Michael J. L. Kirby, OC is a Canadian politician. He sat in the Canadian Senate as a Liberal representing Nova Scotia. He is the former chair of the Mental Health Commission of Canada.

Born in Montreal, Kirby earned a Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts in Mathematics from Dalhousie University and also a Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Mathematics from Northwestern University. In the 1960s Kirby was a professor of Business Administration and Public Administration at Dalhousie and also taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Kent.

Kirby worked as principal assistant to the Premier of Nova Scotia Gerald Regan from 1970 to 1973 and Assistant Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau from 1974 to 1976. He served as President of the Institute for Research on Public Policy from 1977 to 1980. Kirby chaired the federal Task Force on Atlantic Fisheries which was established to recommend how to achieve and maintain a viable Atlantic fishing industry. It issued its report in 1982.

Kirby returned to public service in the 1980s as Secretary to the Canadian Cabinet for Federal-Provincial Relations and Deputy Clerk of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada. As such he participated in the federal-provincial negotiations that led to the patriation of the Canadian Constitution in 1982. He was elevated to the Canadian Senate by Pierre Trudeau in January 1984 weeks before the prime minister announced his intention to retire.

He remained active in the private sector serving as vice-president of Goldfarb Consultants from 1984 to 1994 at a period when the polling firm was often employed by the Liberal Party of Canada. Kirby also served as a backroom advisor to the Liberals and frequently appeared on television as a political pundit during the 1980s and 1990s. In 2001, Kirby joined Chapters’ board of directors. Kirby was the principal author of a 2002 report by the committee on Canada’s health care system.

On August 15, 2006, Kirby announced his resignation from the Canadian Senate effective on October 31, 2006. His retirement came nearly a decade before his mandatory retirement in August 2016. In 2007, he was asked by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to become the first Chair of the newly created Mental Health Commission of Canada, a not-for-profit organization that was created in response to his 2003 Senate report on mental health. In 2008, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. Kirby founded Partners for Mental Health and served as its first chair. He is currently the founding chair of the organization.

Frank Michael Kratovil Jr. is an American politician who was the U.S. Representative for Maryland’s 1st congressional district from 2009 to 2011. Elected in 2008, he was defeated in his bid for reelection on November 2, 2010. Kratovil is a member of the Democratic Party. He previously served as State’s Attorney of Queen Anne’s County on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, and he was appointed as a judge for the county’s District Court by Governor Martin O’Malley in December 2011.

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.

John Calvin Fleming, Jr. is an American politician, physician, and businessman who has served as the U.S. Representative for Louisiana’s 4th congressional district since 2009. A member of the Republican Party, he lives in his adopted city of Minden in Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana.

A second cousin (five generations removed) to the former Speaker of the House Henry Clay of Kentucky, Fleming is a member of Sons of the American Revolution and Jamestowne Society; he is only the second Republican to hold his House seat since Reconstruction.

Duncan Upshaw Fletcher was an American lawyer and politician of the Democratic Party. Senator Fletcher was the longest serving U.S. Senator in Florida’s history. He was a United States Senator from Florida for twenty-seven years (1909 – 1936) making Duncan the longest serving Senator in Florida’s Senate history.

In 1909, the Florida Legislature elected Fletcher, a Democrat, to the United States Senate, where he served and was re-elected for four consecutive terms. In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson appointed him chairman of the United States commission to investigate European land-mortgage banks, cooperative rural credit unions, and the betterment of rural conditions in Europe. President Wilson also appointed Fletcher as a delegate to the International High Commission. Senator Fletcher served on a number of government committees, including the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, where he was chairman from 1916 to 1919, the Committee on Commerce subcommittee investigating the Titanic disaster, the high profile chairmanship of the United States Senate Senate Banking and Currency Committee in 1932, with a mandate to examine the causes of the Wall Street Crash of 1929. His committee, generally known as the Pecora Commission, began a major process of reform of the American financial system and resulted in the passage of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that instituted disclosure laws for corporations seeking public financing plus the 1935 formation of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as a mechanism to enforce the provisions of the new Acts. In 1928, Senator Fletcher introduced legislation to create the Everglades National Park, which was signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1934.

Fletcher died of a heart attack in Washington, D.C. and was interred in the Evergreen Cemetery in Jacksonville.

Senator Fletcher was a trustee of John B. Stetson University and of St. Luke’s Hospital Association at Jacksonville. He was vice president of the Children’s Home Society of Florida and honorary president of the Southern Commercial Congress. He also was a member of the American Bar Association and the Florida State Bar Association and president of the Florida Society. In 1907, Senator Fletcher founded the First Unitarian Church in Jacksonville, Florida.

John Fogg is an American politician who served as the mayor of Pensacola, Florida from 1994-2009. Fogg was appointed to the post by the Pensacola City Council in 1994, and reappointed in 1995, 1997, and 1999. In 2001, he became the first elected mayor since 1913.

John Watson Foster was an American diplomat and military officer, as well as a lawyer and journalist. His highest public office was U.S. Secretary of State under Benjamin Harrison, although he also proved influential as a lawyer in technically private practice in the international relations sphere.

Foster moved to Washington, D.C. under Republican President Ulysses S. Grant, as well as had a summer home in Watertown, New York. As a reward for his political service after the Republican Party split in 1872 as a result of scandals and rampant corruption in Grant’s first administration, successive Republican Presidents Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes and James A. Garfield appointed Foster the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico (1873–1880), then to Russia (1880–1881). President Chester A. Arthur made Foster the United States Ambassador to Spain (1883–1885).

In Benjamin Harrison’s administration, Foster served as a State Department “trouble shooter” before becoming Secretary of State for the final six months of Harrison’s term (from June 29, 1892, to February 23, 1893). As such, Foster replaced James Gillespie Blaine, who had succumbed to Bright’s disease, of which he later died. As Secretary of State, Foster helped direct the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy.

After leaving public office, Foster remained in Washington and invented a new type of legal practice, lobbying for large “corporations seeking favors in Washington and chances to expand abroad.” Foster also used his government and political contacts to secure legal fees as counsel to several foreign legations. He also continued to serve Presidents part-time on diplomatic missions. As such, Foster negotiated trade agreements with eight countries, brokered a treaty with Britain and Russia concerning seal hunting in the Bering Sea, and negotiated the Treaty of Shimonoseki of 1895, technically as legal consultant and commissioner for the Qing Dynasty in which China recognized Korean independence as well as ceded Taiwan to the victorious Japanese after the First Sino-Japanese War.

Wyche Fowler was a United States Senator from Georgia for six years (1987 – 1993). Prior to being elected to the Senate, Wyche served as a member of the United States House of Representatives. Mr. Fowler was also the 22nd United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia for five years (1996 – 2001).

Since then, Fowler has joined the law firm of Powell, Goldstein, Frazer, and Murphy and several corporate and academic boards, including those of the Carter Center at Emory University and the Morehouse School of Medicine. He also became board chairman of the Middle East Institute.