Alfred Elisha Ames, politician and physician Henry P. H. Bromwell, U.S. Representative from Illinois H. Joel Deckard, U.S. Representative from Indiana Levi Davis, Illinois Auditor and lawyer William Lee D. Ewing, U.S. Senator and fifth Governor of Illinois William M. Farmer, Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court Ferris Foreman, politician and Army colonel John W. Heavey, U.S. Army brigadier general, chief of the National Guard Bureau Frederick Remann, Illinois Republican politician Levi Stewart, Mormon pioneer June Squibb, Academy Award-nominated actress In Jules Verne's An Antarctic Mystery (1897), Dirk Peters, AKA Hunt, lived for many years in Vandalia before resuming his quest for his companion Arthur Gordon Pym.
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