- John Engler
John Mathias Engler (born October 12, 1948) is an American politician. He served as a Republican governor of Michigan from 1991 to 2003. Engler, a Roman Catholic, was born in Mount Pleasant and grew up on a cattle farm in Beal City. He attended Michigan State University, where he was chairman of the College Republicans. In 1971 he graduated with a degree in agricultural economics and was elected as a State Representative at the age of 23. - Brian Leiter
Brian Leiter (born 1963) is an American professor of law and philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has been teaching since 1995. Before this he taught for two years in the law school at the University of San Diego, and was also a visiting professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Princeton University and both his J.D. and Ph.D. (in philosophy) from the University of Michigan. - Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist , Attorney General (State of Florida) - Bob Taft
Robert Alphonso "Bob" Taft II (born January 8, 1942) is an American Republican politician. He was elected to two terms of office as the Governor of the U.S. state of Ohio between 1999-2007. Taft will work for the University of Dayton beginning August 15 2007. - Ed Rendell
Governor Ed Rendell, Governor’s Office, State Capitol, Harrisburg, PA 17101 - Janet Napolitano
Janet Napolitano, elected governor that fall, made the newspaper's mission her own. Fixing CPS, she announced, would be one of her top priorities. Children needed to be protected. - Charlie Rose
Charles Grandison (Charlie) Rose III (born August 10 1939) was a Democratic United States Congressman who served from 1973 to 1997. Rose was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He attended Davidson College, earning his LL.B., and he received his Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For several years, Rose practiced as a lawyer, and in 1970, he became a prosecutor for Raleigh district courts. - David Paterson
David A. Paterson (born May 20, 1954) is an American politician and the current Lieutenant Governor of New York. He is the first African American to hold this position. He was selected as running mate by New York Attorney General and Democratic Party nominee Eliot Spitzer in the 2006 New York gubernatorial election. Paterson was born legally blind in Brooklyn in 1954. He received a BA from Columbia University in 1977 and later his law degree from Hofstra Law School. - David Brown
David Brown is a lawyer, radio personality and journalist who hosted the nationally syndicated "Marketplace" radio program from American Public Media from September, 2003 to August, 2005. Prior to becoming host of that program, David Brown was one of its senior producers. Before joining the "Marketplac"e team, Brown worked in several roles including reporter and producer for The Christian Science Monitor newspaper's "Monitor Radio" service. - 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. - Bill Nelson
Clarence William "Bill" Nelson is the senior U.S. Senator from Florida. Nelson is a Democrat. Nelson became the second sitting member of the United States Congress to fly in space when he flew aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia as a Payload Specialist during NASA mission STS-61-C (January 12–18, 1986). - Mike Dewine
Richard Michael "Mike" DeWine (born January 5, 1947) is a former senator from Ohio. Born in Springfield, Ohio to Jean and Richard L. DeWine, DeWine grew up in neighboring Yellow Springs, OH. DeWine earned a bachelor's degree in education from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, in 1969 and a Juris Doctor degree from Ohio Northern University in 1972. He and his wife Frances have had eight children, one of whom died in a car accident in 1993. - Warren Brown
Warren Brown is the host of the Food Network show, Sugar Rush. He was a lawyer until he decided to become a pastry chef, and is the founder and owner of bakery CakeLove and Love Café in Washington, DC and attended Brown University and The George Washington University Law School. - Catherine Crier
An Emmy Award-winning journalist and the youngest state judge to ever be elected in Texas, Catherine Crier joined Court TV's distinguished team of anchors in November 1999. She was recently named the Executive Editor, Legal News Specials, in addition to hosting Catherine Crier Live. Crier, a Texas-bred independent with a passion for justice, debates with her guests the provocative topics of the day. - Joe Brown
Judge Joe Brown was born July 5, 1947 in Washington, DC and raised in Los Angeles, CA. He earned a bachelors in political science and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree at UCLA, before moving to Memphis, Tennessee in 1974. Joe Brown became the first African American prosecutor in the City of Memphis. He would later open his own law practice before becoming a Judge on the State Criminal Court of Shelby County, Tennessee. - Robert Martin
Robert J. Martin (born January 13, 1947) is an American Republican Party politician, who has served as a member of the New Jersey State Senate since 1993, where he represents the 26th Legislative District. Before entering the Senate, Martin served in the United States Army as a First Lieutenant (1969-1971). Martin served in the New Jersey General Assembly, the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature, from 1985 to 1993, … - Tim Johnson
Timothy Peter Johnson (born December 28 1946) is the senior United States Senator from South Dakota, and a member of the Democratic Party. He was the subject of national attention in December 2006 when his ill health raised the possibility that, were he to die, the South Dakota governor might appoint a Republican to fill his seat, thus returning the Senate to Republican control after elections which had given the Democratic Party a slim majority. - Dave Freudenthal
David Duane "Dave" Freudenthal (born October 12, 1950) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Wyoming. A Democrat, Freudenthal is currently the governor of Wyoming, having been re-elected to a second term on 7 November, 2006. Freudenthal was born in Thermopolis, Wyoming, the seventh of eight children, and grew up on a farm north of town. He graduated from Amherst College in 1973 with a bachelor's degree in economics. - Robert Jordan
Robert Jordan is a lawyer who served as the United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Jordan received his A.B. degree from Duke University in 1967, his M.A. from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1971, and his J.D. from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 1974. Jordan was a partner in the Dallas, Texas office of Baker Botts, the law firm of James Baker. - Zoe Lofgren
Zoe Lofgren (born Sue Lofgren on December 21 1947), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1995, representing the 16th District of California (map), based in San Jose. A lifelong Bay Area resident, Lofgren attended Gunn High School in Palo Alto, earned her B.A. at Stanford University and a J.D. at Santa Clara University. She left the San Jose area for a few years after graduation from Stanford, … - William M. Daley
William Michael Daley (born 1948) served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce and is a business executive. William Daley was born in Chicago, Illinois, on August 8, 1948. In his spare time as a teenager and young adult, he liked to play the trombone in a New Jersey-based ska-punk-reggae band, Drive-Thru Pharmacy. He graduated with a B.A. from Loyola University Chicago, and an LL.B. (later amended to Juris Doctor) from John Marshall Law School. - Bob Goodlatte
Robert William "Bob" Goodlatte (born September 22 1952) is a Republican U.S. Representative from Virginia. He serves as the congressman for the 6th District. Born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Goodlatte received a B.A. from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine in 1974. He also holds a Juris Doctor from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, which he earned in 1977. - Barbara Olson
Barbara Olson (December 27, 1955 - September 11, 2001) was a conservative American television commentator who worked for Fox News Channel, CNN and several other outlets. She was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77 when it was flown into the Pentagon in the September 11, 2001 attacks. Olson was born Barbara Kay Bracher in Houston, Texas. - Linda Sánchez
Linda T. Sánchez, an American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, representing the 39th District of California (map). She was born in Orange, California, earned her BA in Spanish in 1991 at the University of California, Berkeley and in 1995 her Juris Doctor degree at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was an editor of the Chicano-Latino Law Review. - Bill Kurtis
Bill Kurtis (born September 21, 1940) is a television journalist and producer best known as the host of numerous A&E crime and news documentary shows, including "Investigative Reports", "American Justice", and "Cold Case Files". Previously he anchored "The CBS Morning News" and was a popular news anchor of the CBS affiliate in Chicago. - John Carter
John Rodr Carter (born November 6 1941) is the Republican United States Congressional Representative from (map). Carter was born in Houston, but has spent most of his life in central Texas. Since 1971, he has lived in Round Rock, a suburb of Austin. He has been married to Erika Carter for almost 40 years, and they have four grown children. Carter graduated from Texas Tech University with a degree in history in 1964, … - Lloyd Doggett
Lloyd Alton Doggett II (born October 6, 1946), American politician, is a Democratic politician from Texas. He has represented a district based in the state capital, Austin, since 1995. It is currently numbered as the 25th Congressional district but was numbered as the 10th Congressional district from 1995 to 2005. - Stephen M. Ross
New York City-based real estate developer Stephen M. Ross is founder, chairman and CEO of The Related Companies, L.P. (TRC) The developer of numerous high-profile projects in New York City and around the nation, TRC is best known for its historic 2.8 million-square-foot $1,700,000,000 Time Warner Center, which has transformed Columbus Circle into one of New York’s premier destinations. - Roy Black
Roy Black (born February 17, 1945 in New York City) is a criminal defense attorney. He is best known for his gaining an acquittal, in 1991, of William Kennedy Smith on charges of rape and for his representation of conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh on charges related to Limbaugh's alleged misuse of OxyContin, a pharmaceutical opioid. - George P. Bush
George Prescott Bush (born April 24,1976), is the eldest of three children of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and his wife Columba. He is the nephew of the President George W. Bush and the grandson of former President George H. W. Bush. His mother, Columba Garnica Gallo, was born in Mexico, and his heritage has made him a popular figure with Hispanic voters. - Debra Bowen
Debra Bowen is a California politician from the Democratic Party. She has been California Secretary of State since January 8 2007. Prior to becoming Secretary of State, she was a member of the California State Legislature from 1992–2006. Bowen was born and raised in Rockford, Illinois. She received her bachelor's degree in 1976 from Michigan State University, and her Juris Doctor in 1979 from the University of Virginia School of Law. - Louie Gohmert
Louis Buller "Louie" Gohmert, Jr. (born August 18, 1953, in Pittsburg, Texas), is an American politician and current Republican U.S. Representative from Texas's 1st district(map). Gohmert received his B.A. from Texas A&M University in 1975. At A&M, he was a Brigade Commander of the Corps of Cadets. He later received his Juris Doctor from Baylor University in 1977. Gohmert served in the Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Army, at Fort Benning, Georgia, from 1978 to 1982. - Peter Fitzgerald
Peter G. Fitzgerald (born October 20, 1960) was the junior United States Senator from Illinois from 1999 until 2005. He is a member of the Republican Party. He previously served in the Illinois State Senate from 1992 to 1998, where he was a member of the 'Fab Five' group of conservative state senators who often challenged the leadership of the Illinois Republican party. The group also included Steve Rauschenberger, Dave Syverson, Patrick O'Malley, and Chris Lauzen. - Rodney E. Slater
Rodney Earl Slater (born in Marianna, Arkansas on February 23, 1955) was the United States Secretary of Transportation under U. S. President Bill Clinton. Slater graduated from Eastern Michigan University in 1977, and received his Juris Doctor degree from The University of Arkansas in 1980. Slater became an assistant attorney general for the state of Arkansas in 1980. He was appointed to several state government positions in Arkansas by Bill Clinton, … - Tom Udall
Thomas Stewart Udall usually called Tom Udall (born May 18, 1948) is an American politician who has represented as a member of the United States House of Representatives since 1999. Tom Udall was born in Tucson, Arizona. He attended Prescott College, graduating with a pre-law degree in 1970. In 1975, he graduated from Cambridge University in England with a Bachelor of Law degree. - Bob Livingston
Robert Linlithgow Livingston, Jr., better known as Bob Livingston (born April 30, 1943), is a Washington, D.C.-based lobbyist and a former Republican U.S. Representative from Louisiana. He is best known for being chosen as Newt Gingrich's successor as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives late in 1998, only to resign in the wake of a sex scandal. Livingston was born in Colorado Springs, but spent most of his youth in New Orleans. - 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. - Charlie Gonzalez
Charles A. "Charlie" Gonzalez (born May 5, 1945), is a Democratic politician from Texas. He has represented the state's 20th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1999. The district includes more than half of San Antonio. Gonzalez was born in San Antonio, Texas. His father, Henry B. Gonzalez, represented the 20th from 1961 until his son took over in 1999. Charlie graduated from Thomas A. Edison High School. - Kwame Kilpatrick
Kwame M. Kilpatrick (born June 8, 1970) is the mayor of Detroit, Michigan. Elected at age 31, he is the youngest mayor in the history of Detroit, as well as the second youngest current mayor of any major U.S. city. Kilpatrick briefly addressed the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Prior to defeating City Council President Gil Hill (former Detroit police detective who also appeared in the Beverly Hills Cop films) in the 2001 mayoral election, … - Ted Poe
Ted Poe (born September 10, 1948) is a Republican politician and jurist currently representing Texas's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. (map).
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