Jonathan Trumbull Jr. was an American politician and military officer who served as the governor of Connecticut,speaker of the United States House of Representatives,and lieutenant governor of Connecticut. He is often confused with his younger brother,John Trumbull,a famous artist during the revolutionary war and early years of the United States.
Robert Charles Winthrop was an American lawyer,philanthropist,and Whig Party politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States House and Senate from 1840 to 1851. He served as the 18th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and was a political ally and colleague of Daniel Webster. After a rapid rise in Massachusetts and national politics and one term as speaker,Winthrop succeeded Webster in the Senate. His re-election campaign resulted in a long,sharply contested defeat by Charles Sumner. He ran for Governor of Massachusetts in 1851 but lost due to the state's majority requirement,marking the end of his political career and signaling the decline of the Massachusetts Whig Party.
The Sharpstown scandal was a stock fraud scandal in the state of Texas in 1971 and 1972 involving the highest levels of the state government. The name came from the involvement of the Sharpstown area of Houston.
Patricia Nell Scott Schroeder was an American politician who represented Colorado's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 1997. A member of the Democratic Party,Schroeder was the first female U.S. Representative elected from Colorado and ran for president in 1988.
Irving McNeil Ives was an American politician and founding dean of the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. A Republican,he served as a United States Senator from New York from 1947 to 1959. He was previously a member of the New York State Assembly for sixteen years,serving as Minority Leader (1935),Speaker (1936),and Majority Leader (1937–1946). A liberal Republican,he was known as a specialist in labor and civil rights legislation. Ives voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
James Michael Mead was an American politician from New York. A Democrat,among the offices in which he served was member of the Erie County Board of Supervisors (1914–1915),New York State Assembly (1915–1918),United States House of Representatives (1919–1938),and United States Senate (1938–1947).
William Temple was an American merchant and politician from Smyrna,in Kent County,Delaware. He was a member of the Whig Party,and later the Democratic Party,who served in the Delaware General Assembly,as Governor of Delaware,and as U.S. Representative from Delaware. He is the youngest governor to serve in Delaware in all of its history.
David Cobb was a Massachusetts physician,military officer,jurist,and politician who served as a U.S. Congressman for Massachusetts's at-large congressional seat.
Nehemiah Green was the fourth Governor of Kansas,serving in that position on an interim basis from November 1868 to January 1869. He subsequently served as Speaker pro Tempore of the Kansas House of Representatives.
Lee Earl Emerson was an American politician who served in both the Vermont House of Representatives and the Vermont Senate. A member of the Republican Party,he was the 63rd Lieutenant Governor of Vermont and the 69th governor of Vermont. When he was first elected in the 1950 Vermont gubernatorial election,he received over 70% of the vote,a feat not equaled until 1992 and not until 2022 by a Republican. Despite his success in 1950,he lost the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Vermont in 1958 to Congressman Winston L. Prouty. He also lost the 1960 primary for Vermont's seat in the U.S. House of Representatives to incumbent Governor Robert T. Stafford.
Donald Strehle Whitehead was an American politician from Idaho. The state's 23rd and 28th lieutenant governor,he served a combined six years between 1939 and 1951.
Horace Tracy Cahill was an American politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives,as Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and,from 1939 to 1945,as the 54th lieutenant governor of Massachusetts. In 1944 Cahill was the unsuccessfully Republican candidate for governor.
Roy E. Furman was an American politician who served as the 21st lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania from 1955 to 1959 and as Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representative from 1936–1938.
Charles Wesley Lyon was an American attorney from California who served as a Republican in the California State Assembly and the California State Senate. Lyon was Assembly Speaker from 1943 to 1946. Lyon was admitted to the bar in 1910 and was first elected to the Assembly in 1914. Lyon served numerous terms in the Senate and Assembly and authored the legislation creating the UCLA campus.
Charles Gibbons was a U.S. politician who served as the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1953 to 1955 as a Republican. As of 2024,he was the last Republican to serve as Speaker of the Massachusetts House.
Ellwood Jackson Turner was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for Delaware County from 1925 to 1948 and as the 119th Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1939 to 1941.
George W. Welsh was a Republican politician from Michigan who served as the 37th lieutenant governor of Michigan,in the Michigan House of Representatives including as its Speaker during the 52nd Legislature,and as the mayor of Grand Rapids,Michigan.
Hugh Ware Cross was an American politician,lawyer,farmer,and businessman who served as chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission,lieutenant governor of Illinois,and speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives.
