List of Jewish American politicians

Federal government

Other

• Doug Emhoff, former Second Gentleman of the United States

State government

Lieutenant governors

State Attorneys General

State Secretaries of State

State Treasurers

Other State Cabinet Positions

State Legislators

• Daniel Ankeles, Member of the Maine House of Representatives
• Simcha Felder, Member of the New York State Senate
• Lazarus Joseph, Member of the New York State Senate and New York City Comptroller
• Florence Shapiro, Member of the Texas State Senate
• Loretta Weinberg, former Majority Leader of the New Jersey Senate

Municipal government

Mayors of major cities

Former mayors of major cities

• Jerry Abramson
• Moses Alexander
• Abe Aronovitz
• Harry Bacharach
• Walt Bachrach
• Martin Behrman
• Richard Berkley
• Ethan Berkowitz
• Bruce Blakeman
• Michael Bloomberg
• David Cicilline
• Josh Cohen
• Larry Cohen
• Norm Coleman
• Leopold David, first mayor of Anchorage
• Rahm Emanuel
• Mutt Evans
• Dianne Feinstein
• Bob Filner
• Samuel Folz
• Lois Frankel
• Sandra Freedman
• Jeffrey Friedman
• Eva Galambos
• Eric Garcetti
• Bailey Gatzert
• Susan Golding
• Neil Goldschmidt
• Stephen Goldsmith
• Phil Gordon
• Bill Gradison
• Robert Harris
• Adlene Harrison
• Max Heller
• Julius Houseman
• Vera Katz
• Ed Koch
• Joseph Lazarow
• Oscar Leeser
• Henry Loeb, later converted to Episcopalianism
• Zachariah J. Loussac
• Sophie Masloff
• Sam Massell
• Laura Miller
• Arthur Naftalin
• Meyera Oberndorf
• Ed Rendell
• Jonathan Rothschild
• Libby Schaaf
• Steve Schewel
• Kel Seliger
• Florence Shapiro
• Joseph Simon
• Paul Soglin
• Jerry Springer
• Annette Strauss
• Adolph Sutro
• Susan Weiner
• Edward Zorinsky

Other

• Chelsea Cook, Member of the Durham City Council

Presidential and vice presidential candidates

• Tonie Nathan was the vice presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party in 1972. She received one electoral vote for vice president, thus becoming the first Jew to receive an electoral vote for either president or vice president.
• Arlen Specter ran for the Republican nomination in 1996, but dropped out before the Iowa caucuses. He later became a Democrat.
• Joe Lieberman was the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2000, receiving 266 electoral votes for vice president. Four years later, he ran for the Democratic presidential nomination for the 2004 election. He became an Independent in 2006.
• Jill Stein was the Green Party nominee in 2012. She lost with 0.36% of the vote, or 470,000 votes. She ran in the 2016 Presidential Election, but lost with just over one percent. Stein ran for a third time in 2024 as the Green Party nominee.
• Bernie Sanders ran for president in 2016 as a Democrat. He became the first Jewish candidate to win a Democratic party primary with a victory in New Hampshire. He lost the nomination to Hillary Clinton. He ran again in 2020. Sanders received one vote in the electoral college in 2016 from David Mulinix of Hawaii, thus making him the first Jew to receive a vote for president in the college. In addition to this, he received two invalidated votes from other voters in the electoral college.
• Michael Bennet ran in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.
• Michael Bloomberg ran in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.
• Marianne Williamson, raised in a Jewish family, ran in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries. Williamson ran again four years later in the 2024 Democratic Party presidential primaries.
• Dean Phillips ran in the 2024 Democratic Party presidential primaries.