North America
- Province of Canada:
- Sir Edmund Walker Head, Governor of the Province of Canada (1854–1861)
- The Viscount Monck of Ballytrammon, Governor of the Province of Canada (1861–1867)
- Confederate States of America - Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America (1861–1865)
- Costa Rica - José María Montealegre Fernández, President of Costa Rica (1859–1863)
- Mexico: Benito Juárez, President of Mexico (1861–1863)
- United States of America:
- James Buchanan, President of the United States (1857–1861)
- Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States (1861–1865)
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Famous quotes related to north america:
“I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town which was appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation; certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it: he cannot grow or mature.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)