Daniel James "Dan" White (September 2, 1946 – October 21, 1985) was a San Francisco supervisor who assassinated San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, on November 27...
Homer Samuel Ferguson (February 25, 1889 – December 17, 1982) was a United States Senator from Michigan. He was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of Harrison City, Pennsylvania to parents Samuel...
George Tyler Wood (March 12, 1795 - September 3, 1858) was a United States political figure. He served as governor of Texas between 1847 and 1849. He was born at Cuthbert, now in Randolph...
John Sullivan (b. February 17, 1740, Somersworth, New Hampshire – d. January 23, 1795, Durham, New Hampshire) was the third son of Irish immigrants and an American general in the...
Peter Hansborough Bell (May 12, 1812 – March 8, 1898) was the 3rd Governor of Texas from 1849 to 1853. He also served two terms as a United States Representative from Texas' 2nd...
Samuel Bigger (March 20, 1802 – September 9, 1846) was a Whig governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from December 9, 1840 to December 6, 1843. Bigger was nominated to run for governor...
David M. Axelrod (born February 22, 1955) is an American political consultant based in Chicago, Illinois. He is best known as a top political advisor to President Barack Obama, first in...
Samuel Vernon Stewart (August 2, 1872 in Monroe County, Ohio – September 15, 1939) was an attorney, former Montana Supreme Court Justice and former Governor of Montana. Stewart attended...
Michael Strautmanis (born 1969/70) is an American lawyer. President-Elect Barack Obama announced on December 5, 2008, that Strautmanis will serve as Chief of Staff to Valerie Jarrett who is...
Desirée Glapion Rogers (born June 16, 1959) is an American public relations executive. In November 2008 she was selected by Barack Obama's office as the White House Social Secretary for the...
John Goode, Jr. (May 27, 1829 – July 14, 1909) was a prominent Virginia Democratic politician who served in the Confederate Congress during the American Civil War and then was a three-term...
Shirley Clarke Franklin (born May 10, 1945) is an American politician, a member of the Democratic Party, and, since January 7, 2002, the mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. The 58th mayor of Atlanta...
Enrique Peñalosa Londoño is a Colombian politician, former mayor of Bogotá, from 1998 until 2001. He was a runner-up for a second term on October 2007. He currently works as a consultant on...
Robert King "Bob" Steel (b. August 3, 1951) is an American business leader and an expert on financial institutions and markets. He served as Under Secretary for Domestic Finance of the...
Newton Norman Minow (born January 17, 1926) is an American attorney and former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. His speech referring to television as a "Vast Wasteland" is...
Richard "Dick" Ravitch (born July 7, 1933 in New York City) is the current Lieutenant Governor of New York and also a lawyer, businessman and a civic leader from New York City. In a legally...
Henry Augustus Buchtel (30 September 1847 – 22 October 1924) was an American minister, educator, and public official, born near Akron, Ohio. He was the seventeenth governor of...
Christina M. "Tina" Tchen (simplified Chinese: 陈远美; traditional Chinese: 陳遠美,pinyin: Chén Yuǎnměi), is an American lawyer and the Director of the White House Office of Public...
Sun Yat-sen (pinyin Sūn Yìxiān) (12 November 1866 – 12 March 1925) was a Chinese revolutionary and political leader. As the foremost pioneer of Republican China, Sun is frequently referred...
Karen McCarthy (born March 18, 1947) is a Missouri politician. She served as the U.S. Representative for the fifth district of Missouri from 1995 to 2005. McCarthy was born in Haverhill...
William O'Dwyer (July 11, 1890 – November 24, 1964) was the 100th Mayor of New York City, holding that office from 1946 to 1950. O'Dwyer was born in County Mayo, Ireland and migrated to the...
Christine Todd "Christie" Whitman (born September 26, 1946) is an American Republican politician and author who served as the 50th Governor of New Jersey from 1994 to 2001, and was the...
Joseph V. McKee, Sr. (August 8, 1889 – January 28, 1956) was originally a teacher at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, New York, but later became a politically active Democrat. McKee...
William Ramsey Clark (born December 18, 1927) is an American lawyer, activist and former public official. He worked for the U.S. Department of Justice, which included service as United...
Thomas Clarkson (28 March 1760 – 26 September 1846), was an English abolitionist, and a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire. He helped found The Society for...