In June 1835, Lucas dispatched a delegation consisting of U. S. Attorney Noah Haynes Swayne, former Congressman William Allen, and David T. Disney to Washington D. C. to confer with President Andrew Jackson.

* July 23 – David Daliberti and William Barloon, 2 Americans held as spies by Iraq, are released by Saddam Hussein after negotiations with U. S. Congressman Bill Richardson.

* January 31 – David Spangler Kaufman, Congressman from Texas ( b. 1813 )

Congressman David Wilmot first introduced the Proviso in the United States House of Representatives on August 8, 1846 as a rider on a $ 2, 000, 000 appropriations bill intended for the final negotiations to resolve the Mexican – American War.

Among the better-known graduates are screenwriters for the television show Friends David Crane and Marta Kauffman, political activists Abbie Hoffman and Angela Davis, journalist Thomas Friedman, Congressman Stephen J. Solarz, physicist Edward Witten, novelist Ha Jin, political theorist Michael Walzer, actress Debra Messing, philosopher Michael Sandel, Olympic Silver Medalist fencer Timothy Morehouse, social and psychoanalytic theorist Nancy Chodorow, and author Mitch Albom.

* David S. Garland ( 1769 – 1841 ), Congressman, master of the Brick House ( Clifford, Virginia ), founder of the New Glasgow Academy.

Notable inhabitants include U. S. Congressman Carl D. Perkins, Appalachian author James Still, poet Albert Stewart, country music star David Tolliver from Halfway to Hazard and actress Rebecca Gayheart.

In the 2004 U. S. Senate primary election, Tensas Parish gave a plurality to the Republican candidate, Congressman David Vitter of St. Tammany Parish.

* David W. Dennis, U. S. Congressman

On June 3, 2000, U. S. Congressman and Gubernatorial candidate David M. McIntosh presented the finalized Seal to the Amo Town Board during the Amo Annual Fish Fry.

In 1980, the band was invited by former Congressman David O ’ Brien Martin to play in Washington, DC on the Capitol steps and also at the Lincoln Memorial.

On October 2, 2006, in reaction to revelations of a GOP cover-up of inappropriate communications between Congressman Mark Foley and teenage pages, Citizens United president David Bossie called on Dennis Hastert to resign over his role in covering up the scandal.

* David Huddleston as Congressman Hollis Peaker

" Former Congressman David M. McIntosh called it " required reading for all GOP candidates.

Long, the Fourth District Congressman Joseph David " Joe D ." Waggonner, Jr., and the late Shreveport Mayor Littleberry Calhoun Allen, Jr. With the completion of the project, a lock system constructed by the US Army Corps of Engineers ( COE ) allows navigation of barge traffic as far north as Shreveport.

* David Gardiner Tyler 1869 — U. S. Congressman ; son of President John Tyler

Nathaniel Macon is the great-grandfather of Congressman Charles Martin, the uncle of Willis Alston and Micajah Thomas Hawkins, great-uncle of Matt Whitaker Ransom, Robert Ransom and Thomas Jefferson Green, great-great-uncle of Wharton Jackson Green, John Pegram, William Ransom Johnson Pegram, and David Harrison Macon, great-great-great-great-uncle of Claude Kitchin and William Walton Kitchin, and the great-great-great-great-great-uncle of Alvin Paul Kitchin.

** David Wu ( 1955 –), a United States Congressman from Oregon

He was heavily re-elected in 2000 over Congressman David M. McIntosh.

He was re-elected by a larger margin, 57 % to 42 %, in 2000 against second district Congressman David M. McIntosh.

In 1994, Oklahoma's 1st District Congressman Jim Inhofe resigned to run in a special election to succeed Senator David Boren.

Elizabeth's daughter Julia Edwards married Edward L. Baker, editor of the Illinois State Journal and son of Congressman David Jewett Baker.

* David Obey, a US Congressman from Wisconsin

* David Thomas ( New York politician ) ( 1762 – 1831 ), American politician, Congressman from New York

George Outlaw ( born 1731-died 15 August 1825 ) was a U. S. Congressman from North Carolina in 1825.

David Outlaw ( 14 September 1806 – 22 October 1868 ) was a Whig U. S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1847 and 1853.

David Outlaw was the cousin of Congressman and state senate speaker George Outlaw.

Lincoln, in collaboration with abolitionist Congressman Joshua R. Giddings, wrote a bill to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia with compensation for the owners, enforcement to capture fugitive slaves, and a popular vote on the matter.

He wrote to a Confederate Congressman, " The noble, the chivalric, the gallant Pelham is no more.

McVeigh also wrote to Congressman John J. LaFalce, complaining about the arrest of a woman for carrying mace:

However, former Republican Congressman Paul " Pete " McCloskey, Jr., who served with Robertson in Korea, wrote a public letter which said that Robertson was actually spared combat duty when his powerful father, a U. S. Senator, intervened on his behalf, and that Robertson spent most of his time in an office in Japan.

U. S. Congressmen Sue Myrick ( R-NC ), Trent Franks ( R-AZ ), John Shadegg ( R-AZ ), and Paul Broun ( R-GA ) wrote Attorney General Eric Holder on October 21, 2009, that they were very concerned about CAIR's relationships with terrorist groups, and requesting that the Department of Justice ( DOJ ) provide each Congressman a summary of DOJ's evidence and findings that led DOJ to name CAIR an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism trial.

The four Republican Congressmen, joined by Senator Tom Coburn ( R-OK ) and Congressman Patrick McHenry ( R-NC ), then wrote IRS Commissioner Douglas H. Shulman on November 16, 2009, asking that CAIR be investigated for excessive lobbying and failing to register as a lobbying organization.

Clem Miller, a US Congressman from Marin County wrote and introduced the bill for the establishment of Point Reyes National Seashore in 1962 to protect the peninsula from residential development which was proposed at the time for the slopes above Drake's Bay.

More than of the Point Reyes National Seashore are designated as the Phillip Burton Wilderness, named in honor of California Congressman Phillip Burton, who wrote the legislation creating the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and was instrumental in helping to pass the California Wilderness Act of 1984.

In response to the two 2004 incidents, New York Senator Hillary Clinton and Congressman Tim Bishop wrote a letter to the Department of Homeland Security regarding their concerns about the center's safety: " We urge you to immediately investigate these alarming breaches at the highest levels, and to keep us apprised of all developments.

On August 30, 2007, Baldwin wrote an informal endorsement for Ron Paul for the GOP nomination: " Conservative Republicans have only one choice for president in 2008: Congressman Ron Paul of Texas "; more formal endorsement of Paul came in a December video.

Yoffe wrote that the final incident occurred when she was " 18 or 19 " and that former Congressman and priest Robert Drinan was the perpetrator.

On November 24, 2008, American Republican Congressman Ron Paul ( R-TX ) wrote, " In bailing out failing companies, they are confiscating money from productive members of the economy and giving it to failing ones.

In the aftermath of the release of the Downing Street Memo in 2005, Bonifaz co-founded After Downing Street and wrote a memo to Congressman John Conyers of Michigan, the Ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, urging him to introduce a Resolution of Inquiry directing the House Judiciary Committee to launch a formal investigation into whether sufficient grounds exist for the House to impeach President George W. Bush.

She first became recognized for her reporting after she wrote an investigative piece about election fraud in Ohio, which was later cited in What went wrong in Ohio, a report published by Congressman John Conyers ( D-MI ) and later cited in several prominent articles, including in Robert F. Kennedy Jr .' s controversial Rolling Stone article.

Later in the war, after some had criticized the arrest and detention of Congressman Clement Vallandigham of Ohio, Lincoln wrote to Erastus Corning in June 1862 that Vallandigham was arrested " because he was laboring, with some effect, to prevent the raising of troops, to encourage desertions from the army, and to leave the rebellion without an adequate military force to suppress it.

In 1871, Congressman John A. Logan wrote legislation to provide federal land grants and subsidies for a transcontinental railroad ending in San Diego.