district attorney William Allen (1704–1780), former Philadelphia mayor Chris Bartlett (born 1966), LGBT activist Raj Bhakta (born 1975), Congressional candidate and contestant, The Apprentice Season 2Michael J. Bradley (1897–1979), former U.S. House of Representatives member Winfield S. Braddock (1848–1920), former Wisconsin State Assembly member Bob Brady (born 1945), member, U.S. House of Representatives, Philadelphia mayoral candidate, NBC Universal and Independence Blue Cross lobbyist Raymond J. Broderick (1914–2000), former U.S. federal judge William T. Cahill (1912–1996), former New Jersey governor Ashton Carter (born 1954), physicist, Harvard University professor, and U.S. Secretary of Defense Augusta Clark (1932–2013), former librarian, politician, lawyer, and second African-American woman to serve on Philadelphia City Council Joseph S. Clark (1901–1990), former Philadelphia mayor and U.S. Senator Mark B. Cohen (born 1949), member, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Democratic leader of Pennsylvania House, and chairman, House Labor Relations Committee Henry Conner (1837–died), former member, Wisconsin State Senate George M. Dallas (1792–1864), former U.S. vice president Richardson Dilworth (1898–1974), former attorney, Philadelphia district attorney, and Philadelphia mayor Dwight E. Evans (born 1954), member, Pennsylvania House of Representatives and former Philadelphia mayoral candidate George H. Earle Sr. (1823–1907), founder of the Republican Party, abolitionist, and lawyer who represented fugitive slaves Chaka Fattah (born 1956), member, U.S. House of Representatives and former Philadelphia mayoral candidate Douglas J. Feith (born 1953), Undersecretary of Defense and Iraq policy adviser Tom Feeney (born 1958), Florida politician James Forten (1766–1842), former African-American businessman, abolitionist leader, and sailmaker Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), Founding Father, polymath, writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, political philosopher Shirley Franklin (born 1945), former Atlanta major Mifflin Wistar Gibbs (1823–1915), former lawyer, judge, diplomat, and banker W. Wilson Goode (born 1938), former Philadelphia mayor W. Wilson Goode Jr. (born 1965), former Philadelphia City Council at-large member Oscar Goodman (born 1939), attorney and former Las Vegas mayor James P. Gourley, former Pennsylvania House of Representatives member William H. Gray (1941–2013), former Baptist minister, former U.S. House of Representatives member, and former United Negro College Fund president William J. Green III (born 1938), former Philadelphia major and U.S. House of Representatives member Simon Guggenheim (1867–1941), former U.S. Senator and philanthropist Alexander Haig (1924–2010), former U.S. Secretary of State and White House Chief of Staff Richard Helms (1913–2002), former Central Intelligence Agency director Charles W. Heyl (1857–1936), former businessman, fire chief, and politician Michael Johns (born 1964), former White House presidential speechwriter Joseph L. Kun (1882–1961),