Which American most deserves their own national holiday?

The calendar already honours one or two of these people. The rest are still waiting on a bill that never came.

1

Abraham Lincoln

Several states mark his 12 February birthday; the federal calendar never has.

1000pts

2

Harriet Tubman

Escaped slavery, then went back nineteen times to lead others out.

1000pts

3

Amelia Earhart

First woman to fly the Atlantic alone, and aviation's most enduring open question.

709pts

4

Booker T. Washington

Born enslaved, founded Tuskegee and built it into a national institution.

709pts

5

Nikola Tesla

The naturalised American whose alternating current lit the country.

709pts

6

Benjamin Franklin

Printer, diplomat and inventor who signed every founding document that mattered.

600pts

7

Rosa Parks

Her refusal to move seats in Montgomery in 1955 started a 381-day bus boycott.

600pts

8

Eleanor Roosevelt

Redefined the role of First Lady, then drove the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

600pts

9

Thomas Edison

1,093 US patents, and the laboratory model that made invention an industry.

600pts

10

Frederick Douglass

The escaped slave who became the most photographed American of the 19th century.

466pts

11

Jonas Salk

Developed the polio vaccine and refused to patent it.

466pts

12

Jackie Robinson

Broke baseball's colour line in 1947 under instructions not to answer back.

466pts

13

George Washington

Already has one on paper — the February federal holiday is legally Washington's Birthday.

300pts

14

Susan B. Anthony

Spent fifty years campaigning for a vote she died fourteen years too early to cast.

300pts

15

Neil Armstrong

The first person to stand on the Moon, and the least interested in saying so.

300pts

16

Mark Twain

The writer who gave American English its own literary voice.

300pts