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William M. Daley
William M. Daley has had a distinguished career in public service and is a business executive.
Max Cleland
Joseph Maxwell Cleland (born August 24, 1942) is an American politician from Georgia. Cleland, a Democrat, is a former U.S. Senator, disabled US Army veteran of the Vietnam War, decorated war hero, and a critic of the Bush Administration. From 2003...
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Tammy Duckworth
Ladda Tammy Duckworth (born 1968) is the Assistant Secretary of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. She was previously the director of the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs.
Duckworth is...
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James Peake
James Benjamin Peake (born June 18, 1944) is a former United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs, serving from 2007 to 2009. In 2004, he retired from a 42-year United States Army career. He also served as the 40th Surgeon General of the United...
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Jim Oberstar
James Louis "Jim" Oberstar (born September 10, 1934) is a United States politician. Oberstar has been a Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party member of the United States House of Representatives since 1975, representing Minnesota's 8th congressional...
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Earl Blumenauer
Earl Blumenauer (born August 16, 1948) is an American politician and lawyer from the state of Oregon. A native of Portland, he spent over 20 years as a public official representing the city before winning election to the United States House of...
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Lawrence Summers
Lawrence Henry Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist and the Director of the White House's National Economic Council for President Barack Obama. Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University's Kennedy...
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Warren Buffett
Warren Edward Buffett (born August 30, 1930) is an American investor, businessman, and philanthropist. He is one of the most successful investors in history, the primary shareholder and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, and in 2008 was ranked by Forbes as...
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Paul Volcker
Paul Adolph Volcker (born September 5, 1927) is an American economist. He was the Chairman of the Federal Reserve under United States Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan (from August 1979 to August 1987). He is currently chairman of the newly...
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Robert Rubin
Robert Edward Rubin is Director and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Citigroup. He served as the 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury during both the first and second Clinton Administrations.
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Timothy F. Geithner
Timothy Franz Geithner (pronounced /ˈɡaɪtnər/; born August 18, 1961) is the 75th and current United States Secretary of the Treasury, serving under President Barack Obama. He was previously the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York....
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Sheila C. Bair
Sheila Colleen Bair (born April 3, 1954) is the Chairwoman of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). She was appointed to the post for a five-year term on June 26, 2006 by George W. Bush. Bair will also serve as a member of the FDIC...
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Jay Inslee
Jay Robert Inslee (born February 9, 1951) is a Democratic American politician, currently serving as U.S. Representative from Washington's 1st congressional district. The district includes many of Seattle's northern suburbs in King, Snohomish, and...
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr. (born January 17, 1954 in Washington, D.C.) is the third of eleven children born to Ethel Skakel Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy and is the nephew of John F. Kennedy and Edward M. Kennedy. He is an attorney specializing in...
Dick Lugar
Richard Green "Dick" Lugar (born April 4, 1932) is the senior United States Senator from Indiana. He is a member of the Republican Party and served as the mayor of Indianapolis from 1968 to 1976 and was elected to the United States Senate in 1976...
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Bill Richardson
William Blaine "Bill" Richardson III (born November 15, 1947) is a Democratic politician and the current Governor of New Mexico. Prior to being elected governor, Richardson served in the Clinton administration as U.S. Ambassador to the United...
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John Kerry
John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, and is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. As the Presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, he was defeated by 34 electoral votes...
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Dick Gephardt
Richard Andrew "Dick" Gephardt (born January 31, 1941) is a former prominent American politician of the Democratic Party. Gephardt served as a U.S. Representative from Missouri from January 3, 1977, until January 3, 2005, serving as House Majority...
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Andy Stern
Andrew L. "Andy" Stern (born November 22, 1950), is the president of the 2 million-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the fastest-growing union in the Americas. SEIU is the second largest union in the United States and Canada after...
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Jesse Jackson, Jr.
Jesse Louis Jackson, Jr. (born March 11, 1965) is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives representing Illinois's 2nd congressional district, which includes the part of the Southland southeast suburbs of Chicago and part of...
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Valerie Jarrett
Valerie Bowman Jarrett (born November 14, 1956) is a senior advisor and assistant to the president for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs for the Obama administration. She is also a Chicago lawyer, businesswoman, and civic leader. Prior...
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Shaun Donovan
Shaun L.S. Donovan (born January 24, 1966) serves as United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the cabinet of President Barack Obama. Prior to this he headed the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development. On...
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Gary Hart
Gary Hart (born Gary Warren Hartpence, November 28, 1936) is an American politician, lawyer, author, professor and commentator. He formerly served as a Democratic Senator representing Colorado (1975–1987), and ran in the U.S. presidential elections...
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Susan Collins
Susan Margaret Collins (born December 7, 1952, in Caribou, Maine) is the junior U.S. Senator from Maine and a member of the Republican Party. Collins was re-elected on November 4, 2008.
Collins is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of St. Lawrence University...
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Jane Harman
Jane Margaret Lakes Harman (born June 28, 1945), is a seven-term Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing California's 36th congressional district. It was reported in September 2008 that she is the richest member...
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Timothy J. Roemer
Timothy John "Tim" Roemer (born October 30, 1956) is an American political figure currently serving as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of India. He was nominated by U.S. President Barack Obama as the 21st U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of India on...
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William J. Bratton
William Joseph "Bill" Bratton (born October 6, 1947) is the chief of police of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). He previously served as the New York City Police Commissioner and Boston Police Commissioner.
In September 11, 2009, he was...
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John Kitzhaber
John Albert Kitzhaber (born March 5, 1947 in Colfax, Washington) is a medical educator and was the Governor of Oregon for two consecutive terms from 1995-2003. Prior to becoming a politician in Oregon, he was a practicing physician. He graduated...
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Howard Dean
Howard Brush Dean III (born November 17, 1948) is an American politician and physician from the U.S. state of Vermont. He served six terms as Governor of Vermont and ran unsuccessfully for the 2004 Democratic Presidential nomination. He was the...
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger is the 38th and current governor of the US State of California. He is also known as a famous Bodybuilder, actor and businessman. Born in Thal Austria to Aurelia Jardny and Gustav Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger had a...
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Jeff Bingaman
Jesse Francis "Jeff" Bingaman, Jr. (born October 3, 1943), is the senior U.S. Senator from New Mexico. He has been in the Senate since 1983 and is a member of the Democratic Party. Bingaman was Attorney General of New Mexico from 1978 until his...
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Steven Chu
Steven Chu (born February 28, 1948), is a physicist and currently the 12th United States Secretary of Energy. As a scientist, Chu is known for his research in cooling and trapping of atoms with laser light, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics...
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George Miller
George Miller III (born May 17, 1945) is an American politician who has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1975, representing California's 7th congressional district (map).
The son of liberal State Senator...
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Thomas Kean
Thomas Howard Kean (born April 21, 1935) is an American Republican Party politician, who served as the 48th Governor of New Jersey, from 1982 to 1990. Kean is best known globally, however, for his 2002 appointment as Chairman of the National...
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David L. Boren
David Lyle Boren (born April 21, 1941) is an academic leader and American politician from the state of Oklahoma. A Democrat, he served as governor of Oklahoma from 1975 to 1979 and in the United States Senate from 1979 to 1994. He is currently...
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Chuck Hagel
Charles Timothy "Chuck" Hagel (born October 4, 1946) is a former United States Senator from Nebraska. A member of the Republican Party, he was first elected in 1996 and was reelected in 2002. On 10 February 2009, he was elected as Chairman of the...
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Robert Gates
Robert Michael Gates (born September 25, 1943) is currently serving as the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense. He took office on December 18, 2006. Prior to this, Gates served for 26 years in the Central Intelligence Agency and the National...
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Richard J. Danzig
Richard Jeffrey Danzig (born September 8, 1944) is an American lawyer who served as the 71st Secretary of the Navy under President Bill Clinton. He is currently an advisor to President Barack Obama.
Danzig was born in New York City, attended the...
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John Hamre
John J. Hamre (born July 3, 1950) is a specialist in international studies, a former Washington bureaucrat and the current president and CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a position he has held with that think tank since...
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Ed Rendell
Edward Gene "Ed" Rendell (born January 5, 1944) is an American politician and Governor of Pennsylvania. Rendell, a member of the Democratic Party, was elected Governor of Pennsylvania in 2002, and his term of office began January 21, 2003. He is...
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Olympia Snowe
Olympia Jean Snowe McKernan (born February 21, 1947), née Bouchles, is the senior United States Senator from Maine. She is a Republican and a leading moderate within the party. Snowe has become widely known for her ability to influence the outcome...
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Kathleen Sebelius
Kathleen Sebelius (née Gilligan, born May 15, 1948) is an American politician currently serving as the 21st Secretary of Health and Human Services. She was the second female governor of Kansas from 2003 to 2009, the Democratic respondent to the 2008...
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Penny Pritzker
Penny Sue Pritzker (born 1959) is an American business executive, and a member of the Pritzker family of Chicago, one of America's wealthiest business families. She is the founder and current Chair of Classic Residence by Hyatt, a chain of luxury...
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Tom Daschle
Thomas Andrew Daschle (born December 9, 1947) is a former U.S. Senator from South Dakota and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
A South Dakota native, Daschle obtained his university degree there, and served...
Tom Vilsack
Thomas James "Tom" Vilsack (born December 13, 1950) is an American politician, a member of the Democratic Party, and presently the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. He served as the 40th Governor of the state of Iowa. He was first elected in 1998 and...
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Collin Peterson
Collin Clark Peterson (b. June 29, 1944 in Fargo, North Dakota), is an American politician from the U.S. state of Minnesota. Peterson has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1991, representing Minnesota's 7th...
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Jim Leach
James Albert Smith "Jim" Leach (born October 15, 1942) is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa. In August 2009, he became Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities ("NEH").
Prior to his appointment as NEH...
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Janet Napolitano
Janet Ann Napolitano (born November 29, 1957) is the third United States Secretary of Homeland Security. She assumed the job on January 21, 2009, and is the first woman to serve in that office. An American politician from the Democratic Party,...
Tim Kaine
Timothy Michael "Tim" Kaine (born February 26, 1958) is an American politician, the current governor of Virginia and as of January 21, 2009, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He was elected governor in 2005, after serving as...
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Deval Patrick
Deval Laurdine Patrick (born July 31, 1956) is the Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is the first African American to hold that office. A member of the Democratic Party, Patrick served as United States Assistant Attorney General...
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Eric Holder
Eric Himpton Holder, Jr. (born January 21, 1951) is the 82 and current Attorney General of the United States and the first Black American to hold the position. He is serving under President Barack Obama.
Holder previously served as a judge of the...
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Anthony Zinni
Anthony Charles Zinni (born September 17, 1943) is a retired four-star General in the United States Marine Corps and a former Commander in Chief of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM). In 2002, he was selected to be a special envoy for the United States...
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Susan E. Rice
Susan Elizabeth Rice (born on November 17, 1964) is an American foreign policy advisor and United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Rice served on the staff of the National Security Council and as Assistant Secretary of State for African...
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Samantha Power
Samantha Power (born September 21, 1970, in Ireland) is an Irish American journalist, writer, academic, and government official. She is currently affiliated with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of...
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James Steinberg
James B. "Jim" Steinberg (born 1953) is an American academic and political advisor, and is currently Deputy Secretary of State. He was previously the Dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.
He was...
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Greg Craig
Gregory Bestor "Greg" Craig (born March 4, 1945) is a Washington-based lawyer and current White House Counsel to President Barack Obama. He has represented numerous high-profile clients, including John Hinckley, Jr., who was acquitted of the...
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Peter R. Orszag
Peter Richard Orszag (born December 16, 1968) is an American economist who is currently the 37th Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Barack Obama. He was Director of the Congressional Budget Office when nominated.
Orszag...
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Lincoln Chafee
Lincoln Davenport Chafee (pronounced /ˈtʃeɪ fiː/ CHAY-fee; born March 26, 1953) is a former United States Senator from Rhode Island. Running as a Republican, he lost his re-election bid in 2006 to Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse. In the summer of 2007,...
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Lisa P. Jackson
Lisa Perez Jackson (born February 8, 1962) is an American chemical engineer and politician currently serving as the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; she is the first African-American to hold this post. Previously, she worked at...
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