- George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is the forty-third and current President of the United States of America. Originally inaugurated on January 20, 2001, Bush was elected president in the 2000 presidential election and re-elected in the 2004 presidential election. He previously served as the forty-sixth Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000, and is the eldest son of former United States president George H. W. Bush. - John Kerry
John Kerry is a senator from Massachusetts. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for president in 2004. - Dick Cheney
Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney (born January 30, 1941), is the forty-sixth and current Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate selected by President George W. Bush. Previously, he served as White House Chief of Staff, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wyoming, and Secretary of Defense. In the private sector, he was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Halliburton Energy Services. - George Herbert Walker
George Herbert "Bert" Walker (June 11, 1875 - June 24, 1953) was a wealthy American banker and businessman. His daughter Dorothy married Prescott Bush, making him the grandfather (and namesake) of President George H. W. Bush and the great-grandfather of current President George W. Bush. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Walker was the youngest son of David Davis Walker, a dry goods merchant from Bloomington, Illinois, and Martha Adela Beaky. - John Adams
John Adams (September 18, 1772-April 24, 1863) was an American educator noted for organizing several hundred Sunday schools. He was born in Canterbury, Connecticut, 1772 to John Adams and Mary Parker Adams. He graduated from Yale University in 1795. In 1798, he married Elizabeth Ripley, with whom he had ten children. He taught at the Plainfield, New Jersey Academy from 1800-1803, when he took the post as principal of Bacon Academy in Colchester, Connecticut. - Sargent Shriver
Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr., known as Sargent, (born November 9, 1915) is an American Democratic politician and activist. He is best known as an in-law of the Kennedy family, the driving force behind the creation of the Peace Corps, and the Democratic Party's 1972 vice presidential candidate. Shriver's ebullient personality and creative energy made him one of the most effective leaders of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier and Lyndon Johnson's Great Society in the 1960s. - Henry Luce
Henry Robinson Luce (pronounced like "loose") (April 3, 1898 - February 28, 1967) was an influential American publisher. - Dean Acheson
Dean Gooderham Acheson (April 11, 1893 - October 12, 1971) was an American statesman and lawyer; as United States Secretary of State in the Truman Administration during 1949-1953, he played a central role in defining American foreign policy for the Cold War. He likewise played a central role in the creation of many important institutions including Lend Lease, the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, NATO, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, … - Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster (born November 19 1962) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, director, and producer. She has also won two Golden Globes, BAFTA and a Screen Actors Guild Award. After appearing as a child in several commercials, Foster won her first role in the 1970 TV movie "Menace on the Mountain", followed by several Disney productions. Foster did not experience her breakout role until 1976, … - Meryl Streep
Born on June 22, 1949 in Summit, New Jersey Meryl Streep is said to be the greatest living actress in Hollywood today by the film fraternity and the viewers. Her birth name was Mary Louise Streep . Her father Harry Streep was an executive at a pharmaceutical company and mother Mary was a commercial artist. Her parents were unique while his father loved playing piano her mother was good at singing and she loved singing. - Robert Taft
Robert Alphonso Taft (September 8, 1889 - July 31, 1953), of the Taft political family of Ohio, was a Republican United States Senator and as a prominent conservative spokesman was the leading opponent of the New Deal in the Senate from 1939 to 1953. He led the successful effort by the Conservative coalition to curb the power of labor unions. He failed in his quest to win the Presidential nomination of the candidate of the Republican Party in 1940, 1948 and 1952. - Payne Whitney
William Payne Whitney (March 20, 1876 - May 25, 1927) was a wealthy American businessman and member of the influential Whitney family. The son of William C. Whitney and Flora Payne, and younger brother to Harry, Payne Whitney attended Groton School and then Yale University. There, he was a member of Skull & Bones, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and captained the Yale rowing team. In later years, he helped finance the team, including donating funds to build a dormitory for the crew. - Barbara Pierce Bush
Barbara Pierce Bush (born November 25 1981 in Midland, Texas) is the elder of the fraternal twin daughters of U.S. President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush. - John Chafee
John Lester Hubbard Chafee (October 22 1922 - October 24 1999) was an American politician. He served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps, as Governor of Rhode Island, as the Secretary of the Navy, and as a United States Senator. - Harold Stanley
Harold Stanley (1885 - 1963) was an American businessman and one of the founders of Morgan Stanley in 1935. He ran Morgan Stanley until 1955. Stanley was born in Massachusetts. He went to the Hotchkiss School, and later attended Yale University and was a member of Skull and Bones. - William Frank Buckley Sr.
William Frank Buckley, Sr. (born: 11 July 1881 Washington on the Brazos, Texas & died 5 October 1958 in New York City) was a Texan lawyer who became influential in Mexican politics during the term of President Victoriano Huerta and was expelled from Mexico during the Presidency of Álvaro Obregón. Buckley is best known as the father of the publisher of "National Review" magazine, William Frank Buckley, Jr. and as the father of former U.S. Senator James L. Buckley, … - Ron Livingston
Ronald Joseph Livingston (born June 5, 1967) is an American film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his lead role as a disaffected corporate employee in the cult comedy "Office Space", a sardonic writer and subject of a short-time obsession of Carrie Bradshaw in a cult TV-series "Sex and the City", and as Captain Lewis Nixon in the miniseries "Band of Brothers". - Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom (b. July 11 1930) is an American professor and prominent literary and cultural critic. Bloom defended 19th-century Romantic poets at a time when their reputations stood at a low ebb, has constructed controversial theories of poetic influence, and advocates an aesthetic approach to literature against Feminist, Marxist, New Historicist, Post-modernist, and other methods of academic literary criticism. - Anne Applebaum
Anne Applebaum (born 25 July 1964) is a journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has written extensively about communism and the development of civil society in Eastern Europe and the USSR / Russia. As of 2006, she is a columnist and member of the editorial board of the "Washington Post". Born in Washington, DC in 1964, she was a 1982 graduate of the Sidwell Friends School. - Paul Newman
Paul Leonard Newman (born January 26, 1925) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Cannes Award, and Emmy Award-winning American actor and film director. He is also the founder of Newman's Own, a food company of which all profits and royalties are donated to charity. As of May 2007, these donations have exceeded $220 million USD. - Theodore Dwight
Theodore Dwight was an American lawyer and journalist. He was the brother of Timothy Dwight, president of Yale, and the grandson of Jonathan Edwards. He was a distinguished lawyer, a leader of the Federalist Party, and a member of Congress in 1806 – 1807, and was secretary of the Hartford Convention in 1814. His talent as a writer made him a brilliant editor at the Hartford "Mirror", the Albany "Daily Advertiser", … - Theodore Dwight
Theodore Dwight (3 March 1796-16 October 1866) was an American author, born in Hartford, Connecticut, the son of Theodore Dwight, (1764-1846). He graduated from Yale in 1814 and devoted himself to editorial work on various papers and magazines, besides taking an active interest in the work of Sunday schools. He died in Jersey City, N.J. - Roger Sherman Baldwin
Roger Sherman Baldwin (January 4, 1793-February 19, 1863) was an American lawyer involved in the Amistad case, who later became governor of Connecticut. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut, entered Yale College at the age of fourteen, and graduated with high honors in 1811. After leaving Yale he studied law in his father's office in New Haven, and also in the Litchfield Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 1814. - Judith Butler
Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American post-structuralist philosopher who has contributed to the fields of feminism, queer theory, political philosophy, and ethics. She is the Maxine Elliot professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley and the present chair of the Rhetoric Department. Butler received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University in 1984, … - Angela Bassett
Angela Evelyn Bassett (born August 16, 1958) is an Emmy and Academy Award-nominated, and Golden Globe winning American actor who has built her career with biographical film roles portraying women in American culture. - Estes Kefauver
Carey Estes Kefauver was an American politician from Tennessee who opposed the concentration of U.S. economic and political power in few hands. Kefauver was born in Madisonville, Tennessee, and attended the University of Tennessee and Yale University. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1939 to 1949 and in the U.S. Senate from 1949 to his death in 1963. - Nathan Hale
Nathan Hale (June 6 1755 - September 22 1776) was a captain in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Widely considered America's first spy, he volunteered for an intelligence-gathering mission, but was caught by the British. He is best remembered for his speech before being hanged following the Battle of Long Island, in which he purportedly said, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country". - Jacob Weisberg
Jacob Weisberg (born 1964) is an American political journalist, currently serving as editor of "Slate" magazine and a columnist for the Financial Times. He is the son of Lois Weisberg, a Chicago social activist and connector celebrated in Malcolm Gladwell's book "The Tipping Point". Weisberg's father, Bernard Weisberg, was a prominent Chicago lawyer and, later, judge. His parents were introduced at a cocktail party by novelist Ralph Ellison. - Anderson Cooper
Anderson Hays Cooper is an Emmy Award winning American journalist, author, and television personality. He currently works as the primary anchor of the CNN news show "Anderson Cooper 360°". The program is normally broadcast live from a New York City based studio; however, Cooper often broadcasts live, on location for breaking news stories. - James Jesus Angleton
James Jesus Angleton, known to friends and colleagues as Jim and nicknamed "the Kingfisher", was a long-serving chief of the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) counter-intelligence (CI) staff (Associate Deputy Director of Operations for Counterintelligence/ADDOCI). He is known as the "mother" of today's CIA for his deep role in its formation and operations. - Oliver Stone
William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946), known as Oliver Stone, is a American film director, and screenwriter. - James L. Buckley
James Buckley (born March 9, 1923 in New York City) was a United States Senator from the state of New York as a member of the Conservative Party of New York State. Buckley served from January 3, 1971 to January 3, 1977. Formerly, he was vice president and director of the Catawba Corporation from 1953 to 1970, and afterwards served as Undersecretary of State for Security Assistance 1981-1982, President of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Inc. - Bob Woodward
Robert "Bob" Woodward (born March 26, 1943) is assistant managing editor of "The Washington Post". While an investigative reporter for that newspaper, Woodward, working with his co-employee Carl Bernstein helped uncover the Watergate scandal that led to President Richard Nixon's resignation. - Benjamin Silliman
Benjamin Silliman (8 August 1779 - 24 November 1864) was an American chemist, one of the first American professors of science (at Yale University), and the first to distill petroleum. - William Sloane Coffin
Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr. was a liberal Christian clergyman and long-time peace activist with international stature. He was ordained in the Presbyterian church and later received ministerial standing in the United Church of Christ. In his younger days he was a superb athlete, a highly talented pianist, a CIA agent, and later chaplain of Yale University, … - Prescott Bush Jr.
Prescott Sheldon Bush Jr. (born August 10, 1922 in Columbus, Ohio) is an American businessman and politician who is the older brother of former President George H.W. Bush and the uncle of President George W. Bush. The first child of Prescott Sheldon Bush and Dorothy Walker Bush. Brother of George H. W. Bush (1924), Nancy Bush (1926), Jonathan Bush (1931), and William "Bucky" Bush (1938). - James McNerney
Walter James "Jim" McNerney, Jr., is an American businessman. On June 30, 2005 he was named the CEO of The Boeing Company. Prior to that, McNerney was the Chairman and Chief Executive of 3M. He had been a member of the Boeing board of directors since 2001. He is also a member of the board of directors of Procter & Gamble. McNerney is a current member of the Northwestern University Board of Trustees. McNerney, 57, oversees the strategic direction of the Chicago-based, … - John Lindsay
John Vliet Lindsay (November 24, 1921 - December 19, 2000) was an American liberal politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1959 to 1965 and mayor of New York City from 1966 to 1973. - Robert Taft Jr.
Robert Taft (generally known as Robert Taft Jr. for the sake of convenience) (February 26, 1917-December 7, 1993) served as a Republican Congressman between 1963 and 1965, and between 1967 and 1971. He also served as a U. S. Senator from Ohio between 1971 and 1976. Taft attended Yale University and Harvard University Law School. At Yale he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. After law school, Taft joined the Cincinnati law firm, Taft, … - Murray Gell-Mann
Murray Gell-Mann (born September 15, 1929 in Manhattan, New York City, USA) is an American physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles.
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