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Alva B. Adams (BA 1896) D-Colorado 1923-1924, 1932-1941.
Abraham Baldwin (BA 1772) US Congress 1789-1799; Senator 1799-1807; author of the charter for U.Georgia and university president 1789-1801.
Roger Sherman Baldwin (BA 1811) CT Governor 1844-1846; CT US Senator 1847-1851.
John Beall (BA 1950) Maryland US Senator 1971-1976.
Stephen F. Bradley (BA 1775; MA 1778) US Senator Vermont 1801-1813.
John Chafee (BS 1947) RI Governor 1962-1969; Navy Secretary 1969-1972; US RI Senator 1976-1999;
John M. Clayton (BA 1815) Secretary of State in Taylor Cabinet; US DE Senator 1829-1856.
LeBaron Colt (BA 1868) US RI Senator 1913-1924.
David Daggett (BA 1783) US CT Senator 1813-1819.
David Davis (Law 1835) Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court by Lincoln (1862-1877) US IL Senator 1877-1883.
John Davis US MA Senator 1835-1841; 1845-1853.
Henry L. Dawes (BA 1839) US CT Senator 1875-1893.
Fred Dubois (BA 1872) US ID Senator 1891-1907.
William M. Evarts (BA 1837) Secretary of State under Hayes, US NY Senator 1885-1891.
James Hillhouse (BA 1773) US CT Senator 1796-1810.
James Jeffords (BA 1956) US VT Senator 1989-2007
William Samuel Johnson (BA 1744, MA 1747) US founding father, member of the Continental Congress 1785-1787; delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787; President of Columbia University 1787-1800; US CT Senator 1789-1791.
John Kean: US NJ Senator
John Lanman (BA 1788) US Senator.
R.J. Meigs Jr. (BA 1785) US OH Senator 1808-1810; 4th OH Governor 1810-1814; 8th US postmaster general 1814-1823; Meigs County is named in his honor.
Henry Mitchell (BA 1804) US Rep. NY 1833-1835.
Truman Newberry (MI Senator 1919-1922) Navy Secretary 1908-1909.
Francis Newlands (circa 1859) US NV Senator 1903-1917.
Robert Taft Jr. (BA 1939) US OH Congress 1963-1964; 1967-1970; US OH Senator 1971-1976.
Frederick Walcott (BA 1891) US CT Senator 1929-1935.
John Wales (BA 1801) US DE Senator 1849-1851; co-founder of Delaware College.
Malcolm Wallop (BA 1954) US WY Senator 1977-1995.
Alva B. Adams (BA 1896) D-Colorado 1923-1924, 1932-1941.
Abraham Baldwin (BA 1772) US Congress 1789-1799; Senator 1799-1807; author of the charter for U.Georgia and university president 1789-1801.
Roger Sherman Baldwin (BA 1811) CT Governor 1844-1846; CT US Senator 1847-1851.
John Beall (BA 1950) Maryland US Senator 1971-1976.
Stephen F. Bradley (BA 1775; MA 1778) US Senator Vermont 1801-1813.
John Chafee (BS 1947) RI Governor 1962-1969; Navy Secretary 1969-1972; US RI Senator 1976-1999;
John M. Clayton (BA 1815) Secretary of State in Taylor Cabinet; US DE Senator 1829-1856.
LeBaron Colt (BA 1868) US RI Senator 1913-1924.
David Daggett (BA 1783) US CT Senator 1813-1819.
David Davis (Law 1835) Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court by Lincoln (1862-1877) US IL Senator 1877-1883.
John Davis US MA Senator 1835-1841; 1845-1853.
Henry L. Dawes (BA 1839) US CT Senator 1875-1893.
Fred Dubois (BA 1872) US ID Senator 1891-1907.
William M. Evarts (BA 1837) Secretary of State under Hayes, US NY Senator 1885-1891.
James Hillhouse (BA 1773) US CT Senator 1796-1810.
James Jeffords (BA 1956) US VT Senator 1989-2007
William Samuel Johnson (BA 1744, MA 1747) US founding father, member of the Continental Congress 1785-1787; delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787; President of Columbia University 1787-1800; US CT Senator 1789-1791.
John Kean: US NJ Senator
John Lanman (BA 1788) US Senator.
R.J. Meigs Jr. (BA 1785) US OH Senator 1808-1810; 4th OH Governor 1810-1814; 8th US postmaster general 1814-1823; Meigs County is named in his honor.
Henry Mitchell (BA 1804) US Rep. NY 1833-1835.
Truman Newberry (MI Senator 1919-1922) Navy Secretary 1908-1909.
Francis Newlands (circa 1859) US NV Senator 1903-1917.
Robert Taft Jr. (BA 1939) US OH Congress 1963-1964; 1967-1970; US OH Senator 1971-1976.
Frederick Walcott (BA 1891) US CT Senator 1929-1935.
John Wales (BA 1801) US DE Senator 1849-1851; co-founder of Delaware College.
Malcolm Wallop (BA 1954) US WY Senator 1977-1995.
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John Ashcroft was born on 9 May 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He has been married to Janet Elise Roede since 23 December 1967. They have three children.BA 1964 Cum Laude; US Attorney General 2001-2005; US Senator R-Missouri 1995-2001; Missouri Governor 1985-1993.- Michael Bennet was born on 28 November 1964 in New Delhi, India. He has been married to Susan Diane Daggett since 25 October 1997. They have three children.JD 1993; US Colorado Senator 2009-present
- Hiram Bingham III was born on 19 November 1875 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. He died on 6 June 1956 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.BA 1898; Connecticut Governor 1925; US Senator from Connecticut 1924-1933; explorer who rediscovered the lost city of Macchu Picchu, Peru.
- David Boren was born on 21 April 1941 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He is a legal representative.BA 1963; Oklahoma Governor 1975-1979; US Senator from Oklahoma 1979-1994. President of the University of Oklahoma.
- Nicholas Brady was born on 11 April 1930 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He has been married to Katherine Douglas since 1954. They have four children.BA 1952; US Senator from New Jersey (1982).
- Sherrod Brown was born on 9 November 1952 in Mansfield, Ohio, USA. He has been married to Connie Schultz since 2004.BA 1974; US Congress 1993-2007; US Ohio Senator 2007-present.
- Prescott Bush was born on 15 May 1895 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. He was married to Dorothy W. Bush. He died on 8 October 1972 in New York City, New York, USA.BA 1917; US CT Senator 1953-1963; father of President George H.W. Bush and grandfather of President of George W. Bush.
- James Buckley was born on 9 March 1923 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He was married to Ann Frances Cooley. He died on 18 August 2023 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.James L. Buckley (BA 1943; Law 1949) US NY Senator 1971-1977; President of Radio Europe 1982-1985; Federal Judge for the US Court of Appeals (DC Circuit) 1985-1996.
- John Danforth was born on 5 September 1936 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.JD DIV 1963; US MO 1976-1995.
- Mark Dayton was born on 26 January 1947 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.BA 1969; US MN Senator 2001-2007.
- Chris Coons was born on 9 September 1963 in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA. He is an actor, known for Judge Katanji Brown Jackson Confirmation Hearing (2022), PBS NewsHour (1975) and Year One: A Political Odyssey (2022). He is married to Anne Coons. They have three children.JD/MA; US DE Senator 2010-present
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Richard Blumenthal was born on 13 February 1946 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He is known for Athlete A (2020), Telemarketers (2023) and At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal (2019).JD 1973; US CT Senator 2011-present- Gary Hart was born on 28 November 1936 in Ottawa, Kansas, USA. He is an actor, known for Cheers (1982), The Reagan Presidency (2012) and One Bright Shining Moment (2005). He was previously married to Oletha (Lee) Ludwig.DIV 1961; LLB 1964; US CO Senator 1975-1987
- John Heinz is known for Dorothy Marie and the Unanswered Questions of the Zombie Apocalypse (2013).BA 1960; US PA Senator
- Amy Klobuchar was born on 25 May 1960 in Plymouth, Minnesota, USA. She has been married to John Bessler since 10 July 1993. They have one child.BA 1982; US MN Senator 2007-present
- Joe Lieberman was born on 24 February 1942 in Stamford, Connecticut, USA. He was married to Hadassah Freilich and Elizabeth Haas. He died on 27 March 2024 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.BA 1964; JD 1967; US CT Senator 1989-present
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Mrs. Medill McCormick was born on 27 March 1880 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She was an actress and production manager, known for Your Girl and Mine: A Woman Suffrage Play (1914) and Helen's Stratagem (1913). She died on 31 December 1944 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.Husband was US Senator 1919 to 1924. publisher of the Chicago Tribune.- Thruston B. Morton was born on 19 August 1907 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He died on 14 August 1982 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.BA 1929; US KY Senator 1957-1968.
- Bill Nelson was born on 29 September 1942 in Miami, Florida, USA. He has been married to Grace Cavert since 1972. They have two children.BA 1965; US Congress FL 1979-1991; astronaut (STS 61-C 1986) US FL Senator 2001-present.
- Williams Proxmire is an American politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States Senator from Wisconsin from 1957 to 1989, the longest term served by a Wisconsin senator.
Proxmire was a member of the Senate Banking Committee, The Senate Appropriations Committee, and the Joint Economic Committee. In each of those committees he was an aggressive critic of wasteful government spending. While serving on the Joint Economic Committee, he exposed numerous instances of wasteful spending on military programs such as the C-5 aircraft and the F-16 fighter, and other government programs such as the supersonic aircraft.BA 1948; US WI Senator 1957-1989. - Arlen Specter was born on 12 February 1930 in Wichita, Kansas, USA. He was married to Joan Levy. He died on 14 October 2012 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.LLB 1956; US PA Senator 1981-2011.
- Stuart Symington was born on 26 June 1901 in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. He was married to Ann Hemenway Watson and Evelyn Wadsworth. He died on 14 December 1988 in New Canaan, Connecticut, USA.BA 1923; US Secretary of the Air Force; US MO Senator 1953-1976.
- Robert A. Taft is an American conservative politician, lawyer, and scion of the Republican Party's Taft family. Taft represented Ohio in the United States Senate, briefly served as Senate Majority Leader, and was a leader of the conservative coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats who prevented expansion of the New Deal. Often referred to as "Mr. Republican", he cosponsored the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947, which banned closed shops and other labor practices.
The elder son of William Howard Taft, the 27th President of the United States, Robert Taft was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He pursued a legal career in Cincinnati after graduating from Harvard Law School in 1913.
A 1957 Senate committee named Taft as one of America's five greatest senators.BA 1910; US OH Senator 1939-1953. - John V. Tunney was born on 26 June 1934 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Candidate (1972) and The Merv Griffin Show (1962). He was married to Kathinka Osborne and Mieke Sprengers. He died on 12 January 2018 in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, USA.BA 1956; US CA Congress 1965-1970; US CA Senator 1971-1977.
- Lowell Weicker was a Republican politician who became famous during the Watergate Scandal that led to the resignation of Richard Nixon. Weicker served one term in the House of Representatives (1969-71) and three terms in the U.S. Senate (1971-89). One of the last of a dying breed of "Rockefeller Republicans" (members of the GOP with liberal sympathies), he consistently alienated the conservative base of the party. He was a harsh critic of Nixon, which made his name nationally and created presidential buzz. In 1980, he ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 1980, but it was the year of Ronald Reagan and conservatives.
As the GOP went steadily to the right under Reagan, Weicker became more out of step with the Republican base. He lost his bid for a fourth term to 'Joe Lieberman (I)', who was then a Democrat, albeit of a conservative stripe. (In 1986 rankings, the liberal organization Americans for Democratic Action's ratings of Senators ranked Weicker as the most liberal Republican in that august body; his rating was 20% higher than that of Democrat Chris Dodd of Connecticut, whose father former Senator Thomas Dodd Weicker beat in 1970.)
Lowell Weicker had a brief political comeback, serving a single term as governor of Connecticut from 1991-95.BA 1953; US CT Congress 1968-1971; US CT Senator 1971-1989. CT Governor 1990-1994. - Sheldon Whitehouse was born on 20 October 1955 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.BA 1978; US RI Senator 2006-present
- Pete Wilson was born on 23 August 1933 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA.BA 1956; US CA Senator 1983-1991; California Governor 1991-1999.
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In every role she has ever held -- as an advocate for women and kids, as an attorney, as First Lady, as Senator, as Secretary of State, and as the first woman in U.S. history to earn a major party's presidential nomination - Hillary Clinton has defied convention and stood up for what she believes.
She knows more than most about setbacks - and comebacks. She has a fierce sense of gratitude for the women who have come before her, and those who inspire her today. She is a mom and a proud grandma who is determined to make the world fairer and more equal for everyone.JD 1973; US Secretary of State under President Obama 2009-2013; US NY Senator 2001-2009.- Cory Booker, elected mayor of Newark, New Jersey, in 2006, came by his civil-rights activism at an early age. His parents, Carolyn Rose (Jordan) and Cary Alfred Booker, were among the first black executives at IBM. Booker was born in Washington, D.C., but grew up in Harrington Park, a mostly white suburban town in northern New Jersey. He studied at California's Stanford University, earning a B.A. in political science and an M.A. in sociology. He was a star football player and was elected to the student government council. He won a Rhodes Scholarship to Queens College, Oxford, England, obtaining an honors degree in modern history in 1994. He met Rabbi Shmuley Boteach there and became president of the L'Chaim Society, an organization devoted to easing tensions between Jews and African-Americans.
After returning to the U.S., Booker attended Yale Law School, graduating in 1997. He then started several free legal clinics for low-income residents of the neighboring city of New Haven, CT. Returning to his home state of New Jersey, he was hired as a staff attorney for New York City's Urban Justice Center and then became Program Coordinator of the Newark (NJ) Youth Project. Although professionally and financially successful, in 1998 Booker moved into a Newark housing project called the Brick Towers, which was notorious for its run-down condition and festering crime problems. He led the project's tenants in their fight for improvements in housing, maintenance and security. That same year he won election to the Newark City Council in an upset victory over a four-term incumbent. The next year, as a council member, he went on a ten-day hunger strike to protest rampant and blatant drug-dealing in one of Newark's worst housing projects. In 2000 he spent five months living in a motor home, staying on streets in some of the most crime- and drug-infested areas of the city to get an idea of just how bad conditions were.
These and other tactics did not win him many friends in local government, and the many ordinances, city code revisions and laws he proposed were almost always voted down by his fellow council members. Frustrated at the resistance he met on the council, in 2002 he decided not to try for re-election but to run for the position of Mayor. His uphill battle against long-time mayor and veteran of Newark's brand of rough-and-tumble politics Mayor Sharpe James was chronicled in the Academy Award-nominated documentary Street Fight (2005) by filmmaker Marshall Curry. Although Booker made a strong showing, he ultimately lost the election.
In 2003 he started Newark Now, a nonprofit civic improvement group, became a partner in a West Orange (NJ) law firm and a senior fellow at Rutgers University's Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. In 2006 he again ran for mayor of Newark. However, incumbent mayor James, who had beaten him in the '02 election, suddenly decided to drop out of the race. James, who was also a state senator, picked a Newark deputy mayor to run in his place. However, on election day Booker soundly trounced James' candidate, taking more than 72% of the vote in the largest landslide victory in Newark's history. In addition, Newark voters swept out the entire City Council, replacing them with the slate of candidates endorsed by Booker, giving him solid control over the city government.
Booker's first few months in office were, to say the least, tumultuous. Shortly before taking office he sued the city of Newark in state court to stop it from selling city land at prices he felt were much too low. Although the outgoing City Council argued in court that selling the land cheaply was the only way to encourage improvement in the deteriorated inner city, the courts ultimately agreed with Booker and, in addition, noted that the former city council had ensured that many of the recipients of these bargain land deals were developers who had contributed to the council members' campaigns.
Also, an assassination plot against Booker by the leaders of several Newark street gangs was discovered. The gangs, angered by Booker's campaign promises to increase the number of police on the streets and to crack down hard on street gang crime, had planned to have members who were incarcerated in several state prisons simultaneously start riots there, and then have gang members on the outside assassinate Booker while authorities' attention was diverted.JD 1997; Newark, NJ mayor; US NJ Senator