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Adlai Stevenson II
American politician
Al Gore
Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001
Barry Goldwater
American statesman
Bernie Sanders
American politician and activist (born 1941)
Bob Dole
American politician
Carl Hayden
Democratic U.S. Senator from Arizona
Daniel Inouye
United States Senator from Hawaii (1963–2012)
Dick Cheney
46th Vice President of the United States
Donald Rumsfeld
American politician and diplomat (1932–2021)
Edmund Muskie
United States politician
Edward Brooke
American politician
George F. Kennan
American advisor, diplomat, political scientist and historian
George J. Mitchell
American politician, diplomat, and judge
George McGovern
American politician
George Wallace
American politician (1919–1998)
Geraldine Ferraro
American lawyer and politician (1935–2011)
Harry Reid
American politician, former Senate Majority Leader
Henry Kissinger
American diplomat and scholar (1923–2023)
Hillary Clinton
American politician and diplomat (born 1947)
Hubert Humphrey
38th Vice President of the United States
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
35th First Lady of the United States
Jerry Brown
Governor of California (1975–1983; 2011–2019)
Jesse Helms
American politician
John Dingell
American politician
John Foster Dulles
United States Secretary of State (1888–1959)
John Kerry
68th U.S. Secretary of State
John McCain
American statesman and military officer
Joseph McCarthy
American politician
Margaret Chase Smith
American politician
Michelle Obama
Former First Lady of the United States
Mitch McConnell
American politician and lawyer (born 1942)
Mitt Romney
American senator from Utah
Nancy Pelosi
American politician (born 1940)
Nancy Reagan
American actress and First Lady of the United States
Nelson Rockefeller
41st Vice President of the United States
Newt Gingrich
50th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
Orrin Hatch
American politician
Richard J. Daley
American politician
Richard Russell Jr.
66th Governor of Georgia (1931–1933), U.S. Senator from Georgia (1933–1971)
Robert Byrd
American politician
Robert F. Kennedy
20th-century American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy
Robert McNamara
American businessman and government official (1916–2009)
Ron Paul
American politician (born 1935)
Ross Perot
American businessman and politician (1930–2019)
Sarah Palin
9th Governor of Alaska
Shirley Chisholm
American politician
Spiro Agnew
39th Vice President of the United States
Strom Thurmond
American politician (1902–2003)
Ted Kennedy
American senator from Massachusetts
Ted Stevens
Republican U.S. Senator from Alaska
Thomas E. Dewey
American politician
Tip O'Neill
American politician (1912–1994)
Walter Mondale
42nd vice president of the United States (1928–2021)