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Julissa Reynoso
United States ambassador
Manly Wade Wellman
American writer (1903-1986)
James Rudolph Garfield
American lawyer and politician (1865–1950)
Brad Meltzer
writer
Kazuo Hatoyama
Japanese politician
Lorrin A. Thurston
Hawaiian politician (1858–1931)
Bernard Hebda
Roman Catholic archbishop
Jacob M. Dickinson
Confederate Army soldier (1851-1928)
Justin Fairfax
Justin Edward Fairfax was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 41st lieutenant governor of Virginia from 2018 to 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the second African American to be elected to statewide office in Virginia, after Douglas Wilder. In 2019, he faced sexual assault allegations dating to 2000 and 2004, resulting in his departure from his law firm and calls for his resignation as lieutenant governor. He served out the remainder of his term.
Sheila Abdus-Salaam
American judge
Garrett Putnam Serviss
American astronomer, and early science fiction writer (1851–1929)
Constance Baker Motley
American politician and judge (1921-2005)
Franklin MacVeagh
American politician (1837-1934)
Preet Bharara
American lawyer and former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
Charles Chaillé-Long
American explorer (1842–1917)
Thomas E. Martin
American politician (1893–1971)
Brett H. McGurk
American diplomat
Oscar Solomon Straus
American politician and diplomat (1850-1926)
William Kunstler
American lawyer and civil rights activist (1919-1995)
Karin Maria Bruzelius
Norwegian civil servant and judge
Wayne Morse
American politician (1900-1974)
Howard Koch
American screenwriter (1901-1995)
Isaac Rice
German American musicologist, lawyer, inventor and capitalist, and chess writer (1850–1915)
Laurence Steinhardt
American diplomat (1892–1950)
Richard Stone
politician, lawyer, diplomat and banker from United States of America
Clifford P. Case
American politician (1904-1982)
David Mark Berger
US-Israeli weightlifter, victim of the 1972 Olympic assassination attempt
Harrison A. Williams
American politician (1919-2001)
J. Lister Hill
American politician (1894–1984)
Arthur Vivian Watkins
American politician
Sid Sheinberg
American lawyer and entertainment executive (1935-2019)
Frank Johnson Goodnow
American historian (1859–1939)
Stanley Forman Reed
American judge (1884–1980)
Nick Santora
American screenwriter
Edgar Saltus
American writer (1855–1921)
Jack Miller
politician (1916-1994)
Louis Nizer
American lawyer (1902-1994)
Shi Jiuyong
Chinese judge (1926–2022)
Otis G. Pike
Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives (1921-2014)
Herbert Putnam
American librarian and lawyer (1861-1955)
Frank Polk
United States lawyer and diplomat (1871-1943)
Samuel Untermyer
American lawyer and politician (1858–1940)
LeBaron Bradford Colt
American politician (1846-1924)
Asifa Quraishi
American legal scholar
John Montgomery Ward
American Major League Baseball pitcher, shortstop and manager (1860-1925)
Perry Belmont
American politician (1851–1947)
Han Dong-hoon
South Korean politician (born 1973)
Owen Torrey
sailor (1925-2001)
Mark Penn
American political consultant
H. Alexander Smith
American politician (1880-1966)
Colgate Darden
American congressman and governor of Virginia (1897-1981)
Frederick Hale
American politician (1874-1963)
Lee Bollinger
American lawyer and educator
William Sulzer
Attorney and politician (1863–1941)
Luke Lea
American politician, born 1879 (1879–1945)
Alva B. Adams
American politician (1875–1941)
Eric Hargan
American civil servant
Ernest Howard Crosby
American politician and author
Westmoreland Davis
American politician (1859-1942)
Radhika Coomaraswamy
Sri Lankan United Nations official