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Al Smith
American statesman and governor
Albert Gallatin
American politician, diplomat, and scholar
Alexander H. Stephens
Vice President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865
Ambrose Burnside
American general and politician
Benjamin Tillman
Jim Crow-era Democratic politician
Charles Evans Hughes
American politician and 11th Chief Justice of the United States
Charles G. Dawes
Vice president of the United States from 1925 to 1929
Charles Sumner
American abolitionist and statesman (1811–1874)
Cordell Hull
American politician
Daniel Webster
14th and 19th United States Secretary of State (1782–1852)
Davy Crockett
American politician and folk hero
DeWitt Clinton
American politician
Eleanor Roosevelt
American diplomat and activist (1884–1962)
Elihu Root
American politician
Fiorello La Guardia
American politician (1882–1947)
Frances Perkins
American politician (1880–1965)
Frank B. Kellogg
American politician, and 45th Secretary of State in the United States
George Sutherland
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, United States Senator, member of the United States House of Representatives (1862-1942)
Hamilton Fish
American politician and Governor
Hannibal Hamlin
First Republican to serve as Vice President of the United States
Henry A. Wallace
Former Vice President of the United States
Henry Cabot Lodge
American statesman
Henry Clay
American politician (1777–1852)
Hiram Johnson
Governor of California
Huey Long
American politician from Louisiana (1893–1935)
James G. Blaine
American Republican politician
Jeannette Rankin
First woman elected to Congress, in 1916
Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865
John C. Breckinridge
Confederate States Army general and Vice President of the United States
John C. Calhoun
Vice President of the United States from 1825 to 1832
John Nance Garner
American politician
John Sherman
American politician
John T. Morgan
American politician (1824–1907)
Joseph Gurney Cannon
American politician
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
American businessman and politician (1888–1969)
Judah P. Benjamin
American secessionist politician and lawyer, first Jewish U.S. Senator who served without renouncing his faith, first Jewish Cabinet member.
Lewis Cass
United States Army officer and politician (1782–1866)
Mark Hanna
Republican United States Senator from Ohio
Nelson W. Aldrich
American politician
Nicholas Biddle
American financier and banker
P. B. S. Pinchback
First ethnic minority as well as African American state governor in The United States
Robert M. La Follette
American lawyer and politician (1855–1925)
Roscoe Conkling
American politician
Sam Houston
19th-century Texian and American politician and soldier
Sam Rayburn
43rd Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
Sitting Bull
Hunkpapa Lakota leader and holy man
Stephen A. Douglas
American politician and Senator
Stephen Mather
American businessman and conservationist
Thaddeus Stevens
American statesman (1792–1868)
Thomas Brackett Reed
U.S. Representative from Maine, and Speaker of the House
Thomas Hart Benton (politician)
Senator from Missouri
Thurlow Weed
United States political manager and journalist
William H. Seward
19th-century American lawyer and politician
William Jennings Bryan
American politician (1860–1925)
William M. Tweed
American politician (1823–1878)