- Sergey Mironov
Sergey Mikhailovich Mironov (born February 14, 1953), is a Russian statesman and the current Speaker of the Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian parliament. Sergey Mironov is from Saint Petersburg and is considered to be a close ally of the Russian president Vladimir Putin. In the 1970's Sergey Mironov served in airborne troops in the Soviet Army. Later he graduated from Leningrad Mining Institute worked as an engineer-geophysicist.
- Michael Egan
Michael Egan (21 February 1948) is a former union official and former Labor politician who served as New South Wales Treasurer from 1995, when the Carr Government came to power, until his resignation on 18 January 2005. His stated reason for resigning was that, 'after 35 years of political combat, I think it's time for me to move on'. Egan was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1978, standing in the seat of Cronulla.
- Jack Austin
Jacob "Jack" Austin, PC (born March 2, 1932) is a former Canadian politician and former member of the Canadian Senate. He was appointed to the upper house by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau on August 8, 1975 and represents British Columbia. At the time of his retirement he was the longest serving member of the Upper House.
- Richard Codey
Richard James "Dick" Codey (born November 27 1946) is an American Democratic Party politician in the U.S. State of New Jersey. Codey served as the 53rd Governor of New Jersey (by virtue of his status as President of the New Jersey Senate) from the resignation of Governor James McGreevey on November 15, 2004 until the inauguration of Jon Corzine on January 17, 2006. As there is no Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey (the office will come into being beginning in 2009), …
- Edward Seaga
Edward Philip George Seaga ON (born May 28, 1930) was Prime Minister of Jamaica for the Jamaica Labour Party from 1980 to 1989. He served as leader of the opposition from 1974 to 1980 and again from 1989 until January 2005. His retirement from political life marked the end of Jamaica's founding generation in active politics; he was the last serving politician to have entered public life before independence.
- Colin Kenny
James Colin Ramsey Kenny (born December 10 1943) is a Canadian Senator. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Colin received his high school education at Bishop's College School. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1966 from Norwich University. In 1967, he received a Public Service Fellowship from the Tuck School of Business. Kenny's political career began in 1968 when he served as executive director of the Liberal Party of Canada in Ontario.
- Rajmohan Gandhi
Rajmohan Gandhi (1935, New Delhi, India) is a biographer and grandson of Mahatma Gandhi. His maternal grandfather is Rajaji and his father is Devdas Gandhi. Rajmohan is also a journalist and political activist. Mr. Gandhi, a research professor at the Centre for Policy Studies in New Delhi, India, has written widely on the Indian independence movement and its leaders, India-Pakistani relations, human rights and conflict resolution.
- Terry Stratton
Terrance Richard (Terry) Stratton (born March 16, 1938 in Winnipeg) is a Canadian Senator. A businessman, teacher and architect, Stratton was appointed to the Senate on the advice of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in March 1993. He served as Opposition Whip from 2001 until 2004 when he became Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate. Stratton represents Manitoba in the Upper House where he sits as a Conservative.
- Greg Hall
The Honourable Greg Raymond Hall is an independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council in the electoral division of Rowallan. He was also Mayor of the Meander Valley Council. Hall was born in Launceston on the 19 April, 1948. He became member of the Legislative Council at the 2001 Rowallan elections, defeating Russel Anderson (independent; supported by the Liberals). Hall has supported some of state Labor's iniatives in the upper house, …
- Peter Mitchell
Peter M. Mitchell, PC (January 4, 1824 - October 25, 1899) was a Canadian politician and one of the Fathers of Confederation. After a career in law and in business as a shipbuilder, Mitchell entered New Brunswick politics in 1852, while it was still a colony of the United Kingdom. He ran as a reform candidate for the colonial House of Assembly, but was defeated. Mitchell was a supporter of responsible government and the Liberal Party.
- Anne Cools
Anne Clare Cools, BA (born August 12 1943) is a member of the Canadian Senate. Born in Barbados, she was the first African Canadian person to be appointed to the Canada's upper house. Her family immigrated to Canada in 1957 when Cools was 14 years old, and settled in Montreal. Attending McGill University to study social work in the 1960s, she became involved in radical campus politics.
- Elaine McCoy
Elaine McCoy, QC, BA, LL.B (born March 7 1946) in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada is a Canadian senator from Alberta. A lawyer by profession, McCoy is President of the Macleod Institute at the University of Calgary. From 1985 to 1993, she was the Alberta Progressive Conservative Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Calgary West in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, and held several cabinet positions in the government of Premier Donald Getty, …
- Benjamin Tasker
Benjamin Tasker (1690 - June 19, 1768) was the Provincial Governor of Maryland from 1752 to 1753. Tasker became a naval officer at Annapolis, Maryland in 1719 and served until 1742. He also served in the municipal and provincial government as: member and president of the Governor's Council, 1722-1768; member of the Lower House of the Maryland Legislature, 1715-1717, 1720-1722; member of the Upper House, 1722-1766, 1768; President of the Upper House, 1734-1766, …
- Maria Chaput
Maria Chaput (born May 7, 1942) is a current member of the Canadian Senate representing the Senatorial Division of Manitoba. She is the first franco-Manitoban woman to ever have been appointed to the upper house of the Parliament of Canada.
- Robert Grant
Sir Robert Grant was a British lawyer and politician. He was born in India, the son of Charles Grant, chairman of the Directors of the Honourable East India Company, and younger brother of Charles Grant, later Lord Glenelg. Returning home with their father in 1790, the two brothers were entered as students of Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1795.
- Lucie Pépin
Lucie Pépin, LLD (born September 7 1936) is a Canadian politician. A Registered Nurse by profession, in the 1960s, Pépin served as head nurse in the gynecology department and then at the family planning clinic of Notre-Dame Hospital in Montreal, and was cross-appointed to the Université de Montréal's faculty of medicine. In the 1970s, she was an administrator at the Canadian Committee for Fertility Research in Montreal, and a lecturer at the Université de Montréal.
- Dennis Dawson
Dennis Dawson, BA, MBA (born September 28, 1949) is a Canadian Senator. Born in Quebec City, Quebec, Dawson is a former Liberal Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding of Louis-Hébert, Quebec from 1977 to 1984. Dawson is listed as an administrator. He is a former Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Labour and former Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Employment and Immigration.
- Mobina Jaffer
Mobina S. B. Jaffer, QC, LLB (born August 20 1949 in Uganda) is a Canadian Senator representing British Columbia. She is the first South Asian and the first Muslim woman appointed to the Upper House. Born to an East Indian family living in Africa, Jaffer was educated in England and Canada. She earned a law degree from the University of London in 1972 and a post-graduate degree from Simon Fraser University. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
- Loyola de Palacio
Ignacia de Loyola de Palacio y del Valle Lersundi was a Spanish politician. She was one of the first women to rise to political prominence in Spain after the death of General Franco. She was a minister in the Spanish government from 1996 to 1998, and a member of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004. Her sister, Ana Palacio, was Foreign Minister of Spain from 2002 to 2004, and is vice president of the World Bank.
- James Berry
James Berry was an English Major-General, (d.1691). He worked as a clerk at an iron works in Shropshire during the 1630s and was a member of the congregation of the Puritan divine Richard Baxter. In 1642, Berry enlisted in Oliver Cromwell's cavalry regiment, where he adopted radical religious beliefs that caused a split with the more moderate Baxter. At the battle of Gainsborough in July 1643, Berry killed the Royalist leader Charles Cavendish.
- Edward Barron Chandler
Edward Barron Chandler (August 22, 1800 - February 6, 1880) was a New Brunswick politician and lawyer from a United Empire Loyalist family. He was one of the Fathers of Confederation. Chandler moved from Nova Scotia to New Brunswick to study law and remained in the Government.
- James Kelleher
James Francis "Jim" Kelleher, PC, QC, BA, LL.B (born October 2, 1930) is a Canadian politician and retired Senator. Born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1952 from Queen's University and a Bachelor of Law degree in 1956 from Osgoode Hall Law School. Kelleher was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1984 election as the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament for Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.
- Adrian Pederick
Adrian Pederick is an Australian politician who won the safe Liberal seat of Hammond for the Liberal party, re-claiming it back from Liberal-turned-independent Peter Lewis who left to contest a seat in the Upper House. Previous to his election in to politics, Pederick managed a family dryland and grazing enterprise property at Coomandook for the past 14 years and is a supporter of local and regional community causes and events.
- Lionel de Rothschild
Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (22 November 1808 - 3 June 1879) was the son of Nathan Mayer Rothschild and Hanna Barent Cohen and a member of the prominent Rothschild family. In 1847 Lionel de Rothschild was first elected to the British House of Commons as one of four MPs for the City of London constituency.
- Edward Montagu 2nd Earl of Manchester
Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester KG (1602 - May 5, 1671) was an important commander of Parliamentary forces in the War of the Three Kingdoms, and for a time Oliver Cromwell's superior.
- Royce Frith
Royce Herbert Frith was a Canadian diplomat, public servant and politician. He received a B.A. (Hon Law) from the University of Toronto, a Bachelor of Laws from Osgoode Hall Law School and a Dipl. d’études supérieures (droit) from the University of Ottawa. He was admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1949. An amateur actor and performer, Frith found time to act in plays, perform on the radio, and sing and play several instruments.
- Madeleine Plamondon
Madeleine Plamondon is a retired Canadian Senator and consumer advocate specializing in financial services, privacy, and rights of the elderly. She has headed the Service d'aide au consummateur in Shawinigan, Quebec since its foundation in 1974 and has also been active with the Financial Services OmbudsNetwork, the Bureau des services financiers du Québec and the Association des courtiers et agents immobiliers du Québec.
- Herbert O. Sparrow
Herbert Orval Sparrow (born January 4, 1930 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian politician. At the time of his retirement, Sparrow was the longest serving member of the Canadian Senate, and was the last remaining member of the Upper House to have been appointed by Prime Minister Lester Pearson. He was appointed on February 9, 1968, and sat as a member of the Liberal Party of Canada representing the province of Saskatchewan.
- Byron Baer
Byron M. Baer (October 18, 1929 - June 24, 2007) was an American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey who served in both houses of the New Jersey Legislature. He served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1972 - 1993 and in the State Senate from 1994 - 2005, where he represented the 37th Legislative District. In the early 1970s, Baer was the primary author of New Jersey's Sunshine Law, and was an advocate of open government throughout his legislative career.
- Hormando Vaca Diez
Hormando Vaca Diez (born April 30, 1949) was formerly president of the upper house (Senate) of the Bolivian National Congress. In line for the post of president after Carlos Mesa's resignation, he declined amid protests against him, in a televised speech where he stated that the recent protests were caused by Carlos Mesa and Evo Morales.
- Robert Thorburn
Sir Robert Thorburn (March 28, 1836 - April 12, 1906) was a Newfoundland merchant and politician who served as the colony's Premier from 1885 to 1889. Born in Scotland, Thorburn emigrated to Newfoundland in 1852 when he was sixteen. From 1870 to 1885 and again from 1893 to 1906 he was a member of the colony's appointed Legislative Council, the Upper House of Newfoundland's parliament.
- William Steeves
William Henry Steeves (May 20, 1814 - December 9, 1873) was a merchant, lumberman, politician and Father of Canadian Confederation. Born and raised in Hillsborough, New Brunswick, Steeves was educated in public school and began his career running a small store before becoming a partner in Steeves Brothers, a family mercantile and lumber exporting business.
- August Bach
August Bach (30 August 1897 - 23 March 1966) was an East German Christian Democratic politician. August Bach was born in Rheydt. From 1915 to 1918 he served in German army. After the War he studied History at the University of Berlin. He worked as a journalist during the Weimar Republic and he was a member of the liberal German Democratic Party. From 1922 to 1944 he was the editor of the "Berliner Monatshefte".
- Paul Massicotte
Paul J. Massicotte, BComm (born September 10 1951 in Manitoba, Canada) is a businessman and Canadian Senator representing the Senate division of De Lanaudière, Quebec. Massicotte is Chief Executive Officer of the Alexis Nihon Real Estate Investment Trust in Montreal. He has also served on the boards of directors of the Canadian Institute of Public Real Estate Companies, …
- Andrew George Blair
Andrew George Blair (March 7, 1844 - January 25, 1907) was a politician in New Brunswick, Canada. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in 1878 after unsuccessful attempts in the previous two elections. Though Blair was a supporter of Sir John A. Macdonald's federal Liberal-Conservatives, he joined the parliamentary opposition in the legislature and, in 1879, …
- Joseph Azzolina
Joseph Azzolina (born January 26, 1926 in Newark, New Jersey) is a Republican who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1992-2006 where he represented the 13th legislative district. He also served in the Assembly from 1986-1988 and from 1966-1972. Azzolina also served in the upper house of the New Jersey Legislature, the New Jersey Senate, from 1972-1973. Azzolina served in the Assembly on the State Government Committee.
- Abdul Sabur Farid Kuhestani
Abdul Sabur Farid Kuhestani (1952 - May 3, 2007) served as Prime Minister of Afghanistan from July 6, 1992 until August 15, 1992. He later served as a member of the upper house of the Afghan parliament until he was assassinated in a shooting outside his home in Kabul on May 3, 2007.
- Beatriz Zavala
María Beatriz Zavala Peniche is a Mexican politician affiliated to the National Action Party (PAN) who has served in the lower and upper house of the Mexican Congress. In 2006 Felipe Calderón designated her as Secretary of Social Development.
- Masayoshi Hamada
is a Japanese politician. He is a former representative in Diet and is a member of the New Komeito Party. In 1980 he left Kyoto University's graduate school mid-term to work in the Biochemical-Industry Division of Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI). He retired from METI in 2003 and in 2004 was elected to the Diet's Upper House. In 2006, he became the Ministry of Foreign Affairs's Parliamentary Secretary in the Shinzo Abe cabinet.
- George Fleetwood
George Fleetwood was an English Major-General and one of the Regicides of King Charles I of England. He was born in around 1623, the eldest son of Charles Fleetwood of Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire. As a young boy, he inherited his family estate after his father died in 1628. On the outbreak of the First Civil War, Fleetwood raised a troop of dragoons for the Parliament of England and kept the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire as a defensive barrier for London.