Government

Notable former Peace Corps Volunteers in Government.

• Harry Birnholz,

  mission director, USAID/Albania (Benin 1974-77)

• Patricia Buckles,

  USAID/Peru director, Peace Corps (Guatemala 1973-77)

• Donald B. Clark,

  USAID mission director, Senegal (Burkina Faso 1969-71)

• 

  Christopher Dodd

  U.S. Senator, Connecticut
  (Dominican Republic 1966-68)

  Dodd is a U.S. Senator from Connecticut. There are six returned Volunteers in the U.S. Congress — one in the Senate, and five in the House of Representatives.

• 

  Jim Doyle

  Governor of Wisconsin and wife Jessica Doyle
  (Tunisia 1967-69)

• Sam Farr,

  U.S. Representative from California (Colombia 1964-66)

• John Garamendi,

  State of California Insurance Commissioner (Ethiopia 1966-68)

• Gene George,

  USAID mission director, Bangladesh (Nepal 1972-73)

• Richard Goughnour,

  USAID/Brazil Director (Brazil 1974-76)

• Gordon Gray,

  Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (Morocco 1978-1980)

• Mike Honda,

  U.S. Representative from California (El Salvador 1965-67)

• Elisa Long,

  public defender in Mariana Islands (Marshall Islands 1987-89)

• Joseph W. Lown,

  mayor of San Angelo, Texas (Bolivia 1999-2001)

• Dan McAllister,

  treasurer tax collector of San Diego, CA (Micronesia 1974-77)

• Thomas Murphy, Jr.,

  mayor of the City of Pittsburgh, PA (Paraguay 1970-72)

• Matthew Patrick,

  Massachusetts State Representative (Ghana 1977-79)

• Sarah Parker,

  associate justice, North Carolina Supreme Court (Turkey 1964-66)

• Terry Peterson,

  deputy secretary of U.S. Department of Education (Brazil 1967-69)

• Thomas Petri,

  U.S. Representative from Wisconsin (Somalia 1966-67)

• Ken Roberts,

  Assistant Administrator, Foreign Agriculture Service, USDA (Paraguay 1977-79)

• Denny Robertson,

  USAID Director for the Caucasus Region (Philippines 1977-79)

• Tod Satterthwaite,

  mayor of Urbana, Illinois (Grenada 1990-92)

• Donna Shalala,

  former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (Iran 1962-64)

• Christopher Shays,

  U.S. Representative from Connecticut (Fiji 1968-70)

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  Robert Taft

  served as governor of Ohio from 1999 to 2007
  (Tanzania 1963-65)

• James Walsh,

  U.S. Representative from New York (Nepal 1970-72)

• Cathy Woolard,

  Atlanta City Council (Micronesia 1980-81)

Last updated Sep 24 2008