Federal post; state governor, lt. gov., sec. of state, atty gen., speaker/senate leader

• Thomas Ewing, AB 1815, Secretary of the Treasury (1841), secretary of the interior (1849) and personal adviser to President Andrew Johnson
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• George William Summers, AB 1825, Virginia congressman (1841–45), circuit judge (1852–58) and delegate to the 1861 Confederate secession convention
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• Carey Allen Trimble, AB 1833, Ohio congressman (1859–63)
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• Turner Mastin Marquart, BS 1855, Nebraska Territory representative to Congress (1865–66, 1867)


• Thomas Ogden Osborne, AB 1854, Union general; U.S. minister to Argentina (1874–85)


• Israel Moore Foster, AB 1895, Ohio congressman (1919–25)
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• William Estus McVey, BSED ’16, Illinois Congressman (1951–58)
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• Albert D. Baumhart Jr., AB ’31 and MA ’32; Ohio Congressman (1941–42, 1955–60)
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• James H. Jewell, AB ’31, U.S. Air Force surgeon who planned and coordinated method to airlift American wounded from Normandy beaches to England on D-Day, saving thousands of lives


• Frank J. Battisti, AB ’47, federal judge, U.S. District Court, Cleveland
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• Lt. Gen. Robert Arter (Ret.), BSCOM ’50, former commanding general, Sixth U.S. Army
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• Donald J. Pease, BSJ ’53, MA ’55, seven-term United States representative from northeastern Ohio
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• George Voinovich, AB ’58 and HON ’81, former Ohio governor and current U.S. senator from Ohio
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• Lawrence Taylor, AB ’63, U.S. ambassador to Estonia (1994–present)¬


• Paul R. Leonard, BSJ ’65, former lieutenant governor of Ohio
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• Oga Okwoche, BSED ’66 and MED ’67, Nigerian ambassador to France


• Frank Cremeans, MED ’69, Ohio Congressman (1995–97)
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• David Crane, BGS ’72, MA ’73, United Nations’ chief prosecutor of war crimes in Sierra Leone
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• Kenneth Kies, BGS ’74, former chief of staff of the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation who helped develop the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 and the Tax Reform Acts of 1984 and 1986


• Tony Diebler, BGS ’75, only State Department employee to receive two Valor Awards for acts of bravery (Sarajevo, 1995; Liberia, 1996)


• David Wilhelm, AB ’77, former National Democratic Party chairman
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  Read his speech from the 2009 state government luncheon


• T.L.L. Dlamini, MAIA ’78, Swaziland’s ambassador and representative to the United Nations


• Stanley Adamu Mamman, MED ’79, PHD ’83, chairman, Federal Ministry of Education, Nigeria


• Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, MAIA ’79, Ghana ambassador to the United States
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• Larry Householder, AB ’82,  speaker, of Ohio House of Representatives
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• Marcus Dahn, MAIA '90, Liberian government official (2003-present)


• Mohd Naroden Majais, MBA ’97, chairman, State Legislature of Sarawak, Malaysia