- 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.
- Barbara Boxer
Senate Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) speaks at a News conference to release principles for global warming legislation. She says that this moment marks the start of legislative efforts to become energy efficient and create millions of green jobs which will make America a leader. (1:05)
- John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy , also referred to as John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, John Kennedy, Jack Kennedy, or JFK, was the thirty-fifth President of the United States. In 1960 he became the youngest person ever to be elected President of the United States, and the second youngest, after Theodore Roosevelt, to serve. Kennedy served from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
- Russ Feingold
Russell Dana "Russ" Feingold (born March 2, 1953) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Wisconsin. He has served as a Democratic member of the U.S. Senate and the junior Senator from Wisconsin since 1993. A recipient of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award, Feingold is best known for his maverick voting and cosponsorship of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act ("McCain-Feingold Bill"), a major piece of campaign finance reform legislation, …
- Alan Keyes
Dr. Alan Keyes (born August 7, 1950) is a former Reagan administration diplomat, a Harvard-educated constitutional scholar, and a conservative political activist. He is also a former television and radio talk show host. He has run twice for President of the United States and three times for the U.S. Senate in 1988, 1992, and 2004 as a Republican.
- Pete Domenici
Pietro Vichi "Pete" Domenici (born May 7 1932) is an American politician, currently serving as a Republican Senator from New Mexico. He has served continuously since 1973, the longest tenure in the state's history. On September 7 2006, he cast his 13,000th vote, joining only seven other Senators who have done the same.
- Michael Chertoff
Michael Chertoff , Secretary of Homeland Security, stated in a speech that "in setting up the new center, we've reorganized the way we combat these criminal organizations. And we really emphasized and facilitated a team approach at all levels of government and with the private sector to make sure we're bringing all the elements of national power to bear in dealing with what is a national and transnational problem."
- Ken Salazar
Senator Salazar, one of three Latino senators currently in office, is a fifth generation Colorado farmer and rancher. Despite pride in his Hispanic heritage, he is emphatic that he represents national interests in security, energy independence, agriculture, health care and the environment, and has often reached across the aisle to achieve his legislative goals. "I am a Senator for Mexican-Americans, for Latinos, for Afro-Americans, for White women, men.
- Ben Nelson
Earl Benjamin "Ben" Nelson (born May 17 1941) is the junior U.S. Senator from Nebraska, where he was born and has lived for most of his life. Nelson is a Methodist. A Democrat, he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2000, and is now the leading conservative Democrat in the Senate. The April 2006 Survey USA poll found him to be the most popular senator in the country, with a 73% approval rating from his constituents. In the most recent poll, his approval rating was 68%
- Bob Schaffer
Robert W. "Bob" Schaffer (born July 24, 1962) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from the State of Colorado in the 105th Congress and the two succeeding Congresses (January 3 1997 to January 3 2003). In 2004, Schaffer was a failed candidate in the primary election to be the Republican nominee for a U.S. Senate seat.
- George Voinovich
Throughout his distinguished career in service to the people of Ohio, U.S. Senator George V. Voinovich has strived to make government "work harder and smarter and do more with less."
- Tom Allen
Thomas H. (Tom) Allen is a member of the United States House of Representatives representing (map). He is a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2008. Allen was first elected in 1996, defeating Republican incumbent James Longley Jr. with 55% of votes cast to Longley's 45%. Allen has been reelected five times since, receiving over 55% of the vote each time.
- David Duke
David Ernest Duke is a former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, a candidate in presidential primaries for both the Democratic and Republican parties, and former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Duke is a self-styled "white nationalist," and he is commonly referred to by his opponents as a white supremacist. He says he does not think of himself as a racist, however, …
- Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann (born Michele Amble on April 6 1956) is the Republican Representative of Minnesota's 6<sup >th</sup> congressional district, one of eight congressional districts in Minnesota. The district includes many of the northern suburbs of the Twin Cities, and also includes St. Cloud.
- Kevin Martin
Kevin Jeffrey Martin (born December 14 1966) is the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. He was nominated to be a commissioner by President George W. Bush on April 30 2001, and was confirmed on May 25 2001. President Bush renominated Martin to a new five year term on April 25 2006, and he was reconfirmed by the U.S. Senate on November 17 2006.
- Mike Easley
Michael Francis (Mike) Easley (born March 23, 1950) is the current governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina. He is a Democrat and North Carolina's second Catholic governor. Thomas Burke was the first, though Easley is the first elected by popular vote. Easley was raised a Roman Catholic in otherwise overwhelmingly Protestant Nash County, North Carolina. His father, Alexander Easley, owned one of the two big tobacco warehouses in the area.
- Rick Lazio
Enrico Anthony "Rick" Lazio (born March 13, 1958) is a former U.S. Representative from the state of New York. A Republican, he is most known for having run unsuccessfully against Hillary Rodham Clinton for the U.S. Senate in New York's 2000 Senate election. Lazio was born in Amityville, New York in Suffolk County. He graduated from West Islip High School in 1976.
- Rod Grams
Rod Grams served the state of Minnesota as both a member of the United States House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. Grams was born in Princeton, Minnesota. He attended Brown Institute, 1966–1968, Anoka-Ramsey Community College, 1970–1972, and Carroll College, 1974–1975. He has worked as a television news anchor and producer in Montana, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Minnesota. He was the president of a construction and residential development company in Minneapolis.
- Kate Brown
Katherine "Kate" Brown, employee of the U.S. Senate and African American civil rights activist. In February 1868, Kate Brown boarded a train to travel from Alexandria, Virginia to Washington, D.C. She entered “what they call the ‘white people’s car.’” As she was boarding, a railroad policeman told her to move to a different car.
- Janice Rogers Brown
Janice Rogers Brown (born May 11, 1949 in Greenville, Alabama) is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She previously was an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court, holding that post from May 2, 1996 until her appointment to the D.C. Circuit. President George W. Bush nominated her to her current position in 2003.
- Kevin Zeese
Kevin B. Zeese is President of Common Sense for Drug Policy . He is one of the nation's foremost authorities on drug policy issues. He has worked on a wide array of drug related issues ( Curriculum Vitae ) since he graduated from George Washington University Law School in 1980. He is the author of Drug Testing Legal Manual , Drug Testing Legal Manual and Practice Aids and co-author of Drug Law: Strategies and Tactics , all three published by Clark Boardman Callaghan .
- Eugene McCarthy
Eugene Joseph "Gene" McCarthy was an American politician and a long-time member of the United States Congress from Minnesota. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1949 to 1959 and the U.S. Senate from 1959 to 1971. In the 1968 presidential election, McCarthy unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for president of the United States to succeed incumbent Lyndon B. Johnson on an anti-Vietnam War platform.
- Bobby Rush
Bobby Lee Rush (born November 23 1946) has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing the 1st District of Illinois, located principally on the south side of Chicago. His district has a higher percentage of African American residents (65%) than any other congressional district in the nation. Rush was born in Albany, Georgia, was educated at Roosevelt University, …
- Will McBride
William Richard "Will" McBride (born August 15, 1972 in Tampa, Florida) is an immigration lawyer and an unsuccessful candidate for the 2006 Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Florida. McBride had announced his candidacy on May 12, 2006, the last day to file as a candidate. On September 5, 2006, he was defeated by Katherine Harris, who gained 50% of the vote to McBride's 30%. McBride is married to the former Kristy Epperson, and has three children.
- 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.
- Ed Rollins
Ed Rollins (born March 19, 1943) is a Republican campaign consultant and advisor who has worked on a number of high profile political campaigns in the United States. Edward Rollins was born in Boston, Massachusetts where he was raised in a Democratic household. His family later moved to California where Rollins attended California State University, Chico. Rollins later served in a number of Republican staff positions in the California State Assembly.
- Elwyn Tinklenberg
Elwyn Tinklenberg was one of two DFL candidates for the Minnesota Sixth District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2006 election. A former United Methodist minister and manager of the Divisions of Public Services for Anoka County, he ran on a platform that supported jobs, education, and transportation. Tinklenberg is a former member of the administration of Independence Party of Minnesota's Jesse Ventura, …
- Denise Majette
Denise L. Majette (born May 18, 1955) is a Democratic U.S. politician from the state of Georgia. Born in Brooklyn, she attended Yale University and completed a Juris Doctor degree at Duke University in 1979. A resident of the Atlanta suburb of Stone Mountain since 1983, Majette was appointed by Governor Zell Miller to the State Court of DeKalb County in 1993. She resigned from the judgeship in 2002 to run for the U.S. House of Representatives in, …
- John Salazar
John T. Salazar (born July 21, 1953) is a Democrat from Colorado, was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 2004, representing (map). He was born in Alamosa, Colorado, but calls Manassa, Colorado his home. He is married to Mary Lou Salazar and has three children: Estevan, Miguel and Jesus. His brother, Ken Salazar, was also elected in 2004 to represent Colorado in the U.S. Senate. Salazar served in the U.S. Army from 1973 to 1976, …
- Elizabeth Holtzman
Elizabeth Holtzman (born August 11, 1941, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American Democratic politician. A graduate of Radcliffe College and Harvard Law School, she was the youngest woman ever to serve in United States House of Representatives, having been elected at the age of thirty-one in 1972 from New York's 16th Congressional District, having defeated-in the Democratic primary-Judiciary Committee chairman Emanuel Celler, …
- Mel Carnahan
Melvin Eugene "Mel" Carnahan was an American politician who was Governor of Missouri from 1993 to 2000. A Democrat, he died in a plane crash on the Pevely and Hillsboro, Missouri border during a campaign for the U.S. Senate, after which he was elected posthumously to the office.
- Betty Castor
Betty Castor (born Elizabeth Bowe in Glassboro, New Jersey on May 11, 1941) is an American public servant and educator who served as Florida Education Commissioner and President of the University of South Florida. In 2004, she faced Republican Mel Martinez as the Democratic candidate for the open U.S. Senate seat of retiring Senator Bob Graham and was very narrowly defeated by him.
- Robert Torricelli
Robert Guy Torricelli (born August 27, 1951), nicknamed "the Torch," is an American politician from the U.S. state of New Jersey. Torricelli, a Democrat, served 14 years in the U.S. House of Representatives before being elected to the U.S. Senate. He was believed to have leaked classifed information during his tenure on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
- Barbara Ann Radnofsky
Barbara Ann Radnofsky (born July 8, 1956) was the Democratic nominee for the Texas U.S. Senate seat currently held by Kay Bailey Hutchison, in 2006. She is the first woman to have won the Democratic nomination for a U.S. Senate seat in Texas.
- Jim Edgar
James Edgar (born July 22, 1946, Vinita, Oklahoma) is an American politician who was the Governor of Illinois from 1991 to 1999. Edgar was born in Vinita, Oklahoma and was raised in Charleston, Illinois. He graduated from Charleston High School, attended Wabash College for one year before graduating from Eastern Illinois University, also in Charleston. A Republican, he was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives between 1977 and 1979.
- Utah Phillips
Bruce "Utah" Phillips (b. May 15 1935 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller, poet and self-described "Golden Voice of the Great Southwest". He describes the struggles of labor unions and the power of direct action. He often promotes the Industrial Workers of the World in his music, actions, and words. Utah Phillips' given name is Bruce Phillips. A fan of T. Texas Tyler, Phillips adopted the stage name U. Utah Phillips.
- Jim Hunt
James Baxter Hunt Jr. was a four-term Democratic governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina (1977–1985, and again from 1993–2001). Hunt is a graduate of North Carolina State University, with a B.S. in agricultural education and a M.S. in agricultural economics. He also served as Student Body President. In 1964, he received a J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law. Hunt is the only Governor of North Carolina to have been elected to four terms.
- Allen Buckley
Allen Buckley was a candidate for the U.S. Senate from the state of Georgia in 2004. He ran as a Libertarian, gaining only 2% of the vote. Buckley is from Smyrna, Georgia and has a Bachelor's degree from Kent State University and Law Degrees from University of Georgia and University of Florida.
- Steve Rauschenberger
Steve Rauschenberger (born August 29, 1956, Elgin, Illinois) served as a Republican member of the Illinois State Senate from 1993 to 2007. He was first elected to the state Senate in 1992 as part of the famed Fab Five (a conservative class of Freshman all elected to the State Senate). In 2003 he was appointed to the Senate Republican Leadership team in 2003 as Assistant Republican Leader.
- Rod Paige
Roderick Raynor "Rod" Paige (born June 17, 1933), served as the 7th United States Secretary of Education from 2001 to 2005. Paige, who grew up in Mississippi, built a career on a belief that education equalizes opportunity, moving from college dean and school superintendent to be the first African American to serve as the nation's education chief. Paige was sitting with George W. Bush at the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, …