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Any person who has held or sought a position in a government.  The term "politician" may not be strictly accurate for some positions such as kings, but we have to call it something!  Suggestions for better names are welcome.   For more information on entering data about the...
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x Samuel Alito Justice Alito official Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States   Jan 31, 2006
Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr. (born April 1, 1950) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was appointed by President George W. Bush and has served on the court since January 31, 2006. Raised in Hamilton Township, New...
x George W. Bush George-W-Bushg President of the United States Jan 20, 2009 Jan 20, 2001
George Walker Bush ( /ˈdʒɔrdʒ ˈwɔːkər ˈbʊʃ/ (help·info); born July 6, 1946) was the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 and the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. Bush is the eldest son of George H. W. Bush (the 41st...
Governor of Texas Dec 21, 2000 Jan 17, 1995
x Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary Clinton 8x10 2400 1 United States Secretary of State   Jan 21, 2009
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (pronounced /ˈhɪləri daɪˈæn ˈrɒdəm ˈklɪntən/; born October 26, 1947) is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving within the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a United States Senator for New York...
United States Senator Jan 21, 2009 Jan 3, 2001
x John Kerry John Kerry United States Senator   1985
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...
x Joe Lieberman Joe Lieberman official portrait United States Senator   1989
Joseph Isadore "Joe" Lieberman (born February 24, 1942) is the junior United States Senator from Connecticut. First elected to the Senate in 1988, Lieberman was elected to a fourth term on November 7, 2006. In the 2000 United States presidential...
x Clarence William Nelson Bill Nelson United States Senator   Jan 3, 2001
Clarence William "Bill" Nelson (born September 29, 1942) is the senior U.S. Senator from Florida. Nelson is a member of the Democratic Party. Nelson became the second sitting member of the United States Congress to fly in space (after Jake Garn)...
x Gerald Ford Picture 2.png President of the United States Jan 20, 1977 Aug 9, 1974
Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King, Jr.) (July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974. As the...
United States Representative Dec 6, 1973 Jan 3, 1949
Vice President of the United States 1974 1973
x William Howard Taft Picture 4.png Governor-General of the Philippines Dec 23, 1903 Jul 4, 1901
William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the 27th President of the United States and later the 10th Chief Justice of the United States. Born in 1857 in Cincinnati, Ohio, into the powerful Taft family, Taft graduated from Yale...
President of the United States Mar 4, 1913 Mar 4, 1909
Chief Justice of the United States Feb 3, 1930 Jul 11, 1921
United States Solicitor General Mar 1892 Feb 1890
Governor Oct 13, 1906 Sep 29, 1906
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x Bill Clinton Bill Clinton President of the United States Jan 20, 2001 Jan 20, 1993
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He was the third-youngest president; only Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy were younger when...
Governor of Arkansas Jan 19, 1981 Jan 9, 1979
Governor of Arkansas Dec 12, 1992 Jan 11, 1983
x George H. W. Bush George H. W. Bush Director of Central Intelligence Jan 1977 Nov 1975
George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) was the 41st President of the United States (1989-1993). He was also Ronald Reagan's Vice President (1981–1989), a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence. Bush was born in...
President of the United States Jan 20, 1993 Jan 20, 1989
United States Representative 1972 1967
United States Representative Jan 3, 1971 Jan 3, 1967
Vice President of the United States 1989 1981
x Clarence Thomas Clarence Thomas official Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States   Oct 19, 1991
Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, having served since 1991. Justice Thomas is the second African American to serve on the nation's highest court, after Justice Thurgood Marshall,...
x John Danforth JohnDanforth      
John Claggett "Jack" Danforth (born September 5, 1936) is a former United States Ambassador to the United Nations and former Republican United States Senator from Missouri. He is an ordained Episcopal priest. Danforth is married to Sally D. Danforth...
x Byron White Justice White Official Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States    
Byron Raymond "Whizzer" White (June 8, 1917–April 15, 2002) won fame both as a football running back and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Appointed to the court by President John F. Kennedy in 1962, he served until...
x John C. Calhoun John C. Calhoun Vice President of the United States 1832 1825
John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 – March 31, 1850) was the seventh Vice President of the United States and a leading Southern politician from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century. Calhoun was an advocate of slavery, states'...
United States Secretary of State Mar 10, 1845 Apr 1, 1844
x Prescott Bush PrescottBush      
Prescott Sheldon Bush (May 15, 1895 – October 8, 1972) was a Wall Street executive banker, and a United States Senator representing Connecticut from 1952 until January 1963. He was the father of the 41st President of the United States George H. W....
x Gary Hart 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...
x Mark Dayton Mark Dayton      
Mark Brandt Dayton (born January 26, 1947) is a former Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party U.S. Senator from Minnesota who served from 2001 to 2007 in the 107th, 108th, and 109th Congresses. Dayton was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Gwendolen...
x Abe Fortas Abe Fortas Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States May 14, 1969 Oct 4, 2065
Abraham Fortas (June 19, 1910–April 5, 1982) was a U.S. Supreme Court associate justice. He served in that role from October 4, 1965 until May 14, 1969, when he resigned under pressure. Fortas was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He was the youngest of...
x Sherman Minton Sherman Minton Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States    
Sherman Minton, (October 20, 1890–April 9, 1965) was a Democratic United States Senator from Indiana and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. A longtime resident of New Albany, Indiana, Minton was born at 9172 State Road...
x Estes Kefauver Estes Kefauver      
Carey Estes Kefauver (July 26, 1903 – August 10, 1963; pronounced /ˈɛstɨs ˈkiːfɔːvər/) was an American politician from Tennessee who opposed the concentration of economic and political power under the control of a wealthy, exclusive elite and...
x Theodore Sedgwick TheodoreSedgwick Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Mar 4, 1801 Dec 2, 1799
Theodore Sedgwick (May 9, 1746 – January 24, 1813), a Delegate, a Representative, and a United States Senator from Massachusetts and the fifth Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, was born in West Hartford, Connecticut. Sedgwick...
United States Representative Mar 3, 1793 Mar 4, 1789
United States Representative Mar 3, 1795 Mar 4, 1793
United States Representative Jun 1796 Mar 4, 1795
United States Representative Mar 4, 1801 Mar 4, 1799
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x Jim Jeffords Jim Jeffords United States Representative 1989 1975
James Merrill "Jim" Jeffords (born May 11, 1934) is a former U.S. Senator from Vermont. He served as a Republican until 2001, when he left the party to become an independent. Jeffords was born in Rutland, Vermont, the son of Marion Hausman and Olin...
United States Senator 2007 1989
x Robert Taft Robert a taft      
Robert Alphonso Taft (September 8, 1889 – July 31, 1953), of the Taft political family of Cincinnati, was a Republican United States Senator and a prominent conservative statesman. As the leading opponent of the New Deal in the Senate from 1939 to...
x Arlen Specter Specter and Casey United States Senator   Jan 5, 1981
Arlen Specter (born February 12, 1930) is the senior United States Senator from Pennsylvania and a member of the Democratic Party. Specter was a member of the Democratic Party until 1965, when he enlisted as a Republican in order to challenge the...
x Lois Capps Lois Capps United States Representative   Jan 3, 2003
Lois Grimsrud Capps (born January 10, 1938), an American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1998, representing California's 23rd congressional district (District map), which was numbered as...
United States Representative Jan 3, 2003 Mar 10, 1998
x Denise Majette Denise Majette      
Denise L. Majette (born May 18, 1955) is a Democratic U.S. politician from the state of Georgia. Born in Brooklyn, she attended Yale University and completed a Juris Doctor degree at Duke University in 1979. A resident of the Atlanta suburb of Stone...
x Mel Watt Mel Watt United States Representative   Jan 3, 1993
Melvin Luther (Mel) Watt (born August 26, 1945), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing the North Carolina's 12th congressional district. Born in Steele Creek, North...
x Oliver Ellsworth Oliver Ellsworth Chief Justice of the United States Dec 15, 1800 Mar 8, 1796
Oliver Ellsworth (April 29, 1745 – November 26, 1807), an American lawyer and politician, was a revolutionary against British rule, a drafter of the United States Constitution, and third Chief Justice of the United States. On June 20, 1787, while at...
x Morrison Waite Morrison Waite Chief Justice of the United States Mar 23, 1888 Mar 4, 1874
Morrison Remick Waite, nicknamed "Mott" (November 29, 1816 – March 23, 1888) was the Chief Justice of the United States from 1874 to 1888. He was born at Lyme, Connecticut, the son of Henry Matson Waite, who was a judge of the Superior Court and...
x David Davis David Davis (Supreme Court justice) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States    
David Davis (March 9, 1815 – June 26, 1886) was a United States Senator from Illinois and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. He also served as Abraham Lincoln's campaign manager at the 1860 Republican National Convention. He was...
x Paul Tsongas Paul Tsongas      
Paul Efthemios Tsongas (pronounced /ˈsɒŋɡəs/; February 14, 1941–January 18, 1997) was a United States Senator from Massachusetts and a one-time candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. Previously he also served as a U.S. Representative...
x Sheila Jackson Lee Sheila Jackson-Lee United States Representative   Jan 3, 1995
Sheila Jackson-Lee (born January 12, 1950) is an American politician. She has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1995. She represents Texas's 18th congressional district. Jackson-Lee graduated from Jamaica...
x Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. Lowell P. Weicker, Jr Governor of Connecticut Jan 4, 1995 Jan 9, 1991
Lowell Palmer Weicker, Jr. (born May 16, 1931) is an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and Governor of Connecticut, and unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for President in 1980. Though a member of...
x William Proxmire William Proxmire      
Edward William Proxmire (November 11, 1915 – December 15, 2005) was a member of the Democratic Party, who served in the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1957 to 1989. Proxmire graduated from The Hill School (in Pottstown,...
x George Edmund Badger George Edmund Badger      
George Edmund Badger (April 17, 1795 – May 11, 1866) was a Whig U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina. Badger was born on April 17, 1795 in New Bern, North Carolina. Following a partial college education at Yale University, he studied law...
x Potter Stewart US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart - 1976 official portrait Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States    
Potter Stewart (January 23, 1915 – December 7, 1985) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. On the Court, he made major contributions to criminal justice reform, civil rights, access to the courts, and Fourth Amendment...
x Nicholas F. Brady Nicholas Frederick Brady United States Secretary of the Treasury Jan 17, 1993 Sep 15, 1988
Nicholas Frederick Brady (born April 11, 1930, in New York City) was United States Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, and is also known for articulating the Brady Plan in March 1989. The son of Eliot...
x David Wu David Wu United States Representative   Jan 3, 1999
David Wu (traditional Chinese: 吳振偉; pinyin: Wú Zhènwěi; born April 8, 1955) is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives for Oregon's First Congressional District. The first district includes part of western Multnomah County...
x David Price David Price (American politician) United States Representative Jan 3, 1995 Jan 3, 1987
David Eugene Price (born August 17, 1940) is a professor and politician currently serving as Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the 4th district of North Carolina. The district includes portions of Raleigh,...
United States Representative   Jan 3, 1997
x Roy Romer Roy Romer Governor of Colorado Jan 12, 1999 Jan 13, 1987
Roy R. Romer (born October 31, 1928 in Garden City, Kansas, United States) was the 39th Governor of Colorado and served as the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District from 2001 to 2006. Romer grew up in the southeastern Colorado...
x William Strong William Strong (judge) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States    
William Strong (May 6, 1808 - August 19, 1895) was an American jurist and politician. He was a justice on the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. Strong was born in Connecticut and later...
x John M. Spratt, Jr. John M. Spratt, Jr United States Representative   Jan 3, 1983
John McKee Spratt, Jr. (born November 1, 1942) is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the 5th District of South Carolina since 1983 (map). The dean of the South Carolina congressional delegation, Spratt is...
x James L. Buckley James L. Buckley United States Senator Jan 3, 1977  
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 January 3, 1971 to January 3, 1977. Formerly, he was vice...
x George Shiras, Jr. George Shiras, Jr Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States    
George Shiras, Jr. (January 26, 1832 – August 2, 1924) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States who was nominated to the Court by Republican President Benjamin Harrison. At that time, he had 37 years of private legal...
x Henry Baldwin Henry Baldwin (judge) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States    
Henry Baldwin (January 14, 1780 – April 21, 1844) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from January 18, 1830, to April 21, 1844. Baldwin was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the half-brother of Abraham Baldwin. He...
x Tom Cole Tom Cole United States Representative   Jan 3, 2003
Thomas Jeffery Cole (born April 28, 1949) is a politician from the state of Oklahoma, currently representing Oklahoma's 4th Congressional District (map) in the U.S. House of Representatives. Cole, the chairman of the National Republican...
x Lamar S. Smith Lamar S. Smith United States Representative   Jan 3, 1987
Lamar Seeligson Smith (born November 19, 1947) is an attorney from the state of Texas, currently representing the state's 21st congressional district (map) in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican. Smith was born in San Antonio,...
x John Davis John Davis (Massachusetts Governor) Governor of Massachusetts Mar 1, 1835 Jan 9, 1834
John Davis (January 13, 1787 – April 19, 1854) was an American lawyer, businessman and politician. John Davis was born on January 13, 1787 in Northborough, Massachusetts. He graduated from Yale College in 1812, where he was one of the four founding...
Governor of Massachusetts Jan 17, 1843 Jan 7, 1841
x John Chafee John Chafee Governor of Rhode Island Jan 7, 1969 Jan 1, 1963
John Lester Hubbard Chafee (pronounced /ˈtʃeɪ fiː/ CHAY-fee; October 22, 1922  – October 24, 1999) was an American politician. He served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps, as governor of Rhode Island, as the Secretary of the Navy, and...
x Dick Zimmer Dick Zimmer (New Jersey politician) United States Representative 1997 1991
Richard A. "Dick" Zimmer is an American Republican Party politician from New Jersey, who served in both houses of the New Jersey Legislature and in the United States House of Representatives. He was the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate from...
x Thomas J. Dodd Thomas J. Dodd      
Thomas Joseph Dodd (May 15, 1907 – May 24, 1971) was a United States Senator and Representative from Connecticut, He was the first Senator censured by the US Senate since Joseph McCarthy in 1954, and was one of only six people censured by the Senate...
x Henry L. Dawes Henry L. Dawes      
Henry Laurens Dawes (October 30, 1816 – February 5, 1903) was a Republican United States Senator and United States Representative, notable for the Dawes Act. Henry Dawes was born in Cummington, Massachusetts. After graduating from Yale University in...
x Amy Klobuchar Amy Klobuchar United States Senator   Jan 2007
Amy Jean Klobuchar (pronounced /ˈkloʊbəʃɑr/, born May 25, 1960) is the senior United States Senator from Minnesota. She is a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, an affiliate of the Democratic Party. She is the first elected female...
x LeBaron B. Colt LeBaron B Colt      
LeBaron Bradford Colt (June 25, 1846 – August 18, 1924) was a United States Senator from Rhode Island and a circuit court judge. He was born in Dedham, Massachusetts to Christopher Colt (the brother of arms maker Samuel Colt) and Theodora Goujand...
x William B. Washburn William B. Washburn Governor of Massachusetts Apr 29, 1874 Jan 4, 1872
William Barrett Washburn (January 31, 1820–October 5, 1887) was an American politician from Massachusetts, serving in the United States House of Representatives and as Governor of Massachusetts. Born in 1820 in Winchendon, Massachusetts, he was the...
x Horatio Seymour Horatio Seymour Governor of New York Dec 31, 1854 Jan 1, 1853
Horatio Seymour (May 31, 1778 – November 21, 1857) was a United States Senator from Vermont. He was the uncle of Origen S. Seymour and the great-uncle of Origen's son Edward W. Seymour. He was born in Litchfield, Connecticut on May 31, 1778. Seymour...
Governor of New York Dec 31, 1864 Jan 1, 1863
x Sheldon Whitehouse Sen Sheldon Whitehouse United States Senator   Jan 3, 2007
Sheldon Whitehouse (born October 20, 1955) is the Junior Senator from the state of Rhode Island. A Democrat, he previously served as United States Attorney (1994–1998) and state Attorney General for Rhode Island. He is a descendent of William...
x Julius Rockwell        
Julius Rockwell (April 26, 1805 – May 19, 1888) was a United States politician from Massachusetts, and the father of Francis Williams Rockwell. Rockwell was born in Colebrook, Connecticut and educated at private schools and then Yale, where he...
x Fred Dubois Freddubois      
Fred Thomas Dubois (May 29, 1851 in Palestine, Illinois – February 14, 1930 in Washington, D.C.) was a controversial American politician who served two terms in the United States Senate from Idaho. He was best-known for his opposition to the gold...
x John Yarmuth John Yarmuth United States Representative   Jan 3, 2007
John Yarmuth (born November 4, 1947) is the U.S. Representative for Kentucky's 3rd congressional district. He is a former independent newspaper publisher. A Louisville native who graduated from Atherton High School in 1965, he graduated from Yale...
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