James Graves Scrugham (January 19, 1880 – June 23, 1945) was an American politician. He was a Representative, a Senator, and the 14th Governor of the U.S. state of Nevada. He was a member of the Demo...

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George Wesley Atkinson (June 29, 1845 – April 4, 1925) of Ohio County was the tenth Governor of West Virginia. He also served in the U.S. House of Representatives and was a judge on the Court of Claims...

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Alexander Contee Hanson (February 27, 1786 – April 23, 1819) was an American lawyer, publisher, and statesman. He represented the third district of Maryland in the U.S. House, and the state of Maryla...

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Henry Smith Lane (February 24, 1811 – June 18, 1881) was a United States Representative, Senator, and the 13th Governor of Indiana; he was by design the shortest-serving Governor of Indiana, having m...

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Joseph Albert Wright (April 17, 1810 – May 11, 1867) was the tenth Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from December 5, 1849 to January 12, 1857, most noted for his opposition to banking. His posit...

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[ ) Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia] David Wallace (April 24, 1799 – September 4, 1859) was the sixth Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana. The Panic of 1837 occurred just before his election and t...

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William Hendricks (November 12, 1782 – May 16, 1850) was a Democratic-Republican member of the House of Representatives from 1816 to 1822, the third Governor of Indiana from 1822 to 1825, and an Anti...

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Ratliff Boon (January 18, 1781 – November 20, 1844) was the second Governor of Indiana from September 12 to December 5, 1822, taking office following the resignation of Governor Jonathan Jennings' af...

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Jonathan Jennings (1784 – July 26, 1834) was the first Governor of Indiana and a nine-term congressman from Indiana. Born in Readington, New Jersey, he studied law with his brother before immigrating...

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Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General, 17th Illinois Governor, US Congressman. Served as Major and commander of the 8th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and as Colonel and commander of the 17th Illin...

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) Richard Yates, Jr. (December 12, 1860 – April 11, 1936) was the 22nd Governor of Illinois from 1901 to 1905. From 1919 to 1933, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois. Althoug...

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) Richard Yates (January 18, 1815 – November 27, 1873) was the Governor of Illinois during the American Civil War and has been considered the greatest war governor during that period. When the war be...

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From Wikipedia: Alexander Mebane, Jr. (26 November 1744 – 5 July 1795) was a U.S. Congressman from the state of North Carolina from 1793 to 1795. He was also a brigadier general in the North Carolina m...

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) William Allen (December 18 or 27, 1803– July 11, 1879) was an Democratic Representative, Senator and 31st Governor of Ohio. He moved to the U.S. state of Ohio after his parents died, residing in Ch...

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American politician, lawyer, military leader and the 19th President of the United States (1877–1881). Hayes was elected President by one electoral vote after the highly disputed election of 1876. Losin...

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Thomas Shannon (November 15, 1786 – March 16, 1843) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, he attended public schools and moved to Ohio with his parents, who se...

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Wilson Shannon (February 24, 1802 - August 30, 1877) was a Democratic politician from Ohio and Kansas. He served as the 14th and 16th Governor of Ohio, and was the first governor of Ohio born in the st...

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A salt farmer, Vance gained a commission during the War of 1812 and rose quickly from Major to Major General. He served in the Ohio House of Representatives in 1812-1813, 1815–1816 and 1818-1819. Elect...

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Duncan McArthur (June 14, 1772 – April 29, 1839) was a Federalist and National Republican politician from Ohio. He served as the 11th Governor of Ohio. Born to Scottish immigrants in Dutchess Count...

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John Davis Lodge (October 20, 1903 – October 29, 1985), United States Republican politician, was the 64th Governor of Connecticut from 1951 to 1955. He was also an actor and U.S. Ambassador to Spain,...

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Chester Bliss Bowles (April 5, 1901 – May 25, 1986) was a liberal Democratic American diplomat and politician from Connecticut. Biography Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, Bowles attended T...

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Richard Dudley Hubbard (September 7, 1818 - February 28, 1884) was a United States Representative and the 48th Governor of Connecticut. Born in Berlin, Connecticut, he was orphaned while young, he pu...

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Joseph Roswell Hawley (October 31, 1826 – March 18, 1905) was the 42nd Governor of Connecticut, a U.S. politician in the Republican and Free Soil parties, a Civil War general, and a journalist and ne...

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. Nelson Dingley, Jr. (February 15, 1832 – January 13, 1899) was a journalist and politician from the U.S. state of Maine. Dingley was born in Durham, Maine and attended the common schools at Unity...

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. Israel Washburn, Jr. (June 16, 1813 – May 12, 1883) was a United States political figure. Originally a member of the Whig Party, he later became a founding member of the Republican Party. In 1854...

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Hannibal Hamlin (August 27, 1809 – July 4, 1891) was the 15th Vice President of the United States, serving under President Abraham Lincoln from 1861–1865. He was the first Vice President from the Repub...

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Anson Peaslee Morrill (June 10, 1803 – July 4, 1887) was an American politician. Born in 1803 in Belgrade, Maine, originally a storekeeper and millkeeper, he was the 24th Governor of Maine from 1855 ...

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John Fairfield (January 30, 1797 – December 24, 1847) was a U.S. politician from Maine. He was born in Saco, Maine and attended the Saco schools, Thornton Academy and Bowdoin College in Brunswick...

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Robert Pinckney Dunlap (August 17, 1794 – October 20, 1859) was the 11th Governor of Maine and a U.S. Representative from Maine. Born in Brunswick, Maine, Dunlap was educated by private tutors. He ...

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. Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1825-1834 The son of the former Massachusetts Governor and U.S. Attorney General, Levi Lincoln, Jr. was born in Worcester. He returned there after at...

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Lincoln's most important contribution came as governor, when he sought to assert Maine's claim to territory under dispute with Great Britain. His aggressive stance on his state's right to the territory...

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John Anthony Quitman (b. September 1, 1798, Rhinebeck, New York– July 17, 1858, Natchez, Mississippi) was an American politician and soldier. He served as Governor of Mississippi from 1835 to 1836 ...

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) Amelia was the daughter of Alabama governor John Gayle. Alabama's seventh governor, John Gayle, was born on September 11, 1792, in Sumter District, South Carolina. He graduated from South Carolin...

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Israel Pickens (January 30, 1780 – April 24, 1827) was an American politician and lawyer, third Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama (1821–1825), an Alabama U.S. Senator from February 17 to November...

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Robert Stockton Green (March 25, 1831 – May 7, 1895) was an American Democratic Party politician, who served as the 27th Governor of New Jersey from 1887–1890. Biography Green was born in Pri...

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Rodman McCamley Price (May 5, 1816 – June 7, 1894) was an American Democratic Party politician, who represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives f...

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Philemon Dickerson (January 11, 1788 – December 10, 1862) was a United States congressman representing New Jersey, and was later a United States federal judge. He was the brother of Governor, then Un...

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) John Lambert (February 24, 1746 – February 4, 1823), was a New Jersey politician who served as a Representative, a U.S. Senator and as Acting Governor of New Jersey. Born in what is now Lambert...

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) Thomas Henderson (August 15, 1743 – December 15, 1824) was a United States Representative from New Jersey. Born in Freehold, he attended the public schools and was graduated from Princeton Coll...

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Benjamin Franklin Jonas (July 19, 1834 – December 21, 1911) was a Democratic U.S. Senator from Louisiana and an officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was the third ...

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John Smith Phelps (December 22, 1814 – November 20, 1886) was a politician, soldier during the American Civil War, and the 23rd Governor of Missouri. Early life and career John Smith Phelps, ...

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Elisha Phelps (November 16, 1779 - April 6, 1847) was a United States Representative from Connecticut. He was the son of Noah Phelps and father of John Smith Phelps who was a United States Representa...

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Ernest Willard Gibson (December 29, 1872 – June 20, 1940) was a politician and lawyer from Vermont. He served as a United States Representative and Senator from Vermont. Life and career Gibson wa...

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John Eliakim Weeks (June 14, 1853 – September 10, 1949) was an American politician from Vermont. He served as the 61st Governor of Vermont from 1927 to 1931. Early life Weeks was born in Salisbur...

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George Whitman Hendee (November 30, 1832 – December 6, 1906) was an American, a lawyer, a banker, a politician, and a U.S. Representative from Vermont. Biography Born in Stowe, Vermont, Hendee at...

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Paul Dillingham, Jr. (August 10, 1799 – July 26, 1891) was an American lawyer and politician. He served as a U.S. Representative from Vermont, the 22nd Lieutenant Governor of Vermont from 1862 to 186...

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Hiland Hall (July 20, 1795 – December 18, 1885) was an American, a lawyer, a judge, Governor of Vermont, and a United States Representative from Vermont. Biography Hall was born in Bennington, Ve...

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) Richard Fletcher (1788–1869) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts. The brother of Governor Ryland Fletcher, he was born in Cavendish, Vermont on January 8, ...

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William Slade, Jr. (May 9, 1786 – January 18, 1859) was an American Whig and Anti-Masonic politician. He served as a U.S. Representative from Vermont and the seventeenth Governor of Vermont. Biogra...

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John Mattocks (March 4, 1777 – August 14, 1847) was an American Whig politician, a brigadier general in the War of 1812, U.S. Congressman, and sixteenth Governor of Vermont. Biography Mattocks wa...

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Ezra Butler (September 24, 1763 – July 12, 1838) was an American clergyman, politician, lawyer, judge, the 11th Governor of Vermont, and a United States Representative from Vermont. Biography But...

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From Wikipedia... He was elected as a Democratic-Republican to New York's 6th congressional district for the 7th United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Bird and ...

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) Richard Skinner (May 30, 1778 – May 23, 1833) was an American politician, attorney, and jurist from the US state of Vermont, and the ninth Governor of Vermont. Biography Skinner was born in Lit...

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William Peters Hepburn (November 4, 1833 – February 7, 1916) was an American Civil War officer and an eleven-term Republican congressman from Iowa's now-obsolete 8th congressional district, serving f...

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Chittenden Lyon (February 22, 1787 - November 23, 1842) was a United States Representative from Kentucky and the son of Matthew Lyon. He was born in Fair Haven, Vermont and attended the common school...

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Matthew Lyon (July 14, 1749 – August 1, 1822), father of Chittenden Lyon and great-grandfather of William Peters Hepburn, was a printer, farmer, soldier and politician, serving as a United States Rep...

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Martin Chittenden (March 12, 1763 – September 5, 1840) was an American politician from Vermont. He served as a United States Representative and as the seventh Governor of Vermont during a crucial por...

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) Jonathan Williams (May 20, 1751 – May 16, 1815), American businessman, military figure, politician and writer. He became Chief of Engineers of the Army Corps of Engineers, was the first superintend...

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William Wilkins (December 20, 1779 – June 23, 1865) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. During his career, he served in both houses of the Pennsylvania Sta...

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Charles Henry Martin (October 1, 1863 – September 22, 1946) was an American Army officer and later politician in the state of Oregon. A native of Illinois, he had a 40-year career in the military inc...

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. Albin Walter Norblad, Jr., (September 12, 1908-September 20, 1964) was an American attorney and Republican politician in Oregon. He represented the U.S. state of Oregon's First District from Januar...

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Walter Marcus Pierce (May 30, 1861 – March 27, 1954) was an American politician, a Democrat, who served as the 17th Governor of Oregon and a member of the United States House of Representatives from ...

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Andrew Jackson Thayer (November 27, 1818 – April 28, 1873) was an attorney and Democratic U.S. congressman from Oregon. A native of New York state, he previously worked as the U.S. Attorney for Orego...

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Lewis Maxwell (April 17, 1790 - February 13, 1862) was a U.S. Representative from Virginia. Born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, Maxwell moved with his mother to Virginia about 1800. He completed a ...

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John Whiteaker (May 4, 1820 – October 2, 1902) was an American politician, soldier, and judge primarily in Oregon. A native of Indiana, he joined the Army during the Mexican-American War and then pro...

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Edward Henry Rollins (October 3, 1824 – July 31, 1889) was a United States Representative and Senator from New Hampshire. Biography Born in a part of Somersworth, New Hampshire which is now R...

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Michael Newbold "Mike" Castle (born July 2, 1939) is an American politician who was Governor of Delaware from 1985 to 1992 and the U.S. Representative for Delaware's at-large congressional district f...

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James Caleb "Cale" Boggs (May 15, 1909 – March 26, 1993) was an American lawyer and politician from Claymont, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a veteran of World War II, and a member of the Rep...

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Clement Woodnutt Miller (October 28, 1916 – October 7, 1962) was a U.S. Representative from California, He was a grandson of Charles R. Miller and a nephew of Thomas W. Miller. Born in Wilmington...

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Thomas Woodnutt Miller (June 26, 1886 – May 5, 1973) was an American businessman, lawyer and politician, from Wilmington, Delaware, and Reno, Nevada. He was a veteran of World War I and a member of t...

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Benjamin Thomas Biggs (October 1, 1821 – December 25, 1893) was an American farmer and politician from Middletown, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a veteran of the Mexican-American War and a m...

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) William Temple (February 28, 1814 – May 28, 1863) was an American merchant and politician from Smyrna, in Kent County, Delaware. He was a member of the Whig Party, and later the Democratic Party, w...

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. Kensey Johns, Jr. (December 10, 1791 – March 28, 1857) was an American lawyer and politician from New Castle, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Federalist and Whig Parties who ...

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Daniel Rodney (September 10, 1764 – September 2, 1846) was an American merchant and politician from Lewes, in Sussex County, Delaware. He was a member of the Federalist Party, and later the National ...

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Solomon Porcius Sharp (August 22, 1787 – November 7, 1825) was an American attorney and politician, serving as attorney general of Kentucky and a member of the United States Congress and the Kentucky...

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John McPherson Pinckney (May 4, 1845 - April 24, 1905) was a United States Representative from Texas. Born in Grimes County, Texas, near the town of Hempstead, Waller County, Pinckney attended pu...

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Allard Kenneth Lowenstein (January 16, 1929 – March 14, 1980) was a liberal Democratic politician, a one-term congressman representing the 5th District in Nassau County, New York from 1969 until 19...

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Edward Dexter Holbrook (May 6, 1836 – June 18, 1870) was a congressional delegate from Idaho Territory. Born in Elyria, Ohio, Holbrook attended public schools in Ohio and graduated from Oberlin C...

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James M. Hinds (December 5, 1833 – October 22, 1868) of Little Rock, represented Arkansas in the United States Congress from June 24, 1868 through October 22, 1868 when he was assassinated by a mem...

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Cornelius Springer Hamilton (January 2, 1821 – December 22, 1867) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born in Gratiot, Ohio, Hamilton attended the common schools and Denison University. He mov...

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William McKinley, Jr. (January 29, 1843–September 14, 1901) was the twenty-fifth President of the United States, and the last veteran of the American Civil War to be elected. By the 1880s, this Ohio ...

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•GRAD: 1845 Yale College •Event: Elected BET 1879 AND 1887 Mayor of Chicago, IL •Event: Elected BET 1875 AND 1879 U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois •Event: Elected 1893 Mayor of Chicago, IL ...

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Samuel Dinsmoor (July 1, 1766 – March 15, 1835) was an American teacher, lawyer and politician from Keene, New Hampshire. Born in 1766 in Windham, New Hampshire. Dinsmoor represented New Hampshire in...

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Joseph Merrill Harper (June 21, 1787 – January 15, 1865) was a United States Physician and politician. Harper was a Jacksonian member for New Hampshire in the United States House of Representativ...

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Matthew Harvey (June 21, 1781 – April 7, 1866) was a was a lawyer, politician, and long-serving United States federal judge from Hopkinton, New Hampshire. Born in Sutton, New Hampshire, Harvery g...

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) Jeremiah Smith (November 29, 1759 – September 21, 1842) was an American lawyer, jurist and politician from Exeter, New Hampshire. Born in Peterborough, New Hampshire, Smith attended Harvard Uni...

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George Herbert Utter (July 24, 1854 – November 3, 1912) was a U.S. Representative from Rhode Island and the 49th Governor of Rhode Island. Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, Utter moved with his par...

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William Sprague, also known as William III or William Sprague III (November 3, 1799 – October 19, 1856), was a politician and industrialist from the U.S. state of Rhode Island, serving as the 14th Go...

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Nehemiah Knight (March 23, 1746 – June 13, 1808) was a United States Representative from Rhode Island. Born in Knightsville (a village later named after him) within the town of Cranston, now a suburb...

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Isaac Wilbour (April 25, 1763 – October 4, 1837) was an American politician from Rhode Island holding several offices, including the sixth Governor of the state. Wilbour was born in Little Compto...

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John Kinley Tener (July 25, 1863 – May 19, 1946) was a Major League baseball player and executive and, from 1911 to 1915, served as the 25th Governor of Pennsylvania. Biography John Tener w...

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William Alexis Stone (April 18, 1846 – March 1, 1920) was the 22nd Governor of Pennsylvania from 1899 to 1903. Early life Stone was born in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania. In 1864, Stone enlisted in...

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William Joel Stone (May 7, 1848 – April 14, 1918) was a Democratic politician from Missouri who represented his state in the United States House of Representatives from 1885 to 1891, and in the U.S. ...

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James Pollock (September 11, 1810 – April 19, 1890) was the 13th Governor of the State of Pennsylvania from 1855 to 1858. Political career James Pollock graduated from the College of New Je...

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Joseph Hiester (November 18, 1752 – June 10, 1832) was the fifth Governor of Pennsylvania from 1820 to 1823. He was a member of the Hiester family political dynasty. Biography Hiester was t...

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) James Findlay (October 12, 1770 – December 28, 1835) was a soldier, political official, and merchant who for decades was one of the leading citizens of Cincinnati, Ohio. Biography Findlay w...

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