Raymond Poincaré was born in Lorraine and educated in Paris in the law.  He was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies at age twenty-seven and was an education minister just six years later.  He served as prime minister between 1912 and 1913 and was then elected President of the Republic.  He was president during all the years of the First World War and the Paris Peace Conference.  He died in October 1934 in Paris.  (By John Osborne)

Henrietta Vinton Davis was born in Baltimore, educated in Washington DC, and began her working life as a teacher.  After a time as the first African-American woman employed at the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, she then developed at sterling career on the stage with dramatic recitations that gave her a national reputation.  Much of her later life was taken up with work in the African Redemption Movement of Marcus Garvey.  (By John Osborne)