Politics
- Stan Aronoff – former president of the Ohio Senate
- William E. Arthur (1825–1897), born in Cincinnati, United States Congressman from Kentucky
- Walt Bachrach – long-serving Mayor of Cincinnati
- Ken Blackwell – former Republican Ohio Secretary of State and unsuccessful 2006 candidate for Governor of Ohio
- James G. Birney – abolitionist and Liberty Party presidential candidate
- Kim Bobo – labor activist
- John Boehner – Congressman and current Speaker of the House
- William K. Bond – Whig Congressman, 1849–1853
- Stanley E. Bowdle – Democratic Congressman, 1913–1915
- Thomas D. Boyatt – former United States Ambassador to Burkina Faso and Colombia
- John Bridgeland – lawyer and activist
- Tom Brinkman – Republican Ohio House of Representatives member
- Ethan Allen Brown – 7th Governor of Ohio
- Henry Francis Bryan – United States Navy Rear Admiral and the 17th governor of American Samoa.
- Jacob Burnet – U.S. Senator, 1828–1831
- Phillip Burton – Democratic Congressman from California
- Benjamin Butterworth – Republican Congressman, 1879–1883, 1885–1891
- Mary Edith Campbell – Board of Education
- Samuel Fenton Cary – Congressman and temperance movement leader
- Steve Chabot – Republican Congressman, 1995–2009; 2011-
- Thomas R. Chandler – perennial candidate
- Donald D. Clancy – former Republican Congressman
- Aaron H. Conrow – Confederate congressman and general
- David T. Disney – Democratic Congressman, 1849–1855
- Ozro J. Dodds – Democratic Congressman, 1872–1873
- Steve Driehaus – Democratic Congressman, 2009–present
- Alexander Duncan – Physician, Democratic Congressman, 1837–1841, 1843–1845
- Thomas O. Edwards – Whig Congressman, 1847–1849
- Edwin Einstein – Republican Congressman from New York, 1879–1881
- Richard Kenneth Fox – United States Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago, 1977–79
- George Fries – Physician, Democratic Congressman, 1845–1849
- James W. Gazlay – Republican Congressman, 1823–1825
- Thomas Geoghegan – labor lawyer
- John J. Gilligan – former Governor of Ohio]]
- Herman P. Goebel – Republican Congressman, 1903–1911
- Bill Gradison – Republican Congressman, former mayor of Cincinnati
- William S. Groesbeck – lawyer, Democratic Congressman, 1857–1859
- John A. Gurley – Republican Congressman, 1859–1863
- George W. Hayes – slave, Republican Ohio House of Representatives member
- Rutherford B. Hayes – 19th President of the United States, city solicitor of Cincinnati from 1858 to 1861.
- William E. Hess – Republican Congressman, 1929–1937, 1939–1949, 1951–1961
- Dave Hobson – former Republican congressman
- Cynthia Hogan – counsel to Joe Biden
- Henry Thomas Hunt – former mayor of Cincinnati, 1912–1913
- William J. Keating – former Republican Congressman, brother of Charles Keating
- Simon L. Leis, Jr. – Hamilton County, Ohio prosecutor and sheriff
- Nicholas Longworth– former Speaker of the House and Majority Leader
- Charlie Luken – former Congressman and Mayor of Cincinnati
- Tom Luken – former Congressman
- Robert Todd Lytle – Congressman, 1833–35
- Mark L. Mallory – current mayor of Cincinnati
- William L. Mallory, Sr. – first African-American Ohio House of Representatives majority leader
- Sam Malone – former Cincinnati city councilman
- Lawrence Maxwell, Jr. – United States Solicitor General, 1893–1895
- Neil H. McElroy – Secretary of Defense, 1957–59
- John McLean – Congressman, 1813–16, U.S. Postmaster General, 1823–29, U.S. Supreme Court justice, 1829–61
- Alexander C. Mitchell – Republican congressman from Kansas, 1911
- Tom Mooney – teacher, labor union activist
- Harold G. Mosier – Democratic congressman, 1937-9
- Edward Follansbee Noyes – Governor of Ohio, Ambassador to France
- Kabaka Oba – civil rights activist
- Aaron F. Perry – Congressman, 1871-2
- Rob Portman – former Congressman, United States Trade Representative, current Director of the Office of Management and Budget
- James B. Ray – Governor of Indiana, 1825–1831
- Jerry Rubin – political activist, Chicago Seven
- Charles W. Sawyer –United States Secretary of Commerce, 1948–1953 under President Harry Truman
- Milton Sayler – Cincinnati city councilman, Congressman, 1873-9
- Bob Schaffer – former Republican Congressman from Colorado
- Bob Schuler – Ohio State Senator, 2002-9
- Kathleen Sebelius – former Governor of Kansas, current United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
- William B. Shattuc – Congressman, 1897–1903
- Potter Stewart – Supreme Court Justice
- Bellamy Storer (1796–1875) – lawyer, Congressman, 1835-7
- Bellamy Storer (1847–1922) – Congressman, 1891-5, diplomat
- Bob Taft – former Governor of Ohio
- Charles Phelps Taft II – Mayor of Cincinnati from 1955 to 1957
- Robert A. Taft – "Mr. Republican" and Senate leader.
- William Howard Taft – 27th President, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
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“The will to change begins in the body not in the mind
My politics is in my body, accruing and expanding with every act of resistance and each of my failures.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
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