James Charles Slattery was a Kansas representative in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1983 to 1995 after serving in the U.S Army. He played a crucial role in many key issues including environmental protection, health care, telecommunications, and budget cutting efforts. He worked to limit production of the B-2 bomber, and was the chief sponsor of the successful amendment to terminate spending on the Superconducting Super Collider in 1993. In 1993, Slattery orchestrated the House campaign that killed the Superconducting Super Collider.

Slattery also served on the Energy and Commerce, Veterans’ Affairs, Budget, Telecommunications and Banking committees and started his own successful real estate company.

Hulett Smith worked in the insurance industry and at his family’s radio station after graduation from Penn. A few years later he served in the U.S. Navy in World War II, rising to the rank lieutenant commander. After his service he served as the president of the West Virginia Junior Chamber of Commerce (1949-1950), and then was the chairman of the West Virginia Democratic Party from 1956 to 1962. Smith co-founded Bald Knob Ski Slopes, a ski resort. He was elected Governor in 1964 and served one term.

Shap Smith, a Democrat, was first elected to the Vermont House in 2002.

Early in his House career he was a member of the Ways & Means and Joint Fiscal Committees. On December 6, 2008, House Democrats, who held a 95–48 majority, nominated Smith to be the next Speaker of the Vermont House. He was elected Speaker on January 8, 2009, and was re-elected on January 5, 2011, January 8, 2013, and January 7, 2015.

On August 20, 2015, Smith announced his candidacy for the 2016 Democratic nomination for Governor. In November he withdrew, following his wife’s breast cancer diagnosis. Smith indicated in his withdrawal announcement that he was ending his campaign in order to spend more time with his wife during her treatment.

Smith announced in May 2016 that he would be a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Vermont, citing his wife’s improved health and a desire to continue a career in public service

Adlai Ewing Stevenson I served as the 23rd Vice President of the United States (1893-97). Previously, he served as a Congressman from Illinois in the late 1870s and early 1880s. After his subsequent appointment as Assistant Postmaster General of the United States during Grover Cleveland’s first administration (1885-89), he fired many Republican postal workers and replaced them with Southern Democrats. This earned him the enmity of the Republican-controlled Congress, but made him a favorite as Grover Cleveland’s running mate in 1892, and he duly became Vice President of the United States.

In office, he supported the free-silver lobby against the gold-standard men like Cleveland, but was praised for ruling in a dignified, non-partisan manner.

In 1900, he ran for Vice President with William Jennings Bryan. Although unsuccessful, he was the first ex-Vice President to win re-nomination for that post with a different presidential candidate. Stevenson was the grandfather of Adlai Stevenson II, a Governor of Illinois and the unsuccessful Democratic presidential candidate in both 1952 and 1956.

Willis Sweet was the first United States Representative elected from Idaho following statehood in 1890. Sweet served as a Republican in the House from 1890 to 1895, representing the state at-large.

Sweet learned the printer’s trade in Lincoln and relocated west to Moscow in the Idaho Territory in 1881. Sweet was the first editor of the Moscow Mirror in 1882, studied law and became an attorney, judge, and supreme court justice in the territory. Also a territorial legislator, he was instrumental in bringing the University of Idaho to Moscow, and was the first president of its board of regents.

Sweet was a candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1896, but was defeated in the Idaho Legislature by Populist Henry Heitfeld. He was an attorney in north Idaho in Coeur d’Alene until his appointment as the attorney general of Puerto Rico in 1903. Sweet served until 1905 and then worked as a newspaper editor in San Juan from 1913 until his death in 1925.

A residence hall at the University of Idaho is named for Sweet. Opened in 1936, the building is now Carol Ryrie Brink Hall, a faculty office building. The Willis Sweet residence hall was relocated to the new Theophilus Tower in 1969, and later to the former McConnell Hall, on the northeast corner of Sixth and Rayburn streets.

King Swope was a United States Representative from Kentucky. He was born in Danville, Kentucky. He attended the common schools and was graduated from Centre College, Danville, Kentucky in 1914 and from the law department of the University of Kentucky at Lexington in 1916. He was admitted to the bar in 1915 and commenced practice in Lexington, Kentucky.

Swope enlisted and served during the First World War as captain of Infantry. He was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-sixth Congress by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Harvey Helm (August 1, 1919 – March 3, 1921). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Sixty-seventh Congress in 1920.

Swope was appointed aide-de-camp with the rank of colonel on the staff of Governor Edwin P. Morrow in 1919 before resuming the practice of law. He was the chairman of the Republican executive committee of Fayette County, Kentucky 1928-1931 and was appointed and subsequently elected a judge of the circuit court of the twenty-second judicial district of Kentucky and served from 1931 to 1940. He was the unsuccessful Republican nominee for Governor of Kentucky in 1935 and 1939. He was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1936, 1940, and 1944 and chairman of the Republican State convention in 1936. He was also a member of the judicial council of Kentucky 1931-1940. He died in Lexington, Kentucky in 1961 and was buried at Lexington Cemetery.

Elbert Duncan Thomas was a Democratic politician from Utah, serving as senator from 1933-1951. Thomas was chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor while also serving on the Committee on Military Affairs, Mines and Mining Committee, and the Committee on Labor and Public Wellness. Following his departure from the Senate he was appointed High Commissioner over the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

Charles Leavell Moses was a U.S. Representative from Georgia. Born near Turin, Georgia, Moses attended small country schools and ultimately graduated from Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, in 1876. He later engaged in teaching and agricultural pursuits. For several years he served as principal of the Newnan Academy for Boys. After 1886, he devoted his time exclusively to agricultural interests, and was also involved in the Farmers’ Alliance.

Moses was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1897). He served as Chairman of the Committee on Pensions (Fifty-third Congress). Moses was unsuccessful in his candidacy for renomination in 1896, after which he resumed his agricultural pursuits in Turin, Georgia.

Moses served as delegate to several Democratic State and National Conventions. He served as a member of the Georgia State House of Representatives from 1900-1904.

Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg II, FAIA was a leading architect, an American military and political leader who served as a U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania, and a member of the Muhlenberg political dynasty.

During World War I, Muhlenberg was a captain in the 314th Infantry Regiment serving from September 1917 to March 1919. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the Purple Heart, the Legion of Merit, the Verdun Medal, the Légion d’Honneur and the Croix de guerre with Palm for his actions in World War I.

Muhlenberg served continuously in the regular army reserves for more than 20 years. He re-entered the United States Army in 1940, where he served during World War II as a Lieutenant colonel and Colonel in the United States Army Corps of Engineers, as an aide to Gen. Brehon Summervell, and as district engineer in Cincinnati.

In 1946, Muhlenberg was elected to the 80th Congress from Pennsylvania. He became the seventh member of his family to be elected to the U.S. Congress, where he served in the House of Representatives from January 3, 1947 until January 3, 1949.

Nestos was the 13th Governor of the U.S. state of North Dakota, from 1921 through 1925.

Nestos was a member of the Independent Voters Association, running on the Republican ticket. He was a member of North Dakota State House of Representatives, 1911–12; Ward County State’s Attorney, 1913–16; and a primary candidate for U.S. Senator from North Dakota, 1916. He gained office when Governor Lynn Frazier was defeated in the first successful attempt to recall a state governor in U.S. history.