Politicians

• James G. Barry
  James G. Barry
  James G. Barry was an Irish-born mayor of St. Louis, Missouri.He served as a Democrat from 1849 to 1850.-External links:*...
  
   - St. Louis mayor http://exhibits.slpl.org/mayors/data/dt44025946.asp "James G. Barry was born in Ireland in 1800..."
• Joe Biden
  Joe Biden
  Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. is the 47th and current Vice President of the United States, serving under President Barack Obama...
  
    - US vice president
• William B. Barry - US Congressman
• Edward P. Boland - US Congressman http://www.holyokestpatricksparade.com/stpats_subpages/history2_subpage.ads
• James E. Boyd - Omaha mayor http://www.rootsweb.com/~neboyd/bio.html "He was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, September 9, 1834..."
• Bob Brady
  Bob Brady
  Robert A. "Bob" Brady is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1998, and the ranking Democrat on the United States House Committee on House Administration since 2007...
  
   - US Congressman http://jonathanpotts.blogspot.com/2004/09/worlds-oldest-profession.html
• William J. Brady
  William J. Brady
  William J. Brady was the sheriff of Lincoln County during the Lincoln County Wars in New Mexico, United States. He was killed in an ambush, aged 48, in which Billy the Kid took part.-Early life:...
  
   - New Mexico Territorial representative and Sheriff of Lincoln County, from County Cavan
  County Cavan
  County Cavan is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Border Region and is also located in the province of Ulster. It is named after the town of Cavan. Cavan County Council is the local authority for the county...
  
  
• David C. Broderick
  David C. Broderick
  David Colbreth Broderick was a Democratic U.S. Senator from California. He was a first cousin of Andrew Kennedy and Case Broderick.-Early life and education:...
  
   - US Senator http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brockson-bronrott.html
• John T. Browne
  John T. Browne
  John Thomas Browne was an Irish Catholic Mayor of Houston, Texas. He was instrumental in starting the Houston Fire Department as a paid force. He served in that post from 1892 to 1896 and then in the Texas House of Representatives from 1897 to 1899 and again in 1907...
  
   - Houston mayor http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brownback-browner.html "Born in Dublin, Ireland..."
• Billy Bulger - President of the Massachusetts State Senate http://64.226.34.179/churches_schools/bulgerdegree71002.htm "Bulger, one of the most successful Irish-American politicians of his generation..."
• Aedanus Burke
  Aedanus Burke
  Aedanus Burke was a soldier, judge, and United States Representative from South Carolina. Born in Galway, Ireland, he attended the theological college at Saint-Omer, France, visited the West Indies, and immigrated to the American Colonies, settling in Charles Town, South Carolina He served in the...
  
   - US Congressman http://www.araltas.com/features/burke/ "Aedanus Burke (1742 - 1802) of Galway went to Virginia..."
• Thomas Burke
  Thomas Burke (governor)
  Thomas Burke was an American physician, lawyer, and statesman from Hillsborough, North Carolina. He represented North Carolina as a delegate to the Continental Congress and was the third Governor of the state....
  
   - North Carolina
  North Carolina
  North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...
  
   governor http://www.itpi.dpi.state.nc.us/governors/BurkeT.html "Thomas Burke, born about 1747 in Galway, Ireland, moved to Orange County in North Carolina about 1770 from Virginia..."
• Thomas A. Burke
  Thomas A. Burke
  Thomas Aloysius Burke was a Democratic Party politician from Ohio. He served as the 48th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio and in the United States Senate from November 10, 1953 until December 2, 1954. Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport is named after him.Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Burke served in the U.S...
  
   - Cleveland mayor, US Senator http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/galwayobits.htm
• William J. Burke
  William J. Burke
  William Joseph Burke was an American politician and businessman.-Biography:He was born in London, England of Irish parents. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1915 to 1918. He was a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1919 to 1923, as a member of the United States...
  
   - US Congressman http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burke.html "Born near London, England of Irish parents..."
• Brendan Byrne
  Brendan Byrne
  Brendan Thomas Byrne is an American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey, who served as the 47th Governor of New Jersey, from 1974 to 1982.-Early life and education:...
  
   - former Governor of New Jersey
  New Jersey
  New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
  
  
• Jane Byrne
  Jane Byrne
  Jane Margaret Byrne was the first and to date only female Mayor of Chicago. She served from April 16, 1979 to April 29, 1983. Chicago is the largest city in the United States to have had a female mayor as of 2011.-Early political career:...
  
   - Chicago mayor http://snltranscripts.jt.org/79/79bupdate.phtml "She turns to the Irish mayor of Chicago, Jane Byrne..."
• Thomas R. Byrne
  Thomas R. Byrne
  Thomas Robert Byrne was an American politician in Minnesota. He was the Democratic mayor of St. Paul from 1966–1970. He was an Irish Catholic. He served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II...
  
   - St. Paul mayor http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/catholic.html
• James F. Byrnes
  James F. Byrnes
  James Francis Byrnes was an American statesman from the state of South Carolina. During his career, Byrnes served as a member of the House of Representatives , as a Senator , as Justice of the Supreme Court , as Secretary of State , and as the 104th Governor of South Carolina...
  
   - US Senator http://www.byrnesscholars.org/perspectives/sneed%2003%20p1.htm "He was the grandson of Irish Catholic immigrants who came to American after the Great Irish ..."
• Hugh Carey
  Hugh Carey
  Hugh Leo Carey was an American attorney, the 51st Governor of New York from 1975 to 1982, and a seven-term United States Representative .- Early life :...
  
   - New York governor http://www.ncafp.org/about/presscorner/peaceaward_pressrelease.htm
• Charles Carroll of Carrollton
  Charles Carroll of Carrollton
  Charles Carroll of Carrollton was a wealthy Maryland planter and an early advocate of independence from Great Britain. He served as a delegate to the Continental Congress and later as United States Senator for Maryland...
  
   - the sole Catholic
  Catholic
  The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...
  
   signatory of the American Declaration of Independence http://www.colonialhall.com/carroll/carroll.php
• Bob Casey, Jr.
  Bob Casey, Jr.
  Robert Patrick "Bob" Casey, Jr. is the senior U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and a member of the Democratic Party. He previously served as Pennsylvania Treasurer, and Pennsylvania Auditor General. He is the son of former Governor Bob Casey, Sr..He is the first Democrat elected to a full term in...
  
   - U.S, Senator and former Pennsylvania
  Pennsylvania
  The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
  
   state Treasurer
• Robert P. Casey
  Robert P. Casey
  Robert Patrick "Bob" Casey, Sr. was an American politician from Pennsylvania. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 42nd Governor of Pennsylvania from 1987 to 1995...
  
   - former Pennsylvania
  Pennsylvania
  The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
  
   governor http://mysite.verizon.net/lardil/id451.html
• John Michael Clancy
  John Michael Clancy
  John Michael Clancy was a United States Representative from New York. Born in County Laois, Ireland, he immigrated with his parents to the United States and settled in New York City...
  
   - US Congressman http://www.infoplease.com/biography/us/congress/clancy-john-michael.html "born in County Queens, Ireland, May 7, 1837; immigrated with his parents to the United States..."
• Jimmy Carter
  Jimmy Carter
  James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...
  
  , US President
• Grover Cleveland
  Grover Cleveland
  Stephen Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States. Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms and therefore is the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents...
  
   , US President
• Bill Clinton
  Bill Clinton
  William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
  
  , US President
• DeWitt Clinton
  DeWitt Clinton
  DeWitt Clinton was an early American politician and naturalist who served as United States Senator and the sixth Governor of New York. In this last capacity he was largely responsible for the construction of the Erie Canal...
  
   - New York City mayor http://www.lakelandschools.org/lt/NewYorkVM/peopleclinton.htm "He was the son of an Irish-American Revolutionary War hero and a Dutch mother."
• W. Bourke Cockran - US Congressman http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0812743.html
• Patrick Collins
  Patrick Collins (mayor)
  Patrick Andrew Collins was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts and mayor of Boston.-Early life:Patrick Collins was born March 12, 1844 near Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland....
  
   - Boston mayor http://www.irishheritagetrail.com/collins.html "Patrick Collins (1844-1905) was the second Irish-born mayor in Boston's history..."
• Martin Condon
  Martin Condon
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   - Knoxville mayor http://www.metropulse.com/dir_zine/dir_2001/1111/t_secret.html "The career of Knoxville's first Irish Catholic mayor..."
• John Conness
  John Conness
  John Conness was a first-generation Irish-American businessman who served as a U.S. Senator from California during the American Civil War and the early years of Reconstruction. He introduced a bill to establish Yosemite National Park and voted to abolish slavery...
  
   - US Senator http://www.vdare.com/sutherland/weigh_anchor.htm "Senator John Conness of California, an Irish immigrant himself..."
• James Cooney - US Congressman http://www.infoplease.com/biography/us/congress/cooney-james.html
• John Coughlin - First Ward Alderman in Chicago 1893-1938 http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/652.html
• Richard Croker
  Richard Croker
  Richard Croker, Sr. was an American politician, a leader of New York City's Tammany Hall.-Biography:...
  
   - Tammany Hall
  Tammany Hall
  Tammany Hall, also known as the Society of St. Tammany, the Sons of St. Tammany, or the Columbian Order, was a New York political organization founded in 1786 and incorporated on May 12, 1789 as the Tammany Society...
  
   boss http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcroker.htm "Richard Croker was born in County Cork, Ireland, in 1841..."
• Joseph Crowley
  Joseph Crowley
  Joseph Crowley is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1999. He is the Chairman of the New Democrat Coalition and the Queens County Democratic Party. He is a member of the Democratic Party....
  
   - US Congressman http://www.junipercivic.com/berry/0303/manoftheyear.html "Crowley was also named one of the Top 100 Irish American Leaders..."
• James Michael Curley
  James Michael Curley
  James Michael Curley was an American politician famous for his four terms as mayor of Boston, Massachusetts. He also served twice in the United States House of Representatives and one term as 53rd Governor of Massachusetts.-Early life:Curley's father, Michael Curley, left Oughterard, County...
  
   - Boston mayor http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcurley.htm "James Curley the son of Irish immigrants from County Galway..."
• Thomas Cusack
  Thomas Cusack
  Thomas Cusack of Chicago was born in Kilrush, County Clare, Ireland, October 5, 1858, and died in Oak Park, Illinois on November 19, 1926. He was a pioneer and entrepreneur in the outdoor advertising industry and a politician, serving as a Democratic U.S...
  
   - US Congressman http://www.infoplease.com/biography/us/congress/cusack-thomas.html "born in Kilrush, County Clare, Ireland..."
• Richard J. Daley
  Richard J. Daley
  Richard Joseph Daley served for 21 years as the mayor and undisputed Democratic boss of Chicago and is considered by historians to be the "last of the big city bosses." He played a major role in the history of the Democratic Party, especially with his support of John F...
  
   - Chicago mayor http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Chicago7/Daley2.html "Richard J. Daley, an only child, was born in 1902 into an Irish Catholic neighborhood of south Chicago..."
• Richard M. Daley
  Richard M. Daley
  Richard Michael Daley is a United States politician, member of the national and local Democratic Party, and former Mayor of Chicago, Illinois. He was elected mayor in 1989 and reelected in 1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, and 2007. He was the longest serving Chicago mayor, surpassing the tenure of his...
  
   - Chicago mayor, son of Richard J. Daley
• William M. Daley
  William M. Daley
  William Michael “Bill” Daley is an American lawyer and former banker and is the current White House Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama. He served as U.S...
  
   - U.S. Secretary of Commerce, son of Richard J. Daley
• Charles Patrick Daly
  Charles Patrick Daly
  Charles Patrick Daly was a member of the New York State Assembly, Chief Justice of the New York Court of Common Pleas, president of the American Geographical Society, and an author of several books.-Early years:...
  
  , Chief Justice of New York Court of Common Pleas
  New York Court of Common Pleas
  The New York Court of Common Pleas was a state court in New York. Established in New Netherland in 1686, the Court remained in existence in the Province of New York and, after the American Revolution, in the U.S...
  
  
• John Darragh
  John Darragh
  John Darragh was a U.S. politician. He served as the Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1817 to 1825.-Early life:Darragh was born in Ireland and early in life immigrated to Pittsburgh. He began his career as a merchant on Fourth Avenue between Wood Street and Smithfield Street in the city...
  
   - Pittsburgh mayor http://www.chartiers.com/beers-project/articles/darragh-1011.html "John Darragh was born in Ireland, but emigrating to America at an early day became a prosperous farmer."
• William Dawson
  William Dawson (politician)
  William Dawson, born in Ireland, was mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, from 1878 to 1881. He was born in County Cavan, Ireland on October 1, 1825. He was a successful banker. When he was elected as mayor, he became the first mayor to be Irish in Saint Paul. He died on February 19,...
  
   - St. Paul mayor
• John J. Dempsey
  John J. Dempsey
  John Joseph Dempsey was a United States Representative from New Mexico who also served as the 13th Governor of New Mexico. He was born in White Haven, Pennsylvania where he attended grade school. Employed as a telegrapher, he held various positions with the Brooklyn Union Elevator Company...
  
   - New Mexico governor
• John N. Dempsey - Connecticut governor
• Éamon de Valera
  Éamon de Valera
  Éamon de Valera was one of the dominant political figures in twentieth century Ireland, serving as head of government of the Irish Free State and head of government and head of state of Ireland...
  
   - President of Ireland
  President of Ireland
  The President of Ireland is the head of state of Ireland. The President is usually directly elected by the people for seven years, and can be elected for a maximum of two terms. The presidency is largely a ceremonial office, but the President does exercise certain limited powers with absolute...
  
   http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/devalera.shtml "The child of a Spanish father and an Irish mother, de Valera was born in New York City, but moved to Ireland upon the death of his father. He became a teacher of mathematics and an avid supporter of the Irish language movement..."
• Michael Donohoe
  Michael Donohoe
  Michael Donohoe of Philadelphia was a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1911 to 1915. He was an Irish Catholic Democrat....
  
   - US Congressman http://www.iol.ie/~galwill/histmdon.htm "Michael Donohoe was born in Killeshandra in 1864. After spending a short time teaching in the local National School he emigrated to the U.S. in 1886..."
• Bob Dornan
  Bob Dornan
  Robert Kenneth "Bob" Dornan is a Republican and former member of the United States House of Representatives from California and a vocal advocate of pro-life and social conservative causes....
  
   - former US Congressman from California
  California
  California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
  
  
• Mike Doyle
  Michael F. Doyle
  Michael F. "Mike" Doyle is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1995. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district is based in Pittsburgh and includes most of Allegheny County....
  
   - US Congressman from Pennsylvania
  Pennsylvania
  The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
  
   http://www.house.gov/doyle/newsrel/072805pr.htm
• John G. Downey
  John G. Downey
  John Gately Downey was an Irish-American politician and the seventh Governor of California from January 14, 1860 to January 10, 1862. Until the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2003, Downey was California's only foreign-born governor...
  
   - California governor http://downeyca.com/hist.htm "John G. Downey, who became governor at the early age of 32, was born in Ireland..."
• Warren J. Duffey
  Warren J. Duffey
  Warren Joseph Duffey was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Toledo, Ohio, Duffey attended the public schools....
  
   - US Congressman from Ohio
  Ohio
  Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
  
   http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000517 also Ohio's 9th congressional district
  Ohio's 9th congressional district
  Ohio's 9th congressional district has been represented by Representative Marcia C. Kaptur since 1983.This district is in the northern part of the state, bordering Michigan and Ontario, Canada , and includes the counties of Erie, Lorain, Lucas, and Ottawa.-List of largest municipalities:All or part...
  
  
• Tom Dunn
  Tom Dunn
  Tom Dunn was an anchor and reporter at several New York and Florida television stations.Dunn was born in Warwick, New York, and was a child actor at radio station WAAT in Newark, New Jersey. He started in television at WCTV in Tallahassee, Florida in 1959 after leaving the army. He served as...
  
   - Mayor Eizabeth NJ
• Thomas Eagleton
  Thomas Eagleton
  Thomas Francis Eagleton was a United States Senator from Missouri, serving from 1968–1987. He is best remembered for briefly being the Democratic vice presidential nominee under George McGovern in 1972...
  
   - Senator Missouri - Grandfather Thomas born County Mayo.
• Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne
  Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne
  Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne was an American politician who was the 24th Governor of Illinois from 1913 to 1917 and previously served as the 38th mayor of Chicago from April 5, 1905 to 1907.-Early years:...
  
   - Chicago mayor and Illinois governor
• James Duane
  James Duane
  James Duane was an American lawyer, jurist, and Revolutionary leader from New York. He served as a delegate to the Continental Congress, New York state senator, Mayor of New York, and a U.S...
  
   - New York City mayor http://www.allgetaways.com/view_destination.asp?destinationid=XGP309-003 "James Duane, son of an Irish-born merchant, became the first Irish-American mayor in 1784..."
• Mark M. Fagan
  Mark M. Fagan
  Mark Matthew Fagan was an Irish Catholic mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, from 1902 to 1907 and 1913 to 1917.-Biography:...
  
   - Jersey City mayor http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/faalevao-fairbanks.html
• Mike Fahey
  Mike Fahey
  Michael Gahan "Mike" Fahey, took office as the 49th mayor of Omaha, Nebraska on June 11, 2001. Fahey won his second term as mayor in the May 10, 2005 election...
  
   - Omaha mayor http://kildare.ie/naasyouthparliament/omaha.htm
• Thomas Fallon
  Thomas Fallon
  Thomas Fallon was an Irish-born, Canadian-raised American capitalist and politician, the tenth Mayor of San Jose, California.-Biography:...
  
   - San Jose mayor
• James A. Farley - Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, US Postmaster General http://www.nps.gov/elro/glossary/farley-james.htm "One of five sons, Jim Farley was born on May 30, 1888, to Irish Catholic immigrant parents in Grassy Point, New York..."
• John Frederick Finerty, US Congressman
• Joseph E. Finerty
  Joseph E. Finerty
  Joseph E. Finerty was the Democratic mayor of Gary, Indiana from 1943 to 1948. He was Gary's first Irish Catholic mayor. He defeated the Republican incumbent Ernst Schaible, the last Republican to hold the office, with 58% of the vote....
  
  , Gary mayor
• John F. Fitzgerald
  John F. Fitzgerald
  John Francis "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald was an Irish-American politician and the maternal grandfather of three prominent United States politicians—President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Senators Robert Francis Kennedy and Edward Moore Kennedy.-Early life and family:Fitzgerald was born in...
  
  , Boston mayor
• Thomas Fitzsimons
  Thomas Fitzsimons
  Thomas FitzSimons was an American merchant and statesman of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress, the Constitutional Convention, and the U.S. Congress.-Biography:...
  
  , US Congressman
• John Fitzpatrick
  John Fitzpatrick (mayor of New Orleans)
  John Fitzpatrick was an Irish-American mayor of New Orleans from April 25, 1892 to April 27, 1896.-External links:*...
  
  , New Orleans mayor
• Mike Fitzpatrick
  Mike Fitzpatrick
  Michael G. "Mike" Fitzpatrick is the U.S. Representative for . He is a member of the Republican Party. He was reelected to Congress in 2010, and previously represented the district from 2005 to 2007, but lost to Patrick Murphy in 2006....
  
  , US Congressman from Pennsylvania
  Pennsylvania
  The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
  
  
• Peter F. Flaherty
  Peter F. Flaherty
  Peter Francis "Pete" Flaherty was an American politician from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.He served as Assistant District Attorney of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania from 1957 to 1964; a City of Pittsburgh Councilman 1966 to 1970; Democratic mayor of Pittsburgh from 1970 to 1977; United States Deputy...
  
  , former Pittsburgh mayor
• Michael P. Flanagan, US Congressman
• Daniel J. Flood
  Daniel J. Flood
  Daniel John "Dan" Flood was a flamboyant and long-serving Democratic United States Representative from Pennsylvania. He was censured for bribery and resigned from the House in 1980.-Early life and career:...
  
  , US Congressman from Pennsylvania
  Pennsylvania
  The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
  
  
• Raymond Flynn
  Raymond Flynn
  Raymond Leo Flynn , also known as Ray Flynn, served as Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts from 1984 until 1993. He was later appointed United States Ambassador to the Holy See by President Bill Clinton.-Early life:...
  
  , Boston mayor
• William S. Flynn
  William S. Flynn
  William Smith Flynn of Providence, Rhode Island was the 54th Governor of Rhode Island from 1923 to 1925. He was a Democrat....
  
  , Rhode Island governor
• Mark Foley
  Mark Foley
  Mark Adam Foley is a former member of the United States House of Representatives. He served from 1995 until 2006, representing the 16th District of Florida as a member of the Republican Party....
  
  , US Congressman from Florida
  Florida
  Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
  
  
• Michael Forbes
  Michael Forbes
  Michael Patrick Forbes is a politician from the state of New York.- Early life and career:Michael Patrick Forbes was born on 16 July 1952 in Riverhead, New York. Forbes graduated from the SUNY Albany. Forbes worked as an assistant for Republicans U.S. Sen. Al D'Amato and U.S. Rep. Connie Mack...
  
  , formerUS Congressman from New York
  New York
  New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
  
  
• Thomas Gallagher, Pittsburgh mayor
• Martin Galvin
  Martin Galvin
  Martin Galvin is an Irish American lawyer and Irish republican political activist.-Background:Galvin was born on January 8, 1950, and was raised in New York City, although he may have been born in the Republic of Ireland as he once, during an interview with 60 Minutes, referred to the "partition...
  
  , founder of NORAID
  NORAID
  Noraid or the Irish Northern Aid Committee is an Irish American fund raising organization founded after the start of the Troubles in Northern Ireland in 1969...
  
  
• J. Joseph Garrahy, Rhode Island governor
• William Jay Gaynor
  William Jay Gaynor
  William Jay Gaynor was an American politician from New York City, associated with the Tammany Hall political machine. He served as mayor of the City of New York from 1910 to 1913, as well as stints as a New York Supreme Court Justice from 1893 to 1909.-Early life:Gaynor was born in Oriskany, New...
  
  , New York City mayor
• Martin H. Glynn
  Martin H. Glynn
  Martin Henry Glynn was an American politician. He was the 40th Governor of New York from 1913 to 1914, the first Irish American Roman Catholic head of government of what was then the most populated state of the US....
  
  , New York governor
• Charles P. Gillen
  Charles P. Gillen
  Charles P. Gillen was the Democratic mayor of Newark, New Jersey from 1917 to 1921....
  
  , Newark mayor
• Kirsten Gillibrand
  Kirsten Gillibrand
  Kirsten Elizabeth Rutnik Gillibrand is an attorney and the junior United States Senator from the state of New York and a member of the Democratic Party...
  
  , U.S. Senator, mother is of Irish descent.
• Thomas F. Gilroy
  Thomas F. Gilroy
  Thomas Francis Gilroy , born in Ireland, was mayor of New York 1893-94 and Commissioner of Public works 1889-93. He was also a member of Tammany Hall. He had a daughter, Frances E. Gilroy, who married Edward A. Maher, Jr...
  
  , New York City mayor
• Patrick Gleason, Long Island City political machine boss
• William R. Grace, New York City mayor
• J. Harold Grady
  J. Harold Grady
  Joseph Harold Grady was a judge and the mayor of Baltimore, Maryland from 1959 to 1962.Prior to running for mayor, he was an FBI agent and state's attorney for Baltimore city.- References :...
  
  , Baltimore mayor
• William T. Granahan
  William T. Granahan
  William T. Granahan was a Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, most prominently serving in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1945–47 and 1949-56.-Biography:...
  
  , US Congressman
• James D. Griffin, Mayor of Buffalo, New York
  Buffalo, New York
  Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...
  
  , New York State Senator
• Frank Hague
  Frank Hague
  Frank Hague was an American Democratic Party politician who served as the mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey from 1917 to 1947, Democratic National Committeeman from New Jersey from 1922 until 1949, and Vice-Chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1924 until 1949.Hague has a widely-known...
  
  , Jersey City mayor
• James M. Hanley
  James M. Hanley
  James Michael Hanley was an American politician. He represented New York in the House of Representatives from 1965 to 1981. He was a Democrat.-External links:...
  
  , US Congressman
• Jerramiah T. Healy, Jersey City mayor
• James J. Heffernan
  James J. Heffernan
  James J. Heffernan was born in Brooklyn, New York, November 8, 1888, died January 27, 1967. He was a U.S. Representative from New York, 1941-53. He was a Democrat.-Source:...
  
  , US Congressman
• Brian Higgins
  Brian Higgins
  Brian Higgins is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2005. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district includes the southern two-thirds of Buffalo proper, most of that city's eastern and southern suburbs, and all of Chautauqua County.-Early life, education and career:A native of...
  
  , US Congressman
• John Hogan
  John Hogan (Missouri)
  John Hogan was a United States Representative from Missouri. Born in Mallow, County Cork, Ireland, he immigrated to the United States in 1817 and settled in Baltimore...
  
  , US Congressman
• John Patrick Hopkins
  John Patrick Hopkins
  John Patrick Hopkins served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois for the Democratic Party. John Patrick Hopkins was the first of nine Irish-American Catholic mayors of Chicago....
  
  , Chicago mayor
• Harry R. Hughes, Governor of Maryland
  Maryland
  Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...
  
  
• Denis M. Hurley
  Denis M. Hurley
  Denis M. Hurley was a United States Representative from New York, 1895-1899.Hurley, a Brooklynite, was born in Ireland....
  
  , US Congressman
• Robert A. Hurley
  Robert A. Hurley
  Robert Augustine Hurley was an American politician and the 73rd Governor of Connecticut.- Early life :Hurley, a second generation Irish-American, was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut on August 25, 1895 to Robert Emmet and Sabina O'Hara Hurley. He attended local public schools and Cheshire Academy...
  
  , [Connecticut Governor]
• Henry Hyde
  Henry Hyde
  Henry John Hyde , an American politician, was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 2007, representing the 6th District of Illinois, an area of Chicago's northwestern suburbs which included O'Hare International Airport...
  
  , US Congressman
• John F. Hylan
  John F. Hylan
  John Francis Hylan , nicknamed "Red Mike", was the Mayor of New York City from 1918 to 1925.-Biography:Hylan was born in Hunter, New York a town in upstate Greene County where his family owned a farm. Hylan married young, became dissatisfied with farm life and moved to Brooklyn with his bride, and...
  
  , New York City mayor
• Thomas Kean
  Thomas Kean
  Thomas Howard Kean is an American Republican Party politician, who served as the 48th Governor of New Jersey from 1982 to 1990. Kean is best known globally, however, for his 2002 appointment as Chairman of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, widely known as the...
  
  , former Governor of New Jersey
  New Jersey
  New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
  
  
• Frank Keating
  Frank Keating
  Francis Anthony "Frank" Keating is an American politician from Oklahoma. Keating served as the 25th Governor of Oklahoma. His first term began in 1995 and ended in 1999...
  
  , Oklahoma
  Oklahoma
  Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,751,351 residents as of the 2010 census and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...
  
   governor
• William J. Keating
  William J. Keating
  William John Keating is a former American politician of the Republican party.Keating served in the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1974 representing Ohio's 1st congressional district. He was the brother of financier Charles H Keating Jr. and later was Chairman CEO & Publisher...
  
  , former Congressman from Ohio
  Ohio
  Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
  
  
• Augustine B. Kelley
  Augustine B. Kelley
  Augustine Bernard Kelley was a United States Representative from Pennsylvania.Augustine B. Kelley was born in New Baltimore, Pennsylvania. He attended the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, in 1904 and 1905. He studied mining engineering with the International Correspondence...
  
  , US Congressman
• Patrick H. Kelley
  Patrick H. Kelley
  Patrick Henry Kelley was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. He served as U.S. Representative from Michigan's 6th congressional district from 1915-1923.-Biography:...
  
  , US Congressman
• Edward A. Kelly
  Edward A. Kelly
  Edward Austin Kelly of Chicago was a U.S. Representative from Illinois, 1931–43, 1945-47. He was a Democrat.-External links: Retrieved on 2008-01-21...
  
  , US Congressman
• Edward Joseph Kelly
  Edward Joseph Kelly
  Edward Joseph Kelly served as chief engineer of the Chicago sanitary district in the 1920s, and later as mayor of Chicago, Illinois for the Democratic Party....
  
  , Chicago
  Chicago
  Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
  
   mayor
• John Kelly
  John Kelly (U.S. politician)
  John Kelly of New York City, known as "Honest John", was a boss of Tammany Hall and a U.S. Representative from New York from 1855 to 1858-Career:...
  
  , Tammany Hall
  Tammany Hall
  Tammany Hall, also known as the Society of St. Tammany, the Sons of St. Tammany, or the Columbian Order, was a New York political organization founded in 1786 and incorporated on May 12, 1789 as the Tammany Society...
  
   boss
• Joseph J. Kelly, Buffalo mayor
• Randy Kelly
  Randy Kelly
  Randy Cameron Kelly is an American politician and the former mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party ....
  
  , St. Paul mayor
• Michael Kenna
  Michael Kenna
  Michael "Hinky Dink" Kenna was one of the two aldermen elected in Chicago's First Ward, from 1897 to 1923.At the age of ten, Kenna left school and began selling newspapers. By the age of twelve, he had borrowed fifty dollars from a bar keeper and purchased a news stand at the corner of Monroe and...
  
  , First Ward Alderman in Chicago 1897-1923

• Edward Kennedy
  Ted Kennedy
  Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy was a United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. Serving almost 47 years, he was the second most senior member of the Senate when he died and is the fourth-longest-serving senator in United States history...
  
  , US Senator
• John F. Kennedy
  John F. Kennedy
  John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....
  
  , US President
• Joseph Kennedy, rumrunner, U.S. ambassador
  Ambassador
  An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents a nation and is usually accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization....
  
  
• Mark Kennedy, former US Congressman
• Patrick J. Kennedy
  Patrick J. Kennedy
  Patrick Joseph Kennedy II is the former U.S. Representative for , serving from 1995 until 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district includes all of Bristol County and Newport County, and parts of Providence County. Kennedy did not seek re-election in 2010.A member of the Kennedy...
  
  , US Congressman
• Robert F. Kennedy
  Robert F. Kennedy
  Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy , also referred to by his initials RFK, was an American politician, a Democratic senator from New York, and a noted civil rights activist. An icon of modern American liberalism and member of the Kennedy family, he was a younger brother of President John F...
  
  , US Senator
• Martin H. Kennelly
  Martin H. Kennelly
  Martin H. Kennelly served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois for the Democratic Party.-Early Life:...
  
  , Chicago mayor
• John V. Kenny
  John V. Kenny
  John Vincent Kenny was mayor of Jersey City from 1949 to 1953.-Biography:He was born on April 6, 1893. In 1971, he was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey and convicted, along with the then-mayor Thomas J...
  
  , Jersey City mayor
• Peter T. King
  Peter T. King
  Peter T. "Pete" King is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1993. He is a member of the Republican Party. King's central Long Island district includes parts of Nassau and Suffolk counties....
  
  , US Congressman
• Patrick Leahy
  Patrick Leahy
  Patrick Joseph Leahy is the senior United States Senator from Vermont and member of the Democratic Party. He is the first and only elected Democratic United States Senator in Vermont's history. He is the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Leahy is the second most senior U.S. Senator,...
  
  , US Senator, his father is of Irish descent
• Huey Long
  Huey Long
  Huey Pierce Long, Jr. , nicknamed The Kingfish, served as the 40th Governor of Louisiana from 1928–1932 and as a U.S. Senator from 1932 to 1935. A Democrat, he was noted for his radical populist policies. Though a backer of Franklin D...
  
  , Louisiana governor
• Robert Lowry
  Robert Lowry (Indiana)
  Robert Lowry was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.Born in Killyleagh, County Down, Ireland, Lowry immigrated to the United States and settled in Rochester, New York....
  
  , US Congressman
• Stephen Lynch
  Stephen Lynch (politician)
  Stephen F. Lynch is the U.S. representative for . He is a member of the Democratic Party who has served since 2001. Lynch was previously an ironworker and lawyer, and served in both chambers of the Massachusetts General Court....
  
  , US Congressman
• Thomas Lynch, Jr.
  Thomas Lynch, Jr.
  Thomas Lynch, Jr. was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of South Carolina; his father was unable to sign the Declaration of Independence because of illness.-Biography:...
  
  , signatory to the Declaration of Independence

M-Z

• Lisa Madigan
  Lisa Madigan
  Lisa Madigan has been the 41st Attorney General of the US state of Illinois since 2003, when she became the first female attorney general for Illinois...
  
  , Illinois Attorney General
• Michael Madigan
  Michael Madigan
  Michael J. Madigan is the Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives and Chairman of the Democratic Party of Illinois...
  
  , Illinois Speaker of the House
  Illinois House of Representatives
  The Illinois House of Representatives is the lower house of the Illinois General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Illinois. The body was created by the first Illinois Constitution adopted in 1818. The state House of Representatives is made of 118 representatives elected from...
  
  , Illinois Democratic Party Chairman
• George Maguire
  George Maguire (politician)
  George Maguire was born in Omagh, Ireland, 1796, died 1882. George Maguire was the first foreign-born mayor and first Democrat to be elected mayor of St. Louis, Missouri .-External links:...
  
  , St. Louis mayor
• Dannel Dan Malloy
  Dan Malloy
  Dannel Patrick "Dan" Malloy is the 88th and current Governor of Connecticut. He was the Mayor of Stamford, Connecticut from December 1995 until December 2009. Malloy had been endorsed by the Connecticut Democratic Party on May 22, 2010 over 2006 Democratic U.S...
  
  , 2010 Governor-elect of Connecticut. Stamford, CT Mayor
• Mike Mansfield
  Mike Mansfield
  Michael Joseph Mansfield was an American Democratic politician and the longest-serving Majority Leader of the United States Senate, serving from 1961 to 1977. He also served as United States Ambassador to Japan for over ten years...
  
  , US Senator, Ambassador
  Ambassador
  An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents a nation and is usually accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization....
  
  
• William McAleer
  William McAleer
  William McAleer was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.William McAleer was born in County Tyrone, Ireland. He immigrated to the United States with his parents, who settled in Philadelphia in 1851. He attended public and private schools...
  
  , US Congressman
• Gerald McCann
  Gerald McCann
  Gerald McCann is an American Democratic Party politician who served two non-consecutive terms as mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey before being convicted of fraud in a savings and loan scam. When he was elected in 1981 he was the second youngest mayor in the city's history.-Biography:He was born in...
  
  , Jersey City mayor
• Patrick McCarran, US Senator
• Carolyn McCarthy
  Carolyn McCarthy
  Carolyn McCarthy is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1997. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district is located in central Long Island in west-central Nassau County and includes Mineola, the Five Towns, East Rockaway, Rockville Centre, Oceanside, Garden City, Hempstead,...
  
  , US Congressman
• Eugene McCarthy
  Eugene McCarthy
  Eugene Joseph "Gene" McCarthy was an American politician, poet, and a long-time member of the United States Congress from Minnesota. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1949 to 1959 and the U.S. Senate from 1959 to 1971.In the 1968 presidential election, McCarthy was the first...
  
  , US Senator
• Joseph McCarthy
  Joseph McCarthy
  Joseph Raymond "Joe" McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957...
  
  , US Senator
• P.H. McCarthy, San Francisco mayor
• William C. McCarthy
  William C. McCarthy
  William C. McCarthy was Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1875-1878.Mayor McCarthy was born in 1820. He was known as "Roaring Bill". His reputation as a volunteer fireman was legendary...
  
  , Pittsburgh mayor
• Frank McCoppin
  Frank McCoppin
  Frank McCoppin was the first Irish-born Mayor of San Francisco. He was married in 1862 to Elizabeth Bird Van Ness in San Francisco, thereby becoming the son-in-law of former mayor James Van Ness.McCoppin was a member of the Royal Irish Constabulary from 1851 until he emigrated to the United States...
  
  , San Francisco mayor
• John W. McCormack, Speaker of the House
• Jim McDermott
  Jim McDermott
  James Adelbert "Jim" McDermott is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1989. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The 7th District includes most of Seattle and Vashon Island, and portions of Shoreline, Lake Forest Park, Tukwila, SeaTac, and Burien.He serves on the House Ways and Means...
  
  , US Congressman
• John J. McDonough
  John J. McDonough
  John J. McDonough was Mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota from 1940 to 1948....
  
  , St. Paul mayor
• Lawrence E. McGann
  Lawrence E. McGann
  Lawrence Edward McGann , born in Galway, Ireland, was a U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1891 to 1897. He was a Chicago Democrat.-References:* From Dooghcloon to Chicago: The Life and Career of Congressman Lawrence E...
  
  , US Congressman
• Edwin D. McGuinness
  Edwin D. McGuinness
  Edwin D. McGuinness was Providence's first Irish Catholic mayor....
  
  , Providence mayor
• James Kennedy McGuire
  James Kennedy McGuire
  James Kennedy McGuire, was the Mayor of Syracuse, New York from 1895 to 1902. He was a member of Tammany Hall.-Biography:...
  
  , Syracuse mayor
• John J. McGrath
  John J. McGrath
  John Joseph McGrath was a U.S. Representative from California from 1933-39. Born in Limerick, Ireland, he immigrated to the United States at the age of seventeen, living initially in Chicago. He studied law briefly and worked as a salesman and sales manager for many year, becoming a U. S. citizen...
  
  , US Congressman
• J. Howard McGrath
  J. Howard McGrath
  James Howard McGrath was an American politician and attorney from the U.S. state of Rhode Island.McGrath, a Democrat, served as U.S. Attorney for Rhode Island before becoming Governor, U.S. Solicitor General, U.S...
  
  , US Senator, Rhode Island governor
• James McGreevey, New Jersey governor
• Thomas McKean
  Thomas McKean
  Thomas McKean was an American lawyer and politician from New Castle, in New Castle County, Delaware and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During the American Revolution he was a delegate to the Continental Congress where he signed the United States Declaration of Independence and the Articles of...
  
   - signatory to the Declaration of Independence
  United States Declaration of Independence
  The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. John Adams put forth a...
  
   http://www.colonialhall.com/mckean/mckean.php
• Bernard J. McKenna
  Bernard J. McKenna
  Bernard J. McKenna was the Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1893 to 1896.-Early life:Mayor McKenna was born in 1842 and served in the American Civil War. Upon returning home to Pittsburgh he worked with iron, working his way up to become a labor union official in the industry...
  
  , Pittsburgh mayor
• Joseph McKenna
  Joseph McKenna
  Joseph McKenna was an American politician who served in all three branches of the U.S. federal government, as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, as U.S. Attorney General and as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court...
  
  , US Attorney General
• William McKinley
  William McKinley
  William McKinley, Jr. was the 25th President of the United States . He is best known for winning fiercely fought elections, while supporting the gold standard and high tariffs; he succeeded in forging a Republican coalition that for the most part dominated national politics until the 1930s...
  
   - US President http://www.mckinley.lib.oh.us/museum/biography.htm "He was the 7th child born to William and Nancy Alison McKinley (of Irish and Scottish descent)."
• Hugh McLaughlin
  Hugh McLaughlin (politician)
  Hugh McLaughlin was an American politician and for many years the "boss" of the Democratic Party in Brooklyn.-Life:Hugh McLaughlin was born in Brooklyn as son of Irish immigrants. He learned the trade of a rope maker. In 1855 he became master mechanic in the Brooklyn Navy Yard...
  
  , Brooklyn Democratic party boss
• Joseph McLaughlin, US Congressman
• Robert McNamara
  Robert McNamara
  Robert Strange McNamara was an American business executive and the eighth Secretary of Defense, serving under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1968, during which time he played a large role in escalating the United States involvement in the Vietnam War...
  
  , United States Secretary of Defense
  United States Secretary of Defense
  The Secretary of Defense is the head and chief executive officer of the Department of Defense of the United States of America. This position corresponds to what is generally known as a Defense Minister in other countries...
  
   under President John F. Kennedy
  John F. Kennedy
  John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....
  
  
• Frank J. McNulty, US Congressman
• Michael R. McNulty
  Michael R. McNulty
  Michael Robert "Mike" McNulty is a politician from the U.S. state of New York. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1989 to 2009, initially representing New York's 23rd congressional district and then, after redistricting, New York's 21st congressional district...
  
  , US Congressman
• Marty Meehan
  Marty Meehan
  Martin Thomas "Marty" Meehan is an American attorney and politician from the state of Massachusetts. He is the current Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Lowell, a position he assumed on July 1, 2007...
  
  , US Congressman
• John Purroy Mitchel
  John Purroy Mitchel
  John Purroy Mitchel was the mayor of New York from 1914 to 1917. At age 34 he was the second-youngest ever; he is sometimes referred to as "The Boy Mayor of New York." Mayor Mitchel is remembered for his short career as leader of Reform politics in New York, as well as for his early death as an...
  
  , New York City mayor
• Robert M. Moore
  Robert M. Moore
  Robert M. Moore was an Irish-born mayor of Cincinnati.- External links :...
  
  , Cincinnati mayor
• Jim Moran
  Jim Moran
  James Patrick "Jim" Moran, Jr. is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1991. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district is located in Northern Virginia and includes the cities of Falls Church and Alexandria, all of Arlington County, and a portion of Fairfax County.Jim Moran was...
  
  , US Congressman
• John Morrissey
  John Morrissey
  John Morrissey , also known as Old Smoke, was an Irish bare-knuckle boxer and a gang member in New York in the 1850s and later became a Democratic State Senator and U.S. Congressman from New York, backed by Tammany Hall...
  
  , US Congressman
• Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  Daniel Patrick "Pat" Moynihan was an American politician and sociologist. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected to the United States Senate for New York in 1976, and was re-elected three times . He declined to run for re-election in 2000...
  
  , former US Senator
• P.H. Moynihan, US Congressman
• William J. Moxley, US Congressman
• Bryan Mullanphy
  Bryan Mullanphy
  Bryan Mullanphy was the tenth Mayor of St. Louis, serving from 1847 to 1848....
  
  , St. Louis mayor
• James C. Murray
  James C. Murray
  James Cunningham Murray was a U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1955-1957. He graduated from De Paul University Law School in 1940, and subsequently worked as a lawyer. He served in the United States Army Air Forces from 1942 to 1945.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Murray was elected to the...
  
  , US Congressman
• Timothy P. Murray
  Timothy P. Murray
  Timothy P. "Tim" Murray is the current Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts. From 2002 to 2007, Murray served as Mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts. He is a Democrat.-Early life and education:...
  
  , Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
  Massachusetts
  The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
  
  
• Charles F. Murphy, Tammany Hall
  Tammany Hall
  Tammany Hall, also known as the Society of St. Tammany, the Sons of St. Tammany, or the Columbian Order, was a New York political organization founded in 1786 and incorporated on May 12, 1789 as the Tammany Society...
  
   boss
• Dick Murphy
  Dick Murphy
  Richard M. Murphy is a former U.S. politician. He served as the 33rd Mayor of San Diego, California from 2000 to 2005-Early life:...
  
  , San Diego mayor
• Frank Murphy
  Frank Murphy
  William Francis Murphy was a politician and jurist from Michigan. He served as First Assistant U.S. District Attorney, Eastern Michigan District , Recorder's Court Judge, Detroit . Mayor of Detroit , the last Governor-General of the Philippines , U.S...
  
  , Detroit mayor, Michigan governor
• George Murphy
  George Murphy
  George Lloyd Murphy was an American dancer, actor, and politician.-Life and career:He was born in New Haven, Connecticut of Irish Catholic extraction, the son of Michael Charles "Mike" Murphy, athletic trainer and coach, and Nora Long. He was educated at Peddie School, Trinity-Pawling School, and...
  
  , US Senator
• Isaac Murphy
  Isaac Murphy
  For the African-American Hall of Fame jockey see: Isaac Burns MurphyIsaac Murphy was the first Reconstruction Governor of Arkansas. He was the first reconstruction governor to come to power under President Abraham Lincoln's conciliatory policy...
  
  , Arkansas governor
• Morgan F. Murphy
  Morgan F. Murphy
  Morgan Francis Murphy , was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.Murphy attended Chicago parochial schools. He received a Bachelor of Science from Northwestern University in 1955 and was a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. Murphy received a J.D. from DePaul University School of Law in 1962...
  
  , US Congressman
• Timothy Murphy
  Tim Murphy (congressman)
  Timothy "Tim" F. Murphy is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2003. He is a member of the Republican Party. He previously served in the Pennsylvania Senate....
  
  , US Congressman
• Tom Murphy
  Tom Murphy (mayor)
  Thomas J. "Tom" Murphy, Jr. is a Democratic politician from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. From January 1994 until January 2006 he served as mayor of Pittsburgh...
  
  , Pittsburgh mayor
• William T. Murphy
  William T. Murphy
  William Thomas Murphy of Chicago was a U.S. Representative from Illinois, 1959-1971. He was a graduate of Loyola University Chicago. He was a Democrat. Moreover, Murphy served in the First World War and was a Chicago Alderman....
  
  , US Congressman
• Richard Neal
  Richard Neal
  Richard Edmund Neal is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1989. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He is a former city councilor and mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts....
  
  , US Congressman
• Michael N. Nolan
  Michael N. Nolan
  Michael Allen Nicholas was a U.S. Representative from New York State as well as mayor of Albany, New York's capital...
  
  , Albany mayor
• Mary T. Norton, US Congressman
• Frank O'Bannon
  Frank O'Bannon
  Frank Lewis O'Bannon was an American politician who was the 47th Governor of Indiana from 1997 until his death in 2003.-Background:...
  
  , Indiana governor
• Christopher D. O'Brien
  Christopher D. O'Brien
  Christopher D. O'Brien — of St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minn. O'Brien was born in Ireland in County Galway, Ireland, December 4, 1848. A lawyer of Irish Catholic ancestry, he served as the mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota from 1883 to 1885 List of Mayors of Saint Paul, Minn. He died in St...
  
  , St. Paul mayor
• Hugh O'Brien
  Hugh O'Brien
  Hugh O'Brien was the 31st mayor of Boston, from 1884–1888. O'Brien is notable as Boston's first Irish mayor, having emigrated from Ireland to America in the early 1830s...
  
  , Boston's first Irish mayor
• James O'Brien (US Congressman)
• John P. O'Brien
  John P. O'Brien
  John Patrick O'Brien was an Irish-American politician who served as the Mayor of New York City from January 1 to December 31, 1933.-Biography:He was born on February 1, 1873 to Mary and Patrick O'Brien....
  
  , New York City mayor
• Thomas J. O’Brien, US Congressman
• Dan O'Connell, Albany mayor
• Bob O'Connor, Mayor of Pittsburgh
• Maureen O'Connor
  Maureen O'Connor
  Maureen O'Connor is an American jurist and the Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court. Prior to this, O'Connor served as an Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court and as Lieutenant Governor of Ohio under Gov. Bob Taft...
  
  , San Diego mayor
• Herbert R. O'Conor, Maryland governor
• Kenneth O'Donnell
  Kenneth O'Donnell
  Kenneth Patrick O'Donnell , known as Kenny, was a top aide to U.S. President John F. Kennedy and part of the group of Kennedys' close advisors called the "Irish Mafia"...
  
  , Senior Aide to President John F Kennedy
• William O'Dwyer
  William O'Dwyer
  William O'Dwyer was the 100th Mayor of New York City, holding that office from 1946 to 1950.-Biography:O'Dwyer was born in County Mayo, Ireland and migrated to the United States in 1910, after abandoning studies for the priesthood...
  
  , New York City mayor
• James A. O'Gorman, US Senator
• Barratt O'Hara
  Barratt O'Hara
  Barratt O'Hara of Chicago was the 30th Lieutenant Governor of Illinois from 1913 to 1917 and a U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1949 to 1951 and from 1953 to 1969.-External links: Retrieved on 2008-02-09...
  
  , US Congressman
• Arthur J. O'Keefe
  Arthur J. O'Keefe
  Arthur Joseph O’Keefe was mayor of New Orleans from 1926 through 1929.Born in New Orleans, O’Keefe was the son of Arthur O’Keefe and Sarah O'Keefe. He was educated at St. Aloysius High School and later went into business, eventually running his own coffee import company...
  
  , New Orleans mayor
• Martin O'Malley, Baltimore mayor
• Charles H. O'Neill
  Charles H. O'Neill
  Charles H. O'Neill was an Irish-American politician and a Democrat who served as Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey, from May 4, 1868 until April 10, 1869, when he resigned, and again from May 2, 1870 until May 3, 1874....
  
  , Jersey City mayor
• Thomas O'Neill
  Tip O'Neill
  Thomas Phillip "Tip" O'Neill, Jr. was an American politician. O'Neill was an outspoken liberal Democrat and influential member of the U.S. Congress, serving in the House of Representatives for 34 years and representing two congressional districts in Massachusetts...
  
  , Speaker of the House
• William A. O'Neill, Connecticut governor
• Daniel O'Reilly, US Congressman
• George F. O'Shaunessy
  George F. O'Shaunessy
  George Francis O'Shaunessy of Providence, Rhode Island was born in Galway, Ireland, May 1, 1868, and died in 1934. He was a U.S. Representative from Rhode Island, 1911-1919. He was a Democrat.-References:...
  
  , US Congressman
• Sarah Palin
  Sarah Palin
  Sarah Louise Palin is an American politician, commentator and author. As the Republican Party nominee for Vice President in the 2008 presidential election, she was the first Alaskan on the national ticket of a major party and first Republican woman nominated for the vice-presidency.She was...
  
   - Alaska governor, Republican nominee for Vice President in 2008, her mother is of partial Irish ancestry.
• George Pataki
  George Pataki
  George Elmer Pataki is an American politician who was the 53rd Governor of New York. A member of the Republican Party, Pataki served three consecutive four-year terms from January 1, 1995 until December 31, 2006.- Early life :...
  
   - New York governor http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/e2332.htm "The grandson of Hungarian immigrants on his father's side and Italian and Irish immigrants on his mother's side, Pataki grew up on a small farm in Peekskill..."
• Tom Pendergast
  Tom Pendergast
  Thomas Joseph Pendergast controlled Kansas City and Jackson County, Missouri as a political boss. "Boss Tom" Pendergast gave workers jobs and helped elect politicians during the Great Depression, becoming wealthy in the process.-Early years:Thomas Joseph Pendergast, also known to close friends as...
  
  , Kansas City Democratic machine boss
• James D. Phelan
  James D. Phelan
  James Duval Phelan was an American politician, civic leader and banker.-Early years:Phelan was born in San Francisco, the son of an Irish immigrant who became wealthy during the California Gold Rush as a trader, merchant and banker. He graduated from St...
  
  , San Francisco mayor, US Senator
• George Washington Plunkitt
  George Washington Plunkitt
  George Washington Plunkitt was a long-time State Senator from the U.S. state of New York, representing the Fifteenth Senate District, who was especially powerful in New York City. He was part of what is known as New York's Tammany Hall machine....
  
  , Tammany Hall
  Tammany Hall
  Tammany Hall, also known as the Society of St. Tammany, the Sons of St. Tammany, or the Columbian Order, was a New York political organization founded in 1786 and incorporated on May 12, 1789 as the Tammany Society...
  
   member
• Jack Quinn
  Jack Quinn (politics)
  John Francis "Jack" Quinn is the President of Erie Community College and a former politician from the State of New York. He was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives....
  
  , US Congressman
• John Quinn
  John Quinn (politician)
  John Quinn of New York, born in County Tipperary, Ireland, was a U.S. Representative from New York from 1889 to 1891. At death, he was 64.- Source :...
  
  , US Congressman

• Ronald Reagan
  Ronald Reagan
  Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....
  
   (1911 - 2004) the 40th President of the United States
  President of the United States
  The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....
  
   (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California
  Governor of California
  The Governor of California is the chief executive of the California state government, whose responsibilities include making annual State of the State addresses to the California State Legislature, submitting the budget, and ensuring that state laws are enforced...
  
   (1967–1975).
• Thomas Reilly
  Thomas Reilly
  Thomas F. Reilly is an American attorney and politician who served as the 45th Massachusetts Attorney General. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts to Irish immigrant parents....
  
  , Massachusetts Attorney General
• Daniel J. Riordan
  Daniel J. Riordan
  Daniel Joseph Riordan of New York City was a U.S. Representative from New York from 1899 to 1901 and from 1906 to 1923. He was a Democrat and a member of Tammany Hall.-References:...
  
  , US Congressman
• Richard Riordan
  Richard Riordan
  Richard J. Riordan is a Republican politician from California, U.S.A. who served as the California Secretary for Education from 2003–2005 and as the 39th Mayor of Los Angeles, California from 1993–2001...
  
  , former Los Angeles mayor
• William R. Roberts
  William R. Roberts
  William Randall Roberts was a diplomat, Fenian Society member, and United States Representative from New York . Born in County Cork, Ireland, he immigrated to the United States in July 1849, received a limited schooling, and was a merchant in New York City until 1869, until he retired.In 1865,...
  
  , US Congressman
• John J. Rooney
  John J. Rooney
  John James Rooney was a Democratic politician from New York.Rooney was born in Brooklyn in 1903. In 1925, he graduated with a law degree from Fordham University and practiced law following his admission to the bar the next year...
  
  , US Congressman
• George H. Ryan, Illinois governor
• Jim Ryan
  Jim Ryan (politician)
  James E. Ryan is an American politician who served two four-year terms as Illinois Attorney General. A career Republican, he received his party's nomination and ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Illinois against Rod Blagojevich in 2002. He has been a professor at Benedictine University since 2003...
  
  , former Illinois Attorney General
  Illinois Attorney General
  The Illinois Attorney General is the highest legal officer of the state of Illinois in the United States. Originally an appointed office, it is now an office filled by election through universal suffrage...
  
  , father was Irish, mother was Italian
• Paul Ryan
  Paul Ryan (politician)
  Paul Davis Ryan is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1999. He is a member of the Republican Party and has been ranked among the party's most influential voices on economic policy....
  
  , US Congressman
• Tim Ryan, US Congressman
• William Ryan
  William Ryan (lawyer)
  William Fitts Ryan was an American lawyer and politician. He served as a representative from New York in the United States House of Representatives from 1961 until his death in 1972. He was a member of the Democratic Party....
  
  , US Congressman
• Wilson Shannon
  Wilson Shannon
  Wilson Shannon was a Democratic politician from Ohio and Kansas. He served as the 14th and 16th Governor of Ohio, and was the first governor of Ohio born in the state...
  
  , Ohio governor
• William F. Sheehan
  William F. Sheehan
  William Francis Sheehan was an American lawyer and politician. During his political career he became known as Blue-Eyed Billy.-Biography:He was born on November 6, 1859 in Buffalo, New York....
  
  , Buffalo democratic machine boss
• James Shields
  James Shields
  James Shields was an American politician and United States Army officer who was born in Altmore, County Tyrone, Ireland. Shields, a Democrat, is the only person in United States history to serve as a U.S. Senator for three different states...
  
  , US Senator
• Peter Joseph Shields
  Peter Joseph Shields
  On April 4, 1862 at the Shields Ranch, which was around Rancho Cordova, California on the American River, Peter Joseph Shields was born to John Shields who emigrated in 1850 from Donegal, Ireland and Elizabeth Shields, née Bowe, who emigrated from Waterford, Ireland in 1855...
  
  , Superior Court Judge, Jeffersonian Democrat, for 49 years, Founder of University of California at Davis, and the McGeorge Law School. Son of John Shields, County Donegal, Ireland and Elizabeth Bowe, County Waterford, Ireland
• Sargent Shriver
  Sargent Shriver
  Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr., known as Sargent Shriver, R. Sargent Shriver, or, from childhood, Sarge, was an American statesman and activist. As the husband of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, he was part of the Kennedy family, serving in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations...
  
  , Democratic
  Democratic Party (United States)
  The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
  
   politician
• Al Smith
  Al Smith
  Alfred Emanuel Smith. , known in private and public life as Al Smith, was an American statesman who was elected the 42nd Governor of New York three times, and was the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate in 1928...
  
  , New York governor, Democratic Party
  Democratic Party (United States)
  The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
  
   presidential candidate (Irish grandparent; Smith identified as an Irish American)
• James Smith
  James Smith (political figure)
  James Smith , was a signer to the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Pennsylvania....
  
  , signatory to the Declaration of Independence
  United States Declaration of Independence
  The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. John Adams put forth a...
  
  
• P.J. Somers, Milwaukee mayor
• Michael J. Stack
  Michael J. Stack
  Michael Joseph Stack was a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1935 to 1939.-Biography:...
  
  , US Congressman
• Christopher D. Sullivan
  Christopher D. Sullivan
  Christopher Daniel Sullivan was a United States Representative from New York from 1917 to 1941. Born in New York City, he attended public schools, St. James Parochial School, and St. Mary's Academy in New York City...
  
  , US Congressman
• James Sullivan, Massachusetts governor
• Patrick Joseph Sullivan
  Patrick Joseph Sullivan
  Patrick Joseph Sullivan was the mayor of Casper, Wyoming from 1897 to 1898 and was a Republican member of the United States Senate from Wyoming from 1929 to 1930....
  
  , US Senator
• Timothy Sullivan
  Timothy Sullivan
  Timothy Daniel Sullivan was a New York politician who controlled Manhattan's Bowery and Lower East Side districts as a prominent figure within Tammany Hall. He was euphemistically known as "Dry Dollar", as the "Big Feller", and, later, as "Big Tim"...
  
  , US Congressman
• William Howard Taft
  William Howard Taft
  William Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States...
  
  , US President
• James Hugh Joseph Tate
  James Hugh Joseph Tate
  James Hugh Joseph Tate was an American politician. He served as the Mayor of Philadelphia between 1962 and 1972. He originally ascended to the office of Mayor when Richardson Dilworth resigned to make an unsuccessful run for Governor of Pennsylvania in the 1962 election. Tate was elected to full...
  
  , first Catholic
  Catholic
  The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...
  
   mayor of Philadelphia
• George Taylor
  George Taylor (delegate)
  George Taylor was a Colonial ironmaster and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Pennsylvania...
  
  , signatory to the Declaration of Independence
  United States Declaration of Independence
  The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. John Adams put forth a...
  
  
• Charles Thomson
  Charles Thomson
  Charles Thomson was a Patriot leader in Philadelphia during the American Revolution and the secretary of the Continental Congress throughout its existence.-Biography:...
  
  , secretary
  Secretary
  A secretary, or administrative assistant, is a person whose work consists of supporting management, including executives, using a variety of project management, communication & organizational skills. These functions may be entirely carried out to assist one other employee or may be for the benefit...
  
   to the Continental Congress
  Continental Congress
  The Continental Congress was a convention of delegates called together from the Thirteen Colonies that became the governing body of the United States during the American Revolution....
  
  
• Matthew Thornton
  Matthew Thornton
  Matthew Thornton , was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Hampshire.- Background and Early Life :He was born in Ireland, the son of James Thornton and Elizabeth Malone...
  
  , signatory to the Declaration of Independence
• John F. Tierney
  John F. Tierney
  John F. Tierney is the United States representative for . He is a member of the Democratic Party and an advocate for liberal policies and government oversight. A former attorney, he has served since 1997....
  
  , US Congressman
• John V. Tunney
  John V. Tunney
  John Varick Tunney , is a former Democratic Party United States Senator and Representative.-Biography:He is the son of the famous heavyweight boxing champion Gene Tunney and Connecticut socialite Polly Lauder Tunney....
  
  , US Senator
• Éamon de Valera
  Éamon de Valera
  Éamon de Valera was one of the dominant political figures in twentieth century Ireland, serving as head of government of the Irish Free State and head of government and head of state of Ireland...
  
   (1882 - 1975) dominant political figures in 20th century Ireland.
• Jimmy Walker
  Jimmy Walker
  James John Walker, often known as Jimmy Walker and colloquially as Beau James , was the mayor of New York City from 1926 to 1932...
  
  , New York City mayor
• David I. Walsh
  David I. Walsh
  David Ignatius Walsh was a United States politician from Massachusetts. As a member of the Democratic Party, he served in the state legislature and then as Lieutenant Governor and then as the 46th Governor . His first term in the U.S...
  
  , Massachusetts' first Catholic
  Catholic
  The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...
  
   governor
• James T. Walsh
  James T. Walsh
  James Thomas "Jim" Walsh is an American Republican politician from Syracuse, New York. In 2009, he retired after representing a portion of Central New York, that is now known as the state's 25th Congressional District, in the United States House of Representatives for twenty years.-Early...
  
  , US Congressman
• Patrick Walsh, US Senator
• Thomas W. Ward
  Thomas W. Ward
  For the British industrialist and shipbreaker see Thomas William WardThomas W. Ward was an Irish-born mayor of Austin, Texas who also served as Texas Commissioner of the General Land Office.Ward County, Texas was named in his honor....
  
  , Austin mayor
• Thomas J. Whelan
  Thomas J. Whelan
  Thomas J. Whelan was an Irish-American mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey. He served as the Mayor of Jersey City from 1963 to 1971....
  
  , Jersey City mayor
• William Whipple
  William Whipple
  William Whipple, Jr. was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Hampshire....
  
  , signatory to the Declaration of Independence
  United States Declaration of Independence
  The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. John Adams put forth a...
  
  
• Kevin White, Boston mayor