Congressman from Texas George Peddy (1920)member of the Texas House of Representatives and U.S. Senate candidate Federico Peñaformer Secretary of Transportation and Secretary of Energy; former Mayor of Denver Colonel Alfred P.C. Petsch (1887–1981)Lawyer, legislator, civic leader, philanthropist, member of Texas House of Representatives Paul Pressler Lawyer, judge, and leader of the Southern Baptist Convention Conservative resurgence Sam Rayburnlongest-serving Speaker of the United States House of Representatives; Mentor to President Lyndon Johnson; Chair of United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce; Before Congress served as Speaker of Texas House of Representatives Brooke Rollins Special Assistant to President Donald Trump for innovation. Former CEO of the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Former Policy Director to Governor Rick Perry. Tom Schiefferformer United States Ambassador to Japan; former United States Ambassador to Australia; President of the Texas Rangers baseball team; Co-lead effort to purchase Texas Rangers with President George W. Bush. Brother of CBS Anchor Bob Schieffer A. R. Schwartzformer Texas State Senator, helped author the landmark Texas Open Beaches Act Clay Sell Former United States Deputy Secretary of Energy John Sheppardformer Attorney General of Texas Morris SheppardU.S. Senator, author of the Eighteenth Amendment; Chair of Senate Armed Services Committee; Senate Minority Whip Max Sherman (Class of 1960)former state senator and former president of West Texas A&M University and former Dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs Robert Allan Shiversformer Governor of Texas; former Lieutenant Governor of Texas Kristen SilverbergU.S. Ambassador to the European Union; former Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs Barry Smithermanformer member of the Texas Railroad Commission John Thomas Steen Jr.San Antonio lawyer and the 108th Secretary of State of Texas Robert Schwarz Straussformer United States Ambassador to Russia; former United States Trade Representative; United States Special Envoy for the Middle East; Former Chair of the Democratic National Committee; Founder of international law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld; Namesake of Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin; Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom Tom Strickland Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish, Wildlife and Parks; Former United States Attorney for the District of Colorado; 2002 Democratic nominee for US Senator from Colorado Bryan Taylor Member of Alabama State Senate; General Counsel to Alabama Governor Kay Ivey Larry E. Temple White House Counsel advisor to President Lyndon Johnson; Chair of the LBJ Foundation Albert