Robert Green Ingersoll : 19th-Century American Secularist, Freethinker, Union Civil War Colonel, Civil Rights Activist, and Famed Public Speaker

August 11, 1833 — July 21, 1899

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Nicknamed "the Great Agnostic", was an American lawyer, writer, and orator during the Golden Age of Free Thought, who campaigned in defense of agnosticism.

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August 11, 1833

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July 21, 1899

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