Liberals in the United States

Liberals in the United States have many different political ideas about how individuals and government should act. The people listed below are, or were, thought to be as liberals.

Liberal thinkers and leaders[change | change source]

These are some important liberals in America:

Politicians
President Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
President Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
President Grover Cleveland (1837-1908)
Governor Samuel J. Tilden (1814–1886)
State Senator Eugene V. Debs (1955–1926)
Mayor Carter Harrison, Jr. (1860–1953)
President Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
Vice President Thomas R. Marshall (1854–1925)
President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
President Harry S. Truman (1884-1972)
Representative Don Edwards (1915-2015)
Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr. (1914-2013)
President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
President Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973)
President Jimmy Carter (b.1924)
Senator George McGovern (1922-2012)
Senator Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968)
Governor Reubin Askew (1928-2014)
Senator Edward Kennedy (1932-2009)
Mayor Richard M. Daley (b.1942)
President Bill Clinton (b.1946)
Senator Frank Lautenberg (1924-2013)
Senator Bernie Sanders (b. 1941)
Senator Elizabeth Warren (b. 1949)
Senator Kamala Harris (b.1964)
Senator Cory Booker (b. 1969)
Senator Harry Reid (b.1939)
Senator Patrick Leahy (b.1940)
Senator Daniel Inouye (1924-2012)
Representative Tulsi Gabbard (b.1981)
Representative Keith Ellison (b.1963)
Representative Maurice Hinchey (1938-2017)
Representative Louise Slaughter (1929-2018)
State Senator Nina Turner (b.1967)
County Commissioner Chuy García (b.1956)
Mayor Mario Cuomo (1932-2015)
Governor Pat Quinn (b.1948)
Mayor Rahm Emanuel (b.1959)

Former liberals
President Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)
Senator Strom Thurmond (1902-2003)

Judges
Chief Justice Roger Taney (1777–1864)
Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson (1890–1953)
Associate Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (1907-1998)
Judge James B. Bradwell (1828-1907)

Economists
James M. Buchanan (1919–2013)
Dale T. Mortensen (1939–2014)
Lyndon LaRouche (b.1922)
Robert Fogel (1926-2013)

Writers and intellectuals
William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879)
John Dewey (1859–1952)
Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992)

Media personalities
Michael Moore (b.1954)

Gallery[change | change source]

Relevant pages[change | change source]

Liberalism

Other websites[change | change source]

Lewis H. Lapham, "Tentacles of Rage" in Harper's, September 2004, p. 31-41.
Ericson, David F., Green, Louisa Bertch. "Introduction". In Ericson, David F., Green, Louisa Bertch (Eds.), The liberal tradition in American politics: reassessing the legacy of American liberalism.Llondon, UK: Routledge, 1999 ISBN 0-415-92256-9