Labor Leaders
- Joseph Curran, American labor leader
- Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (1815–1882), wrote Two Years Before the Mast
- Andrew Furuseth (1854–1938), merchant seaman and labour leader
- Shannon J. Wall, American merchant seaman and labor leader
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