- Francine Busby
Francine Pocino Busby (born March 3, 1951) was the Democratic candidate in the 2006 General Election for California's 50th congressional district in northwest San Diego County. Her Republican opponent is Brian Bilbray, who narrowly defeated her in the June 6, 2006 Special Election to fill the vacancy in the same district caused by the resignation of Randy "Duke" Cunningham. She lost again to Bilbray in the regular election, receiving 43% to Bilbray's 53%.
- Johnnie Byrd
Johnnie Byrd (b. 1951) was a member of the Florida House of Representatives from District 62, 1996-2004. He was speaker of the House from 2002-2004. Prior public service included a stint as a school board member of the Brewton City School System in Brewton, Alabama. He moved to Florida in 1988. Byrd made an unsuccessful run for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by retiring Senator Bob Graham in 2004 as a Republican candidate.
- Charles Boustany
Charles William Boustany Jr. (born February 21, 1956) represents Louisiana's historically Democratic 7th Congressional District (map) as a Republican since 2004. Boustany (pronounced boo-STAN-ie) won an open race in 2004, when Christopher "Chris" John, the incumbent Democrat, did not seek re-election in order to run for the U.S. Senate. Boustany, two Democrats and another Republican, David Thibodaux (1953–2007), a member of the Lafayette Parish School Board, …
- Shelley Carroll
Shelley Carroll is a city councillor in Toronto, Canada. She represents Ward 33 Don Valley East, one of the two Don Valley East wards. She is also currently serving as the Chairperson of the Budget Committee. Originally the operator of a day care centre, she first rose to prominence as head of the North York Parent Assembly and then the Toronto Educational Assembly. Both groups pushed for more funding to public education, …
- Stephnie Payne
Stephnie Payne is a longtime school board trustee and community activist in Toronto, Ontario. She ran as a candidate for the Ontario New Democratic Party in the 1999 provincial election in York West. Payne is currently head of the San Romano Way Revitalization, a community based organization in the Jane and Finch community.
- John Filion
John Filion (born 1950) is a Toronto city councillor representing one of the two Willowdale wards, Ward 23 Willowdale. Filion attended York University and he graduated with a degree in journalism. He became a journalist specializing in education issues. He was the founding editor of the "Canadian World Almanac." He first entered politics as a trustee on the North York Board of Education to which he was elected in 1981.
- William Lehman
William Lehman was a United States Representative from Florida. Born in Selma, Alabama, he graduated from Dallas Academy and Selma High School, 1930. He received a B.S. from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in 1934 and attended Oxford University in 1965. He was an auto dealer and a teacher at Miami Norland Junior High School in Miami, Florida in 1963–1964, and was an instructor at Miami Dade Junior College in 1965–1966.
- Malcolm Ross
Malcolm Ross (born 1946) is a former schoolteacher from the Canadian city of Moncton, who became notable for his anti-Semitic writings, including Holocaust denial. In 1991, a local Jewish parent, David Attis, filed a human rights complaint against Ross's employers, New Brunswick School District 15, on the grounds that Ross's continued employment created a poisoned environment for Jewish students (including Attis's daughter, …
- Phil Hardberger
Phil Hardberger was elected Mayor of San Antonio on June 7, 2005. A veteran public servant, Hardberger was the first Mayor in modern San Antonio history ever to have been elected from outside the City Council. A Texas native, Hardberger served as a captain in the U.S. Air Force where he piloted the B-47 bomber. He then went on to serve as Executive Secretary of the U.S. Peace Corps and as Assistant Director of the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity.
- George Dawson
George Dawson (February 24, 1821 - November 30, 1876), English nonconformist minister, was born in London and educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, and the University of Glasgow.
- Daniel Peterson
Daniel Peterson is a politician and consultant living in Juneau, Alaska. A former member of the Phoenix Program at Juneau-Douglas High School, he decided to continue his planned senior project even after the program was cut for funding. The project involved running a campaign for school board when he became eligible at the start of his last year of high school.
- David Thibodaux
David Glenn Thibodaux (December 1, 1953 - March 24, 2007) was an English professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, a member and officer of the Lafayette Parish School Board, and a four-time conservative Republican candidate for the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana's 7th Congressional District. He was also an author of several books, including "Political Correctness: The Cloning of the American Mind", …
- Dianne Cunningham
Dianne Cunningham is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1988 to 2003, and a cabinet minister in the governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves. Cunningham worked as an elementary school teacher in private life, and entered politics by winning a seat on the London, Ontario school board in 1973.
- Stewart Udall
Stewart was born in St. Johns in far eastern Arizona near the New Mexico line. He grew up as a farm boy, working the horse-drawn plow and cleaning out the irrigation ditch. He'll always have the southwestern high desert country in his blood. When you grow up in a small farming town and you raise your own food, Stewart has said, you are close to the ground, close to the animals: "I grew up in the Colorado plateau and I will love it always."
- Ciro D. Rodriguez
Ciro Davis Rodriguez (born December 9 1946) is a Democratic Congressman who represents Texas's 23rd congressional district. Rodriguez has served in public office for over 30 years, first on a school board, then as a member of the Texas House of Representatives. After leaving Congress in January 2005, he joined with his former chief of staff, Jeff Mendelsohn, to create Rio Strategy Group LLC, a boutique government relations firm to assist clients at the local, …
- Sandra Frankel
Sandra Frankel is the Supervisor of the Town of Brighton, Monroe County, New York. A former school board member, Frankel is a long time town supervisor. In 1998, Frankel won the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor of New York. She lost the general election on a ticket with then New York City Council Speaker Peter Vallone. Republican Mary Donohue won the lieutenant governorship on a ticket with George Pataki.
- Dale Graham
Dale Graham (born in Woodstock, New Brunswick) is a politician in New Brunswick, Canada. He is currently a member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick and was a member of the provincial cabinet from 1999 to 2006. Graham, a small business owner, was involved in local politics at the school board level prior to running in the 1991 provincial election. Graham was defeated by Liberal incumbent Fred Harvey, …
- Jean-Robert Gauthier
Jean-Robert Gauthier, C.M. (born October 22, 1929) is a retired Canadian politician. A chiropractor by training, he entered politics as trustee on a local school board. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons to represent the riding of Ottawa East in the 1972 election as a Liberal Party Member of Parliament. He remained its representative for several decades winning by large majorities each time in the safe Liberal seat.
- Stephen Fournier
Jean-Étienne (Stephen) Fournier was a Canadian politician, who served as the first mayor of Sudbury, Ontario. Born in Trois-Pistoles, Quebec, Fournier worked for the Central Canada Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway in Petawawa before moving to Sudbury, where he became the community's first postmaster, in 1884. In 1885, he established the community's first general store, and was elected reeve of McKim Township. When Sudbury was incorporated as a town in 1893, …
- Ella Mae Morse
Ella Mae Morse was an American popular singer. She was hired by Jimmy Dorsey when she was 14 years old. Dorsey believed she was 19, and when he was informed by the school board that he was now responsible for her care, he fired her. In 1942, at the age of 17, she joined Freddie Slack's band, with whom in the same year she recorded "Cow Cow Boogie" Capitol Records' first gold single. She also originated the wartime hit "Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet", …
- Jacques Chagnon
Jacques Chagnon is a politician in Quebec, Canada. He holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Concordia University and graduate degrees in political science and in Law from the Université de Montréal. He is a former school board commissioner, former president of the Chambly regional school board and the former president of the Fédération des commission scolaires catholiques du Québec. He is currently a member of the National Assembly of Quebec.
- Max T. Malone
Max Tatum Malone (born March 3, 1953) is the president of Malone Oil and Gas Exploration Company in Shreveport and a retiring Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate, in which he has served since 1996. Term-limited in the District 37 seat, which includes portions of Caddo and Bossier parishes in northwestern Louisiana, Malone cannot seek a fourth term in the October 20, 2007, jungle primary.
- Thomas E. Ryan
Thomas E. Ryan is a school superintendent in the Chicago suburb of Sauk Village, Illinois, who has been arrested and accused of embezzlement. He is accused of stealing $70,000 to pay for his daughters' college tuition, and of giving almost $2,000 in gifts to them, using money from the school district he supervised. News of his arrest resulted in protests demanding the dismissal of the entire Sauk Village School Board.
- B.L. Shaw
B.L. "Buddy" Shaw (born September 6, 1933) is a retired educator and a former member of both the Caddo Parish School Board and the Louisiana House of Representatives. A Republican, Shaw held the District 6 state House seat, which includes south and southeast Shreveport, from 1996-2004. Renowned for his constitutent service, Shaw did not seek reelection to a third term in the 2003 jungle primary, …
- Lyle Williams
Lyle Williams (born August 23 1942) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born in Philippi, West Virginia, Williams attended the public schools of North Bloomfield, Ohio. He served in the United States Army Reserve from 1960 to 1968, and then worked as a barber. He was a member of the Bloomfield local school board from 1970 to 1972, and then Trumbull County Commissioner from 1972 to 1976.
- Dud Lastrapes
William Dudley "Dud" Lastrapes, Jr. (born 1929), is a Lafayette, Louisiana, businessman, who was the first Republican since Reconstruction to have been elected mayor of his city, the fourth largest in the state, according to the 2000 census. Lastrapes (pronounced LA STRAPS) was mayor for three terms, having served from from 1980-1992. Previously, he was a member of the Lafayette Parish School Board from 1972-1980.
- Elizabeth Shaughnessy
Elizabeth Shaughnessy is a citizen of Ireland who plays regularly on the Irish National Team in the World Chess Olympiad. She has resided in Berkeley, California, in the United States for more than 30 years. Shaughnessy runs the Berkeley Chess School which teaches chess and hold chess camps in the Summer. Shaughnessy was twice elected to the Berkeley School Board.
- François Ouimet
François Ouimet is a Quebec politician and lawyer. He is the current Member of National Assembly for the riding of Marquette in Montreal. He represents the Quebec Liberal Party. Ouimet went at the Université de Montréal and obtained a bachelor's degree in literature and Canadian literature. He also received a bachelor's degree in civil law and Common law at McGill University. In 1989 he was admitted to the Quebec Bar, the Canadian Bar and the Montreal Bar.
- François Gendron
François Gendron is a politician and teacher in Quebec, Canada. He is the current Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Abitibi-Ouest. He represents the Parti Québécois since 1976. Gendron went to the Université Laval and obtained diplomas in pedagogy and administration. He was then a teacher at Cité Étudiante Polyno in La Sarre a coordinator at the Commission scolaire Lalonde and an education councilor.
- Francis C. Thompson
Francis Coleman Thompson (born October 29, 1941) is a wealthy developer from Delhi in Richland Parish, Louisiana, USA, and a senior Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, who has served continuously since 1975. Because of state term limits, he is ineligible to seek a ninth four-year term in the jungle primary pending on October 20, 2007. In addition to his own Richland Parish, Thompson represents all or portions of the parishes of East Carroll, …
- Jamie Lim
Victor Lim (born in Chicago, IL) on February 12, 1993. He was educated at the [[Conant High School]. This outstanding student is active in Cross-Country, Swimming, Water polo, and Band. For more information about Mr. Lim, visit Mr. Lim's [www.facebook.com] and simply use the search engine and type in Victor Lim. He was Timmins' first female mayor. Furthermore, she was elected 3rd Vice President of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.
- Sonia Yaco
Sonia Yaco was the 1972 Human Rights Party candidate for the Ann Arbor, Michigan school board. When she ran for office at the age of 15 she became the youngest documented candidate ever for a publicly elected school board seat in the United States.
- Lorraine Richard
Lorraine Richard is a Quebec politician. She is the current Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Duplessis in the Cote-Nord region. She represents the Parti Quebecois. Richard was a nursing assistant in a health center in Havre St-Pierre for 25 years in which she was also the secretary for the Minganie Health Center's union group. She was also a school commissioner for 16 years, the Vice-president of the Côte-Nord School Boards Association for 5 years.
- E. B. Farnum
Ethan Bennett Farnum (born November 10, 1826 in Cheshire, Massachusetts) was one of the first residents of Deadwood, South Dakota who was not a miner or prospector; he was the owner of a general store. Farnum was married to Mary Farnum with three children, Sylvia, age 16, Edward, age 12, and Lyde, age 2 when he arrived in Deadwood. Farnum came to Deadwood from Wisconsin and opened his store in 1876, acquired other Main Street properties, …
- Luc Ferland
Luc Ferland is a Quebec politician. He is the current Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Ungava in Nord-du-Québec. He represents the Parti Quebecois. Ferland went the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Temiscamingue and obtained a degree in animation and also studied at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi in project management. He was the political aide of outgoing MNA Michel Létourneau.
- Pierre Philion
Pierre Philion is a Quebec politician in the city of Gatineau, Quebec. He is the councillor for the district of St-Raymond-Vanier in the Hull sector of the city. Prior to his political career, Philion occupied several professional positions. He was previously a member of Hull's Commission Scolaire Outaouais-Hull (now Commission Scolaire des Portages-de-l'OutaouaisPortages de l'Outaouais) school board. He also worked at E.B. Eddy's mill and was also an insurance agent.
- George Furey
George Furey, QC, BA, MEd, LLB (born May 12, 1948 in St. John's, Newfoundland) is a Canadian Senator representing Newfoundland and Labrador. Furey worked as a teacher for the Roman Catholic School Board in St. John's from 1969 to 1972. From 1972 to 1978, he was a Supervising Vice Principal with the Port-au-Port Roman Catholic School Board and from 1978-80 Supervising Principal of the Placentia-St. Mary's Roman Catholic School Board.
- Joseph Zuken
Joseph (Joe) Zuken (1912 - 1986) was a popular Communist politician in Winnipeg and the longest serving elected Communist party politician in North America. Joe Zuken's family immigrated to Canada from the Ukraine when he was still an infant. Raised in a secular Jewish environment in Winnipeg's working class North End he was educated at a secular Yiddish school in a socialist environment.
- Alexis Wawanoloath
Alexis Wawanoloath is a Quebec politician. He is the current Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Abitibi-Est. He as an MNA member for the Parti Quebecois. He is a member of the Abenaki First Nation. After studing at Cégep de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Wawanoloath worked as a technician in social work at the l'Or-et-des-Bois School Board, an educator at a child daycare centre and a host for the Centre polyvalent pour jeunes autochtones in Val d'Or.
- J.E. Sherrill
J. E. Sherrill, Jr. (October 10, 1925 - February 4, 2007), was a public official in Bovina, a small city in Parmer County in the Texas Panhandle. He was an alderman, mayor, school board member, and municipal judge, having served in the last position from 1997 until his death. He was mayor for two two-year terms under the traditional mayor-council system from April 1956 to April 1960, well before Bovina adopted the city manager form of government in 1976.