Editing Auburn, New York (section)

=== Government, politics, and law ===
* [[Harry Elmer Barnes]], historian, scholar and social scientist
* [[John Beardsley (New York politician)|John Beardsley]] (1783–1857), judge, assemblyman, state senator and warden of Auburn state prison
* [[Samuel Blatchford]], Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
* [[William H. Carpenter (1821–1885)|William H. Carpenter]], U.S. Consul to [[Fuzhou]], China, 1861–1865
* Lisa Colella, Founder, Healing Household 6, the first family violence organization for military families, 2019 Medal of Honor Community Service Hero Honoree, Family Advisor for Department of Veterans Affairs Intimate Partner Violence Assistance Program
* [[William Miller Collier]], diplomat, attorney, president of [[George Washington University]], author of ''Collier on Bankruptcy''
* [[Alfred Conkling Coxe Sr.]], federal judge
* [[Amy Dacey]], Democratic National Committee, CEO
* [[Ulysses F. Doubleday]], congressman, father of Abner Doubleday
* [[Eleanor Lansing Dulles]], diplomat
* [[Nathaniel B. Eldredge]], congressman
* [[William Fulton (urban planner)|William Fulton]], author, urban planner, 52nd mayor of [[Ventura, California]]
* [[Milo Goodrich]], congressman
* [[Jerome Holland]], first African American ambassador to a European nation ([[Sweden]], 1972); president of [[Hampton University]]
* [[Thomas Y. Howe, Jr.]], mayor and congressman<ref name="Marquis 1607-1896"/>
* [[James Lockhart (Indiana)|James Lockhart]], congressman from [[Indiana]]<ref name="Marquis 1607-1896"/>
* [[Virginia V. Lyons]], politician
* [[Clinton D. MacDougall]], congressman
* [[Truman A. Merriman]], congressman<ref name="Marquis 1607-1896"/>
* [[Lithgow Osborne]], diplomat, first American ambassador to [[Norway]] after World War II
* [[Thomas Mott Osborne]], prison reformer 
* [[Sereno E. Payne]], first [[House Majority Leader]]
* [[Theodore Pomeroy]], [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|speaker of the house]] and mayor
* [[Frederick W. Seward]], assistant secretary of state
* [[William G. Stahlnecker]], congressman
* [[John Taber]], congressman
* [[Enos T. Throop]], 10th Governor of New York
* [[Floyd K. Whittlemore]], Illinois state treasurer
* [[Martha Coffin Wright]], [[feminism|feminist]] and participant in the [[Seneca Falls convention]]
* Sheila Saft Tucker, historian, author, reporter, and teacher