Robert Cameron McEwen was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.

He was elected to the New York State Senate on January 5, 1954, to fill the vacancy caused by the appointment of Paul D. Graves to the New York Supreme Court. McEwen remained in the State Senate until 1964, sitting in the 169th, 170th, 171st, 172nd, 173rd and 174th New York State Legislatures.

He was elected as a Republican to the 89th, 90th, 91st, 92nd, 93rd, 94th, 95th and 96th United States Congresses, holding office from January 3, 1965, to January 3, 1981.

He did not run for reelection in 1980. In 1981 McEwen was appointed by Ronald Reagan to the International Joint Commission, the United States-Canada body that advises the governments of the respective countries on issues related to boundary waters, and he served until 1989.

In 1982, the Custom House at Ogdensburg was named in his honor.

Douglas McKay was a businessman and politician from Oregon. He served as both a member of the town council and at one point was also the mayor of Salem, Oregon. He next went on to serve four consecutive terms in the Oregon State Senate.

McKay has another rare distinction, he fought in both World War I and World War II. In 1948 he was elected the 25th Governor of Oregon. Towards the end of his term as governor he was appointed to the United States Presidential Cabinet.

He resigned as governor and took his place as Secretary of the Interior under the Eisenhower regime. In 1959 he passed away from a heart attack at the age of 66.

Charles Francis McLaughlin was an American Democratic politician. Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, he graduated from University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1908 and the law department of Columbia University, New York City in 1910. He was admitted to the bar in 1910 and set up practice in Omaha, Nebraska. He was a special master in Chancery for the Federal Court from 1916 to 1918.

During World War I he served as a captain of the 347th Field Artillery, 91st Division, American Expeditionary Forces, until his discharge, April 30, 1919. He was also a major in the Officers’ Reserve Corps from 1919 to 1921.

In 1920, he became a delegate to the Nebraska constitutional convention. He was elected as a Democrat to the 74th United States Congress and to the three succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1935, to January 3, 1943. He was unsuccessful in running for reelection in 1942 to the 78th Congress.

Afterwards, he became a member of the American-Mexican Claims Commission in Washington, D.C., from 1943 to 1947. He was a member of the Indian Claims Commission from April 5, 1947, until November 14, 1949, when he took the oath of office a day later as a United States district judge for the District of Columbia. He became a senior United States district court judge for the District of Columbia on December 31, 1964, and continued to hear cases until June 1974.

He resided in Washington, D.C., where he died on February 5, 1976.

James Francis McNulty, Jr. was a one-term congressman and U.S. politician hailing from the Democratic party. He served as the U.S. representative from Arizona’s 5th congressional district. He defeated State Senator Jim Kolbe by around 1,600 votes when the 5th District was created. However, two years later, Kolbe unseated McNulty, largely due to the district running about 60 percent for Ronald Reagan. McNulty resided in Tucson, Arizona with his wife Jacqui until his death on June 30, 2009. He had retired from law practice in 2000.

James Clark McReynolds was an American lawyer and judge who served as United States Attorney General under President Woodrow Wilson and as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He served on the Court from October 12, 1914 to his retirement on January 31, 1941, during the presidencies of Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

He was best known for his sustained opposition to the actions by Roosevelt and his overt anti-semitism. In his twenty-six years on the bench, McReynolds wrote more than 506 majority opinions for the court and 93 minority opinions against the New Deal. He was one of the “Four Horsemen” (together with Willis Van Devanter, George Sutherland, and Pierce Butler), who represented the opposition to Roosevelt’s New Deal.

Arthur Calvin Mellette was the tenth and last Governor of the Dakota Territory and the first Governor of the State of South Dakota. He is the namesake of Mellette, South Dakota.

Mellette was elected as district attorney for Delaware County, Indiana. In 1870, Mellette purchased the Muncie Times, a newspaper which became influential and prosperous under his tutelage. During that same year, Mellette was elected the county superintendent of schools.

When his wife became ill, Mellette visited western states to find a climate that would be more beneficial to her. Mellette’s family eventually settled in Springfield, Dakota Territory, for two years; and, Mellette served as register of the United States Land Office in Springfield until the land office was moved to Watertown, Dakota Territory, in 1880.

In October 1885, the Republicans nominated Mellette for governor of Dakota Territory. In November 1885, Mellette ran unopposed for the office of governor; and, voters selected Huron as the temporary capitol of Dakota Territory. In 1889, voters approved the new constitution for South Dakota and elected Arthur C. Mellette as South Dakota’s first Governor. On November 2, 1889, President Benjamin Harrison signed the proclamation to make South Dakota the fortieth state. Mellette County, South Dakota is named in his honor.

Allen Lucas “Luke” Messer is an American politician who has represented Indiana’s 6th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives since 2013. He is a member of the Republican Party.

Born in Evansville, Indiana, Messer is a graduate of Wabash College and Vanderbilt University Law School. After an unsuccessful run for the U.S. House in 2000, Messer served as the executive director of the Indiana Republican Party from 2001 to 2005. He was appointed to serve in the Indiana House of Representatives in 2003, after State Representative W. Roland Stine was killed in a car accident. Messer represented Indiana’s 57th District from 2003 to 2007. In 2012, Messer defeated Democratic challenger Brad Bookout and was elected to a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Eugene Donald Millikin was a United States Senator from Colorado who served as Senate Republican Conference Chairperson from 1947 to 1956. He entered the political world after his graduation from law school as the executive secretary to the Governor of Colorado in 1915. He continued to climb up the political ranks and by the 1940’s his rise was beginning.

Millikin was appointed on December 20, 1941, and subsequently elected on November 3, 1942, as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy in the term ending January 3, 1945, caused by the death of Alva B. Adams. He was reelected in 1944 and 1950, and served in all during years 1941-1957.

Brother Minnick is a former United States Congressman from Idaho. He was the Representative for Idaho’s 1st congressional district, serving from 2009 until 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party. After losing re-election in 2010 Minnick is now working for a lobbying firm, The Majority Group.

After attending college and law school, Minton served as a captain in World War I, following which he launched a legal and political career. In 1930, after multiple failed election attempts, and serving as a regional leader in the American Legion, he became a utility commissioner under the administration of Indiana Governor Paul V. McNutt. Four years later, Minton was elected to the United States Senate.

As part of the New Deal Coalition, the fiercely partisan Minton championed President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s unsuccessful court packing plans in the Senate and became one of his top Senate allies.

After Minton failed in his 1940 Senate re-election bid, Roosevelt appointed him as a judge to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. After Roosevelt’s death, President Harry Truman, who had developed a close friendship with Minton during their time together in the Senate, nominated him to the Supreme Court. He was confirmed by the Senate on October 4, 1949, by a vote of 48 to 16, 15 Republicans and one Democrat voting against him. He served on the Supreme Court for seven years.

An advocate of judicial restraint, Minton was a regular supporter of the majority opinions during his early years on the Court; he became a regular dissenter after President Dwight Eisenhower’s appointees altered the Bench’s composition. In 1956, poor health forced Minton’s retirement, after which he traveled and lectured until his death in 1965.