The following is a list of University of Michigan legislator alumni. For more alumni, see the List of University of Michigan alumni, and University of Michigan.
Where the date or fact of graduation is uncertain, "(MDNG)" is used to indicate "matriculated, did not graduate."
A J. Leroy Adair (LAW: JD 1911), congressional representative from Illinois Edward Payson Allen (LAW: JD 1867), congressional representative from Michigan Gideon Winans Allen (LAW: 1864), Wisconsin state assemblyman John Beard Allen (LAW: 1869?), delegate from the Territory of Washington and senator from Washington Leo Elwood Allen (AB 1923), congressional representative from Illinois Justin Amash (LAW: JD 2005), congressional representative from Michigan's 3rd congressional district Clinton Presba Anderson (AB ??), congressional representative and senator from New Mexico Daniel Read Anthony, Jr. (MDNG?), congressional representative from Kansas Henry Fountain Ashurst (MDNG), senator from Arizona
B Donald Allen Bailey (BA 1967), congressional representative from Pennsylvania Joseph Edward Baird (LAW: JD 1893), congressional representative from Ohio Lucien Baker (LAW: JD), senator from Kansas Bert Andrew Bandstra (AB 1953), congressional representative from Iowa Henry Towne Bannon (AB 1889), congressional representative from Ohio Samuel Willard Beakes (LAW: JD 1883), congressional representative from Michigan Rand Beers (MA 1970) Alvin Morell Bentley (AB 1940, MA 1963), served as vice consul and secretary with the United States Diplomatic Corps in Mexico Michael D. Bishop (A.B. 1989), State of Michigan Senate majority leader Roswell Peter Bishop (1868–1872) (LAW: JD 1875), congressional representative from Michigan William Wallace Blackney (LAW: JD 1912), congressional representative from Michigan Melvin Morella Boothman (LAW: JD 1871), congressional representative from Ohio William Patterson Borland (LAW: JD 1892), congressional representative from Missouri Samuel Myron Brainerd (LAW), congressional representative from Pennsylvania Abraham Lincoln Brick (LAW: JD 1883), congressional representative from Indiana William McNulty Brodhead (LAW: JD 1967), congressional representative from Michigan Marriott Brosius (LAW), congressional representative from Pennsylvania Arthur Brown (LAW: JD 1864), senator from Utah Charles Bruce Brownson (AB 1935), congressional representative from Indiana Ferdinand Brucker (LAW: JD 1881), congressional representative from Michigan William John Bulow (LAW: JD 1893), senator from South Dakota Anson Burlingame (MDNG? 1838–1841), congressional representative from Massachusetts
C Benjamin Taylor Cable (AB 1876), congressional representative from Illinois Martha Hughes Cannon (MED: 1880), on November 3, 1896, became the first woman elected as a state senator in the United States William Randolph Carpenter (LAW: JD 1917), congressional representative from Kansas William Wallace Chalmers (AB 1887), congressional representative from Ohio Walter Marion Chandler (AB 1897), congressional representative from New York John Logan Chipman (1843–1845), congressional representative from Michigan Ralph Edwin Church (AB 1907), congressional representative from Illinois Robert Henry Clancy (AB 1907, LAW: DNG?), congressional representative from Michigan Kit Francis Clardy (LAW: JD 1925), congressional representative from Michigan Raymond Francis Clevenger (LAW: JD 1952), congressional representative from Michigan George Pierre Codd (AB 1891), congressional representative from Michigan Don Byron Colton (LAW: 1905), congressional representative from Utah George Hamilton Combs, Jr. (MDNG), congressional representative from Missouri Solomon Gilman Comstock (MDNG), congressional representative from Minnesota Michael Francis Conry (LAW: JD 1896), congressional representative from New York Allen Foster Cooper (LAW: JD 1888), congressional representative from Pennsylvania Royal Samuel Copeland (MED: MD 1889), senator from New York John Kissig Cowen (LAW: ??), congressional representative from Maryland William Elijah Cox (LAW: JD 1889), congressional representative from Indiana Louis Convers Cramton (LAW: JD 1899), congressional representative from Michigan Philip Miller Crane (MDNG), congressional representative from Illinois Fred Lewis Crawford, congressional representative from Michigan George William Crockett, Jr. (LAW: JD 1934), congressional representative from Michigan Maurice Edgar Crumpacker (LAW: JD 1909), elected as a congressional representative to the Sixty-ninth and Seventieth Congresses Shepard J. Crumpacker, Jr. (LAW: JD 1941), congressional representative from Indiana Paul Harvey Cunningham (LSA: AB 1914; LAW: JD 1915), congressional representative from Iowa Gilbert Archibald Currie (LAW: JD 1905), congressional representative from Michigan Byron M. Cutcheon (AB 1861, LAW: JD 1866), congressional representative from Michigan
D–E Archibald Bard Darragh (1857–1858, AB 1868), congressional representative from Michigan Cushman Kellogg Davis (AB 1857), senator from Minnesota Stephen Albion Day (AB 1905), congressional representative from Illinois Marion De Vries (LAW: JD 1888), congressional representative from California John Richard Dellenback (LAW: JD 1949), congressional representative from Oregon Gerrit John Diekema (LAW: JD 1883), congressional representative from Michigan Charles Coles Diggs, Jr. (1940–1942), congressional representative from Michigan Francis Henry Dodds (LAW: JD 1880), congressional representative from Michigan Sheridan Downey (LAW: JD 1907), elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate Robert Blackford Duncan (LAW: LLB 1948), congressional representative from Oregon Warren Joseph Duffey (LAW: JD 1911), congressional representative from Ohio Robert F. Ellsworth (LAW: JD 1949), congressional representative from Kansas Marvin Leonel Esch (AB, MA 1951, Ph. D 1957), congressional representative from Michigan Robert Emory Evans (LAW: JD 1886), congressional representative from Nebraska
F–G John Franklin Farnsworth, congressional representative from Illinois Homer Samuel Ferguson (AB 1913), senator from Michigan Woodbridge N. Ferris (MED: MD 1874), senator from Michigan Peter G. Fitzgerald (LAW: JD 1986), senator from Illinois George Ford (LAW: JD 1869), congressional representative from Indiana Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. (AB 1935), congressional representative from Michigan, vice president, and thirty-eighth president of the United States Harold Ford, Jr. (LAW: JD 1996), congressional representative from Tennessee Hiram Robert Fowler (LAW: JD 1884), congressional representative from Illinois Louis Frey, Jr. (LAW: JD 1961), congressional representative from Florida Frank Ballard Fulkerson (LAW: MDNG), congressional representative from Missouri Harry Conrad Gahn (LAW: JD 1904), congressional representative from Ohio John James Gardner (LAW: 1866, 1867), congressional representative from New Jersey Richard Andrew Gephardt (LAW: JD 1965), congressional representative from Missouri Ernest Willard Gibson (LAW: 1899), congressional representative and senator from Vermont Joseph John Gill (LAW: JD 1868), congressional representative from Ohio Paul Gillmor (LAW: JD 1964), congressional representative, Ohio 5th Paul Eugene Gillmor (LAW: JD 1964), congressional representative from Ohio Robert Henry Gittins (LAW: JD 1900), congressional representative from New York Dan Glickman (BA History 1966), congressional representative from Kansas James Stephen Golden (LAW: LLB 1916), congressional representative from Kentucky Stephen Goldsmith (LAW: JD 1971), mayor of Indianapolis 1992–99; US Army Reserve 1968–74 James William Good (LAW: JD 1893), congressional representative from Iowa William Gordon (LAW: JD 1893), congressional representative from Ohio James Sedgwick Gorman (LAW: JD 1876), congressional representative from Michigan Jim Graham (LAW: JD), Democrat representing Ward 1 Levi Thomas Griffin (AB 1857, LAW:), congressional representative from Michigan Robert Paul Griffin (LAW: JD 1950), congressional representative and senator from Michigan Martha Wright Griffiths (LAW: JD 1940), congressional representative from Michigan
H–J William Flavius Lester Hadley (LAW: JD 1871), congressional representative from Illinois John Eugene Harding (AB 1900), congressional representative from Ohio Darius Dodge Hare (LAW: JD 1964), congressional representative from Ohio Byron Berry Harlan (LAW: JD 1909; LS&A: 1911), congressional representative from Ohio William H. Harries (LAW: JD 1868), congressional representative from Minnesota Philip Aloysius Hart (Law: JD 1937), senator from Michigan Dow Watters Harter (LAW: JD 1907), congressional representative from Ohio James Harvey (LAW: LLB 1948), congressional representative from Michigan Nils Pederson Haugen (LAW: JD 1874), congressional representative from Wisconsin Walter Ingalls Hayes (LAW: JD 1863), congressional representative from Iowa Guy T. Helvering (LAW: JD 1906), congressional representative from Kansas Charles Belknap Henderson (LAW: JD 1895), senator from Nevada John Earl Henderson (LAW: JD 1942), congressional representative from Ohio Joseph Lister Hill, congressional representative and senator from Alabama William Henry Hinebaugh, congressional representative from Illinois John Carl Williams Hinshaw (BUS: MDNG), congressional representative from California Gilbert Monell Hitchcock (LAW: JD 1881), congressional representative and senator from Nebraska Peter Hoekstra (BUS: MBA 1977), congressional representative from Michigan Adoniram Judson Holmes (LAW: JD 1867), congressional representative from Iowa Craig Hosmer (MDNG), representative from California Jay Abel Hubbell (AB 1853), congressional representative from Michigan William Leonard Hungate (MDNG), congressional representative from Missouri J. Edward Hutchinson (AB 1936, LAW: JD 1938), congressional representative from Michigan Orange Jacobs (MDNG?), delegate from the Territory of Washington Albert Webb Jefferis (LAW: JD 1893), congressional representative from Nebraska Adna Romulus Johnson (LAW: JD 1887), congressional representative from Ohio Bartel John Jonkman (LAW: JD 1914), congressional representative from Michigan
K Marcia Carolyn "Marcy" Kaptur (MA 1974), congressional representative from Ohio Nancy Kassebaum (AB 1954), senator from Kansas Frank Bateman Keefe (LAW: JD 1910), congressional representative from Wisconsin Edwin William Keightley (LAW: JD 1865), congressional representative from Michigan Patrick Henry Kelley (LAW: JD 1900), congressional representative from Michigan Joseph Morgan Kendall (MDNG), congressional representative from Kentucky Mark Kennedy (BUS: MBA 1983), congressional representative in the U.S. Congress from Minnesota John Worth Kern (LAW: JD 1869), senator from Indiana Winfield Scott Kerr (LAW: JD 1879), congressional representative from Ohio Dale Kildee (MA 1962), congressional representative Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (MS 1977), congressional representative from Michigan Henry Mahlon Kimball (LAW: JD 1904), congressional representative from Michigan Moses Pierce Kinkaid (LAW: JD 1876), congressional representative from Nebraska Snyder Solomon Kirkpatrick, congressional representative from Kansas Milton Kraus (LAW: JD 1886), congressional representative from Indiana
L James Laird (LAW: JD 1871), congressional representative from Nebraska Frederick Landis (LAW: JD 1895), congressional representative from Indiana Oscar John Larson (LAW: JD 1894), congressional representative from Minnesota Steven C. LaTourette (BA 1976), congressional representative from Ohio Scott Leavitt (MDNG?), congressional representative from Montana John Camillus Lehr (LAW: JD 1900), congressional representative from Michigan John Jacob Lentz (AB 1882), congressional representative from Ohio Elliott Harris Levitas (LAW: 1954–1955), congressional representative from Georgia William Lewis (MDNG), congressional representative from Kentucky