- Mark Foley
Mark Adam Foley (born September 8, 1954) is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 until 2006, representing the 16th District of Florida. Once known as a crusader against child abuse and exploitation, Foley resigned from Congress on September 29, … - Tom Ammiano
Tom Ammiano (born December 15, 1941), a Democrat, is a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors representing District 9, which encompasses parts of the Mission District and the Bernal Heights and Portola neighborhoods. He was elected to the city-wide Board in 1994, and re-elected in 1998, when he became Board President. His efforts to have the Board elected by district instead of city-wide succeeded, and, running as a resident of Bernal Heights, … - Henry Ward
Henry Ward was a Democrat who held posts in Democratic state administrations in Kentucky and was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Kentucky in 1967. Ward lost the general election to Louie B. Nunn. Nunn won 454,123 votes (51.2%) to Ward's 425,674 (48.0%). Ward had previously been active with the Chamber of Commerce in Louisville and was instrumental in having Interstate 65 routed through Louisville's downtown. - Greg Walden
Gregory "Greg" Walden (born January 10, 1957, in The Dalles, Oregon) is a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Oregon and represents its, which covers more than two-thirds of the state (generally, east of the Cascades.) Walden earned a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Oregon in 1981. He is the son of Paul E. Walden, three-term Oregon state representative. Walden and his wife, Mylene, live in Hood River with their son Anthony. - Harold Brown
Harold Brown was born on September 19, 1927, in New York City. He received three degrees, among them a Ph.D. (1949) in physics from Columbia University. Brown was a research scientist at the University of California Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, then at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at Livermore, CA; he became director of the Lawrence lab in 1960. Brown was senior adviser at the Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Tests (1958-1959). - David Newman
David Gerald Newman (born August 18, 1944) is a politician in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1995 to 1999, and was a cabinet minister under Gary Filmon from 1997 to 1999. In 2000, he made an unsuccessful bid for the Canadian House of Commons in Winnipeg South Centre. Newman was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and educated at the University of Manitoba and Dalhousie University, … - Bill Brooks
Bill Brooks is a Canadian politician who is the Liberal Party of Canada Candidate in Langley - Election 2006. Education: Post-graduate diploma in Community Education from Mohawk College in Ontario, Certificate in Marketing from Brock University Profession: Business person Career Background: Managing partner of Big Board Marketing Inc. Was an Aquatics Director in Toronto with the YMCA, and then Director of Community and International Development in St. Catherine's. - Karen Handel
Karen Handel is an American politician in the state of Georgia. She is a Republican currently serving as Secretary of State of Georgia. Her previous office was as Chairman of the Fulton County Commission. Prior to her elective office, Handel served as Deputy Chief of Staff to Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue. - Charles Turner
Charles Turner (born 1907 - died 1977) was an English composer and part-time spy, who took the last recorded British pre-World War Two photographs of Adolf Hitler. Born in the early 1900s, Turner life changed when his father died and his mother became a good friend of the Duke of Newcastle, who took care of the young boy. Turner resultantly attended public school, and latterly the University of Cambridge, where he became a noted composer and fluent German speaker. - Jack Horner
Gordon John "Jack" Horner (1912-January 10, 2005) was a noted sports journalist who worked in the Minneapolis-St. Paul market of Minnesota. He participated in the first modern television broadcasts of KSTP-TV channel 5, appearing on the first fully electronic telecast in the state on December 7, 1947 (others had appeared on the mechanical TV station W9XAT in the 1930s). When the station began regular broadcasts in April 1948, … - Ed Jew
Edmund "Ed" Jew is a third generation San Franciscan and a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors representing District 4, which comprises most of the Sunset District. His grandfather emigrated from China around the turn of the century. By 1927, his grandfather James Jew had established the well known Canton Flower Shop in Chinatown and became a distinguished leader in the Chinese community. - Len Taylor
Leonard William (Len) Taylor (born January 16 1952) is a Canadian politician. He has been Saskatchewan's Minister of Health since February 2006, and was previously Government House Leader in the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party (NDP) government. Taylor was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan in 2003, and was named to cabinet following the election as Minister of Government Relations. From 2000 to 2003, he served on the North Battleford, … - Craig Shirley
Craig Shirley is President and CEO of Shirley & Banister Public Affairs, the public relations, marketing, and government affairs firm he originally founded in 1984. The firm has become internationally recognized over the years among public opinion leaders and the national media with clients such as the Allied Pilots Association, Crown Publishing, Northpoint Technology, Simon and Schuster Publishing, Westinghouse, the Orphan Foundation of America, Freedom Alliance, … - John Kamm
John Kamm is an American businessman and Human Rights activist. The former head of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, he is credited with helping some 400 Chinese political prisoners. - Leonard Read
Leonard E. Read (September 26, 1898 - May 14, 1983) was the founder of the Foundation for Economic Education, which was the first modern libertarian think tank in the United States. After a stint in the United States Army Air Service during World War I, Read started a grocery wholesale business in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which was initially successful but eventually went out of business. - Brian Pallister
Brian William Pallister is a Canadian politician. He has represented the riding of Portage—Lisgar in the Canadian House of Commons since 2000. He previously served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1992 to 1997, and was a cabinet minister in the provincial government of Gary Filmon. Pallister is a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. - George Hooks
Senator George Hooks of Americus, Georgia was first elected to the Georgia State Senate from south Georgia's 14th District in 1990 and is one of the State Senate's most influential members. - Christian Paradis
Christian Paradis, PC, MP (born January 1, 1974 in Thetford Mines, Quebec) is the Conservative Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons for Mégantic—L'Érable. He was first elected in the 2006 federal election and served as parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Natural Resources until January 4th, 2007, when he was appointed Secretary of State for agriculture. - Dan Daniel
Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel (May 12, 1914 - January 23, 1988) was a U.S. Representative from Virginia, USA. Born in Chatham, Virginia, Daniel grew up on a tobacco farm in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. He was educated in Virginia schools, and was a graduate of Dan River Textile School, Danville, Virginia. Danville, on the Dan River, was at the time a centre for the tobacco and textile industries. The name of the school references the textile industry, … - John McGraw
John Harte McGraw (Born Penobscot County, Maine October 4, 1850 - June 23, 1910) was the second governor of Washington state. He served as Republican Governor January 9, 1893 - January 11, 1897. Previously he was Sheriff of King County, Washington. McGraw, a law graduate, had also been President of Seattle First National Bank and Seattle Chamber of Commerce. After leaving office, he made money during the Klondike Gold Rush, … - Raymond Bachand
Raymond Bachand is a politician, a businessman and a lawyer in Quebec, Canada. He is the Member of the National Assembly of Quebec (MNA) for the riding of Outremont, and a member of the Quebec Liberal Party caucus. He is also the current minister of economic development of innovation and export trade in the cabinet of Premier of Quebec Jean Charest. Bachand was educated at the Collège Stanislas, a somewhat prestigious Roman Catholic private school. - Ron Irwin
Ronald A. Irwin, PC, CM, QC, LL.B (born October 29 1936) is a Canadian diplomat and former politician. Born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Irwin earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Western Ontario and a law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School of York University. While at the University of Western Ontario he joined The Delta Upsilon Fraternity. From 1972 to 1974, he was mayor of Sault Ste. Marie. He has also served as a school trustee, … - David O. McKay
David Oman McKay (September 8, 1873 - January 18, 1970) was the ninth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ("LDS Church"; see also Mormon), serving from 1951 until his death in 1970. Ordained an Apostle and member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1906, he was a General Authority for nearly sixty-four years, longer than anyone else in LDS Church history. - Arlene McCarthy
Arlene McCarthy (born October 10, 1960, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a Member of the European Parliament for North West England for the Labour Party. She has been a member of the European Parliament since 1994. She used to work at Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council. - Thomas Mooney
Thomas Joseph Mooney was an American labor leader in San Francisco, who famously spent 22½ years in prison for a crime he did not commit, the Preparedness Day Bombing of 1916. - Kim Craitor
Kim Craitor is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a current member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the constituency of Niagara Falls for the Ontario Liberal Party. Craitor worked in human resource development before entering politics. He was Executive Director of the Niagara Falls Employment Health Centre, and was a Human Relations Officer and Investigation and Control Officer at Human Resources Development Canada for twenty-six years. - Diane Harkey
Diane Harkey was a Republican candidate for California's 35th State Senate district. Then-Assemblyman Tom Harman defeated Harkey for the Republican nomination by 236 votes and went on to win the general election by 44,000 votes. This was one of the closest California State Senate races in history. She is currently a Dana Point City Councilwoman and Director of the San Joaquin Hills Transportation Corridor Agency. - Richard Kline
Richard Kline is a University of Virginia graduate, entrepreneur, Virginia Beach businessman and civic leader. After graduating from the University of Virginia, Kline was accepted into the General Motors Institute (now known as Kettering University) in Flint, Michigan. In 1964, he started his company, RK Chevrolet, also known as RK Auto, becoming one of the country’s youngest Chevrolet dealers. - Eric Walters
Eric Walters is one of Canada's leading authors of young adult fiction, and the only three-time winner of the Silver Birch Award (a children's book award in the province of Ontario, created in 1994 by the Ontario Library Association). He was born in Toronto raised up in Toronto’s west end, which is a rather poor section of Toronto. When Eric was about 10 to 15-years-old, he wanted to be a teacher; at the time there were few jobs for teachers, … - Bailey Gatzert
Bailey Gatzert was the eighth mayor of Seattle, Washington, serving from 1875 to 1876. He was the first Jewish mayor of Seattle, narrowly missing being the first Jewish mayor of a major American city (Moses Bloom became mayor of Iowa City, Iowa, in 1873), and has been the only Jewish mayor of Seattle to date. Gatzert was born in 1829 in Darmstadt, Germany, and emigrated to Natchez, Mississippi, in 1849, coming west four years later. - Li Ruihuan
Lǐ Ruìhuán was a politician active late 20th century and early 21st century in the People's Republic of China. Li was a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of 15th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China until November 2002. He served as Chairman of the 9th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) until March 2003. A native of Baodi County, Tianjin, and originally a carpenter, … - Donald Fowler
Donald L. Fowler served as national chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1995 to 1997. Fowler is a white, moderate Democrat from South Carolina. Prior to the 1984 Democratic National Convention, he was appointed by party chairman Paul Kirk to chair the "Fairness Commission," one of many Democratic commissions created to reform the presidential nomination process. Fowler's Fairness Commission banned winner-take-all districts in primaries and caucuses, … - Tommy Kilby
Tommy Kilby, born January 27, 1964, is a Tennessee politician and a member of the Tennessee Senate for the 12th district, which encompasses Campbell, Fentress, Morgan, Rhea, Roane, and Scott counties. He has served as a state senator since the 103rd General Assembly. He is vice-chair of the Senate Transportation Committee and serves as chairman of the Senate Environment, Conservation, and Tourism committee. - William Shepherd
William Stanley Shepherd (12 March 1910 - 11 October 2002) was a British Conservative politician. Shepherd was educated at Crewe and worked as a manufacturing chemist and company director and director of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce. He served with the army in France, Belgium and the Netherlands during World War II, reaching the rank of Lieutenant. Shepherd was elected Member of Parliament for Bucklow at the 1945 general election and for Cheadle from 1950 until 1966, … - Muriel Newman
Dr. Muriel Newman (born 6 April 1950) was a New Zealand politician. Despite her current absence from Parliament, she is the deputy leader of the ACT New Zealand parliamentary party. Newman was born in northern England, but arrived in New Zealand at the age of eight. She was raised in Whangarei. She gained a BSc in mathematics from Auckland University, and then a Ph.D. in mathematics education from Rutgers University in the United States. - Merrilee Boyack
Merrilee Boyack is a published author, professional lecturer, and Poway, California city councilwoman. She is vice-president of her local chapter of Mothers Without Borders and national board member, community chairman of the Boys and Girls Club of Poway, Rotary and Poway Chamber of Commerce member, and a community activist. She was recently named Woman of the Year for her Assembly District. - George Wuerch
George P. Wuerch (born ca. 1936 in Tacoma, Washington) is an American politician and a member of the Republican Party. He served as mayor of Anchorage, Alaska from 2000 to 2003. In the 2003 mayor election, he was defeated for reelection by former city assemblyman Mark Begich. Before this, Wuerch was chair of the Anchorage Assembly and chair of the board of directors for the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce. - Stephen Crabb
Stephen Crabb (born January 20, 1973) is a British politician. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Preseli Pembrokeshire. Stephen Crabb was born in Inverness and brought up in council housing in Pembrokeshire. He was educated at the Tasker Milward School in Haverfordwest. He was awarded a Bachelor of Science at the University of Bristol and a Master of Business Administration from the London Business School. - George Burnham
George Burnham (December 28, 1868-June 28, 1939) was a banker and Republican politician from San Diego, California. Burnham was born 1868 in London, England to James and Maria Ann Burnham. He immigrated in 1881 to the United States with his parents, who settled in Spring Valley, Minnesota. He attended public schools in London and Minnesota. Burnham worked as a clerk 1884-1886, then moved to Jackson, Minnesota in 1887 where he entered the retail shoe business. - James P. Cain
Ambassador Cain is a native North Carolinian. He did his undergraduate work and earned a law degree from Wake Forest University. He was with the international law firm of Kilpatrick Stockton for 20 years, co-founding the firmys Research Triangle office in 1985.
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