Claude Augustus Swanson was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Virginia. He served as U.S. Representative (1893-1906),Governor of Virginia (1906-1910),and U.S. Senator from Virginia (1910-1933),before becoming U.S. Secretary of the Navy under President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 until his death. Swanson and fellow U.S. Senator Thomas Staples Martin led a Democratic political machine in Virginia for decades in the late 19th and early 20th century,which later became known as the Byrd Organization for Swanson's successor as U.S. Senator,Harry Flood Byrd.
Henry Drury Hatfield was an American Republican politician from Logan County,West Virginia. He served a term as the 14th Governor of the state,in addition to one term in the United States Senate. Hatfield was nephew to Devil Anse Hatfield,leader of the Hatfield clan.
Royal Samuel Copeland,a United States Senator from New York from 1923 until 1938,was an academic,homeopathic physician,and politician. He held elected offices in both Michigan and New York.
William Evans Crow was an American lawyer and Republican party politician from Uniontown,Pennsylvania. He served in the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1907 until 1921,and was the body's President pro tempore in 1911. In 1921,he was appointed to the United States Senate,after Philander C. Knox died in office. Crow himself died in office less than a year after his appointment.
William Cameron Sproul was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1897 to 1919 and as the 27th governor of Pennsylvania from 1919 to 1923. He also served as chair of the National Governors Association from 1919 to 1922.
Jacob Harold Gallinger,was a United States senator from New Hampshire who served as President pro tempore of the Senate in 1912 and 1913.
Jacob Tome was an American banker,philanthropist,and politician who died as one of the richest men in the United States. He was the first millionaire of Cecil County,Maryland,and an accomplished philanthropist,giving money to colleges,churches,and schools,including establishing the Tome School.
John Lockwood Wilson was an American lawyer and politician from the U.S. states of Indiana and Washington. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1889–1895) and U.S. Senate (1895–1899)
Selden Palmer Spencer was an American lawyer and politician. A Republican,he was a United States Senator from Missouri.
Charles O'Neill was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district from 1863 to 1871 and from 1873 to 1893.
Claude Rodman Porter was an American politician and lawyer. He served in both chambers of the Iowa General Assembly and as a United States Attorney,and was a perennial Democratic Party runner-up to Republican victors in three races for governor of Iowa and six races for U.S. senator. In an era in which the Republican Party was so dominant in Iowa that Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver remarked that "Iowa will go Democratic when Hell goes Methodist," Porter twice came closer to winning the governorship than all but one other Democratic candidate of that era. He later served as a member of the U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission for eighteen years.
Thomas Benjamin Kay was an American politician and businessman in the state of Oregon. A native of New Jersey,he moved to Oregon with his family at the age of one where he later took over the family's woolen mill business. A Republican,he served in both houses of the Oregon Legislative Assembly and four terms as the Oregon State Treasurer,the longest of anyone in that office's history.
Irving L'Hommedieu was an American lawyer and politician from New York who was known as the "father of the system of state taxation and licensing of motor cars."
Charles Morton Webb was an American lawyer,Republican politician,and Wisconsin pioneer. He was a Wisconsin circuit court judge for 28 years in central Wisconsin. Earlier in his career,he served as United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin,appointed by Ulysses S. Grant,and served in the Wisconsin Senate during the 1869,1870,and 1883 sessions.
Henry Miller Watts was an American lawyer,politician,and diplomat.
John Elmer Bacon was a politician from Arizona who served a single term in the Arizona state senate during the 2nd Arizona State Legislature. He was a doctor and surgeon who was an early proponent of Joseph Lister's theories on antiseptic measures. He was a charter member of the American College of Surgeons,and helped found the Southwest Medical and Surgical Association,and was president of the Arizona Medical Association. He was also one of the founders of the Arizona State League,a professional baseball league.
Wilmer Worthington was an American politician and physician who served in the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1864 through 1869,serving as Speaker in 1869. A member of the Republican Party while in the Senate,Worthington previously served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat from 1833 to 1834.
Edward Henry Laubach (1852–1916) was an American politician who served as a Democrat in the Pennsylvania State Senate for two terms from 1891 to 1896 representing Northampton County in the 18th district.
Jeremiah S. Hess was an American politician who served in the Pennsylvania Senate for the 18th district representing Northampton County as a Democrat.
