List of People From Chicago - Politics and Law

Politics and Law

• John Ashcroft, Attorney General
• Henry Moore Bates, attorney
• Rod Blagojevich, former congressman, governor of Illinois
• James Bowler, alderman, congressman
• Harris Burgoyne, mayor of Green Bay, Wisconsin
• Jane Byrne, mayor of Chicago
• Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago
• Enoch Chase, state senator in Wisconsin
• Bernard J. Cigrand, father of Flag Day in the United States
• Hillary Rodham Clinton, first lady, US senator from N.Y., Secretary of State
• "Bathhouse" John Coughlin, alderman
• Richard J. Daley, mayor of Chicago
• Richard M. Daley, mayor of Chicago
• William M. Daley, White House Chief of Staff, Secretary of Commerce
• Clarence Darrow, attorney and civil libertarian
• Paul Douglas, alderman, senator, University of Chicago economist
• Stephen A. Douglas, senator, presidential candidate, noted for debating Abraham Lincoln
• Rahm Emanuel, current mayor of Chicago, White House Chief of Staff, US congressman
• Edward F. Dunne, governor of Illinois
• Betty Ford, former First Lady; wife of Gerald Ford
• Bernhard Gettelman, state senator for Wisconsin
• Luis V. Gutiérrez, first Latino to be elected to Congress from the Midwest
• John M. Harlan, Supreme Court justice
• Paul P. Harris, lawyer, founder of Rotary International
• Carter Harrison, Jr., mayor of Chicago
• Carter Harrison, Sr., mayor of Chicago
• Janet Jagan, Prime Minister and President of Guyana
• Peter Karađorđević, hereditary Prince of Yugoslavia
• Joe Kernan, 48th governor of Indiana
• Boris Lushniak, Assistant Surgeon General of the United States
• Lisa Madigan, current Attorney General of Illinois
• Michael Madigan, current Speaker of Illinois House of Representatives
• Joseph Medill, newspaper editor, mayor of Chicago
• John Gould Moyer, 31st governor of American Samoa
• Eliot Ness, federal agent; leader of The Untouchables; born in Chicago
• Barack Obama, US senator and 44th President of the United States
• William Butler Ogden, entrepreneur and first mayor of Chicago
• Deval Patrick, governor of the Massachusetts
• John Podesta, White House Chief of Staff for President Bill Clinton (1998–2001)
• Roman Pucinski, US congressman, alderman
• Charles H. Ramsey, former Chicago Police deputy superintendent, now Philadelphia Police Commissioner
• Louis C. Romell, state assemblyman for Wisconsin
• Donald Rumsfeld, US congressman, secretary of Defense
• Robert C. Strong, US diplomat
• William Hale Thompson, last Republican mayor of Chicago
• Amos G. Throop, city treasurer, temperance advocate
• Elihu B. Washburne, secretary of state, minister to France
• Harold Washington, first and only black mayor of Chicago
• John Wentworth, US congressman, mayor of Chicago