John William Bricker was an American politician and attorney who served as a United States senator and the 54th governor of Ohio. He was also the Republican nominee for Vice President in 1944.
Robert Alphonso Taft III is an American politician and attorney who served as the 67th governor of Ohio from 1999 to 2007. A member of the Taft political dynasty and Republican Party,Taft previously served in the Ohio House of Representatives,then as Hamilton County commissioner,and as Ohio Secretary of State under governor George Voinovich. Taft is a son of Senator Robert Taft Jr.,a grandson of Senate majority leader Robert A. Taft,and a great grandson of President William Howard Taft.
Nancy Elizabeth Hollister is an American politician from the U.S. state of Ohio. Hollister was the first and,to date,only female governor of Ohio,serving briefly from December 1998 to January 1999.
Charles Anderson was first a Whig and later a Republican politician from Ohio. He served briefly as the 27th governor of Ohio.
Michael Ray Turner is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative from Ohio's 10th congressional district since 2013. He is a member of the Republican Party. Turner's district,numbered as the 3rd district from 2003 to 2013,contains Dayton and Springfield,taking in part of Clark County and all of Montgomery and Greene Counties.
Anthony Joseph "Tony" Celebrezze Jr. was an American politician of the Democratic party,who served as Ohio Attorney General,Ohio Secretary of State and an Ohio State Senator. He was the son of Anthony J. Celebrezze,and part of the Celebrezze political dynasty,which was prominent in Cleveland in particular and statewide in Ohio throughout the second half of the 20th century and early 2000s.
Richard Clay Dixon,born on October 24,1941,is an American politician of the Ohio Democratic party. He served as a city commissioner of Dayton,Ohio,and as the city's mayor. He was the second African-American person to serve as mayor of Dayton.
James Howell McGee was an American politician of the Ohio Democratic party. He served as the first black mayor of Dayton,Ohio. He was also the city’s longest-tenured mayor to date.
David Lee Hobson was an American lawyer and politician of the Republican Party who served as a U.S. representative from the seventh congressional district of Ohio from 1991 to 2009.
The Ohio Democratic Party (ODP) is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of Ohio. Summit County Council President Elizabeth Walters has been the party's chairwoman since January 2021.
Edward Grimes Breen was an American politician of the Democratic party.
Gerald Lee Baliles was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from the Commonwealth of Virginia whose career spanned great social and technological changes in his native state. The 65th Governor of Virginia,the native of Patrick County previously served as the Commonwealth's attorney general (1982–85),and represented Richmond and Henrico County in the Virginia House of Delegates (1972-1982). After another stint in private legal practice,with Hunton &Williams (1991-2005),Baliles directed the nonpartisan Miller Center of Public Affairs associated with his alma mater,the University of Virginia (2006-2014).
Bruce Edward Johnson is an American lawyer and Republican politician who was appointed the State of Ohio's 63rd lieutenant governor on January 5,2005,to complete an unexpired term. Johnson concurrently served as Director of the Ohio Department of Development.
Roy Gerald Fitzgerald was an attorney,soldier,preservationist,and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio,serving five terms from 1921 to 1931.
Harry Palmer Jeffrey was an attorney and one-term member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio from 1943 to 1945.
Joseph Halsey Crane was an attorney,soldier,jurist,and legislator. He was born in Elizabethtown,New Jersey He was the son of General Wiliam Crane and Abigail (Miller) Crane and the grandson of Stephen Crane,member of the First Continental Congress,his brother was Colonel Ichabod B. Crane.
John Carro is an American judge. He served as a judge for 25 years and was involved in many high-profile cases. A New York Supreme Court Justice serving in the Appellate Division,where he served as an associate justice for the last 15 of his 25 years as a judge. After retirement from the bench in 1994,Carro founded Carro,Velez,Carro &Mitchell,a private law firm in New York City. Carro is an ardent advocate for the Hispanic and Latino American community and human rights throughout the world,and has been a major leader in the founding and management of many bar groups,committees and legal and educational associations. He was described by The New York Times as a "legendary Justice."
Nannette L. Whaley is an American politician who served as the 56th mayor of Dayton,Ohio,from 2014 to 2022. A member of the Democratic Party,she was first elected to the mayorship in November 2013,after serving on the city commission for two terms. Whaley presided over the United States Conference of Mayors from 2021 to 2022. She was the Democratic nominee in the 2022 Ohio gubernatorial election,losing to incumbent Mike DeWine.
Andrew Joseph "A. Joe" Canada Jr. is an American attorney,former state judge and Republican Party politician who served sixteen years in the Virginia Senate (1972–1988) and then as Circuit Judge in Virginia Beach (1996–2009).
