Key Figures
Some important participants in the Chautauqua and Lyceum movements include:
| Founder of the Lyceum: | Josiah Holbrook |
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| Founders of the Chautauqua Institution: | John Heyl Vincent Louis Miller |
| Redpath Lyceum Bureau: | James Redpath Keith Vawter |
| Circuit Chautauqua Speakers: | William Jennings Bryan Ralph Waldo Emerson Ida Tarbell Mark Twain Daniel Webster |
| Presidents who have spoken at the Chautauqua Institution: | James Garfield Ulysses S. Grant Rutherford B. Hayes William McKinley Theodore Roosevelt William Howard Taft |
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