The active sponsor of Jefferson's measure for religious liberty in Virginia, Madison played the most influential single role in the drafting of the Constitution and in securing its ratification in Virginia, founded the first political party in American history, and, as Jefferson's Secretary of State and his successor in the Presidency, guided the nation through the troubled years of our second war with Britain.

Anthropology in France has a less clear genealogy than the British and American traditions, in part because many French writers influential in anthropology have been trained or held faculty positions in sociology, philosophy, or other fields rather than in anthropology.

It was an extremely important post for American exploration of the continent and was influential in establishing American claims to the land.

Although still actively involved in running his many businesses, Carnegie had become a regular contributor to numerous magazines, most notably the Nineteenth Century, under the editorship of James Knowles, and the influential North American Review, led by editor Lloyd Bryce.

American chefs have been influential both in the food industry and in popular culture.

As in most South American nations, the Brazilian Army (, ) has been the most influential of the services because of its size, deployment, and historical development.

" To Walter Isaacson, this makes Franklin " the most accomplished American of his age and the most influential in inventing the type of society America would become.

He was posthumously awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree by the University of Florida for his influence on American popular music and in its " People in America " radio series about influential people in American history, the Voice of America radio service paid tribute to him, describing how " his influence was so widespread that it is hard to imagine what rock and roll would have sounded like without him.

Many Enlightenment thinkers ( such as Adam Smith and the American Founding Fathers ) subscribed to this view to some extent, and it remains influential among so-called classical liberals and libertarians.

Arthur H. Robinson, an American cartographer influential in thematic cartography, stated that a map not properly designed " will be a cartographic failure.

Carl Ransom Rogers ( January 8, 1902 – February 4, 1987 ) was an influential American psychologist and among the founders of the humanistic approach to psychology.

Another American writer in a similar vein was Thorne Smith, whose works ( such as Topper and The Night Life of the Gods ) were popular and influential, and often adapted for film and television.

It is considered important by film historians as one of the first feature length American films ( most previous films had been less than one hour long ), and it changed the industry's standard in a way still influential today .< ref >

Environmentalists became much more influential in American politics after the creation or strengthening of numerous U. S. environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act and the formation of the US Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA in 1970.

While the North American perception is important to understand the usage of the term, it by no means dominates a wider global view, where the fundamentalist debate was not so influential.

Douglass wrote several autobiographies, eloquently describing his experiences in slavery in his 1845 autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, which became influential in its support for abolition.

The early American punkzine Search and Destroy eventually became the influential fringe-cultural magazine Re / Search.

Bragg was influential in the effort to beat a leading American chemist, Linus Pauling, to the discovery of DNA's structure ( after having been ' pipped-at-the-post ' by Pauling's success in determining the alpha helix structure of proteins ).

Andrew Sarris in his influential book of film criticism The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968 included Hawks in the " pantheon " of the 14 greatest film directors who had worked in the United States.

In Nashville, P. T. Gazell has an influential style, as does Charlie McCoy, an American music harmonicist.

Nevertheless, he was influential among some of the American individualists ; in the 1840s and 1850s, Charles A. Dana, and William B. Greene introduced Proudhon's works to the United States.

Lucifer the Lightbearer, an influential American free love journalAn important current within individualist anarchism is free love.

Val Lewton also produced a series of atmospheric and influential small-budget horror films, some of the more famous examples being Cat People, Isle of the Dead and The Body Snatcher.

Less restrictive censorship towards the end of the 1950s encouraged B-film producer Hammer Films to embark on their series of influential and wildly successful horror films.

Radcliffe also provided an aesthetic for the genre in an influential article " On the Supernatural in Poetry ", examining the distinction and correlation between horror and terror in Gothic fiction

Universal's horror cycle continued into the 1940s, these included The Wolf Man ( 1941 ), not the first werewolf film, but certainly the most influential, as well as a number of films uniting several of their monsters.

It has since gained a reputation as one of the most influential horror films in cinema history.

The work describes Harthacnut's horror at hearing of his brother's murder, and in Howard's view, was probably influential in finally persuading the cautious Harthacnut to invade England.

One of the influential names in the late 1970s – early 1990s American horror literature boom, by 1991 McCamon had three New York Times bestsellers ( The Wolf's Hour, Stinger, and Swan Song ) and 5 million books in print.

Bava proved highly influential on Italian horror cinema and ushered in a new wave of Italian directors, including most notably Dario Argento, as well as prompting the release of numerous giallo films in the early 1970s.

It is one of the most influential of German Expressionist films and is often considered one of the greatest horror movies of the silent era. The film used stylized sets, with abstract, jagged buildings painted on canvas backdrops and flats.

The film became very influential as a forerunner of the slasher film genre of horror films.

Towards the end of the 1950s, Hammer Films embarked on their series of influential and wildly successful horror films, including lavish colour versions of Frankenstein ( 1957 ), Dracula ( 1958 ) and The Mummy ( 1959 ), with actors Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee at the forefront.

System Shock 2 is regarded by critics as highly influential, particularly on first-person shooters and the horror genre.

They are named after influential Irish horror writer Bram Stoker, author of the novel Dracula, among others.

The Exorcist remains one of the most influential horror movies dealing with an evil spirit invading one's soul.

His first solo outing acted as testament to his skills as a producer, ' Johnny Jungle ' going on to be remixed often and a record influential to the ' dark ' period which came to dominate the music of the time with its heavy sounds, technical percussives and horror film aesthetic.

Series one began as a line of horror and science fiction based figures that had been licensed from influential and financially successful horror films such as A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th, as well as the upcoming ( at that time ) Species II.

Resident Evil 4 is regarded as one of the most influential games of the 2000s decade, due to its influence in redefining at least two video game genres: the survival horror and the third-person shooter.

Positive reviews came from highly influential critics Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, with Siskel describing the movie as " surprisingly entertaining ," and Ebert saying that the movie was clever in how it " combines the conventions of the horror and disaster genres " and " is actually a lot of fun, if you like special effects and gore.

Lovecraft was deeply influenced by Edgar Allan Poe and to a somewhat lesser extent, by Lord Dunsany ; with his Cthulhu Mythos stories, he became one of the most influential writers of fantasy and horror in the 20th century.

The " Jack " character was played by Werner Krauss, who had achieved enormous success with his portrayal of the evil title character in the influential early horror film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

A well known and influential vampire hunter is Professor Abraham Van Helsing, a character in Bram Stoker's 1897 horror novel, Dracula.

Some have said that Lovecraft, along with Edgar Allan Poe, is the most influential author on modern horror.

By the mid-1940s and throughout the 1950s, Moreno appeared in a number of well received roles, most notably, his 1954 role in the classic horror film Creature from the Black Lagoon and his 1955 role as Emilio Figueroa in film director John Ford's influential western epic The Searchers opposite John Wayne and Natalie Wood.