The Resume

(July 12, 1817-May 6, 1862)
Birth name was David Henry Thoreau
Wrote 'Civil Disobedience,' 'A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers,' 'Walden,' 'The Maine Woods,' 'Cape Cod,' 'A Yankee in Canada' and 'Early Spring in Massachusetts'
A transcendentalist
Famous for living at Walden Pond for two years

Why he might be annoying:

His birth name was David Henry, but he insisted on being called Henry David.
He never married and lacked interest in romantic relationships, leading some to suspect that he was gay.
He accidentally started a forest fire while cooking dinner, burning over 100 acres (1844).
He was arrested and jailed for refusing to pay taxes.
His writings have been described as dense and self-indulgent.
He defended John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry.

Why he might not be annoying:

He graduated from Harvard University.
He was fluent in French and Latin, and knew Greek, German, Italian, and Spanish.
While working at his parents' pencil factory, he invented a machine that improved production and cut costs.
He resigned his teaching job to protest the disciplinary beating of students.
He opposed slavery and the Fugitive Slave Law, and was an active participant on the Underground Railroad.
His writings on civil disobedience and government protest influenced Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas K. Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr.

Credit: Call me Calvin

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• 19th Century Poets
• An Asteroid was Named in My Honor (Ranked: 44597)
• Call me Calvin's Profiles
• Civil Rights Activists
• Hall of Fame for Great Americans (Ranked: 1960)
• I am a New Englander
• I am on a U.S. Postage Stamp [R-T]
• I am Scottish
• I Attended Harvard
• I Have Tuberculosis
• I Lived on Staten Island
• Inventors
• Known By a Middle Name
• My Corpse was Exhumed
• Philosophers: 19th Century [1800-1900]
• Poets
• Profiles 14001-14250 (Ranked: 14112)
• Teachers
• Teetotalers
• Wizard Beards

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 9 Votes: 11.11% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 16 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 21 Votes: 52.38% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 20 Votes: 70.0% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 25 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 42 Votes: 47.62% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 20 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 49 Votes: 38.78% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 31 Votes: 48.39% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 48 Votes: 56.25% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 46 Votes: 36.96% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 48 Votes: 35.42% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 156 Votes: 43.59% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 212 Votes: 41.04% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 721 Votes: 42.72% Annoying