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

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

Former President Theodore Roosevelt had been the frontrunner for the Republican nomination, but his health collapsed in 1918.

Former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger was the first Secretary of Energy, who was a Republican nominated to the post by Democratic President Jimmy Carter, the only time a president has appointed someone of another party to the post.

Former Republican U. S. Representative from Michigan, Robert James Huber, is buried in Hope, but he did not live there.

Former Roanoke mayor Ralph Smith won the 2007 election in the neighboring 22nd Senate district after defeating incumbent Brandon Bell for the Republican nomination in the primary election and Democrat Michael Breiner in the general election.

Former Illinois congressman and House Republican party minority leader Bob Michel caused a minor stir in 1988, when on the USA Today television program he fondly recalled minstrel shows in which he had participated as a young man and expressed his regret that they had fallen out of fashion.

Former Republican New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani was a candidate for the U. S. presidency in the 2008 election, as was Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo.

Sen. Trent Lott with Former Speaker of the House Rep. Newt Gingrich ( R-GA ) at the 2004 Republican National Convention ; both Lott and Gingrich provided consistent support to President George W. Bush.

Former Alaska Governor and 2008 Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin was featured on the cover of the November 23, 2009 issue of Newsweek, with the caption " How do you Solve a Problem Like Sarah?

* Former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz for the open Senate seat being vacated by Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.

Former Minnesota Governor Arne Carlson, a Republican, criticized Pawlenty's budget strategy: he borrowed more than $ 1 billion from the tobacco settlement ( money set aside for heath care ), borrowed more than $ 1. 4 billion from K-12 education funding, borrowed more than $ 400 from the Health Care Access Fund for low-income families, among other short-term shifts in accounting.

Former President George W. Bush is the 19th Republican to hold that office.

Former recent mayors include Paul Matacera, who served for more than 16 years, and David Spaulding, the township's first Republican mayor in over 25 years.

Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger ( a fellow Republican ) agreed that only one of them would run ; when Schwarzenegger announced on The Tonight Show that he would be a candidate, Riordan dropped out of the race.

Former state Republican chairman Osro Cobb reversed himself in 1966 and endorsed Rockefeller.

* Carol McCain ( born 1937 or 1938 ), Former wife of U. S. Senator and former 2008 Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain.

Former State Representative Preston Bynum of Siloam Springs in usually Republican Benton County in northwestern Arkansas, became White's chief aide.

* Suzanna Hupp – Former Republican state representative from Lampasas County and Second Amendment advocate

* Former President Abraham Lincoln, influenced by the writings of Karl Marx, is an orator struggling to keep the Republican Party united in the cause of the working man.

Former Republican U. S. Senator and former U. S. Presidential candidate Rick Santorum, an opponent of LGBT rights in general, has said that he has " a problem with homosexual acts " and does not believe the right to privacy under the United States Constitution covers sexual acts, and also criticized the US Supreme Court ruling in the case of Lawrence v. Texas that ruled to the contrary.

Democratic politicians responding to Santorum's remarks included Former Governor of Vermont Howard Dean, who called on Santorum, " to resign from his post as Republican Conference chairman.

In 2010, Congressman Castle ran to be the Republican candidate to fill the seat of Former Senator Joe Biden, now Vice President.

Former Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez said he spoke to Tancredo about possible runs for governor or Senate in 2010.

Bildt has also been noted internationally as a mediator in the Balkan conflict, serving as the European Union's Special Envoy to the Former Yugoslavia from June 1995, co-chairman of the Dayton Peace Conference in November 1995 and as High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from December 1995 to June 1997 immediately after the Bosnian War.

Bildt and Richard Holbrooke before peace talks in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina in October 1995. After his term as Prime Minister, Bildt was active as a mediator in the Balkans conflict, serving as the European Union Special Envoy to Former Yugoslavia from June 1995, Co-Chairman of the Dayton Peace Conference in November 1995, and High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina from December 1995 to June 1997 immediately after the Bosnian War.

Former UN Commissioner N ° 2 and now UN Special Representative Martti Ahtisaari arrived in Windhoek in April 1989 to head the UN Transition Assistance Group's ( UNTAG ) mission.

Former U. S. Representative Oren Harris was born in Hempstead County near Hope but was reared in Nevada County before he began his law practice and political career in El Dorado.

Former State Representative Dave Argall won the special election of March 3 to succeed the late State Senator Jim Rhoades and was sworn in on March 17.

Former U. S. Representative Edwin R. Bethune of Arkansas is originally from Randolph County.

* Former U. S. Representative Thomas Dale Alford was born in Pike County.

* Charles Addison Riddle III, District Attorney, 2003-current, Former State Representative, 1992-2003.

Son of Charles Addison Riddle Jr., former District Attorney and Grandson of Charles Riddle, Former Representative 1932-1940.

Former U. S. Representative Boyd Anderson Tackett was born in Black Springs.

Former U. S. Representative William Henry Harrison of Wyoming, a descendant of two U. S. presidents, retired in North Redington Beach and died in 1990 in St. Petersburg.

* Mark Souder, Former U. S. Representative

Former Louisiana State Representative Vic Stelly, author of the Stelly Plan, resides in Moss Bluff.

Former Louisiana State Representative Tony Perkins resided in Baker until he relocated to Washington, D. C., to head the Family Research Council.

Former U. S. Representative T. Ashton Thompson was born in Ville Platte in 1916.

Former U. S. Representative and former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives

Former State Representative Mary Smith Gleason ( 1899 – 1967 ) of Webster Parish in north Louisiana spent her last years in Plaquemine.

* Jerry Huckaby, Former U. S. Representative, has retired to Choudrant.

Former Louisiana State Representative Cliff Ammons was the principal of Fisher High School in the late 1940s.

Former U. S. Representative James H. Morrison, who held Louisiana's 6th congressional district seat from 1943 to 1967, was born in 1908 in Hammond.

Former United States Representative Vern Ehlers of Michigan was born in Pipestone.

Former State Representative Suzanna Hupp lives in Kempner with her family.

Former U. S. Representative George Mahon of Lubbock was reared in Mitchell County and is honored with a statue in front of the courthouse.