List of Jewish American politicians

This is a list of notable Jewish American politicians, arranged chronologically. For other Jewish Americans, see Lists of Jewish Americans.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Federal government

Members of Congress

Main article: List of Jewish members of the United States Congress

Cabinet officials

	Position	Portrait	Name	State of Residence	Took office	Left office	President(s)
	3rd Secretary of Commerce and Labor		Oscar S. Straus[1]	New York	December 17, 1906	March 5, 1909		Theodore Roosevelt
	52nd Secretary of the Treasury		Henry Morgenthau, Jr. [1]	New York	January 1, 1934	July 22, 1945[2]		Franklin D. Roosevelt
								Harry S. Truman
–	Acting Secretary of Commerce		Lewis Strauss[1]	West Virginia	November 13, 1958	June 30, 1959		Dwight D. Eisenhower
	9th Secretary of Labor		Arthur Goldberg[1]	Illinois	January 21, 1961	September 20, 1962		John F. Kennedy
	4th Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare		Abraham A. Ribicoff[1]	Connecticut	January 21, 1961	July 13, 1962
	6th United States Ambassador to the United Nations		Arthur Goldberg[1]	Illinois	July 28, 1965	June 24, 1968		Lyndon B. Johnson
	7th Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare		Wilbur J. Cohen[1]	Michigan	May 16, 1968	January 20, 1969
	56th Secretary of State		Henry Kissinger[1]	District of Columbia	September 22, 1973	January 20, 1977[3]		Richard Nixon
								Gerald Ford
	71st Attorney General		Edward H. Levi[1]	Illinois	January 14, 1975	January 20, 1977
	14th Secretary of Defense		Harold Brown[1]	California	January 20, 1977	January 20, 1981		Jimmy Carter
	64th Secretary of the Treasury		W. Michael Blumenthal[1]	Michigan	January 23, 1977	August 4, 1979
	6th Secretary of Transportation		Neil E. Goldschmidt[1]	Oregon	August 15, 1979	January 20, 1981
	25th Secretary of Commerce		Philip Klutznick[1]	Illinois	January 9, 1980	January 20, 1981
	22nd Secretary of Labor		Robert Reich[1]	Massachusetts	January 22, 1993	January 20, 1997		Bill Clinton
	70th Secretary of the Treasury		Robert E. Rubin[1]	New York	January 11, 1995	July 2, 1999
	26th Secretary of Agriculture		Dan Glickman[1]	Kansas	March 30, 1995	January 20, 2001
	17th Director of Central Intelligence		John M. Deutch[4]	Massachusetts	May 10, 1995	December 15, 1996
	31st Secretary of Commerce		Mickey Kantor[1]	Tennessee	April 12, 1996	January 21, 1997
	71st Secretary of the Treasury		Lawrence H. Summers[1]	Massachusetts	July 2, 1999	January 20, 2001
	2nd Secretary of Homeland Security		Michael Chertoff[5]	New Jersey	February 15, 2005	January 21, 2009		George W. Bush
	81st Attorney General		Michael Mukasey[6]	New York	November 9, 2007	January 20, 2009
–	Acting Secretary of the Treasury		Stuart A. Levey[7]	Ohio	January 20, 2009	January 26, 2009		Barack Obama
	27th Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers		Alan Krueger[8]	New Jersey	November 7, 2011	August 2, 2013
–	Acting Secretary of Labor		Seth Harris	New York	January 22, 2013	July 23, 2013
–	Acting Secretary of the Treasury		Neal S. Wolin[9]	Illinois	January 25, 2013	February 28, 2013
	76th Secretary of the Treasury		Jacob J. Lew[10]	New York	February 28, 2013	January 20, 2017
–	Acting Secretary of Commerce		Cameron Kerry[11]	Massachusetts	June 1, 2013	June 26, 2013
	38th Secretary of Commerce		Penny Pritzker[12]	Illinois	June 26, 2013	January 20, 2017
	28th Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers		Jason Furman[13]	Massachusetts	August 2, 2013	January 20, 2017
–	Acting Secretary of the Treasury		Adam J. Szubin^[8]	Washington, D.C.	January 20, 2017	February 13, 2017		Donald Trump
	77th Secretary of the Treasury		Steven T. Mnuchin	California	February 13, 2017	Incumbent
	9th Secretary of Veteran Affairs		David Shulkin[14]	Pennsylvania	February 14, 2017	March 28, 2018

Cabinet-level officials

	Position	Portrait	Name	Took office	Left office	President(s)
	6th United States Trade Representative		Robert Strauss[15]	March 30, 1977	August 17, 1979		Jimmy Carter
	13th White House Chief of Staff		Kenneth Duberstein[16]	July 1, 1988	January 20, 1989		Ronald Reagan
	11th United States Trade Representative		Mickey Kantor[1]	January 22, 1993	April 12, 1996		Bill Clinton
	12th United States Trade Representative		Charlene Barshefsky[17]	April 12, 1996	March 18, 1997
				March 18, 1997	January 20, 2001
	31st Director of the Office of Management and Budget		Jacob J. Lew[10]	May 21, 1998	January 19, 2001
	22nd White House Chief of Staff		Joshua Bolten[18]	June 26, 2003	April 15, 2006		George W. Bush
	33rd Director of the Office of Management and Budget			April 14, 2006	January 20, 2009
	22nd White House Chief of Staff		Rahm Emanuel[19]	January 20, 2009	October 1, 2010		Barack Obama
	36th Director of the Office of Management and Budget		Peter Orszag[20]	January 20, 2009	July 30, 2010
	Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget		Jeffrey Zients[21]	July 30, 2010	November 18, 2010
	37th Director of the Office of Management and Budget		Jacob J. Lew[10]	November 18, 2010	January 27, 2012
	25th White House Chief of Staff			January 27, 2012	January 20, 2013
	Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget		Jeffrey Zients[21]	January 27, 2013	April 24, 2013
	17th United States Trade Representative		Michael Froman[22]	June 21, 2013	January 20, 2017
	11th Director of the National Economic Council		Gary Cohn[23]	January 20, 2017	April 2, 2018		Donald Trump
	1st Special Representative for International Negotiations		Jason Greenblatt[24]	January 20, 2017	October 31, 2019		Donald Trump
	1st Director of the Office of American Innovation		Jared Kushner[25]	March 27, 2017	Incumbent		Donald Trump

State government

Governors

	State	Governor	Name	Party	Assumed office	Term expires	Notes
	Georgia		David Emanuel[26]	Democratic-Republican	March 3, 1801	November 7, 1801	Emanuel is considered to be the first Jew elected to public office in the South and the first Jewish governor of any U.S. state, although he may not have been an openly practicing Jew. As an adult he became a Presbyterian, confusing later researchers about his identity, but modern historians accept that he was Jewish.[27]
	Wisconsin		Edward Salomon[28]	Republican	April 19, 1862	January 4, 1864	Civil War Union General Cousin of Washington Governor Edward S. Solomon[28]
	Washington Territory		Edward S. Salomon[29][30]	Republican	March 4, 1870	April 26, 1872	Civil War Union General who was promoted to later brigadier general on March 13, 1865 for his “distinguished gallantry and meritorious service"[28] Cousin of Wisconsin Governor Edward Salomon.[28]
	California		Washington Bartlett[31]	Democratic	January 8, 1887	September 12, 1887	California's first and so far only Jewish governor
	Idaho		Moses Alexander[26]	Democratic	January 4, 1915	January 6, 1919	Idaho's first and so far only Jewish governor
	Utah		Simon Bamberger[26]	Democratic	January 1, 1917	January 3, 1921	First non-Mormon, first Democrat, and first and to date only person of Jewish heritage to be elected governor of the state of Utah
	New Mexico		Arthur Seligman[26]	Democratic	January 1, 1931	September 25, 1933	New Mexico's first native-born, non-Hispanic, governor of Jewish ancestry
	Oregon		Julius Meier[26]	Independent	January 12, 1931	January 14, 1935	Oregon's first Jewish governor
	New York		Herbert H. Lehman[26]	Democratic	January 1, 1933	December 3, 1942
	Illinois		Henry Horner[26]	Democratic	January 9, 1933	October 6, 1940	Illinois' first Jewish governor
	Territory of Alaska		Ernest Gruening[26]	Democratic	December 6, 1939	April 10, 1953
	Connecticut		Abraham Ribicoff[1]	Democratic	January 5, 1955	January 21, 1961	Connecticut's first and to date only Jewish governor
	Illinois		Samuel H. Shapiro[26]	Democratic	May 21, 1968	January 13, 1969
	Rhode Island		Frank Licht[26]	Democratic	January 7, 1969	January 2, 1973	Rhode Island's first Jewish governor
	Maryland		Marvin Mandel[26]	Democratic	January 7, 1969	January 17, 1979*	Maryland's first and to date only Jewish governor *Blair Lee III served as Acting Governor from June 4, 1977 to January 15, 1979
	Pennsylvania		Milton Shapp[26]	Democratic	January 19, 1971	January 16, 1979	Pennsylvania's first Jewish governor
	Vermont		Madeleine Kunin[26]	Democratic	January 10, 1985	January 10, 1991	Vermont's first and, to date, only female governor
	Oregon		Neil Goldschmidt[1]	Democratic	January 12, 1987	January 14, 1991
	Rhode Island		Bruce Sundlun[26]	Democratic	January 1, 1991	January 3, 1995
	Hawaii		Linda Lingle[32]	Republican	December 2, 2002	December 6, 2010	Hawaii's first and, to date, only female and Jewish governor
	Pennsylvania		Ed Rendell[33]	Democratic	January 21, 2003	January 18, 2011
	New York		Eliot Spitzer[34]	Democratic	January 1, 2007	March 17, 2008
	Delaware		Jack Markell[35]	Democratic	January 20, 2009	January 17, 2017	Former Chairperson of the National Governors Association Former Chairperson of the Democratic Governors Association
	Vermont		Peter Shumlin[36]	Democratic	January 6, 2011	January 5, 2017
	Missouri		Eric Greitens[37]	Republican	January 9, 2017	June 1, 2018	Resigned on June 1, 2018 amid investigation into extramarittal affair scandal.[38]
	Colorado		Jared Polis[39]	Democratic	January 8, 2019	January 10, 2023	Member of US House of Representatives, Colorado State Board of Education, first Jewish Governor of Colorado[39] and first openly gay male Governor elected in the United States as well.[40]
	Illinois		J.B. Pritzker[41]	Democratic	January 14, 2019	January 09, 2023	Philanthropist, member of the Pritzker family

Lieutenant governors

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	State	Lieutenant Governor	Name	Party	Assumed office	Term expires
	Louisiana		Henry M. Hyams[35]	Democratic	January 23, 1860	January 25, 1864
	New York		Herbert H. Lehman[26]	Democratic	January 1, 1929	December 31, 1932
	Illinois		Samuel H. Shapiro[26]	Democratic	January 9, 1961	May 21, 1968
	Nebraska		Philip C. Sorensen[42]	Democratic	January 7, 1965	January 5, 1967
	Vermont		Madeleine Kunin[26]	Democratic	January 10, 1979	January 10, 1983
	Missouri		Ken Rothman[43]	Democratic	January 12, 1981	January 15, 1985
	Rhode Island		Richard A. Licht[44]	Democratic	January 1, 1985	January 1, 1989
	Missouri		Harriett Woods[35]	Democratic	January 14, 1985	January 9, 1989
	Maryland		Melvin Steinberg[35]	Democratic	January 21, 1987	January 18, 1995
	Pennsylvania		Robert Jubelirer[45]	Republican	October 5, 2001	January 21, 2003
	Ohio		Lee Fisher[46]	Democratic	January 8, 2007	January 10, 2011
	Delaware		Matthew Denn[47]	Democratic	January 20, 2009	January 6, 2015
	New York		Richard Ravitch[48]>	Democratic	July 9, 2009	December 31, 2010
	Louisiana		Jay Dardenne[49]	Republican	November 22, 2010	January 11, 2016
	Hawaii		Brian Schatz[50]	Democratic	December 6, 2010	December 26, 2012
	Connecticut		Nancy Wyman[51]	Democratic	January 5, 2011	January 9, 2019
	Kentucky		Jerry Abramson[52]	Democratic	December 13, 2011	November 13, 2014
	Florida		Carlos Lopez-Cantera[53]	Republican	February 3, 2014	January 7, 2019
	Hawaii		Josh Green[54]	Democratic	December 3, 2018
	Vermont		David Zuckerman[55]	Vermont Progressive Party	January 5, 2017

State Attorneys General

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	State	Attorney General	Name	Party	Assumed office	Term expires
	New York		Simon W. Rosendale[56]	Democratic	January 1, 1892	December 31, 1893
	Maryland		Isidor Rayner[57]	Democratic	1899	1903
	Maryland		Isaac Lobe Straus[35]	Democratic	1907	1911
	New York		Carl Sherman[58]	Democratic	January 1, 1923	December 31, 1924
	New York		Albert Ottinger[59]	Republican	January 1, 1925	December 31, 1928
	Ohio		Gilbert Bettman[35]	Republican	January 14, 1929	January 12, 1933
	New Jersey		David T. Wilentz[60]	Democratic	1934	1944
	New York		Nathaniel L. Goldstein[35]	Republican	January 1, 1943	December 31, 1954
	Delaware		H. Albert Young[61]	Independent	1951	1955
	Massachusetts		George Fingold[62]	Republican	January 8, 1953	August 31, 1958
	New York		Jacob Javits[35]	Republican	January 1, 1955	January 9, 1957
	New York		Louis J. Lefkowitz[35]	Republican	January 10, 1957	December 31, 1978
	California		Stanley Mosk[35]	Democratic	January 5, 1959	1964
	New Hampshire		Warren Rudman[35]	Republican	1970	1976
	Rhode Island		Richard J. Israel[35]	Republican	January 5, 1971	January 7, 1975
	Florida		Robert L. Shevin[35]	Democratic	January 5, 1971	January 2, 1979
	Vermont		M. Jerome Diamond[35]	Democratic	1975	1981
	Rhode Island		Julius C. Michaelson[35]	Democratic	January 7, 1975	January 2, 1979
	New York		Robert Abrams[35]	Democratic	January 1, 1979	December 31, 1993
	Maryland		Stephen H. Sachs[35]	Democratic	January 17, 1979	January 21, 1987
	Connecticut		Joe Lieberman[35]	Democratic	January 5, 1983	January 3, 1989
	Connecticut		Richard Blumenthal[35]	Democratic	January 9, 1991	January 5, 2011
	Ohio		Lee Fisher[35]	Democratic	January 14, 1991	January 9, 1995
	New York		Oliver Koppell[63]	Democratic	January 1, 1993	December 31, 1994
	Rhode Island		Jeffrey B. Pine[35]	Republican	January 5, 1993	January 2, 1999
	New Jersey		Deborah Poritz[64]	Republican	1994	1996
	New York		Eliot Spitzer[35]	Democratic	January 17, 2007	January 21, 2015
	New Jersey		David Sampson[65]	Unaffiliated	January 15, 2002	February 15, 2003
	New Jersey		Stuart Rabner[66]	Democratic	September 26, 2006	June 26, 2007
	Maryland		Doug Gansler[67]	Democratic	January 17, 2007	January 21, 2015
	Louisiana		Buddy Caldwell[68]	Democratic	January 14, 2008	February 2, 2011
				Republican	February 2, 2011	January 11, 2016
	New York		Eric Schneiderman[69]	Democratic	January 1, 2011	May 8, 2018
	Arizona		Tom Horne[70]	Republican	January 3, 2011	January 5, 2015
	Georgia		Sam Olens[71]	Republican	January 10, 2011	November 1, 2016
	Oregon		Ellen Rosenblum[72]	Democratic	June 29, 2012	Incumbent
	Delaware		Matthew Denn[47]	Democratic	January 6, 2015	January 1, 2019
	Maryland		Brian Frosh[73]	Democratic	January 21, 2015	Incumbent
	North Carolina		Josh Stein[74]	Democratic	January 1, 2017	Incumbent
	Pennsylvania		Josh Shapiro[75]	Democratic	January 17, 2017	Incumbent
	Michigan		Dana Nessel[76]	Democratic	January 1, 2019	Incumbent
	Colorado		Phil Weiser[77]	Democratic	January 8, 2019	Incumbent

State Secretaries of State

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	State	Secretary of State	Name	Party	Assumed office	Term expires
	New York		Samuel S. Koenig[35]	Republican	January 1, 1909	December 31, 1910
	New York		Mitchell May[35]	Democratic	January 1, 1913	December 31, 1914
	New York		Caroline K. Simon[78]	Republican	1959	1963
	Connecticut		Gloria Schaffer[35]	Democratic	January 3, 1971	January 3, 1978
	Florida		Richard Stone[35]	Democratic	January 5, 1971	July 8, 1974
	Florida		George Firestone[35]	Democratic	1979	1989
	Vermont		Deborah Markowitz[35]	Democratic	January, 1999	January, 2011
	Louisiana		Jay Dardenne[49]	Republican	November 10, 2006	November 22, 2010
	Missouri		Jason Kander[79]	Democratic	January 14, 2013	January 9, 2017
	Colorado		Jena Griswold[80]	Democratic	January 8, 2019	Incumbent

State Treasurers

Current State Treasurers

	State	Treasurer	Name	Party	Assumed office	Term expires	Prior Public offices/positions
	Massachusetts		Deb Goldberg[81]	Democratic	January 21, 2015		Brookline Board of Selectmen

Former State Treasurers

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• David Naar (D-NJ: 1865)[82]
• Katherine Elkus White (D-NJ: 1961)
• Samuel Shapiro (D-ME: 1981-1996)[35]
• Nancy Mayer (R-RI: 1993-1997))[35]
• Jack Markell (D-DE: 1999-2009)[35]
• Jonathan Miller (D-KY: 1999-2007)[35]
• Steven Grossman (D-MA: 2011-2015)[83]
• Josh Mandel (R-OH: 2011-2019)[84]
• Dan Schwartz (R-NV: 2015-2019)[85]

Speakers of the State House

Current House Speakers

	State	Speaker	Name	Party	Assumed office	Term expires	Prior public office/position
	Texas		Joe Straus[86]	Republican	January 13, 2009	2019	Texas House of Representatives

State Senators

Current State Senators

	State	Senator	Name	Party	Assumed office	Term expires	Prior public office/position
	California		Scott Wiener[87]	Democratic	December 5, 2016	2020	San Francisco Board of Supervisors
	California		Henry Stern[88]	Democratic	December 5, 2016	2020	Counsel to Congressman Henry Waxman
	Michigan		Jeremy Moss	Democratic	January 1, 2019	2024	Michigan House of Representatives
	Texas		Kel Seliger[89]	Republican	March 2, 2004	2019	Mayor

Municipal government

Mayors of major cities

Current mayors of major cities

	City	State	Mayor	Name	Party	Assumed office	Term expires	Prior public office/position
	Anchorage	Alaska		Ethan Berkowitz[90]	Democratic	July 1, 2015	2022	Member of Alaska House of Representatives
	Austin	Texas		Steve Adler[91]	Democratic	January 6, 2015	2023
	Burlington	Vermont		Miro Weinberger[92]	Democratic	April 2, 2012	2020
	Chattanooga	Tennessee		Andy Berke[93]	Democratic	April 15, 2013	2021	Member of the Tennessee Senate
	Jersey City	New Jersey		Steven Fulop[94]	Democratic	July 1, 2013	2022	Jersey City Councilman
	Las Vegas	Nevada		Carolyn Goodman[95]	Independent	July 6, 2011	2024
	Los Angeles	California		Eric Garcetti[96]	Democratic	July 1, 2013	2021	President of the Los Angeles City Council Los Angeles City Councilman
	Madison	Wisconsin		Paul Soglin[97]	Democratic	April 19, 2011	2019
	Oakland	California		Libby Schaaf	Democratic	January 5, 2015	2023	Member of Oakland City Council
	Sacramento	California		Darrell Steinberg[98]	Democratic	December 13, 2016	2020	49th President pro tempore of the California Senate
	San Antonio	Texas		Ron Nirenberg[99]	Nonpartisan	June 21, 2017	2019	Member of the San Antonio City Council
	St. Petersburg	Florida		Rick Kriseman[99]	Democratic	January 2, 2014	2022	Member of the Florida House of Representatives
	Tucson	Arizona		Jonathan Rothschild[100]	Democratic	December 5, 2011	2019
	Minneapolis	Minnesota		Jacob Frey[101]	Democratic	January 2, 2018	2022	Member of the Minneapolis City Council

Former mayors of major cities

• Jerry Abramson (D-Louisville, KY: 1986–1999; 2003–2011)[52]
• Moses Alexander (D-Boise, ID: 1897–1899; 1901–1903)[26]
• Abe Aronovitz (R-Miami, FL: 1953–1955)[102]
• Harry Bacharach (R-Atlantic City, NJ: 1912; 1916–1920; 1930–1935)[103]
• Walt Bachrach (R-Cincinnati, OH: 1960–1967[104]
• Abraham Beame (D-New York, NY: 1974-1977)
• Martin Behrman (D-New Orleans, LA: 1904–1920; 1925–1926)[105]
• Bruce Blakeman (R-First Presiding Officer of Nassau County, N.Y.)
• Michael Bloomberg (D-New York, NY: 2002–2013)[106]
• Richard Berkley (R-Kansas City, MO: 1979–1991)[107]
• David Cicilline (D-Providence, RI: 2003–2011)[108]
• Larry Cohen (D-Saint Paul, MN: 1972–1976)[109]
• Josh Cohen (D-Annapolis, MD: 2009–2013)[110]
• Norm Coleman (R-Saint Paul, MN: 1997–2002)[111]
• Leopold David (Anchorage, AK: 1920–1923), first mayor of Anchorage[112]
• Mutt Evans (D-Durham, NC: 1951–1963)[113]
• Rahm Emanuel (D-Chicago, IL: 2011-2019)[19]
• Bob Filner (D-San Diego, CA: 2012–2013)[114]
• Samuel Folz (D-Kalamazoo, MI: 1903)[115]
• Lois Frankel (D-West Palm Beach, FL: 2003–2011)[108]
• Sandra Freedman (D-Tampa, FL: 1986–1995)[116]
• Jeffrey Friedman (D-Austin, TX: 1975–1977)[117]
• Eva Galambos (R-Sandy Springs, GA: 2005–2014)[118]
• Bailey Gatzert (I-Seattle, WA: 1875–1876)[119]
• Susan Golding (R-San Diego, CA: 1992–2000)[120]
• Neil Goldschmidt (D-Portland, OR: 1973–1979)[1]
• Stephen Goldsmith (R-Indianapolis, IN: 1992–2000)[121]
• Phil Gordon (D-Phoenix, AZ: 2004–2012)[122]
• Bill Gradison (R-Cincinnati, OH: 1971)[123]
• Robert Harris (D-Ann Arbor, MI: 1969–1973)[124]
• Adlene Harrison (D-Dallas, TX: 1976)[125]
• Julius Houseman (D-Grand Rapids, MI: 1872–1873; 1874–1875)[126]
• Vera Katz (D-Portland, OR: 1993–2005)[127]
• Ed Koch (D-New York, NY: 1978–1989)[128]
• Joseph Lazarow (R-Atlantic City, NJ: 1976–1982)[129]
• Henry Loeb (D-Memphis, TN: 1960–1963; 1968–1971),[130] later converted to Episcopalianism
• Zachariah J. Loussac (D-Anchorage, AK: 1948–1951)[131]
• Sophie Masloff (D-Pittsburgh, PA: 1988–1994)[132]
• Sam Massell (D-Atlanta, GA: 1970–1974)[133]
• Laura Miller (D-Dallas, TX: 2002–2007)[134]
• Arthur Naftalin (D-Minneapolis, MN: 1961–1969)[109]
• Meyera Oberndorf (D-Virginia Beach, VA: 1988–2009)[135] hvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0004_0_04316.html</ref>
• Kel Seliger (R-Amarillo, TX: 1993–2001)[136]
• Florence Shapiro (R-Plano, TX: 1990–1992)[137]
• Joseph Simon (R-Portland, OR: 1909–1911)[138]
• Jerry Springer (D-Cincinnati, OH: 1977–1978)[139]
• Annette Strauss (D-Dallas, TX: 1987–1991)[140]
• Adolph Sutro (R-San Francisco, CA: 1895–1897)[141]
• Susan Weiner (R-Savannah, GA: 1992–1996)[142]
• Edward Zorinsky (R-Omaha, NE: 1973–1976)[143]

Presidential and vice presidential candidates

• Theodora "Tonie" Nathan was the vice presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party in 1972. She received one electoral vote for vice president (from a faithless elector that had pledged his vote for Republicans Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew), thus becoming the first Jew to receive an electoral vote for either president or vice president.[144]
• Arlen Specter ran for the Republican nomination in 1996, but dropped out before the Iowa caucuses. He later became a Democrat.
• Joe Lieberman was the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2000, receiving 266 electoral votes for vice president. Four years later, he ran for the Democratic presidential nomination for the 2004 election.[145][146][147] He became an Independent in 2006.
• Jill Stein was the Green Party nominee in 2012. She lost with 0.36% of the vote, or 470,000 votes. She ran in the 2016 Presidential Election, but lost with just over one percent.
• Bernie Sanders ran for president in 2016 as a Democrat. He became the first Jewish candidate to win a Democratic party primary with a victory in New Hampshire. He lost the nomination to Hillary Clinton.[148] He ran again in the 2020. Sanders received one vote in the electoral college in 2016 from David Mulinix of Hawaii, thus making him the first Jew to receive a vote for president in the college. In addition to this, he received two invalidated votes from other voters in the electoral college.[149]
• Michael Bennet ran in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.[150]
• Michael Bloomberg ran in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.[151]
• Marianne Williamson, raised in a Jewish family, ran in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.[152]

See also

• List of Jewish political milestones in the United States
• List of Jewish American jurists

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