Fletcher L. Hartsell Jr. was a Republican member of the North Carolina General Assembly until he admitted to misappropriating over $200,000 in campaign donations. On May 16,2017,he was sentenced in Federal Court in Winston-Salem. NC to eight months in Federal prison. He represented the state's thirty-sixth North Carolina Senate district,including constituents in Cabarrus and Union counties. An attorney from Concord,North Carolina,Hartsell has served in the state Senate since 1991.
John D. Cherry Jr. is an American politician who served as the 62nd lieutenant governor of Michigan from 2003 to 2011. A Democrat,Cherry also served as a gubernatorial appointee to the Midwestern Higher Education Compact,and was the immediate past chair of the international Great Lakes Commission.
Albert Burton Boutwell was the 19th Lieutenant Governor of Alabama. A Democrat,Boutwell served Governor John Malcolm Patterson of the same political party,from 1959 until 1963. Earlier in his political career he served in the state senate including as senate president.
Thomas Wayne Butler is a politician,and member of the Alabama Senate. He represents the 2nd District as a member of the Republican Party. Senate District 2 encompasses east Limestone County and western Madison County. It includes the cities of Athens,Huntsville and Madison.
Dennis Wolf Bushyhead was a leader in the Cherokee Nation after they had removed to Indian Territory. Born into the Wolf Clan,he was elected as Principal Chief,serving two terms,from 1879 to 1887.
James Thomas "Jabo" Waggoner Jr. is an American politician who is a Republican member of the Alabama Senate,representing the 16th District since 1990. Waggoner was born on January 8,1937. He received his B.A. from Birmingham Southern College and his J.D. from the Birmingham School of Law.
Rusty Glover is an American politician and former teacher who served in the Alabama Senate,representing the 34th district from 2006 to 2018. Previously,he was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives,representing the 102nd district from 2002 to 2006. He ran as a Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Alabama in the 2018 election cycle,as well as for State Auditor of Alabama in 2022.
Bobby D. Singleton is an American politician who is currently a Democratic member of the Alabama Senate,representing the 24th District since a special election in January 2005. Previously he was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives from 2002 through 2005.
Kelvin E. Butler is an American politician who served as a member of the Mississippi Senate,representing the 38th district.
Tracy Steele is an American politician. He is a Democratic former member of the Arkansas Senate for eight years and Arkansas House of Representatives for six,having most recently represented the 39th District,with service from 2011 to 2013.
Greg Reed is an American politician. He serves as a Republican member of the Alabama Senate,representing the 5th District since 2010. He defeated Democrat Brett Wadsworth in the 2010 midterm elections to replace Charles Bishop in the 5th District. As of 2021,he is the Alabama State Senate's president pro tempore.
Jeremy Lee Yancey is an American politician in Mississippi. He is currently a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from the 74th district.
Benjamin Joseph Lambert,III was an American optometrist,community leader and politician. A Democrat,Lambert served for more than three decades in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly,initially in the Virginia House of Delegates and then in the Senate.
John Harold Merrill is an American politician who served as the 53rd secretary of state of Alabama from 2015 to 2023. He served in the Alabama House of Representatives from 2010 to 2014. Merrill is a member of the Republican Party.
Steve Livingston is an American politician. A member of the Republican Party,he has served in the Alabama Senate,representing the 8th district since 2014. In 2023,his Republican colleagues elected him Majority Leader of the Alabama Senate following the resignation of Clay Scofield.
Gordon Douglas Jones is an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from Alabama from 2018 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party,Jones was previously the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama from 1997 to 2001. He is the most recent Democrat to win and/or hold statewide office in Alabama.
Eleanor Parker Sheppard was an American civic activist and Democratic politician who became the first woman to be elected to the city council of Richmond,Virginia,and later became her adopted city's first female mayor,then represented its citizens in the Virginia General Assembly for a decade. She helped create Virginia Commonwealth University.
