Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. was an American politician and statesman who served as the 38th vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969. He twice served in the United States Senate,representing Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and again from 1971 to 1978. As a senator he was a major leader of modern liberalism in the United States. As President Lyndon B. Johnson's vice president,he supported the controversial Vietnam War. An intensely divided Democratic Party nominated him in the 1968 presidential election,which he lost to Republican nominee Richard Nixon.
Debra Lynn Winger is an American actress. She starred in the films An Officer and a Gentleman (1982),Terms of Endearment (1983),and Shadowlands (1993),each of which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Winger won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress for Terms of Endearment,and the Tokyo International Film Festival Award for Best Actress for A Dangerous Woman (1993).
The Chicago Seven,originally the Chicago Eight and also known as the Conspiracy Eight or Conspiracy Seven,were seven defendants –Rennie Davis,David Dellinger,John Froines,Tom Hayden,Abbie Hoffman,Jerry Rubin,and Lee Weiner –charged by the United States Department of Justice with conspiracy,crossing state lines with intent to incite a riot,and other charges related to anti-Vietnam War and 1960s counterculture protests in Chicago,Illinois during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. The Chicago Eight became the Chicago Seven after the case against codefendant Bobby Seale was declared a mistrial.
Barbara Jean Lee is an American politician who served as a U.S. representative from California from 1998 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party,Lee represented California's 12th congressional district,which is based in Oakland and covers most of the northern part of Alameda County. According to the Cook Partisan Voting Index,it is one of the nation's most Democratic districts,with a rating of D+40.
The 2000 Democratic National Convention was a quadrennial presidential nominating convention for the Democratic Party. The convention nominated Vice President Al Gore for president and Senator Joe Lieberman from Connecticut for vice president. The convention was held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles,California from August 14 to August 17,2000. Gore accepted the presidential nomination on August 17,the final night of the convention.
Fannie Lou Hamer was an American voting and women's rights activist,community organizer,and leader of the civil rights movement. She was the vice-chair of the Freedom Democratic Party,which she represented at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Hamer also organized Mississippi's Freedom Summer along with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). She was also a co-founder of the National Women's Political Caucus,an organization created to recruit,train,and support women of all races who sought election to government offices.
Ladda Tammy Duckworth is an American politician and retired Army National Guard lieutenant colonel serving as the junior United States senator from Illinois since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party,she represented Illinois's 8th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2017.
Gail S. Shaffer is an American politician and activist who served as the 59th Secretary of State of New York under Mario Cuomo.
Republicans Overseas (RO) is a political organization created in 2013 for United States citizens who are living outside of the United States. RO is recognized by the Republican National Committee (RNC),and by other affiliated groups,such as College Republicans. It operates in the majority of countries around the world where there are large numbers of United States citizen residents. Similar to political action committees (PAC) and Super Pacs;RO is a 527 political organization that operates as a corporation with specific interests of repealing the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) and of generally representing Republicans living overseas.
Carol Ronen is an American politician who served as a Democratic member of both houses of the Illinois General Assembly.
Maya Kasandra Soetoro-Ng is an Indonesian-born American academic,who is a faculty specialist at the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution,based in the College of Social Sciences at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She is also a consultant for the Obama Foundation,working to develop the Asia-Pacific Leaders Program. Formerly a high school history teacher,Soetoro-Ng is the maternal half-sister of Barack Obama,the 44th president of the United States.
The 1968 Democratic National Convention protests were a series of protests against the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War that took place prior to and during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago,Illinois. The protests lasted approximately seven days,from August 23 to August 29,1968,and drew an estimated 7,000 to 10,000 anti-war protesters in total.
The 2012 Democratic National Convention was a gathering,held from September 4–6,2012,at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte,North Carolina,in which delegates of the Democratic Party nominated President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden for reelection,in the 2012 United States national election.
The 2016 Democratic National Convention was a presidential nominating convention,held at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,from July 25 to 28,2016. The convention gathered delegates of the Democratic Party,the majority of them elected through a preceding series of primaries and caucuses,to nominate a candidate for president and vice president in the 2016 United States presidential election. Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was chosen as the party's nominee for president by a 54% majority of delegates present at the convention roll call securing it over primary rival Senator Bernie Sanders,who received 46% of votes from delegates,and becoming the first female candidate to be formally nominated for president by a major political party in the United States. Her running mate,Senator Tim Kaine from Virginia,was confirmed by delegates as the party's nominee for vice president by acclamation.
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is a big tent,democratic socialist political organization in the United States. After the Socialist Party of America (SPA) was renamed Social Democrats,USA,Michael Harrington formed the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC). The DSOC later merged with the New American Movement (NAM) to form the DSA. The organization is headquartered in New York City and has about 80,000 members. It leads organizing and protest campaigns,and has members in the House of Representatives,state legislatures,and other local offices.
Nina Rosenwald is an American political activist and philanthropist. An heiress to the Sears Roebuck fortune,Rosenwald is vice president of the William Rosenwald Family Fund and co-chair of the board of American Securities Management. She is the founder and president of Gatestone Institute,a New York-based right-wing anti-Muslim think tank.
Lisa LaTrelle Blunt Rochester is an American politician serving since 2025 as the junior United States senator from Delaware. From 2017 to 2025,she served as the U.S. representative for Delaware's at-large congressional district. A member of the Democratic Party,she is the first woman,and first African American,to represent Delaware in both chambers of Congress.
Debra Anne Haaland is an American politician who served as the 54th United States secretary of the interior from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party,she previously served as the US Representative for New Mexico's 1st congressional district from 2019 to 2021 and as chair of the New Mexico Democratic Party from 2015 to 2017. Haaland,a Native American,is an enrolled member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe.
The 2024 Democratic National Convention was a presidential nominating convention in which delegates of the United States Democratic Party voted on their party platform and ceremonially reported their vote to nominate Vice President Kamala Harris for president and her chosen running mate Governor Tim Walz for vice president in the 2024 presidential election. It was held from August 19 to 22,2024,at the United Center in Chicago,Illinois. Delegates virtually nominated Harris and Walz the first week of August. Harris is the first Black woman and first Indian woman to be the presidential nominee of a major political party in the United States,and the first Democratic presidential nominee from the Western United States.
The 2024 Republican National Convention was an event in which delegates of the United States Republican Party selected the party's nominees for president and vice president in the 2024 United States presidential election. Held from July 15 to 18,2024,at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee,Wisconsin,it preceded the 2024 Democratic National Convention,which took place from August 19 to 22 at United Center in Chicago,Illinois.
