- 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.
- Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice (born November 14 1954) is the 66th United States Secretary of State, and the second in the administration of President George W. Bush to hold the office. Rice is the first African American woman, second African American (after Colin Powell, who served before her from 2001 - 2005), and second woman (after Madeleine Albright who served from 1997 to 2001, before Colin Powell) to serve as Secretary of State.
- Colin Powell
General Colin Luther Powell, United States Army (Ret.) (born April 5, 1937) is a former American military leader and statesman. He became the first African-American to be confirmed as United States Secretary of State. As the 65th United States Secretary of State (2001-05) under President George W. Bush, Powell became the highest ranking African American government official in the history of the United States.
- 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.
- Bill Bradley
William Warren "Bill" Bradley (born July 28, 1943) is an American hall of fame basketball player, Rhodes scholar, and former U.S. Senator from New Jersey and presidential candidate, who challenged Vice President Al Gore for the Democratic Party's nomination for President in the 2000 election.
- Fidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born August 13, 1926) is the current President of Cuba. He led the revolution overthrowing dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959 and shortly after was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Cuba. Castro became First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba in 1965, and led the transformation of Cuba into a one-party socialist republic. In 1976 he became president of the Council of State as well as of the Council of Ministers.
- Geraldine Ferraro
Geraldine Anne Ferraro (born August 26, 1935) is a Democratic politician and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives. She is best known as the first and only woman to date to represent a major U.S. political party as a candidate for Vice President. Ferraro and running mate Walter Mondale were defeated in a landslide by incumbent President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H. W. Bush in the 1984 election.
- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo , President of the Philippines
- Al Gore
Former Vice President Al Gore is Vice Chairman of Metropolitan West Financial, LLC, and a member of the firm's executive leadership team. He serves as a Senior Advisor to Google, Inc. In March 2003, he was elected to the Board of Directors of Apple Computers, Inc. Mr. Gore is a Visiting Professor at two universities in Tennessee, Middle Tennessee State University and Fisk University, and at UCLA.
- Mwai Kibaki
Mwai Kibaki (born November 15, 1931) is the President of Kenya. Kibaki was previously Vice President (1978 - 1988), and has held several other cabinet positions, including Minister for Finance (1978 - 1981), Minister for Home Affairs (1982 - 1988) and Minister for Health (1988 - 1991). He was baptised Emilio Stanley by Italian missionaries in his youth but he rarely uses this name.
- Lloyd Bentsen
Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr., (February 11 1921 - May 23 2006) was a four-term United States senator (1971 until 1993) from Texas and the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President in 1988 on the Michael Dukakis ticket. He also served in the House of Representatives from 1949 to 1955. In his later political life, he was Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and the U.S. Treasury Secretary during the early years of the Clinton administration.
- Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
General (ret.) Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (born September 9, 1949 in Pacitan, East Java, Indonesia), is an Indonesian retired military general and statesman as well as the sixth President of Indonesia. Yudhoyono won the presidency in September 2004 in the second round of the Indonesian presidential election, in which he defeated incumbent President Megawati Sukarnoputri. He was sworn into office on 20 October 2004, together with Jusuf Kalla as Vice President.
- Shimon Peres
"' (born Szymon Perski"' on August 2, 1923 in eastern Poland) is the 9th President of the State of Israel. He is a senior Israeli statesman with a political career spanning more than 65 years. He joined the Knesset in November 1959 and, except for a three-month-long hiatus in early 2006, served continuously until June 13, 2007, the day he was elected President of Israel.
- Hu Jintao
Hu Jintao (born December 21, 1942) is currently the Paramount Leader of the People's Republic of China, holding the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of China since 2002, President of the People's Republic of China since 2003, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission since 2004, succeeding Jiang Zemin in the fourth generation leadership of the People's Republic of China.
- George Clinton
George Clinton (July 26, 1739 - April 20, 1812) was an American soldier and politician. He was the first (and longest-serving) Governor of New York, and then Vice President of the United States under Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
- Manuel L. Quezon
President Manuel L. Quezon 1935–1941 Vice President Sergio Osmeña 1935–1941 Secretary of Public Instruction Sergio Osmeña 1935–1940
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to as LBJ, was the thirty-sixth President of the United States (1963–1969). After serving a long career in the U.S. Congress, Johnson became the thirty-seventh Vice President, and in 1963, he succeeded to the presidency following President John F. Kennedy's assassination. He was a major leader of the Democratic Party and as President was responsible for designing his Great Society, …
- Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 - December 26, 1972) was the thirty-third President of the United States (1945-1953); as Vice President, he succeeded to the office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. In domestic affairs, Truman faced challenge after challenge: a tumultuous reconversion of the economy marked by severe shortages, numerous strikes, and the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act over his veto. After confounding all predictions to win re-election in 1948, …
- Jusuf Kalla
Jusuf Kalla (born Watampone, South Sulawesi; May 15, 1942) is the current Vice President of Indonesia and Chairman of the Golkar Party.
- Noli de Castro
Manuel "Noli" Leuterio De Castro, Jr. (born July 6, 1949) is a politician and former broadcast journalist in the Philippines. De Castro was elected Senator in 2001 and was elected as Vice President of the Republic of the Philippines as the running mate of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in 2004. He is also the current secretary for housing and urban development. He is the first independent Senatorial topnotcher and the first elected independent Vice-President.
- Annette Lu
Hsiu-lien Annette Lu, born June 7, 1944, is the incumbent vice president of the Republic of China and member of the Democratic Progressive Party. Vice President Lu announced her intentions to run for president on March 6, 2007.
- Nelson Rockefeller
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 - January 26, 1979) was the forty-first Vice President of the United States, governor of New York State, philanthropist and businessman. A leader of the liberal wing of the Republican Party, he was Governor of New York from 1959 to 1973, where he launched many construction and modernization projects. A descendant of one of the world's richest and best known families, he failed repeatedly in his attempts to become president, …
- Spiro Agnew
Spiro Theodore Agnew (November 9, 1918 - September 17, 1996) was the thirty-ninth Vice President of the United States serving under President Richard M. Nixon, and the fifty-fifth Governor of Maryland. He is most famous for his resignation in 1973 after he was charged with the crime of tax evasion.
- Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (1938- ) is president of Liberia and the first elected female president of any African nation. After Johnson-Sirleaf obtained her master's degree in public administration from Harvard University, she worked in financial management for the Liberian government, eventually ascending to the post of finance minister in the Liberian Cabinet in the 1970s.
- Martin van Buren
Martin Van Buren (December 5 1782 - July 24 1862), nicknamed "Old Kinderhook", was the eighth President of the United States from 1837 to 1841. Before his presidency he served as the eighth Vice President (1833-1837) and the 10th Secretary of State under Andrew Jackson. He was a key organizer of the Democratic Party, a dominant figure in the Second Party System, and the first president who was not of English, Irish, Welsh, or Scottish descent.
- David Dreier
Water is a priority issue for Congressman Dreier. One of the midnight regulations would discontinue the EPA's monitoring of a water contaminant called perchlorate. A chemical used in rocket fuel and explosives, perchlorate has been linked to thyroid problems in children, pregnant women, and newborns. The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory is not only in Rep. Dreier's district, it is a superfund cleanup site which has a history of water contamination from -- wait for it -- perchlorate.
- George Murphy
George Lloyd Murphy was an American dancer, actor, and politician. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut of Irish Catholic extraction, and attended Yale University. He worked as a tool maker for the Ford Motor Company, as a miner, a real estate agent, and a night club dancer. In 1927 he appeared on Broadway, partnering with his wife Julie Johnson as a dance act. When Johnson decided to retire from show business in 1935, Murphy moved the family to Hollywood, …
- Levy Mwanawasa
Dr. Mwanawasa said Africa and Zambia in particular is in a hurry to develop and China has come out a dependable partner. The President said very soon, China will embark on a $900 million economic zone project on the Copperbelt where over 60,000 people will be employed.
- Ali Osman Taha
Ali Osman Taha (also transliterated "Othman" or "Uthman") is the second Vice President of Sudan from August, 2005 to the present. He held the position of first First Vice President from 1998 to August 2005. He was the country's Foreign Minister for three years prior to becoming first Vice President and is a member of the National Congress Party (Sudan). Taha is a graduate of the Faculty of Law at the University of Khartoum and was known for his academic prowess.
- Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 - July 9, 1850) was an American military leader and the twelfth President of the United States. Known as "Old Rough and Ready," Taylor had a 40-year military career in the U.S. Army, serving in the War of 1812, Black Hawk War, and Second Seminole War after achieving fame while leading U.S. troops to victory at several critical battles of the Mexican-American War. A Southern slaveholder who opposed the spread of slavery to the territories, …
- Moody Awori
Arthur Moody Awori, known as "Uncle Moody" (born 5 December 1927 in Butere), has been the Vice President of Kenya since 25 September 2003. He first entered parliament in 1983 and went on to achieve success under President Daniel arap Moi, to whom he was considered loyal, serving in several positions as assistant minister during Moi's presidency. Awori broke with the ruling party, KANU, in 2002 and joined the National Rainbow Coalition opposition party.
- Albert Gore Sr.
Albert Arnold Gore, Sr. (26 December 1907 - 5 December 1998) was an American politician, serving as a U.S. Representative and a U.S. Senator for the Democratic Party from Tennessee. Gore had two children: Nancy LaFon Gore, born in 1938, who died of lung cancer in 1984 and Albert A. Gore, Jr, Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.
- Abdul Halim Khaddam
Abdul Halim Khaddam (born 1932 in Baniyas), is a Syrian politician and former Vice President of Syria.
- José Manuel Barroso
José Manuel Durão Barroso, GCC (born in Lisbon, March 23, 1956) is a Portuguese politician and the 11th President of the European Commission. He served as Prime Minister of Portugal from 6 April 2002 until 29 June 2004, when he resigned to become President-designate of the European Commission. The appointment was formally endorsed by the European Parliament on July 22, and he was due to take over officially from Romano Prodi on 1 November 2004.
- Charles G. Dawes
Charles G. Dawes at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Notes As Vice President 1928 1929 by Charles G. Dawes Portrait Of An American by Charles G. Dawes
- Michael Thompson
Michael Thompson is a Toronto city councillor. He represents the western half of Scarborough Centre, Ward 37 Scarborough Centre. Raised in Scarborough he has a BA in Economics from Concordia University. He is a Black Canadian. Thompson graduated from Ionview Public School and Sir John A. Macdonald Collegiate in Scarborough. Prior to being elected as a city councillor, he worked in the financial services industry, and founded a business services company.
- George M. Dallas
George Mifflin Dallas was a U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and the eleventh Vice President, serving under James K. Polk. Dallas was born in Philadelphia and graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1810. He was admitted to the bar in 1813 and served as private secretary to Albert Gallatin, Minister to Russia. Dallas returned in 1814 and practiced law in New York City. He was solicitor of the Second Bank of the United States from 1816 to 1817.
- Chester A. Arthur
Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, 1829 - November 18, 1886) was an American politician who served as the twenty-first President of the United States. Arthur was a member of the Republican Party and worked as a lawyer before becoming the twentieth vice president under James Garfield. While Garfield was mortally wounded by Charles Guiteau on July 2, 1881, he did not die until September 19, at which time Arthur was sworn in as president, serving until March 4, 1885.
- Simon Findlay Crean
Simon Crean is the Minister for Trade and the member for Hotham (Victoria) in the Parliament of Australia. After graduating from Monash University, Mr Crean assumed several trade union leadership positions, including assistant general secretary and general secretary of the Federated Storemen and Packers Union of Australia from 1976-1985. In 1985, he was elected president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), having been active in the organisation since 1981.
- Leon Panetta
Panetta is a surprise pick since he has no experience in the intelligence world, though as chief of staff he had considerable access to intelligence information and knows how the community operates. Panetta was a longtime congressman from California who also served on the Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan panel that released a report at the end of 2006 with dozens of recommendations for reversing course in the Iraq war.