page_title: List of people from Wisconsin
section_title: Politics and activism
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Wisconsin / Politics and activism
caption_attribution_description: English: Wilbur J. Cohen.
context_page_description: This is a list of notable people from the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The person's hometown is in parentheses.
context_section_description: A–B
  Glenn A. Abbey (1898–1962), U.S. diplomat (Dodgeville)
  Alva Adams (1850–1922), Governor of Colorado (Iowa County)
  Billy Adams (1861–1954), Governor of Colorado (Blue Mounds)
  J. Frank Aldrich (1853–1933), U.S. Representative from Illinois (Two Rivers)
  William Aldrich (1820–1885), U.S. Representative from Illinois (Fond du Lac)
  William A. Anderson (1873–1954), Mayor of Minneapolis (Adams County)
  George R. Andrews (1808–1873), U.S. Representative from New York (Oshkosh)
  Walter Annenberg (1908–2002), U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom (Milwaukee)
  Les Aspin (1938–1995), Congressman and Secretary of Defense (Milwaukee)
  Gerhard A. Bading (1870–1946), U.S. diplomat (Milwaukee)
  John Miller Baer (1886–1970), U.S. Representative from North Dakota (Black Creek)
  Hiram Barber, Jr. (1835–1924), U.S. Representative from Illinois (Horicon, Juneau)
  Thomas M. Barrett (born 1953), Congressman and Mayor of Milwaukee (Milwaukee)
  William A. Barstow (1813–1865), Governor (Waukesha, Janesville)
  Coles Bashford (1816–1878), Governor, U.S. Congressional Delegate from the Arizona Territory (Oshkosh)
  David L. Bazelon (1909–1993), Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals (Superior)
  Charles S. Benton (1810–1882), U.S. Representative from New York (Milwaukee, La Crosse)
  Victor L. Berger (1860–1929), U.S. Representative (Milwaukee)
  Benjamin P. Birdsall (1858–1917), U.S. Representative from Iowa (Weyauwega)
  John J. Blaine (1875–1934), Governor and U.S. Senator (Wingville)
  C. A. Bottolfsen (1891–1964), Governor of Idaho (Superior)
  Matthias J. Bovee (1793–1872), U.S. Representative from New York (Milwaukee, Eagle)
  Edward S. Bragg (1827–1912), U.S. diplomat (Fond du Lac)
  John A. Bryan (1794–1864), U.S. diplomat (Milwaukee, Menasha)
  James Budd (1851–1908), California Governor (Janesville)
  George Bunn (1865–1918), Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court (Sparta)
  John H. Burke (1894–1951), U.S. Representative from California (Excelsior)
  John R. Burke (1924–1993), U.S. diplomat (Madison)
  Charles C. Butler, Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court (Milwaukee)
  John W. Byrnes (1913–1985), U.S. Representative (Green Bay)
  C–E
  Thomas Cale (1848–1941), U.S. Congressional Delegate from the Alaska Territory (Fond du Lac)
  John Benton Callis (1828–1898), U.S. Representative from Alabama (Lancaster)
  Lois Capps (born 1938), U.S. Representative from California (Ladysmith)
  Milton Robert Carr (born 1943), U.S. Representative from Michigan (Janesville)
  Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947), feminist (Ripon)
  Eugene W. Chafin (1852–1920), Prohibition Party candidate for President of the United States (East Troy, Waukesha)
  Liz Cheney (born 1966), U.S. Representative from Wyoming (Madison)
  Kathryn F. Clarenbach (1920–1994), first chairwoman of the National Organization for Women (Sparta)
  Paul Clement (born 1966), Solicitor General of the United States (Town of Cedarburg)
  Cliff Clevenger (1885–1960), U.S. Representative from Ohio (Appleton)
  Wilbur J. Cohen (1913–1987), U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (Milwaukee)
  Harmon Sweatland Conger (1816–1882), U.S. Representative from New York (Janesville)
  Willis C. Cook (1874–1942), U.S. diplomat (Gratiot)
  Henry A. Cooper (1850–1931), U.S. Representative (Spring Prairie, Burlington, Racine)
  Michael Copps (born 1940), Commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission (Milwaukee)
  John W. Cox Jr. (born 1947), U.S. Representative from Illinois (Hazel Green)
  Kenneth H. Dahlberg (born 1917), figure in the Watergate scandal, later cleared (Wilson)
  Henry C. A. Damm (1874–1929), U.S. diplomat (Waushara County)
  Joseph E. Davies (1876–1958), U.S. diplomat (Watertown)
  Charles G. Dawes (1865–1951), Vice President of the United States (La Crosse)
  Thomas Cleland Dawson (1865–1912), U.S. diplomat (Hudson)
  Ada Deer (born 1935), Native-American/Menominee activist, former BIA official (Keshena)
  Peter V. Deuster (1831–1904), U.S. diplomat (Milwaukee, Port Washington)
  Bernardine Dohrn (born 1942), activist (Milwaukee)
  Michael Dombeck, former Chief of the US Forest Service
  F. Ryan Duffy (1888–1979), Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals (Fond du
caption: Wilbur J. Cohen
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