Alan G. Hevesi (born January 31, 1940, in Queens, New York) is the former Comptroller of the State of New York. A Democrat, he also served as Comptroller of the City of New York from 1994 to 2002, and as a New York State Assemblyman from 1968 to 1993. Hevesi was first elected State Comptroller in 2002 and won re-election in 2006. He was not sworn in for his second term, as he resigned from office effective December 22, 2006, …

Sheldon Silver (born February 13, 1944) is a politician and member of the Democratic Party, currently serving as Speaker of New York State Assembly.

Jeanne Shaheen (born January 28, 1947) was the first woman to be elected governor of the U.S. state of New Hampshire. She currently serves as Director of the Harvard Institute of Politics. Shaheen was born Jeanne Bowers in Saint Charles, Missouri and received a bachelor's degree in English from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree from the University of Mississippi.

Eliot Laurence Spitzer (born June 10 1959) is an American lawyer, politician and the former Governor of New York. Spitzer was elected governor in the November 2006 election. He is the former New York State Attorney General, a member of the Democratic Party, and is married to Silda Wall Spitzer, the founder and chair of Children for Children, a non-profit organization. The Spitzers have three daughters.

Wilfredo Caraballo (born January 1, 1947 in Puerto Rico) is an American Democratic Party politician, who has served in the New Jersey General Assembly since 1996, where he represents the 29th legislative district. Caraballo serves as the Assembly's Speaker Pro Tempore starting with the 2006-2008 legislative session. He served as the Parliamentarian from 2002-2006 and as Associate Minority Leader from 1998-2001.

John Franklin Street (born October 15 1943) is the 97th Mayor of the City of Philadelphia. He was first elected to a term beginning on January 3, 2000, and was re-elected to a second term beginning in 2004. He is a Democrat and became mayor after having served 19 years in the Philadelphia City Council, including seven years as its president, before resigning as required under the Philadelphia City Charter in order to run for mayor.

Paul Tokasz (b. 1946) represents District 143 in the New York State Assembly, which is comprised of the towns of Lancaster, and Cheektowaga, and villages of Depew, Lancaster and Sloan. Chosen in a special election held in 1988, Tokasz is the current Majority Leader of the Assembly, and serves as a member of the Standing Committee on Rules. He has previously served as Chairman of the Assembly Committee on Tourism, …

C. Virginia Fields is the former Borough President of Manhattan, elected in 1997 and reelected in 2001. Her term expired in January 2006. C. (Clara) Virginia Fields was born in Birmingham, Alabama circa 1946 and received her B.A. from Knoxville College in Tennessee and her Masters in Social Work from Indiana University. Fields is well known for her activism during the height of the Civil Rights Movement in which she participated in a number of protests and marches, …

Herman D. Farrell (born February 4, 1932) represents District 71 in the New York State Assembly, which is comprised of the Manhattan neighborhoods of West Harlem, Inwood and Washington Heights. First elected to the New York Assembly in 1974, Farrell is the current Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, as well as a member of the Rules Committee and Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus.

David A. Paterson (born May 20, 1954) is an American politician and the current Lieutenant Governor of New York. He is the first African American to hold this position. He was selected as running mate by New York Attorney General and Democratic Party nominee Eliot Spitzer in the 2006 New York gubernatorial election. Paterson was born legally blind in Brooklyn in 1954. He received a BA from Columbia University in 1977 and later his law degree from Hofstra Law School.

Thomas J. Manton (November 3, 1932 - July 22, 2006) was a Democratic congressman. He represented the U.S. state of New York. Manton was born in New York City, New York. He attended private Catholic schools, before entering St. John's University, from which he earned his L.L.B.. Manton served in the United States Marine Corp during the Korean War. Prior to entering politics, Manton held several jobs. He was a New York City Police Officer from 1955 to 1960, …

Bryant Winfield Culberson Dunn (born July 1, 1927) was governor of Tennessee from 1971 to 1975. Dunn was born in Meridian, Mississippi. He graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1950 with a B.B.A., and from the University of Tennessee Medical Units in Memphis in 1955 with a D.D.S. Dunn served with the U.S. Navy in the Asia-Pacific Theatre during World War II. Dunn was also a reserve lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force.

H. William "Bill" DeWeese (born April 18 1950) is the Majority Leader of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. DeWeese served as 135th Speaker of the Pennsylvania House in 1993-1994.

Gerald Norman "Jerry" Springer (born February 13, 1944) is a British-born American celebrity, a former Democratic mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, musician, television personality, and host of the controversial television tabloid talk show bearing his name, "The Jerry Springer Show". He is also the current host of "America's Got Talent".

Bernard F. Kenny, Jr. (born November 17 1946 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American Democratic Party politician, who has been serving in the New Jersey State Senate since 1993, where he represents the 33rd Legislative District. Before moving up to the Senate, Kenny served in the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature, the General Assembly, from 1987 to 1993. Upon the resignation of Bob Menendez from the New Jersey Senate, …

Ronald L. Rice (born December 18, 1945) is an American Democratic Party politician, who has served in the New Jersey State Senate since 1986, where he represents the 28th Legislative District. While serving in the Senate, Rice has held a variety of different leadership roles including Associate Minority Leader (1998-2001), Assistant Deputy Minority Leader (1994-1997), and Assistant Majority Leader (1990-1991).

Rachel N. McCubbin of Hopkinsville, Kentucky was a presidential elector in the 2004 United States presidential election, representing the second congressional district of Kentucky. McCubbin is a policy analyst for The Family Foundation of Kentucky and a speaker and writer for the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.

Upendra J. Chivukula (born October 8, 1950) is an American Democratic Party politician, who has served in the New Jersey General Assembly since 2002, where he represents the 17th legislative district. Assemblyman Chivukula is the first Asian Indian American elected to the New Jersey General Assembly and the fourth Indian American in the United States to be elected to state office.

Dr. Walter P. Witherspoon, better known as Buddy Witherspoon, is the National Executive Committeeman of the South Carolina Republican Party. In this capacity, he serves as a voting member of the Republican National Committee.

Keith A. Hall was a presidential elector in the 2004 United States presidential election. He served as deputy chief of staff to Kentucky governor Ernie Fletcher and then as the state's director of homeland security. Although he was never charged with a crime, Hall's name surfaced during the criminal investigation of violations of state personnel laws.

Lynne Abraham (born 1941) has been the District Attorney of the City of Philadelphia since 1991. She studied at Temple University for her undergraduate degree and also received her Juris Doctor from Temple University Beasley School of Law. Abraham served as the head of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority during the administration of Mayor Frank Rizzo. She is married to Edward Felbin. Abraham is a former judge on the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, …

Inez Dickens is a member of the New York City Council, representing the 9th District, which includes Central Harlem. She replaced Bill Perkins after he ran for Manhattan Borough President. In the 2004 presidential election, she served as one of New York's 33 presidential electors casting her ballot for John Kerry.

Kay Auonne Stark Orr, (born January 2, 1939), is a U.S. Republican Party politician. She served as Governor of Nebraska from 1987 to 1991. She was the first Republican woman to be elected Governor in the United States, although Republican woman Vesta M. Roy served as the unelected Acting Governor of New Hampshire from December 1982 to January 1983. She is to date the only woman to serve as governor of Nebraska.