100 Notable alumni of
Valparaiso University
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Valparaiso University is 960th in the world, 352nd in North America, and 330th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Valparaiso University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Ginger Zee
- Enrolled in Valparaiso University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in meteorology
- Occupations
- meteorologistweather presenternews presenter
- Biography
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Ginger Renée Colonomos, known by her pseudonym Ginger Zee, is an American television personality. She is the chief meteorologist for ABC News, after having been the network's weekend meteorologist.
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Beulah Bondi
- Enrolled in Valparaiso University
- In 1916 graduated with bachelor's degree in public speaking
- In 1918 graduated with master's degree in public speaking
- Occupations
- film actorcharacter actortelevision actorstage actor
- Biography
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Beulah Bondi /ˈbɒndi/ was an American character actress; she often played eccentric mothers and later grandmothers and wives, although she was known for numerous other roles. She began her acting career as a young child in theater, and after establishing herself as a Broadway stage actress in 1925, she reprised her role in Street Scene for the 1931 film version.
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Scott Drew
- Occupations
- basketball coach
- Biography
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Scott Homer Drew is an American college basketball coach who is the head coach at Baylor University, a position he has held since 2003.
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Bryce Drew
- Enrolled in Valparaiso University
- Studied in 1998
- Occupations
- basketball playerhead coachbasketball coach
- Biography
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Bryce Homer Drew is an American college basketball coach and former player who is the head coach of the Grand Canyon Antelopes. Previously he served as the head coach of the Vanderbilt Commodores and in the same capacity at his alma mater, Valparaiso, having succeeded his father, Homer Drew. Drew has led his teams to the NCAA tournament on six occasions, including at least once at each of the three schools where he has been the head coach.
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John Lutz
- Occupations
- film actorscreenwritertelevision actorstage actor
- Biography
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John Michael Lutz is an American actor, comedian, and screenwriter. He is best known for playing J. D. Lutz on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, and for his work as a writer on the NBC series Saturday Night Live for seven seasons. In 2014, he joined the writing staff of the NBC late-night talk show Late Night with Seth Meyers.
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Lowell Thomas
- Enrolled in Valparaiso University
- In 1911 graduated with bachelor's degree in science and education
- Occupations
- screenwritervoice actorwriterradio personalityfilm producer
- Biography
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Lowell Jackson Thomas was an American writer, broadcaster, and traveler, best remembered for publicising T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia). He was also involved in promoting the Cinerama widescreen system. In 1954, he led a group of New York City-based investors to buy majority control of Hudson Valley Broadcasting, which, in 1957, became Capital Cities Television Corporation.
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Ryan Broekhoff
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Ryan Broekhoff is an Australian former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Valparaiso Crusaders, where he was named an All-American in 2012. He represented the Australian Boomers on multiple occasions.
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Adam Amin
- Years
- 1986-.. (age 39)
- Enrolled in Valparaiso University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in television production
- Occupations
- sports commentator
- Biography
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Adam Amin is an American sportscaster. Amin joined Fox Sports in June 2020 as a play-by-play announcer for MLB, NFL and College basketball games after previously working for ESPN from 2011 to 2020. He is also the television play-by-play announcer for the Chicago Bulls of the NBA.
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Alec Peters
- Enrolled in Valparaiso University
- Studied in 2013-2017
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Alec Jeffrey Peters is an American-born naturalized Bosnian professional basketball player for Olympiacos of the Greek Basket League (GBL) and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for Valparaiso University, where he was an All-American in 2017.
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Gerald L. K. Smith
- Occupations
- journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Gerald Lyman Kenneth Smith was an American clergyman, politician and organizer known for his populist and far-right demagoguery. He began his career as a leader of the populist Share Our Wealth movement during the Great Depression. After the death of Huey Long he shifted away from advocating wealth redistribution towards anti-communism and later anti-semitism, becoming known for far-right causes such as the Christian Nationalist Crusade, which he founded in 1942. He founded the America First Party in 1943 and was its 1944 presidential candidate, winning fewer than 1,800 votes.
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Lloyd McClendon
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Lloyd Glenn McClendon is an American former professional baseball player, coach and manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as an outfielder from 1987 to 1994 for the Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs, and the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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Shawn Huff
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Shawn Christopher Huff is a Finnish politician and a former professional basketball player. He played college basketball at Valparaiso from 2004–2008. Shawn Huff played for Finland national basketball team, serving as the team captain.
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Mikhail Borodin
- Occupations
- politicianjournalistdiplomat
- Biography
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Mikhail Markovich Gruzenberg, known by the alias Borodin, was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Communist International (Comintern) agent. He was an advisor to Sun Yat-sen and the Kuomintang (KMT) in China during the 1920s.
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George W. Norris
- Occupations
- judgepoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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George William Norris was an American politician from the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States. He served five terms in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican, from 1903 until 1913, and five terms in the United States Senate, from 1913 until 1943. He served four terms as a Republican and his final term as an Independent. Norris was defeated for re-election in 1942.
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Katherine Stinson
- Occupations
- aircraft pilotarchitect
- Biography
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Katherine Stinson was an American aviation pioneer who, in 1912, became the fourth woman in the United States to earn the FAI pilot certificate. She set flying records for aerobatic maneuvers, distance, and endurance. She was the first female pilot employed by the U.S. Postal Service and the first civilian pilot to fly the mail in Canada. She was also one of the first pilots to ever fly at night and the first female pilot to fly in Canada and Japan.
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Todd Duncan
- Occupations
- opera singeractor
- Biography
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Robert Todd Duncan was an American baritone opera singer and actor. One of the first African-Americans to sing with a major opera company, Duncan is also noted for appearing as Porgy in the premier production of Porgy and Bess (1935).
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Fred Thurston
- Occupations
- basketball playerAmerican football player
- Biography
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Frederick Charles "Fuzzy" Thurston was an American professional football player who was an offensive guard for the Baltimore Colts and Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Valparaiso.
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William March
- Occupations
- sailorwriternovelistsoldier
- Biography
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William March was an American writer of psychological fiction and a highly decorated U.S. Marine. The author of six novels and four short-story collections, March was praised by critics but never attained great popularity. He has also been recently described by one prominent film historian as "a closeted, and tormented, gay man."
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Jill Long Thompson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jill Lynette Long Thompson is an American politician, educator, and author. A former Congresswoman from Indiana, she is the author of The Character of American Democracy, published by Indiana University Press in September 2020. From 2015 to 2020 she taught ethics as a visiting clinical associate professor at the Kelley School of Business and the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Bloomington and during the 2020–2021 academic year she served as a visiting scholar with the Ostrom Workshop, also at Indiana University. Until 2015 she was board chair and CEO of the Farm Credit Administration, a position to which President Barack Obama appointed her. The first person in her family to graduate from college, she earned a B.S. in business administration at Valparaiso University and an M.B.A. and Ph.D. in business at Indiana University. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
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Richard G. Hatcher
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Richard Gordon Hatcher was an American attorney and politician who served as the first African-American mayor of Gary, Indiana, for 20 years, from 1968 to 1988. At the time of his first election on November 7, 1967, he and Carl Stokes were the first African Americans to be elected mayors of a U.S. city with more than 100,000 people. Hatcher also served as Vice-Chairman of the Democratic National Committee in the early 1980s.
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Julie Meyer
- Occupations
- entrepreneurinvestorbusinessperson
- Biography
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Julie Marie Meyer is an American businesswoman based in the United Kingdom.
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Steve Buyer
- Enrolled in Valparaiso University
- In 1984 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Stephen Earle Buyer is an American former politician who served as the U.S. representative for Indiana's 4th congressional district, and previously the 5th district, from 1993 until 2011. In July 2022, Buyer was arrested and charged with insider trading for buying shares of Sprint and Navigant Consulting before both were acquired by other companies, which he knew through his consulting work before the information was made public. Buyer was found guilty in 2023 and sentenced to 22 months in prison. He is a member of the Republican Party.
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Wayne King
- Occupations
- bandleaderconductorsingersongwritersaxophonist
- Biography
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Harold Wayne King was an American musician, songwriter, and bandleader with a long association with both NBC and CBS. He was referred to as "the Waltz King" because much of his most popular music involved waltzes; "The Waltz You Saved for Me" was his standard set-closing song in live performance and on numerous radio broadcasts at the height of his career. King's innovations included converting Carrie Jacobs-Bond's "I Love You Truly" from its original 4 time over to 4.
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Martin J. Schreiber
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Martin James Schreiber is an American politician, publisher, author, and lobbyist who served as the 38th Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin from 1971 to 1977, and (following the resignation of Patrick Lucey) as the 39th Governor of Wisconsin from 1977 to 1979. Schreiber has become an advocate on issues related to Alzheimer's disease and dementia.
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Len Small
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lennington "Len" Small was an American politician who served as the 26th Governor of Illinois from 1921 to 1929. He previously was a member of the Illinois state senate from the 16th District from 1901 to 1903 and was Illinois state treasurer, from 1905 to 1907, and from 1917 to 1919. He is known for accusations of embezzlement brought against him.
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Ali Biju
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Datuk Ali anak Biju is a Malaysian politician and civil engineer who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Saratok since May 2018. He served as the Deputy Minister of Energy and Natural Resources for the second term in the Barisan Nasional (BN) administration under former Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob and former Minister Takiyuddin Hassan from August 2021 to the collapse of the BN administration in November 2022 and the first term in the Perikatan Nasional (PN) administration under former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and former Minister Shamsul Anuar Nasarah from March 2020 to the collapse of the PN administration in August 2021, Member of the Sarawak State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Krian from April 2011 to December 2021. He is a member of the Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU), a component party of the PN coalition and was a member of the People's Justice Party (PKR), a component party of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition. He also served as the Vice President of PKR from December 2018 to his resignation from the party in February 2020. He took part in the Sheraton Move, a successful attempt to overthrow PH administration and serves as a member of the Federal-State Relations Select Committee. He is the sole Sarawak PN MP and one of the only two Christian MPs of PN alongside Ronald Kiandee.
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Luboš Bartoň
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Luboš Bartoň is a Czech professional basketball coach. He is a 2.02 m tall small forward who last played for FC Barcelona B of Spain's second division.
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John J. Blaine
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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John James Blaine was an American lawyer and progressive Republican politician from Grant County, Wisconsin. He was the 24th governor of Wisconsin, serving three terms from 1921 to 1927, and served as United States senator from 1927 to 1933. Earlier, he was the 23rd Attorney General of Wisconsin, a member of the Wisconsin Senate, and mayor of Boscobel, Wisconsin.
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Gordon Browning
- Occupations
- judgepoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Gordon Weaver Browning was an American politician who served as the 38th governor of Tennessee from 1937 to 1939, and again from 1949 to 1953. He also served six terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, from 1923 to 1935, and was Chancellor of Tennessee's Eighth Chancery District in the 1940s. As governor, he stabilized state finances, doubled the state's mileage of paved roads, and enacted legislation to curb voter fraud. His victory in the hard-fought 1948 gubernatorial campaign helped break the power of Memphis political boss E. H. Crump.
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Jon Kedrowski
- Years
- 1979-.. (age 46)
- Occupations
- geographermountaineerbasketball player
- Biography
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Jonathan James Kedrowski is an author, ski-mountaineer, and geographer from Colorado. He is best known for summiting and camping overnight on the summit of all of Colorado's Fourteeners (mountains over 14,000 feet) in 2011.
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Rebecca R. Pallmeyer
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Rebecca Ruth Pallmeyer is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
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Aldo Valle
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- academiclawyer
- Biography
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Aldo Salvador Valle Acevedo is a Chilean lawyer, politician and current vice president of the Constitutional Council.
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Chris Ensminger
- Occupations
- basketball coachbasketball player
- Biography
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Christopher William Ensminger is an American professional basketball coach and former professional basketball player.
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Adam Benjamin, Jr
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Adam Benjamin Jr. was an American politician and a United States Representative from Indiana's 1st congressional district, serving from 1977 until his death from a heart attack in Washington, D.C. in 1982. Benjamin was the first Assyrian-American to be elected to the United States House of Representatives in American history. Benjamin served in the Indiana Senate from 1971 to 1977, the Indiana House of Representatives from 1967 to 1971, and was a member of the Democratic Party.
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Stoyan Christowe
- Occupations
- writerjournalistpolitician
- Biography
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Stoyan Christowe was an American author, journalist and noted political figure in the state of Vermont. Born in what is now Makrochori, Greece, then a part of the Ottoman Empire, he is best remembered as a prolific author and Vermont legislator. He authored six books on the Balkan states. Christowe was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje in the Socialist Republic of Macedonia and was elected an honorary member of the Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences (MANU).
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Dana Wachs
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Dana John Wachs is an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Eau Claire, Wisconsin. He was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly for six years, representing Wisconsin's 91st Assembly district from 2013 to 2019. He was also a member of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents from 2022 until 2024. He previously served on the Eau Claire City Council. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Wisconsin in the 2018 Democratic primary.
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Caleb Powers
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Caleb Powers was a United States representative from Kentucky and the first Secretary of State of Kentucky convicted as an accessory to murder.
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William E. Dannemeyer
- Occupations
- judgepoliticianlawyerjournalist
- Biography
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William Edwin Dannemeyer was a conservative American politician, activist, and author, known for his opposition to LGBT rights. He served seven terms as U.S. Representative from the 39th Congressional District of California from 1979 to 1993, during which time he, along with friend and fellow Republican U.S. Rep. Robert K. Dornan, came to personify Orange County conservatism.
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Flem D. Sampson
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Flemon Davis "Flem" Sampson was the 42nd Governor of Kentucky, serving from 1927 to 1931. He graduated from Valparaiso University in 1894, and opened a law practice in Barbourville, Kentucky. He formed a political alliance with future Representatives Caleb Powers and John Robsion, both prominent Republicans in the eastern part of the state. By 1916, he was serving on the Kentucky Court of Appeals (the state's highest court at the time) and had previously served as a county judge and circuit court judge. In 1923, he was elevated to chief justice of the Court of Appeals. He served until 1927, when he became the Republican gubernatorial nominee.
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Stalin Ortiz
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Stalin Ortiz, is a Colombian professional basketball player. He currently plays for the Condores club of the Baloncesto Profesional Colombiano league.
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Melvin Vaniman
- Occupations
- photographer
- Biography
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Chester Melvin Vaniman was an American aviator and photographer who specialized in panoramic images. He shot images from gas balloons, ships masts, tall buildings and even a home-made 30-metre (98 ft) pole. He scaled buildings, hung from self-made slings, and scaled dangerous heights to capture his unique images.
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Clayton Bissell
- Enrolled in Valparaiso University
- Graduated with Legum Doctor
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Major General Clayton Lawrence Bissell was an air officer in the United States Army and United States Army Air Forces during World War I and World War II.
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John E. Miller
- Occupations
- judgepoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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John Elvis Miller was a United States representative and United States Senator from Arkansas and later was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas.
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Rodric Bray
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rodric D. "Rod" Bray is an American politician from Indiana. A member of the Republican Party, Bray has been a member of the Indiana State Senate since 2012, representing the 37th state Senate district, which comprises all of Morgan County and a portion of Johnson, Owen and Putnam counties.
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Holly A. Brady
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Holly Ann Winkeljohn Brady is the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana.
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David W. Dugan
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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David Wayne Dugan is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois.
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Marya Zaturenska
- Occupations
- poetwriter
- Biography
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Marya Zaturenska was an American lyric poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1938.
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Roy E. Ayers
- Occupations
- judgepoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Roy Elmer Ayers was a U.S. Democratic politician. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives and as the 11th Governor of Montana. He was the first governor of Montana to be born in what would become the state of Montana.
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Craig S. Morford
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 66)
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Craig S. Morford is an American attorney and former acting United States Deputy Attorney General.
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Jon DeGuilio
- Occupations
- lawyerjudge
- Biography
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Jon Ernest DeGuilio is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana.
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Benjamin F. Shively
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Benjamin Franklin Shively was an American politician and lawyer who served as a United States Representative (1884 to 1885 and 1887 to 1893) and Senator (1909 to 1916) from Indiana.
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Andrieus A. Jones
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Andrieus Aristieus Jones was an American politician in New Mexico who represented the state in the United States Senate from 1917 until his death in 1927.
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Tiiu Kera
- Years
- 1945-.. (age 80)
- Occupations
- military personnelmilitary officer
- Biography
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Tiiu Kera is a retired United States Air Force major general.
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Carl Otto Lampland
- Occupations
- astronomer
- Biography
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Carl Otto Lampland was an American astronomer. He was involved with both of the Lowell Observatory solar system projects, observations of the planet Mars and the search for Planet X.
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Joaquim Gomes
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Joaquim Brandão Gomes, also known as "Kikas", is a retired Angolan professional basketball player. He has played professionally in Germany and the Netherlands.
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Paul Luebke
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Paul Luebke was a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly, representing the 30th House District, which includes constituents in Durham County. A professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Luebke served eleven consecutive two-year term in the state House of Representatives.
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Richard Kauzlarich
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Richard Dale Kauzlarich is an American diplomat, writer, and intelligence analyst.
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Raitis Grafs
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Raitis Grafs is a Latvian former professional basketball player. He played at the center position. Grafs represented the senior men's Latvian national team. He was a FIBA EuroStar in 2007.
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René Steinke
- Occupations
- novelist
- Biography
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Rene Steinke is an American novelist. She is the author of three novels: The Fires, Holy Skirts (2005), and Friendswood (2014). Holy Skirts, a novel based on the life of the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award. Her essays and articles have appeared in The New York Times, Vogue, O: the Oprah Magazine, Bookforum, and elsewhere.
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Tim Lee Hall
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tim Lee Hall was an American politician and Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois for one term from 1975 to 1977.
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Anthony Bimba
- Occupations
- newspaper editoreditor
- Biography
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Antanas "Anthony" Bimba Jr. was a Lithuanian-born American newspaper editor, historian, and radical political activist. An editor of a number of Lithuanian Marxist periodicals published in the United States, Bimba is best remembered as the defendant in a 1926 legal case in which he was charged with sedition and violation of a 229-year-old law against blasphemy in the state of Massachusetts.
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Albert Henry Vestal
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Albert Henry Vestal was an American lawyer and politician who served eight terms as a Republican United States Representative from Indiana from 1917 to 1932.
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Frank Eugene Hook
- Occupations
- judgepoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Frank Eugene Hook was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Oscar Larson
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Oscar John Larson was a U.S. Representative from Minnesota.
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Thurman C. Crook
- Enrolled in Valparaiso University
- Studied in 1930
- Occupations
- coachhorticulturistteacherpoliticianfarmer
- Biography
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Thurman Charles Crook was an American politician who served one term as a United States representative from Indiana from 1949 to 1951.
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Tom Rasmussen
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Thomas M. Rasmussen is a retired member of the Seattle City Council, serving from 2004 to 2015.
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Bob Dille
- Occupations
- basketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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Robert Orville Dille was an American professional basketball player and championship high school coach. Dille was an All-American forward at Valparaiso, where he was a member of "The World's Tallest Team" and later coached Fort Wayne's Northrop High School to an Indiana state championship in 1974. He was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 1989.
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Kevin van Wijk
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Kevin van Wijk is a Dutch professional basketball player for CB Marín Peixegalego of the LEB Oro. Van Wijk played three years of college basketball for the Valparaiso Crusaders.
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Patrick H. Kelley
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Patrick Henry Kelley was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. He served as U.S. Representative from Michigan's 6th congressional district from 1915 to 1923.
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Otis Wingo
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Otis Theodore Wingo was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. representative from Arkansas's 4th congressional district from 1913 to 1930. He was the husband of his successor in office, Effiegene Wingo.
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William Valentine
- Occupations
- missionary
- Biography
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William Orison Valentine was an educator and missionary in service of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society who established and served as first president of Jaro Industrial School, now Central Philippine University. He ministered for some thirty years in Asia, first in Burma starting in 1895 and in the Philippines from 1904 until his death in 1928 at the age of 65.
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Henry Teigan
- Occupations
- trade unionistpolitician
- Biography
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Henry George Teigan was an American labor leader and editor who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Minnesota.
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Frank P. Woods
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Frank Plowman Woods was a five-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 10th congressional district, in north-central Iowa. He reached a House leadership position after only two terms. However, in 1917 his vote against the United States' declaration of war on the German Empire effectively ended his political career, leading to his loss of the Republican nomination for re-election to his seat, and of his leadership position for the remainder of his final term.
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Oscar E. Bland
- Occupations
- judgepoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Oscar Edward Bland was a United States representative from Indiana and an associate judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.
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George W. Rauch
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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George Washington Rauch was an American lawyer and politician who served five terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1907 to 1917.
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William Farina
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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William Edward Farina is an American essayist and writer of popular non-fiction.
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Samuel E. Cook
- Occupations
- judgepoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Samuel Ellis Cook was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1923 to 1925.
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Dennis D. Donovan
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Dennis D. Donovan was a 19th-century American lawyer, educator, businessman, and politician who was a U.S. Representative from Ohio for two terms, from 1891 to 1895.
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David A. Capp
- Years
- 1950-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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David A. Capp is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana from 2007 to 2017.
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James V. Heidinger
- Occupations
- judgepoliticianlawyerteacher
- Biography
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James Vandaveer Heidinger was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
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Lowell E. Baier
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Lowell Edward Baier is an American attorney, successful entrepreneur, and an environmental historian and author. He has dedicated his life to natural resources and wildlife conservation. Throughout his career he has been an advisor to many elected officials and educators, including every successive presidential administration since George H. W. Bush, and has been an active and instrumental member of several national conservation groups.
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Clarence W. Turner
- Occupations
- judgepoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Clarence Wyly Turner was an American politician who served in the United States Congress as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee.
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John E. Teeple
- Occupations
- engineerchemist
- Biography
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John Edgar Teeple was an American chemical engineer who served as President of The Chemists' Club from 1921-1922 and received the Perkin Medal in 1927 for his work on potash during World War I.
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Samuel B. Huston
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Samuel Bruce Huston was an American politician and lawyer in Oregon. Originally a Democrat and later a Republican, he served in both chambers of the Oregon Legislative Assembly and was twice the mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon. A native of Indiana, he served in the state senate as a Democrat from one county his first term, but moved and changed parties by his second term 20 years later.
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Fernandus Payne
- Enrolled in Valparaiso University
- In 1901 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- writerzoologist
- Biography
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Fernandus Payne was an American zoologist, geneticist and educator.
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Frederick M. Bernthal
- Enrolled in Valparaiso University
- In 1964 graduated with Bachelor of Science in chemistry
- Biography
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Frederick M. Bernthal was United States Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs from 1988 to 1990.
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Edwin B. Brooks
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Edwin Bruce Brooks was a U.S. representative from Illinois. He was the cousin of Edmund H. Hinshaw.
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Paul Sieving
- Occupations
- researcherophthalmologist
- Biography
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Paul A. Sieving is a former director of the National Eye Institute, part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Prior to joining the NIH in 2001, he served on the faculty of the University of Michigan Medical School as the Paul R. Lichter Professor of Ophthalmic Genetics. He also was the founding director of the Center for Retinal and Macular Degeneration in the university's Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences.
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John L. Bascom
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- lawyerpolitician
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John Luman Bascom was born in Farmersburg, Iowa, the son of John Sanburn Bascom and Phoebe Spencer. He was an Iowan lawyer and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he was elected three times to the Iowa House of Representatives, representing the Dickinson County district (House District 97) and serving from January 8, 1907, to January 12, 1913. He was educated at the Northern Indiana Normal School (now Valparaiso University) in Valparaiso, Indiana, studying science and law. He was admitted to the Iowa bar in 1888 and worked in law and real estate. He married Winifred Yorker in 1904, from which union produced four children, three daughters and one son. Bascom is buried at the Okoboji Cemetery in Arnolds Park, Iowa.
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Wilma Kucharek
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- priest
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Wilma S. Kucharek is bishop of the Slovak Zion Synod.
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Frederic R. DeYoung
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- judgepoliticianjurist
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Frederic R. DeYoung was an American jurist and politician who served as a judge on the Supreme Court of Illinois (1924–1934), judge on the Superior Court of Cook County (1923–1924), judge on the original Circuit Court of Cook County (1921), member of the Illinois House of Representatives (1915–1919), and the city attorney of Harvey, Illinois (1908–1919), among other public offices. DeYoung ran as a Republican for most of his political career. However, in his last campaign (his 1933 reelection to the Supreme Court of Illinois), he ran instead as a Democrat.
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Maria Brewer
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- diplomat
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Maria Elena Brewer is an American diplomat who had served as the United States Ambassador to Lesotho from 2022 to 2024. She previously served as the United States Ambassador to Sierra Leone from 2017 to 2021.
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Ulysses G. Denman
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- lawyerpolitician
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Ulysses Grant Denman was a Republican politician from the state of Ohio. He was Ohio Attorney General from 1908 to 1911.
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Michael E. Fryzel
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- lawyer
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Michael E. Fryzel is an American attorney with offices in Chicago, Illinois. Following the 2016 general election, Fryzel served on election-winner Donald Trump's transition team and developed the Agency Action Plan for the National Credit Union Administration.
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John Carl Williams Hinshaw
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- politician
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John Carl Williams Hinshaw was an American businessman and politician who served nine terms as a United States representative from California from 1939 to 1956.
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Mary Burce Warlick
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- diplomat
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Mary Burce Warlick is an Australian-born, American diplomat who was appointed Deputy Executive Director of the International Energy Agency in May 2021. A former United States career diplomat, she served as the United States Ambassador to Serbia from January 2010 to September 2012, as the U.S. Consul General in Melbourne, Australia from October 2012 to July 2014, as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Energy Resources at the Department of State from August 2014 to September 2017, and as Acting Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs from January to September 2017.
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Joseph J. Kowalski
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- trade unionistpolitician
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Joseph J. Kowalski was a Democratic politician from Michigan who served as Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives. Involved in labor since 1936, Kowalski was elected to the House in 1948 representing part of Wayne County, and remained in the House
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James McMahon Graham
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- lawyerpolitician
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James McMahon Graham was a United States representative from Illinois.
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Donald Edgar Tewes
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- businesspersonpoliticianlawyer
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Donald Edgar Tewes was an American businessman and a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives for Wisconsin. He represented Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district in the 85th United States Congress from January 3, 1957, to January 3, 1959.
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John Donald
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- politicianfarmerdentist
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John Sweet Donald was a politician and dentist from the U.S. state of Wisconsin.
