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Warren Edward Buffett (born August 30, 1930) is an American investor, businessman, and philanthropist. He is one of the most successful investors in the world, the primary shareholder and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. Buffett is called the "Oracle of...

x Robert Rubin

Robert Edward Rubin is Director and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Citigroup. He served as the 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury during both the first and second Clinton Administrations.

x Bill Richardson

United States Secretary of State

William Blaine "Bill" Richardson III (born November 15, 1947) is the 30th and current Governor of New Mexico. Before being elected governor, Richardson served in the Clinton administration as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Energy...

x Chuck Hagel

United States Secretary of Defense

Charles Timothy "Chuck" Hagel (born October 4, 1946) is a former United States Senator from Nebraska. A member of the Republican Party, he was first elected in 1996 and was reelected in 2002. In 2009, he was elected as Chairman of the Atlantic...

x John Kerry

United States Secretary of State

John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, and is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. As the Presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, he was defeated by 34 electoral votes...

x Robert Gates

United States Secretary of Defense

Robert Michael Gates (born September 25, 1943) is currently serving as the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense. He took office on December 18, 2006. Prior to this, Gates served for 26 years in the Central Intelligence Agency and the National...

x Dick Lugar

United States Secretary of State

Richard Green "Dick" Lugar (born April 4, 1932) is the senior United States Senator from Indiana. He is a member of the Republican Party and served as the mayor of Indianapolis from 1968 to 1976 and was elected to the United States Senate in 1976...

x Timothy F. Geithner

Timothy Franz Geithner (pronounced /ˈɡaɪtnər/; born August 18, 1961) is the 75th and current United States Secretary of the Treasury, serving under President Barack Obama. He was previously the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York....

x Sheila C. Bair

Sheila Colleen Bair (born April 3, 1954) is the Chairwoman of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). She was appointed to the post for a five-year term on June 26, 2006 by George W. Bush. Bair will also serve as a member of the FDIC...

x Richard J. Danzig

United States Secretary of Defense

Richard Jeffrey Danzig (born September 8, 1944) is an American lawyer who served as the 71st Secretary of the Navy under President Bill Clinton. He is currently an advisor to President Barack Obama. Danzig was born in New York City, attended the...

x Janet Napolitano

United States Attorney General

Janet Napolitano (born November 29, 1957) is the third and current United States Secretary of Homeland Security, serving within the administration of President Barack Obama. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the 21st Governor of Arizona from...

x Eric Holder

United States Attorney General

Eric Himpton Holder, Jr. (born January 21, 1951) is the 82 and current Attorney General of the United States and the first African American to hold the position. He is serving under President Barack Obama. Holder previously served as a judge of the...

x Timothy J. Roemer

Timothy John "Tim" Roemer (born October 30, 1956) is an American political figure currently serving as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of India. He was nominated by U.S. President Barack Obama as the 21st U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of India on...

x Susan Collins

Susan Margaret Collins (born December 7, 1952) is the junior U.S. Senator from Maine and a member of the Republican Party. Collins has served in the Senate since 1997. Collins was born in Caribou, Maine and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of St....

x William J. Bratton

William Joseph "Bill" Bratton CBE (born October 6, 1947) was the chief of police of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). He previously served as the New York City Police Commissioner and Boston Police Commissioner. On September 11, 2009, he was...

x Gary Hart

Gary Hart (born Gary Warren Hartpence; November 28, 1936) is an American politician, lawyer, author, professor and commentator. He formerly served as a Democratic Senator representing Colorado (1975–1987), and ran in the U.S. presidential elections...

x Jane Harman

Jane Margaret Lakes Harman (born June 28, 1945), is a seven-term Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing California's 36th congressional district. She is the second richest member of Congress with over $160...

x Samantha Power

National Security Advisor

Samantha Power (born September 21, 1970, in Dungarvan, County Waterford in Ireland) is an Irish American journalist, writer, academic, and government official. She is currently affiliated with the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard...

x Greg Craig

National Security Advisor

Gregory Bestor "Greg" Craig (born March 4, 1945) is a Washington-based lawyer and former White House Counsel under President Barack Obama. He has represented numerous high-profile clients, including John W. Hinckley, Jr., who was acquitted of the...

x Susan E. Rice

National Security Advisor

Dr. Susan Elizabeth Rice (born November 17, 1964) is an American foreign policy advisor and United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Rice served on the staff of the National Security Council and as Assistant Secretary of State for African...

x Anthony Zinni

National Security Advisor

Anthony Charles Zinni (born September 17, 1943) is a retired four-star General in the United States Marine Corps and a former Commander in Chief of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM). In 2002, he was selected to be a special envoy for the United States...

x James Steinberg

National Security Advisor

James B. "Jim" Steinberg (born 1953) is an American academic and political advisor, and is currently Deputy Secretary of State. He was previously the Dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He was...

x Collin Peterson

Collin Clark Peterson (b. June 29, 1944 in Fargo, North Dakota), is an American politician from the U.S. state of Minnesota. Peterson has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1991, representing Minnesota's 7th...

x Tom Vilsack

Thomas James "Tom" Vilsack (born December 13, 1950) is an American politician, a member of the Democratic Party, and presently the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. He served as the 40th Governor of the state of Iowa. He was first elected in 1998 and...

x Jim Leach

James Albert Smith "Jim" Leach (born October 15, 1942) is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa. In August 2009, he became Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Prior to his appointment as NEH chairman...

x Tom Daschle

Thomas Andrew Daschle (born December 9, 1947) is a former U.S. Senator from South Dakota and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader. He is a member of the Democratic Party. A South Dakota native, Daschle obtained his university degree there, and served...

United States Secretary of Health and Human Services

x Kathleen Sebelius

United States Secretary of Commerce

Kathleen Sebelius (pronounced /sɨˈbiːliəs/; née Gilligan, born May 15, 1948) is an American politician currently serving as the 21st Secretary of Health and Human Services. She was the second female Governor of Kansas from 2003 to 2009, the...

x Olympia Snowe

United States Secretary of Commerce

Olympia Jean Snowe (born February 21, 1947), née Bouchles, is the senior United States Senator from Maine. She is a Republican and a leading moderate within the party. Snowe has become widely known for her ability to influence the outcome of close...

x Penny Pritzker

United States Secretary of Commerce

Penny Sue Pritzker (born 1959) is an American business executive, and a member of the Pritzker family of Chicago, one of America's wealthiest business families. She is the founder and current Chair of Classic Residence by Hyatt, a chain of luxury...

x Ed Rendell

United States Secretary of Commerce

Edward Gene "Ed" Rendell (born January 5, 1944) is the 45th and current Governor of Pennsylvania. Rendell, a member of the Democratic Party, was elected Governor of Pennsylvania in 2002, and his term of office began January 21, 2003. He is currently...

x George Miller

United States Secretary of Education

George Miller III (born May 17, 1945) is an American politician who has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1975, representing California's 7th congressional district (map). The son of liberal State Senator...

x Thomas Kean

United States Secretary of Education

Thomas Howard Kean (pronounced /keɪn/; born April 21, 1935) is an American Republican Party politician, who served as the 48th Governor of New Jersey, from 1982 to 1990. Kean is best known globally, however, for his 2002 appointment as Chairman of...

x David L. Boren

United States Secretary of Education

David Lyle Boren (born April 21, 1941) is an academic leader and American politician from the state of Oklahoma. A Democrat, he served as the 21st Governor of Oklahoma from 1975 to 1979 and in the United States Senate from 1979 to 1994. He is...

x Jeff Bingaman

United States Secretary of Energy

Jesse Francis "Jeff" Bingaman, Jr. (born October 3, 1943), is the senior U.S. Senator from New Mexico. He has been in the Senate since 1983 and is a member of the Democratic Party. Bingaman was Attorney General of New Mexico from 1978 until his...

x Arnold Schwarzenegger

United States Secretary of Energy

Arnold Schwarzenegger is the 38th and current governor of the US State of California. He is also known as a famous Bodybuilder, actor and businessman. Born in Thal Austria to Aurelia Jardny and Gustav Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger had a...

x Howard Dean

United States Secretary of Health and Human Services

Howard Brush Dean III (born November 17, 1948) is an American politician and physician from the U.S. state of Vermont. He served six terms as the 79th Governor of Vermont and ran unsuccessfully for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. He was...

x John Kitzhaber

United States Secretary of Health and Human Services

John Albert Kitzhaber (born March 5, 1947 in Colfax, Washington) is a medical educator and was the 35th Governor of Oregon for two consecutive terms from 1995-2003. Prior to becoming a politician in Oregon, he was a practicing physician. He...

x Jesse Jackson, Jr.

United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Jesse Louis Jackson, Jr. (born March 11, 1965) is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives representing Illinois's 2nd congressional district, which includes the part of the Southland southeast suburbs of Chicago and part of...

x Valerie Jarrett

United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Valerie Bowman Jarrett (born November 14, 1956) is a senior advisor and assistant to the president for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs for the Obama administration. She is also a Chicago lawyer, businesswoman, and civic leader. Prior...

x Jay Inslee

United States Secretary of the Interior

Jay Robert Inslee (born February 9, 1951) is a Democratic American politician, currently serving as U.S. Representative from Washington's 1st congressional district. The district includes many of Seattle's northern suburbs in King, Snohomish, and...

x Dick Gephardt

United States Secretary of Labor

Richard Andrew "Dick" Gephardt (pronounced /ˈɡɛp.hɑrt/; born January 31, 1941) is a former prominent American politician of the Democratic Party. Gephardt served as a U.S. Representative from Missouri from January 3, 1977, until January 3, 2005,...

x Andy Stern

United States Secretary of Labor

Andrew L. "Andy" Stern (born November 22, 1950), is the president of the 2.2 million-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the fastest-growing union in the Americas. SEIU is the second largest union in the United States and Canada...

x Earl Blumenauer

United States Secretary of Transportation

Earl Blumenauer (born August 16, 1948) is an American politician and lawyer from the state of Oregon. A native of Portland, he spent over 20 years as a public official representing the city before winning election to the United States House of...

x Jim Oberstar

United States Secretary of Transportation

James Louis "Jim" Oberstar (born September 10, 1934) is a American politician. A member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, he has been a member of the United States House of Representatives since 1975, representing Minnesota's 8th congressional...

x James Peake

United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs

James Benjamin Peake (born June 18, 1944) is a former United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs, serving from 2007 to 2009. In 2004, he retired from a 42-year United States Army career. He also served as the 40th Surgeon General of the United...

x Max Cleland

United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs

Joseph Maxwell Cleland (born August 24, 1942) is an American politician from Georgia. Cleland, a Democrat, is a disabled US Army veteran of the Vietnam War, a recipient of the Silver Star and the Bronze Star for valorous action in combat, a former U...

x Tammy Duckworth

United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs

Ladda Tammy Duckworth (born 1968) is the Assistant Secretary of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. She was previously the director of the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs. Duckworth is...

x Kathleen McGinty

Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

x Lincoln Chafee

Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

Lincoln Davenport Chafee (pronounced /ˈtʃeɪ fiː/ CHAY-fee; born March 26, 1953) is a former United States Senator from Rhode Island. Running as a Republican, he lost his re-election bid in 2006 to Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse. In the summer of 2007,...

x William M. Daley

William M. Daley has had a distinguished career in public service and is a business executive.

x Lawrence Summers