Pictured on the 1¢ US postage stamp in the Famous American/Poets
series, issued 16 February 1940.
Pictured on the 39¢ US postage stamp in the Literary Arts series,
issued 15 March 2007.
Elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1900. (inaugural election).
One of America's most beloved and widely read poets, he is best known for "Evangeline" (1847), "The Song of Hiawatha" (1855) and "The Courtship of Miles Standish" (1858).