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Profile in Courage Award
The Profile in Courage Award is a private award given to recognize displays of courage similar to those John F. Kennedy described in his book Profiles in Courage. It is given to individuals (often elected officials) who, by acting in accord with their conscience, risked their careers or lives by...
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Carl Elliott
Carl Atwood Elliott (December 20, 1913–January 9, 1999) was a U.S. Congressman from the state of Alabama. He was elected to eight consecutive terms in office, serving from January 1949 to January 1965.
Elliott was born in rural Franklin County in...
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Charles Weltner
Charles Weltner (December 17, 1927 – August 31, 1992) was a politician from the U.S. state of Georgia.
Weltner was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He received a bachelor's degree from Oglethorpe University in 1948. Then, in 1950, he received a law degree...
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Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
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...
James Florio
James Joseph "Jim" Florio (born August 29, 1937) is a Democratic politician who served as the 49th Governor of New Jersey from 1990 to 1994, the first Italian American to hold the position. He also served as a member of the United States House of...
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Henry B. Gonzalez
Henry Barbosa González (May 3, 1916 – November 28, 2000) was a Democratic politician from the state of Texas. He represented Texas's 20th congressional district from 1961 to 1999.
González was born in San Antonio, Texas, to parents who had...
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Mike Synar
Michael Lynn "Mike" Synar (October 17, 1950 - January 9, 1996) was an American Democratic politician who represented Oklahoma's 2nd congressional district in Congress for eight terms.
Synar was born in Vinita, Oklahoma and was graduated from...
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Corkin Cherubini
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Charles Melvin Price
Charles Melvin Price (January 1, 1905 - April 22, 1988) was a longtime member of the United States House of Representatives. Most notably, he served as the chairman of the United States House Committee on Armed Services between 1975 and 1985. He...
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Nickolas C. Murnion
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Russ Feingold
Russell Dana "Russ" Feingold (born March 2, 1953) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Wisconsin. He has served as a Democratic member of the U.S. Senate and the junior Senator from Wisconsin since 1993. A recipient of the John F....
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Hilda Solis
Hilda Lucia Solis (born October 20, 1957) is the 25th United States Secretary of Labor, serving in the Obama administration. She is a member of the Democratic Party and served in the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2009,...
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Katie Couric
Katie Couric became a household name when she co hosted the number one morning show in the US, The Today show (NBC), from 1991 to 2006. She made a highly publicized move from from NBC to CBS on September 2006 when she took over the anchor and...
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John Lewis
John Robert Lewis (born February 21, 1940) is an American politician and was a leader in the American Civil Rights Movement. He was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and played a key role in the struggle to end...
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Kofi Annan
Kofi Atta Annan, Honorary GCMG (born 8 April 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1 January 1997 to 1 January 2007. Annan and the United Nations were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel...
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Dean Koldenhoven
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Roy Barnes
Roy Eugene Barnes (born March 11, 1948) was the governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from January 1999 until January 2003. He is a member of the United States Democratic Party.
Barnes was born in Mableton, now a suburb just west of Atlanta. He...
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Dan Ponder, Jr.
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Sima Samar
Dr. Sima Samar is the Chairperson of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission. (AIHRC). She is also the Special Rapporteur for the UN on the human rights situation in Sudan. She obtained her medical degree in 1982 from Kabul University, the...
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Cindy Watson
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Paul Muegge
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Shirley Franklin
The Honorable 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, she was the first female to hold the post...
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Joseph Darby
Sergeant Joseph M. Darby (born c. 1979), of Corriganville, Maryland, is best known as the whistleblower in the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal. Darby is a graduate of North Star High School, near his hometown at the time, Jenners,...
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Viktor Yushchenko
Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko (Ukrainian: Віктор Андрійович Ющенко (help·info) Viktor Andrijovyč Juščenko) (born February 23, 1954) is the third and current President of Ukraine. He took office on January 23, 2005.
As an informal leader of the...
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Bill Ratliff
Bill Ratliff, born 1937, is a Texas politician who served as a member of the Texas State Senate from 1988 to 2004. Between 2000 and 2003 he served as Lieutenant Governor of Texas, after former lieutenant governor Rick Perry succeeded to the...
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John Murtha
John Patrick “Jack” Murtha, Jr. (born June 17, 1932) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Murtha, a Democrat, has represented Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives since...
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Alberto J. Mora
Alberto J. Mora is a former General Counsel of the United States Navy. He led an effort within the Defense Department to oppose the legal theories of John Yoo and to try to end coercive interrogation tactics at Guantanamo Bay, which he argued are...
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Bill White
William Howard "Bill" White (born June 16, 1954) is a United States politician, member of the national and state Democratic Party and current mayor of the city of Houston, Texas (January 2, 2004–present). He was elected mayor in 2003 and reelected...
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Doris Voitier
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William Winter
William Forrest Winter (born February 21, 1923, in Grenada, Mississippi) is an American politician from Mississippi. He served as governor of Mississippi from 1980 to 1984 as a Democrat. He is known for his strong support of public education, racial...
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Debra Bowen
Debra Bowen (born October 27, 1955) is a California politician from the Democratic Party. She has been California Secretary of State since January 8, 2007. Prior to becoming Secretary of State, she was a member of the California State Legislature...
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Jennifer Brunner
Jennifer Lee Brunner (born February 5, 1957) is an American politician of the Democratic Party who currently serves as the Ohio Secretary of State. Brunner is the first woman to serve in this capacity. She assumed control of the office after sixteen...
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John McCain
John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican nominee for president in the 2008 United States election.
McCain followed his father and grandfather, both four-star admirals, into...
