Distinguished Americans series

The Distinguished Americans series is a set of definitive stamps issued by the United States Postal Service which was started in 2000 with a 10¢ stamp depicting Joseph Stilwell. The design is less austere than that of earlier stamp series such as the Great Americans.

The first stamps issued in this series were the following (date of issue, denomination, depicted person):^[1]

2000, August 24. 10¢. General Joseph W. Stilwell.
2000, September 7. 33¢. Senator Claude Pepper.
2001, February 21. 76¢. Senator Hattie W. Caraway.
2002, July 29. 83¢. Author Edna Ferber.
2004, July 14. 23¢. Athlete Wilma Rudolph.
2006, March 9. 63¢. Medical Scientist Jonas Salk.
2006, March 9. 87¢. Virologist Albert Sabin.
2007, June 13. 58¢. Senator Margaret Chase Smith.
2007, June 13. 75¢. Author Harriet Beecher Stowe.
2008, May 12. 59¢. Author James A. Michener.
2008, May 12. 76¢. Physician Edward Trudeau.
2009, May 15. 78¢. Philanthropist Mary Lasker^[2]
2011, April 15. 84¢. Stateswoman Oveta Culp Hobby
2012, April 26. Forever.^[3] Actor José Ferrer
2014, March 13. 70-cent, First-Class Mail, two-ounce rate stamp. Black Aviator C. Alfred "Chief" Anderson^[4]
2017, April ??. 68-cent, First-Class Mail, two-ounce rate stamp. Teacher, Pioneer of Deaf Studies Robert Panara

References

↑ USPS
↑ United States Postal Service. "Mary Lasker".
↑ Forever stamps are always equal in value to the current first-class mail one-ounce rate.
↑ USPS Stamp Announcement

Postage stamps of the United States

Stamps	1918 Curtiss Jenny airmail stamps Inverted Jenny 1869 Pictorial Issue 1930 Graf Zeppelin stamps All Aboard! 20th Century American Trains Americana series Bicentennial Series Black Jack Breast cancer research stamp Celebrate the Century CIA invert Columbian Issue Comic Strip Classics Dag Hammarskjöld invert Distinguished Americans series Federal Duck Stamp Five cents John Kennedy Fourth Bureau issue Great Americans series Hanukkah stamps Hawaiian Missionaries Liberty Issue Lost Continental Nature of America Nixon invert Norse-American Centennial Oklahoma Statehood Stamps Overrun Countries series Pan-American invert Presidential Issue Prominent Americans series Series of 1902 Statue of Liberty Forever stamp Trans-Mississippi Issue Transportation coils U.S. Parcel Post stamps of 1912–13 US Regular Issues of 1922–31 Washington Bicentennial stamps of 1932 Washington-Franklin Issues Western Cattle in Storm Z Grill

Provisional stamps	Alexandria "Blue Boy" Postmaster's Provisional Gallery of U.S. Postmasters' Provisional Stamps, 1845–47 New York Postmaster's Provisional St. Louis Bears

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