page_title: Democratic Party (United States)
section_title: Other famous Democratic Politicians
hierarchical_section_title: Democratic Party (United States) / Other famous Democratic Politicians
caption_attribution_description: New York City Mayoral front runner Bill de Blasio
context_page_description: The United States Democratic Party is one of the two biggest political parties in the United States of America. The other is the Republican Party. The U.S. also has several smaller political parties known as third parties. Supporters of this party are known as Democrats.
  Every four years the party holds a National Convention where they agree on their candidate for President. The Democratic National Committee coordinates most of the activities of the Democratic Party in all 50 United States. There have been 14 Democratic presidents, the most recent being Barack Obama, who was President from 2009 to 2017. The Democratic Party represents a broad spectrum of leftist ideologies, including classic liberalism, social democracy, progressivism, and socialism.
context_section_description: Joe Biden (Delaware), former Vice President, former Senator and Presidential nominee
  John Kerry (Massachusetts), former Secretary of State, former Senator, former Presidential nominee
  Patrick Leahy (Vermont), former President Pro Tempore, Senator, and Dean of the Senate
  Hillary Clinton (New York), former Secretary of State, former Senator, former First Lady, former Presidential nominee
  Jim Clyburn (South Carolina), Representative and Assistant Democratic Leader
  Howard Dean (Vermont), former Governor and former head of the Democratic National Committee
  Christopher Dodd (Connecticut), former Senator
  Mario Cuomo (New York), former Governor
  Dick Durbin (Illinois), Senate Whip
  George Moscone (California), former Mayor of San Francisco
  Chuck Schumer (New York), Senator and Senate Minority Leader.
  Harvey Milk (California), Member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors
  William M. Daley (Illinois), candidate for Governor of Illinois, former White House Chief of Staff
  Frank Lautenberg (New Jersey), former Senator
  Pat Quinn, Governor of Illinois
  Paul Simon (Illinois), former Senator
  Arlen Specter (Pennsylvania), former Senator
  Bob Menendez (New Jersey), Senator
  Richard M. Daley (Illinois), former Mayor of Chicago
  John Edwards (North Carolina), former Senator and Vice-Presidential candidate
  Richard J. Daley (Illinois), former Mayor of Chicago
  Al Gore (Tennessee), former Presidential candidate and Vice-President
  Robert F. Kennedy, former Senator, former Presidential candidate, and brother of John F. Kennedy
  Daniel Inouye (Hawaii), former President Pro Tempore, former Senator, and former Dean of the Senate
  Steny Hoyer (Maryland), House Minority Whip
  Robert Byrd (West Virginia), former President Pro Tempore, former Senator, and former Dean of the Senate
  Tim Kaine (Virginia), Governor, 2016 vice presidential nominee and former head of the Democratic National Committee
  Dennis Kucinich (Ohio), Representative
  Janet Napolitano (Arizona), Secretary of Homeland Security
  Nancy Pelosi (California), Speaker of the House
  Kamala Harris, Senator from California
  Brian Schweitzer (Montana), former Governor
  Harry Reid (Nevada), former Senate Minority Leader
  Rahm Emanuel (Illinois), Mayor of Chicago, former White House Chief of Staff
  Harry F. Byrd, Jr. (Virginia), former Senator
  Bill Richardson (New Mexico), Governor
  Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Florida), Representative and former head of the Democratic National Committee
  Eliot Spitzer (New York), former Governor
  Mark Warner (Virginia), Senator and former Governor
  George Wallace (Alabama), 45th Governor of Alabama
  Elizabeth Warren, Senator from Massachusetts
caption: Bill de Blasio, the 109th and current Mayor of New York City
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