Denver is a consolidated city and county,the capital,and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. It is located in the western United States,in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. With a population of 715,522 as of the 2020 census,a 19.22% increase since 2010,Denver 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 metropolitan statistical area,with almost 3 million people the most populous metropolitan area in Colorado. Denver is the economic and cultural center of the broader Front Range Urban Corridor,home to more than 5 million people.
Byron Raymond "Whizzer" White was an American lawyer,jurist,and professional football player who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1962 until 1993. By his retirement,he was the Supreme Court's only sitting Democrat and the last-living member of the progressive Warren Court.
Highlands Ranch is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Douglas County,Colorado,United States. The CDP is a part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood,CO Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population of the Highlands Ranch CDP was 105,631 at the 2020 census,making it the largest community in Douglas County and the most populous unincorporated community in the State of Colorado. The Highlands Ranch Metropolitan District provides services to the community,which lies in ZIP Codes 80126,80129,80130,and 80163.
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". The Hart Senate Office Building is named in his honor.
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. Prior to this,Nicholson was U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See from 2001 to 2005.
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.
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).
Rashid Ismail Khalidi is a Palestinian-American historian of the Middle East and the Edward Said Professor Emeritus 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.
Laurence Curtis was an American attorney and Republican Party politician from Massachusetts.
David Maclain Hale is an American diplomat and career ambassador,who previously served as the United States Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. He is currently a Distinguished Diplomatic Fellow at the Wilson Center,on detail from the Department of State.
Rick Francona is an author,commentator and media military analyst. He is a retired United States Air Force intelligence officer with experience in the Middle East,including tours of duty with the National Security Agency,the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency. He was under contract to NBC News and appeared regularly on NBC,MSNBC and CNBC,as well as Radio Canada and other media. In 2013,he became a military analyst with CNN.
Stanley Kuhl Hornbeck was an American professor and diplomat. A Rhodes scholar and the author of eight books,he had a thirty-year career in government service. He was chief of the State Department Division of Far Eastern Affairs (1928–1937),a special adviser to Secretary of State Cordell Hull (1937–1944),and ambassador to the Netherlands (1944–1947).
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.
Francis Joseph Ricciardone Jr. is a former President of the American University in Cairo. Ambassador Ricciardone was the United States ambassador to Turkey between 2011 and 2014. Previously he was Deputy Ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul,Afghanistan. He was also on leave from the U.S. Department of State as a guest scholar at the U.S. Institute of Peace. He has served as U.S. Ambassador to the Arab Republic of Egypt (2005–2008),the Republic of the Philippines and the Republic of Palau (2002–2005). As a career member of the Senior Foreign Service,he received U.S. government and other organization awards for his work in foreign policy and program management,political reporting and analysis,and peacekeeping.
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 international relations scholar. 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 Obama administration.
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.
Howard Jenkins Jr. was an American lawyer,professor of law,and civil servant. Appointed by President John F. Kennedy,he was the first African American to serve on the National Labor Relations Board where he served for 20 years under six presidents. Following the passage of the Landrum-Griffin Act,Jenkins served as the Assistant Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Management Reports where he was the highest-ranking African American lawyer working in the federal government.
Janine Anne Davidson is an American public servant who has served as the president of the Metropolitan State University of Denver since 2017. Davidson is known for expertise on topics such as military operations,U.S. foreign policy and national security policy as well as higher education leadership.
Philip Jacob Weiser is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the 39th Attorney General of Colorado 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.
