John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg was an American clergyman,Continental Army soldier during the American Revolutionary War,and political figure in the newly independent United States. A Lutheran minister,he served in the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate from Pennsylvania.
Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry was an American Democratic politician from Alabama who served in the state legislature and US Congress. He also served as an officer of the Confederate States Army in the American Civil War. He was a slave owner and supported the Southern cause.
Timothy James Bloodworth was a slave owner,ardent patriot in the American Revolution,member of the Confederation Congress,vigorous anti-Federalist,U.S. congressman and senator,and collector of customs for the Port of Wilmington,North Carolina.
Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party,he represented Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1959 and in the U.S. Senate,from 1959 to 1977. He served as Senate Minority Leader from 1969 to 1977.
Thomas Sim Lee was an American planter and statesman of Frederick County,Maryland. Although not a signatory to the Declaration of Independence,the Articles of Confederation or the U.S. Constitution,he was an important participant in the process of their creation. Thomas Sim Lee was the second State Governor of Maryland,serving twice,from 1779 to 1783 and again from 1792 to 1794. Thomas Sim Lee also served as a delegate of Maryland in the Congress of the Confederation in 1783 and was a member of the House of Delegates in 1787. He worked closely with many of the Founding fathers and himself played an important part in the birth of his state and the nation.
Thomas Posey was an officer in the American Revolution,a general during peacetime,the third Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky,Governor of the Indiana Territory,and a Louisiana Senator.
Aaron Ogden was an American soldier,lawyer,United States Senator and the fifth governor of New Jersey. Ogden is perhaps best known today as the complainant in Gibbons v. Ogden which destroyed the monopoly power of steamboats on the Hudson River in 1824.
David Gardiner Tyler,was a U.S. Democratic Party politician and the ninth child and fourth son of John Tyler,the tenth President of the United States.
Miles Poindexter was an American lawyer and politician. As a Republican and briefly a Progressive,he served one term as a United States representative from 1909 to 1911,and two terms as a United States senator from 1911 to 1923,representing the state of Washington. Poindexter also served as United States Ambassador to Peru during the presidential administrations of Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge.
General Joel Palmer was an American pioneer of the Oregon Territory in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. He was born in Canada,and spent his early years in New York and Pennsylvania before serving as a member of the Indiana House of Representatives.
Alexander Stuart McDill was an American medical doctor,Republican politician,and Wisconsin pioneer. He served one term in the United States House of Representatives,representing northern Wisconsin. He also served three years in the Wisconsin Legislature and was Superintendent of the State Hospital for the Insane,where he implemented important reforms in the state hospital system.
Thomas Ramsey Cornelius was a prominent American politician and soldier in the early history of Oregon. Born in Missouri,he moved to the Oregon Country with his family as a young man,where he fought in the Cayuse War and Yakima Indian War against the Native Americans. He settled in Washington County near what later became Cornelius,named in his honor.
Medorem Crawford was an American soldier and politician in what became the state of Oregon. A native of the state of New York,he emigrated to the Oregon Country in 1842 where he participated in the Champoeg Meetings and served in the resulting Provisional Government of Oregon as a legislator. A Republican,he later served in the Oregon House of Representatives after statehood and was appointed to several federal government offices. During the American Civil War he escorted emigrants over the Oregon Trail.
Daniel M. C. Gault was a newspaperman,educator and politician in the U.S. state of Oregon. A native of Iowa,he immigrated to the Oregon Territory with his family as a child where he became a teacher in several locales. A Republican,he served three terms in the Oregon Legislative Assembly over a period of nearly 30 years. He also worked for several newspapers and founded two others.
Calvin Bruce Anderson was an American military officer and politician who served as a member of the Washington State Senate,representing the 43rd district in 1995. A member of the Democratic Party,he previously served as a member of the Washington House of Representatives from 1987 to 1995,and was the first openly gay member of the Washington State Legislature.
John Dennis Phelan was an American editor,politician and jurist.
David Wade was a decorated American lieutenant general from three wars who after military retirement on March 1,1967,served in two appointed positions in the state government of his native Louisiana. The David Wade Correctional Center,a prison in Claiborne Parish,is named in his honor.
Jack Lee Burtch was an American lawyer,WWII veteran and former politician,who served three terms in the Washington House of Representatives.
William Vance Rinehart was an American soldier who served as a Union Army officer in both the 1st Oregon Volunteer Cavalry Regiment and 1st Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War. He was later appointed as Indian agent at the Malheur Indian Reservation in eastern Oregon. Rinehart then moved to Seattle,Washington where he engaged in business and was active in state and local politics. He was elected to Washington state's first legislature,serving as a state senator from 1889 through 1890.
Michael L. "Mike" Dodson is a Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives,representing the 67th district. His term began January 11,2021 upon the retirement of his predecessor Tom Phillips.
