Yale Law & Politics

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John C. Calhoun; BA 1804; 7th Vice President of the US for John Quincy Adams & Andrew Jackson; Senator; Congress Member; Secretary of State Under President Tyler.

Tansu Ciller (Postdoctoral fellow) Prime Minister of Turkey 1993-1996;

AbD Al-Karim Al-Iryani (Ph.D. 1968) Prime Minister of Yemen Republic (1980-1983, 1998-2001), Foreign Minister 1993-1998.

Salvador H. Laurel (LLM 1953; JSD 1960) Vice President of the Philipinnes 1986-1992.

Lee Hong-Koo (Ph.D. 1968) Prime Minister of South Korea 1994-1995.

Mario Monti (M.Sc. 1968) Prime Minister of Italy 2011-Present

Wendell Mottley (BA 1964) Olympic Medalist; Trinidad & Tobago minister.

Peter Mutharika (LLM 1966; JSD 1969) 5th Malawi President.

Jovito R. Salonga (JSD 1949) Philippines Senator 1965-1972; 1987-1992.

1. George Bush

Self | 41

The 41st President of the United States of America, George Herbert Walker Bush (known colloquially as "Bush 41" to distinguish him from his son, George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the U.S., who is known as "Bush 43"), was born on June 12, 1924 in Milton, Massachusetts, a suburb south of Boston. ...

BA 1948; President of the US (1989-1993), Vice President (1981-1989); Congress 1967-1971).

2. George W. Bush

Camera_department | Journeys with George

The 43rd President of the United States of America, George Walker Bush (known colloquially as "W" to distinguish himself from his father, George Bush, the 41st president of the U.S.), was born two days after the national holiday of the Fourth of July, 1946 in New Haven, Connecticut. There, his ...

BA 1968; US President 2001-2009; Texas Governor 1995-2000;

3. Karl Carstens

Self | Echtzeit

Karl Carstens was born on December 14, 1914 in Bremen, Germany. He was married to Veronica Carstens. He died on May 30, 1992 in Meckenheim, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

LLM 1949; 5th President of German, 1979-1984.

4. Dick Cheney

Self | Beyond 9/11: Portraits of Resilience

Dick Cheney was born on January 30, 1941 in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. He has been married to Lynne Cheney since August 29, 1964. They have two children.

BA 1963; US Vice President 2001-2009.

5. Bill Clinton

Writer | The President Is Missing

His father, a sales representative, died in a car accident a few months before his birth. His mother then moved to New Orleans. Bill Clinton initially grew up with his grandparents. In 1950 his mother returned to Hope. That same year she married car dealer Roger Clinton. As a member of a student ...

JD 1973; US President 1993-2001; Arkansas Governor, 1979-1981, 1983-1992.

6. Gerald Ford

Actor | Dynasty

Gerald Rudolph Ford was the 38th President of the United States from August 1974 until January 1977.

Ford was born on July 14, 1913, in Omaha, Nebraska as Leslie Lynch King, Jr., being the son of Leslie Lynch King and Dorothy Ayer Gardner King. His parents separated two weeks after his birth and his...

LLB 1941; US President 1974-1977; Vice President 1973-1974; Congress Member.

JD 1988; Vice President of the European Parliament (2009-2011), Minister for Foreign Affairs of Greece 2011.

President of the Philippines in World War II.

9. William Howard Taft

Actor | The President's Pardon

William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States (1909-1913) and the tenth chief justice of the United States (1921-1930), the only person to have held both offices. Taft was elected president in 1908, the chosen successor of Theodore Roosevelt, but was defeated for reelection in ...

BA 1878; Honorary LLD 1893; 27th US President 1909-1913; 10th Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court 1921-1930.

Latvian President 2007-Present

11. Margareta von Schweden

Self | V.I.P.-Schaukel

Margareta von Schweden was born on October 31, 1934 in Castle Haga, Sweden. She was previously married to John Kenneth Ambler.

Crown Princess of Sweden of the House of Bernadotte (Class of 2000, attended for 2 years).

12. Ernesto Zedillo

Self | Quebrando o Tabu

Ernesto Zedillo was born on December 27, 1951 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is married to Velasco Núñez, Nilda Patricia.

Ph.D. 1981; Mexican president 1994-2000.



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