- Joe Biden
Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. (born 20 November 1942) is an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, Delaware. He is a member of the Democratic Party and the incumbent senior U.S. Senator from Delaware. Biden is currently serving his sixth term and is Delaware's longest-serving Senator. He is the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in the 110th Congress. Biden has served in that position in the past, … - George Read
George Read (September 18 1733 - September 21 1798) was an American lawyer and politician from New Castle, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, a Continental Congressman from Delaware, a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, President of Delaware, and a member of the Federalist Party, who served as U.S. Senator from Delaware and Chief Justice of Delaware. - Thomas R. Carper
Thomas Richard "Tom" Carper (born January 23 1947) is an American economist and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He is a veteran of the Vietnam War, a member of the Democratic Party, a five-term U. S. Representative from Delaware, a two-term Governor of Delaware, and currently the junior U.S. Senator from Delaware. He was elected to a second term in 2006. - Michael N. Castle
Michael Newbold "Mike" Castle (born July 2 1939) is an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He is a member of the Republican Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly, as Lieutenant Governor of Delaware, two terms as Governor of Delaware, and is the incumbent U.S. Representative from Delaware, serving his eighth term. - William V. Roth Jr.
William Victor "Bill" Roth, Jr. was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a veteran of World War II and a member of the Republican Party, who served as U.S. Representative from Delaware and U.S. Senator from Delaware. - James A. Bayard
James Asheton Bayard (July 28 1767 - August 6 1815) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County Delaware. He was a member of the Federalist Party, who served as U.S. Representative from Delaware and U.S. Senator from Delaware. - Richard Bassett
Richard Bassett (April 2 1745 - August 15 1815) was an American lawyer and politician from Dover, in Kent County Delaware. He was a veteran of the American Revolution, a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, and a member of the Federalist Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly, as Governor of Delaware, and as U.S. Senator from Delaware. - George Thorogood
George Thorogood (born December 31, 1950) is a blues-rock performer from Wilmington, Delaware. He was raised on Clearview Avenue in Naamans Gardens, a suburb of Wilmington. - John M. Clayton
John Middleton Clayton (July 24, 1796 - November 9, 1856) was an American lawyer and politician from Dover in Kent County, and later New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Whig Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly, and as U.S. Senator from Delaware and U.S. Secretary of State.. - Thomas F. Bayard
Thomas Francis Bayard (October 29 1828 - September 29 1898) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, who served three terms as U.S. Senator from Delaware, and as U.S. Secretary of State, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom. He was considered a prominent Bourbon Democrat. - Thomas B. Evans Jr.
Thomas Beverley Evans, Jr. (born November 5 1931) is an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He is a member of the Republican Party, who served three terms as U. S. Representative from Delaware. - Thomas Rodney
Thomas "Tommy" Rodney (June 4, 1744 - January 2, 1811) was an American lawyer and politician from Jones Neck in St. Jones Hundred, Kent County, Delaware and Natchez, Mississippi. He was a Continental Congressman from Delaware, and a member of the Democratic-Republican Party who served in the Delaware General Assembly, as Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court, and as federal judge for the Mississippi Territory. He was the younger brother of Caesar Rodney, … - J. Caleb Boggs
James Caleb "Cale" Boggs (May 15 1909 - March 26 1993) was an American lawyer and politician from Claymont, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a veteran of World War II, and a member of the Republican Party, who served three terms as U.S. Representative from Delaware, two terms as Governor of Delaware, and two terms as U.S. Senator from Delaware. He was known by his middle name. - Louis McLane
Louis McLane (May 28 1786 - October 7 1857) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware, and Baltimore, Maryland. He was a veteran of the War of 1812 and a member of the Federalist Party and later the Democratic Party. He served as the U.S. Representative from Delaware, U.S. Senator from Delaware, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. Secretary of State, and President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. - John J. Williams
John James Williams (May 17 1904 - January 11 1988) was an American businessman and politician from Millsboro, in Sussex County, Delaware. He was a member of the Republican Party, who served four terms as U.S. Senator from Delaware. - James Williams
James Williams (1825-1899) was an American farmer from Kent County, Delaware. He represented Delaware in the United States House of Representatives from 1875 to 1879. James was born to John (1775-1849), and Esther Williams on August 4, 1825 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father was a lumber merchant, and his early education was by private tutoring. He first became an apprentice carpenter, intending to become an architect. - George Gray
George Gray (May 4 1840 - August 7 1925) was an American lawyer, judge, and politician from New Castle, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, who served as U.S. Senator from Delaware and Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. - Thomas Cooper
Thomas Cooper (1764 - 1829) was an American lawyer and politician from Little Creek Hundred, Sussex County, Delaware. He was a member of the Federalist Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as U. S. Representative from Delaware. Cooper was born in Little Creek Hundred, Sussex County, Del., … - Robert Crumb
Robert Dennis Crumb (born August 30, 1943), often credited simply as R. Crumb, is an American artist and illustrator recognized for the distinctive style of his drawings and his critical, satirical, subversive view of the American mainstream. He currently lives in France. Crumb was a founder of the underground comix movement and is regarded as its most prominent figure. Though one of the most celebrated of comic book artists, … - Martin W. Bates
Martin Waltham Bates (February 24 1786 - January 1 1869) was a lawyer and politician from Dover, in Kent County, Delaware. He was a member of the Federalist Party, and then the Democratic Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as U.S. Senator from Delaware. - Ian Snell
Ian Dante Snell (born October 30, 1981 in Dover, Delaware) is a pitcher in Major League Baseball who currently plays for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He throws and bats right-handed. From 2001-2003, he went by the name Ian Oquendo, which is the last name of his baby's mother. However, Snell was the last name he was born with. He throws a fastball, along with a curveball, a slider and a changeup. - Thomas Garrett
Thomas Garrett was an abolitionist and leader in the Underground Railroad movement before the American Civil War. Garrett was born into a prosperous landowning Quaker family on their homestead called "Thornfield" in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The house in which he lived until 1822, which was built around 1800, still stands today in what is now Drexel Hill in Upper Darby Township. In a family already inclined to abolitionism, Thomas was exceptionally dedicated. - Oliver Evans
Oliver Evans (13 September, 1755 - 15 April, 1819) was a United States inventor. Evans was born in Newport, Delaware. At the age of 14 he was apprenticed to a wheelwright. Evans' first invention was in 1777, when he designed a machine for making card teeth for carding wool. He went into business with his brothers and produced a number of improvements in the textile industry. - Nicholas van Dyke
Nicholas Van Dyke (December 8 1770 - May 21 1826) was an American lawyer and politician from New Castle Delaware. He was a member of the Federalist Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly, and as U.S. Representative from Delaware, and as U.S. Senator from Delaware. - Caesar A. Rodney
Caesar Augustus Rodney (January 4 1772 - June 10 1824) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly, as U.S. Representative from Delaware U.S. Senator from Delaware U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Minister to Argentina. - Joshua Clayton
Dr. Joshua Clayton (July 20 1744 - August 11 1798) was an American physician and politician from Mt. Pleasant in Pencader Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware. He was an officer of the Continental Army in the American Revolution, and a member of the Federalist Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly, as Governor of Delaware and as U.S. Senator from Delaware. - Thomas Clayton
Thomas Clayton was an American lawyer and politician from Dover in Kent County, Delaware. He was a member of the Federalist Party and later the Whig Party. He served in the Delaware General Assembly, and as Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court, U. S. Representative from Delaware, and U.S. Senator from Delaware. - T. Coleman du Pont
Thomas Coleman du Pont (December 11 1863 - November 11 1930) was an American engineer and politician, from Greenville, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was President of the of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, and a member of the Republican Party who served parts of two terms as U. S. Senator from Delaware. He was known by his middle name. - John G. Townsend Jr.
John Gillis Townsend, Jr. (May 31 1871 - April 10 1964) was an American businessman and politician from Selbyville, in Sussex County, Delaware. He was a member of the Republican Party, who served as Governor of Delaware and two terms as U. S. Senator from Delaware. - Jim Thompson
Jim Thompson (born March 21, 1906 in Greenville, Delaware) (Died 26th March 1967 in Pahang ,Malaysia ??) was an American businessman who helped revitalize Thailand's silk and textile industry in the 1950s and 1960s. A former U.S. military intelligence officer who once worked for the Office of Strategic Services, Thompson mysteriously disappeared while going for a walk on Easter Sunday, March 26, 1967 in the Cameron Highlands of Malaysia. - David Roselle
David Paul Roselle (born May 30, 1939) is an American mathematician and academic who served as the 25th President of the University of Delaware. - Willard Hall
Willard Hall (December 24, 1780 - May 10, 1875) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, Delaware, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as U. S. Representative from Delaware. Hall was born in Westford, Middlesex County, Mass., on December 24, … - Henry Latimer
Dr. Henry Latimer (April 24 1752 - December 19 1819) was an American physician and politician from Newport, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was elected to the Continental Congress from Delaware, and was a member of the Federalist Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly, as U.S. Representative from Delaware, and U.S. Senator from Delaware. - Stephen Davis
Stephen Davis was born February 28, 1946 in Wilmington, Delaware, son of a Vice-President and Executive Director of E.I. duPont de Nemours and Company (the duPont Company). He graduated from Tower Hill School in Wilmington, spending his junior year at the Lawrenceville School near Princeton, New Jersey. In 1964 he entered Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina, withdrawing in 1966 to help launch “Up With People,” then called “Sing Out ’66.” He traveled throughout Europe, … - Richard H. Bayard
Richard Henry Bayard (September 26 1796 - March 4 1868) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Whig Party, who served as the first Mayor of Wilmington, Chief Justice of the Delaware Superior Court, and as U.S. Senator from Delaware. - Daniel Rodney
Daniel Rodney (September 10 1764 - September 2 1846) was an American merchant and politician from Lewes, in Sussex County, Delaware. He was a member of the Federalist Party, and later the National Republican Party, who served as Governor of Delaware, U. S. Representative from Delaware and U.S. Senator from Delaware. - Pierre S. du Pont IV
Pierre Samuel "Pete" du Pont, IV (born January 22 1935) is an American lawyer and politician from Rockland, in Brandywine Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, near Wilmington. He is a member of the Republican Party, who served three terms as U. S. Representative from Delaware and two terms as Governor of Delaware. - Anthony Higgins
Anthony C. Higgins (October 1 1840 - June 26 1912) was a lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County Delaware. He was a veteran of the Civil War and a member of the Republican Party, who served as U.S. Senator from Delaware. - Kevin Mench
Kevin Ford Mench (born January 7, 1978 in Wilmington, Delaware) is a Major League Baseball player for the Milwaukee Brewers. - Willard Saulsbury Jr.
Willard Saulsbury, Jr. (April 17 1861 - February 20 1927) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party who served as U.S. Senator from Delaware and President "pro tempore" of the U.S. Senate.
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