Notable U.S. Political Science Graduates/Students:

William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States, (Stanford '48)
Richard B. (Dick) Cheney, 46th Vice President of the United States (University of Wyoming '66)
Albert Gore Jr., 45th Vice President of the United States (Harvard '69)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (Cornell University)
Madeline Albright, first female U.S. Secretary of State (1997-2001); U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (1993-1997) (Wellesley College '59)
Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S. Senator from New York, former First Lady of the United States (Wellesley College '69)
Dee Dee Myers: White House Press Secretary, Vanity Fair columnist(Santa Clara University '83)
Leon Panetta, former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, eight-term US Congressman from California (Santa Clara University’60)
Rudolph Guiliani, mayor of New York City, 1993-2001 (Manhattan College '65)
James Meredith, first black student to attend the University of Mississippi (Mississippi '63)
Terry Branstad - former Governor of Iowa (University of Iowa '69)
Willie L. Brown, Jr. mayor of San Francisco (San Francisco State University '55)
Renee Chenault-Fattah News 10 Philadelphia (Johns Hopkins '79)
Jane Pauley, NBC News (Inidiana University)
Condoleeza Rice, National Security Assistant to President George W. Bush (University of Denver '74)
Tom Hayden, 60s political activist, former California state legislator (Michigan '62)
Jerry Springer, former aide to Robert F. Kennedy, former mayor of Cincinnati, TV talk show host (Tulane University)
Donna Shalala, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1993-2001 (Western College for Women, Oxford, Ohio '62)
Gerald R. Ford, 38th President of the United States (University of Michigan '35)
Janet Napolitano, attorney general of Arizona (Santa Clara University '79)

Jules Asner, star reporter for the E! cable television network (UCLA)
Stephen M. Case, Chairman AOL/Time Warner (Williams College '80)

Olympia J. Snowe, U.S. Senator from Maine (University of Maine at Orono '69)
Mia Hamm, all-time NCAA women's soccer scoring leader and 3-time Player of the Year (North Carolina '93)
J. Danforth Quayle, 44th Vice President of the United States (DePauw '68)
Danny Glover, actor and activist (San Francisco State '71)
Robin Williams, actor, director, writer, comedian, producer (Claremont College)

Mitch McConnell, U.S. Senator from Kentucky (Louisville '64)
Bill Richardson, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (1997-2001); Secretary of the U.S. Energy Department (1993-1997) (Tufts '70)
Elisabeth Shue, actress (Harvard '00)

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