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- Tim Kaine was born on 26 February 1958 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. He has been married to Anne Holton since 24 November 1984. They have three children.
- Paul Ryan was born on 29 January 1970 in Janesville, Wisconsin, USA. He is a producer, known for Murder in the Hollywood Hills (2024), Dateline: The Last Day (2022) and The Widower (2021). He has been married to Janna Christine Little since 2 December 2000. They have three children.
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Sarah Palin is an American politician and television personality. She was born on February 11, 1964 in Sandpoint, Idaho, as Sarah Louise Heath, the daughter of Chuck Heath and Sally Heath. She grew up in Alaska and received a bachelor's degree from the University of Idaho.
Sarah Palin worked as a television sportscaster in Anchorage, Alaska, before entering politics in 1992 as a city council member in Wasilla, Alaska. In 1996, she was elected mayor of Wasilla and served two three-year terms in that position. She later was appointed to the Alaska Oil & Gas Conservation Commission.
In 2006, Palin was elected governor of Alaska, becoming the first woman to hold that position in the state. Republican presidential candidate John McCain selected her to run as his vice presidential running mate in the 2008 election. The McCain/Palin ticket was defeated by the Democratic candidates, Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
Palin resigned as governor effective on July 26, 2009. She has remained in the public eye by writing books, including her memoir, "Going Rogue: An American Life", and endorsing other candidates. She has also appeared on television as a political commentator on Fox News Channel, as well as hosting the reality television series Sarah Palin's Alaska (2010) on the TLC network and Amazing America with Sarah Palin (2014) on Sportsman Channel.
In 2022, Palin sought to return to elected office by running for Alaska's at-large seat in the U.S. House of Representatives after the death of Congressman Don Young, but lost both the special and general elections to Mary Peltola.
Palin was married to Todd Palin from 1988 to 2020; the couple have five children.- John Reid Edwards was born in Seneca, South Carolina on June 10th, 1953. John was born to a middle class family. His father worked at a textile mill for years. John attended public schools in Robbins, North Carolina while he was growing up and worked at his father's textile mill himself when he was old enough to do so. He graduated with a B.A. from North Carolina State University in 1974, and graduated with a J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1977.
He owned his own law firm in Raleigh, North Carolina called Edwards & Kirby along with his best friend from college and business partner. Edwards ran for The United States Senate in 1998 as a member of the Democratic party in the North Carolina U.S. Senate race and was elected for the 6 year North Carolina U.S. Senate term from January of 1999 to January of 2005.
In 2002, the first-term Democratic US Senator from North Carolina announced his candidacy for the 2004 US Democratic Presidential nomination. Edwards finished second in the 2004 Democratic Presidential nomination process to Massachusetts Senator John Kerry. Due to his strong showing in the 2004 Democratic Presidential election primaries, he was chosen by Senator Kerry to be his running mate on the 2004 US Democratic ticket for the US Presidency.
As of October of 2004, Edwards is running for the office of The Vice President of The United States on the ticket with Presidential candidate John Kerry against Republican U.S. President George W. Bush, and Republican U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney. - Joe Lieberman was born on 24 February 1942 in Stamford, Connecticut, USA. He was married to Hadassah Freilich and Elizabeth Haas. He died on 27 March 2024 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
- Jack Kemp was born on 13 July 1935 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Chicago Hope (1994), AFL on ABC (1960) and The NFL on NBC (1965). He was married to Joanne Main. He died on 2 May 2009 in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
- Lloyd Bentsen was born on 11 February 1921 in Mission, Texas, USA. He was married to Beryl Ann Longino. He died on 23 May 2006 in Houston, Texas, USA.
- Geraldine A. Ferraro was born on 26 August 1935 in Newburgh, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Contact (1997), Murphy Brown (1988) and Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1995). She was married to John Anthony Zaccaro. She died on 26 March 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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Bob Dole was born on 22 July 1923 in Russell, Kansas, USA. He was an actor, known for Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990), National Geographic Explorer (1985) and Murphy Brown (1988). He was married to Elizabeth Dole and Phyllis Eloise Holden. He died on 5 December 2021 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.- One of America's greatest unsung leaders. Sargent Shriver was not only George McGovern's running mate in the 1972 Presidential election, but also served at one time as the Ambassador to France (1968-1970). In addition, he was the first to head up the Peace Corps, served as the first director of the Office of Economic Opportunity and, as a special assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson, created VISTA, Head Start, Community Action, Job Corps, Legal Services, Indian and Migrant Opportunities, and Neighborhood Health Services.
Ambassador Shriver's wife, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, began the Special Olympics -- an international program of year-round sports training and athletic competition for more than one million children and adults with mental retardation. His children included newsperson Maria Shriver, producer Robert Shriver, Maryland state legislator Mark Shriver, Anthony Shriver - founder of Best Buddies, and Tim Shriver, President and CEO of the Special Olympics. - Edmund Muskie was an American politician who served as the 58th United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter, a United States Senator from Maine from 1959 to 1980, the 64th Governor of Maine from 1955 to 1959, a member of the Maine House of Representatives from 1946 to 1951, and the Democratic Party's candidate for Vice President of the United States in the 1968 election.
- William E. Miller is known for The Legend of Prince Valiant (1991).
- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts, the Ambasasor to the United Nations, and the United States Ambassador to South Vietnam during a long and varied political career that included a run for the office of Vice president of the United States.
Lodge was born one day after Independence Day 1902 into one of the most prestigious families in America, a High WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) patrician papoose with the proverbial silver spoon clenched in his mouth. His grandfather, the first Henry Cabot Lodge, was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1887 to 1893, when he was elevated by the General Court (Legislature) to serve as one of Massachusetts' federal senators. (Senators became elected by popular suffrage in 1912). Henry Cabot Lodge served in the Senate from 1893 to 1924. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.'s great-great-great grandfather also was a federal Senator from Massachusetts: George Cabot served as a Pro-Administration Federalistr from March 4, 1791 to June 9, 1796, when he resigned. Finally, Cabot Lodge, Jr.'s great-great grandfather John Davis was a two-term Governor of Massachusetts (1834-1835, 1841-1843), as a Whig. (His younger brother John Lodge, after giving up the vagabond life of an actor, was a US Congressman from Connecticut from 1947-1950, the Governor of Connecticut from 1951-55, and the U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, Spain and Switzerland, as well as a delegate to the United Nations.)
Whiggery gave way to the Republican Party of former Whig Congressman Abraham Lincoln, and both Henry Cabot Lodges served in the U.S. Senate as Republicans, the Party of the WASP elite and Eastern Establishment. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1936 and reelected in 1942. He served in the U.S. Senate until 1944, when he resigned to go on active duty with the U.S. Army during World War II, becoming the first senator to do so since the 1861-65 War of the Rebellion (now know as the U.S. Civil War but contemporaneously derided as "Mr. Lincoln's War"). He served with distinction, and obtained the rank of lieutenant colonel before being demobilized. After returning to civil life, he was elected to Massachusetts' other seat in the U.S. Senate in 1946. He served until January 1953, having been beaten in his bid for a fourth term by Congressman John F. Kennedy, a victory relished by the Irish-American Kennedy, whose father Joseph P. Kennedy had been shunned by the Boston Establishment that Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. epitomized.
Incoming Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower''s appointed Lodge, Jr. Ambassador to the United Nations, where he served until 1960, resigning to serve as Richard Nixon's running mate in the 1960 Presidential sweepstakes (counter-balancing a ticket headed by a West Coast Californian with a scion of the Establishment East). He lost again to J.F.K. and his running mate Lyndon B. Johnson, but J.F.K. appointed Lodge to the difficult job of Ambassador to South Vietnam in 1963, in which post he served when ARVN (Army of Vietnam) overthrew and assassinated South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem on November 2nd of that year. In the Cold War period, foreign policy generally was a bi-partisan affair.
In early 1964, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. surprised the Reublican party when, as a write-in candidate, he won the G.O.P. primary in the neighboring state of New Hampshire. He defeated future Republican nominee Barry Goldwater, widely viewed as a reactionary who represented the anti-civil rights, anti-Big Government conservatives of the Sun Belt states. the Goldwater faction were deeply resentful of the moderate Eastern Establishment represented by Lodge and Nelson Rockefeller, the other declared candidate Lodge defeated in the New Hampshire primary, an Establishment that eventually be would be repudiated by Ronald Reagan's 1980 Presidential victory and the realignment of the Republican Party towards the once-solidly Democratic South.
President Johnson re-appointed Lodge as ambassador to South Vietnam in 1965, and subsequently Lodge served L.B.J. as Ambassador-at-Large from 1967-68 and as Ambassador to West Germany from 1968-69. After his old running mate Richard Nixon was finally elected president, he appointed Lodge in 1969 to serve as head of the American negotiating team at the Paris peace talks. Later, he served Nixon and President Gerald Ford as Special Envoy to the Vatican from 1970 to 1977.
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. died on February 27, 1985 and was buried at the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. - Estes Kefauver was born on 26 July 1903 in near Madisonville, Tennessee, USA. He was married to Nancy Pigott. He died on 10 August 1963 in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.