Dennis DeConcini worked as a lawyer for the Arizona governor’s staff (1965-1967) and founded the law firm of DeConcini, McDonald, Yetwin & Lacy where he is still a partner with offices in Tucson, Phoenix and Washington, D.C. He was then elected a U.S Senator, serving three terms from 1977 until 1995. While in office he sponsored an amendment to the Panama Canal Treaty of 1977, allowing the U.S. to take steps deemed necessary to reopen the Canal and restore its operations.

DeConcini served on a number of committees such as the Senate Appropriations Committee where he chaired the subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service and General Government. DeConcini also served on the Senate Judiciary Committee and chaired several subcommittees. In February 1995 DeConcini was appointed by President Clinton to the Board of Directors of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, where he served until May 1999. In 2006 the former senator was selected by the governor of Arizona to serve as a member of the Arizona Board of Regents.

John Horace Dickey was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was a barrister, executive and lawyer by career.

He was first elected to Parliament at the Halifax riding in a by-election on July 14, 1947 which was called after the death of William Chisholm MacDonald, one of the riding’s Liberal incumbents. Since Halifax riding elected two members to the House of Commons at that time, Dickey joined the other incumbent, fellow Liberal Gordon Benjamin Isnor. Both Dickey and Isnor were re-elected in the 1949 election. Isnore was appointed to the Senate in May 1950 and was joined by another Liberal, Samuel Rosborough Balcom, following a by-election the following month. Both Dickey and Balcom were re-elected to a full term in Parliament in the 1953 election, but were defeated in the 1957 federal election by the two Progressive Conservative party candidates Robert McCleave and Edmund L. Morris. In the 1958 election, Dickey was joined by Leonard Kitz in an unsuccessful attempt to win back the riding for the Liberals. Dickey died in 1996 aged 81

Edwin Russell Durno was a physician, politician, an infantry sergeant who was awarded a Purple Heart, and a basketball player recognized in the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame. He was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives representing Oregon’s 4th congressional district from 1961 to 1963.

Durno was the University of Oregon’s first basketball All-American and was a three-time All-Pacific Coast Conference selection. A prolific scorer, Durno led the Ducks to the 1919 conference title and was team captain during his senior year of 1921. He was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 1981, and the University of Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 1992.

Durno served in both World War I (as an infantry sergeant) and World War II (in the Medical Corps) where he was awarded the Purple Heart for his service. Durno returned to Oregon after World War II where he practiced medicine in Medford and served on the Oregon Board of Medical Examiners from 1947 to 1958.

In 1958, he was elected to the Oregon State Senate, and in 1960, was elected to the United States House of Representatives, unseating liberal Democrat Charles O. Porter. Doubtful of reelection in a politically marginal district, he did not seek reelection to the House in 1962, instead seeking the Republican nomination for Wayne Morse’s seat in Oregon’s 1962 U. S. Senate election. Durno lost the nomination to Sig Unander and returned to his medical practice in Medford. Durno died in 1976.

Jim Edgar served as the Governor of Illinois for eight years (1991 – 1999). Prior to serving as the Governor of Illinois, Jim served as the Illinois Secretary of State for ten years (1981 – 1991). In 1999, Jim was awarded the Order of Lincoln which is the state of Illinois’ highest honor.

William Haselden Ellerbe was the 86th Governor of South Carolina from 1897 to 1899. Born in Marion, South Carolina, he was raised in the Pee Dee region of South Carolina and attended Wofford College and Vanderbilt University.

His political career began when he was elected as Comptroller of South Carolina in 1890, serving until 1894. In the 1896 gubernatorial election, he won the Democratic primary and convincingly won in the general election to become the 86th governor of South Carolina. He sought re-election two years later in the 1898 gubernatorial election and was unopposed in his bid. However, he died on June 2, 1899, before he was able to finish his second term as governor and was buried in Marion.

Samuel Harrison Elrod was the fifth Governor of South Dakota. Elrod, a Republican from Clark, South Dakota, served from 1905 to 1907.

Joseph Buell Ely was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Massachusetts. As a conservative Democrat, Ely was active in party politics from the late 1910s, helping to build, in conjunction with David I. Walsh, the Democratic coalition that would gain an enduring political ascendancy in the state.

From 1931 to 1935, he served as the 52nd Governor. He was opposed to the federal expansion of the New Deal, and was a prominent intra-party voice in opposition to the policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In 1944 he made a brief unsuccessful bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Henry Read Emmerson was a Canadian business executive, salesman, and politician. Born in Dorchester, New Brunswick, the son of Henry Robert Emmerson and Emily Charlotte Record, he was defeated twice when he ran for the Canadian House of Commons as the Liberal candidate in the 1926 and 1930 federal elections for the riding of Westmorland.

He was elected in the 1935 election and re-elected twice in 1940 and 1945. In 1949, he was appointed to the Senate of Canada representing the senatorial division of Dorchester, New Brunswick. He died in office in 1954.

Norman Arthur Erbe was the 35th Governor of Iowa from 1961 to 1963. He entered state politics, serving as Iowa Attorney General from 1957 to 1961 before succeeding Herschel C. Loveless as governor. In the 1962 election, he was defeated for re-election by Harold E. Hughes. Erbe hosted the world premier of the motion picture Meredith Willson’s The Music Man (1962 film) in Mason City, Iowa.

After leaving politics, Erbe served as Executive Vice-President of the Associated Builders and Contractors in 1979. He published his memoirs, Ringside at the Fireworks, in 1997. He died on June 8, 2000 and is buried in the Linwood Park cemetery in Boone, Iowa.

Trevor Eyton began his career as a lawyer of Tory Tory DesLauriers & Binnington, where he remained until 1979. At that time he left the firm to become the President and Chief Executive Officer of Brascan Limited. After 12 years in that post, Eyton remained with Brascan as a Chairman and Senior Chairman.

In 1991, Eyton was appointed to the Senate of Canada where he remained until retirement in 2009. During his tenure, Eyton contributed as a board member to such corporations including Coca-Cola Enterprises, General Motors of Canada, Nestle Canada, and more. He was also philanthropically involved with organizations such as Junior Achievement and the Canadian Olympic Foundation. Eytan also sat on the Board of Grenville Christian College during a time of much legal controversy surrounding the headmaster of the school.

In 2000, Eyton was awarded Mexico’s Order of the Aztec Eagle – the highest award given to foreigners by the government of Mexico and has been awarded honorary Doctors of Laws by both the University of Waterloo and the University of King’s College at Dalhousie – where he was Chancellor from 1996 to 2001.