* 1905 – Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell.

Other notable supporters include Newark Mayor Cory Booker, former Governor of South Carolina Mark Sanford, billionaire and American philanthropist John T. Walton, Former Mayor of Baltimore Kurt L. Schmoke, Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and John McCain.

* Manuel H. Johnson, Former Vice Governor of the Federal Reserve

* 1893 – Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada ; originally presented to amateur champions, the Stanley Cup has been awarded to the top pro team since 1910, and since 1926, only to National Hockey League teams.

Former New York State Attorney General and former Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer has pursued spyware companies for fraudulent installation of software.

Former Ohio Governor and U. S. Surveyor General Edward Tiffin who commissioned the Harris Line survey.

File: Lamar Alexander 2. jpg | Former Governor Lamar Alexander of Tennessee

* Former Governor Pierre S. du Pont IV of Delaware

* Former Governor George Wallace of Alabama

* Former Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona

* Former Governor Thomas Kean of New Jersey

Former Justice of the Peace Harry C. Staton was killed, and Ephraim Morgan, Governor of West Virginia, pleaded in person with President Harding for federal military support.

* July 16 – Former California Governor and actor Ronald Reagan is nominated for U. S. President, at the

* August 25 – Giridharilal Kedia, Former Working President of KVK, Cuttack ; Past District Governor of Lions Club International 322C & Former Chairman of IITM cuttack & is known as liondayon.

** Former California Governor Ronald Reagan enters the race for the Republican presidential nomination, challenging incumbent President Gerald Ford.

* June 30 – Cary's Rebellion: Former governor Thomas Cary, after declaring himself Governor of North Carolina, sails an armed brigantine up the Chowan River to attack Governor Hyde's forces fortified at Colonel Thomas Pollock's plantation.

* Ian Plenderleith, MBA 1971, Former Deputy Governor, South African Reserve Bank

Former Iowa Governor Horace Boies was a major contender for the Democratic nomination for president in 1896.

File: Harold Stassen. jpg | Former Governor of Minnesota Harold Stassen

Former California Governor Jerry Brown, who had run for the Democratic nomination in 1976 and 1980 while he was still Governor, declared a significant reform agenda, including Congressional term limits, campaign finance reform, and the adoption of a flat income tax.

Former President César Gaviria became Secretary General of the OAS in September 1994 and was reelected in 1999.

Former Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa is the present Secretary General of the Arab League.

Former Egyptian Deputy Prime Minister Boutros Boutros-Ghali served as Secretary General of the United Nations from 1991 to 1996.

Former Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Al-Araby is the present Secretary General of the Arab League.

* 1975 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.

Former Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister, and Attorney General Mohamed Shahabuddeen served a 9-year term on the International Court of Justice ( 1987 – 96 ).

Former U. S. Congressman W. Sterling Cole served as the IAEA's first Director General from 1957 to 1961.

* Saroj Ghose: Padma Bhushan and Former Director General of National Council of Science Museums, India

* 1966 – Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.

* 1998 – Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges.

* Sandy Alderson: Former General Manager of the Oakland Athletics, Alderson began focusing on sabermetric principles toward obtaining relatively undervalued players in 1995.

Former Bulgarian Foreign Minister and Atlantic Club of Bulgaria founding president Solomon Passy owned a famous Trabant, which he used to take NATO Secretaries General Manfred Wörner, George Robertson and Jaap de Hoop Scheffer for a ride.

Former U. S. Army General Colin Powell was widely courted as a potential Republican nominee.

* March 28 – Former United States General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower dies after a long illness in the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D. C ..

* August 6 – Former UK Postmaster General John Stonehouse is sentenced to 7 years ' jail for fraud, theft and forgery.

** Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.

* February 21 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell, and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, are sentenced to between 30 months and 8 years in prison.

* January 19 – Former U. S. Attorney General John N. Mitchell is released on parole after 19 months at a federal prison in Alabama.

* Raymond Viault, MBA 1969, Former Vice Chairman and CFO of General Mills, Inc.

Former chairman of General Electric, Jack Welch, believed that you could not be successful if you went it alone in a global economy.

Former Attorney General John Mitchell, who at the time was the head of the Nixon re-election campaign ( CRP ), denied any involvement with the Watergate break-in or knowledge of the five burglars.