Liberals in the United States

**Liberals in the United States** have many different political ideas about how individuals and government should act. The people listed below are, or were, thought to be as liberals.

## Liberal thinkers and leaders 
These are some important liberals in America:

* **Politicians**
* President Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
* President Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
* President Grover Cleveland (1837-1908)
* Governor Samuel J. Tilden (1814–1886) 
* State Senator Eugene V. Debs (1955–1926)
* Mayor Carter Harrison, Jr. (1860–1953)
* President Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
* Vice President Thomas R. Marshall (1854–1925)
* President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
* President Harry S. Truman (1884-1972)
* Representative Don Edwards (1915-2015)
* Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr. (1914-2013)
* President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
* President Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973)
* President Jimmy Carter (b.1924)
* Senator George McGovern (1922-2012)
* Senator Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968)
* Governor Reubin Askew (1928-2014)
* Senator Edward Kennedy (1932-2009)
* Mayor Richard M. Daley (b.1942)
* President Bill Clinton (b.1946)
* Senator Frank Lautenberg (1924-2013)
* Senator Bernie Sanders (b. 1941)
* Senator Elizabeth Warren (b. 1949)
* Senator Kamala Harris (b.1964)
* Senator Cory Booker (b. 1969)
* Senator Harry Reid (b.1939)
* Senator Patrick Leahy (b.1940)
* Senator Daniel Inouye (1924-2012)
* Representative Tulsi Gabbard (b.1981)
* Representative Keith Ellison (b.1963)
* Representative Maurice Hinchey (1938-2017)
* Representative Louise Slaughter (1929-2018)
* State Senator Nina Turner (b.1967)
* County Commissioner Chuy García (b.1956)
* Mayor Mario Cuomo (1932-2015)
* Governor Pat Quinn (b.1948)
* Mayor Rahm Emanuel (b.1959)

* **Former liberals**
* President Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)
* Senator Strom Thurmond (1902-2003)

* **Judges**
* Chief Justice Roger Taney (1777–1864)
* Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson (1890–1953)
* Associate Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (1907-1998)
* Judge James B. Bradwell (1828-1907)

* **Economists**
* James M. Buchanan (1919–2013)
* Dale T. Mortensen (1939–2014)
* Lyndon LaRouche (b.1922)
* Robert Fogel (1926-2013)

* **Writers and intellectuals**
* William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879)
* John Dewey (1859–1952)
* Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992)

* **Media personalities**
* Michael Moore (b.1954)

## Gallery 

Image:Eugene V. Debs, bw photo portrait, 1897.jpg|Eugene V. Debs
Image:FDR in 1933.jpg|Franklin D. Roosevelt
Image:John F Kennedy.jpg|John F. Kennedy
Image:GeorgeStanleyMcGovern.png|George McGovern
Image:JimmyCarterPortrait2.jpg|Jimmy Carter
Image:Hbyrdjr.jpg|Harry F. Byrd, Jr.
Image:Louise Slaughter official photo (cropped).jpg|Louise Slaughter
Image:Ted Kennedy, official photo portrait crop.jpg|Edward "Ted" Kennedy
Image:President Barack Obama.jpg|Barack Obama
Image:Bernie Sanders.jpg|Bernie Sanders
Image:Tulsi Gabbard, official portrait, 113th Congress.jpg|Tulsi Gabbard
Image:Daniel Inouye, official Senate photo portrait, 2008.jpg|Daniel Inouye

Image:AFGE 40th Convention - Women's Breakfast (20552088909).jpg|Nina Turner

## Relevant pages 
*Liberalism

## Other websites 
* Lewis H. Lapham, "Tentacles of Rage" in ''Harper's*, September 2004, p.&nbsp;31-41.
* Ericson, David F., Green, Louisa Bertch. "Introduction". In Ericson, David F., Green, Louisa Bertch (Eds.), *The liberal tradition in American politics: reassessing the legacy of American liberalism''.Llondon, UK: Routledge, 1999