- 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), …
- John Kerry
John Kerry is a senator from Massachusetts. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for president in 2004.
- Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton is a junior Democratic Senator from New York. Married to former President Bill Clinton , she was First Lady from 1993 to 2001. She is currently seeking the Democratic nomination for President in 2008 and is considered the front-runner. Mike Huckabee
- Harry Reid
Harry Mason Reid (born December 2, 1939) is the senior United States Senator from Nevada and a member of the Democratic Party. Reid is the U.S. Senate Majority Leader in the 110th Congress. He assumed majority leadership after the Democratic Party won seated majority of the Senate in the 2006 congressional elections. Reid is the first Mormon to serve as Senate Majority Leader.
- 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.
- Claire McCaskill
Claire McCaskill (born July 24, 1953) is an American Democratic politician, currently the junior United States Senator from the state of Missouri and former State Auditor of Missouri. She defeated Republican Senator Jim Talent in 2006 by a margin of 50% to 47%. Along with Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, she is one of two female senators in the 110th United States Congress freshman class. She is the first woman elected to the Senate from Missouri in her own right.
- Ken Salazar
Senator Salazar, one of three Latino senators currently in office, is a fifth generation Colorado farmer and rancher. Despite pride in his Hispanic heritage, he is emphatic that he represents national interests in security, energy independence, agriculture, health care and the environment, and has often reached across the aisle to achieve his legislative goals. "I am a Senator for Mexican-Americans, for Latinos, for Afro-Americans, for White women, men.
- 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.
- Norm Coleman
Norman Bertram "Norm" Coleman, Jr. (born August 17, 1949) has served as a U.S. Senator from Minnesota since 2003, serving in the 108th, 109th, and 110th congresses. He served as the mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota from 1994 to 2002. Previously a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), Coleman switched to the Republican Party of Minnesota in 1996. In 1998 he lost a bid for Governor of Minnesota against former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura, …
- Bob Schieffer
Ambassador Schieffer grew up in Fort Worth attending the public schools. He graduated from Arlington Heights High School in 1966. He attended the University of Texas in Austin where he majored in government and minored in history. He received a B.A. degree in 1970. Ambassador Schieffer immediately entered graduate school where he studied international relations. He received an M.A. Degree in 1972. Ambassador Schieffer has had a life long fascination with politics.
- Sam Houston
Samuel Houston (March 2, 1793-July 26, 1863) was a 19th century American statesman, politician, and soldier. Born in Virginia, Houston was a key figure in the history of Texas, including periods as President of the Republic of Texas, Senator for Texas after it joined the United States, and finally as governor. Although a slaveowner and opponent of abolitionism, he refused, due to his unionist convictions, …
- Kit Bond
Christopher Samuel "Kit" Bond (born March 6, 1939) is the former governor and current senior United States Senator of Missouri. He has been in the Senate since 1987 and is a member of the Republican Party.
- Lisa Murkowski
Lisa Ann Murkowski (born May 22, 1957) is an American politician. She is currently the junior United States Senator from Alaska. She is the first U.S. Senator who was born in Alaska. She is Alaska's first female senator and the first woman ever elected to either chamber of Congress from Alaska.
- 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.
- Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse (born October 20, 1955) is the Junior Senator from the state of Rhode Island. A Democrat, he previously served as United States Attorney (1994-1998) and state Attorney General for Rhode Island.Whitehouse was born in New York City, New York, the son of Mary Celine Rand and career diplomat Charles S. Whitehouse , and grandson of diplomat Sheldon Whitehouse . He graduated from St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and from Yale University in 1978.
- Mary Landrieu
Mary Loretta Landrieu (born November 23, 1955) is the Senior Democratic United States senator from the state of Louisiana, as well as the first, and as of 2007, only woman from that state to be elected to the Senate. She is the daughter of former New Orleans mayor Moon Landrieu and the sister of current Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu. By national standards, Landrieu is one of the more conservative Democrats in the U.S. Senate.
- Johnny Isakson
John Hardy "Johnny" Isakson (born December 28 1944), is an American politician, who has been the Republican junior United States Senator from Georgia since 2005. Previously, he represented in the House from 1999 to 2005.
- Lamar Alexander
"One of the key ways we can reduce high gas prices is by providing more support for the basic science and research that will help us innovate our way to clean energy independence," said Alexander, who on May 9th in Oak Ridge proposed a new Manhattan Project for clean energy independence. "Research funding through the America COMPETES Act will help us reach the breakthroughs necessary to get us off foreign oil and onto the clean energy technologies that we can produce right here in America.
- Olympia Snowe
Olympia Jean Bouchles Snowe (born February 21, 1947) is a Republican politician and the senior United States Senator from Maine. A moderate Republican, Snowe has become widely known for her ability to influence close votes and Senatorial filibusters, making her among the most influential of U.S. Senators. She is considered one of the most liberal Republicans in the senate. In 2006, she was named one of "America's Top Ten Senators" by "Time" Magazine.
- William Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison was an American military leader, politician, and the ninth President of the United States. He served as the first Governor of the Indiana Territory and later as a U.S. Representative and Senator from Ohio. Harrison first gained national fame for leading U.S forces against American Indians at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811 and earning the nickname "Tippecanoe" (or "Old Tippecanoe"). As a general in the subsequent War of 1812, …
- 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.
- Ben Nelson
Earl Benjamin "Ben" Nelson (born May 17 1941) is the junior U.S. Senator from Nebraska, where he was born and has lived for most of his life. Nelson is a Methodist. A Democrat, he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2000, and is now the leading conservative Democrat in the Senate. The April 2006 Survey USA poll found him to be the most popular senator in the country, with a 73% approval rating from his constituents. In the most recent poll, his approval rating was 68%
- Judd Gregg
Judd Gregg (born February 14 1947) is a former Governor of New Hampshire and current United States Senator serving as ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee. He is a member of the Republican Party, and was a businessman and attorney in Nashua before entering politics.
- George Voinovich
Throughout his distinguished career in service to the people of Ohio, U.S. Senator George V. Voinovich has strived to make government "work harder and smarter and do more with less."
- Ben Chandler
Albert Benjamin "Ben" Chandler III (born September 12 1959) is an American politician from Kentucky. He is the member of the House of Representatives for and was first elected in 2004. Chandler was born in Versailles, Kentucky. He received a BA and a J.D. from the University of Kentucky at Lexington, Ky., and became a private practice lawyer. He was State Auditor from 1991 to 1995 before he became the Attorney General of Kentucky from 1995 until 2003, …
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- William Allen
William Allen (December 18 or December 27, 1803 - July 11, 1879) was a Democratic Representative and Senator from the U.S. state of Ohio, as well as Governor of Ohio. Allen was born in Edenton, North Carolina. His sister, Mary Granberry Allen, married Pleasant Thurman, and their son, Allen G. Thurman, followed in his uncle's footsteps, becoming a lawyer and politician. Allen moved to Chillicothe, Ohio in 1819 and he and his sister lived there together.
- 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.
- Richard Codey
Richard James "Dick" Codey (born November 27 1946) is an American Democratic Party politician in the U.S. State of New Jersey. Codey served as the 53rd Governor of New Jersey (by virtue of his status as President of the New Jersey Senate) from the resignation of Governor James McGreevey on November 15, 2004 until the inauguration of Jon Corzine on January 17, 2006. As there is no Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey (the office will come into being beginning in 2009), …
- John Henry
John Henry (November 1750-December 16, 1798) was a Governor of Maryland and member of the United States Senate. He was born near Vienna in Dorchester County, Maryland. He was a member of the Episcopal Church and the United States Democratic-Republican Party. He attended West Nottingham Academy in Cecil County, …
- Bruce Braley
Bruce Braley (born October 30, 1957) is the Democratic Congressman for Iowa's first Congressional District, first elected in the 2006 election. The district lies in northeastern Iowa and includes Davenport, Bettendorf, Cedar Falls and Waterloo. Braley was born in Grinnell, Iowa. His family owned a farm in nearby Brooklyn, Iowa. Braley attended college at Iowa State University, and he earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Iowa.
- William Gray
William Gray (June 27, 1750 - November 4, 1825) was a Massachusetts merchant and politician. Born into a lower class family in Boston, he managed to build his own business and rise through the state's political ranks, becoming extraordinarily wealthy. Gray first served as a state senator, before becoming lieutenant governor from 1810 to 1812. He married Elizabeth Chipman (May, 1756 - September 24, 1823) in 1782.
- 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.
- Ben Westlund
Bernard (Ben) J. Westlund II was born in Long Beach, California on September 3, 1949, and raised in Lake Oswego. He attended Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, graduating in 1972 with degrees in education and history. He worked as a business analyst in Portland before moving to Central Oregon, where he helped start a successful mining venture and then became a rancher and agribusinessman, selling cattle genetics through his company, High Country Herefords.
- Ernest Hollings
Ernest Frederick "Fritz" Hollings (born January 1 1922) served as a Democratic United States Senator from South Carolina from 1966 to 2005.
- Terry Sanford
James Terry Sanford (August 20 1917 - April 18 1998) was a Democratic politician from the Southern United States. A native of North Carolina, he was a North Carolina state senator from 1953 to 1961, governor of North Carolina from 1961 to 1965, and United States Senator from 1986 to 1993. Sanford was noted for his progressive leadership in the fields of civil rights and education.
- Roger Williams
Roger Williams (born ca. 1950) is the former secretary of state for the U.S. state of Texas, having served from November 2004 until his resignation effective July 1, 2007. Williams announced on June 11 that he would leave the appointed position to "pursue other opportunities". He did not say if he intends to seek elected office. In Texas, the secretary of state must resign if he enters a political race.
- Jefferson Davis
Jefferson "Jeff" Davis (6 May 1862 - 3 January 1913) was a Democratic United States Senator from Arkansas and also served as governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas.