Records of the Office of Speechwriting (Clinton Administration), 1993 - 2001. Michael Waldman's Files, 1995 - 2000
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Ben-Veniste, Richard, 1943-
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Richard Ben-Veniste, lawyer; special prosecutor during the Watergate scandal and a member of the 9/11 Commission. ...
Brown, Lee P. (Lee Patrick), 1937-
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Lee Patrick Brown (born October 4, 1937) is an American politician, criminologist and businessman. A member of the Democratic Party, he dserved as the 59th Mayor of Houston, Texas- the first African American to hold the position- from 1998 to 2004. Born in Wewoka, Oklahoma, his family moved to California in the second wave of the Great Migration. He received a B.A. in criminology from Fresno State University in California in 1960 and four years later earned an M.A. from San Jose State Univers...
Woolsey, Lynn, 1937-
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Smith, Linda, 1950 July 16-
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Shaheen, Jeanne, 1947-
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Cynthia Jeanne Shaheen (née Bowers, born January 28, 1947) is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from New Hampshire since 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the first female U.S. senator in New Hampshire's history, the first elected female governor of New Hampshire and the first woman elected as both a governor and a U.S. senator, with the junior senator from New Hampshire and former governor of the state Maggie Hassan being the second woman to have oc...
Carson, Julia, 1938-2007
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Julia May Carson (July 8, 1938 – December 15, 2007), born Julia May Porter, was a member of the United States House of Representatives for Indiana's 7th congressional district from 1997 until her death in 2007 (numbered as the 10th District from 1997 to 2003). Carson was the first woman and first African American to represent Indianapolis in the U.S. Congress. She was also the second African American woman elected to Congress from Indiana, after Katie Hall, and her grandson André Carson succeede...
Millender-McDonald, Juanita, 1938-2007
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Juanita Millender-McDonald (September 7, 1938 – April 22, 2007) was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1996 until her death in 2007. She was a member of the Democratic Party. Millender-McDonald was born in Birmingham, Alabama. She was educated at Los Angeles Harbor College; at the University of Redlands, from which she received a business degree; and at California State University, Los Angeles, from which she earned a masters in ed...
Jordan, Vernon E. (Vernon Eulion), 1935-2021
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Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr. (August 15, 1935 – March 1, 2021) was an American business executive and civil rights activist who worked for Civil Rights Movement organizations before being chosen by President Bill Clinton as his close adviser. Born in Atlanta, Jordan grew up with his family in the segregated societal cosmos of Atlanta. An honors graduate of David T. Howard High School, he matriculated to DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, graduating in 1957, the only black student in a cla...
Tucker, Walter R., III (Walter Rayford, III), 1957-
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Walter Rayford Tucker III (born May 28, 1957) is an American politician and minister who served as mayor of Compton and a U.S. Representative from California. Tucker was born in Compton, California. He finished Compton High School in 1974 as class valedictorian and attended Princeton University for the next two years. He graduated from the University of Southern California in 1978 with a degree in political science and earned his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1981. He wa...
Reynolds, Mel, 1952-
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Melvin Reynolds (born January 8, 1952) is an American politician from Illinois. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 1995. He resigned in October 1995 after a jury convicted him of sexual assault charges related to sex with an underage campaign worker. Reynolds and his twin brother, Marvin Jerry Reynolds, were born in Mound Bayou, Mississippi to Reverend J. J. Reynolds and Essie Mae Prather. Reynolds moved to Chicago as a child...
Meek, Carrie P. (Carrie Pittman), 1926-2021
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Carrie Pittman Meek (April 29, 1926 - November 28, 2021) was a Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Florida. She served in the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 2003, representing Florida's 17th congressional district. Meek was born and raised in Tallahassee, Florida. She graduated from Lincoln High School. She remained in north Florida for college and graduated from Florida A&M University (then known as Florida A&M College for Negroes) in 1946. At this time, African...
Espy, Mike, 1953-
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Alphonso Michael Espy (born November 30, 1953) is an American politician who served as the 25th United States Secretary of Agriculture from 1993 to 1994. He was both the first African American and first person from the Deep South to hold the position. A member of the Democratic Party, Espy previously served as the U.S. Representative for Mississippi's 2nd congressional district from 1987 to 1993. In March 2018, Espy announced his candidacy for the United States Senate seat being vacated by Th...
Owens, Major, 1936-2013
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Major Robert Odell Owens (June 28, 1936 – October 21, 2013) was an American politician and librarian who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 2007, representing the New York's 11th and then 12th Congressional district. He was first elected to replace retiring Representative Shirley Chisholm. Owens shepherded the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 through the House. He retired at the end of his term in January 2007 and was succeeded by Yvette Clarke. Owens was...
Washington, Harold, 1922-1987
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Harold Lee Washington (April 15, 1922 – November 25, 1987) was an American lawyer and politician who was the 51st Mayor of Chicago. Washington became the first African American to be elected as the city's mayor in April 1983 after a multiracial coalition of progressives supported his election. He served as mayor from April 29, 1983 until his death on November 25, 1987. Born in Chicago and raised in the Bronzeville neighborhood, Washington became involved in local 3rd Ward politics under Chicago ...
Burke, Yvonne Brathwaite, 1932-
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Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 1933-2020
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg (born Joan Ruth Bader, March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020), also known by her initials RBG, was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. She was nominated by President Bill Clinton on June 14, 1993, and had served since August 10, 1993. Ginsburg became the second of four female justices to be confirmed to the Court after Sandra Day O'Connor, the two others being Sonia Sotomayor and Elen...
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Parker, Alton B. (Alton Brooks), 1852-1926
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Cooper, Anna J. (Anna Julia), 1858-1964
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Weaver, James B. (James Baird), 1833-1912
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James Baird Weaver (June 12, 1833 – February 6, 1912) was a member of the United States House of Representatives and two-time candidate for President of the United States. Born in Ohio, he moved to Iowa as a boy when his family claimed a homestead on the frontier. He became politically active as a young man and was an advocate for farmers and laborers. He joined and quit several political parties in the furtherance of the progressive causes in which he believed. After serving in the Union Army i...
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872
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Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune, among the great newspapers of its time. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York, and was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant, who won by a landslide. Greeley was born to a poor family in Amherst, New ...
Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861
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Stephen Arnold Douglas (April 23, 1813 – June 3, 1861) was an American politician and lawyer from Illinois. He was one of two Democratic Party nominees for president in the 1860 presidential election, which was won by Abraham Lincoln. Douglas had previously defeated Lincoln in the 1858 United States Senate election in Illinois, known for the Lincoln–Douglas debates. During the 1850s, Douglas was one of the foremost advocates of popular sovereignty, which held that each territory should be allowe...
Hobart, Garret A. (Garret Augustus), 1844-1899
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Garret Augustus Hobart (June 3, 1844 – November 21, 1899) was an American politician who served as the 24th vice president of the United States, from 1897 until his death. He was the sixth American vice president to die in office. Prior to serving as vice president, Hobart was an influential New Jersey politician and political operative. Hobart was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, on the Jersey Shore, and grew up in nearby Marlboro. After attending Rutgers College, Hobart read law with promin...
King, William R. (William Rufus), 1786-1853
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William Rufus DeVane King (April 7, 1786 – April 18, 1853) was an American politician and diplomat. He was the 13th vice president of the United States for six weeks in 1853 before his death. Earlier he had been elected as a U.S. representative from North Carolina and a senator from Alabama. He also served as minister to France during the reign of King Louis Philippe I. A Democrat, he was a Unionist and his contemporaries considered him to be a moderate on the issues of sectionalism, slavery ...
Lane, David J., 1960-
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David J. Lane (born 1960) is an American diplomat. He notably served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture, serving in Rome, Italy, and chief of the United States Mission to the UN Agencies in Rome. Before that he held several positions in the U.S. federal government and with philanthropic organizations, including being President and Chief Executive Officer of the ONE Campaign. Growing up in Indialantic, Florida, Lane received a Bachelor of Arts degree fro...
Wharton, David Bruce, 1954-
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David Bruce Wharton (born 1954) is a retired American diplomat. He notably served as U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe (2012-2015). Born in Basel, Switzerland, Wharton graduated from the University of Texas in Austin. He entered the Foreign Service in 1985 and served in public diplomacy positions at U.S. embassies in Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. In Africa, he also had temporary duty in Tanzania, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, and Ghana. From 1992 to 1995 he worked in Washington, ...
Roemer, Tim, 1956-
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Tim Roemer, former U.S. Member of Congress, 9/11 Commissioner, and Ambassador to India, is Executive Director and Strategic Counselor at APCO Worldwide. He works with clients on government relations and provides strategic advice. With his background in international trade, education policy, and national security, Ambassador Roemer is a trusted consensus-builder, problem solver and international expert. In 2009, he was appointed U.S. Ambassador to India, one of America’s largest diplomatic mis...
Patterson, Anne Woods, 1949-
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Anne Woods Patterson (born October 4, 1949) is an American diplomat and career Foreign Service Officer. She served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs from 2013 to 2017. She previously served as U.S. Ambassador to Egypt (2011-2013), U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan (2007-2010), acting U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (2005), U.S. Ambassador to Colombia (2000-2003), and U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador (1997-2000). Born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, Patterson attended The Hoc...
Smith, Jean Kennedy, 1928-2020
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Jean Ann Kennedy, the eighth child and youngest daughter of Rose and Joseph Kennedy, was born on February 20, 1928 in Boston, Massachusetts. She attended Sacred Heart schools in England and the United States, and graduated from Manhattanville College, where she majored in English. After her brother Joe was killed in 1944 in World War II, Jean was chosen in 1945 to christen the USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., a newly commissioned Navy destroyer named for her brother. In 1956, Jean Kennedy married S...
Moreno, Carlos Roberto, 1948-
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Carlos Roberto Moreno (born November 4, 1948) is a Mexican-American jurist who is the former United States Ambassador to Belize. Previously, he served as a Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California from February 4, 1998, to October 18, 2001, and as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California from October 18, 2001, to February 28, 2011. Following his retirement from the bench in 2011, Moreno was counsel with Irell & Manella. Moreno was considered...
Kennard, William Earl, 1957-
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William Earl Kennard (born January 19, 1957) is an American attorney who served as the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union (2009–13) and chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (1997–2001). Mr. Kennard currently is non-executive chairman and co-founder of Velocitas Partners LLC, an asset management firm and is also a member of the Operating Executive Board of Staple Street Capital, a private equity firm. He serves on the boards of directors of AT&T, Inc., MetLife, Inc. and Duke ...
Beyer, Donald Sternoff, 1950-
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Congressman Don Beyer is serving his third term as the U.S. Representative from Virginia’s 8th District, representing Arlington, Alexandria, Falls Church, and parts of Fairfax County. He serves on the House Committees on Ways and Means and Science Space and Technology, and is a Co-Chair of the New Democrat Coalition's Climate Change Task Force. He was the Lieutenant Governor of Virginia from 1990 to 1998, and was Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein under President Obama. Rep. Beyer’s ...
Arvizu, Alexander A., 1958-
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Alexander A. Arvizu (born 1958) is an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Albania from 2010 until 2015. A first-generation American, Arvizu was born on U.S. Army base in Japan and grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where his family settled after return to the United States. In 1980, he graduated with a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University. He has studied several Asian languages such as Japanese, Korean, Thai and Khmer. Arvizu joined the United States Fo...
Childress, Mark B. (Mark Bradley), 1959-
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Mark Bradley Childress (born 1959) is the former United States Ambassador to Tanzania and former Deputy Chief of Staff for Planning in the administration of President Obama. Childress graduated from Yale University in 1981 and from University of North Carolina Law School in 1986. He took post-graduate courses in Agricultural Law and served as a teaching assistant at the University of Arkansas Law School in 1987-1988. Thereafter, Childress served in a variety of policy, legal, and technical...
