Terence Richard "Terry" McAuliffe (born February 9, 1957) is an American businessman, political consultant, and a Democratic candidate for the 2009 gubernatorial election in Virginia. Previously, he served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from 2001 to 2005. He also served as chairman of the 2008 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.

Ronald Harmon Brown (August 1, 1941 - April 3, 1996), was the United States Secretary of Commerce, serving during the first term of President Bill Clinton. He was the first African American to hold this position.

Abram Stevens Hewitt (1822 - 1903) was a teacher, lawyer, an iron manufacturer, U.S. Congressman, and a mayor of New York. He was the son-in-law of Peter Cooper (1791-1883), a famous American industrialist, inventor, philanthropist and (during the Hayes-Tilden campaign) chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

Roy R. Romer (born October 31, 1928 in Garden City, Kansas, United States) was the 39th governor of Colorado and served as the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District from 2001 to 2006. Romer was first elected in 1986, re-elected in 1990 and 1994; he was the last Colorado governor to serve three terms. He was Colorado State Treasurer from 1977-1987, and a member of the governor's cabinet.

Joe Andrew is the former National Chair of the Democratic National Committee. Asked to serve by President Bill Clinton, he chaired the Committee from 1999 to 2001. He was one of the youngest National Chairs in the nearly 200 year history of the DNC and one of the most successful. Joe brought the Party out of debt, raised nearly a quarter of a billion dollars, hired and managed the most diverse staff in the party’s history, …

Governor Ed Rendell, Governor’s Office, State Capitol, Harrisburg, PA 17101

Howard Brush Dean III (born November 17, 1948) is an American politician and physician from the U.S. state of Vermont, and currently the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, the central organ of the Democratic Party at the national level. Before entering politics, Dean received his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1978.

August Belmont, Sr. (December 8 1813 - November 24 1890), was born in Alzey, Prussia to a Jewish family. He immigrated to New York City in 1837 after becoming the American representative of the Rothschild family's banking house in Frankfurt. On receiving his American citizenship, he married Caroline Slidell Perry, daughter of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry

Cordell Hull was an American politician from the U.S. state of Tennessee. He is best-known as the longest-serving Secretary of State, having held the position for 11 years (1933–1944) in the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Hull received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945 for his role in establishing the United Nations, and was referred to by President Roosevelt as the "Father of the United Nations". Hull was born in a log cabin in Olympus, …

Donald L. Fowler served as national chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1995 to 1997. Fowler is a white, moderate Democrat from South Carolina. Prior to the 1984 Democratic National Convention, he was appointed by party chairman Paul Kirk to chair the "Fairness Commission," one of many Democratic commissions created to reform the presidential nomination process. Fowler's Fairness Commission banned winner-take-all districts in primaries and caucuses, …

Homer Stille Cummings (April 30 1870 - September 10 1956) was a U.S. political figure who most notably served as United States Attorney General from 1933 to 1939. He also was elected mayor of Stamford, Connecticut, three times before, founding the legal firm of Cummings & Lockwood in 1909. He later served as chairman of Democratic National Committee between 1919 and 1920. Cummings graduated from the Heathcote School in Buffalo, New York, …

Fred Roy Harris, born November 13, 1930, in Cotton County, Oklahoma, is a former Democratic senator from Oklahoma (1964–1973). He earned a B.A at the University of Oklahoma in 1952, and graduated from its law school in 1954, recognized as its outstanding student during his three years in attendance.

Henry Martin "Scoop" Jackson (May 31, 1912 - September 1, 1983) was a U.S. Congressman and Senator for Washington State from 1941 until his death. Jackson was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972 and 1976. As a Cold War anti-Communist Democrat, Jackson's political philosophies and positions have been cited as an influence on a number of key figures associated with neoconservatism, including Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle

James (Jim) Aloysius Farley (May 30, 1888-June 9, 1976) was an American politician who served as head of the Democratic National Committee and Postmaster General. Farley was the campaign manager for New York State politicians Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelts gubenetorial campaigns as well as Roosevelts presidential campaigns in 1932 and 1936. Farley predicted large landslides in both, and was responsible for pulling together the New Deal Coalition of Catholics, …

Frank Comerford Walker (May 30, 1886-September 13, 1959) was a United States political figure. He served as the United States Postmaster General between 1940 and 1945. He also served as the chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1943 until 1944. Walker was born in Plymouth, Pennsylvania. In addition to the posts above, Walker was a member of the Montana state legislature in 1913.

David Wilhelm (born October 2 1956) is an American political operative and businessman. A native of Appalachian Ohio, Wilhelm is a venture capitalist who focuses on spurring sustainable economic growth in areas that tend not to receive much investment. He received his B.A. from Ohio University, Master in Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and honorary doctorates from Ohio University and the University of Charleston.

George White was the 52nd Governor of Ohio. Born in Elmira, New York, White attended Princeton College. After mining in the Klondike, White settled in Marietta, Ohio to drill for oil. After serving in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1905 to 1908, White was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1910, serving from 1911 to 1915. White lost a re-election bid in 1914, but won election again in 1916 — though he then lost again in 1918.

Benjamin Franklin Hallett (December 2, 1797 - September 30, 1861) was a Massachusetts lawyer and Democratic Party activist, most notable as the first chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Benjamin Franklin Hallett was born in Barnstable, Massachusetts. After graduating from Brown University in 1816, he studied law and began a jounalistic career in Providence, Rhode Island. He soon moved to Boston, where he began with the "Boston Advocate", …

John Jakob Raskob (1879-1950) was a financial executive and businessman for DuPont and General Motors, and the builder of the Empire State Building. He was chairman of the Democratic National Committee and a key supporter of Alfred E. Smith's candidacy for President of the United States.

Lawrence "Larry" Francis O'Brien, Jr. was one of the United States Democratic Party's leading electoral strategists when, for more than two decades, he helped reshape American politics. The son of Irish immigrants, when he wasn't working in politics, O'Brien managed his family's real estate and did public relations work as well.

Jean Westwood (b. November 22, 1923) is a political figure born in Price, Utah. Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern appointed Westwood as the first female chair of the Democratic National Committee on July 14, 1972. Between 1976 and 1988, Westwood worked for the presidential campaigns of Terry Sanford, Gary Hart, and Bruce Babbitt.

John Moran Bailey (1904 - 1975) was a U.S. political figure. He dominated Connecticut Democratic politics as a party boss for many years. He served as the chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1961 until 1968, the longest term of any chairman in history, and was generally seen as one of the main behind the scenes backers of John F. Kennedy within the Democratic Party.

James Howard McGrath was an American politician and attorney from the U.S. state of Rhode Island. McGrath, a Democrat, served as District Attorney before becoming Governor, U.S. Senator, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and U.S. Attorney General McGrath was born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. He graduated from La Salle Academy, Providence in 1922, from Providence College in 1926, and from Boston University in 1929.

Thomas Taggart (November 17, 1856-March 6,1929) was a U.S. political figure. Born in County Monaghan, Ireland, he went to the United States with his parents in 1861. The family settled in Xenia, Ohio, where young Taggart got a job working the lunch counter at the railroad depot. At age 18, he was sent by his employer to manage the depot restaurant and hotel in Garrett, Indiana, where he met his wife Eva Bryant Taggart, whom he married in 1878.

James Kimbrough Jones (September 29, 1839 - June 1, 1908), was a U.S. politician. Born in Marshall County, Mississippi, Jones moved with his father to Dallas County, Arkansas in 1848. He pursued classical studies under a private tutor; he would later study law and was, in 1874, admitted to the bar, practicing in Washington, Arkansas. During the American Civil War, Jones served in the Confederate Army, and returned to his Arkansas plantation afterward.

Robert Emmet Hannegan (June 30, 1903-October 6, 1949) was a St. Louis, Missouri politician who served as Commissioner of Internal Revenue from October of 1943 to January of 1944. He also served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1944 to 1947 and United States Postmaster General from 1945 to 1947. After his political career, in 1947, Hannegan and partner Fred Saigh purchased the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball.

William Henry Barnum (Boston Corners, Massachusetts, September 17 1818 - April 30 1889) was a United States politician, serving as a state representative, U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and finally as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He was known as Seven Mule Barnum. Though born in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, Barnum moved to Lime Rock in Connecticut and served in the state house of representatives from 1851 to 1852.

David Allen Smalley (April 6 1809 - March 10 1877) Born in Middlebury, Vermont, Smalley read law and practiced in Jericho, Vermont where he was postmaster from 1831 to 1836. Moving first to Lowell, Vermont he settled in Burlington, Vermont in 1836. He served in the State Senate in 1843-44.

Robert Schwarz Strauss is a highly influential figure in American politics and diplomacy. A high-powered Texas political figure, Strauss’s extensive political service dates back to future president Lyndon Johnson’s first congressional campaign in 1937. By the 1950s, he was closely associated in Texas politics with the conservative faction of the Democratic Party led by Johnson and John Connally.

Paul Mulholland Butler (1905 - 1961) was a U.S. lawyer and, more significantly, chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1955 until 1960. Butler, Paul

Robert Milligan McLane (June 23, 1815-April 16, 1898) was an American politician, military officer, and diplomat. He served as Ambassador to Mexico, France, and China, as a member of the House of Representatives from the fourth district of Maryland, as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and as the 39^th Governor of Maryland.