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Fred Thompson
Fred Thompson
44th President of the United States
	In office; January 20, 2009 – November 1, 2015
Vice President	Michael Steele
Preceded by	Al Gore
Succeeded by	Michael Steele
United States Senator; from Tennessee
	In office; December 2, 1994 – January 3, 2003
Preceded by	Harlan Mathews
Succeeded by	Lamar Alexander
Personal details
Born	Freddie Dalton Thompson; August 19, 1942; Sheffield, Alabama, U.S.
Died	November 1, 2015 (aged 73); Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouses	; Sarah Knestrick (m. 1959; div. 1985) ; Jeri Kehn (m. 2002)
Children	5
Education	University of Memphis (BA); Vanderbilt University (JD)
Signature
	Fred Thompson's voice Thompson, while in the Senate, speaks in support of the Deceptive Mail Prevention and Enforcement Act; Recorded August 2, 1999

Michael Steele
Michael Steele
45th President of the United States
	In office; November 1, 2015 – January 20, 2017
Vice President	None (Nov. 2015 – Feb. 2016); Mia Love (Feb. 2016 – 2017);
Preceded by	Fred Thompson
Succeeded by	Bernie Sanders
47th Vice President of the United States
	In office; January 20, 2009 – November 1, 2015
President	Fred Thompson
Preceded by	Joe Lieberman
Succeeded by	Mia Love
United States Senator; from Maryland
	In office; January 3, 2007 – January 20, 2009
Preceded by	Paul Sarbanes
Succeeded by	Ben Cardin
7th Lieutenant Governor of Maryland
	In office; January 15, 2003 – January 3, 2007
Governor	Bob Ehrlich
Preceded by	Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
Succeeded by	Anthony Brown
Chair of the Maryland Republican Party
	In office; December 10, 2000 – July 1, 2002
Preceded by	Joyce Lyon Tehres
Succeeded by	Louis Pope
Personal details
Born	October 19, 1958 (age 65); Andrews Field, Maryland, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Andrea Derritt (m. 1985)
Children	2
Education	Johns Hopkins University (BA); Villanova University; Georgetown University (JD)
Signature

Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
	Sanders in 2023
46th President of the United States
	In office; January 20, 2017 – January 20, 2021
Vice President	Susan Rice
Preceded by	Jon Huntsman Jr.
Succeeded by	Donald Trump
United States Senator; from Vermont
	In office; January 3, 2007 – January 3, 2017
Preceded by	Jim Jeffords
Succeeded by	Peter Welch
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives; from Vermont's at-large district
	In office; January 3, 1991 – January 3, 2007
Preceded by	Peter Plympton Smith
Succeeded by	Peter Welch
37th Mayor of Burlington
	In office; April 6, 1981 – April 4, 1989
Preceded by	Gordon Paquette
Succeeded by	Peter Clavelle
Chair of the Liberty Union Party
	In office; 1971–1977
Personal details
Born	Bernard Sanders; September 8, 1941 (age 83); New York City, U.S.
Political party	Independent (1978–present)
Other political; affiliations	Democratic (2015–2016, 2019–2020); Vermont Progressive (1981–present); Liberty Union (1970–1977);
Spouses	Deborah Shiling (m. 1964; div. 1966); Jane O'Meara (m. 1988);
Children	1
Relatives	Larry Sanders (brother)
Education	Brooklyn College; University of Chicago (BA);
Occupation	Politician; activist; author;
Signature
Website	Senate website; Campaign website;
	Bernie Sanders's voice Bernie Sanders speaks out against the Iraq War; Recorded October 9, 2002

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Sanders (2017-2021)

Bernard Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is an American politician and activist who is the senior United States senator from Vermont. Sanders is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history but has a close relationship with the Democratic Party, having caucused with House and Senate Democrats for most of his congressional career and sought the party's presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020, coming second in both campaigns. He is often seen as a leader of the U.S. progressive movement.

Born into a working-class Jewish family and raised in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, Sanders attended Brooklyn College before graduating from the University of Chicago in 1964. While a student, he was a protest organizer for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the civil rights movement. After settling in Vermont in 1968, he ran unsuccessful third-party political campaigns in the early to mid-1970s. He was elected mayor of Burlington in 1981 as an independent and was reelected three times. He won election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1990, representing Vermont's at-large congressional district, later co-founding the Congressional Progressive Caucus. He was a U.S. representative for 16 years before being elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006, notably becoming the first non-Republican elected to Vermont's Class 1 seat since Whig Solomon Foot was elected in 1850 (Foot was reelected as a Republican in 1856, and Sanders's immediate predecessor, Jim Jeffords, left the Republican party almost immediately after being reelected in 2000). Sanders entered a Senate where Vermont's senior senator, Patrick Leahy, was the first non-Republican to be elected to the U.S. Senate in the post-Civil-War era.

Sanders was reelected to the Senate in 2012 and 2018. He chaired the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee from 2013 to 2015 and the Senate Budget Committee from 2021 to 2023. In January 2023, he became chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and the senior senator and dean of the Vermont congressional delegation upon Leahy's retirement from the Senate.

Sanders was a major candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020, receiving the second most votes in each. Despite initially low expectations, his 2016 campaign generated significant grassroots enthusiasm and funding from small-dollar donors, carrying him to victory against eventual nominee Hillary Clinton in 23 primaries and caucuses before he conceded in July.^[1] In 2020, his strong showing in early primaries and caucuses made him the front-runner in a historically large field of Democratic candidates. In April 2020, Sanders conceded the nomination to Joe Biden, who had won a series of decisive victories as the field narrowed. He supported both Clinton and Biden in their respective general election campaigns against Donald Trump. He has since emerged as a close ally of Biden.^[2]^[3]

Sanders is credited with influencing a leftward shift in the Democratic Party after his 2016 presidential campaign. An advocate of progressive policies, he is known for his opposition to economic inequality and neoliberalism, and support for workers' self-management. On domestic policy, he supports labor rights, universal and single-payer healthcare, paid parental leave, tuition-free tertiary education, an ambitious Green New Deal to create jobs addressing climate change, and worker control of production through cooperatives, unions, and democratic public enterprises. On foreign policy, he supports reducing military spending, pursuing more diplomacy and international cooperation, and putting greater emphasis on labor rights and environmental concerns when negotiating international trade agreements. Sanders supports workplace democracy, and has praised elements of the Nordic model. Some have compared and contrasted^[4] his politics to left-wing populism and the New Deal policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Steele (2015-2017)

Michael Stephen Steele (born October 19, 1958) is an American politician, attorney, and political commentator who served as the seventh lieutenant governor of Maryland from 2003 to 2007 and as chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC) from 2009 until 2011; he was the first African-American to hold either office.^[5]

In the 1990s, Steele worked as a partner at the international law firm of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae and co-founded the Republican Leadership Council, a "fiscally conservative and socially inclusive" political action committee.^[6] Steele also made numerous appearances as a political pundit on Fox News and other media outlets prior to running for public office. As lieutenant governor, Steele chaired the Minority Business Enterprise task force, actively promoting an expansion of affirmative action in the corporate world.^[7] He made an unsuccessful run in the 2006 U.S. Senate election in Maryland, losing to Democrat Ben Cardin. From 2007 to 2009, Steele was chairman of GOPAC, a 527 organization that trains and supports Republican candidates in state and local elections. After serving one term as RNC Chair from 2009 to 2011, he lost his bid for a second term and was succeeded by Reince Priebus.^[8] Since 2011, Steele has contributed as a regular columnist for online magazine The Root^[9] and as a political analyst for MSNBC.^[10] In 2018, he became a Senior Fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.^[11]

In 2020, he formally endorsed Joe Biden for the presidency, after previously starring in an advertisement aired by The Lincoln Project.^[12]^[13]

Thompson (2009-2015)

Freddie Dalton Thompson^[14]^[15]^[16] (August 19, 1942 – November 1, 2015) was an American politician, attorney, lobbyist, columnist, actor, and radio personality. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1994 to 2003; Thompson was an unsuccessful candidate in the Republican Party presidential primaries for the 2008 United States presidential election.

He also chaired the International Security Advisory Board at the U.S. Department of State, was a member of the U.S.–China Economic and Security Review Commission, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, as well as a visiting fellow with the American Enterprise Institute, specializing in national security and intelligence.^[17]^[18]^[19]

As an actor, usually credited as Fred Dalton Thompson, he appeared in a number of movies and television shows including Matlock, The Hunt for Red October, Die Hard 2, In the Line of Fire, Days of Thunder, and Cape Fear, as well as in commercials. He frequently portrayed governmental authority figures and military men.^[20] In the final months of his U.S. Senate term in 2002, Thompson joined the cast of the NBC television series Law & Order, starring as Manhattan District Attorney Arthur Branch.^[21]

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^ Gambino, Lauren (March 10, 2019). "'Not the billionaires': why small-dollar donors are Democrats' new powerhouse". The Guardian. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on February 26, 2020. Retrieved February 25, 2020.
^ Cite error: The named reference wapo was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Vargas, Ramon Antonio (2023-08-28). "Bernie Sanders urges left to back Biden to stop 'very dangerous' Trump". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on September 1, 2023. Retrieved 2023-09-01.
^ Müller, Jan-Werner (2020-01-23). "Opinion | Please Stop Calling Bernie Sanders a Populist". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on September 4, 2023. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
^ "Michael Steele wins RNC chairmanship race". NBC News. Associated Press. January 30, 2009. Archived from the original on November 10, 2020. Retrieved November 13, 2009.
^ Cite error: The named reference Ham was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ "Michael Steele on Civil Rights". issues2000.org. On the Issues. Archived from the original on February 4, 2009. Retrieved January 28, 2010.
^ McKelway, Doug (December 13, 2010). "Steele Seeks Second Term As RNC Chair". Fox News. Archived from the original on December 14, 2010. Retrieved December 14, 2010.
^ Hagey, Keach (May 2, 2011). "Michael Steele joins The Root as columnist". Politico. Archived from the original on May 10, 2011. Retrieved May 2, 2011.
^ Terbush, Jon (May 23, 2011). "Michael Steele Joins MSNBC As Political Analyst". Talking Points Memo. TPM Media. Archived from the original on June 2, 2015. Retrieved January 24, 2013.
^ "Former RNC chair Michael Steele to join Brown's Watson Institute". Brown University. Archived from the original on February 10, 2020. Retrieved 2020-11-04.
^ Lejeune, Tristan (2020-10-20). "Ex-RNC chair Michael Steele officially endorses Biden". TheHill. Archived from the original on October 20, 2020. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
^ Maegan Vazquez and Jim Acosta (October 20, 2020). "Former RNC chairman endorses Biden with two weeks left in the election". CNN. Archived from the original on October 20, 2020. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
^ "Fred Thompson, actor and presidential candidate, dies at age 73". Grasswire.com. 2015-11-01. Archived from the original on 2016-01-07. Retrieved 2015-11-01.
^ Humphrey, Tom (2007-09-07). "Fred, Freddie — he's still F.D. Thompson: New details emerge on personal life of newly announced candidate". Knoxville News Sentinel. Archived from the original on April 30, 2013. Retrieved 2007-09-08.
^ Mathews, Joe. “An in-law-made man”, Los Angeles Times (2007-09-06): "Thompson stopped using the name Freddie in his professional dealings and became Fred."
^ American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Scholars & Fellows Archived December 26, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
^ Thompson, Fred. "Modern Political Archives: Fred Thompson Papers, 1993–2002". University of Tennessee. Archived from the original on 2006-09-08. Retrieved 2007-04-08.
^ "U.S. Department of State". Retrieved December 25, 2018.
^ Bragg, Rick (November 12, 1994). "Grits and Glitter Campaign Helps Actor Who Played a Senator Become One". The New York Times. pp. Sec. 1, p. 10. Archived from the original on December 16, 2012. Retrieved 2007-04-08.
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[auto4-4] Gambino, Lauren (March 10, 2019). "'Not the billionaires': why small-dollar donors are Democrats' new powerhouse". The Guardian. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on February 26, 2020. Retrieved February 25, 2020.

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[6] Vargas, Ramon Antonio (2023-08-28). "Bernie Sanders urges left to back Biden to stop 'very dangerous' Trump". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on September 1, 2023. Retrieved 2023-09-01.

[7] Müller, Jan-Werner (2020-01-23). "Opinion | Please Stop Calling Bernie Sanders a Populist". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on September 4, 2023. Retrieved 2023-09-04.

[8] "Michael Steele wins RNC chairmanship race". NBC News. Associated Press. January 30, 2009. Archived from the original on November 10, 2020. Retrieved November 13, 2009.

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[10] "Michael Steele on Civil Rights". issues2000.org. On the Issues. Archived from the original on February 4, 2009. Retrieved January 28, 2010.

[politics.blogs.foxnews.com-11] McKelway, Doug (December 13, 2010). "Steele Seeks Second Term As RNC Chair". Fox News. Archived from the original on December 14, 2010. Retrieved December 14, 2010.

[12] Hagey, Keach (May 2, 2011). "Michael Steele joins The Root as columnist". Politico. Archived from the original on May 10, 2011. Retrieved May 2, 2011.

[MSNBC-13] Terbush, Jon (May 23, 2011). "Michael Steele Joins MSNBC As Political Analyst". Talking Points Memo. TPM Media. Archived from the original on June 2, 2015. Retrieved January 24, 2013.

[14] "Former RNC chair Michael Steele to join Brown's Watson Institute". Brown University. Archived from the original on February 10, 2020. Retrieved 2020-11-04.

[15] Lejeune, Tristan (2020-10-20). "Ex-RNC chair Michael Steele officially endorses Biden". TheHill. Archived from the original on October 20, 2020. Retrieved 2020-10-20.

[16] Maegan Vazquez and Jim Acosta (October 20, 2020). "Former RNC chairman endorses Biden with two weeks left in the election". CNN. Archived from the original on October 20, 2020. Retrieved 2020-10-20.

[Grasswire-17] "Fred Thompson, actor and presidential candidate, dies at age 73". Grasswire.com. 2015-11-01. Archived from the original on 2016-01-07. Retrieved 2015-11-01.

[Knoxnews-18] Humphrey, Tom (2007-09-07). "Fred, Freddie — he's still F.D. Thompson: New details emerge on personal life of newly announced candidate". Knoxville News Sentinel. Archived from the original on April 30, 2013. Retrieved 2007-09-08.

[19] Mathews, Joe. “An in-law-made man”, Los Angeles Times (2007-09-06): "Thompson stopped using the name Freddie in his professional dealings and became Fred."

[20] American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Scholars & Fellows Archived December 26, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.

[MPA-21] Thompson, Fred. "Modern Political Archives: Fred Thompson Papers, 1993–2002". University of Tennessee. Archived from the original on 2006-09-08. Retrieved 2007-04-08.

[22] "U.S. Department of State". Retrieved December 25, 2018.

[NYT941112-23] Bragg, Rick (November 12, 1994). "Grits and Glitter Campaign Helps Actor Who Played a Senator Become One". The New York Times. pp. Sec. 1, p. 10. Archived from the original on December 16, 2012. Retrieved 2007-04-08.

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 Sanders is credited with influencing a leftward shift in the Democratic Party after his 2016 presidential campaign. An advocate of [[Progressivism in the United States|progressive]] policies, he is known for his opposition to [[economic inequality]] and [[neoliberalism]], and support for [[workers' self-management]]. On domestic policy, he supports [[Labour movement|labor rights]], [[Universal healthcare|universal]] and [[single-payer healthcare]], paid [[parental leave]], tuition-free [[tertiary education]], an ambitious [[Green New Deal]] to create jobs addressing [[climate change]], and [[Workers' control|worker control of production]] through cooperatives, unions, and democratic public enterprises. On foreign policy, he supports reducing [[United States military spending|military spending]], pursuing more [[diplomacy]] and [[international cooperation]], and putting greater emphasis on [[labor rights]] and environmental concerns when negotiating international trade agreements. Sanders supports [[workplace democracy]], and has praised elements of the [[Nordic model]]. Some have compared and contrasted<ref>{{Cite news |last=Müller |first=Jan-Werner |date=2020-01-23 |title=Opinion {{!}} Please Stop Calling Bernie Sanders a Populist |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/opinion/bernie-sanders-trump-populism.html |access-date=2023-09-04 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=September 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230904012942/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/opinion/bernie-sanders-trump-populism.html |url-status=live }}</ref> his politics to [[left-wing populism]] and the [[New Deal]] policies of President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]].
-== Huntsman Jr. (2015-2017) ==
+== Steele (2015-2017) ==
+'''Michael Stephen Steele''' (born October 19, 1958) is an American politician, attorney, and political commentator who served as the seventh [[Lieutenant Governor of Maryland|lieutenant governor of Maryland]] from 2003 to 2007 and as chair of the [[Republican National Committee]] (RNC) from 2009 until 2011; he was the first African-American to hold either office.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/28914110|title=Michael Steele wins RNC chairmanship race|agency=[[Associated Press]]|date=January 30, 2009|work=[[NBC News]]|access-date=November 13, 2009|archive-date=November 10, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201110210809/https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna28914110|url-status=live}}</ref>
-'''Jon Meade Huntsman Jr.''' (born March 26, 1960) is an American businessman, diplomat, and politician who served as the 16th [[governor of Utah]] from 2005 to 2009. A member of the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]], he served as the [[List of ambassadors of the United States to Russia|ambassador of the United States to Russia]] from 2017 to 2019, [[List of ambassadors of the United States to China|ambassador to China]] from 2009 to 2011, and [[List of ambassadors of the United States to Singapore|ambassador to Singapore]] from 1992 to 1993.
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 | office              = President of the United States
 | vicepresident       = {{plainlist|
 * ''None'' {{nowrap|(Nov. 2015 – Feb. 2016)}}
-* [[Mike Enzi]] {{nowrap|(Feb. 2016 – 2017)}}
+* [[Mia Love]] {{nowrap|(Feb. 2016 – 2017)}}
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 | term_start          = November 1, 2015
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 | predecessor1        = [[Joe Lieberman]]
-| successor1          = [[Susan Rice]]
+| successor1          = Mia Love
-| order2              = 16th
+|jr/sr2               = United States Senator
-| office2             = Governor of Utah
+|state2               = [[Maryland]]
-| lieutenant2         = [[Gary Herbert]]
+|term_start2          = January 3, 2007
-| term_start2         = January 3, 2005
+|term_end2            = January 20, 2009
-| term_end2           = August 11, 2008
+|predecessor2         = [[Paul Sarbanes]]
-| predecessor2        = [[Olene Walker]]
+|successor2           = [[Ben Cardin]]
-| successor2          = Gary Herbert
+|office3             = 7th [[Lieutenant Governor of Maryland]]
+|governor3           = [[Bob Ehrlich]]
-| office3             = [[Office of the United States Trade Representative|United States Deputy Trade Representative]]
-| president3          = [[George W. Bush]]
+|term_start3         = January 15, 2003
-| term_start3         = August 3, 2001
+|term_end3           = January 3, 2007
-| term_end3           = April 2, 2003
+|predecessor3        = [[Kathleen Kennedy Townsend]]
+|successor3          = [[Anthony Brown (Maryland politician)|Anthony Brown]]
-| predecessor3        = Susan Esserman
-| successor3          = [[Josette Sheeran]]
+|office4             = Chair of the [[Maryland Republican Party]]
-| order4              = 11th
+|term_start4         = December 10, 2000
+|term_end4           = July 1, 2002
-| ambassador_from4    = United States
-| country4            = Singapore
+|predecessor4        = Joyce Lyon Tehres
-| president4          = [[George H. W. Bush]]<br/>[[Bill Clinton]]
+|successor4          = Louis Pope
-| term_start4         = September 22, 1992
+|birth_date          = {{birth date and age|1958|10|19}}
+|birth_place         = {{nowrap|[[Andrews Field]], [[Maryland]], U.S.}}
-| term_end4           = June 15, 1993
-| predecessor4        = [[Robert D. Orr]]
+|death_date          =
-| successor4          = [[Ralph L. Boyce]]
+|death_place         =
-| birth_name          = Jon Meade Huntsman Jr.
+|party               = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
-| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|1960|3|26}}
+|spouse              = {{marriage|Andrea Derritt|1985}}
-| birth_place         = [[Redwood City, California]], U.S.
+|children            = 2
+|education           = [[Johns Hopkins University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[Villanova University]]<br>[[Georgetown University]] ([[Juris Doctor|JD]])
-| death_date          =
-| death_place         =
+|signature           = Michael Steele signature.svg
-| party               = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
-| spouse              = {{marriage|[[Mary Kaye Huntsman|Mary Cooper]]|1983}}
-| children            = 7, including [[Abby Huntsman|Abby]]
-| parents             = [[Jon Huntsman Sr.]] (father)<br/>Karen Haight (mother)
-| relatives           = [[Peter R. Huntsman]] (brother)
-| education           = [[University of Pennsylvania]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
-| signature           = Jon M Huntsman Jr Signature.svg
 }}
+In the 1990s, Steele worked as a partner at the international law firm of [[LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae]] and co-founded the [[Republican Leadership Council]], a "[[fiscal conservatism|fiscally conservative]] and socially inclusive" [[political action committee]].<ref name=Ham/> Steele also made numerous appearances as a political pundit on [[Fox News]] and other media outlets prior to running for public office. As lieutenant governor, Steele chaired the [[Minority Business Enterprise]] task force, actively promoting an expansion of [[affirmative action]] in the corporate world.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.issues2000.org/Domestic/Michael_Steele_Civil_Rights.htm|title=Michael Steele on Civil Rights|work=issues2000.org|publisher=On the Issues|access-date=January 28, 2010|archive-date=February 4, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090204164010/http://issues2000.org/Domestic/Michael_Steele_Civil_Rights.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> He made an unsuccessful run in the [[2006 United States Senate election in Maryland|2006 U.S. Senate election in Maryland]], losing to Democrat [[Ben Cardin]]. From 2007 to 2009, Steele was chairman of [[GOPAC]], a [[527 organization]] that trains and supports Republican candidates in state and local elections. After serving one term as RNC Chair from 2009 to 2011, he lost his bid for a second term and was succeeded by [[Reince Priebus]].<ref name="politics.blogs.foxnews.com">{{cite news|url=http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/12/13/sources-say-steele-will-seek-second-term-rnc-chair|work=[[Fox News]]|title=Steele Seeks Second Term As RNC Chair|first=Doug|last=McKelway|date=December 13, 2010|access-date=December 14, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101214235650/http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/12/13/sources-say-steele-will-seek-second-term-rnc-chair|archive-date=December 14, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> Since 2011, Steele has contributed as a regular columnist for online magazine ''[[The Root (magazine)|The Root]]''<ref>{{cite news|work=[[Politico]]|date=May 2, 2011|url=http://www.politico.com/blogs/onmedia/0511/Michael_Steele_joins_The_Root_as_columnist.html|first=Keach|last=Hagey|title=Michael Steele joins The Root as columnist|access-date=May 2, 2011|archive-date=May 10, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110510013605/http://www.politico.com/blogs/onmedia/0511/Michael_Steele_joins_The_Root_as_columnist.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and as a political analyst for [[MSNBC]].<ref name=MSNBC>{{cite news|last=Terbush|first=Jon|title=Michael Steele Joins MSNBC As Political Analyst|url=http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/michael-steele-joins-msnbc-as-political-analyst|date=May 23, 2011|work=[[Talking Points Memo]]|publisher=TPM Media|access-date=January 24, 2013|archive-date=June 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150602090735/http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/michael-steele-joins-msnbc-as-political-analyst|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2018, he became a Senior Fellow at [[Brown University]]'s [[Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Former RNC chair Michael Steele to join Brown's Watson Institute|url=https://www.brown.edu/news/2018-08-28/steele|access-date=2020-11-04|website=Brown University|language=en|archive-date=February 10, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200210165518/https://www.brown.edu/news/2018-08-28/steele|url-status=live}}</ref>
-Huntsman served in every presidential administration from the [[presidency of Ronald Reagan]] to [[Presidency of Donald Trump|that of Donald Trump]]. He began his career as a [[White House]] staff assistant for [[Ronald Reagan]], and was appointed [[United States Department of Commerce|deputy assistant secretary of commerce]] and U.S. ambassador to Singapore by [[George H. W. Bush]]. Later as [[United States Trade Representative|deputy U.S. trade representative]] under [[George W. Bush]], he launched [[Doha Development Round|global trade negotiations in Doha]] in 2001 and guided the accession of [[China]] into the [[World Trade Organization]]. He served as CEO of Huntsman Family Holdings, a private entity that held the stock the family owned in [[Huntsman Corporation]]. He has also served as a board member of Huntsman Corporation, and as chair of the Huntsman Cancer Foundation. Huntsman is the only American ambassador to have served in both Russia and China,<ref name = "ManInMoscow" /> having been the U.S. ambassador to China under [[Barack Obama]] from 2009 to 2011 and as the U.S. ambassador to Russia under [[Donald Trump]] from 2017 to 2019.
+In 2020, he formally endorsed [[Joe Biden]] for the presidency, after previously starring in an advertisement aired by [[The Lincoln Project]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Lejeune|first=Tristan|date=2020-10-20|title=Ex-RNC chair Michael Steele officially endorses Biden|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/521789-ex-rnc-chair-michael-steele-officially-endorses-biden|access-date=2020-10-20|website=TheHill|language=en|archive-date=October 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020130602/https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/521789-ex-rnc-chair-michael-steele-officially-endorses-biden|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|author=Maegan Vazquez and Jim Acosta|title=Former RNC chairman endorses Biden with two weeks left in the election|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/20/politics/michael-steele-joe-biden-endorsement/index.html|access-date=2020-10-20|website=CNN|date=October 20, 2020 |archive-date=October 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020124304/https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/20/politics/michael-steele-joe-biden-endorsement/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
-While governor of Utah, Huntsman was named chair of the [[Western Governors Association]] and joined the executive committee of the [[National Governors Association]]. Under his leadership, Utah was named the best-managed state in America by the [[The Pew Charitable Trusts|Pew Center on the States]].<ref name="nydailynews1">{{cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/toplists/the_faces_of_the_new_gop_leadership/the_faces_of_the_new_gop_leadership.html |title=The New Faces of the GOP New York Daily News|newspaper=[[Daily News (New York)|Daily News]] |access-date=May 25, 2011 |date=May 11, 2009}}</ref> During his tenure, Huntsman was one of the most popular governors in the country, and won reelection [[2008 Utah gubernatorial election|in a landslide in 2008]], winning every single county. He left office with approval ratings over 80 percent and was succeeded by Lieutenant Governor [[Gary Herbert]].<ref name="deseretnews1">{{cite web|url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705292540/Huntsman-lawmakers-ratings-soar.html |title=Huntsman, lawmakers' ratings soar |work=Deseret News|date=March 23, 2009 |access-date=May 25, 2011}}</ref> He was an unsuccessful candidate for the [[2012 Republican Party presidential primaries|2012 Republican presidential nomination]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/56928.html |title=Jon Huntsman 2012 presidential announcement coming June 21 |author=Haberman, Maggie |work=[[Politico]] |date=June 14, 2011 |access-date=October 4, 2011}}</ref> He ran for governor again [[2020 Utah gubernatorial election|in 2020]], but narrowly lost in the Republican primary to Lieutenant Governor [[Spencer Cox (politician)|Spencer Cox]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/06/huntsman-loses-gop-primary-in-utah-349958|title=Huntsman loses GOP primary in Utah|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|website=POLITICO|date=July 6, 2020 }}</ref>
-Huntsman now serves as a [[No Labels]] National Co-Chair, and on July 17, 2023, he appeared with US senator [[Joe Manchin]] as headliners for a No Labels Common Sense Agenda Town Hall in Manchester, New Hampshire.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bowman |first=Bridget |date=July 12, 2023 |title=Joe Manchin and Jon Huntsman to headline No Labels town hall |work=NBC News |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meetthepressblog/joe-manchin-jon-huntsman-headline-no-labels-town-hall-rcna93860 |access-date=August 12, 2023}}</ref>
 == Thompson (2009-2015) ==