2/

[8] â https://www.vonnegutlibrary.org/

[9] â His Library and Museum are 2 separate grandiose facilities, each of which is in downtown Springfield. Museum Library Illinois official cite Illinois State History Museum.

[10] â https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g38688-d4090855-Reviews-Walter_P_Chrysler_Boyhood_Home_Museum-Ellis_Kansas.html

[11] â https://www.roberthjackson.org/

[12] â https://www.warhol.org/

[13] â https://dickensmuseum.com/

[14] â https://www.shakespearecenter.org/history

[15] â https://menckenhouse.org/

[16] â https://www.robertfrostfarm.org/

[17] â https://www.ralphwaldoemersonhouse.org/

[18] â https://www.ben-hur.com/

[19] â https://marktwainhouse.org/

[20] â https://marktwainmuseum.org/

[21] â https://www.cslewis.org/ourprograms/thekilns/kilnstour/

[22] â https://saintpaulhistorical.com/items/show/119

[23] â https://thehill.com/opinion/education/452748-ross-perots-philanthropic-legacy-inspiring-next-generation-of-engineers/

[24] â https://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org/

[25] â https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/38696341/shares-mickey-mantle-boyhood-home-soon-sale-7

[26] â https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/kip_life.htm

[27] â https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/sussex/batemans

[28] â https://giverny.org/monet/home/

[29] â https://www.hwlongfellow.org/house_overview.shtml

[30] â https://www.orwellfoundation.com/

[31] â https://orwellsociety.com/

[32] â https://berkshirehistory.org/herman-melville-arrowhead/restoration-of-arrowhead/

[33] â https://westacres.com/attractions/roger-maris-museum/

[34] â https://thehermitage.com/

[35] â https://nj.gov/dep/parksandforests/historic/grovercleveland.html

[36] â https://ensignpeakfoundation.org/brigham-young-home/

[37] â https://www.historicstjohnschurch.org/home

[38] â https://historicsites.vermont.gov/calvin-coolidge

[39] â https://www.paulreverehouse.org/

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 *[[Andrew Jackson]] (his home, called the "Hermitage", in Nashville, [[Tennessee]]<ref>https://thehermitage.com/</ref>)
 *[[Grover Cleveland]] (his childhood home in [[New Jersey]]<ref>https://nj.gov/dep/parksandforests/historic/grovercleveland.html</ref>)
+*[[Brigham Young]] (his home in Nauvoo, Illinois<ref>https://ensignpeakfoundation.org/brigham-young-home/</ref>)
 *[[Patrick Henry]] (his church in Richmond where he gave his famous speech "Give me liberty ... or give me death!"<ref>https://www.historicstjohnschurch.org/home</ref>)
+*[[Calvin Coolidge]] (birthplace and childhood home as preserved as a Vermont Historic Site, in Plymouth Notch<ref>https://historicsites.vermont.gov/calvin-coolidge</ref>)
 *[[Paul Revere]] (the Paul Revere House in [[Boston]]<ref>https://www.paulreverehouse.org/</ref>)
+*[[William Tyndale]] (the Little Sodbury Manor in Little Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England)
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