- Jimmy Governor
Jimmy Governor (1875-1901) was one the Governor Brothers, two Indigenous Australian men who committed a series of murders in the Central West and New England regions of New South Wales around the turn of the twentieth century. Governor had held various different jobs, including that of a police tracker, and he was continually discriminated against. He married a white woman, who had to endure criticism from other people for having married an Aboriginal man.
- Governor
Governor (born Governor Washington Jr. in Charles City, Virginia) is an American R&B singer signed to T.I.'s label, Grand Hustle.
- Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger
Arnold clearly harbored political ambitions for a long time. In 1977, six years before he became a US citizen, he told a German magazine: "When one has money, one day it becomes less interesting. And when one is also the best in film, what can be more interesting? Perhaps power. Then one moves into politics and becomes governor or president or something." He realized that one day his movie-making days were numbered and began thinking about a career in politics.
- Mitt Romney
Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12 1947, better known as Mitt Romney), was the 70th Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Elected in 2002, Romney served one term and did not seek re-election in 2006; his term ended January 4, 2007. Romney has started his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, having formally announced his candidacy on February 13, 2007. He made his announcement at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
- Mike Huckabee
Michael Dale "Mike" Huckabee (born August 24, 1955) is the former governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas, having served from 1996 to 2007, who is a candidate in the United States presidential election, 2008. He was only the third Republican governor of the state since Reconstruction. He officially announced his candidacy for the United States presidential election, 2008 on January 28, 2007.
- Karl Rove
Karl Christian Rove (born December 25, 1950) is Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush. He has headed the Office of Political Affairs, the Office of Public Liaison, and the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives. For most of his career prior to his employment at the White House, Rove was a political consultant. Rove's election campaign clients have included George W. Bush (2000 and 2004 presidential elections, 1994 and 1998 Texas gubernatorial elections), …
- Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born), was the thirty-ninth President of the United States from 1977 to 1981, and the Nobel Peace laureate of 2002. Prior to becoming president, Carter served two terms in the Georgia Senate, and was the 76th Governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975. Carter's presidency saw the creation of two cabinet-level departments: the Department of Energy and the Department of Education.
- Eliot Spitzer
Eliot Laurence Spitzer (born June 10 1959) is an American lawyer, politician and the former Governor of New York. Spitzer was elected governor in the November 2006 election. He is the former New York State Attorney General, a member of the Democratic Party, and is married to Silda Wall Spitzer, the founder and chair of Children for Children, a non-profit organization. The Spitzers have three daughters.
- Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist , Attorney General (State of Florida)
- Gray Davis
Described by the San Jose Mercury News as "perhaps the best-trained Governor-in-waiting California has ever produced," Governor Gray Davis has made improving public education his administration's number-one priority. As his first official act as Governor, he called a special session of the Legislature to address his proposals to ensure that every child can read by age 9, strengthen teacher training and education, and increase accountability in the schools.
- Joe Lieberman
Joseph Isadore Lieberman (born February 24, 1942) is an American politician from Connecticut. Lieberman was first elected to the United States Senate in 1988, and was elected to his fourth term on November 7, 2006. In the 2000 U.S. presidential election, Lieberman was the Democratic candidate for Vice President, running alongside presidential nominee Al Gore, becoming the first Jewish candidate on a major American political party presidential ticket.
- Michael Moore
Michael Francis Moore (born April 23 1954) is an Academy Award-winning American director and producer of "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "Bowling for Columbine", two of the highest-grossing documentaries of all time. He is a vocal critic of globalization, large corporations, gun violence, the Iraq War, U.S. President George W. Bush and the American health care system. In 2005 Time magazine named him one of the world's 100 most influential people.
- Tim Russert
Tim Russert , a fixture in American homes on Sunday mornings and election nights since becoming moderator of "Meet the Press" nearly 17 years ago, died Friday after collapsing at the Washington bureau of NBC News. He was 58 and lived in Northwest Washington.
- Ted Strickland
Ted Strickland is the U.S. Representative for Ohio's Sixth Congressional District, and the Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio. Ted was born in Lucasville in 1941, the eighth of nine children. He didn't grow up in privilege-As a child, his home burned down, leaving him and his family to live in a chicken shack until his father could convert their barn into a new home.
- Rod Blagojevich
Gov. Rod Blagojevich 's lead attorney says he plans to resign from his criminal case. Ed Genson 's decision Friday comes one day after Blagojevich's defense team sent mixed signals over whether the governor would file a lawsuit to block his impeachment trial in the state Senate. ( Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:49:32 GMT )
- Deval Patrick
Deval Laurdine Patrick (born July 31, 1956) is an American politician and the current Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. On November 7, 2006, Patrick became the first African American elected governor of Massachusetts and the second in United States history. He took office on January 4, 2007. Prior to entering politics, Patrick worked as an attorney and businessman.
- Mitch Daniels
Mitchell Elias "Mitch" Daniels, Jr. (born April 7, 1949 in Monongahela, Pennsylvania) is the current Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana. A Republican, he began his four-year term on January 10, 2005.
- George Pataki
George Elmer Pataki (born June 24, 1945) was the 57th Governor of New York, USA serving from January 1995 until January 1, 2007. He is a member of the Republican Party and was seen a as possible 2000 and 2008 Presidential candidate.
- Kathleen Sebelius
Kathleen Gilligan Sebelius (born May 15 1948 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American Democratic politician who currently serves as the 44th Governor of Kansas. She is the second female governor of the state of Kansas. She is currently chairwoman of the Democratic Governors Association.
- 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.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., also known as T.R. and to the public (but never to friends and intimates) as Teddy, was the twenty-sixth President of the United States, and a leader of the Republican Party and of the Progressive Movement, as well as being the youngest President in United States history, at age 42. He served in many roles including Governor of New York, historian, naturalist, explorer, author, and soldier.
- Tom Ridge
Secretary Ridge explained that the Privacy Officer for the Department of Homeland Security is responsible for ensuring that the department's policies protect privacy rights of American citizens afforded by our Constitution and laws. The Privacy Officer is also tasked with ensuring that the use of technologies within the Department sustain, and do not erode, privacy protections.
- Ed Rendell
Governor Ed Rendell, Governor’s Office, State Capitol, Harrisburg, PA 17101
- Jim Doyle
James Edward (Jim) Doyle (born November 23, 1945) is a Wisconsin politician and member of the Democratic Party. He took office in January 2003 as the 44th Governor of Wisconsin. He defeated incumbent Governor Scott McCallum by a margin of 45% to 41%, a plurality reduced by the relative success of a third party candidate, Ed Thompson, the Libertarian candidate and former Governor Tommy Thompson's younger brother.
- Jesse Ventura
Jesse Ventura (born James George Janos on July 15, 1951), also known as "The Body", "The Star", "The Mind", and "Governor Body", is an American politician, former professional wrestler, Navy UDT veteran, actor, and former radio and television talk show host.
- Sonny Perdue
George Ervin "Sonny" Perdue III (born December 20, 1946) is the current governor of the U.S. state of Georgia. Upon his inauguration in January 2003, he became the first Republican governor of Georgia since Benjamin Conley at the end of Reconstruction in the 1870s. Perdue has recently been touted as a potential Vice-Presidential candidate for the GOP.
- Jennifer Granholm
Jennifer M. Granholm Governor
- Dianne Feinstein
Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein (born June 22, 1933) is currently the senior U.S. Senator from California, having held office as a Senator since 1992. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Senator Feinstein holds a number of "firsts"; she is San Francisco's first and only female mayor, the first woman to serve in the Senate from California, one of two first female Jewish senators, and the first woman to chair the Rules and Administration committee of that body.
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
(born October 28, 1956) is the 6th and current president of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He became president on 6 August 2005 after winning the 2005 presidential election. Ahmadinejad's current term will end in August, 2009, but he will be eligible to run for one more term in office in 2009 presidential elections. Before becoming president, he was the Mayor of Tehran. He is the highest directly elected official in the country, but, …
- Evan Bayh
Evan Bayh is a heartland Democrat with a history of advancing progressive values in a traditionally Republican state. First elected Indiana governor at age 32-America's youngest governor at the time-he served two terms as Indiana's chief executive and is now in his second term in the United States Senate. Throughout his career in public service, Evan Bayh has been a common-sense pragmatist who focuses on innovative solutions to help tackle our toughest challenges at home and abroad.
- Mervyn King
Mervyn Allister King (born March 30 1948) is Governor of the Bank of England. He took over on June 30 2003 from Sir Edward George. King studied at Wolverhampton Grammar School, King's College, Cambridge, St John's College, Cambridge (where he gained an MA), and Harvard; he then taught at the University of Cambridge and the University of Birmingham. He has also been Visiting Professor to Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Haley Barbour
Haley Reeves Barbour (born October 22, 1947) is the current Republican governor of Mississippi. He gained a national spotlight in August 2005 after Mississippi was hit by Hurricane Katrina. Since then he has been mentioned as a possible 2008 vice presidential candidate. Barbour has ruled out any desire to run for President, and has announced his intent to run for re-election as Governor in 2007.
- Ted Kulongoski
When Kulongoski was sworn in as governor in January 2003, Oregon faced the largest budget deficit since the Great Depression. The governor responded by changing the way Oregon budgets, building a principle-based budget designed to establish fiscal stability while delivering measurable returns. He made priority investments in economic development, workforce training, transportation infrastructure, and arts and culture that helped turned Oregon's economy around.
- Mark Sanford
Marshall Clement "Mark" Sanford, Jr. (born May 28, 1960) is an American Republican politician who has been Governor of South Carolina since 2003.
- Tom Vilsack
Tom Vilsack understands the importance of NRCS (Natural Resources Conservation Service) programs that help producers protect our natural resources and provide stewardship of the land we all depend upon for our food production," Hoffman said. "As governor, he was very supportive of ISA environmental and conservation initiatives, and saw the value of biotechnology and its importance in meeting future demands while protecting our natural resources.
- Sarah Palin
Sarah Louise Heath Palin (born February 11, 1964) is the current Governor of Alaska and the presumptive 2008 Republican candidate for Vice President of the United States. She will be the first female Vice Presidential candidate representing the Republican Party and the second female Vice Presidential candidate representing a major political party.
- John Warner
John Warner (b. January 22, 1943) is an American attorney and judge who is currently one of the five Associate Justices on the Montana Supreme Court. Warner won an unopposed retention vote in 2006; his current term will expire in 2014. Warner was born and raised in Great Falls, Montana. He attended Montana State University in Missoula, from which he earned a B.A. in history and political science in 1965. In 1967, he graduated from the University of Montana School of Law.
- Jim Gibbons
Jim Gibbons was born and raised in Sparks and attended Nevada public schools and universities. He earned a B.S. in Geology from the University of Nevada, Reno, and a Master's degree in Mining/Geology from the University of Nevada's Mackay School of Mines. Gibbons went on to earn his J.D. from Southwestern University School of Law and completed his post-graduate work at the University of Southern California.
- Brigham Young
Brigham Young (June 1, 1801 - August 29, 1877) was a leader in the Latter Day Saint movement. In 1847, Young became the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which is one of many churches that claim to be a continuation of the Church of Christ founded by Joseph Smith, Jr. in 1830. He was also the first governor of the Utah Territory.
- Bill Ritter
August William "Bill" Ritter, Jr. (born 1956-09-06) is a U.S. Democratic politician, the former District Attorney for Denver, Colorado, and the current Governor of the State of Colorado. He is the first native-born governor of Colorado in 35 years, as well as being the first to serve with a Democratic majority in the Colorado General Assembly in 50 years.