John Little McClellan was an American lawyer and a segregationist politician. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as a U.S. Representative (1935–1939) and a U.S. Senator (1943–1977) from Arkansas.
Daniel J. O'Donnell is an American politician from the state of New York. A Democrat,he is a member of the New York State Assembly. O'Donnell represents the 69th district in Manhattan,made up of the neighborhoods of Manhattan Valley,Morningside Heights,and portions of the Upper West Side and West Harlem.
Hugh Leo Carey was an American politician and attorney of the Democratic Party who served in U.S. House of Representatives from 1961 to 1974 and as the 51st governor of New York from 1975 to 1982.
Jerrold Lewis Nadler is an American lawyer and politician who since 2023 has served as the U.S. representative for New York's 12th congressional district,which includes central Manhattan. A member of the Democratic Party,he was elected in 1992 to represent the state's 17th congressional district,which was renumbered as the 8th district from 1993 to 2013 and as the 10th district from 2013 to 2023. Nadler chaired the House Judiciary Committee from 2019 to 2023. In his 17th term in Congress,Nadler is the dean of New York's delegation to the House of Representatives. Before his election to Congress,Nadler served eight terms as a New York State Assemblyman.
Paschal Canice Mooney is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician and a former member of Seanad Éireann.
Howard Golden is an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as the Borough President of Brooklyn from January 3,1977 to December 31,2001. He concurrently served as chairman of the Brooklyn Democratic Party from January 1984 to October 1990.
Saul Weprin was an American attorney and politician. He was a Democratic member from Queens County of the New York State Assembly,and served as its Speaker from December 1991 until his death.
Keith L. T. Wright is an American politician and a former member of the New York State Assembly. He was first elected to the assembly in 1992 and was re-elected eleven times. In early 2007,he proposed a bill limiting retail sale of violent video games for individuals below 18 years of age. This proposed law stirred up controversy and protest amongst gamer communities. Wright is also the author of the bill to apologize for African slavery in New York,which was second only to South Carolina in the American slave trade,the first Northern State make such an apology. Wright is also credited with coining the term "Super-Duper Tuesday" in response to the shifting of New York's election primary date to the 5th of February. This is now the common terminology for the change of dates nationwide.
Simcha Felder is an American politician from Borough Park,Brooklyn. He represents the 22nd district of the New York State Senate. Felder has been elected to multiple offices as a Democrat,but is known for having caucused with the Republicans during the early part of his New York State Senate tenure. Prior to serving in the State Senate,Felder represented the 44th district in the New York City Council.
Leroy George Comrie Jr. is an American politician from New York City. He represents District 14 in the New York State Senate,which comprises St. Albans,Cambria Heights,Jamaica,Hollis,Rosedale,Laurelton,Kew Gardens,Queens Village and other neighborhoods within the borough of Queens.
Noah Nickolas Perry is an American politician and diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to Jamaica since 2022. He served as a member of the New York State Assembly for the 58th district from 1993 to 2022. His former district included the neighborhood of East Flatbush,as well as portions of Canarsie and Brownsville,among other neighborhoods located in the borough of Brooklyn.
Ernest D. Preate,Jr. is a former Republican Pennsylvania Attorney General. As Attorney General,he argued before the United States Supreme Court in the landmark case,Planned Parenthood of Southeast Pennsylvania v. Casey on behalf of Robert P. Casey,then governor of Pennsylvania. Preate also successfully argued another landmark case,Blystone v. Pennsylvania in the United States Supreme Court addressing the death penalty.
Joseph Charles Borelli is an American politician and the New York City Council member for the 51st district and Minority Leader of the New York City Council. He is a Republican. The district encompasses much of Staten Island's South Shore.
Walter T. Mosley,III is an American politician who represented the 57th district of the New York State Assembly. He serves the neighborhoods of Fort Greene,Clinton Hill,Prospect Heights,and parts of Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant. In 2020,Mosley lost his primary to nurse and political newcomer Phara Souffrant Forrest.
Jesse Hamilton is an American lawyer and politician in New York City. A member of the Democratic Party,he represented the New York State Senate's 20th District,including parts of the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Crown Heights,Brownsville and East Flatbush from 2015 to 2018. Hamilton is a former member of the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC),a group of Democratic senators who allied themselves with Senate Republicans. Hamilton is the Secretary of the Brooklyn Democratic Party,the official organization of the Democratic Party for Brooklyn. He was defeated in the September 2018 Democratic primary election by lawyer Zellnor Myrie.
Edward S. Lentol was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
Emily E. Gallagher is an American politician. She is the Democratic representative serving District 50 in the New York State Assembly,which comprises parts of Greenpoint,Williamsburg and Fort Greene,among other neighborhoods located in the northern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
Matteo Mecacci is an Italian diplomat serving as director of the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODHIR). In the past,he was a Radical Party Member of Parliament in Italy and elected in the lists of the Democratic Party,President of the International Campaign for Tibet and leading advocate for the International Criminal Court,the abolition of the death penalty,religious freedom and other prominent human rights campaigns.
Harry Heyman was a Jewish-American butcher and politician from New York.
New York's 50th State Assembly district is one of the 150 districts in the New York State Assembly. It has been represented by Emily Gallagher since 2021. She defeated then 48-year Assemblyman Joe Lentol in the 2020 Democratic primary.
