- John Edwards
John Edwards (October 24, 1805 - April 8, 1894) was a U.S. Representative from Arkansas. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Edwards received a limited schooling. He studied law and was admitted to the bar. He moved to Indiana, where he served in the State house of representatives in 1845 and 1846. He moved to California, and in 1849 was elected an alcalde. He returned to Indiana in 1852. He served as member of the State senate in 1853. He moved to Chariton, Iowa, in 1855. - John Paul
John Paul (December 9, 1883 - February 13, 1964) was a U.S. Representative from Virginia, son of John Paul [1839-1901]. Born in Harrisonburg, Virginia, Paul attended private and public schools. He was graduated from Virginia Military Institute at Lexington in 1903 and was an instructor in that institution in 1903 and 1904. He was graduated from the law department of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1906. - John Paul
John Paul (June 30, 1839 - November 1, 1901) was a U.S. Representative from Virginia, father of John Paul [1883-1964]. Born in Rockingham County, Virginia, Paul attended the common schools and Roanoke College, Salem, Virginia. During the Civil War entered the Confederate States Army and became a captain in the First Virginia Cavalry. He studied law in the University of Virginia at Charlottesville and was graduated in 1867. - Dave Hobson
David Lee Hobson (born October 17 1936) is an American politician of the Republican Party who serves as a U.S. representative from the seventh congressional district of Ohio, based in Springfield. Hobson was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and graduated from Withrow High School in 1954. He received a bachelor of arts degree from Ohio Wesleyan University (Delaware, Ohio) in 1958 and a law degree from Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) in 1963. - John Boehner
John Andrew Boehner pronounced /ben/, born November 17, 1949, is an American politician of the Republican Party who is currently serving as the House Minority Leader in the 111th Congress, and a U.S. Representative from Ohio's 8th congressional district, which includes portions of the Cincinnati and Dayton suburbs, as well as a small portion of Dayton itself. - Jim McDermott
James Adelbert "Jim" McDermott (born December 28 1936 in Chicago, Illinois) is the current U.S. Representative for. The 7th District includes most of Seattle and Vashon Island and portions of Shoreline, Tukwila, SeaTac, and Burien. McDermott is a member of the Democratic Party. He serves on the House Ways and Means Committee and is a member of the House Progressive Caucus. McDermott was born in Chicago, Illinois. - Patrick Henry
Patrick Henry (February 12, 1843 - May 18, 1930) was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi, uncle of Patrick Henry [1861-1933]. Born near Cynthia, Mississippi, Henry attended the common schools, Mississippi College, Clinton, Mississippi, Madison College, Sharon, Mississippi, and the Nashville (Tennessee) Military College. He moved to Brandon, Mississippi, in 1858. Enlisted in the Confederate service as a first lieutenant in Company B, Sixth Mississippi Infantry Regiment, … - James Buchanan
James Buchanan (June 17, 1839 - October 30, 1900) was a U.S. Representative from New Jersey. Born in Ringoes, New Jersey, Buchanan attended the public schools and Clinton Academy. He studied law at Albany University. He was admitted to the bar in 1864 and commenced practice in Trenton, New Jersey. Reading clerk of the New Jersey General Assembly in 1866. He served as member of the Trenton Board of Education in 1868 and 1869. Presiding judge of Mercer County 1872-1877. - Jay Inslee
Jay Robert Inslee (born February 9, 1951) is an American politician, currently serving as U.S. Representative from Washington's 1st congressional district (north of Seattle, including parts of King, Snohomish, and Kitsap counties). He is a Democrat. He lives on Bainbridge Island. He married his wife Trudi on August 27, 1972. Born in Seattle, Washington, he graduated from Seattle's Ingraham High School and the University of Washington (B.A., … - James Monroe
James Monroe (July 18, 1821 - July 6, 1898) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born in Plainfield, Connecticut, Monroe attended the common schools and Plainfield Academy. He was graduated from Oberlin (Ohio) College in 1846. He pursued a postgraduate course in theology. Professor in Oberlin College 1849-1862. He served as member of the State house of representatives of Ohio 1856-1859. He served in the State senate 1860-1862. Chosen president pro tempore in 1861 and 1862. - William Howard
William Howard (December 31, 1817 - June 1, 1891) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born in Jefferson County, Virginia, Howard attended the common schools. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1840 and practiced. He moved to Batavia, Ohio. He served as prosecuting attorney 1845-1849. He served in the war with Mexico and was made second lieutenant of Company C, Second Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He served as member of the State senate 1850-1852. - William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison was an American military leader, politician, and the ninth President of the United States. He served as the first Governor of the Indiana Territory and later as a U.S. Representative and Senator from Ohio. Harrison first gained national fame for leading U.S forces against American Indians at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811 and earning the nickname "Tippecanoe" (or "Old Tippecanoe"). As a general in the subsequent War of 1812, … - John Henry
John Henry (November 1, 1800 - April 28, 1882) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois. Born near Stanford, Kentucky, Henry attended the public schools. He served as a private in Captain Arnett's company of Illinois volunteers in the Black Hawk War. He served as member of the State house of representatives 1832-1840. He was prominently identified with the construction of the first railway in Illinois in 1838. He served as member of the State senate 1840-1847. - Dick Gephardt
Richard Andrew "Dick" Gephardt (born January 31, 1941) is senior counsel at the global law firm DLA Piper, an active consultant for Goldman Sachs, and a former prominent American politician of the Democratic Party. Gephardt served as a U.S. Representative from Missouri from January 3, 1977, until January 3, 2005, and Minority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003. Previously, from 1989 to 1995 he was Majority Leader. - Earl Blumenauer
United States Congressman Earl Blumenauer , a Lewis and Clark law school graduate, will deliver the commencement address. ... United States Representative Earl Blumenauer represents Oregon"as third congressional district in Portland. The former Portland commissioner and state representative first was elected to Congress in 1996. - Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor (May 9, 1849 - February 19, 1921) was a U.S. Representative from Tennessee. Born near Brownsville, Tennessee, Taylor attended J.I. Hall's School near Covington, Tennessee, and was graduated from the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington as senior captain July 4, 1872, and from Cumberland School of Law at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee, in January 1874. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Covington, Tennessee, in 1878. - John Carter
John Carter (September 10, 1792 - June 20, 1850) was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina. Born on the Black River, near Camden, Sumter District, South Carolina, Carter was graduated from South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) at Columbia in 1811. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1814 and commenced practice in Camden, South Carolina. He served as commissioner in equity 1814-1820. - Dick Armey
Richard Keith "Dick" Armey (born July 7, 1940 in) is a former U.S. Representative from Texas' 26th Congressional District (1985-2003) and House Majority Leader (1995-2003). He was one of the architects of the "Republican Revolution" of the 1990s, in which Republicans were elected to majorities of both houses of Congress, and the chief author of the Republican Contract with America. - Peter Defazio
Peter Anthony DeFazio (born May 27, 1947) is an American politician. He serves as a Democratic U.S. Representative from Oregon, representing the. DeFazio is currently serving his 11th term. He is Oregon's most senior member of Congress, which makes him the dean of Oregon's House of Representatives delegation. DeFazio serves on the Transportation and Infrastructure, Homeland Security, and Natural Resources committees, … - Steve King
Steven (Steve) King (born May 28 1949), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, representing the 5th District of Iowa (map). He was born in Storm Lake, Iowa, and attended Northwest Missouri State University from 1967 to 1970 before founding King Construction in 1975. He was elected to the Iowa Senate in 1997 before winning Iowa's 5th Congressional district in 2002. - Gene Taylor
Gene Taylor (February 10, 1928 - October 27, 1998) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri. Born near Sarcoxie, Missouri, Taylor attended the public schools. He attended Southwest Missouri State College, Springfield from 1945 to 1947. He served in the One Hundred and Eighth Cavalry, Missouri National Guard from 1948 to 1949. Automobile dealer from 1958 to 1973. He served as mayor, Sarcoxie, Missouri from 1954 to 1960. - Gene Taylor
Gary Eugene "Gene" Taylor (born September 17, 1953) is an American politician of the Democratic Party and a U.S. Representative from the 4th District of Mississippi (map). Taylor was born in New Orleans and is a graduate of Tulane University. He completed additional post-graduate work at University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Park Campus. From 1971 through 1984, he was a member of the United States Coast Guard Reserve, … - Will Rogers
Will Rogers (December 12, 1898 - August 3, 1983) was a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma. Born on a farm near Bessie, Oklahoma Territory (now Oklahoma), Rogers attended the public schools, and Southwestern Teachers College, Weatherford, Oklahoma. Central Teachers College, Edmond, Oklahoma, B.S., 1926 and A.B., 1929. And from the University of Oklahoma at Norman, M.S., 1930. He was a teacher in the public schools at Bessie, Oklahoma from 1917 to 1919. - Al Green
Alexander N. "Al" Green, commonly known as Al Green, was born on September 1, 1947, and is the U.S. Representative from the Ninth Congressional District in Texas (map). Green won the Democratic primary for District 9 in Houston on March 9, 2004, a district that is largely Democratic with 37% of its population African American and 31% Hispanic - two ethnic groups that traditionally support the Democrats - and later was victorious over Republican Arlette Molina. - Tim Walz
Timothy J. Walz (born April 6, 1964) is an American politician. A member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), Walz is the U.S. Representative for Minnesota's 1st congressional district, one of eight congressional districts in Minnesota. He is currently serving in the freshman class of the 110th United States Congress. - Bob Goodlatte
Robert William "Bob" Goodlatte (born September 22 1952) is a Republican U.S. Representative from Virginia. He serves as the congressman for the 6th District. Born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Goodlatte received a B.A. from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine in 1974. He also holds a Juris Doctor from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, which he earned in 1977. - John Davis
John Davis (August 9, 1826 - August 1, 1901) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas. Born near Springfield, Illinois, Davis moved with his parents to Macon County in 1830. He attended the country schools, Springfield Academy, and Illinois College, Jacksonville, Illinois. He engaged in agricultural and horticultural pursuits near Decatur, Illinois. He moved to Kansas in 1872 and located on a farm near Junction City. - Michael McCaul
Michael T. McCaul (b. January 14 1962, Dallas, Texas) is an American lawyer and politician who currently is the Republican U.S. Representative for Texas District 10 (map). McCaul earned a Bachelor of Arts from San Antonio's Trinity University in 1984 and his Juris Doctor from St. Mary's University in 1987. He also attended Harvard University. McCaul worked as an attorney and a federal prosecutor before running for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2004. - Ben Nighthorse Campbell
Ben Nighthorse Campbell (born April 13, 1933) is an American politician. He was a U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1993 until 2005 and was for some time the only Native American serving in the U.S. Congress. Campbell was a U.S. Representative from 1987 to 1993, when he was sworn into office as a Senator following his election on November 3, 1992. Campbell also serves as one of forty-four members of the Council of Chiefs of the Northern Cheyenne Nation, … - Paul Gillmor
Paul Eugene Gillmor (born February 1, 1939) is an American politician of the Republican Party who serves as the U.S. Representative from the fifth congressional district of Ohio. The district, the second-largest in the state, includes Bowling Green and most of Toledo's suburbs, including Fremont. - Louie Gohmert
Louis Buller "Louie" Gohmert, Jr. (born August 18, 1953, in Pittsburg, Texas), is an American politician and current Republican U.S. Representative from Texas's 1st district(map). Gohmert received his B.A. from Texas A&M University in 1975. At A&M, he was a Brigade Commander of the Corps of Cadets. He later received his Juris Doctor from Baylor University in 1977. Gohmert served in the Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Army, at Fort Benning, Georgia, from 1978 to 1982. - Lincoln Davis
Lincoln Davis (born September 13, 1943 in Pall Mall, Tennessee) is a U.S. Representative from Tennessee, currently representing the state's 4th Congressional district (map). He is a Democrat. He is frequently mentioned as a 2010 gubernatorial candidate. Davis, a 1966 Tennessee Technological University agriculture graduate who was raised in rural Fentress County, has been serving Tennesseans since being elected as mayor of Byrdstown in 1978. - David Walker
David Walker (unknown - March 1, 1820) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky, brother of George Walker and grandfather of James David Walker. Born in Brunswick County, Virginia, Walker attended public and private schools. He served in the Revolutionary War as a private under General Lafayette. He was at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. He moved to Logan County, Kentucky. He served as clerk of county and circuit courts. - Tim Ryan
Timothy J. "Tim" Ryan (born July 16, 1973) is an American member of the Democratic Party, who is a U.S. representative for the 17th district of Ohio, serving since 2003. - David Davis
David Lee Davis (born November 6, 1959) is a Republican politician from Tennessee and a former member of the Tennessee House of Representatives representing the 6th district, which is composed of parts of Washington County and Hawkins County. He is currently serving as U.S. Representative for the Tennessee 1st U.S. House District. - John Ford
John N. Ford (born May 3, 1942) is a funeral director, insurance agent, and consultant in Memphis, Tennessee. He is a former Democratic member of the Tennessee State Senate, representing District 29, and the brother of former U.S. Representative Harold Ford, Sr. and hence the uncle of former Tennessee U.S. Representative and 2006 United States Senate candidate Harold Ford, Jr. In April 2007 he was convicted on Federal bribery charges. - John Bell
John (of Ohio) Bell (June 19, 1796 - May 4, 1869) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born in Pennsboro, Pennsylvania, Bell received a limited education. He moved to Ohio in 1810 with his parents, who settled in Greene County, near Xenia. He moved to Lower Sandusky in 1823. City mayor in 1830. Probate judge of Sandusky County several terms. Commissioned major general of State militia in 1834. Commanded Ohio forces in the Toledo war in 1835. - John Wilson
John Wilson (January 10, 1777 - August 9, 1848) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. Born in Peterboro, New Hampshire, Wilson was graduated from Harvard University in 1799. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1802 at Peterboro, New Hampshire, and commenced practice in Belfast, Maine (then a district of Massachusetts). He served as a captain in the State militia. Wilson was elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth Congress (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1815). - John Wilson
John Wilson (August 11, 1773 - August 13, 1828) was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina. Born at Wilson's Ferry (now Pelzer), Anderson County, South Carolina, Wilson attended the common schools. He engaged in agricultural pursuits in Anderson County, near Golden Grove, South Carolina. Also operated a public ferry across the Saluda River at what is now known as Pelzer. He served as member of the State house of representatives from 1812 to 1817. - Roger Williams
Roger Williams (born ca. 1950) is the former secretary of state for the U.S. state of Texas, having served from November 2004 until his resignation effective July 1, 2007. Williams announced on June 11 that he would leave the appointed position to "pursue other opportunities". He did not say if he intends to seek elected office. In Texas, the secretary of state must resign if he enters a political race.
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