Burton Lee French was a congressman from Idaho. French served as a Republican in the House from 1903 – 1909, 1911 – 1915 and 1917 – 1933. With a combined 26 years in office, he remains the longest-serving U.S. House member in Idaho history.

James Fulton was elected as a Republican to the 79th United States Congress, and reelected to the 13 succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1945, until his death from a heart attack in Washington, D.C. on October 6, 1971.

While in Congress he was delegated to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment at Havana in 1947 and 1948, and to the 14th General Assembly of United Nations in 1959. He was a delegate to 1956 Republican National Convention. In addition he served as an adviser on space to the United States Mission at the United Nations from 1960 to 1969.

Booth Gardner was the 19th governor of the U.S state of Washington between 1985 and 1993. He also served as the ambassador of the GATT. He was a Democrat. Before serving as governor, Gardner served in the Washington State Senate and was Pierce County Executive. His service was notable for advancing standards-based education and environmental protection.

While governor, Gardner signed into law a health care program that provided state medical insurance for the working poor. He helped develop land-use and growth-management policies that made Washington an early environmental leader, he steered hundreds of millions of dollars of increased spending toward state universities, increased standardized testing in public education, and improved legal protections for gay people.

Garde Gardom was a Canadian politician, lawyer, and the 26th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia. Gardom was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the constituency of Vancouver-Point Grey in the general elections of 1966, 1969, 1972, 1975, 1979, and 1983.

Originally a Liberal, he joined the Social Credit party in 1974 and was appointed to the cabinet of Premier Bill Bennett in 1975. He held numerous ministerial positions including Attorney General, Minister of Intergovernmental Relations, and was the longest-serving Government House Leader. In 1987, Gardom was appointed the agent-general for British Columbia in London, England. He served in that post until 1992.

Alan Glover was inducted into the Nevada State Assembly Wall of Distinction.

Glover, a former Phi Delta Theta Province President and House Corporation Board President, boasts 38 years of public service including 10 years in the Nevada Assembly, four years in the state Senate. After that, he was elected Carson City Clerk-Recorder in 1992 and served in that position for 20 years.

Both of Glover’s parents held management posts in state government, his mother becoming the first woman to head a state department.

Charles Ellsworth Goodell was a U.S. Representative and a Senator from New York. In both cases he came into office following the deaths of his predecessors, first in a special election and second as a temporary appointee. He was elected to four terms in Congress after winning his first race in 1960. He resigned on September 9, 1968, to accept an appointment by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller to fill the vacancy caused by the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Having earned the support of both the Republican and Liberal parties in 1970 he lost in a three-way race to a Conservative, having split the liberal vote with a similar leaning Democratic candidate.

Goodell is the father of National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell.

Francis Marion Griffith was a U.S. Representative from Indiana. Born in Moorefield, Indiana, Griffith attended the country schools of the county, the high school in Vevay, Indiana, and Franklin College, Franklin, Indiana. He taught school and was appointed school superintendent of Switzerland County in 1873. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1875 and commenced practice in Vevay. Griffith was county treasurer from 1875-1877.

Griffith served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1880. He served as member of the State senate 1886-1894 and Acting Lieutenant Governor from 1891-1894. Griffith was an unsuccessful candidate for attorney general of Indiana in 1894.

Griffith was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William S. Holman. He was then reelected to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Congresses and served from December 6, 1897, to March 3, 1905. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1904.

Following his time in Congress, he resumed the practice of law in Vevay, Indiana and became city attorney 1912-1916. Griffith served as judge of the circuit court of the fifth judicial district 1916-1922.

James Mathews Griggs was a U.S. Representative from Georgia. Born in Lagrange, Georgia, Griggs attended the common schools and was graduated from the Peabody Normal College, Nashville, Tennessee, in 1881. Griggs taught school and studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1883 and commenced the practice of law in Alapaha, Georgia. He also engaged in the newspaper business.

Griggs was elected by the legislature solicitor general of the Pataula judicial circuit in 1888. He was reelected in 1892 and served until his resignation in 1893 to accept appointment by the Governor as judge of the Pataula judicial circuit. Griggs was elected to the same office by the legislature and was reelected and served until his resignation in 1896 to accept the Democratic nomination for Congress.

Griggs served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1892. He served as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 1904-1908. Griggs was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1897, until his death in Dawson, Georgia, January 5, 1910.

Ralph H. Haben, Jr. is an American attorney, lobbyist, and politician who served as the Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives from 1980 to 1982. Haben graduated from the University of Florida in 1964 and Cumberland School of Law in 1967, and began working as a government prosecutor, first for the city of Palmetto, Florida and then for the Twelfth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida.

Haben eventually became a judge before running for the Florida House of Representatives in 1972. In the House, he served on numerous committees, including the Criminal Justice Committee, and eventually became Speaker.

Haben left the legislature to run for Florida Comptroller in 1982, but lost the only election in his electoral history. He briefly considered a run for Governor of Florida, but decided instead to become a lobbyist for many large interests in the state legislature.

Haben was known as a fairly conservative Democrat who focused on criminal issues; his tenure including multiple attempts to increase the penalties on criminals and create new task forces and funding to combat organized and violent crime. He also sought a number of tax increases to help pay for transportation costs, and opposed both the state Sunshine Amendment requiring that politicians disclose their financial assets and the Equal Rights Amendment.

Andrew Holman Hamilton was a politician from Indiana who served in the United States House of Representatives. He was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, June 7, 1834, attended the common schools and graduated from Wabash College in Crawfordsville in 1854. Hamilton studied law at Harvard University and after being admitted to the bar in 1859, he began to practice law in Fort Wayne.

He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1879). After his term in the House, he resumed the practice of law and died in Fort Wayne on May 9, 1895.