Kinsley Scott Bingham, sometimes spelled Kingsley (December 16, 1808–October 5, 1861) was a U.S. Representative, a U.S. Senator, and Governor of the state of Michigan. Bingham was born to...
William Pitt Fessenden (October 16, 1806 – September 8, 1869) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Maine. Fessenden was a Whig (later a Republican) and member of the Fessenden...
John Middleton Clayton (July 24, 1796 – November 9, 1856) was an American lawyer and politician from Dover in Kent County, and later New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Whig...
Michael Feuer (born May 14, 1958 in San Bernardino, California) is a California politician and lawyer. He is currently in his second two-year term in the California State Assembly...
Silas Wright, Jr. (May 24, 1795 – August 27, 1847) was an American Democratic politician. Wright was born in Amherst, Massachusetts and moved with his father to Weybridge, Vermont in 1796...
Harry Flood Byrd, Sr. (June 10, 1887 – October 20, 1966) of Berryville in Clarke County, Virginia was an American newspaper publisher, farmer and politician. He was a descendant of one of...
Hiram Bingham, formally Hiram Bingham III, (November 19, 1875 – June 6, 1956) was an American academic, explorer and politician. He rediscovered the Inca settlement of Machu Picchu in 1911...
(Thomas) Howell Cobb (September 7, 1815 – October 9, 1868) was an American political figure. A Southern Democrat, Cobb was a five-term member of the United States House of Representatives...
Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr. (born December 2, 1924) is a retired United States Army general who served as the United States Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan and White House...
Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense, serving under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson...
Abraham Alexander Ribicoff (April 9, 1910 – February 22, 1998) was an American United States Democratic Party politician. He served in the United States Congress, as governor of Connecticut...
Donald Henry Rumsfeld (born July 9, 1932) is a United States businessman, politician, who served as the 13th Secretary of Defense under President Gerald Ford from 1975 to 1977, and as the...
James Lane Buckley (born March 9, 1923 in New York City) is a former United States Senator from the state of New York as a member of the Conservative Party of New York. Buckley served from...
John B. Weller (February 22, 1812 – August 17, 1875) was the fifth governor of California from January 8, 1858 to January 9, 1860 and a Congressman from Ohio, U.S. senator from California...
John Adams Dix (July 24, 1798 – April 21, 1879) was an American politician from New York. He served as Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. Senator, and New York Governor. He was also a Union...
Jennifer Mulhern Granholm (born February 5, 1959) is a Canadian-born American politician, former Attorney General of Michigan, and the current Governor of the U.S. state of Michigan. A...
David Alexander Paterson (born May 20, 1954) is an American politician and the current Governor of New York. He is the first African American governor of New York and also the second legally...
James Duval Phelan (April 20, 1861 – August 7, 1930) was an American politician, civic leader and banker. Phelan was born in San Francisco, the son of an Irish immigrant who became wealthy...
James W. Silva (born January 15, 1944) is a Republican United States politician who represents the 67th Assembly District in the California State Assembly. The 67th Assembly District...
Tom Ammiano (born December 15, 1941) is an American politician, and LGBT rights activist from San Francisco, California. Ammiano is a Democrat and a member of the California State Assembly...
John Francis "Jack" Shelley (September 3, 1905 – September 1, 1974) was a U.S. politician. He served as the mayor of San Francisco, California, from 1964 to 1968, the first Democrat elected...
Hiram Warren Johnson (September 2, 1866 – August 6, 1945) was a leading American progressive and later isolationist politician from California; he served as Governor from 1911 to 1917, and...
Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr. (born April 7, 1938) is an American politician. He is a former governor of the State of California and the current Attorney General. Brown has had a lengthy...
Fred George Aandahl (April 9, 1897 – April 7, 1966) was an Republican politician from North Dakota. He served as the Governor of North Dakota from 1945 to 1951 and as a U.S. Representative...
Shirley Horton (born c. 1953) is a U.S. politician, having served as a Republican Member of the California State Assembly. Horton represented the 78th Assembly District, which includes...