- 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, … - Pat Buchanan
Patrick Joseph Buchanan (born November 2, 1938) is an American politician, author, syndicated columnist, and broadcaster. He ran in the 2000 presidential election on the Reform Party ticket. He also sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1992 and 1996. Buchanan was a senior advisor to three American presidents, Nixon, Ford and Reagan, and was an original host on CNN's "Crossfire". - Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II born August 4, 1961 is the President-elect of the United States of America. The first African American to be elected President of the United States, Obama was the junior United States Senator from Illinois in 2004 and served until his resignation on November 16, 2008, following his election to the Presidency. His term of office as the forty-fourth U.S. president will begin on January 20, 2009. - Abraham Lincoln
Reviews Lincoln's early years as a farmer and his significant impact on U.S. agriculture, including the establishment of the USDA and the beginnings of the National Agricultural Library. Also includes various full text documents and agricultural Acts from the 1860s. - Frank Lautenberg
Frank Raleigh Lautenberg (born January 23, 1924) is a businessman and Democratic Party politician. Now the senior United States Senator from New Jersey, he is in his second stint in office, first serving from 1983 to 2001, and again since 2003. - Harold Brown
Harold Brown was born on September 19, 1927, in New York City. He received three degrees, among them a Ph.D. (1949) in physics from Columbia University. Brown was a research scientist at the University of California Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, then at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at Livermore, CA; he became director of the Lawrence lab in 1960. Brown was senior adviser at the Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Tests (1958-1959). - Bella Abzug
Bella Savitsky Abzug was a well-known American political figure and a leader of the women's movement. She famously said, "This woman's place is in the House - the House of Representatives," in her successful 1970 campaign to join that body. - Jerrold Nadler
Jerrold Lewis Nadler, sometimes called Jerry Nadler (born June 13, 1947) is an American politician from New York City. A Democrat, Nadler represents New York's 8th congressional district which includes parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn in New York City. Nadler's district includes most of midtown Manhattan, including the site where the World Trade Center stood. It also includes the lower Manhattan neighborhoods of Chelsea, Hell's Kitchen, … - Eric Cantor
Eric Ivan Cantor (born June 6, 1963) is an American politician who has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 2001, representing Virginia's 7th congressional district (map). Cantor is the sole Jewish Republican in the House. Born in Richmond, Virginia, Cantor attended George Washington University, received his J.D. from the College of William and Mary, and did graduate work at Columbia University. - Madeleine Korbel Albright
Madeleine Albright (1937 - ) was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. As the Nazis invaded that country before World War II, Albright and her family fled and eventually settled in the U.S. She graduated from Wellesley College in Massachusetts, and she later received master's and doctorate degrees from Columbia University in New York. By the late 1970s, she was working in the White House for President Jimmy Carter 's national security team. - Kenneth Waltz
Kenneth Neal Waltz (born 1924) is a member of the faculty at Columbia University and one of the most prominent scholars of international relations (IR) alive today. He is one of the founders of neorealism, or structural realism, in international relations theory. - Rosa Delauro
Rosa DeLauro is a member of the United States House of Representatives. Holding the position since 1991, DeLauro represents Connecticut's 3rd congressional district. She is currently serving her ninth term. Before becoming a member of the House, DeLauro served as Executive Director of EMILY'S List, as well as serving as Chief of Staff to U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd . - Martin Indyk
Martin S. Indyk, born July 1, 1951, to a Jewish family in London, England, is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy in the Foreign Policy Studies program at The Brookings Institution and a former United States ambassador to Israel. He grew up and was educated in Australia, gaining a BEcon from the University of Sydney in 1972 and a PhD in international relations from the Australian National University in 1977. - Seth Low
Seth Low (January 18, 1850 - September 17, 1916), born in Brooklyn, New York, was an American educator and political figure who served as the mayor of Brooklyn, as President of Columbia University, as diplomatic representative of the United States, and as Mayor of New York City. - Gouverneur Morris
Gouverneur Morris (January 31, 1752 - November 6, 1816) was an American statesman who represented Pennsylvania in the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and was an author of large sections of the Constitution of the United States. He is widely credited as the author of that document's Preamble: "We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union...". Morris is regarded as a visionary of the idea of being "American". - Zalmay Khalilzad
Zalmay Khalilzad is the program directory for strategy, doctrine, and force structure of RAND's Project AIR FORCE and director of RAND's Greater Middle East Studies Center. He was assistant deputy under secretary of defense for policy planning between January 1991 and December 1992. - Hans Blix
Dr Hans Blix , the former Foreign Minister of Sweden, was most recently the head of the UN's weapons inspection team in Iraq. Before that, from 1981 to 1997, he was the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency in which capacity he oversaw the dismantling of Iraq's nuclear weapons program. He was a delegate to the UN General Assembly for 20 years and to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva for 16. - Brad Miller
Ralph Bradley "Brad" Miller (born May 19, 1953) is an American lawyer and politician from North Carolina, currently representing the state's Thirteenth District in the U.S. House of Representatives. - Susan Golding
Hon. Susan Golding is president and chief executive officer of The Golding Group, Inc., a government relations and strategic consulting firm. She is also CEO of the Child Abuse Prevention Foundation, a publicly-supported foundation based in San Diego, California. - Eric Garcetti
Eric Garcetti is a member of the Los Angeles City Council, representing the Thirteenth District, comprising the communities of Hollywood, Silver Lake, Echo Park, Atwater Village, Elysian Valley, Glassell Park, Temple-Beverly, Thai Town, Little Armenia, and Filipino Town. - Shirley Chisholm
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm was an American politician, educator and author. She was a Congresswoman, representing New York's 12th District for seven terms from 1968-1983. In 1968, she became the first African American woman elected to Congress. On January 23, 1972, she became the first African American candidate for President of the United States. She won 162 delegates. - Kristine Gebbie
Kristine Moore Gebbie, DrPH, RN, is a Professor of Nursing at Columbia University School of Nursing. She is best known for being the first AIDS Czar, from 1993 to 1994, during the Clinton Administration. Before joining the White House, she was the Secretary of the Department of Health for the State of Washington (1989-93) and was previously director of the Oregon Department of Health. She became well known as member of the Presidential Committee on AIDS, … - Barbara O'Brien
Barbara O'Brien (Born April 18, 1950 in Brawley, California) is the Lt. Governor of Colorado. A Democrat, she was chosen by Governor hopeful Bill Ritter as his running mate in February, 2006. They were elected on November 7, 2006, and took office on January 9, 2007. Prior to becoming Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, she was a speechwriter and policy advisor for Governor Richard Lamm, … - Michael O'Leary
Michael O'Leary was an Irish senior politician and barrister. He was Minister for Labour and while leader of the Labour Party became Minister for Energy and Tánaiste. He later became a member of the Fine Gael party. Born in Cork, the son of a publican, O'Leary was educated at Presentation College, University College Cork and Columbia University, New York, King's Inns On returning to Ireland, … - Benon Sevan
Benon Vahe Sevan (born December 18, 1937 Nicosia, Cyprus) was the head of the United Nations' Oil-for-Food Programme, established in 1996 and charged with preventing Iraq's government from using the proceeds from oil exports for anything but food, medicine and other items to benefit the civilian population. Born into an Armenian family in Cyprus, Sevan was educated at the prestigious Melkonian Educational Institute in Nicosia. - Jim Peterson
James Scott "Jim" Peterson, PC, BA, LL.B LL.M DCL (born July 30, 1941) is a retired Canadian politician and former Minister of International Trade. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, he has a DCL from McGill University, a Master of Laws from Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Western Ontario. As well he has diplomas from l'Academie de Droit International in The Hague and La Sorbonne in Paris. - Augusto Boal
Augusto Boal (born 1931 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is an innovative and influential theatrical director, writer and politician. He is the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed (T.O.), a political theatrical form originally used in radical popular education movements, along with Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed". - Gilberto Freyre
Gilberto Freyre was a Brazilian author, professor, journalist and congressman. His best-known work was the 1933 sociological treatise "Casa-Grande & Senzala" (variously translated, but roughly"The Masters and the Slaves", as on a traditional plantation). He was born in Recife, Brazil, and studied in Baylor University (1918-1920) and Columbia University(1920-1922), … - Dov S. Zakheim
Dov S. Zakheim is a former official of the United States government. Zakheim earned his bachelor's degree in government from Columbia University in 1970, and his doctorate in economics and politics at St. Antony's College, Oxford University. He has been an adjunct professor at the National War College, Yeshiva University, Columbia University and Trinity College, where he was presidential scholar. - William Langer
William "Wild Bill" Langer (September 30 1886 - November 8 1959) was a prominent American politician from North Dakota. Langer is one of the most colorful characters in North Dakota history, most famously bouncing back from a scandal that forced him out of office and into prison. He served as the Governor of North Dakota from 1933 to 1934 and from 1937 to 1939. Langer also served in the United States Senate from 1940 to 1959 when he died in office. - Henry Salvatori
Henry Salvatori (March 28, 1901 - July 7, 1997) was an American geophysicist, businessman, philanthropist, and political activist. Salvatori was born in Rome, Italy, and immigrated with his family to the United States in 1906. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1923 and a master's degree in physics from Columbia University in 1926. In 1930, he joined Geophysical Service Incorporated, but he left in 1933 to found Western Geophysical. - Juwono Sudarsono
Juwono Sudarsono (born Bandjar Ciamis, West Java; 5 March 1942) is currently Republic of Indonesia Minister of Defense since October 2004. He was educated at the University of Indonesia, Jakarta (B.A., M.S.); The Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands; The University of California, Berkeley, USA (M.A.) ; and The London School of Economics, UK (Ph.D.). Son of the late Dr Sudarsono, … - Millicent Fenwick
Millicent Hammond Fenwick (February 25, 1910 - September 16, 1992) was an American fashion editor, politician and diplomat. A long-time Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey, she entered politics late in life and was renowned for her energy and colorful enthusiasm. She was regarded as a moderate and progressive within her party and was outspoken in favor of civil rights and the women's movement. - Matt Brown
Matt Brown is the former Secretary of State of Rhode Island, and a Democrat. Brown announced that he would be a candidate for the United States Senate in 2006, challenging Republican Senator Lincoln Chafee, but dropped out on April 26, 2006. His achievements in office included the development of the first, statewide Central Voter Registration System, the first online Lobbyist Registration system, … - Sander M. Levin
Sander Martin Levin, sometimes known as Sandy Levin, (born September 6, 1931) is a Democratic U.S. Representative from the 12th Congressional District (map) in Michigan, having served since 1983. The district, numbered as the 17th District until 1993, includes most of Detroit's southeastern suburbs, such as Mount Clemens, Southfield, Warren and St. Clair Shores. He is the older brother of Senator Carl Levin. Levin was born in Detroit. - Andrés Velasco
Andrés Velasco Brañes is an economist and professor, who currently serves as the Finance Minister of Chile, a position he has held since March 2006. The son of Eugenio Velasco and Marta Brañes, Velasco was born in Santiago, where he lived until the age of 16. Following the exile of his father in 1977, the whole family moved to the US, first to Los Angeles and then to Boston. He holds a PhD in Economics from Columbia University. - Jeffrey Klein
Jeffrey David Klein (born in the Bronx, New York on July 10, 1960) is a New York State Senator representing parts of Bronx County and Westchester County. He was elected to his first term in the Senate in 2004 after being advised to run for the seat by Democratic colleagues, who promised him campaign support and volunteers. A lifelong resident of the northeast Bronx, he was educated in Bronx public schools. Klein received a B.A. with honors from Queens College, … - Frank Hogan
Frank Smithwick Hogan (Born on January 17, 1902 in Waterbury, Connecticut - Died on April 2, 1974 in New York, New York) was the New York County (Manhattan) District Attorney for almost 32 years. Because of his honesty and incorruptibility, he was known as "Mr. Integrity". Before his election in 1941 as District Attorney, he was the Chief of Staff to his predecessor, Thomas E. Dewey, who was elected Governor of the State of New York in 1942. - Evelyn Murphy
Evelyn Murphy is an American politician. She was the Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from 1987 to 1991, and was the first woman in the history of Massachusetts to hold a state-wide office. She received a bachelor's degree and PhD from Duke University, and holds a master's degree from Columbia University. She was the Secretary of Economic Affairs in the first term of Governor Mike Dukakis. In 1982, she sought the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor, … - Medea Benjamin
Medea Benjamin is Founding Director of Global Exchange. For over twenty years, Medea has supported human rights and social justice struggles around the world. Medea is a leading activist in the peace movement and helped bring together the groups forming the coalition United for Peace and Justice (see www.unitedforpeace.org ). She is also the co-founder of CODEPINK: Women for Peace, a women's group that has been organizing creative actions against the war and occupation of Iraq.
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