Michael Stanley Dukakis is an American retired lawyer and politician who served as governor of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1979 and from 1983 to 1991. He is the longest-serving governor in Massachusetts history and only the second Greek-American governor in U.S. history,after Spiro Agnew. He was nominated by the Democratic Party for president in the 1988 election,losing to the Republican nominee,Vice President George H. W. Bush.
Barry R. Finegold currently serves as a Democratic member of the Massachusetts Senate representing the Second Essex and Middlesex district since 2019. He previously served from January 2011 to January 2015. He is a former state representative of the 17th Essex district in Massachusetts. In January 2014,he announced that he would be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Treasurer and Receiver-General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. On September 9,2014,Finegold lost in the Democratic primary to Deb Goldberg,who was elected Treasurer in November 2014.
Charles Delbert Hosemann Jr. is an American politician and attorney who has been the lieutenant governor of Mississippi since January 2020. From 2008 to 2020,he served as the secretary of state of Mississippi.
Stephen Martin Kohn is an attorney and founding partner at Kohn,Kohn &Colapinto,a Washington,D.C.,law firm specializing in employment law. The author of the first legal treatise on whistleblowing,Kohn is recognized as one of the top experts in whistleblower protection law. He also has written on the subject of political prisoners and the history of the abrogation of the rights of political protestors.
Marko Sakari Liias is an American politician serving as a member of the Washington State Senate,representing the 21st district since 2014. The district,located entirely within Snohomish County,includes portions of Lynnwood and Everett,as well as his hometown of Mukilteo and his native Edmonds. A member of the Democratic Party,he previously served as a member of the Washington House of Representatives from 2008 to 2014.
Rafael Michael Anchía has been since 2005 a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives for the Dallas-based 103rd District. In addition to his representative work,Anchia is an attorney with the law firm Haynes &Boone LLP and co-founder and Managing Director of Civitas Capital Group. He had previously served on the board of the Dallas Independent School District.
Martha M. "Marty" Walz is a former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives who served from January 2005 to February 2013. Walz,a Democrat,represented the Eighth Suffolk district,which is made up out of Back Bay,Beacon Hill,and the West End in Boston and Cambridgeport,Area 4 and MIT in Cambridge.
Juan Manuel "Jay" Gonzalez is an American academic and government administrator who is the president of Curry College. He served Secretary of Administration and Finance of Massachusetts under Governor Deval Patrick from 2009 to 2013 and was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Massachusetts in 2018.
Christopher M. Markey is an American lawyer and politician serving as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the 9th Bristol district. A member of the Democratic Party,he was first elected in 2010.
William N. Brownsberger is an American politician and the President pro tempore of the Massachusetts Senate representing the Suffolk and Middlesex District which includes his hometown of Belmont,as well as Watertown,the Boston neighborhoods Allston and Brighton,part of Boston's Fenway-Kenmore area,and part of Cambridge. From 2007 to 2012,he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He was a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2013 special election to succeed Ed Markey in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Joseph Patrick Kennedy III is an American politician and diplomat who has been the United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland since 2022. Prior to this,Kennedy served as the U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 4th congressional district from 2013 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party,he represented a district that extends from Boston's western suburbs to the state's South Coast. He worked as an assistant district attorney in the Cape and Islands and Middlesex County,Massachusetts,offices before his election to Congress. In January 2021,he became a CNN commentator.
Drew Derrick Hansen is an American lawyer,author,and politician serving as a member of the Washington Senate from the 23rd district since 2023. He previously represented the same district in the Washington House of Representatives.
Kenneth I. Gordon is an American attorney and state legislator representing the 21st Middlesex District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. The district includes Burlington,Bedford,and Wilmington's Precinct 3. He is a Bedford resident and a member of the Democratic Party.
Daniel J. Hunt is an American politician serving as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the 13th Suffolk district.
Evandro C. Carvalho is an American attorney and politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2014 to 2019. He is a member of the Democratic Party and represented the Fifth Suffolk District,comprising the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston.
Natalie M. Higgins is an American politician serving in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Natalie is a lifelong Leominster resident,Boston-educated attorney,and former non-profit director and rape crisis counselor.
James K. Hawkins is an American politician from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A member of the Democratic Party,Hawkins serves in the Massachusetts House of Representatives,representing the 2nd Bristol District since 2018,which includes all but one precinct of Attleboro.
Jason Michael Nemes is an American politician who has served as a Republican member in the Kentucky House of Representatives from the 33rd district since 2017. He currently serves as House Majority Whip.
Adam Scanlon is a Massachusetts politician from North Attleborough who represents the 14th Bristol district in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
Travis E. Nelson is an American politician and nurse serving as a member of the Oregon House of Representatives from the 44th district. He assumed office on February 1,2022. He is the first openly LGBTQ+ man of color and the first openly LGBTQ+ African American to ever serve in the Oregon Legislature.
