Cyrus Roberts Vance (Clarksburg, West Virginia, March 27, 1917 – January 12, 2002) was the United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1980. He approached foreign policy with an emphasis on negotiation over conflict...

Anthony Allen "Tony" Williams (born July 28 1951, in Los Angeles, California) is an American politician who served as the fourth man elected mayor of the District of Columbia from 1999 to 2007. He also served as Chief Financial Officer for the...

Anthony Carroll Knowles (born January 1 1943 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American Democratic politician and businessman who served as Governor of Alaska from December 1994 to December 2002. Barred from seeking a third consecutive term as governor in...

Frank Shorter (born October 31, 1947) is an American distance runner and winner of the marathon race at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Born in Munich, Germany, where his father, physician Samuel Shorter, served in the army, Frank Shorter grew up in...

Albert Peter Dewey (1916-September 26, 1945), shot by accident. by Viet Minh troops on September 26, 1945. Dewey was the first American casualty in Vietnam, killed in the early aftermath of World War II. Col. Dewey the younger son of Congressman...

Henry Ford II (September 4, 1917 — September 29, 1987), commonly known as "HF2" and "Hank the Deuce", was the son of Edsel Ford and grandson of Henry Ford. He was president of the Ford Motor Company from 1945 to 1960, chairman of the board and chief...

Porter Johnston Goss (born December 10 1938) is an American politician, who was the last Director of Central Intelligence and the first Director of the Central Intelligence Agency following the passage of the IRTPA 2004 Act, which abolished the DCI...

Robert "Bob" Upshur Woodward (born March 26, 1943) is an assistant managing editor of The Washington Post. While an investigative reporter for that newspaper, Woodward, working with fellow reporter Carl Bernstein, helped uncover the Watergate...

Leslie "Les" Aspin, Jr. (July 21, 1938 — May 21, 1995) was a United States Representative from 1971 to 1993, and the United States Secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton from January 21, 1993 to February 3, 1994. Aspin was born in...

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 when he flew aboard...

John Pepper, Jr. is the former CEO of Procter & Gamble and will replace George J. Mitchell as non-executive chairman of The Walt Disney Company in January, 2007. Prior to his election as chairman, he served as Vice President of Yale University...