- John McCain
John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936 in Panama Canal Zone) is an American politician, decorated war veteran, and currently the Republican Senior U.S. Senator from Arizona. He was a presidential candidate in the 2000 election, but was defeated by George W. Bush for the Republican nomination. On February 28, 2007, during a guest appearance on "The Late Show with David Letterman", … - Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Henry Rumsfeld (born July 9 1932) is a U.S. politician and businessman, who was the 13th Secretary of Defense under President Gerald Ford from 1975 to 1977, and the 21st Secretary of Defense under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2006. He is both the youngest (43 years old) and the oldest (74 years old) person to have held the position, as well as the only person to have held the position for two non-consecutive terms, and the second longest serving, … - Michael Jackson
Michael A. Jackson is a satellite project manager who ran as a Republican in the 2003 California recall, primarily getting votes due to sharing his name with that of pop singer Michael Jackson. Jackson garnered 746 votes, placing him 91st out of 135 candidates. - Dennis Hastert
John Dennis Hastert (born January 2, 1942) is an American politician. He has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1987, representing (map), and served as Speaker of the House from 1999 to 2007. Originally elevated to the Speakership on January 6, 1999, he surpassed Joseph Gurney Cannon as the longest-serving Republican Speaker in history on June 1, 2006. - Jim McDermott
James Adelbert "Jim" McDermott (born December 28 1936 in Chicago, Illinois) is the current U.S. Representative for. The 7th District includes most of Seattle and Vashon Island and portions of Shoreline, Tukwila, SeaTac, and Burien. McDermott is a member of the Democratic Party. He serves on the House Ways and Means Committee and is a member of the House Progressive Caucus. McDermott was born in Chicago, Illinois. - Jim Saxton
Hugh James "Jim" Saxton (born January 22 1943) is an American Republican Party politician. He has been a member of the United States House of Representatives since 1984. He represented from 1984 to 1993. Since 1993, he has represented, (map), which is essentially a renumbering of his previous district due to reapportionment after the 1990 census. - John Connally
John Bowden Connally, Jr. (February 27 1917 - June 15 1993) was a powerful American politician from the state of Texas. He was initially a member of the Democratic Party, but in 1973, at the height of the Watergate affair, he switched allegiance to the Republican Party. He was also noteworthy as a passenger in the car in which John F. Kennedy was shot to death. Although badly wounded himself, Connally made a full recovery from his injuries. - Maurice Hinchey
Maurice Dunlea Hinchey (born October 27, 1938), is an American politician. He has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing the 22nd Congressional District of New York since 2003 (formerly the 26th District). The district extends west from the Hudson River to include Binghamton and Ithaca. - John W. Weeks
John Wingate Weeks (April 11, 1860 - July 12, 1926) was an American politician in the Republican Party. He served as a United States Representative for Massachusetts from 1905 to 1913, as a United States Senator from 1913 to 1919, and as Secretary of War from 1921 to 1925. Weeks was born and raised in Lancaster, New Hampshire. He received an appointment to the United States Naval Academy, graduating in 1881, and served two years in the United States Navy. - Stephen Hopkins
Stephen Hopkins (March 7, 1707-July 13, 1785) was an American political leader from Rhode Island who signed the Declaration of Independence. He served as the Chief Justice and Governor of colonial Rhode Island and was a Delegate to the Colonial Congress in Albany in 1754 and to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1776. Hopkins was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of William and Ruth (Wilkinson) Hopkins. - Mickey Kantor
Michael "Mickey" Kantor (born August 7, 1939 in Nashville, Tennessee) is an American politician and lawyer. After serving as the Clinton-Gore campaign chair in 1992, Kantor was appointed United States Trade Representative, holding that office from 1993 to 1997. He was, in 1996 and 1997, United States Secretary of Commerce. - Don Edwards
William Donlon Edwards, (born January 6, 1915), usually known as Don Edwards, is an American politician of the Democratic Party, formerly a member of the United States House of Representatives from California. Born in San Jose, California, he attended the public schools in the city, graduating from San Jose High Academy, before earning a B.A. from Stanford University in 1936, where he was member of the Stanford golf team. - Bob Stump
Robert Lee (Bob) Stump (April 4, 1927 - June 20, 2003) was a U.S. Congressman from Arizona. Stump was born in Phoenix and was a U.S. Navy World War II combat veteran, where he served on the USS Tulagi from 1943-1946. He graduated from Tolleson High School in 1947, and Arizona State University in 1951. For many years, he owned a cotton and grain farm in the Phoenix suburb of Tolleson. He served four terms in the Arizona House of Representatives from 1959-1967, … - John A. Volpe
John Anthony Volpe (December 8, 1908 - September 11, 1994) was a Governor of Massachusetts and a U.S. Secretary of Transportation. Volpe was born in 1908 in Malden, Massachusetts, although both nearby Wakefield and Winchester each claim him as one of their own. He was the son of Italian immigrants Vito and Filomena (Benedetto), who had come from Abruzzo to Boston's North End in 1905; his father was in the construction business. - James V. Hansen
James Vear Hansen (born August 14, 1932) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Utah. Hansen was born in Salt Lake City, graduating from the city's East Lake High School. From 1951 until 1955 he was a member of the United States Navy. He attended the University of Utah, receiving a business degree from the school in 1961. The same year that he left college, Hansen was elected to the Farmington City Council. - Anthony J. Celebrezze
Anthony Joseph Celebrezze Sr. (September 4, 1910-October 29, 1998) was an American politician of the Democratic Party, who served as the 49th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, as a cabinet member in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and as a U.S. appeals court judge. Celebrezze was born in Anzi, Italy, but moved with his family to the United States as a young child. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He attended Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio, … - Benjamin F. Tracy
Benjamin Franklin Tracy (April 26, 1830 - August 6, 1915) was a United States political figure who served as Secretary of the Navy from 1889 through 1893, during the administration of U.S. President Benjamin Harrison. A native of the Apalachin hamlet near Owego, New York, Tracy was a lawyer active in Republican Party politics during the 1850s. During the Civil War, he served as a Union brigadier general. - Frank Thompson
Frank Thompson, Jr. (July 26, 1918, Trenton, New Jersey - July 22, 1989, Bethesda, Maryland) was an American politician from New Jersey. Thompson represented New Jersey's 4th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1955 to 1980. Thompson was born in Trenton, New Jersey. He attended Wake Forest University, from which he earned a degree in law. - James L. Buckley
James Buckley (born March 9, 1923 in New York City) was a United States Senator from the state of New York as a member of the Conservative Party of New York State. Buckley served from January 3, 1971 to January 3, 1977. Formerly, he was vice president and director of the Catawba Corporation from 1953 to 1970, and afterwards served as Undersecretary of State for Security Assistance 1981-1982, President of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Inc. - Robert Stafford
Robert Theodore Stafford was an American politician from Vermont. In his lengthy career, he served as the Governor of Vermont, a United States Representative, and a U.S. Senator. Republican Stafford was generally considered a moderate or liberal. He is best remembered for his staunch environmentalism, his work on higher education, and his support, as an elder statesman, for the 2000 Vermont law legalizing civil unions for gay couples. - Robert B. Meyner
Robert Baumle Meyner (July 3, 1908 - May 27, 1990) of Phillipsburg, New Jersey was an American Democratic Party politician, who served as the 44th Governor of New Jersey, from 1954 to 1962. Before being elected Governor, Meyner represented Warren County in the New Jersey Senate from 1948 to 1951. Robert Meyner was born in Easton, Pennsylvania to a silk worker of German ancestry. At the age of eight, the family moved across the state border to Phillipsburg, New Jersey. - Richard Riley
Richard Wilson Riley (born January 2, 1933), American politician, was the United States Secretary of Education under President Bill Clinton as well as the Governor of South Carolina, as a member of the Democratic Party. Born in Greenville County, South Carolina, Riley graduated with honors from Furman University in 1954. He then served in the Navy from 1954-55. Later in 1959 he received a law degree from the University of South Carolina. - James C. Dobbin
James Cochran Dobbin (January 17, 1814 - August 4, 1857) was a nineteenth century politician and lawyer who served as United States Secretary of the Navy from 1853 to 1857. Born in Fayetteville, North Carolina in 1814, the grandson of congressman James Cochran, Dobbin attended Fayetteville Academy and the William Bingham School and later went on to graduate from the University of North Carolina in 1832. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1835, … - Robert C. Smith
Robert C. "Bob" Smith (born March 30, 1941) is an American politician who has served in both the United States House of Representatives and the Senate. He is a member of the Republican Party. Smith stands 6' 6" (1.98m) tall. Smith was born in Trenton, New Jersey. He obtained a bachelor's degree from Lafayette College in 1965 and served in the United States Navy from 1965 to 1967, including a year of duty in Vietnam. - Bob Livingston
Robert Linlithgow Livingston, Jr., better known as Bob Livingston (born April 30, 1943), is a Washington, D.C.-based lobbyist and a former Republican U.S. Representative from Louisiana. He is best known for being chosen as Newt Gingrich's successor as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives late in 1998, only to resign in the wake of a sex scandal. Livingston was born in Colorado Springs, but spent most of his youth in New Orleans. - Sonny Callahan
Herbert Leon "Sonny" Callahan (b. September 11, 1932) is a politician from Alabama. Callahan was born in Mobile, Alabama and he attended classes at a branch of the University of Alabama that was located in Mobile. He did not graduate. Callahan served in the United States Navy from 1952 to 1954. Callahan was involved in the real estate and insurance businesses. - John S. Tanner
John S. Tanner (b. September 22, 1944) is a politician from the state of Tennessee. He represents the state's Eighth Congressional District in the House of Representatives (map), based in northwest Tennessee. Tanner was born in Halls, Tennessee, and grew up in Union City, Tennessee. Following graduation from the University of Tennessee, he served in the United States Navy from 1968 to 1972. He was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1976, … - Foster Furcolo
John Foster Furcolo (July 29, 1911 - July 5, 1995) was born in New Haven, Connecticut. Before serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II, from 1942 to 1946, he graduated from Yale University in 1933 and Yale Law School in 1936. In U.S. House election, 1948, he was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives, and served in Congress from January 3, 1949 to September 30, 1952. - Clem McSpadden
Clem Rogers McSpadden (born November 9, 1925), was a Democrat politician and a Representative to Congress from Oklahoma's 2nd Congressional District who served from 1973 to 1975. McSpadden was born on a ranch near the small town of Bushyhead in Rogers County, Oklahoma. He attended public schools at nearby Oologah. After completing his college education, he served in the United States Navy during World War II 1944-1946. He was first elected to public office in November, … - 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. - Dan Daniel
Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel (May 12, 1914 - January 23, 1988) was a U.S. Representative from Virginia, USA. Born in Chatham, Virginia, Daniel grew up on a tobacco farm in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. He was educated in Virginia schools, and was a graduate of Dan River Textile School, Danville, Virginia. Danville, on the Dan River, was at the time a centre for the tobacco and textile industries. The name of the school references the textile industry, … - Brock Adams
Brockman "Brock" Adams (January 13, 1927 - September 10, 2004) was an American politician and member of Congress. Adams was a Democrat from Washington and served as a U.S. Representative, Senator, and United States Secretary of Transportation before retiring in January 1993. Adams was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and attended the public schools in Portland, Oregon. - Francis Cherry
Francis Adams Cherry (5 September, 1908 - 15 July 1965) was the Democratic Governor of Arkansas for a single two-year term from 1953 - 1955. He was only the second governor in Arkansas history to have been denied a second term -- the first was Tom Jefferson Terral, who was defeated in 1926. After the governorship, Republican U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Cherry, a staunch anti-communist, to head the Subversive Activities Control Board, … - Robert Schliske
Robert Paul Edward Schliske, I (July 2, 1924 - June 21, 2007), was a founder of Laramie County Community College in Cheyenne and a former Republican member of the Wyoming House of Representatives. He served in the House from 1971-1975 during the administration of Republican Governor Stanley K. Hathaway. Schlikse was born in a farmhouse east of Fort Dodge, Iowa, to Paul Schliske and the former Hattie Hansch. That same year, the family moved to Carpenter, … - Donna Frye
Donna Frye (January 20, 1952-) is a member of the San Diego City Council, representing District 6. Frye was born in 1952 in Pennsylvania, the second of three children. Her family moved to San Diego when her father took a civilian job with the Navy. After an abusive first marriage and problems with alcohol abuse, Frye met her current husband Skip Frye at a Mexican restaurant in 1980. After they married, he persuaded her to give up alcohol, … - Joe Moakley
John Joseph "Joe" Moakley was a Democratic congressman from the Ninth District of Massachusetts, a seat held two years earlier by Speaker John William McCormack. Moakley was the last chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Rules before Republicans took control of the chamber in 1995. Moakley was born in Boston, Massachusetts, April 27, 1927. He served in the United States Navy during World War II. Moakley was involved in the War in the Pacific from 1943 to 1946. - Edward John Thye
Edward John Thye (April 26, 1896 - August 28, 1969) was an American politician for the state of Minnesota who served as a Republican. Born in 1896 in Frederick, South Dakota, he was elected the 31st Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota in 1942, and became the 26th Governor of Minnesota in 1943 when Governor Harold Stassen resigned to join the United States Navy. He was Governor from 1943 until 1947. - J.J. Pickle
James Jarrell Pickle (October 11, 1913 - June 18, 2005) also known as J.J. 'Jake' Pickle, was a United States Representative from the 10th congressional district of Texas from 1963 to 1995. Pickle was born in Roscoe, Texas. He acquired his nickname Jake from a mischievous character he portrayed in a family play when he was four years old. Pickle was an Eagle Scout and recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America. - Harold Stassen
Harold Edward Stassen (April 13, 1907 - March 4, 2001) was the 25th Governor of Minnesota from 1939 to 1943 and a later perennial candidate for other offices, most notably and frequently President of the United States. Born in West St. Paul, Minnesota, he graduated from high school at age 14 and the University of Minnesota Law School in 1929. He was elected District Attorney of Dakota County in 1930 and 1934. - Rodman M. Price
Rodman McCamley Price (March 5, 1816 - June 7, 1894) was an American Democratic Party politician, who served in the United States House of Representatives, and as the 17th Governor of New Jersey from 1854 to 1857. Price was born in Newton, in Sussex County on May 5, 1816. He attended the public schools of New York City and the Lawrenceville Academy (a predecessor to today's Lawrenceville School). Price pursued classical studies at Princeton College, but did not graduate.
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