- 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. - Pat Garrett
Patrick "Pat" Floyd Garrett (June 5, 1850 - February 28, 1908) was an American Old West lawman, bartender, and customs agent who was most known for killing Billy the Kid. - Richard Pombo
Richard William Pombo (born January 8 1961) is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, having represented California's 11th congressional district from 1993 to 2007. After multiple allegations of corruption, misuse of official resources, nepotism, questionable campaign contributions, and concerted opposition from national environmental groups, Pombo lost a reelection bid to to Democratic challenger Jerry McNerney on November 7, 2006. - 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, … - Ben Johnson
Ben Johnson Jr. was an American motion picture actor, mainly in Westerns. He was also a rodeo cowboy, stuntman, and rancher. Born in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, of Osage and Irish ancestry to Ben Sr. and Ollie (Workman) Johnson. Ben Johnson Sr. was a rancher in Osage County and also a rodeo champion. As a young man, Ben Johnson Jr. was a ranch hand, would travel with his father on the rodeo circuit, and become a star before becoming involved in the movies. - Jim Risch
James E. "Jim" Risch (born May 3, 1943 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a former Governor of Idaho. He succeeded to the office on May 26, 2006 when his predecessor, Dirk Kempthorne, resigned to become U.S. Secretary of the Interior. Risch is a rancher, attorney, and politician from Ada County. He was the first Catholic to become governor of the State of Idaho. Currently he is Lieutenant Governor of Idaho. - Henry Miller
Henry Miller was a German-American rancher who at one point in the late 19th century was one of the largest land-owners in the United States. Born in Germany as Heinrich Kreiser, he immigrated to New York City in 1846, where he worked as a butcher. He came out to California in 1850 under the name Henry Miller, a name borrowed from the non-transferable steamer ticket he had purchased from a friend in New York. Miller built up a thriving butcher business in San Francisco, … - Clayton Williams
Clayton Wheat Williams, Jr. (b. 1931), a businessman from Midland, Texas, is best known for running for the governorship of the state of Texas against Democratic State Treasurer Ann Richards in 1990 on the Republican ticket. - Dale Robertson
Dale Robertson (born Dayle Lamoine Robertson on July 14, 1923, in Harrah, Oklahoma, in Oklahoma County near Oklahoma City) is an American actor. Robertson started his career in the late 1940s while he was in the U.S. Army. While stationed at San Luis Obispo, California, Robertson went to Amos Carr Studio to have a picture taken for his mother. A copy of the photo displayed in the shop window attracted movie agents. - David Dewhurst
David Dewhurst (born 1945) is the Republican Lieutenant Governor of Texas. - Dolph Briscoe
Dolph S. Briscoe (born April 23, 1923 in Uvalde, Texas) is a wealthy Uvalde rancher and businessman who was the Democratic Governor of Texas between 1973 and 1979. He was the last governor to serve a two-year term and the first to serve a four-year term, when the state doubled the length of gubernatorial terms, effective in 1975. - Oliver Loving
Oliver Loving was a cattle rancher and pioneer of the cattle drive who with Charles Goodnight developed the Goodnight-Loving Trail. He was mortally wounded by Native Americans while on a cattle drive. He was born in Hopkins County, Kentucky. From 1833 to a decade later, Loving was a farmer in Muhlenburg County until he, his brother, and his brother-in-law moved their families to the Republic of Texas, … - Mac Thornberry
William McClellan "Mac" Thornberry (born July 15, 1958), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1995. He represents the 13th Congressional District of Texas, which includes much of the Panhandle and stretches as far east as Wichita Falls (map). He currently serves on the Armed Services Committee and the Intelligence Committee. Thornberry is a lifelong resident of Clarendon, the seat of Donley County, … - Warren Chisum
Warren Darrel Chisum (born July 4, 1938) is a staunchly conservative Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from the Panhandle city of Pampa, a community of some 20,000 people and the seat of Gray County. He has served in the state House since 1989. A key lieutenant of Speaker Thomas Russell "Tom" Craddick, Sr., of Midland, Chisum is the incoming 2007 chairman of the budget-writing House Appropriations Committee. - Cynthia Lummis
Cynthia M. Lummis (born September 10, 1954) is a Republican lawyer and rancher in Cheyenne who served as the Wyoming state treasurer from 1999-2007 -- the 29th person to hold the position. In that capacity, she managed over $8 billion in annual funds and was elected president of the Western State Treasurer's Association. Earlier, she was a member of the Wyoming State Senate (1982-1994) and the Wyoming House of Representatives (1979-1982). - Samuel Maverick
Samuel Augustus Maverick was a Texas lawyer, politician, and land baron. Born near Pendleton, South Carolina, he was the son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Anderson) Maverick. He received his B.A. from Yale College in 1825 then studied law in Winchester, Virginia. In 1829, having returned to South Carolina, he was admitted to the bar. - Joe Skeen
Joseph Richard "Joe" Skeen (June 30, 1927-- December 7, 2003) was a conservative Republican congressman from southern New Mexico. He served for eleven terms in the United States House of Representatives between 1980 and 2003. Skeen was born in Roswell, New Mexico. During his teenage years, his family moved to Seattle. During the final year of World War II, Skeen entered the United States Navy. After returning home, he graduated from Texas A&M University in College Station, … - Wovoka
Wovoka (c. 1856 - September 20, 1932), also known as Jack Wilson, was the Northern Paiute religious leader who founded the Ghost Dance movement. Wovoka means "wood cutter" in the Northern Paiute language. Wovoka was born in the Smith Valley area southeast of Carson City, Nevada around the year 1856. Wovoka's father may have been the religious leader variously known as "Tavibo" or "Numu-Taibo" whose teachings were similar to those of Wovoka. - Ray Hunkins
Raymond Breedlove "Ray" Hunkins (born ca. 1939) is an attorney, rancher, former police officer, United States Marine Corps veteran, and the Republican nominee for Governor of Wyoming in the general election held on November 7, 2006. Hunkins resides in Wheatland, a small town in Platte County north of Cheyenne. Hunkins first sought the Republican nomination for governor in 2002 but was defeated by the more "moderate" candidate, Eli Bebout of Riverton, … - Malcolm Wallop
Malcolm Wallop (born February 27, 1933) is a Republican politician and former three-term United States Senator from Wyoming. Wallop is noted as the first non-lawyer to serve as a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. - Patrick Burns
Patrick Burns (6 July 1856 - 24 February 1937) was a Canadian rancher, meat packer and senator. A self-made millionaire, he built one of the world's largest meat-packing empires, Burns Meats. He is honoured as one of the "Big Four" western cattle kings who started the Calgary Stampede in Alberta in 1912. - Anne Armstrong
Anne L. Armstrong (b. December 27, 1927) is a United States diplomat, politician, and the first female Counselor to the President; she served in that capacity under both the Ford and Nixon administrations. She was also the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and graduated from Vassar College in 1949. In 1950, she married Tobin Armstrong and moved to Kennedy County, Texas. - Jim Shoulders
James A. "Jim" Shoulders (May 13 1928 - June 20 2007) was a Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame cowboy who has won more World Championship Rodeo Cowboy awards than any other Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association contestant. He also did advertising for Miller Lite with former New York Yankees manager Billy Martin. Shoulders also helped to design Wrangler Jeans 13MWZ Cowboy Cut jeans and was a spokesman for Justin Boots. - Albert B. Fall
Albert Bacon Fall (November 26, 1861 - November 30, 1944) was a United States Senator from New Mexico and the Secretary of the Interior under President Warren G. Harding, notorious for his involvement in the Teapot Dome scandal. - Todd Hiett
Todd Hiett (July 9, 1967) is an American rancher and Republican politician from Oklahoma. Hiett served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1995 until 2007. During his final two years in office, Hiett served as the Speaker of the House. Hiett was the first Republican to hold that position in over eight decades. Once he had completed the maximum twelve year term (term limits are constitutionally mandated in Oklahoma), … - Peter French
Peter French (April 301849 - December 261897) was a rancher in the western United States in the late 1800s. The community of Frenchglen, Oregon was partially named for him. - Eli Bebout
Eli Daniel Bebout (born October 14, 1946), though a veteran Wyoming politician, is the newest member of the Wyoming State Senate -- he represents District 26 from Riverton, the seat of Fremont County in central portion of his state. A Republican, Bebout (pronounced BEE BOUT) is a former member of the Wyoming House of Representatives, Speaker of the House, and his party's gubernatorial nominee in 2002. - Bob Price
Robert Dale “Bob” Price was a Republican congressman from the Texas Panhandle from 1967-1975 and a member of the Texas State Senate from 1978-1980. Price was considered to have been among the most conservative members of his party. He was the first Republican since Reconstruction to hold the Panhandle congressional seat. Price was born to Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Price, Sr., in rural Reading, Kansas. - T. Boone Pickens Jr.
Thomas Boone Pickens, Jr. (born May 22, 1928) is an American businessman who chairs the private equity firm BP Capital Management. He was a well-known takeover artist during the 1980s. With an estimated current net worth of around $2.5 billion, he is ranked by "Forbes" as the 131-richest person in America and ranked #369 in the World. - Lincoln Loy McCandless
Lincoln Loy McCandless (September 18, 1859 - October 5, 1940) was an American cattle rancher, industrialist and politician from Hawaii. McCandless served in the United States Congress as a territorial delegate. A former member of the Hawaii Republican Party, McCandless was one of the earliest leaders of the Hawaii Democratic Party. Born in Indiana, Pennsylvania, McCandless grew up in Volcano, West Virginia. - Joseph M. Carey
Joseph Maull Carey (b. January 19 1845, Milton, Delaware - d. February 5 1924, Cheyenne, Wyoming) was a lawyer, rancher, judge, and politician from Delaware who spent most of his political career in Wyoming before and after it achieved statehood. Joseph M. Carey was educated in Fort Edward Collegiate Institute and Union College before graduating from the law department at the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1864. He was admitted to the bar three years later, … - Ralph Garcia
Ralph Garcia (September 18, 1956 - August 31, 1999) was a US prison guard, at a New Mexico prison owned and operated by the Wackenhut Corrections Corporation, who was murdered during a prison riot in Santa Rosa. His death led to increased criticism of Wackenhut. Garcia was a former rancher, who had become impoverished following a drought. Wackenhut paid him $7.95 per hour. - Jimmie Don Aycock
Jimmie Don Aycock (born October 14, 1946) is a semi-retired veterinarian, rancher, and businessman in Killeen who is a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives. He was elected in District 54 on November 7, 2006, to succeed fellow Republican Representative Suzanna Hupp, the chief architect of the Texas law which permits citizens to carry a concealed weapon. Hupp, a survivor of the Luby's massacre in Killeen in 1991, did not seek reelection. - Charles Francis Colcord
Charles Francis Colcord (August 18, 1859 - December 10, 1934), also known as Charlie and even Chuck by some, was a successful rancher, U.S. Marshal, Chief of Police, businessman, and pioneer of the Old West. Colcord's life encompassed the American Civil War, the Land Runs, the Wright brothers' flight, World War I, Charles Lindbergh, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, … - Clifford Hansen
Clifford Peter Hansen (born October 16, 1912) is a retired Republican politician from the American state of Wyoming. He served as both governor (1963-1967) and U.S. senator (1967-1978). Earlier, he was the president of the board of trustees of his "alma mater", the University of Wyoming at Laramie (Albany County), the state's only four-year institution of higher learning. He was also a county commissioner in Jackson, the seat of Teton County. - Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., also known as T.R. and to the public (but never to friends and intimates) as Teddy, was the twenty-sixth President of the United States, and a leader of the Republican Party and of the Progressive Movement, as well as being the youngest President in United States history, at age 42. He served in many roles including Governor of New York, historian, naturalist, explorer, author, and soldier. - Maury Maverick Jr.
Maury Maverick, Jr. (January 3 1921 - January 28 2003) was an American lawyer, politician, activist, and columnist from the U.S. state of Texas. A member of the prominent Maverick family, he was the great-grandson of Samuel Maverick, the rancher who signed the Texas Declaration of Independence and famously refused to brand his cattle, and the son of Maury Maverick, Sr., a two-term member of the United States House of Representatives and one-term mayor of San Antonio, Texas. - Richard M. Kleberg
Richard Mifflin Kleberg, Sr. (1887-1955) was a seven-term member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas's 14th congressional district over the period 1931-1945 and an heir to the King Ranch in South Texas. He was elected unopposed in 1940 and 1942. Lyndon B. Johnson served as a congressional secretary under Kleberg in 1931. - Claudius Smith
Claudius Smith was a notorious Loyalist guerrilla leader during the American Revolution. He led a band of irregulars who were known locally as the 'cowboys'. Claudius was the eldest son of David Smith (1701–1787), a respected tailor, cattleman, miller, constable, clergyman, and finally judge in Brookhaven, New York. His mother was Meriam (Williams) Carle, a daughter of Samuel Williams of Hempstead, New York. David Smith was the son of a Samuel Smith, … - James A. Corbett
James A. "Jim" Corbett (born Casper, Wyoming, October 8, 1933 - died near Benson, Arizona, August 2, 2001) was an American rancher, writer, Quaker, philosopher, and human rights activist and a co-founder of the Sanctuary movement. The son of a teacher and a substitute teacher, Corbett was descended from European-American settlers and Blackfoot Indians, and spent part of his childhood living on an Indian reservation.
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