Government Officials, Politicians and Activists
- Russell A. Alger – governor of Michigan and U.S. Secretary of War
- John Ball – pioneer and member of the Michigan State Legislature
- Charles E. Belknap – Union Army Captain and U.S. Congressman
- Harvey Hollister Bundy – Special Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of War
- Charles C. Comstock – U.S. Congressman from Michigan and mayor of Grand Rapids
- Robert Danhof - jurist
- Vern Ehlers – U.S. Congressman from Michigan
- Gerald R. Ford – 38th President of the United States
- Betty Ford – 37th First Lady of the United States
- Wilder D. Foster – U.S. Congressman from Michigan and mayor of Grand Rapids
- George Heartwell – mayor of Grand Rapids
- Paul B. Henry – U.S. Congressman from Michigan
- Rick Hill – U.S. Congressman from Montana
- Julius Houseman – U.S. Congressman from Michigan and mayor of Grand Rapids
- Bartel J. Jonkman – U.S. Congressman from Michigan
- Frank Knox – U.S. Secretary of the Navy
- Terri Lynn Land – Michigan Secretary of State
- John H. Logie – mayor of Grand Rapids
- Frederick Henry Mueller – U.S. Secretary of Commerce
- Agnes Nestor – women's suffrage and workers' rights activist
- Lyman Parks – mayor of Grand Rapids
- Michael Sak – Michigan State Representative
- Harold S. Sawyer – U.S. Congressman from Michigan
- Peter F. Secchia – U.S. Ambassador to Italy
- William Alden Smith – U.S. Senator from Michigan
- K. William Stinson – U.S. Congressman from Washington
- Edwin F. Sweet – U.S. Congressman from Michigan and mayor of Grand Rapids
- Jerald terHorst – press secretary under President Gerald Ford
- Edwin F. Uhl – U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and mayor of Grand Rapids
- Arthur H. Vandenberg – 88th President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate
- Guy Vander Jagt – U.S. Congressman from Michigan
- Richard VanderVeen – U.S. Congressman from Michigan
- Martha Lee Walters – 98th Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court
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