Talk:Yale Political Union

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Conservative

• John Glenn Beall Jr.
  (Vice President, Fall 1949), United States Senator from Maryland
• John Bolton
  (Floor Leader of the Right, 1968), former United States Ambassador to the United Nations
• David Boren, (YPU Speaker), Governor of Oklahoma and U.S. Senator from Oklahoma
• L. Brent Bozell Jr. (YPU President, Spring 1949), conservative activist and Catholic writer
• United States Court of Appeals
• Firing Line
  (in 1967, as an alumnus, was inducted a member of the Party of the Right)
• United States Court of Appeals
  for the Ninth Circuit
• Meghan Clyne (Party Chair, Spring 2001), speechwriter and Senior Editor of National Affairs
• Fred Krupp (YPU President, Spring 1974), President of the Environmental Defense Fund
• John Watson Lungstrum (Party Chair, Fall 1964 and Spring 1965; Speaker, Fall 1966), Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Kansas
• Edwin Meese (Party Chair, Spring 1951; YPU President, Fall 1951), United States Attorney General
• George Pataki (Party Chair, Fall 1965), Governor of New York
• Raymond Price (Party Chair, Fall 1949 and Spring 1950), speechwriter for President Richard Nixon
• Whitelaw Reid II (Party Chair, Fall 1935), Chairman and President of the New York Herald Tribune
• Avik Roy (Party Chair, Fall 1996), editor of Forbes magazine and Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute^[1]
• William Scranton, Governor of Pennsylvania and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
• Lyman Spitzer, theoretical physicist
• Bob Taft, Governor of Ohio
• Robert Taft Jr., United States Senator from Ohio
• William Howard Taft III, U.S. Ambassador to Ireland
• James Harvie Wilkinson III (Party Vice Chair, Fall 1964; YPU President, Fall 1965 and Spring 1966), Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

• John Avlon (Party Chair, Fall 1994), editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast
• Steven Calabresi (YPU President, Fall 1978), co-founder of the Federalist Society and Professor of Law at Northwestern University
• Austan Goolsbee, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers
• R. David Edelman, advisor to President Barack Obama
• John Wertheim (Party Chair, Fall 1987; YPU President, Spring 1988), former Chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico
• Jonathan Zittrain, (Party Chair, Spring 1989), professor at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School

Labor

• The Clash of Civilizations
  theory

Liberal

• Akhil Amar (Party Chairman, Spring 1978), Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University
• Peter Beinart (Party Chair, Fall 1990) editor of The New Republic
• United States National Security Advisor
• William Bundy (YPU President, Spring and Fall 1938), advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
• David P. Calleo (Party Chair, Fall 1953; YPU President, Spring 1954), intellectual and political economist
• John F. Kerry (Party Chairman, Spring 1964; YPU President, Fall 1964 and Spring 1965), US Senator, United States Secretary of State
  and Democratic nominee for President in 2004
• Marvin Krislov (Party Chair, Fall 1979), President of Oberlin College
• Robert C. Lieberman (Party Chair, Spring 1984; YPU Speaker, Fall 1984), former provost of Johns Hopkins University
• John J. O'Leary (Party Chair, Spring 1967; YPU President, Fall 1967 and Spring 1968), United States Ambassador to Chile
• Richard Posner (Party Chair, Spring 1957), Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
• Kevin Ryan (Party Chair, Fall 1982), founder and CEO of Gilt Groupe
• United States Supreme Court
• Katherine Tai, United States Trade Representative
• H. Bradford Westerfield (YPU President, Fall 1945), Yale Professor of International Studies and Political Science
• Evan Wolfson (Speaker, 1976), President of Freedom to Marry
• U.S. Department of the Treasury

Party of the Right

• Richard S. Arnold (YPU Vice President, Fall 1955), former Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
• Richard Brookhiser (Party Chair, 1975), Senior Editor at National Review.
• Wall Street Journal Editorial Board
• Maggie Gallagher (Party Chair, 1981), President of the National Organization for Marriage
• Paul Gottfried, former professor at Elizabethtown College
• Peter Keisler (Party Chair; Speaker), co-founder of the Federalist Society
• Walter Olson (Party Chair, Spring 1974), Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute
• Wall Street Journal Editorial Board
• Grover Rees III (Party Chair, Spring 1971), United States Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of East Timor
• Matthias Storme, Professor of Law at Catholic University Leuven
• Eve Tushnet (Party Chair, Spring 2000), author of Gay and Catholic: Accepting My Sexuality, Finding Community, Living My Faith
• Fareed Zakaria (YPU President, Spring 1984), editor-at-large of Time

Progressive

• David M. McIntosh (YPU President, Fall 1979), U.S. Representative from Indiana and President of the Club for Growth
• Dana Milbank (Party Chair), columnist for The Washington Post

Tory

• Michael J. Astrue (Party Chairman, 1975; YPU President, 1977), former Commissioner of the Social Security Administration
• David Frum, journalist, speechwriter, commentator, and author
• Keith Ferrazzi (Party Chairman, 1985), author of Never Eat Alone
• Michael J. Knowles
  , actor, author, and political commentator
• Jim O'Neill (investor), speechwriter and co-founder of the Thiel Fellowship
• Patrick F. Philbin (Party Chairman, Spring 1988), Deputy White House Counsel and Assistant Attorney General.
• New York Times
  bestselling author of historical romance fiction novels