Government and Public Service
- George Wildman Ball (1926) was U.S. Under Secretary of State under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He was briefly United States Ambassador to the United Nations under President Lyndon B. Johnson.
- David E. Miller (1980) was elected five times as an Illinois state representative and was the 2010 Democratic nominee for Illinois comptroller.
- John Edward Porter (1953) was an United States Congressman representing Illinois's 10th congressional district (1980–2001).
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“Finally, your lengthy service ended,
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