Presidential candidates
Joseph Lieberman, vice-presidential candidate on 2000 Democratic Party ticket with presidential candidate Al Gore
Milton Shapp, presidential candidate in 1976 Democratic Party primaries
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Cabinet members and senior administration officials
Judah Benjamin, confederate attorney general (1861), secretary of war (1861) & state (1862-65)
Oscar Straus, secretary of commerce & labor (1906-09)
Henry Morgenthau, Jr., secretary of the treasury (1934-45)
Pierre Salinger, white house press secretary (1961-64) (Jewish father)
James Schlesinger, CIA Director 1973 Secretary of Defense (1973-75) (Converted to Christianity)
Henry Kissinger, national security advisor (1969-75), secretary of state (1973-77)
W. Michael Blumenthal, secretary of the treasury (1977-79)
Harold Brown, secretary of defense (1977-81)
Philip Morris Klutznick, secretary of commerce (1980-1981)
Robert Reich, secretary of labor (1993-97)
John M. Deutch, Belgian-born CIA director (1995-96)
Robert Rubin, secretary of the treasury (1995-99)
Madeline Albright, secretary of state (1997-01) (raised Episcopalian by converted parents)
Sandy Berger, national security advisor (1997-01)
William Cohen, secretary of defense (1997-01) (currently a Unitarian Universalist, father was Jewish)
Larry Summers, secretary of the treasury (1999-01)
Ari Fleischer, white house press secretary (2001-03)
Michael Chertoff, homeland security secretary (2005-)
Leon Fuerth, national security advisor to Vice President Al Gore (1993-2001)
Edward Levi, attorney general (1975-1977)
Joshua Bolten, White House Chief of Staff (2006-)
Dan Glickman, Secretary of Agriculture (1995-2001)
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Senators
David Levy Yulee, senator (D-FL: 1845-51, 1855-61)
Judah Benjamin, senator (Whig-LA: 1853-61)
Benjamin F. Jonas, senator (D-LA: 1879-85)
Joseph Simon, senator (R-OR: 1898-03)
Isidor Rayner, senator (D-MD: 1905-12)
Simon Guggenheim, senator (R-CO: 1907-13)
Herbert Lehman, senator (D-NY: 1949-57)
Richard L. Neuberger, senator (D-OR: 1955-60)
Jacob Javits, senator (R-NY: 1957-81)
Ernest Gruening, senator (D-AK: 1959-69)
Abraham Ribicoff, senator (D-CT: 1963-81)
Howard Metzenbaum, senator (D-OH: 1974, 1976-95)
Richard B. Stone , senator (D-FL: 1975-80)
Edward Zorinsky, senator (D-NE: 1976-87)
Rudy Boschwitz, senator (R-MN: 1978-91)
Carl Levin, senator (D-MI: 1979-)
Warren Rudman, senator (R-NH: 1980-93)
Arlen Specter, senator (R-PA: 1981-)
Frank Lautenberg, senator (D-NJ: 1982-01, 2003-)
Jacob Hecht, senator (R-NV: 1983-89)
John Kerry, senator (D-MA: 1985-) (father was "ethnically Jewish", but raised Catholic)
Barry Goldwater, senator (R-AZ) (father was "ethnically Jewish", but converted to Episcopalianism)
Herb Kohl, senator (D-WI: 1989-)
Joseph Lieberman, senator (D-CT: 1989-)
Paul Wellstone, senator (D-MN: 1991-02)
Dianne Feinstein, senator (D-CA: 1992-)
Barbara Boxer, senator (D-CA: 1992-)
Russ Feingold, senator (D-WI: 1993-)
Ron Wyden, senator (D-OR: 1996-)
Charles Schumer, senator (D-NY: 1999-)
Norm Coleman, senator (R-MN: 2003-)
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Representatives
Prominent representatives only – for a full list see jewishvirtuallibrary.org.
Francis Salvador, first Jewish member of a colonial legislature.
Lewis Charles Levin, first Jewish representative (PA: 1845-51)
Victor L. Berger, socialist (Soc-WI: 1911-13, 1919, 1923-29)
Florence P. Kahn, first Jewish woman representative (R-CA: 1925-37)
Allard K. Lowenstein, civil rights activist (D-NY: 1969-1971)
Bella Abzug, feminist leader & gay rights activist (D-NY: 1971-77)
Henry Waxman, liberal leader (D-CA: 1975-)
Barney Frank, liberal, openly gay politician (D-MA: 1981-)
Sam Gejdenson, (D-CT: 1981-2001)
Tom Lantos, Holocaust survivor (D-CA: 1981-)
Gary Ackerman, (D-NY: 1983-)
Bernie Sanders, independent (Ind-VT: 1991-)
Jerrold Nadler, WTC district congressman during 9/11 (D-NY: 1992-)
Adam Schiff (D-CA: 2001-)
Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL: 2005-)
Peter Deutsch (D-FL: 1993-2005)
Steve Israel (D-NY: 2001-)
Anthony Weiner (D-NY: 1999-)
Eliot Engel (D-NY: 1989-)
Robert Wexler (D-FL: 1997-)
Jan Schakowsky (D-IL: 1999-)
Rahm Emanuel, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chair (2005-), (D-IL: 2003-)
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, (R-FL), raised Catholic by a Jewish mother who converted to Catholicism
Eric Cantor, (R-VA: 2001-), Chief Deputy Republican Whip
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Ambassadors
Samuel D. Berger, ambassador to Korea (1961-64); Vietnam (1968-72)
David B. Hermelin, ambassador to Norway (1997-2000)
Martin Indyk, ambassador to Israel (1995-97, 2000-01)
Dennis Ross, Middle East envoy
Martin J. Silverstein, ambassador to Uruguay (2001-2005)
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Governors
Moses Alexander, governor of Idaho (D-ID: 1915-19)
Simon Bamberger, governor of Utah (D-UT: 1917-21)
Arthur Seligman, governor of New Mexico (D-NM: 1931-33)
Julius L. Meier, governor of Oregon (Ind-OR: 1931-35)
Henry Horner, governor of Illinois (D-IL: 1933-40)
Herbert H. Lehman, governor of New York (D-NY: 1933-42)
Ernest Gruening, territorial governor of Alaska (D-AK: 1939-53)
Abraham Ribicoff, governor of Connecticut (D-CT: 1955-61)
Samuel H. Shapiro, governor of Illinois (D-IL: 1968-69)
Frank Licht, governor of Rhode Island (D-RI: 1969-73)
Marvin Mandel, governor of Maryland (D-MD: 1969-77)
Milton Shapp, governor of Pennsylvania (D-PA: 1971-79)
Madeleine M. Kunin, governor of Vermont (D-VT: 1985-91)
Neil Goldschmidt, governor of Oregon (D-OR: 1987-91)
Bruce Sundlun, governor of Rhode Island (D-RI: 1991-95)
Linda Lingle, governor of Hawaii (R-HI: 2002-)
Ed Rendell, governor of Pennsylvania (D-PA: 2003-)
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Mayors
Prominent mayors/major cities only.
Cincinnati: Bill Gradison (1971), Jerry Springer (1977-78)
Las Vegas: Oscar Goodman (1999-)
Louisville: Jerry E. Abramson (1985-98, 2002-)
New York: Fiorello LaGuardia (1934-45; Jewish mother)
New York: Abe Beame (1974-77)
New York: Ed Koch (1978-89)
New York: Michael Bloomberg (2002-)
Philadelphia: Edward Rendell (1992–2000)
Pittsburgh: Sophie Masloff (1988-1993)
Portland, Oregon: Vera Katz (1992-2004)
San Diego: Susan Golding (1992-2000)
San Francisco: Adolph Sutro (1894-96), Dianne Feinstein (1978–88)
Seattle: Bailey Gatzert (1875-76)
Indianapolis: Stephen Goldsmith (1992-99)
Miami: Harold Rosen (1975)
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Economists
Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve (2006-)
Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve (1987-2006)
Eugene Meyer, chairman of the Federal Reserve (1930-1933), president of the World Bank (1946)
James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank (1995-2005)
Paul Wolfowitz, president of the World Bank (2005-)
Walter Block, President of the Jewish Libertarian Coalition (2006-)
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Other
Elliott Abrams, current National Security Council staff candidate; an Assistant Secretary of State in the 1980s; enmeshed in Iran-Contra scandal
Irving Kristol, one of the founders of the neoconservative movement, along with wife, Gertrude Himmelfarb
Kitty Dukakis, wife of former Massachusetts Governor and 1988 Democratic Party Presidential candidate Michael Dukakis
William Kristol, right-wing editor of The Daily Standard (son of Irving Kristol)
Jean Lafitte, Buccaneer leader of the early 1800s.
Monica Lewinsky, sex scandal intern, fashion designer
Ken Mehlman, current (since 2005) Head of Republican National Committee
Jack Abramoff, embattled lobbyist and GOP supporter
Rich Bond, former Head of the Republican National Committee
Norman Podhoretz, one of the founders of the neoconservative movement, along with wife, Midge Decter
Judith Steinberg Dean, wife of Democrat Howard Dean
Yehuda Shain, Several-time independent candidate in Lakewood, New Jersey Lakewood
Kinky Friedman, 2006 Texas Independent Gubernatorial Candidate
Robert Schwarz Strauss, longtime prominent Democratic Party activist from Texas, former Head of Democratic National Committee, Ambassador to the former Soviet Union during the presidency of George H. W. Bush
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