List of notable Republicans
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The List of notable Republicans is a list of prominent politicians, government officials, and organizational leaders of the Republican Party of the United States.
[edit] Prominent figures of the Republican Party
Active since 2000
- Haley Barbour, Governor of Mississippi, former chairman of the Republican National Committee
- Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City
- Roy Blunt, Congressman from Missouri, House Minority Whip
- John A. Boehner, Congressman from Ohio, House Minority Leader
- Sam Brownback, Senator from Kansas
- George W. Bush, President of the United States of America (2001–present)
- Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida
- Dick Cheney, Vice President of the United States (2001–present)
- Tom Cole, Congressman from Oklahoma, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee
- Elizabeth Dole, Senator from North Carolina, former United States Secretary of Transportation, former United States Secretary of Labor, and presidential candidate in 2000
- Mike Duncan, chairman of the Republican National Committee
- Bill Frist, former Senator from Tennessee
- Newt Gingrich, former Congressman from Georgia, 58th Speaker of the House of Representatives (1995–1999)
- Rudy Giuliani, former Mayor of New York
- Dennis Hastert, Congressman from Illinois, 59th Speaker of the House of Representatives (1999–2007)
- Jeb Hensarling, Congressman from Texas, chairman of the Republican Study Committee
- Mike Huckabee, former Governor of Arkansas
- Henry Hyde, former Congressman from Illinois
- Trent Lott, Senator from Mississippi, Senate Minority Whip
- Mel Martinez, Senator from Florida, General Chairman of the Republican Party
- John McCain, Senator from Arizona, presidential candidate in 2000
- Mitch McConnell, Senator from Kentucky, Senate Minority Leader
- Tim Pawlenty, Governor of Minnesota
- Mike Pence, Congressman from Indiana
- Sonny Perdue, Governor of Georgia, chairman of the Republican Governors Association
- Colin Powell, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, former United States Secretary of State
- Condoleezza Rice, United States Secretary of State
- Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts
- Karl Rove, President George W. Bush's chief political strategist and Deputy White House Chief of Staff
- Donald Rumsfeld, former United States Secretary of Defense
- Rick Santorum, former Senator from Pennsylvania
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California
- Arlen Specter, Senator from Pennsylvania
- Ted Stevens, Senator from Alaska
Active 1970-2000
- Howard Baker, Senate Majority Leader, Senator from Tennessee, husband of Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker.
- John Danforth, former Senator from Missouri.
- Al D'Amato, former Senator from New York.
- Steve Forbes, Flat Tax activist and presidential candidate in 1996 and 2000.
- Phil Gramm, former Senator from Texas.
- Alexander Haig, former Secretary of State; ran in 1988 presidential primaries
- Jesse Helms, former Senator from North Carolina.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker, former Senator from Kansas and wife of Howard Baker.
- Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations under Ronald Reagan.
- Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State under Presidents Nixon and Ford.
- Dan Quayle, former Vice President.
- George P. Shultz, former Secretary of State, Treasury and Labor.
- J.C. Watts, former Congressman from Oklahoma.
- Pete Wilson, former Governor of California.
- Christine Todd Whitman, former Governor of New Jersey and former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Active historically (not including Presidents)
- William B. Allison (1829-1908), Senator from Iowa and co-author of Bland-Allison Act of 1878
- John M. Ashbrook (1928-1982), Congressman from Ohio, conservative primary presidential candidate against Richard Nixon in 1972
- James G. Blaine (1830-1893), Senator from Maine and presidential candidate
- Joseph Gurney Cannon (1836-1926), Speaker of the House
- Charles Curtis (1860-1936), Vice President; first official Senate Majority Leader; a Native American
- Charles G. Dawes (1865-1951), Vice President
- Thomas E. Dewey (1902-1971), Governor of New York and GOP presidential nominee in 1944 and 1948
- Everett Dirksen, (1896-1969), Senator from Illinois; minority leader in US Senate
- Mark Hanna (1837-1904), Senator from Ohio; manager of 1896 and 1900 campaigns
- George Frisbie Hoar (1826-1904), Senator from Massachusetts
- Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948), governor of New York, nominee for president in 1916, Secretary of State, Chief Justice of the United States
- Barry Morris Goldwater (1909-1998), Senator from Arizona, nominee for president in 1964
- William F. Knowland (1908-1974), Senator from California and Senate Majority Leader
- Robert M. La Follette, Sr. (1855-1925), Senator from Wisconsin
- Hiram Fong (1906-2004), Senator from Hawaii; first Asian American elected to Senate
- Fiorello H. LaGuardia (1882-1947), Congressman from New York and Mayor of New York City
- Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924), Senator from Massachusetts
- Clare Booth Luce (1903-1987), Congresswoman from Connecticut, Ambassador to Italy, and noted author
- Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957), Senator from Wisconsin and noted anti-communist
- Joseph W. Martin (1884-1968), Congressman from Massachusetts; Speaker of the House
- George William Norris (1861-1944), Senator from Nebraska (left GOP in 1936)
- P.B.S. Pinchback (1837-1921), Governor of Louisiana; first African American to serve as state governor
- Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973), Congresswoman from Montana; first woman elected to Congress; voted against entry into World War I and World War II
- Thomas Brackett Reed (1839-1902), Speaker of the House
- Hiram Revels (1827-1901), Senator from Mississippi; first African American to serve in U.S. Senate
- Nelson Rockefeller (1908-1979), Vice President, Governor of New York, repeatedly defeated for presidential nomination
- George W. Romney (1907-1995), Governor of Michigan; primary candidate for presidential nomination in 1968
- Elihu Root (1845-1937), Secretary of War under McKinley; Secretary of State under Theodore Roosevelt; Senator from New York;
- Margaret Chase Smith (1897-1995), Senator from Maine
- Harold Stassen (1907-2001), Governor of Minnesota; frequent candidate for president
- Thaddeus Stevens (1792-1868), (R-PA) leader of Radicals in Civil War and Reconstruction
- Charles Sumner (1811-1874), Senator from Massachusetts; leader of Radicals in Civil War and Reconstruction
- Henry Stimson (1867-1950), Secretary of War for Taft and FDR; Secretary of State for Hoover
- Robert Alphonso Taft (1889-1953), Senator and presidential hopeful
- Strom Thurmond (1902-2003), the oldest serving Senator in history (from South Carolina); joined GOP 1964
- Arthur H. Vandenberg (1884-1951), Senator from Michigan
- James E. Watson (1864-1948), Senator from Indiana and Senate Majority Leader
- Earl Warren (1891-1974), Governor of California and Chief Justice of the United States
