Denver is a consolidated city and county and the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Its population was 715,522 at the 2020 census,a 19.22% increase since 2010. It is the 19th-most populous city in the United States and the fifth most populous state capital. It is the principal city of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood,CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the first city of the Front Range Urban Corridor.
Philip Aloysius Hart was an American lawyer and politician. A Democrat,he served as a United States Senator from Michigan from 1959 until his death from cancer in Washington,D.C. in 1976. He was known as the "Conscience of the Senate". He is the namesake of the Hart Senate Office Building.
Charles Woodruff Yost was a career U.S. Ambassador who was assigned as his country's representative to the United Nations from 1969 to 1971.
Robert James Nicholson is an attorney,real estate developer,and a former Republican National Committee chairman. He was the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs from January 26,2005,until October 1,2007.
Edward Prentiss Costigan was a Democratic Party politician who represented Colorado in the United States Senate from 1931 to 1937. He was a founding member of the Progressive Party in Colorado in 1912.
Elias Milton Ammons served as the 19th Governor of Colorado from 1913 to 1915. Born in 1860 in Macon County,North Carolina,he is perhaps best remembered for ordering National Guard troops into Ludlow,Colorado during the Colorado Coalfield War,which resulted in the Ludlow Massacre. He was also instrumental in starting the National Western Stock Show,which is still active. His son Teller Ammons was also governor of Colorado.
Francis Bowes Sayre Sr. was a professor at Harvard Law School,High Commissioner of the Philippines,and a son-in-law of President Woodrow Wilson.
Jefferson Caffery was an American diplomat. He served as U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador (1926–1928),Colombia (1928–1933),Cuba (1934–1937),Brazil (1937–1944),France (1944–1949),and Egypt (1949–1955).
Rice William Means was an American soldier and lawyer who became a Ku Klux Klan leader and a Republican United States Senator from Colorado.
Rashid Ismail Khalidi is a Palestinian-American historian of the Middle East and the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. He served as editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies from 2002 until 2020,when he became co-editor with Sherene Seikaly.
Rachel Bassette Noel was an American educator,politician and civil rights leader in Denver,Colorado. She is known for the "Noel Resolution",a 1968 plan to integrate the Denver city school district,and her work to implement that plan,as well as other work on civil rights. When elected to the Denver Public Schools Board of Education in 1965,Noel was the first African-American woman elected to public office in Colorado. In 1996,Noel was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame.
James Mark Wilcox was a U.S. Representative from Florida. He is remembered as the author of the Wilcox Municipal Bankruptcy Act,which became law in 1934,a bill which initially allowed a city in his district,West Palm Beach,to adjust its bonded indebtedness and avoid bankruptcy. It was later invoked to help New York City avoid bankruptcy in 1972.
William Robb Eaton was a U.S. Representative from Colorado,nephew of Charles Aubrey Eaton.
The Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP) is an American nonprofit organization. It states it promotes a just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through grants,public programming,and research. The organization was established in 1979 by Merle Thorpe Jr. Lara Friedman is the current President of the Foundation.
John Walter Wilcox Jr. was a rear admiral of the United States Navy. He saw service in World War I and in the opening weeks of United States involvement in World War II before being lost overboard from his flagship in the North Atlantic Ocean in 1942.
Robert Halsey Pelletreau Jr. is an American former diplomat who was United States Ambassador to Bahrain (1979–1980),Tunisia (1987–1991),and Egypt (1991–1993),as well as the former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs. He currently sits on the U.S. Advisory Council of the Israel Policy Forum. He is also a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy and Council on Foreign Relations.
Philip H. Gordon is an American diplomat and foreign policy professional. Since March 21,2022,he has served as Assistant to the President and National Security Advisor to the Vice President of the United States,Kamala Harris. Earlier in his career,he was Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (2009–2011) and Special Assistant to the President and White House Coordinator for the Middle East,North Africa,and the Persian Gulf Region (2013–2015) during the presidency of Barack Obama.
William Butts Macomber Jr. was an American diplomat who served in several positions in the United States Department of State. He was the 12th president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Grenville Temple Emmet was an American attorney and diplomat. He practiced law with Franklin D. Roosevelt and served as United States Ambassador to the Netherlands and Austria.
Philip Jacob Weiser is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the 39th Colorado Attorney General,since 2019. He is the Hatfield Professor of Law and Telecommunications,Executive Director and Founder of the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law,Technology,and Entrepreneurship,and Dean Emeritus at the University of Colorado Law School. He previously served in the Obama and Clinton Administrations in the White House and Justice Department. A member of the Democratic Party,he was elected Attorney General for the State of Colorado in the 2018 election,defeating Republican George Brauchler on November 6,2018. He was re-elected in 2022.
