Russ Feingold
Russ Feingold is a Democrat of Wisconsin serving in the United States Senate since 1992. He finished Harvard University Law School in 1979 and then worked as an attorney at law until 1985 when he started working for the Senate.
Despite major opposition from most of his coleagues Senator Russ Feingold continued to support the ideals which he and his constituents found important such as health care, gay rights, education, AIDS prevention, environmentalism, foreign policy, senior citizens' issues, preserving Social Security, energy conservation, and abolishing the death penalty. He was one of the few to vote against of the Defense of Marriage Act which ultimatelly passed and which witholds marital rights from new residents which relocated from a state where same-sex marriages are allowed. Senator Feingold was the only one to vote against the USA Patriot Act which he recognized to bring severe limitations to his compatriots' civil rights.