- John Edwards
Johnny Reid "John" Edwards (born June 10 1953), is an American politician who was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004 and a one-term U.S. Senator from North Carolina. On December 27 2006, he announced his entry into the 2008 Presidential election. Edwards was a trial lawyer before entering politics. - Joe Lieberman
Joseph Isadore Lieberman (born February 24, 1942) is an American politician from Connecticut. Lieberman was first elected to the United States Senate in 1988, and was elected to his fourth term on November 7, 2006. In the 2000 U.S. presidential election, Lieberman was the Democratic candidate for Vice President, running alongside presidential nominee Al Gore, becoming the first Jewish candidate on a major American political party presidential ticket. - Geraldine Ferraro
Geraldine Anne Ferraro (born August 26, 1935) is a Democratic politician and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives. She is best known as the first and only woman to date to represent a major U.S. political party as a candidate for Vice President. Ferraro and running mate Walter Mondale were defeated in a landslide by incumbent President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H. W. Bush in the 1984 election. - Walter Mondale
Walter F. Mondale 's record of public service includes: vice president of the United States, U.S. ambassador to Japan, and U.S. senator and attorney general for the State of Minnesota. He was also the Democratic Party's nominee for U.S. president in 1984. He is currently a partner with the law firm of Dorsey & Whitney LLP, headquartered in Minneapolis with 16 offices worldwide. He serves as chair of the firm's Asia Law Practice Group. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was the thirty-second President of the United States. Elected to four terms in office, he served from 1933 to 1945, and is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms. A central figure of the 20th century during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war, … - Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to as LBJ, was the thirty-sixth President of the United States (1963–1969). After serving a long career in the U.S. Congress, Johnson became the thirty-seventh Vice President, and in 1963, he succeeded to the presidency following President John F. Kennedy's assassination. He was a major leader of the Democratic Party and as President was responsible for designing his Great Society, … - Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 - December 26, 1972) was the thirty-third President of the United States (1945-1953); as Vice President, he succeeded to the office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. In domestic affairs, Truman faced challenge after challenge: a tumultuous reconversion of the economy marked by severe shortages, numerous strikes, and the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act over his veto. After confounding all predictions to win re-election in 1948, … - Hubert Humphrey
Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. was the thirty-eighth Vice President of the United States, serving under President Lyndon Johnson. Humphrey twice served as a United States Senator from Minnesota, and served as Democratic Majority Whip. He was a founder of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and Americans for Democratic Action. He also served as mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1945–1949. - John C. Calhoun
John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 - March 31, 1850) was a leading United States Southern politician and political philosopher from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century, at the center of the foreign policy and financial disputes of his age and best known as a spokesman for slavery, nullification and the rights of electoral minorities, such as the Southern states. After a short stint in the South Carolina legislature, … - George M. Dallas
George Mifflin Dallas was a U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and the eleventh Vice President, serving under James K. Polk. Dallas was born in Philadelphia and graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1810. He was admitted to the bar in 1813 and served as private secretary to Albert Gallatin, Minister to Russia. Dallas returned in 1814 and practiced law in New York City. He was solicitor of the Second Bank of the United States from 1816 to 1817. - Lloyd Bentsen
Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr., (February 11 1921 - May 23 2006) was a four-term United States senator (1971 until 1993) from Texas and the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President in 1988 on the Michael Dukakis ticket. He also served in the House of Representatives from 1949 to 1955. In his later political life, he was Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and the U.S. Treasury Secretary during the early years of the Clinton administration. - Thomas Eagleton
Thomas Francis Eagleton was a United States Senator from Missouri, serving from 1968 until 1987. He is best remembered for briefly being a Democratic Vice Presidential nominee, sharing the ticket under George McGovern in 1972. He taught Public Affairs at Washington University for over a decade and taught a seminar on the Presidency and the Constitution at Saint Louis University School of Law. - Estes Kefauver
Carey Estes Kefauver was an American politician from Tennessee who opposed the concentration of U.S. economic and political power in few hands. Kefauver was born in Madisonville, Tennessee, and attended the University of Tennessee and Yale University. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1939 to 1949 and in the U.S. Senate from 1949 to his death in 1963. - Thomas A. Hendricks
Thomas Andrews Hendricks (September 6, 1819 - November 25, 1885) was a U.S. Representative and a Senator from Indiana, a Governor of Indiana, and the twenty-first Vice President of the United States (serving with Grover Cleveland). - Charles W. Bryan
Charles Wayland Bryan (February 10, 1867 - March 4, 1945), was the younger brother of perennial U.S. Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan. Born in 1867 in Salem, Illinois, Bryan served as mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska from 1915 to 1917, and again from 1935 to 1937, and as Governor of Nebraska from 1923 to 1925 and again from 1931 to 1935. He was an unsuccessful candidate for governor in 1926, 1928, and 1938. - John C. Breckinridge
John Cabell Breckinridge (January 16, 1821 - May 17, 1875) was a lawyer, U.S. Representative, Senator from Kentucky, the fourteenth Vice President of the United States, Southern Democratic candidate for President in 1860, a Confederate general in the American Civil War, and the last Confederate Secretary of War. To date, Breckinridge is the youngest vice president in U.S. history, inaugurated at age 36. - Edmund Muskie
Edmund Sixtus "Ed" Muskie (March 28, 1914 - March 26, 1996) was an American Democratic politician from Maine. He served as Governor of Maine, a U.S. Senator, as U.S. Secretary of State, and ran as a candidate for Vice President of the United States. - John Sparkman
John Jackson Sparkman was a conservative United States politician from Alabama. He was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate, where he represented Alabama from 1946 until 1979. He was the Democratic Party Vice Presidential nominee in the 1952 U.S. presidential election. Sparkman was born on a farm near Hartselle, Alabama. He attended the rural schools and helped on the family farm. - Henry A. Wallace
Henry Agard Wallace (October 7, 1888 - November 18, 1965) was the thirty-third Vice President of the United States (1941-45), the eleventh Secretary of Agriculture (1933-40), and the tenth Secretary of Commerce (1945-46). In the 1948 presidential election, Wallace was the nominee of the Progressive Party. - John Nance Garner
John Nance Garner IV (November 22, 1868 - November 7, 1967) was a Representative from Texas and the thirty-second Vice President of the United States (1933-41). He was known as Cactus Jack. - Richard Mentor Johnson
Richard Mentor Johnson (October 17, 1780 - November 19, 1850) was the ninth Vice President of the United States, serving in the administration of Martin Van Buren. A resident of Scott County, Kentucky, Johnson served as a Representative and Senator from Kentucky, and in the Kentucky House of Representatives. - Sargent Shriver
Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr., known as Sargent, (born November 9, 1915) is an American Democratic politician and activist. He is best known as an in-law of the Kennedy family, the driving force behind the creation of the Peace Corps, and the Democratic Party's 1972 vice presidential candidate. Shriver's ebullient personality and creative energy made him one of the most effective leaders of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier and Lyndon Johnson's Great Society in the 1960s. - Joseph Taylor Robinson
Joseph Taylor Robinson (August 26, 1872 - July 14, 1937) was a Democratic United States Senator, Senate Majority Leader, member of the United States House of Representatives, Governor of Arkansas, and U.S. Vice Presidential candidate. Born in Lonoke, Arkansas, Robinson attended the University of Arkansas and studied law at the University of Virginia. In 1894 Robinson was elected to the Arkansas Legislature and served one term. - Adlai E. Stevenson
Adlai Ewing Stevenson I (October 23, 1835 - June 14, 1914) was a Congressman from Illinois and the twenty-third Vice President of the United States. - Alben W. Barkley
Alben Barkley (1877–1956) 35th vice president of the United States, during President Harry Truman's second term (1949–53). He served from 1937 to 1947 as Senate majority leader, and was one of the architects of the New Deal. ( To Sail Beyond the Sunset ) - Francis Preston Blair Jr.
Francis Preston Blair, Jr. (February 19, 1821 - July 9, 1875) was an American politician and Union Army general during the American Civil War. - Arthur Sewall
Arthur Sewall (November 25, 1835 - September 5, 1900) was a U.S. Democratic politician from Maine most notable as William Jennings Bryan's first running mate in 1896. Bryan had another running mate as well, Thomas E. Watson. Sewall never held elective office, although he was a member of the Democratic National Committee from 1888 to 1896. Arthur Sewall's main claim to fame had been as a wealthy shipbuilder and New England industrialist. - B. Gratz Brown
Benjamin Gratz Brown (May 28, 1826 - December 13, 1885) was a Senator, Governor of Missouri, and the Liberal Republican Vice presidential candidate in the election of 1872. - Thomas R. Marshall
Thomas Riley Marshall (March 14, 1854 - June 1, 1925) was an American politician who served as the twenty-eighth Vice President of the United States of America under Woodrow Wilson from 1913 to 1921. - John W. Kern
John Worth Kern (December 20, 1849 - August 17, 1917) was a U.S. Democratic politician from Indiana. Born in Alto, Indiana, Kern studied law at the University of Michigan. He began to practice law in Kokomo, Indiana, where he served as city attorney (1871-1884). He was elected to the Indiana state senate in 1893, serving for four years, serving at the same time as assistant U.S. Attorney for Indiana. From 1897 to 1901 he was city solicitor of Indianapolis, … - William R. King
William Rufus deVane King (April 7, 1786 - April 18, 1853) was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina, a Senator from Alabama, and the thirteenth Vice President of the United States. Excluding John Tyler and Andrew Johnson - both of whom ascended to the Presidency - he was the shortest-serving person to occupy that office (45 days, "see List of U.S. Vice Presidents by time in office"). - William Hayden English
William Hayden English (August 27, 1822 - February 7, 1896) was an American politician. Born in Lexington, Indiana, he pursued classical studies at Hanover College and then studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1846 and commenced practice at Lexington. He was the principal clerk of the Indiana House of Representatives in 1843; a clerk in the United States Treasury Department at Washington, D.C. from to 1844 to 1848. - Allen G. Thurman
Allen Granberry Thurman (November 13, 1813 - December 12, 1895) was a Democratic Representative and Senator from Ohio. He was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, to Pleasant Thurman and Mary Granberry Allen Thurman. Both his parents were teachers; his father also a Methodist minister. In 1815, his parents emancipated their slaves and moved to Chillicothe, Ohio. He attended the academy run by his mother, and then studied law as an apprentice to his uncle, … - Henry G. Davis
Henry Gassaway Davis (November 16, 1823 - March 11, 1916) was a politician from West Virginia and was the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President in 1904. Brother of Thomas Beall Davis - George H. Pendleton
George Hunt Pendleton (July 19, 1825 - November 24, 1889) was a Representative and a Senator from Ohio. Nicknamed "Gentleman George" for his demeanor, he was the Democratic nominee for Vice President of the United States during the Civil War in 1864, running alongside George B. McClellan, who lost to Abraham Lincoln. George H. Pendleton was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. - William Orlando Butler
William Orlando Butler (April 19, 1791 - August 6, 1880) was a U.S. political figure and U.S. Army major general from Kentucky. He served as a Democratic congressman from Kentucky from 1839 to 1843, and was the Democratic vice-presidential nominee under Lewis Cass in 1848. Butler was born in Jessamine County, Kentucky and graduated from Transylvania University in 1812. He fought in a number of engagements in the Southern states during the War of 1812. - William Smith
William Smith (September 6, 1762 - June 26, 1840) was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the U.S. Senate representing South Carolina in 1816. He ran unsuccessfully for reelection when his term expired in 1823. He was again elected Senator in 1826 and was again an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1831. In the presidential election of 1836, 23 electors from Virginia voted for him for Vice President. - Herschel Vespasian Johnson
Herschel Vespasian Johnson (September 18, 1812 - August 16, 1880) was an American politician. He was the governor of Georgia from 1853 to 1857 and the vice-presidential nominee of the Douglas wing of the Democratic Party in the 1860 US presidential election. Johnson was born near Farmer's Bridge in Burke County, Georgia. In 1834, he graduated from the University of Georgia and passed his bar examination. - Al Gore
Former Vice President Al Gore is Vice Chairman of Metropolitan West Financial, LLC, and a member of the firm's executive leadership team. He serves as a Senior Advisor to Google, Inc. In March 2003, he was elected to the Board of Directors of Apple Computers, Inc. Mr. Gore is a Visiting Professor at two universities in Tennessee, Middle Tennessee State University and Fisk University, and at UCLA. - Joseph Lane
Joseph Lane (December 14, 1801 - April 19, 1881) was an American general during the Mexican-American War and a United States Senator from Oregon.
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