Frederick Vincent Arbanas was an American football tight end. He played college football for the Michigan State Spartans. Arbanas was drafted in the second round in the 1961 NFL Draft by the St. Louis Cardinals and in the seventh round of the 1961 AFL Draft by the Dallas Texans. He would spend his entire career with the Texans/Chiefs. Following his retirement he served as a legislator in Jackson County,Missouri.
Thomas Michael "Tom" Finneran,is a radio talk host and former Massachusetts Democratic politician who served as Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from April 1996 to September 2004. He represented the district that included parts of the Boston neighborhoods of Dorchester,Mattapan and Hyde Park as well as parts of the town of Milton for 26 years.
Ronald Dale Earle was an American politician and judge who was,from January 1977 to January 2009,the District Attorney for Travis County,Texas. He became nationally known for filing charges against House majority leader Tom DeLay in September 2005 for conspiring to violate Texas' election law and/or to launder money. In Texas,Earle was known for his criminal justice reform efforts which focused on crime prevention,alternative sentencing,victim advocacy,and the reintegration of former offenders into society. In 1983,Earle - an Eagle Scout - prosecuted himself for an election law violation after missing a campaign finance filing deadline by one day;he was fined $212. Earle was a fixture in Travis County politics and served in public office there for more than 30 years,joking that he was asked if he was the "District Eternity".
Operation Boptrot,also referred to as Boptrot,was an investigation by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) into corruption among the Kentucky General Assembly,the Commonwealth's legislature. The operation was highly successful,with the investigation culminating in several indictments in 1992,leading to the conviction of more than a dozen legislators between 1992 and 1995. The investigation also led to reform legislation being passed in 1993.
Marion Price Daniel III was an American politician from Texas who served as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives from 1973 to 1975. He was a member of the house from 1969 to 1975. He is also known for his death during his marriage to his second wife in 1981,after he had written her out of his will and her third time filing for divorce.
Aaron Robert Schwartz,better known as A. R. Schwartz or "Babe" Schwartz,was an American politician,lawyer,and lobbyist who served in the Texas House of Representatives from 1955 to 1959 and in the Texas Senate from 1960 to 1981,representing his native Galveston,Texas. He was known for being a liberal "yellow-dog" Democrat.
Peter Kott is a former Republican state representative for District 17 serving Eagle River,Alaska,in the Alaska Legislature for seven terms,from 1993 until 2007. He was Speaker of the House during his sixth term in 2003–2004.
Charles H. Turner was an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the District of Oregon. Prior to his presidential appointment as U.S. Attorney,Turner worked under his predecessor,Sidney I. Lezak,for 14 years. He was appointed as Lezak's replacement by President Ronald Reagan.
David Philip Simpson is a former Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 7,based in Gregg and Upshur counties. In 2010,he unseated the incumbent,Tommy Merritt of Longview,in the Republican primary with 52.88 percent of the vote and then prevailed in the general election for the 82nd Texas Legislature on November 2,2010 with 91.28 percent of the vote,having had no Democratic opponent.
Ernest E. Newton is an American politician in Bridgeport,Connecticut. Newton served for seventeen years in the Connecticut General Assembly,serving in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1988 to 2003 and in the Connecticut State Senate from 2003 to 2006. He pleaded guilty to federal felony corruption charges in September 2005 and served several years in federal prison. Newton was released in February 2010 and in 2012 unsuccessfully attempted a political comeback,losing in the primary in a race for his old state Senate seat. In 2015,Newton was convicted on separate state campaign finance fraud charges;those convictions were overturned on appeal in 2018.
James A. Kelly Jr. was an American politician who served as a Democrat in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1959 to 1965 and the Massachusetts Senate from 1965 to 1979. In 1983,he was convicted of extortion.
Casmer P. Ogonowski was an American politician.
Martin Swift Auer was an American businessman and politician from New York.
Operation Mississippi Hustle was a federal investigation initiated in 2014 by the United States Attorney and prosecuted in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. It examined the relationship between officials of the Mississippi Department of Corrections and various for-profit prison contractors and subcontractors,who have provided services to the five private prisons in the state. One,Walnut Grove,closed in September 2016 but has since reopened.
David Mayes Middleton II is an American businessman and politician serving as a member of the Texas Senate for the 11th district. Previously,he served as a Texas House of Representatives for District 23. A member of the Republican Party,Middleton has been in the Texas legislature since January 8,2019.
Jonathan Derrick Evans is a far-right American politician. He served as a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates for the 19th district from December 1,2020,to January 9,2021.
