Vali Reza Nasr (b. 1960) is an Iranian-American academic and scholar, as well as Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University. An expert in contemporary Middle Eastern affairs and Islam and politics, in January, 2006, Nasr was named the Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonpartisan think-tank focusing on foreign policy.

Gracia M. Hillman is one of four commissioners of the Election Assistance Commission. She was nominated by President George W. Bush on October 3, 2003 and confirmed by unanimous consent of the United States Senate on December 9, 2003 to serve a two-year term on the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC). Ms. Hillman served as Chair of the EAC in 2005, after serving as the Agency's first Vice Chair in 2004.

Justin Aldrich Rockefeller (born June 18, 1979) is a political activist and co-founder and National Program Director of Generation Engage. He is the youngest son of West Virginia's prominent Senator, Jay Rockefeller and his wife, Sharon Percy Rockefeller, and is a fifth generation member of the Rockefeller family. He is also the grandson of U.S. Senator Charles H. Percy.

Elizabeth Garcia Flores, better known as Betty Flores (born December 28, 1944), is a businesswoman who was the first female mayor of Laredo, Texas. She served a brief unexpired mayoral term followed by two four-year terms from 1998-2006. She is best known as the driving force behind the building of the Laredo Entertainment Center, home of the Laredo Bucks hockey team.

James Harlan "Jim" Granberry, Sr. (born 1932), is a former mayor of Lubbock, Texas, who guided his city through a series of tornadoes that shattered the region on May 11, 1970. He imposed a curfew to restore order after the storm. Granberry had just become mayor when the storms occurred. He served only one two-year term from 1970-1972. He was a member of the Lubbock City Council from 1966-1970. He did not seek a second two-year term in 1972.

Giles Connell McCrary, Sr. (born November 5, 1919), is a self-employed oil operator, investor, art collector, rancher, and the owner of the OS Ranch Museum in Post, the seat of Garza County, southeast of Lubbock on the Texas South Plains. A strong civic leader, McCrary was the mayor of Post from 1969-1991; in Texas, all mayors are elected on a nonpartisan ballot.

William Edward "Bill" Bennett (December 24, 1942 -- April 3, 2006) was an acclaimed professor of political science at the Baptist-affiliated Campbellsville University in Campbellsville, the seat of Taylor County, Kentucky, from 1970 until his death of lung cancer. On November 2, 1982, Bennett was elected to a single term on the five-member nonpartisan Taylor County School Board, which serves those sections of the county outside the City of Campbellsville.

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.

Walter J. Maddock was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota. He served in the North Dakota House of Representatives from 1914 to 1924, and became the Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota in 1924. Maddock became the fifteenth Governor of North Dakota in 1928 when the Arthur G. Sorlie died in office, and became the first North Dakota born governor. He served the remainder of Sorlie's term and sought re-election, but he failed to win the race against George F. Shafer.

Henry George Teigan (August 7, 1881 - March 12, 1941) was a U.S. Representative to the from Minnesota. Born in Forest City, Winnebago County, Iowa; attended the public schools, Luther Academy, Albert Lea, Minnesota, and Central College, Pella, Iowa; was graduated from Valparaiso University in 1908; taught in the Iowa rural schools 1900 - 1904, at Des Lacs, North Dakota, in 1909 and 1910, and at Logan, North Dakota, …

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John Calvin Coolidge Jr . was born in Plymouth , Windsor County , Vermont , on July 4 , 1872 , the only U.S. President to be born on the fourth of July . He was the elder of two children of John Calvin Sr. and Victoria Coolidge. The Coolidge family had deep roots in New England . His earliest American ancestor, John Coolidge, emigrated from Cambridge , England , around 1630 and settled in Watertown , Massachusetts .

Christie Findlay is the managing editor of Campaigns & Elections' Politics magazine. In addition to planning and editing content, she also spends time on the campaign trail and writes news features for the monthly magazine. She regularly offers political analysis on XM's POTUS 08 station, and has appeared on CNN, C-SPAN and local media outlets in the D.C. and New York regions.