- Will Rogers
William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers (November 4, 1879 - August 15, 1935) was an American comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer, and actor. He has been named Oklahoma's favorite son. - John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy , also referred to as John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, John Kennedy, Jack Kennedy, or JFK, was the thirty-fifth President of the United States. In 1960 he became the youngest person ever to be elected President of the United States, and the second youngest, after Theodore Roosevelt, to serve. Kennedy served from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. - Warren G. Harding
Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 - August 2, 1923) was an American politician and the twenty-ninth President of the United States, from 1921 to 1923, when he became the sixth president to die in office. A Republican from Ohio, Harding was an influential newspaper publisher with a commanding presence and a flair for public speaking. He served in the Ohio Senate (1899-1903) and later as lieutenant governor of Ohio (1903-1905) and as a U.S. Senator (1915-1921). - Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 - December 26, 1972) was the thirty-third President of the United States (1945-1953); as Vice President, he succeeded to the office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. In domestic affairs, Truman faced challenge after challenge: a tumultuous reconversion of the economy marked by severe shortages, numerous strikes, and the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act over his veto. After confounding all predictions to win re-election in 1948, … - Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood (born Clinton Eastwood, Jr. on May 31, 1930) is an American actor, composer, film director and producer. While his recent work as a director, on films like "Million Dollar Baby" and "Letters from Iwo Jima", is consistently praised by critics, Eastwood is perhaps most famous for his tough guy, anti-hero acting roles, … - Bob Dole
Robert Joseph Dole was a United States Senator from Kansas from 1969–1996, serving part of that time as United States Senate Majority Leader. He was the Republican candidate in the 1996 U.S. Presidential election and the Republican vice presidential candidate in the 1976 Presidential election. In 2007, President George W. Bush appointed Dole as a co-chair of the commission to investigate problems at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, along with Donna Shalala. - Earl Warren
Earl Warren (March 19, 1891 - July 9, 1974) was a California district attorney of Alameda County, the 20th Attorney General of California, the 30th Governor of California, and the 14th Chief Justice of the United States (from 1953 to 1969). As Chief Justice, his term of office was marked by numerous rulings affecting, among other things, the legal status of racial segregation, civil rights, separation of church and state, and police arrest procedure in the United States. - Lawrence Welk
Lawrence Welk (March 11, 1903 - May 17, 1992) was a musician, accordion player, bandleader, and television impresario, hosting "The Lawrence Welk Show" from 1951 to 1982. His style came to be known to his large number of radio, television, and live-performance fans as "champagne music." He is a 1961 inductee of North Dakota's Roughrider Award. - Mickey Mantle
Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 - August 13, 1995) was an American baseball player who was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974. He played his entire 18-year major-league professional career for the New York Yankees, winning 3 American League MVP titles and playing for 16 All-Star teams. Mantle played on 12 pennant winners and 7 World Championship clubs. He still holds the records for most World Series home runs (18), RBIs (40), runs (42), … - Jack Benny
Jack Benny (February 14 1894 in Chicago, Illinois - December 26 1974 in Beverly Hills, California), born Benjamin Kubelsky, was an American comedian, vaudeville performer, and radio, television, and film actor. He was one of the biggest stars in classic American radio and was also a major television personality. Benny was renowned for his flawless comic timing and (especially) his ability to get laughs with either a pregnant pause or a single expression, … - Robert Byrd
Robert Carlyle Byrd (born November 20 1917) is the senior United States Senator from West Virginia and a member of the Democratic Party. Byrd has held the office since January 3 1959, making him the longest-serving member of the Senate in history. He is also currently the longest-serving and oldest member of the United States Congress. Byrd is currently President "pro tempore" of the United States Senate of the 110th United States Congress, … - Pat Brown
Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown Sr. (April 21, 1905 - February 16, 1996) was the 32nd Governor of California, serving from 1959 to 1967. - George Ryan
George Homer Ryan (born February 24, 1934 in Maquoketa, Iowa) was the Republican Governor of the U.S. state of Illinois from 1999 until 2003. Although Ryan "raised the national debate on capital punishment" by issuing a moratorium on executions in 2000, he was marked by corruption and racketeering charges that led to his retiring from politics in 2003, and to criminal convictions in 2006. - Paul Douglas
Paul Howard Douglas (March 26, 1892 - September 24, 1976) was an American politician and University of Chicago economist. He served as a Democratic U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1949 to 1967. - Sam Rayburn
Samuel Taliaferro (pronounced "Tolliver") Rayburn was a Democratic politician from Bonham, Texas. "Mr. Sam", as he was widely known, served as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives for 17 years, and is regarded by historians as the most effective Speaker in history. - Don Young
Donald Edwin (Don) Young (born June 9, 1933) has been the sole congressman from Alaska in the United States House of Representatives since 1973 (map). He is a Republican. - Claude Pepper
Claude Denson Pepper was an American politician of the Democratic Party, and a spokesman for liberalism and the elderly. In foreign policy he shifted from pro-Soviet in the 1940s to anti-Communist in the 1950s. He represented Florida in the United States Senate from November 4, 1936 until January 3, 1951, and the Miami area in the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1963 until May 30, 1989. - Tom Foley
Thomas Stephen Foley (born March 26 1929 in Spokane, Washington) is an American politician of the Democratic Party, having served as the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and ambassador to Japan. He served in the United States Congress from 1965 to 1995. His thirty-year career in Congress was notable for its length and for his steady climb up the ranks of the Congressional and party leadership. - Everett McKinley Dirksen
Dirksen was born in Pekin, Illinois -about 120 miles southwest of Chicago, Illinois -where he grew up on a small farm. He served in the United States Army during World War I . His political career began in 1927 , when he was elected to the Pekin city council. After an unsuccessful first run for the House of Representatives 1929 , he was elected to that body in 1932 . - Whitey Ford
Edward Charles "Whitey" Ford (born October 21, 1928) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. A native of Queens, New York City, Ford was signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1947, and played his entire career in a Yankees uniform. He was given the nickname "Whitey" while in the minor leagues for his exceptionally blond hair. Ford began his Major League Baseball career on July 1, 1950, with the Yankees. - Tip O'Neill
Thomas Phillip "Tip" O'Neill, Jr. (December 9, 1912 – January 5, 1994) was an American politician. O'Neill was an outspoken liberal Democrat and influential member of the U.S. Congress, serving in the House of Representatives for 34 years and representing two congressional districts of Massachusetts. He was the Speaker of the House from 1977 until his retirement in 1987, making him the second longest-serving Speaker in U.S. history after Sam Rayburn. - Harry F. Byrd
Harry Flood Byrd, Sr. (June 10, 1887-October 20, 1966) of Berryville in Clarke County, Virginia was an American newspaper publisher, farmer and politician. He was a descendant of one of the First Families of Virginia. His ancestors included William Byrd II of Westover Plantation, who established Richmond, Robert "King" Carter, a colonial governor, and Pocahontas, and he was the brother of famed aviator Richard Evelyn Byrd. - Hale Boggs
Thomas Hale Boggs, Sr., was an American Democratic politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for Louisiana. He was the House Majority Leader. In 1972, while he was still Majority Leader, the twin engine airplane in which Boggs was traveling over a remote section of Alaska disappeared. The plane presumably crashed and was never found. Congressman Nick Begich was also presumed killed in the same accident. - Henry M. Jackson
Henry Martin "Scoop" Jackson (May 31, 1912 - September 1, 1983) was a U.S. Congressman and Senator for Washington State from 1941 until his death. Jackson was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972 and 1976. As a Cold War anti-Communist Democrat, Jackson's political philosophies and positions have been cited as an influence on a number of key figures associated with neoconservatism, including Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle - Ike Skelton
Isaac Newton "Ike" Skelton IV (born December 20 1931) has been a member of the United States House of Representatives since 1977. A Democrat, he represents. The district includes most of the west-central part of the state, including the state capital, Jefferson City. Skelton is currently the Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, being selected at the start of the 110th Congress. He had previously served as has the ranking Democrat on the Committee since 1998. - Frank Murkowski
Governor Frank Murkowski signed a law Monday the four accounts to protect and improve the lives of Alaska's seniors.We are adding additional protection through monitoring and sanctions for people, try to use our elderly, based on their hard-earned savings or money they need for their retirement " , Said Murkowski. - Jeff Harris
Jeff Harris (born October 7, 1964 is an attorney and a Missouri Democratic politician. He currently serves as Minority Floor Leader. He is married to Katherine Harris, and resides in Columbia, Missouri. He was born in Columbia, and graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. from Vanderbilt University in 1987, and from Cornell University with a J.D. in 1991. He was on the board of editors of the "Cornell Law Review" while at that school. - Mike Rounds
Marion Michael "Mike" Rounds (born October 24, 1954) is an American politician. Rounds has served as Governor of South Dakota since January 7, 2003, having been elected on November 5, 2002 and re-elected on November 7, 2006. - Nick Rahall
Nicholas Joe "Nick Joe" Rahall II (born May 20, 1949), American politician of Lebanese descent, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing West Virginia's 3rd Congressional District since 1977(map). He is the Dean of the West Virginia Delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives. The district includes much of the southern portion of the state, including Huntington, Bluefield and Beckley. - Benjamin A. Gilman
Benjamin Arthur (Ben) Gilman (born December 6 1922) is a former Republican United States Representative from New York. Born in Poughkeepsie, New York, Gilman graduated from Middletown High School in Middletown, New York in 1941 and received a B.S. from the Wharton School of Business and Finance at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946. He also earned an LL.B. from New York Law School. - Robert Ehrlich
Robert Leroy "Bob" Ehrlich, Jr. (born November 25, 1957) is an American politician who served as the 60<sup>th</sup> Governor of Maryland from 2003 to 2007. A Republican, he became governor after defeating Democratic opponent Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, a member of the Kennedy family, 51% to 48% in the 2002 elections. - Ken Calvert
Kenneth Stanton (Ken) Calvert (born June 8 1953), an American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing California's 44th congressional district. The district is part of the Inland Empire and south Orange County areas of Southern California. - Jim Leach
James Albert Smith (Jim) Leach, American politician, was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives. He represented the 2nd district of Iowa in the state's east central and southeast area (previously the 1st district from 1977–2003) from 1977 to 2007. Leach was born in Davenport, Iowa, and won the 1960 state wrestling championship at the 138-pound weight class for Davenport High School. - Louis A. Johnson
Louis Arthur Johnson (January 10, 1891 - April 24, 1966) was the second United States Secretary of Defense, serving in the cabinet of President Harry S. Truman from March 28, 1949 to September 19, 1950. Born in Roanoke, Virginia, he earned a law degree from the University of Virginia. After graduation he practiced law in Clarksburg, West Virginia; his firm, "Steptoe and Johnson", eventually opened offices in Charleston, West Virginia, and Washington, DC. - Bob Ney
Robert William "Bob" Ney (born July 5 1954) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Ohio. A Republican, Ney represented Ohio's 18th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 until November 3, 2006, when he resigned. Ney's resignation followed his October 13, 2006 guilty plea to charges of conspiracy and making false statements in relation to the Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal. - Stanley K. Hathaway
Stanley Knapp Hathaway (July 19, 1924-October 4, 2005) was a U.S. Republican politician who served as governor of Wyoming from 1967 to 1975. Thereafter, he served four months as the United States Secretary of the Interior. - Sherman Adams
Llewelyn Sherman A. Adams was an American politician, best known as White House Chief of Staff for President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the culmination of a relatively short (18-year) political career that also included a stint as Governor of New Hampshire. He lost his White House position in a scandal over a vicuña fur coat. - Lloyd Bentsen
Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr., (February 11 1921 - May 23 2006) was a four-term United States senator (1971 until 1993) from Texas and the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President in 1988 on the Michael Dukakis ticket. He also served in the House of Representatives from 1949 to 1955. In his later political life, he was Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and the U.S. Treasury Secretary during the early years of the Clinton administration. - Edmund Muskie
Edmund Sixtus "Ed" Muskie (March 28, 1914 - March 26, 1996) was an American Democratic politician from Maine. He served as Governor of Maine, a U.S. Senator, as U.S. Secretary of State, and ran as a candidate for Vice President of the United States. - Harry F. Byrd Jr.
Harry Flood Byrd, Jr. (born December 20, 1914) is an American politician. He represented Virginia in the United States Senate from 1965 to 1983. He is most notable for leaving the Democratic Party in 1970 and becoming an independent, although he continued to caucus with the Democrats. He is the son of Harry F. Byrd, Sr., whom he replaced as senator. Byrd was born in Winchester, Virginia. He was educated at the Virginia Military Institute and the University of Virginia.
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