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Modern Liberal Thinkers and Leaders in The United States

Politicians

  • William Jennings Bryan (1860–1925), 1896, 1900 and 1908 Democratic presidential nominee
  • President Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), became president upon assassination of William McKinley in 1901, declined to run in 1908, ran again but was defeated in 1912
  • President Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924), elected as Democrat 1912 & 1916
  • Senator Robert LaFollette, Wisconsin (1855–1925)
  • President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) elected as Democrat 1932-36-40-44
  • Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, New York City, Republican (1882–1947)
  • President Harry S. Truman (1884–1972), elected as Democrat 1948
  • Vice President Henry A. Wallace (1888–1965), Progressive Party presidential nominee in 1948
  • Harry Hopkins (1890–1946), FDR adviser
  • Adlai E. Stevenson (1900–1965), 1952 and 1956 Democratic presidential nominee
  • Mayor Richard J. Daley, Chicago (1902–1976)
  • Senator Ralph Yarborough, Texas (1903–1996)
  • Senator Jacob K. Javits, New York (1904–1986), Republican
  • President Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
  • Representative Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., New York (1908–1972)
  • Vice President Hubert Humphrey (1911–1978), 1968 Democratic presidential nominee
  • Speaker Thomas "Tip" O'Neill, Massachusetts (1912–1994)
  • President John F. Kennedy (1917–1963), elected as Democrat 1960
  • Representative Bella Abzug, New York (1920–1998)
  • Mayor John Lindsay, New York City (1921–2000)
  • Senator George McGovern, South Dakota (1922-2012), 1972 Democratic presidential nominee
  • President Jimmy Carter (b. 1924) elected as Democrat 1976
  • Senator Robert Kennedy, New York (1925–1968)
  • Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, New York (1927–2003)
  • Vice President Walter Mondale (b. 1928), 1984 Democratic presidential nominee
  • Representative John Conyers, Michigan (b. 1929)
  • Senator Ted Kennedy, Massachusetts (1932–2009)
  • Governor Mario Cuomo, New York (b. 1932)
  • Representative Barbara Jordan, Texas (1936–1996)
  • Representative John Lewis, Georgia (b. 1940)
  • Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California (b. 1940)
  • Representative Barney Frank, Massachusetts (b. 1940)
  • Vice President Joe Biden (b. 1942), elected as Democrat 2008
  • Senator Paul Wellstone, Minnesota (1944–2002)
  • President Bill Clinton (b. 1946) elected as Democrat 1992 and 1996; he describes himself as a moderate
  • Representative Dennis Kucinich, Ohio (b. 1946)
  • Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (b. 1947)
  • Governor Howard Dean, Vermont (b. 1948)
  • Vice President Al Gore (b. 1948), 2000 Democratic presidential nominee
  • Governor Lincoln Chafee, Rhode Island (b. 1953)
  • Senator Russ Feingold, Wisconsin (b. 1953)
  • President Barack Obama (b. 1961) elected as Democrat 2008

Intellectuals

  • Lester Frank Ward (1841–1913), sociologist
  • Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929), economist
  • John Dewey (1859–1952), philosopher
  • Herbert Croly (1869–1930), political scientist
  • Charles A. Beard (1874–1948), historian
  • Alvin Hansen (1887–1975), economist
  • Reinhold Niebuhr, (1892–1971), theologian
  • Lionel Trilling (1905–1975), literary critic
  • John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006), economist
  • C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999), historian
  • Richard Hofstadter (1916–1970), historian
  • Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (1917–2007), historian
  • John Rawls (1921–2002), philosopher
  • William Appleman Williams (1921–1990), historian
  • Howard Zinn (1922–2010), historian
  • Richard Rorty (1931–2007), philosopher
  • Garry Wills (b. 1934), historian
  • Robert Reich (b. 1946), economist
  • Amy Gutmann (b. 1949), political scientist
  • Henry Louis Gates (b. 1950), Black studies
  • Cornel West (b. 1953), philosopher, theologian
  • Paul Krugman (b. 1953), economist
  • Roberto Unger, (b.1947), philosopher
  • Melissa Harris-Perry (b. 1972), African American scholar

Jurists and the law

  • Justice Louis Brandeis (1856–1941)
  • Justice Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965)
  • Chief Justice Earl Warren (1891–1974)
  • Justice William O. Douglas (1898–1980)
  • Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. (1906–1997)
  • Justice Thurgood Marshall (1908–1993)
  • Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. (1928–1998)
  • Ronald Dworkin (b. 1931), jurisprudence
  • John Hart Ely (1938–2003), jurisprudence
  • Lawrence Tribe (b. 1941), jurisprudence
  • Harold Koh (b. 1954), jurisprudence
  • Pamela Karlan (b.1959), jurisprudence
  • Jeffrey Toobin (b. 1960), lawyer, legal analyst, author

Writers, activists and commentators

  • Samuel Gompers (1850–1924), labor leader
  • W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), Black leader
  • John L. Lewis (1880–1969), labor leader
  • Ezra Klein (b. 1984), columnist, blogger
  • Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962), writer; Democratic leader
  • Rachel Carson (1907–1964), environmentalist
  • Walter Reuther (1907–1970), labor leader
  • Betty Friedan (1921–2006), feminist
  • Gore Vidal (1925–2012), author, activist
  • Coretta Scott King (1927–2006), Black leader
  • Cesar Chávez (1927–1993), Chicano leader
  • Harvey Milk (1930–1978), gay rights
  • George Soros (b. 1930), financier, philanthropist
  • Susan Sontag (1933–2004), writer
  • Ralph Nader (b. 1934), consumer advocate
  • Gloria Steinem (b. 1934), feminist
  • Bill Press (b. 1940), journalist, political commentator
  • Jim Hightower (b. 1943), columnist, author, activist
  • Faye Wattleton (b. 1943), feminist
  • Patricia Ireland (b. 1945), feminist
  • Arianna Huffington (b. 1950), political commentator
  • Lawrence O'Donnell (b. 1951), political commentator
  • Bill Maher (b. 1956), comedian, political commentator
  • Amy Goodman (b. 1957), journalist, columnist, author
  • Keith Olbermann (b. 1959), journalist, political commentator
  • Katrina vanden Heuvel (b. 1959), journalist, political commentator
  • Tavis Smiley (b. 1964), political commentator
  • Cenk Uygur (b. 1970), radio host, political commentator
  • Bill Moyers (b.1934), journalist, political commentator
  • Rachel Maddow (b. 1973), political commentator

Religious leaders

  • Anna Pauline Murray (1910–1985), reverend, lawyer, civil rights activist
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968), pastor and civil rights activist
  • Arthur Waskow (b. 1933), rabbi, political activist, author
  • Jesse Jackson (b. 1941), reverend and civil rights activist
  • David Saperstein (b. 1947) rabbi, political activist
  • Jim Wallis (b. 1948), Evangelical pastor, founder and editor of Sojourners
  • Al Sharpton (b. 1954), reverend and civil rights activist
  • Welton Gaddy, pastor, religious commentator, radio host
  • Michael Lerner, rabbi, political activist
  • Lennox Yearwood, pastor, activist

Blogs

  • AlterNet
  • Daily Kos
  • FireDogLake
  • The Huffington Post
  • Talking Points Memo
  • Salon
  • ThinkProgress
  • Gawker

Magazines and publications

  • The American Prospect
  • Mother Jones
  • The Nation
  • The New Republic
  • Sojourners

Think Tanks

  • Center for American Progress
  • Roosevelt Institute
  • Center for Budget and Policy Priorities

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