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

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

Relevant pages

Liberalism

Liberals In The United States Media

Percent of self-identified liberals in the United States broken down by state according to Gallup, August 2010; darker colors mean more liberals per state (click image for details)

Other websites

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