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Robert Mueller
Robert Swan Mueller III was an American lawyer who served as the sixth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 2001 to 2013.

George M. Dallas
vice president of the United States from 1845 to 1849 (1792–1864)
Arlen Specter
American politician (1930–2012)
Maryanne Trump Barry
American judge (1937–2023)

Ro Khanna
Rohit "Ro" Khanna is an American politician and attorney serving as the U.S. representative from California's 17th congressional district since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he defeated eight-term incumbent Democratic representative Mike Honda in the 2016 general election, after first running for the same seat in 2014. Khanna also served as the deputy assistant secretary in the United States Department of Commerce under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2011.
Scooter Libby
American lawyer and political advisor
Gloria Allred
American civil rights lawyer
Owen Wister
American writer (1860–1938)
William Bradford
American judge and second United States Attorney General (1755-1795)
Truxtun Hare
American football player, track and field athlete (1878-1956)
Rod J. Rosenstein
American lawyer
James G. Birney
American politician (1792-1857)
Mike Fitzpatrick
American politician (1963–2020)
Oscar Goodman
American attorney and politician
William Parker Foulke
American paleontologist (1816–1865)
William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr.
American attorney and judge, and fourth United States Secretary of Transportation (1920–2017)

Owen Roberts
Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court (1875–1955)

Deborah K. Ross
American politician (born 1963)
John Church Hamilton
American historian, son of Alexander Hamilton (1792-1882)
Joseph S. Clark Jr.
American politician (1901–1990)
J. Howard Marshall
American billionaire businessman (1905–1995)
Lisa Scottoline
American writer (born 1955)
Joseph Reed Ingersoll
American lawyer and politician
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in economics in the United States
Russell Conwell
American academic administrator
William D. Kelley
American politician (1814-1890)
Douglas J. Feith
American political official (born 1953)

James M. Beck
American politician (1861-1936)

Vanita Gupta
American lawyer
George Howard Earle Jr.
American lawyer (1856–1928)
Earl G. Harrison
American attorney, academician, and public servant (1899-1955), U.S. representative on the Intergovernmental Commission on Refugees in 1945 and producer of the "Harrison Report"

Fred F. Fielding
American lawyer
Joel Cook
American politician (1842-1910)
Morton Ira Greenberg
American judge (1933-2021)
William Franklin
American soldier, attorney, and colonial administrator
Gil Stein
American hockey commissioner
William Allen
American merchant and judge (1704-1780)
Louis Cameron Hughes
American politician, editor and lawyer (1842–1915)
Myer Feldman
American writer (1914-2007)
Jeffrey Bossert Clark
American lawyer
William Bradford Reed
American journalist (1806-1876)

Thomas K. Finletter
American diplomat (1893–1980)
Deborah Batts
American district judge
Norman T. Whitaker
American chess player (1890-1975)
Edith Jones
American judge
Edward Joy Morris
American politician
Andrew Allen
American lawyer and politician (1740-1825)
Andrew Hamilton
American lawyer (1676–1741)

Benjamin Chew
American politician 1722-1810
John Morgan Davis
American judge
William Hepburn Armstrong
American politician (1824–1919)
Raymond J. Broderick
United States federal judge (1914–2000)
Edward Roy Becker
United States federal judge
William Rawle
American writer
John H. B. Latrobe
American lawyer and inventor
John G. Johnson
Philadelphia lawyer and art collector (1841–1917)
John M. Read
American politician, Pennsylvania

Stanley Sporkin
American judge (1932-2020)
Edward Biddle
American politician
Charles O'Neill
American politician from Pennsylvania