Chester Harding was Governor of the Panama Canal Zone from 1917 to 1921. After graduating from the University of Alabama and later the United Stated Military Academy at West Pont in 1889, Chester Harding was commissioned in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He was appointed Division Engineer of Gatun Locks Division in 1907 and then served a term, from 1913-1914 as one of the commissioners in charge of the District of Columbia. He then returned to the Panama Canal as the maintenance engineer in 1915.

Thomas William Hardwick was an American politician from Georgia. Hardwick was born in Thomasville, Georgia. He graduated from Mercer University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1892 and received a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Georgia in 1893.

Hardwick practiced law and then entered politics. He was the prosecutor of Washington County, Georgia from 1895 to 1897, a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from 1898 to 1902, and a member of the United States House of Representatives representing Georgia’s 10th district from 1903 to 1914. In 1914 he ran for a seat in the United States Senate in a special election for the unexpired term of Augustus O. Bacon who had died in office. Hardwick won, and served in the Senate from 1915 to 1919.

As a senator, Harwick co-sponsored the Immigration Act of 1918, which was enacted in October of that year. Aimed at radical anarchists who had immigrated to the U.S., the new law enabled deportation of any non-citizen who belonged to an anarchist organization or who was found in possession of anarchist literature for the purpose of propaganda. On April 29, 1919, as a direct result of his sponsorship of the Immigration Act, Senator Hardwick was targeted for assassination by adherents of the radical anarchist Luigi Galleani, who mailed a booby trap bomb to his residence in Georgia. The bomb exploded when a house servant attempted to open the package, blowing off her hands, and severely injuring Senator Hardwick’s wife.

Senator Hardwick was defeated in the Democratic primary for reelection in 1918 by William J. Harris. Hardwick then served as Governor of Georgia from 1921 to 1923, and due to his opposition to the Ku Klux Klan, lost to Clifford Walker in the subsequent election. He ran unsuccessfully for election to the Senate in 1922 and 1924, and then retired from politics.

He spent the rest of his life practicing law, with offices in Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Georgia and Sandersville, Georgia. He died in Sandersville. One of Hardwick’s most notable actions as governor of Georgia was his appointment of Rebecca Latimer Felton to the United States Senate as a temporary replacement for Thomas E. Watson who had died. Though Felton only served for one day, she was the first woman to serve in the Senate.

Robert Chiperfield served as a member of the U.S. Congress from Illinois in 1938. Robert served for 24 consecutive terms and twelve terms until 1962. Robert was also a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee in 1953-1954.

Philip Coldwell served as the eighth president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. He also served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from October 29, 1974, until February 29, 1980.

James Mitchell “Jim” Collins was a Republican who represented the Third Congressional District of Texas from 1968-1983. The district was based at the time about Irving in Dallas County.

Thomas Terry “Tom” Connally was an American politician, who represented Texas in both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives (D). He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1917 to 1929, and in the U.S. Senate from 1929 to 1953.

Connally ran unopposed and was elected to the Texas House of Representatives in 1900 and 1902. During his tenure in the Texas House he was a prominent opponent of monopolies and co-authored the Texas Anti-Trust Law of 1903. After 1904, he left state politics to pursue his legal career, and served as the prosecuting attorney for Falls County from 1906 to 1910. In 1916, he made his first foray into national politics by running for the vacant House seat for the 11th Congressional District of Texas. After resigning his office to fight in World War I, Connally returned to the House where he served on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and worked against isolationist policies.

In 1928 Connally was elected to the U.S. Senate. During his time in the Senate he supported Roosevelt’s New Deal legislation through the passage of the Connally Hot Oil Act of 1935, which attempted to circumvent the Supreme Court of the United States’ rejection of a key part of New Deal legislation.

During most of his tenure in the Senate Connally was a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and served as chairman from 1941 to 1947, and 1949 to 1953. As Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he was instrumental in the ratification of the treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

He was also a member and vice-chairman of the United Nations Conference on International Organization in 1945 that chartered the United Nations. He authored the noted “Connally Amendment,” which amended the U.S. ratification of the U.N. charter to bar the International Court of Justice from having jurisdiction over domestic matters “as determined by the United States.”

In 1953, Connally retired from the Senate, ending his career in national politics.

Harold Cooley, was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina for 32 years (1934 to 1966). Harold is the longest-serving United States House Committee on Agriculture chairman in history.

William Prentice Cooper, Jr. served as the Governor of Tennessee for 6 years (1939 to 1945). Prentice led Tennessee’s efforts to prepare for World War II, having over 300,000 men join the cause. Cooper later served as the U.S. Ambassador to Peru.

Robert Corbett is former U.S Representative from Pennsylvania. He was first elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth Congress (January 3, 1939 – January 3, 1941). After being unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1940, he served on the staff of Senator James J. Davis in Pittsburgh. He was then elected to the Seventy-ninth Congresses and served from January 3, 1945, until his death in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 25, 1971.

Jon Stevens Corzine is an American financial executive and former politician. A Democrat, he was a United States Senator from New Jersey from 2001 to 2006 and was the 54th Governor of New Jersey from 2006 to 2010. He also worked as CEO of Goldman Sachs during the 1990s and was CEO of MF Global from 2010 to 2011.

Corzine began his career in banking and finance. In the early and mid-1970s, he worked for Midwestern banks (Continental-Illinois National Bank in Chicago, Illinois and BancOhio National Bank in Columbus, Ohio) during and after his Master of Business Administration (MBA) studies at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. In 1975 he moved to New Jersey to work for Goldman Sachs. He became Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs and the leading advocate in the firm’s decision to go public.

Corzine served five years of a six-year U.S. Senate term representing New Jersey before being elected governor in 2005. He was defeated for re-election in 2009 by Republican Chris Christie.