- Neal Boortz
Neal Boortz (born April 6, 1945), is a U.S. talk radio host. His radio show is based in Atlanta, Georgia and is nationally syndicated by Cox Radio and the Jones Radio Networks. Boortz is also a lawyer and best-selling author. He considers himself to be a libertarian, and supports eliminating the war on drugs, lowering taxes, and shrinking the size of government, while disagreeing with the Libertarian Party platform by firmly supporting incremental tax reform, …
- Al Capone
Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 - January 25, 1947), popularly known as "Scarface" Al Capone, was an American gangster who led a crime syndicate dedicated to the illegal trafficking of alcoholic beverages during the time of prohibition in the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Brooklyn, New York, to Neapolitan emigrants Gabriele and Teresina Capone, …
- Daniel Webster
Daniel Webster (January 18 1782 - October 24 1852), was a leading American statesman during the nation's antebellum era. Webster first rose to regional prominence through his defense of New England shipping interests. His increasingly nationalistic views and the effectiveness with which he articulated them led Webster to become one of the most famous orators and influential Whig leaders of the Second Party System.
- John Tyler
John Tyler, Jr. (March 29, 1790 - January 18, 1862) was the tenth (1841-1845) President of the United States. A long-time Democrat-Republican, he was elected Vice President on the Whig ticket and on becoming president in 1841, broke with that party. His term as Vice President began on March 4, 1841 and one month later, on April 4, incumbent President William Henry Harrison died of what is today believed to have been viral pneumonia.
- Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse (ca. 1840 - September 5, 1877) was a respected war leader of the Oglala Lakota, who fought against the U.S. federal government in an effort to preserve the traditions and values of the Lakota way of life.
- Trent Franks
Trent Franks (born June 19 1957), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, representing (map). The district takes in the entire northwestern corner of the state, including Kingman and Lake Havasu City, but most of its vote is cast in the Phoenix suburbs. Franks has been married to Josephine since 1980. They are members of the Baptist Church.
- Andrew Coyne
Andrew Coyne is a Canadian journalist and columnist with the "National Post". He studied at the University of Toronto's University of Trinity College, receiving a BA in Economics and History, and he received his Master of Science degree in Economics from the London School of Economics. After a stint as a columnist for the "Financial Post" from 1985 to 1991, Coyne joined the editorial board of "The Globe and Mail".
- Salmon P. Chase
Salmon Portland Chase (January 13, 1808 - May 7, 1873) was an American politician and jurist in the Civil War era who served as U.S. Senator from Ohio and Governor of Ohio; as U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Abraham Lincoln; and as Chief Justice of the United States. Chase articulated the "Slave Power conspiracy" thesis well before Lincoln did, and he coined the slogan of the Free Soil Party, "Free Soil, Free Labor, …
- Andrew Natsios
Andrew S. Natsios served as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the lead US government agency for international economic development and humanitarian assistance, from 2001 until 2006. During this period, Mr. Natsios managed the agency's reconstruction programs in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Sudan, which totaled more than $14 billion over four years.
- David Morgan
David Morgan is the current CEO and Managing Director of Westpac Banking Corporation, one of Australia's four major banks and head of 'The Australian Bankers Association'.
- Daniel Schorr
Daniel Schorr, NPR Biography Senior News Analyst
- Philip Nitschke
Philip Nitschke (born 1947) is an Australian medical doctor, Humanist and founder of the pro-euthanasia group "Exit". He successfully campaigned to have a legal euthanasia law passed in Australia's Northern Territory and assisted four people in ending their lives before the law was overturned by the Federal government. Since then, he has provided advice to others who have ended their lives, mostly notably Nancy Crick, aged 69. On May 22, 2002, Crick, …
- Robert Rabinovitch
Robert Rabinovitch Ph.D, MA, B.Comm. (born 1943) is the current head of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, appointed by Jean Chrétien in 1999. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he graduated from McGill University with a Bachelor of Commerce in Economics in 1964, from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a Master of Arts in 1965, and from the University of Pennsylvania with a Ph.D. in Economics and Finance in 1971.
- Ameer Ali
Ameer Ali is the ex-President of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, an umbrella group for various Islamic groups or councils in Australia. In 2006, he was the chairman of the Australian Muslim Community Reference Group, which was an advisory body to the federal government from mid 2005 to mid 2006. Ali was educated at the University of Ceylon in Sri Lanka, the London School of Economics, …
- Ron Gray
Ronald O. Gray is the current leader of the Christian Heritage Party of Canada (CHP), a position he has held since 1995. A minor federal party, the CHP is registered under Elections Canada rules, but holds no seats in the Canadian House of Commons. Born and educated in British Columbia, Gray has worked in journalism, public relations, and the federal public service. He began his career at the "Vancouver Sun" newspaper, …
- William Kent
William Kent (March 29, 1864-March 13, 1928) was an American who served as a United States Congressman representing the State of California. He spearheaded the movement to create the Muir Woods National Monument by donating land to the Federal Government for the Monument. Kent was born in Chicago, Illinois. His parents moved the family to Marin County in California in the year 1871. He graduated from Yale University in 1887, where he was a member of Skull & Bones.
- Larry Pressler
Larry Lee Pressler (b. March 29, 1942) is a U.S. Republican politician. He holds the distinction of being the first Vietnam veteran to be elected to the United States Senate. Born in Humboldt, South Dakota, Pressler is a graduate of the University of South Dakota, Oxford University (as a Rhodes Scholar), the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and Harvard Law School.
- Max Moore-Wilton
Max Moore-Wilton AC is an Australian corporate executive & former public servant, colloquially known as "Max the Axe". Before becoming head of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Max served as a senior executive in the Trade & primary industries portfolios, General Manager of the Australian Wheat Board, Director-General of the NSW Department of Transport, NSW Maritime Services Board, manager of Australian National Lines & at the Australian Stock Exchange.
- Russell Trood
Dr Russell Trood (born 5 December 1948) is a Liberal Party Senator for the state of Queensland, Australia. His surprise election as the third Liberal from Queensland in the 2004 Federal Election, along with 38 other Coalition Senators gave the federal government of John Howard a majority in the Senate and thus control of both houses of Parliament.
- George Reid
Sir George Houstoun Reid GCB GCMG (25 February 1845 - 12 September 1918) was an Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales and fourth Prime Minister of Australia. Reid was the last leader of the Liberal tendency in New South Wales, led by Charles Cowper and Henry Parkes and which Reid organised as the Free Trade and Liberal Association in 1889. He was more effective as Premier of New South Wales from 1894 to 1899 than he was as Prime Minister in 1904 and 1905.
- Quanah Parker
Quanah Parker (c. late 1840s - February 23, 1911) was a Native American leader, the son of Comanche chief Peta Nocona and "Anglo-Texan" Cynthia Ann Parker, and the last chief of the Quahadi Comanche Indians.
- George Negus
George Negus (born 1942 in Brisbane) is an Australian author, journalist, and television presenter who has been hosting the "Dateline" current affairs programme for the SBS network since 2005. Negus studied Arts and journalism at the University of Queensland and was a high school teacher before writing for "The Australian" and "The Australian Financial Review". He became most prominent, however, as a reporter for "This Day Tonight", …
- Steve Kons
Steven Kons (born 17 September 1962, Melbourne) is an Australian Labor politician and member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly in the electorate of Braddon. His current positions within the Government of Tasmania include posts as Deputy Premier, Attorney-General, Minister for Justice and Workplace Relations and Minister for Planning. Kons was born to Greek immigrants who worked in heavy manual employment to help educate him at Caulfield Grammar School in Melbourne.
- Hugo Teufel III
Hugo Teufel III (born July 25, 1961 in Albuquerque, NM, and raised in Wichita, KS and Denver, CO) was appointed as Chief Privacy Officer for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security by Secretary Michael Chertoff on 21 July 2006, after a ten-month vacancy that was filled by acting Chief Privacy Officer, Maureen C. Cooney. Teufel is the second chief privacy officer for the DHS, after Nuala O'Connor Kelly, appointed by Secretary Tom Ridge.
- Paul Slovic
Paul Slovic (b. 1938) is a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon and the president of the Decision Research group. He earned his Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Michigan in 1964. Slovic has studied psychological heuristics with frequent coauthors Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky and Thomas Gilovich, and first theorized the affect heuristic.
- Albert J. Beveridge
Albert Jeremiah Beveridge (October 6, 1862, Highland County, Ohio - April 27, 1927, Indianapolis, Indiana) was a historian and United States Senator from Indiana. He was born in Ohio, admitted to the Indiana bar in 1887 and practiced law in Indianapolis. He graduated from Indiana Asbury University (now DePauw University) in 1885, with a Ph.B. degree. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
- Angela Johnson
Angela Johnson is the first woman sentenced to death by a United States Federal jury since Bonnie Brown Heady was executed by the gas chamber in 1953. She is the first woman sentenced to die by a federal court in over 50 years. Forty-nine women have been executed under state laws since 1900. In 2005, she was found guilty of involvement in the murder of five people in the State of Iowa in the 1993 attempt to derail a methamphetamine investigation.
- Tony Belcourt
Tony Belcourt (born 1943 in Lac Ste. Anne, Alberta) is a Métis First Nations leader in Canada. In 1971, he became the first leader of the Native Council of Canada, which is today the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples. Belcourt would lead the new association until 1974, providing advocacy for non-Status natives including the Métis. As of May 2006, he lives in Ottawa and serves as president of the Métis Nation of Ontario.
- Frances Lankin
Frances Lankin is President and CEO, United Way of Greater Toronto, which works to strengthen neighbourhoods in Toronto by funding a network of 200 social and health service agencies. In January 2004, the charity celebrated its most successful fundraising campaign ever, raising $84.3 million for its agencies, as well as other United Ways and charities designated by donors.
- Dr. Linda Combs
Dr. Linda Morrison Combs is the Controller of the Office of Management and Budget in the Executive Office of the President at the White House. She has five Presidential Appointments confirmed by the United States Senate and has served under three Presidents: President Ronald Reagan, President George H.W. Bush, and President George W. Bush. President George W. Bush nominated her on February 28, 2005 to be the Controller.
- Alvin Hansen
Alvin Harvey Hansen (1887-1975) was professor of Economics at Harvard University, and is best known for introducing Keynesian economics in the United States in the 1930s. In the late 1930s he argued that "secular stagnation" had set in, so that the American economy would never grow again, because all the growth ingredients had played out, including technological innovation. The only solution, he argued, was constant deficit spending by the federal government.
- Howard Galganov
Howard Galganov was briefly a political activist and radio personality in Montreal during the late 1990s. He made headlines in Quebec for being a vocal and confrontational opponent of the Charter of the French Language and Quebec nationalism as one of the most prominent leaders of the short-lived “angryphone” movement.
- Lee Pressman
Lee Pressman was an American attorney and activist. He worked for Federal government agencies and labor unions, and is known for admitting his role in the Ware group of Communist-led government employees aiding Soviet intelligence agents. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace appointed Pressman assistant general counsel of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) in 1933. In 1934 he became active in the Ware group.
- Tom Jakobek
Tom Jakobek is a former member of the Toronto City Council. He was first elected to council in 1982 after serving as a school trustee, and remained a member until 2000. Jakobek was for many years a bulwark of the council's right-wing. He became city budget chief in 1990, and held the position for the next ten years despite an attempt by Barbara Hall and others to oust him in 1994. In this capacity, he delivered nine consecutive budgets with no tax increases.
- Charles Guité
J. Charles (Chuck) Guité is a former Canadian civil servant who was in charge of the federal sponsorship program from 1996 to 1999. On April 2, 2004, previously confidential testimony from a 2002 inquiry into suspicious Groupaction contracts was made public. In it, Guité admits to having bent the rules in his handling of the advertising contracts but defends his actions as excusable given the circumstances, saying, …
- Yves Ducharme
Yves Ducharme was the mayor of Hull, Québec, in the Outaouais region, from 1992 to 2002 and from 2002 to 2005 mayor of Gatineau after the city had been merged with its neighbor which were part of the supra-organization the Communaute Urbaine de l'Outaouais. He was defeated in an election in 2005 by Marc Bureau and decided to quit municipal politics. He first entered municipal politics in 1986 and was elected mayor of Hull in 1992.
- Laurie Lawrence
Laurie Joseph Lawrence, is an Australian swimming coach. Lawrence has coached Australia’s elite swimmers at Brisbane’s 1982 and Edinburgh’s 1986 Commonwealth Games, as well as Los Angeles 1984, Seoul’s 1988 and Barcelona’s 1992 Olympic Games. His coaching achievements boast 10 gold, 11 silver and 12 bronze medals from swimmers he has directly assisted at Olympic level. Swimmers he has coached boast 23 world records.
- Nathan Gregory Silvermaster
Nathan Gregory Silvermaster, an economist with the United States War Production Board (WPB) during World War II, was the alleged head of a large ring of Communist spies in the U.S. government. It is from him that the FBI’s “Silvermaster file”, documenting the Bureau’s investigation into Communist penetration of the Federal government during the Cold War, takes its name. Silvermaster was identified as a Soviet agent in the WPB operating under the code names Pel, Pal, …
- Jean-Claude Parrot
Jean-Claude Parrot was National President of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers for fifteen years and its chief negotiator for eighteen. Early in his career, CUPW had reached a low point with Canadians when, at the outset of a 42-day postal strike, Parrot's presidential predecessor Joe Davidson responded to a reporter's hypothetical question by uttering "to hell with the public." Capitalizing on the lack of support for the postal worker union, …
- Peter Vanvelthoven
Peter Karel Alexander Vanvelthoven (born October 22, 1962 in Lommel) is a Belgian politician and member of the SP.A. He is the son of politician Louis Vanvelthoven. He became the the Federal Minister for Employment, charged with the Informatisation of the State, in 2005 after Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Budget Johan Vande Lanotte left the Federal Government to become the President of the SP.A.