Notable Alumni of Valparaiso University [Sorted List]

1. John Donald

1869-1934 (aged 65)

farmer dentist politician

John Sweet Donald was a politician and dentist from the U.S. state of Wisconsin.

2. James McMahon Graham

1852-1945 (aged 93)

lawyer politician

James McMahon Graham was a United States representative from Illinois.

3. Donald Edgar Tewes

1916-2012 (aged 96)

lawyer businessperson politician

Donald Edgar Tewes was an American businessman and Republican politician from Waukesha, Wisconsin. He served one term in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Wisconsin's 2nd congressional district for the 85th Congress (1957–1959).

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4. Ulysses G. Denman

1866-1962 (aged 96)

lawyer politician

Ulysses Grant Denman was a Republican politician from the state of Ohio. He was Ohio Attorney General from 1908 to 1911.

5. Joseph J. Kowalski

1911-1967 (aged 56)

trade unionist politician

Joseph J. Kowalski was a Democratic politician from Michigan who served as Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives. Involved in labor since 1936, Kowalski was elected to the House in 1948 representing part of Wayne County, and remained in the House

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6. Michael E. Fryzel

lawyer

Michael E. Fryzel is an American attorney with offices in Chicago, Illinois. Following the 2016 general election, Fryzel served on election-winner Donald Trump's transition team and developed the Agency Action Plan for the National Credit Union Administration.

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7. Wilma Kucharek

1954-. (aged 72)

presbyter

Wilma S. Kucharek is bishop of the Slovak Zion Synod.

8. John Carl Williams Hinshaw

1894-1956 (aged 62)

politician

John Carl Williams Hinshaw was an American businessman and politician who served nine terms as a United States representative from California from 1939 to 1956.

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9. John L. Bascom

1860-1950 (aged 90)

lawyer politician

John Luman Bascom was born in Farmersburg, Iowa, the son of John Sanburn Bascom and Phoebe Spencer. He was an Iowan lawyer and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he was elected three times to the Iowa House of Representatives, representing the Dickinson County district (House District 97) and serving from January 8, 1907, to January 12, 1913. He...

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10. Paul Sieving

researcher ophthalmologist

Paul A. Sieving is a former director of the National Eye Institute, part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Prior to joining the NIH in 2001, he served on the faculty of the University of Michigan Medical School as the Paul R. Lichter Professor of Ophthalmic Genetics. He also was the founding director of the Center for Retinal and...

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11. Fernandus Payne

1881-1977 (aged 96)

writer zoologist

Fernandus Payne was an American zoologist, geneticist and educator.

12. Frederic R. DeYoung

1875-1934 (aged 59)

jurist judge politician

Frederic R. DeYoung was an American jurist and politician who served as a judge on the Supreme Court of Illinois (1924–1934), judge on the Superior Court of Cook County (1923–1924), judge on the original Circuit Court of Cook County (1921), member of the Illinois House of Representatives (1915–1919), and the city attorney of Harvey, Illinois (1908–1919), among other public offices....

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13. Frederick M. Bernthal

1943-. (aged 83)

Frederick M. Bernthal was United States Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs from 1988 to 1990.

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14. Mary Burce Warlick

1956-. (aged 70)

diplomat

Mary Burce Warlick is an Australian-born, American diplomat who was appointed Deputy Executive Director of the International Energy Agency in May 2021. A former United States career diplomat, she served as the United States Ambassador to Serbia from January 2010 to September 2012, as the U.S. Consul General in Melbourne, Australia from October 2012 to July 2014, as Principal Deputy...

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15. Edwin B. Brooks

1868-1933 (aged 65)

politician

Edwin Bruce Brooks was a U.S. representative from Illinois. He was the cousin of Edmund H. Hinshaw.

16. Maria Brewer

diplomat

Maria Elena Brewer is an American diplomat who had served as the United States Ambassador to Lesotho from 2022 to 2024. She previously served as the United States Ambassador to Sierra Leone from 2017 to 2021.

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17. Samuel B. Huston

1858-1920 (aged 62)

lawyer politician

Samuel Bruce Huston was an American politician and lawyer in Oregon. Originally a Democrat and later a Republican, he served in both chambers of the Oregon Legislative Assembly and was twice the mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon. A native of Indiana, he served in the state senate as a Democrat from one county his first term, but moved and changed parties...

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18. James V. Heidinger

1882-1945 (aged 63)

lawyer teacher judge politician

James Vandaveer Heidinger was a U.S. representative from Illinois.

19. Clarence W. Turner

1866-1939 (aged 73)

lawyer judge politician

Clarence Wyly Turner was an American politician who served in the United States Congress as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee.

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20. John E. Teeple

1874-1931 (aged 57)

engineer chemist

John Edgar Teeple was an American chemical engineer who served as President of The Chemists' Club from 1921-1922 and received the Perkin Medal in 1927 for his work on potash during World War I.

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21. Dennis D. Donovan

1859-1941 (aged 82)

lawyer politician

Dennis D. Donovan was a 19th-century American lawyer, educator, businessman, and politician who was a U.S. representative from Ohio for two terms, from 1891 to 1895.

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22. David A. Capp

1950-. (aged 76)

lawyer

David A. Capp is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana from 2007 to 2017.

23. Samuel E. Cook

1860-1946 (aged 86)

lawyer judge politician

Samuel Ellis Cook was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who served one term as a U.S. representative from Indiana from 1923 to 1925.

24. William Farina

1955-. (aged 71)

lawyer

William Edward Farina is an American essayist and writer of popular non-fiction.

25. George W. Rauch

1876-1940 (aged 64)

lawyer politician

George Washington Rauch was an American lawyer and politician who served five terms as a U.S. representative from Indiana from 1907 to 1917.

26. Lowell E. Baier

1940-2025 (aged 85)

lawyer

Lowell Edward Baier was an American attorney, businessman and an environmental historian and author. He dedicated his life to natural resources and wildlife conservation. Throughout his career he was an advisor to many elected officials and educators, including every successive presidential administration since George H. W. Bush, and was an active and instrumental member of several national conservation groups.

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27. Kevin van Wijk

1989-. (aged 37)

basketball player

Kevin van Wijk is a Dutch professional basketball player for CB Marín Peixegalego of the LEB Oro. Van Wijk played three years of college basketball for the Valparaiso Crusaders.

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28. Frank P. Woods

1868-1944 (aged 76)

politician

Frank Plowman Woods was a five-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 10th congressional district, in north-central Iowa. He reached a House leadership position after only two terms. However, in 1917 his vote against the United States' declaration of war on the German Empire effectively ended his political career, leading to his loss of the Republican nomination for re-election to his...

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29. Oscar E. Bland

1877-1951 (aged 74)

lawyer judge politician

Oscar Edward Bland was a United States representative from Indiana and an associate judge of the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

30. Tom Rasmussen

politician

Thomas M. Rasmussen is a retired member of the Seattle City Council, serving from 2004 to 2015.

31. William Valentine

1862-1928 (aged 66)

missionary

William Orison Brown Valentine was an educator and missionary in service of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society who established and served as the first president of Jaro Industrial School, now Central Philippine University. He ministered for some thirty years in Asia, first in Burma starting in 1895 and in the Philippines from 1904 until his death in 1928 at...

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32. Bob Dille

1917-1998 (aged 81)

basketball player basketball coach

Robert Orville Dille was an American professional basketball player and championship high school coach. Dille was an All-American forward at Valparaiso, where he was a member of "The World's Tallest Team" and later coached Fort Wayne's Northrop High School to an Indiana state championship in 1974. He was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 1989.

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33. Oscar Larson

1871-1957 (aged 86)

lawyer politician

Oscar John Larson was a U.S. representative from Minnesota.

34. Thurman C. Crook

1891-1981 (aged 90)

horticulturist teacher politician farmer coach

Thurman Charles Crook was an American politician who served one term as a United States representative from Indiana from 1949 to 1951.

35. Raitis Grafs

1981-. (aged 45)

basketball player

Raitis Grafs is a Latvian former professional basketball player. He played at the center position. Grafs represented the senior men's Latvian national team. He was a FIBA EuroStar in 2007.

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36. Anthony Bimba

1894-1982 (aged 88)

newspaper editor editor

Antanas "Anthony" Bimba Jr. was a Lithuanian-born American newspaper editor, historian, and radical political activist. An editor of a number of Lithuanian Marxist periodicals published in the United States, Bimba is best remembered as the defendant in a 1926 legal case in which he was charged with sedition and violation of a 229-year-old law against blasphemy in the state of...

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37. Albert Henry Vestal

1875-1932 (aged 57)

lawyer politician

Albert Henry Vestal was an American lawyer and politician who served eight terms as a Republican United States representative from Indiana from 1917 to 1932.

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38. Richard Kauzlarich

1944-. (aged 82)

diplomat

Richard Dale Kauzlarich is an American diplomat, writer, and intelligence analyst.

39. Paul Luebke

1946-2016 (aged 70)

politician

Paul Luebke was a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly, representing the 30th House District, which includes constituents in Durham County. A professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Luebke served eleven consecutive two-year term in the state House of Representatives.

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40. Joaquim Gomes

1980-. (aged 46)

basketball player

Joaquim Brandão Gomes, also known as "Kikas", is a retired Angolan professional basketball player. He has played professionally in Germany and the Netherlands.

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41. Tiiu Kera

1945-. (aged 81)

military personnel military officer

Tiiu Kera is a retired United States Air Force major general.

42. Carl Otto Lampland

1873-1951 (aged 78)

astronomer

Carl Otto Lampland was an American astronomer. He was involved with both of the Lowell Observatory solar system projects, observations of the planet Mars and the search for Planet X.

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43. Marya Zaturenska

1902-1982 (aged 80)

poet writer

Marya Zaturenska was an American lyric poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1938.

44. Jon DeGuilio

1955-. (aged 71)

lawyer judge

Jon Ernest DeGuilio is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana.

45. Benjamin F. Shively

1857-1916 (aged 59)

lawyer politician

Benjamin Franklin Shively was an American politician and lawyer who served as a United States representative (1884 to 1885 and 1887 to 1893) and senator (1909 to 1916) from Indiana.

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46. Clayton Bissell

1896-1972 (aged 76)

military officer

Major General Clayton Lawrence Bissell was an air officer in the United States Army and United States Army Air Forces during World War I and World War II.

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47. Holly A. Brady

1969-. (aged 57)

lawyer judge

Holly Ann Winkeljohn Brady is the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana.

48. Roy E. Ayers

1882-1955 (aged 73)

lawyer judge politician

Roy Elmer Ayers was a U.S. Democratic politician. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives and as the 11th Governor of Montana. He was the first governor of Montana to be born in what would become the state of Montana.

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49. Melvin Vaniman

1866-1912 (aged 46)

photographer

Chester Melvin Vaniman was an American aviator and photographer who specialized in panoramic images. He shot images from gas balloons, ships masts, tall buildings and even a home-made 30-metre (98 ft) pole. He scaled buildings, hung from self-made slings, and scaled dangerous heights to capture his unique images.

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50. David W. Dugan

1960-. (aged 66)

lawyer judge

David Wayne Dugan is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois.

51. Rodric Bray

1969-. (aged 57)

politician

Rodric D. "Rod" Bray is an American politician from Indiana. A member of the Republican Party, Bray has been a member of the Indiana State Senate since 2012, representing the 37th state Senate district, which comprises all of Morgan County and a portion of Johnson, Owen and Putnam counties.

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52. Dana Wachs

1957-. (aged 69)

lawyer politician

Dana John Wachs is an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Eau Claire, Wisconsin. He was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly for six years, representing Wisconsin's 91st Assembly district from 2013 to 2019. He was also a member of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents from 2022 until 2024. He previously served on the Eau Claire City...

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53. Stalin Ortiz

1981-. (aged 45)

basketball player

Stalin Ortiz, is a Colombian professional basketball player. He currently plays for the Condores club of the Baloncesto Profesional Colombiano league.

54. Adam Benjamin, Jr

1935-1982 (aged 47)

lawyer politician

Adam Benjamin Jr. was an American politician and a United States representative from Indiana's 1st congressional district, serving from 1977 until his death from a heart attack in Washington, D.C. in 1982. Benjamin was the first Assyrian-American to be elected to the United States House of Representatives in American history. Benjamin served in the Indiana Senate from 1971 to 1977,...

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55. William E. Dannemeyer

1929-2019 (aged 90)

lawyer journalist judge politician

William Edwin Dannemeyer was a conservative American politician, activist, and author, known for his opposition to LGBT rights. He served seven terms as U.S. Representative from the 39th Congressional District of California from 1979 to 1993.

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56. Stoyan Christowe

1899-1995 (aged 96)

politician writer journalist

Stoyan Christowe was an American author, journalist and noted political figure in the state of Vermont. Born in what is now Makrochori, Greece, then a part of the Ottoman Empire, he is best remembered as a prolific author and Vermont legislator. He authored six books on the Balkan states. Christowe was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Ss. Cyril and...

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57. Luboš Bartoň

1980-. (aged 46)

basketball player

Luboš Bartoň is a Czech former professional basketball player and coach. During his pro club career, at a height of 2.02 m tall, he played at the small forward position. As a player, he was a member of the FIBA European Selection Team in 1998, and he won the EuroLeague championship in 2010.

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58. Aldo Valle

1955-. (aged 71)

academic lawyer

Aldo Salvador Valle Acevedo is a Chilean lawyer, politician and vice president of the Constitutional Council.

59. Chris Ensminger

1973-. (aged 53)

basketball coach basketball player

Christopher William Ensminger is an American professional basketball coach and former professional basketball player.

60. Gordon Browning

1889-1976 (aged 87)

lawyer judge politician

Gordon Weaver Browning was an American progressive politician who served as the 38th governor of Tennessee from 1937 to 1939, and again from 1949 to 1953. He also served six terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, from 1923 to 1935, and was Chancellor of Tennessee's Eighth Chancery District in the 1940s. As governor, he stabilized state finances, doubled the...

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61. John J. Blaine

1875-1934 (aged 59)

lawyer politician

John James Blaine was an American lawyer and progressive Republican politician from Grant County, Wisconsin. He was the 24th governor of Wisconsin, serving three terms from 1921 to 1927, and served as United States senator from 1927 to 1933. Earlier, he was the 23rd attorney general of Wisconsin, a member of the Wisconsin Senate, and mayor of Boscobel, Wisconsin.

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62. Rebecca R. Pallmeyer

1954-. (aged 72)

lawyer judge

Rebecca Ruth Pallmeyer is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

63. Len Small

1862-1936 (aged 74)

politician

Lennington "Len" Small was an American politician who served as the 26th Governor of Illinois from 1921 to 1929. He previously was a member of the Illinois state senate from the 16th District from 1901 to 1903 and was Illinois state treasurer, from 1905 to 1907, and from 1917 to 1919. He is known for accusations of embezzlement brought against...

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64. Ali Biju

1968-. (aged 58)

politician

Ali anak Biju is a Malaysian politician and civil engineer who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Saratok since May 2018. He served as the Deputy Minister of Energy and Natural Resources for the second term in the Barisan Nasional (BN) administration under former Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob and former Minister Takiyuddin Hassan from August 2021...

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65. Jon Kedrowski

1979-. (aged 47)

mountaineer basketball player geographer

Jonathan James Kedrowski is an author, ski-mountaineer, and geographer from Colorado. He is best known for summiting and camping overnight on the summit of all of Colorado's Fourteeners (mountains over 14,000 feet) in 2011.

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66. Richard G. Hatcher

1933-2019 (aged 86)

lawyer politician

Richard Gordon Hatcher was an American attorney and politician who served as the first African-American mayor of Gary, Indiana, for 20 years, from 1968 to 1988. At the time of his first election on November 7, 1967, he and Carl Stokes were the first African Americans to be elected mayors of a U.S. city with more than 100,000 people. Hatcher...

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67. Julie Meyer

1966-. (aged 60)

businessperson entrepreneur investor

Julie Marie Meyer is an American businesswoman.

68. Wayne King

1901-1985 (aged 84)

singer songwriter saxophonist bandleader conductor

Harold Wayne King was an American musician, songwriter, and bandleader with a long association with both NBC and CBS. He was referred to as "the Waltz King" because much of his most popular music involved waltzes; "The Waltz You Saved for Me" was his standard set-closing song in live performance and on numerous radio broadcasts at the height of his...

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69. Jill Long Thompson

1952-. (aged 74)

politician

Jill Lynette Long Thompson is an American politician, educator, and author. A former Congresswoman from Indiana, she is the author of The Character of American Democracy, published by Indiana University Press in September 2020. From 2015 to 2020 she taught ethics as a visiting clinical associate professor at the Kelley School of Business and the O'Neill School of Public and...

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70. William March

1893-1954 (aged 61)

writer novelist soldier sailor

William March was an American writer of psychological fiction and a highly decorated U.S. Marine. The author of six novels and four short-story collections, March was praised by critics but never attained great popularity.

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71. Mikhail Borodin

1884-1951 (aged 67)

diplomat politician journalist

Mikhail Markovich Gruzenberg, known by the alias Borodin, was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Communist International (Comintern) agent. He was an advisor to Sun Yat-sen and the Kuomintang (KMT) in China during the 1920s.

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72. Katherine Stinson

1891-1977 (aged 86)

aircraft pilot architect

Katherine Stinson was an American aviation pioneer who, in 1912, became the fourth woman in the United States to earn the FAI pilot certificate. She set flying records for aerobatic maneuvers, distance, and endurance. She was the first female pilot employed by the U.S. Postal Service and the first civilian pilot to fly the mail in Canada. She was also...

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73. Fred Thurston

1933-2014 (aged 81)

basketball player American football player

Frederick Charles "Fuzzy" Thurston was an American professional football player who was an offensive guard for the Baltimore Colts and Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Valparaiso.

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74. Gerald L. K. Smith

1898-1976 (aged 78)

preacher politician journalist

Gerald Lyman Kenneth Smith was an American Disciples clergyman, politician and organizer known for his populist and far-right demagoguery. He began his career as a leader of the Share Our Wealth movement during the Great Depression. After the death of Huey Long he shifted away from advocating wealth redistribution towards anti-communism and later anti-semitism, becoming known for far-right causes. He...

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75. Shawn Huff

1984-. (aged 42)

basketball player

Shawn Christopher Huff is a Finnish politician and a former professional basketball player. He played college basketball at Valparaiso from 2004–2008. Shawn Huff played for Finland national basketball team, serving as the team captain.

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76. Lloyd McClendon

1959-. (aged 67)

baseball player

Lloyd Glenn McClendon is an American former professional baseball outfielder, coach and manager who currently serves as the manager for the Piratas de Campeche of the Mexican League. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as an outfielder from 1987 to 1994 for the Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs, and Pittsburgh Pirates.

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77. Adam Amin

1986-. (aged 40)

sports commentator

Adam Amin is an American sportscaster. Amin joined Fox Sports in June 2020 as a play-by-play announcer for MLB, NFL and College basketball games after previously working for ESPN from 2011 to 2020. He is also the television play-by-play announcer for the Chicago Bulls of the NBA.

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78. Ryan Broekhoff

1990-. (aged 36)

basketball player

Ryan Broekhoff is an Australian former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Valparaiso Crusaders, where he was named an All-American in 2012. He represented the Australian Boomers on multiple occasions.

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79. John Lutz

1973-. (aged 53)

screenwriter television actor stage actor film actor

John Michael Lutz is an American actor, comedian, and screenwriter. He is best known for playing J. D. Lutz on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, and for his work as a writer on the NBC series Saturday Night Live for seven seasons. In 2014, he joined the writing staff of the NBC late-night talk show Late Night with Seth Meyers.

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80. Lowell Thomas

1892-1981 (aged 89)

radio personality film producer film director journalist screenwriter

Lowell Jackson Thomas was an American writer, broadcaster, and documentary filmmaker, known as a world traveler. He authored more than fifty non-fiction books, mostly travel narratives and popular biographies of explorers and military men. Between 1930 and the mid-1970s, Thomas appeared regularly on radio and occasionally on television as a travel and news commentator. Until the 1950s, he was a...

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81. Alec Peters

1995-. (aged 31)

basketball player

Alec Jeffrey Peters is an American-born professional basketball player for Olympiacos of the Greek Basket League (GBL) and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for Valparaiso University, where he was an All-American in 2017.

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82. Beulah Bondi

1888-1981 (aged 93)

television actor stage actor film actor character actor

Beulah Bondi was an American character actress; she often played eccentric mothers and later grandmothers and wives, although she was known for numerous other roles. She began her acting career as a young child in theater in the late 19th Century, and after establishing herself as a Broadway stage actress in 1925, she reprised her role in Street Scene for...

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83. Bryce Drew

1974-. (aged 52)

basketball player head coach basketball coach

Bryce Homer Drew is an American college basketball coach and former player who is the head coach at Grand Canyon University. Previously, he served as the head coach at Vanderbilt and in the same capacity at his alma mater, Valparaiso, having succeeded his father, Homer Drew. Drew has led his teams to the NCAA tournament on six occasions, including at...

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84. Ginger Zee

1981-. (aged 45)

weather presenter news presenter meteorologist

Ginger Renée Colonomos, known by her pseudonym Ginger Zee, is an American television personality. She is the chief meteorologist for ABC News, after having been the network's weekend meteorologist.

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85. Todd Duncan

1903-1998 (aged 95)

opera singer actor

Robert Todd Duncan was an American baritone opera singer and actor. One of the first African-Americans to sing with a major opera company, Duncan is also noted for appearing as Porgy in the premier production of Porgy and Bess (1935).

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86. Scott Drew

1970-. (aged 56)

basketball coach

Scott Homer Drew is an American college basketball coach who is the head coach at Baylor University, a position he has held since 2003.

87. Henry Teigan

1881-1941 (aged 60)

trade unionist politician

Henry George Teigan was an American teacher and editor who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Minnesota.

88. Tim Lee Hall

1925-2008 (aged 83)

politician

Tim Lee Hall was an American politician and Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois for one term from 1975 to 1977.

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89. Caleb Powers

1869-1932 (aged 63)

lawyer politician

Caleb Powers was a United States representative from Kentucky and the first Secretary of State of Kentucky convicted as an accessory to murder.

90. Flem D. Sampson

1875-1967 (aged 92)

lawyer judge

Flemon Davis "Flem" Sampson was the 42nd governor of Kentucky, serving from 1927 to 1931. He graduated from Valparaiso University in 1894 and opened a law practice in Barbourville, Kentucky. He formed a political alliance with future Representatives Caleb Powers and John Robsion, both prominent Republicans in the eastern part of the state. By 1916, he was serving on the...

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91. Patrick H. Kelley

1867-1925 (aged 58)

lawyer politician

Patrick Henry Kelley was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. He served as U.S. Representative from Michigan's 6th congressional district from 1915 to 1923.

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92. Frank Eugene Hook

1893-1982 (aged 89)

lawyer judge politician

Frank Eugene Hook was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.

93. Craig S. Morford

1959-. (aged 67)

lawyer

Craig S. Morford is an American attorney and former acting United States Deputy Attorney General.

94. John E. Miller

1929-2014 (aged 85)

businessperson politician

John Elvis Miller was a United States representative and United States Senator from Arkansas and later was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas.

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95. George W. Norris

1861-1944 (aged 83)

lawyer judge politician

George William Norris was a progressive American politician from Nebraska. He served in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican from 1903 to 1913, and in the United States Senate from 1913 to 1943. He became an Independent in 1936. Norris was chairman of the Senate's Judiciary Committee and Agriculture and Forestry Committee.

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96. Steve Buyer

1958-. (aged 68)

lawyer politician

Stephen Earle Buyer is an American former politician who served as the U.S. representative for Indiana's 4th congressional district, and previously the 5th district, from 1993 until 2011. In Congress, Buyer served as one of the House managers (prosecutors) in the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton in 1999. He also chaired the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs from 2005...

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97. Andrieus A. Jones

1862-1927 (aged 65)

lawyer politician

Andrieus Aristieus Jones was an American politician in New Mexico who represented the state in the United States Senate from 1917 until his death in 1927.

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98. Otis Wingo

1877-1930 (aged 53)

lawyer politician

Otis Theodore Wingo was an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. representative from Arkansas's 4th congressional district from 1913 to 1930. He was the husband of his successor in office, Effiegene Wingo.

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99. René Steinke

novelist

Rene Steinke is an American novelist. She is the author of three novels: The Fires, Holy Skirts (2005), and Friendswood (2014). Holy Skirts, a novel based on the life of the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award. Her essays and articles have appeared in The New York Times, Vogue, O: the Oprah Magazine,...

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100. Martin J. Schreiber

1939-. (aged 87)

politician

Martin James Schreiber is an American politician, publisher, author, and lobbyist who served as the 38th lieutenant governor of Wisconsin from 1971 to 1977, and (following the resignation of Patrick Lucey) as the 39th governor of Wisconsin from 1977 to 1979. Schreiber has become an advocate on issues related to Alzheimer's disease and dementia.

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