Politics
- Thurman Adams, Jr. - Democratic member of the Delaware Senate
- L. Heisler Ball – Former U.S. Senator and U.S. Congressman
- Jo Anne B. Barnhart – Commissioner of Social Security
- Jill Biden (B.A. 1976, D.Ed. 2007) - American educator and Second Lady of the United States as the wife of Vice President of the United States Joe Biden
- Joe Biden (B.A. 1965) – Vice President of the United States of America, former U.S. Senator, former chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
- J. Caleb Boggs – Former U.S. Senator, U.S. Congressman, Governor of Delaware
- John F. Brady – Delaware politician
- David P. Buckson – Delaware politician
- Eric Buckson - Commissioner, Kent County Levy Court
- Daniel E. Button - Former U.S. Congressman
- Theophilus C. Callicot – Politician
- Thomas R. Carper – Current U.S. Senator, former U.S. Congressman and Governor of Delaware
- Christopher Christie - Governor of New Jersey
- Thomas Clayton – Former U.S. Senator and U.S. Congressman
- Carl Danberg – Delaware Attorney General and Commissioner of the Delaware Department of Correction
- Reha Denemeç – Co-founder and deputy chairman (research and development) of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) in Turkey
- Kendel Sibiski Ehrlich – Former First Lady of Maryland
- J. Allen Frear, Jr. – Former U.S. Senator
- Don B. Hughes – former Maryland State Delegate
- Horace G. Knowles - diplomat
- Thomas McKean – signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Louis McLane – Former U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
- David Plouffe – Campaign Manager of the Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008, Political Consultant
- George Read – signer of the Declaration of Independence
- George R. Riddle – Former U.S. Senator and U.S. Congressman
- Caesar Rodney - signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Steve Schmidt - Campaign Manager of the John McCain presidential campaign, 2008 (note: did not graduate)
- James Smith – signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Nick Smith - Former U.S. Congressman from Michigan
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