Newton Diehl Baker
Secretary of War

Albert Jeremiah Beveridge
U. S. Senator

Chester Bliss Bowles
advertising executive, Governor, diplomat, Congressman

Ralph Johnson Bunche
diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Arthur Capper
newspaper publisher, Governor of Kansas, U. S. Senator

Hattie Wyatt Caraway
the first woman to serve in the U. S. Senate

Charles Curtis
U. S. Congressman, U. S. Senator, and first person of direct Native American descent to serve as Vice-President

Georgia Neese Clark Gray
the first woman to serve as Treasurer of the United States

Carl Trumbull Hayden
long-time member of both houses of Congress

Christian Archibald Herter
Congressman, Governor of Massachusetts, Secretary of State

Cordell Hull
longest serving Secretary of State in U. S. history

Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr.
U. S. Senator, Vice-President, Democratic nominee for President

Fiorello LaGuardia
Mayor of New York City

Clare Boothe Luce
playwright, journalist, U. S. Congresswoman, the first American woman to hold a major diplomatic post

Fontaine Maury Maverick
U. S. Congressman

Joseph Raymond McCarthy
U. S. Senator known for "exposing Communists"

Andrew William Mellon
entrepreneur, Secretary of the Treasury

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
U. S. Congressman

Jeannette Rankin
the first woman to be elected to the U. S. Congress

Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn
longest-serving member of the U. S. House of Representatives

Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller
Governor of New York, Vice-President of the United States

Alfred Emanuel Smith
Governor of New York

Robert Alphonso Taft
U. S. Senator

Wendell Lewis Willkie
presidential candidate

Harry Hines Woodring
Governor of Kansas, Secretary of War