Historical Cases of Yellow Fever in Notable Figures

Yellow fever has affected many prominent historical figures:

• George Washington (survived 1793 Philadelphia outbreak)
• Napoleon Bonaparte (exposed during 1798 Egyptian campaign)
• Henry Clay (multiple bouts, near-fatal in 1825)
• Jefferson Davis (1850, led to Senate resignation)
• Frederick Douglass (survived two severe episodes)
• Andrew Johnson (1843, critically ill for weeks)
• John C. Calhoun (several severe bouts)
• William Henry Harrison (died 1841 from complications)
• Ulysses S. Grant (exposed in Mexican–American War)
• Theodore Roosevelt (contracted during 1898 Spanish–American War)