Thomas Hart Benton - Military aide to Gen. Andrew Jackson and later U.S. senator from Missouri for whom the county was named in 1832. (Name was changed to honor Sen. John C. Calhoun in 1858 after Bent 1% (3 votes)
Freedom Riders - Black and white activists who rode buses through Southern cities in 1961 to challenge segregation laws. Group was attacked west of Anniston on Alabama 202. 6% (29 votes)
President Andrew Jackson - As a Tennessee militia general, led an army through the region in 1813 that fought its first battle against Creek Indians near present-day Ohatchee. 2% (11 votes)
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. - Revered civil rights leader who spoke in Anniston at least once in 1966. 2% (7 votes)
Gen. Robert E. Lee - Famed Virginian general who led Confederate troops during the Civil War. 20% (92 votes)
Gen. George B. McClellan - Union Army general for whom Fort McClellan was named. (The parkway's northern end will be at McClellan Boulevard.) 21% (94 votes)
President Barack Obama - Current U.S. president, first African-American to hold that office, who proposed federal stimulus plan that will provide money to finish the parkway. 7% (34 votes)
Gov. Bob Riley - Clay County native, former 3rd District congressman and Alabama's current governor, who has committed to provide federal stimulus funds to complete the parkway. 9% (43 votes)
Congressman Mike Rogers - Current 3rd District congressman from Saks. 5% (22 votes)
Gen. Daniel Tyler - Union army general and iron manufacturer who, with Samuel Noble, helped to found Anniston. 6% (28 votes)
Maj. Dwayne Williams - Jacksonville native and U.S. Army officer killed in the attack on the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. 18% (81 votes)
Edward O. Wilson - Alabama-born naturalist and author. 2% (10 votes)
