- Joe Biden
Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. (born 20 November 1942) is an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, Delaware. He is a member of the Democratic Party and the incumbent senior U.S. Senator from Delaware. Biden is currently serving his sixth term and is Delaware's longest-serving Senator. He is the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in the 110th Congress. Biden has served in that position in the past, … - Thomas R. Carper
Thomas Richard "Tom" Carper (born January 23 1947) is an American economist and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He is a veteran of the Vietnam War, a member of the Democratic Party, a five-term U. S. Representative from Delaware, a two-term Governor of Delaware, and currently the junior U.S. Senator from Delaware. He was elected to a second term in 2006. - Michael N. Castle
Michael Newbold "Mike" Castle (born July 2 1939) is an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He is a member of the Republican Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly, as Lieutenant Governor of Delaware, two terms as Governor of Delaware, and is the incumbent U.S. Representative from Delaware, serving his eighth term. - John Dickinson
John Dickinson (November 2 1732 - February 14 1808) was an American lawyer and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Wilmington, Delaware. He was a milita officer during the American Revolution, a Continental Congressman from Pennsylvania and Delaware, a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, President of Delaware, and President of Pennsylvania. Among the wealthiest men in the British American colonies, … - Beau Biden
Joseph Robinette "Beau" Biden III (born February 3, 1969) is an American politician and lawyer from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He is a member of the Democratic Party and is the incumbent Attorney General of Delaware. He is the son of U.S. Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. - James A. Bayard
James Asheton Bayard (July 28 1767 - August 6 1815) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County Delaware. He was a member of the Federalist Party, who served as U.S. Representative from Delaware and U.S. Senator from Delaware. - Harry G. Haskell Jr.
Harry Garner Haskell, Jr. (born May 27 1921) is an American businessman and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He is a member of the Republican Party, who served as U.S. Representative from Delaware. - Thomas F. Bayard
Thomas Francis Bayard (October 29 1828 - September 29 1898) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, who served three terms as U.S. Senator from Delaware, and as U.S. Secretary of State, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom. He was considered a prominent Bourbon Democrat. - Gunning Bedford Jr.
Gunning Bedford, Jr. (1747 - March 30 1812) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, Delaware, who served as a Continental Congressman from Delaware and as a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787. He is often confused with Gunning Bedford, Sr. (1742-1797), an officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution and Governor of Delaware. Bedford graudated from the College of New Jersey, (now Princeton). - George Gray
George Gray (May 4 1840 - August 7 1925) was an American lawyer, judge, and politician from New Castle, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, who served as U.S. Senator from Delaware and Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. - Howard Pyle
Howard Pyle was an American illustrator and writer, primarily of books for young audiences. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy. In 1894 he began teaching illustration at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry (now Drexel University), and after 1900 he founded his own school of art and illustration (later called the Brandywine School). Some of his more famous students were Olive Rush, N. C. Wyeth, … - James A. Bayard Jr.
James Asheton Bayard, Jr. (November 15 1799 - June 13 1880) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, who served as U.S. Senator from Delaware. - Stephen Marley
Stephen Robert Nesta "Raggamuffin" Marley (born April 20, 1972) in Wilmington, Delaware, is a Jamaican musician and the son of reggae legend Bob Marley and Rita Marley. - Caesar A. Rodney
Caesar Augustus Rodney (January 4 1772 - June 10 1824) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly, as U.S. Representative from Delaware U.S. Senator from Delaware U.S. Attorney General and U.S. Minister to Argentina. - Thomas F. Bayard Jr.
Thomas Francis Bayard, Jr. (June 4 1868 - July 12 1942) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, who served two terms as U.S. Senator from Delaware. - Marshall Kirk McKusick
Marshall Kirk McKusick (b. January 19, 1954 in Wilmington, Delaware) is a computer scientist, famous for his extensive work on BSD, from the 1980s to FreeBSD in the present day. He was president of the USENIX Association from 1990 to 1992 and again from 2002 to 2004, and still serves on the board. He is also on the editorial board of ACM Queue Magazine. He is known to friends and colleagues as "Kirk". - Ann Althouse
Ann Althouse is an American law professor and blogger. Born in Wilmington, Delaware, Althouse has a degree in fine art from the University of Michigan, B.F.A. 1973, and graduated first in her class from New York University School of Law, J.D. 1981. She clerked for Judge Leonard Sand in the Southern District of New York and practised law in the litigation department of Sullivan & Cromwell. Since 1984 Althouse has taught federal jurisdiction, civil procedure, … - Louis McLane
Louis McLane (May 28 1786 - October 7 1857) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware, and Baltimore, Maryland. He was a veteran of the War of 1812 and a member of the Federalist Party and later the Democratic Party. He served as the U.S. Representative from Delaware, U.S. Senator from Delaware, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. Secretary of State, and President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. - Richard H. Bayard
Richard Henry Bayard (September 26 1796 - March 4 1868) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Whig Party, who served as the first Mayor of Wilmington, Chief Justice of the Delaware Superior Court, and as U.S. Senator from Delaware. - Walter W. Bacon
Walter Wolfkiel Bacon (January 20 1879 - March 18 1962) was an American accountant and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Republican Party who served three terms as Mayor of Wilmington and two terms as Governor of Delaware. - John McKinly
Dr. John McKinly (February 21 1721 - August 21 1796) was an American physician and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a veteran of the French and Indian War, served in the Delaware General Assembly, was the first elected President of Delaware, and for a time was a member of the Federalist Party. - T. Coleman du Pont
Thomas Coleman du Pont (December 11 1863 - November 11 1930) was an American engineer and politician, from Greenville, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was President of the of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, and a member of the Republican Party who served parts of two terms as U. S. Senator from Delaware. He was known by his middle name. - John Wales
John Wales (July 31 1783 - December 3 1863) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Whig Party, who served as U.S. Senator from Delaware. - John Backus
John Warner Backus was an American computer scientist. He led the team that invented the first widely used high-level programming language (FORTRAN) and was the inventor of the Backus-Naur form (BNF), the almost universally used notation to define formal language syntax. He also did research in function-level programming and helped to popularize it. The IEEE awarded Backus the W.W. McDowell Award in 1967 for the development of FORTRAN. - Andrew Shue
Andrew Shue (born February 20, 1967 in Wilmington, Delaware USA) is an actor, perhaps best known for his role on "Melrose Place" (1992-1998). Andrew is the brother of actress Elisabeth Shue. He has been married since 1994 and has two children. - Outerbridge Horsey
Outerbridge Horsey (March 5 1777 - June 9 1842), was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Federalist Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly, as Delaware Attorney General and as United States Senator from Delaware. - Robert Milligan McLane
Robert Milligan McLane (June 23, 1815-April 16, 1898) was an American politician, military officer, and diplomat. He served as Ambassador to Mexico, France, and China, as a member of the House of Representatives from the fourth district of Maryland, as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and as the 39<sup>th</sup> Governor of Maryland. - Bertice Berry
Dr. Bertice Berry (b. 1960) is an American sociologist, author, lecturer, and educator. Berry grew up in Wilmington, Delaware. She graduated magna cum laude from Jacksonville University in Florida, and earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Kent State University in Ohio, at the age of 26. She later worked as an entertainer, lecturer, and comedian. She was the host co-executive producer of her own nationally syndicated talk show, "The Bertice Berry Show", from 1993 to 1994. - Willard Saulsbury Jr.
Willard Saulsbury, Jr. (April 17 1861 - February 20 1927) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party who served as U.S. Senator from Delaware and President "pro tempore" of the U.S. Senate. - George R. Riddle
George Read Riddle (1817 - March 29 1867) was an American engineer lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party who served as U.S. Representative and as U.S. Senator from Delaware. - Daniel O. Hastings
Daniel Oren Hastings (March 5 1874 - May 9 1966) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Republican Party, who served two terms as U.S. Senator from Delaware. - Ti West
Ti West (born October 5, 1980, Wilmington, Delaware) is a film director, best known for his horror work. His credits include the 2001 short "The Wicked", 2005's "The Roost", and the upcoming "Trigger Man" (2007), and "Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever" (2008). - Thomas W. Miller
Thomas Woodnutt Miller (June 26 1886 - May 5 1973) was an American businessman, lawyer and politician, from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware, and Reno, in Washoe County, Nevada. He was a veteran of World War I and a member of the Republican Party, who served as U. S. Representative from Delaware. - Cisco Houston
Gilbert Vandine 'Cisco' Houston was an American folk singer who is closely associated with Woody Guthrie due to their extensive history of recording together. Houston was a regular recording artist for Moses Asch's Folkways recording studio. He also performed with such folk/blues musicians as Leadbelly, Sonny Terry, and the Almanac Singers. - Wilbur L. Adams
Wilbur Louis Adams (October 23 1884 - December 4 1937) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party, who served as U.S. Representative from Delaware. - John C. Carney Jr.
John C. Carney, Jr. (born May 20 1956) is an American politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He is a member of the Democratic Party and is the incumbent Lieutenant Governor of Delaware. He is serving in his second term and is a candidate for Governor of Delaware in 2008. - J. George Stewart
James George Stewart (June 2 1890 - May 24 1970) was an American architect and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Republican Party, who served as U.S. Representative from Delaware and as Architect of the Capitol. He was known by his middle name. - Israel Acrelius
Israel Acrelius (December 4, 1714-April 25, 1800) was a noted Lutheran missionary clergyman. He was born in Oster-Aker, Sweden, in 1714 to Johan and Sara Acrelius. He attended Uppsala University, and was ordained in 1743. He served as the pastor of churches in Riala, Sweden beginning in 1745, leaving to take a similar post in Wilmington, Delaware, beginning in 1749. He served simultaneously as both pastor and provost to the Swedish congregations in New Sweden. - Samuel White
Samuel White (December 1770 - November 4 1809) was an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Federalist Party, who served as U.S. Senator from Delaware. - William H. Heald
William Henry Heald (August 27 1864 - June 3 1939) was an American banker, lawyer and politician, from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Republican Party, who served two terms as U. S. Representative from Delaware.
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