Notable AFT Members
- J. Quinn Brisben, writer and activist
- Ralph Bunche, former United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize winner
- Paul Douglas, U.S. Senator from Illinois
- John Dewey, educator
- Albert Einstein, scientist
- Michael Harrington, political activist
- Hubert Humphrey, U.S. Vice President and U.S. Senator from Minnesota
- Mike Mansfield, former United States Senate Majority Leader and U.S. Ambassador to Japan
- Frank McCourt, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
- Robert Oppenheimer, scientist
- Donna Shalala, former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services *U.S. Senator from Illinois
- Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize winner
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