President John F. Kennedy appointed Byron R. White deputy U.S. attorney general in 1961. A year later White was appointed to the Supreme Court where he served until 1993.

Robert H. Jackson was a Supreme Court Justice from 1941-54, and was also the chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials.

Robert R. Livingston was a politician, lawyer and diplomat from New York best known as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

Hiram R. Revels is the first African American to serve in the United States Senate.

Richard Nixon was the 37th U.S. president and the only commander-in-chief to resign from his position, after the 1970s Watergate scandal.

John R. Lynch was a black politician who served in the Mississippi state legislature and U.S. House of Representatives after the American Civil War.

Thomas H. Moorer was a U.S. Navy admiral and naval aviator who later served as chief of naval operations (1967-70), and then as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1970-4).

Alexander Haig was White House chief-of-staff under Richard Nixon, commander of NATO, and US Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan.

Lawyer, and former U.S. attorney general Alberto R. Gonzales made history in 2005 as the first Hispanic appointed U.S. attorney general.