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x William Ryan       1968 Democratic National Convention
William Fitts Ryan (June 28, 1922 – September 17, 1972) was an American lawyer and politician. He served as a representative from New York in the United States House of Representatives from 1961 until his death in 1972. He was a member of the...
x Terry Sanford Terry Sanford 1972 Democratic National Convention 78 1968 Democratic National Convention
James Terry Sanford (August 20, 1917 – April 18, 1998) was a United States politician and educator from North Carolina. A member of the Democratic Party, Sanford was the Governor of North Carolina (1961–1965), a two-time U.S. Presidential candidate...
1972 Democratic National Convention
x Sargent Shriver Sargent Shriver     1968 Democratic National Convention
Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr. (born November 9, 1915) is an American Democratic politician and activist. Known as "Sargent", Shriver is best known as part of the Kennedy family, the driving force behind the creation of the Peace Corps, and the...
x Shirley Chisholm Shirley Chisholm 1972 Democratic National Convention 152 1972 Democratic National Convention
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm (November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) was an American politician, educator, and author. She was a Congresswoman, representing New York's 12th Congressional District for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. In 1968, she...
x Wilbur Mills Wilbur Mills 1972 Democratic National Convention 34 1972 Democratic National Convention
Wilbur Daigh Mills (May 24, 1909 – May 2, 1992), was a powerful Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Arkansas. He was chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee in the 1960s, and briefly a candidate...
x Wayne Hays Wayne Hays 1972 Democratic National Convention 5  
Wayne Levere Hays (May 13, 1911, Bannock, Ohio – February 13, 1989, Flushing, Ohio), was an American politician whose strong rule of the House Administration Committee extended to even the smallest items; in the mid-1970s, lawmakers avoided crossing...
x Thomas Eagleton ThomasEagleton     1972 Democratic National Convention
Thomas Francis Eagleton (September 4, 1929 – March 4, 2007) was a United States Senator from Missouri, serving from 1968–1987. He is best remembered for briefly being a Democratic Vice Presidential nominee, sharing the ticket under George McGovern...
x Frances Farenthold       1972 Democratic National Convention
Frances Tarlton Farenthold (born 1926), commonly referred to as Sissy Farenthold, is an American Democratic politician, attorney and educator, who was the third woman whose name was put into nomination for Vice President of the United States at a...
x Mike Gravel Mike Gravel     1972 Democratic National Convention
Maurice Robert "Mike" Gravel (pronounced /ɡrəˈvɛl/; born May 13, 1930) is a former Democratic United States Senator from Alaska, who served two terms from 1969 to 1981, and a former candidate in the 2008 presidential election. Born and raised in...
x Endicott Peabody Endicott Peabody     1972 Democratic National Convention
Endicott "Chub" Peabody (February 15, 1920–December 1, 1997) was Governor of Massachusetts from January 3, 1963 to January 7, 1965. Peabody was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts; he served in the United States Navy during World War II, where he was...
x Clay Smothers       1972 Democratic National Convention  
x Birch Bayh Birch bayh     1972 Democratic National Convention
Birch Evans Bayh II (born January 22, 1928) is a former United States Senator from Indiana (1963 to 1981). He was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president in the 1976 election but lost to Jimmy Carter. He is the father of former...
x Peter W. Rodino Rodino Building Newark jeh     1972 Democratic National Convention
Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. (June 7, 1909 – May 7, 2005) was an Italian-American Democratic United States Congressman from New Jersey from 1949 to 1989. Rodino rose to prominence as the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, where he was chair of...
x Moon Landrieu Moon Landrieu     1972 Democratic National Convention
Maurice Edwin "Moon" Landrieu (born July 23, 1930) is a Democratic politician from Louisiana who served as Mayor of New Orleans from 1970–1978. He also is a former judge. He represented New Orleans' Twelfth Ward in the Louisiana House of...
x Edward T. Breathitt       1972 Democratic National Convention
Edward Thompson "Ned" Breathitt Jr. (born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky on November 26, 1924, died in Lexington, Kentucky on October 11, 2003) was a United States politician. He was elected governor of Kentucky in 1963. Breathitt served in the U.S. Army...
x Richard G. Hatcher       1972 Democratic National Convention
Richard G. Hatcher (born July 10, 1933, Michigan City, Indiana) became on January 1, 1967 , the first African-American mayor of Gary, Indiana. He had won election the previous November as one of the first black mayors elected in a northern...
x Harold Hughes Harold Hughes     1972 Democratic National Convention
Harold Everett Hughes (February 10, 1922 – October 23, 1996) was the Democratic Governor of Iowa from 1963 until 1969; he had been a Republican earlier in his life. He also served as a Democratic United States Senator from 1969 until 1975. Hughes...
x Joseph Montoya credited to the United States Senate Historical Office     1972 Democratic National Convention
Joseph Manuel Montoya (September 24, 1915 – June 8, 1978) was a Democratic U.S. Senator for the State of New Mexico from 1964 until 1977. Montoya was born in Peña Blanca, New Mexico. His parents, Thomas and Frances Montoya, were Roman Catholic...
x William L. Guy       1972 Democratic National Convention
William Lewis Guy (born September 30, 1919) was the governor of the U.S. state of North Dakota from 1961 to 1973. At 90, he is the second oldest of the six living current or past governors of North Dakota. Guy was born in Devils Lake, North Dakota....
x Adlai Stevenson III AdlaistevensonIII     1972 Democratic National Convention
Adlai Ewing Stevenson III (born October 10, 1930, in Chicago) is an American politician of the Democratic Party. He represented the state of Illinois in the United States Senate from 1970 until 1981. He received a law degree in (1957). Stevenson was...
x Robert Bergland BobBergland     1972 Democratic National Convention
Robert Selmer Bergland (born July 22, 1928, in Roseau, Minnesota) is a United States politician. He grew up on a farm (where he still lives) near Roseau, and studied agriculture at the University of Minnesota in a two year program. He became an...
x Wendell Anderson Wendell Anderson     1972 Democratic National Convention
Wendell Richard "Wendy" Anderson, (born February 1, 1933) in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is an American politician and was the 33rd Governor of Minnesota from January 4, 1971 to December 29, 1976. In late 1976, he resigned the governor's office in order...
x Stanley Arnold       1972 Democratic National Convention  
x John J. Houlihan       1972 Democratic National Convention  
x Roberto Mondragon Roberto Mondragon     1972 Democratic National Convention
Roberto A. Mondragon was the Green Party candidate for governor of New Mexico in 1994, receiving 10.4% of the vote (47,080 votes) , and coming in third. Prior to this, he served as Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico from 1971–1974 and from 1979–1982,...
x Reubin O'Donovan Askew Reubin Askew     1972 Democratic National Convention
Reubin O'Donovan Askew (born September 11, 1928) is an American politician, who served as the 37th governor of the U.S. state of Florida from 1971 to 1979. Askew was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, one of the six children of Leon G. Askew and Alberta...
x Herman Badillo Herman Badillo     1972 Democratic National Convention
Herman Badillo (born August 21, 1929) is a Bronx, New York politician who has been a borough president, United States Representative, and candidate for Mayor of New York City. He was the first Puerto Rican to be elected to these posts and be a...
x Claiborne Pell Claiborne Pell     1972 Democratic National Convention
Claiborne de Borda Pell (November 22, 1918 – January 1, 2009) was a United States Senator from Rhode Island, serving six terms from 1961 to 1997, and was best known as the sponsor of the Pell Grant, which provides financial aid funding to U.S....
x John DeCarlo       1972 Democratic National Convention  
x Ernest Gruening Ernest Gruening     1972 Democratic National Convention
Ernest Henry Gruening (February 6, 1887 – June 26, 1974) was an American journalist and Democrat who was the Governor of the Alaska Territory from 1939 until 1953, and a United States Senator from Alaska from 1959 until 1969. Born in New York City,...
x Roger Mudd roger_mudd.jpg     1972 Democratic National Convention
Roger Mudd (born February 9, 1928) is an U.S. television journalist and broadcaster, most recently as the primary anchor for The History Channel. Previously, Mudd was weekend and weekday substitute anchor of CBS Evening News, co-anchor of the...
x Claude Pepper Claude Pepper     1972 Democratic National Convention
Claude Denson Pepper (September 8, 1900 – May 30, 1989) was an American politician of the Democratic Party, and a spokesman for liberalism and the elderly. In foreign policy he shifted from pro-Soviet in the 1940s to anti-Communist in the 1950s. He...
x Hoyt Patrick Taylor, Jr.       1972 Democratic National Convention
Hoyt Patrick "Pat" Taylor, Jr. (born 1924) is a North Carolina politician and attorney who served as Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives and as Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina. Pat Taylor was born in Wadesboro, NC, on April...
x Leonard F. Wodcoock       1972 Democratic National Convention  
x Bruno Agnoli       1972 Democratic National Convention  
x Ernest Albright       1972 Democratic National Convention  
x William A. Barrett       1972 Democratic National Convention
William Aloysius Barrett (August 14, 1896 – April 12, 1976) was an American politician and a member of the Democratic Party. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from St. Joseph's College in Philadelphia. He worked for a number of...
x Daniel Berrigan Dan Berrigan 1     1972 Democratic National Convention
Daniel Berrigan, SJ (born May 9, 1921) is a poet, American peace activist, and Roman Catholic priest. Daniel and his brother Philip were for a time on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list for committing acts of vandalism including destroying...
x Philip Berrigan Philip Berrigan     1972 Democratic National Convention
Philip Francis Berrigan (October 5, 1923 – December 6, 2002) was an internationally renowned American peace activist, Christian anarchist and former Roman Catholic priest. Along with his brother Daniel Berrigan, he was for a time on the FBI Ten Most...
x Skipper Bowles       1972 Democratic National Convention
Hargrove "Skipper" Bowles, Jr. (November 16, 1919 – September 7, 1986) was an influential Democratic politician and businessman, based in Greensboro, North Carolina. Bowles was born in Monroe, North Carolina and served in the United States Military...
x Archibald Burton       1972 Democratic National Convention  
x Phillip Burton Phillip Burton     1972 Democratic National Convention
Phillip Burton (June 1, 1926 – April 10, 1983) was a United States Representative from California. A Democrat, he was instrumental in creating the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Burton was one of the first members of Congress to acknowledge...
x William V. Chappell, Jr. William V. Chappell, Jr.     1972 Democratic National Convention
William Venroe Chappell, Jr. (February 3, 1922 – March 30, 1989) was a U.S. Representative from Florida. Born in Kendrick, Florida, Chappell was in the University of Florida, B.A., 1947, LL.B., 1949, and J.D., 1967. He served in the United States...
x Lawton Chiles Lawton Chiles     1972 Democratic National Convention
Lawton Mainor Chiles, Jr. (April 3, 1930 – December 12, 1998) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Florida. In a career spanning four decades, Chiles, a Democrat who never lost an election, served in the Florida House of Representatives...
x Robert Drinan       1972 Democratic National Convention
Robert Frederick Drinan, S.J. (November 15, 1920 – January 28, 2007) was a Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, lawyer, human rights activist, and Democratic U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. He was also a law professor at Georgetown University Law...
x Nick Galifianakis       1972 Democratic National Convention
Nick Galifianakis (born 22 July 1928) was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1967 and 1973. Born in Durham, North Carolina in 1928, Galifianakis attended local public schools and then Duke University, earning a bachelor's...
x John Z. Goodrich       1972 Democratic National Convention
John Z. Goodrich was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives and Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts. He was born in Sheffield, Massachusetts on September 27, 1804. He attended the common schools...
x Michael Griffin       1972 Democratic National Convention
Michael Griffin (September 9, 1842 - December 29, 1899) was a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin. Born in Winter Haven, Florida, Griffin immigrated with his parents to Canada in 1847 and to Ohio in 1851. He moved to Wisconsin in 1856 and settled in...
x Martha Griffiths Martha Griffiths     1972 Democratic National Convention
Martha Wright Griffiths (January 29, 1912 – April 22 2003) was an American lawyer and judge before being elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1954. Griffiths was the first woman to serve on the powerful House Committee on Ways...
x Charles Hamilton       1972 Democratic National Convention  
x Patricia Roberts Harris PatriciaHarris     1972 Democratic National Convention
Patricia Roberts Harris (May 31, 1924 – March 23, 1985) served as United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (which office later became United States Secretary of Health...
x Daniel Inouye Daniel Inouye     1972 Democratic National Convention
Daniel Ken "Dan" Inouye (Japanese: 井上 建, Inoue Ken; born September 7, 1924) is an American politician who currently serves as the senior United States Senator from Hawaii. He has been a U.S. Senator since 1963 and, following the recent death of Ted...
x Robery Kariss       1972 Democratic National Convention  
x Mao Zedong Mao Zedong     1972 Democratic National Convention
Mao Zedong (simplified Chinese: 毛泽东; traditional Chinese: 毛澤東; pinyin: Máo Zédōng; Wade-Giles: Mao Tse-tung) pronunciation (help·info) (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976) was a Chinese revolutionary, political theorist and Communist leader. He...
x Martha Beall Mitchell       1972 Democratic National Convention
Martha Elizabeth Beall Mitchell (2 September 1918 – 31 May 1976), wife of John Mitchell, United States Attorney General under President Richard Nixon. Martha Mitchell was famous for her phone calls to the press about matters the Nixon-era...
x George Norcross III George Norcross III     1972 Democratic National Convention
George Norcross III (1957-) is an American political boss and prolific fundraiser for Democratic Party organizations in the south region of New Jersey. He is also the chief executive of Commerce National Insurance, a subsidiary of Commerce Bancorp....
x Frederic Seaman       1972 Democratic National Convention
Frederic ("Fred") Seaman, (born October 10, 1952) is the former personal assistant to John Lennon and Yoko Ono, during the former Beatle's final years, when Lennon and Ono lived in The Dakota Apartments in New York City. Seaman first met the Lennons...
x Benjamin Spock Spock with his granddaughter, Susannah, in 1967     1972 Democratic National Convention
Benjamin McLane Spock (May 2, 1903 – March 15, 1998) was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time. Its revolutionary message to mothers was that "you know more than...
x Patrick Tavolacci       1972 Democratic National Convention  
x Barack Obama Official portrait of Barack Obama 2008 Democratic National Convention 1,549  
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is the President of the United States and a former junior United States Senator from Illinois. Obama is the first African American to be elected President of the United States. He is a graduate of...
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