List of University of Delaware People - Politics

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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