| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for | 
|---|
| Bruce Ackerman | Scholar | 19-Aug-1943 |  | We the People | 
| Eugenie Anderson | Diplomat | 26-May-1909 | 31-Mar-1997 | Second female US Ambassador | 
| Francis Biddle | Government | 9-May-1886 | 4-Oct-1968 | US Attorney General, 1941-45 | 
| Richard W. Bolling | Politician | 17-May-1916 | 21-Apr-1991 | Congressman from Missouri, 1949-83 | 
| Chester Bowles | Politician | 5-Apr-1901 | 25-May-1986 | Governor of Connecticut, 1949-51 | 
| Charles F. Brannan | Politician | 23-Aug-1903 | 2-Jul-1992 | US Secretary of Agriculture, 1948-53 | 
| John Albert Carroll | Politician | 30-Jul-1901 | 30-Aug-1983 | US Senator from Colorado, 1957-63 | 
| Joseph Sill Clark | Politician | 21-Oct-1901 | 21-Jan-1990 | US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1956-69 | 
| Jeffery Cohelan | Politician | 24-Jun-1914 | 15-Feb-1999 | Congressman from California, 1959-71 | 
| Wilbur J. Cohen | Government | 10-Jun-1913 | 17-May-1987 | HEW Secretary, 1968-69 | 
| John Conyers | Politician | 16-May-1929 |  | Congressman, Michigan 14th | 
| Paul H. Douglas | Politician | 26-Mar-1892 | 24-Sep-1976 | US Senator from Illinois, 1949-67 | 
| Robert Drinan | Politician | 15-Nov-1920 | 28-Jan-2007 | Jesuit priest, Massachusetts Congressman | 
| Marian Wright Edelman | Activist | 6-Jun-1939 |  | Founder, Children's Defense Fund | 
| Don Edwards | Politician | 6-Jan-1915 | 1-Oct-2015 | Congressman from California, 1963-95 | 
| Eliot Engel | Politician | 18-Feb-1947 |  | Congressman, New York 17th | 
| Charles M. La Follette | Politician | 27-Feb-1898 | 27-Jun-1974 | Congressman from Indiana, 1943-47 | 
| Henry H. Fowler | Government | 5-Sep-1908 | 3-Jan-2000 | US Secretary of the Treasury, 1965-68 | 
| Donald M. Fraser | Politician | 20-Feb-1924 |  | Mayor of Minneapolis, 1980-93 | 
| Foster Furcolo | Politician | 29-Jul-1911 | 5-Jul-1995 | Governor of Massachusetts, 1957-61 | 
| John Kenneth Galbraith | Economist | 15-Oct-1908 | 29-Apr-2006 | Modern economics renegade | 
| Arthur Hiller | Film Director | 22-Nov-1923 |  | An Alan Smithee Film | 
| Hubert Humphrey | Politician | 27-May-1911 | 13-Jan-1978 | US Vice President, 1965-69 | 
| Herman Kahn | Scholar | 15-Feb-1922 | 7-Jul-1983 | Hudson Institute founder | 
| Robert W. Kastenmeier | Politician | 24-Jan-1924 | 20-Mar-2015 | Congressman from Wisconsin, 1959-91 | 
| Estes Kefauver | Politician | 26-Jul-1903 | 10-Aug-1963 | US Senator from Tennessee, 1949-63 | 
| Herbert H. Lehman | Politician | 28-Mar-1878 | 5-Dec-1963 | Governor of New York, 1933-42 | 
| Ann Lewis | Activist | 19-Dec-1937 |  | Clinton advisor | 
| Allard Lowenstein | Politician | 16-Jan-1929 | 14-Mar-1980 | Congressman, New York 5th | 
| Eugene McCarthy | Politician | 29-Mar-1916 | 10-Dec-2005 | US Senator from Minnesota, 1959-71 | 
| James McDermott | Politician | 28-Dec-1936 |  | Congressman, Washington 7th | 
| Patrick V. McNamara | Politician | 4-Oct-1894 | 30-Apr-1966 | US Senator from Michigan, 1955-66 | 
| Patsy Mink | Politician | 6-Dec-1927 | 28-Sep-2002 | Congresswoman from Hawaii | 
| Daniel Patrick Moynihan | Politician | 16-Mar-1927 | 26-Mar-2003 | US Senator from New York, 1977-2001 | 
| Francis J. Myers | Politician | 18-Dec-1901 | 5-Jul-1956 | US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1945-51 | 
| Matthew M. Neely | Politician | 9-Nov-1874 | 18-Jan-1958 | Governor and Senator from West Virginia | 
| Maurine Brown Neuberger | Politician | 9-Jan-1907 | 22-Feb-2000 | US Senator from Oregon, 1960-67 | 
| Reinhold Niebuhr | Religion | 21-Jun-1892 | 1-Jun-1971 | Prominent historical/political theologian | 
| Major Owens | Politician | 28-Jun-1936 | 21-Oct-2013 | Former Congressman from Brooklyn | 
| William Proxmire | Politician | 11-Nov-1915 | 15-Dec-2005 | US Senator from Wisconsin, 1957-89 | 
| Eleanor Roosevelt | First Lady | 11-Oct-1884 | 7-Nov-1962 | First Lady under FDR | 
| Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. | Historian | 15-Oct-1917 | 28-Feb-2007 | The Age of Roosevelt | 
| G. Mennen Williams | Politician | 23-Feb-1911 | 2-Feb-1988 | Governor of Michigan, 1949-61 | 
| Molly Yard | Activist | 6-Jul-1912 | 21-Sep-2005 | President of NOW, 1987-91 |