- George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is the forty-third and current President of the United States of America. Originally inaugurated on January 20, 2001, Bush was elected president in the 2000 presidential election and re-elected in the 2004 presidential election. He previously served as the forty-sixth Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000, and is the eldest son of former United States president George H. W. Bush.
- John Kerry
John Kerry is a senator from Massachusetts. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for president in 2004.
- Dick Cheney
Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney (born January 30, 1941), is the forty-sixth and current Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate selected by President George W. Bush. Previously, he served as White House Chief of Staff, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wyoming, and Secretary of Defense. In the private sector, he was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Halliburton Energy Services.
- Sargent Shriver
Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr., known as Sargent, (born November 9, 1915) is an American Democratic politician and activist. He is best known as an in-law of the Kennedy family, the driving force behind the creation of the Peace Corps, and the Democratic Party's 1972 vice presidential candidate. Shriver's ebullient personality and creative energy made him one of the most effective leaders of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier and Lyndon Johnson's Great Society in the 1960s.
- John Chafee
John Lester Hubbard Chafee (October 22 1922 - October 24 1999) was an American politician. He served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps, as Governor of Rhode Island, as the Secretary of the Navy, and as a United States Senator.
- William Frank Buckley Sr.
William Frank Buckley, Sr. (born: 11 July 1881 Washington on the Brazos, Texas & died 5 October 1958 in New York City) was a Texan lawyer who became influential in Mexican politics during the term of President Victoriano Huerta and was expelled from Mexico during the Presidency of Álvaro Obregón. Buckley is best known as the father of the publisher of "National Review" magazine, William Frank Buckley, Jr. and as the father of former U.S. Senator James L. Buckley, …
- Estes Kefauver
Carey Estes Kefauver was an American politician from Tennessee who opposed the concentration of U.S. economic and political power in few hands. Kefauver was born in Madisonville, Tennessee, and attended the University of Tennessee and Yale University. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1939 to 1949 and in the U.S. Senate from 1949 to his death in 1963.
- John Lindsay
John Vliet Lindsay (November 24, 1921 - December 19, 2000) was an American liberal politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1959 to 1965 and mayor of New York City from 1966 to 1973.
- 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 Rubin
Robert Edward Rubin (born August 29, 1938) is an American banker who served as the 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury during both the first and second Clinton Administrations.
- 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.
- Wilbur Lucius Cross
Wilbur Lucius Cross, Ph. D. (April 10 1862 - October 5 1948) was an American educator and political figure. Born in 1862 in Mansfield, Connecticut, he was a well-known literary critic and the Democratic Governor of Connecticut from 1931 to 1939. Cross was Professor of English at Yale University and was also Dean of the Yale Graduate School. He was also principal of Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut for a short time around 1885.
- Robert Sargent Shriver III
Robert Sargent Shriver III (born April 28, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois), nicknamed Bobby Shriver, is a graduate of Yale University, where he became a member of Scroll and Key, and is a Yale Law School graduate and former part-owner of Baltimore Orioles. He is part of the Kennedy family. His mother is Eunice Mary Kennedy and his father is (Robert) Sargent Shriver, Jr..
- William Scranton
William Warren Scranton (born July 19 1917) is a former U.S. Republican Party politician. Scranton served as Governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967. From 1976 to 1977, he served as United States Ambassador to the United Nations.
- Ernesto Zedillo
Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León was President of Mexico from 1994 to 2000.
- Abraham Baldwin
Abraham Baldwin (November 23, 1754-March 4, 1807) was an American politician, Patriot, and Founding Father from the U.S. state of Georgia. Baldwin was a Georgia representative in the Continental Congress and served in the United States House of Representatives and Senate after the adoption of the Constitution.
- Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Campbell Brown (born November 9 1952) is the Democratic Junior United States Senator from the state of Ohio. Prior to his election to the Senate, he served 14 years in the United States House of Representatives, and eight years as the Ohio Secretary of State.
- David M. Kennedy
David Matthew Kennedy was an American businessman, economist and Cabinet secretary. Born in Randolph, Utah, he attended public school and graduated from Weber College, then a Mormon college, in 1928. He undertook a two-year mission, for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to England. Then he earned master's and law degrees from George Washington University in 1935 and 1937. He graduated from the Stonier Graduate School of Banking of Rutgers University in 1939.
- Harris Wofford
Harris Llewellyn Wofford (born April 9, 1926) is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as a U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania from 1991 to 1995. He was also the fifth president of Bryn Mawr College. Harris Wofford was born in New York City in 1926. While attending high school, he was inspired by Clarence Streit's plea for a world government to found the Student Federalists (see).
- William Benton
William Burnett Benton was a U.S. senator from Connecticut (1949 - 1953) and publisher of the "Encyclopædia Britannica" (1943 - 1973). Benton was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was educated at Shattuck Military Academy, Faribault, Minnesota, and Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota until 1918, at which point he matriculated at Yale University, where he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity.
- Anthony A. Williams
Anthony Allen "Tony" Williams (born July 28 1951, in Los Angeles, California) is an American politician who served as the fifth elected mayor of the District of Columbia from 1999 to 2007. He also served as Chief Financial Officer for the United States Department of Agriculture and held a variety of executive posts in cities around the country prior to his service in the D.C. government.
- Henry Baldwin
Henry Baldwin (January 14, 1780 - April 21, 1844) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from January 18, 1830, to April 21, 1844. He was the half-brother of Abraham Baldwin. In 1797 (aged 17) Baldwin received a doctor of laws degree from Yale University. He was elected to Congress as a Democratic-Republican in 1816, representing Pennsylvania, but resigned after six years because of his declining health and failing finances.
- H. John Heinz III
Henry John Heinz III (October 23, 1938 - April 4, 1991) was an American politician from Pennsylvania, a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives (1971-1977) and the United States Senate (1977-1991).
- Tansu Çiller
Tansu Penbe Çiller (IPA: (born 9 October 1946) is an economist and politician in Turkey. She was Turkey's first and to date only female prime minister. She was born in Istanbul and graduated from the School of Economics at Robert College after finishing the American College for Girls of Istanbul. Çiller received her Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut and completed later on her postdoctoral studies at Yale University.
- Pete Wilson
Peter Barton Wilson is an American Republican politician from California. Wilson served as the thirty-sixth Governor of California (1991–1999), the culmination of more than three decades in the public arena that included eight years as a United States Senator (1983–1991), eleven years as Mayor of San Diego (1971–1983) and five years as a California State Assemblyman (1967–1971).
- Judah P. Benjamin
Judah Philip Benjamin (August 6, 1811 - May 6, 1884) was an American politician and lawyer. He was born British, and died a resident in England. He held the following posts: * representative in the Louisiana state legislature *U.S. Senator for Louisiana *three successive Cabinet posts in the government of the Confederate States of America He was also a distinguished barrister and Queen's Counsel in England.
- 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.
- Sheila Jackson-Lee
Sheila Jackson-Lee (born January 12, 1950 in Queens, New York), an American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1995. She represents Texas' 18th Congressional District (map), which was once the domain of her role model, former congresswoman Barbara Jordan.
- Mel Watt
Melvin Luther (Mel) Watt (born August 26, 1945), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing the Twelfth District of North Carolina (map). Born in Steele Creek, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, Watt attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Yale University Law School. He served a single term in the North Carolina Senate (1985-1986), …
- Dora Irizarry
Dora Irizarry is a Federal Judge in New York. Born in San Sebastian, Puerto Rico, on January 26, 1955, Irizarry was raised in New York City. A graduate of Yale University and Columbia University Law School, Irizarry worked as an assistant district attorney in the Bronx and Manhattan. Specializing in drug and narcotics cases, Irizarry has said she wanted to improve the quality of life in the neighborhoods she grew up in.
- Lowell P. Weicker Jr.
Lowell Palmer Weicker, Jr. (born May 16, 1931) is an American politician who has served as a U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and Governor of Connecticut. Though a member of the Republican Party during his time in Congress, he later left the Republican Party and became one of the few independents to be elected as a state governor in the United States in recent years. Since his retirement from political office, he has moved more towards the Democratic Party.
- David S. C. Chu
David S. C. Chu is the United States Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and Readiness) responsible as the senior policy advisor on recruitment, career development, pay and benefits, and overseeing the state of military readiness. Appointed on June 1, 2001, Chu is one of the least publicly recognized of the civilians appointed to The Pentagon under President George W. Bush. Dr. Chu received a Bachelor of Arts Degree, magna cum laude, …
- John Yarmuth
John Yarmuth is the U.S. Representative for. He is a former independent newspaper publisher. A Louisville native who graduated from Atherton High School in 1965, he graduated from Yale University, majoring in American Studies. After working for U.S. Senator Marlow Cook from 1971 to 1975, he returned to Louisville to begin his publishing career when he founded the "Louisville Today" magazine (1976–1982).
- Joseph A. Scranton
Joseph Augustine Scranton (July 26 1838 - October 12 1908) was a Republican politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives from 1881 to 1883, 1885 to 1887, 1889 to 1891, and 1893 to 1897. Scranton was born in Madison, Connecticut, moving to Pennsylvania with his family a boy and settling in Lackawanna County, where the Scranton community was named for his family. He attended the prestigious Phillips Academy in Andover, …
- Kwesi Botchwey
Dr. Kwesi Botchwey, an academic, is a Professor of Practice in Development Economics at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University. Earlier he remained Ghana's Minister of Finance from 1982 to 1995. At that time he was hand picked by the progressive military ruler of Ghana Jerry Rawlings to help in stabilizing the collapsed economy of Ghana.
- Tony Knowles
Anthony Carroll "Tony" Knowles (born January 1, 1943 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American Democratic politician and businessman who served as Governor of Alaska from December 1994 to December 2002. Barred from seeking a third consecutive term as governor in 2002, he ran unsuccessfully for Senate in 2004 and again for governor in 2006.
- Yoriko Kawaguchi
Yoriko Kawaguchi is a Japanese politician. She was born in Tokyo. She holds a B.A. in international relations from the University of Tokyo, and a master's in economics from Yale University. She was the minister of the environment of Japan from 2000 until 2002 and the foreign minister of Japan from February 2002 until September 2004. She was reappointed to the post of foreign minister after a cabinet reshuffle in September 2003, …
- Thomas J. Dodd
Thomas Joseph Dodd was a United States Senator and Representative from Connecticut, and the father of U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd.
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr.
James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (August 12, 1877 - June 21, 1952) was a U.S. Republican politician, grandson of General Wadsworth. He graduated from Yale in 1898, and immediately entered the live-stock and farming business in which his father was interested both in New York and Texas.He became active early in Republican politics, being elected to the New York State Assembly in 1905 (when 28 years old) and serving continuously until 1910.
- David Kemp
Dr David Alistair Kemp (born 14 October 1941), Australian politician, was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives from March 1990 to October 2004, representing the Division of Goldstein, Victoria. He was born in Melbourne, Victoria, and was educated at the University of Melbourne and Yale University, where he gained a doctoral degree in politics. He is the brother of Senator Rod Kemp.