Editing Boston University (section)

===Government and politics===
[[File:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ Women's March NYC (46115223655).jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|U.S. Representative [[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]]]]
[[File:William Howard Taft by Anders Zorn, 1911.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|[[William Howard Taft]], the 27th [[president of the United States]], who lectured at BU School of Law from 1918 to 1921]]
Boston University alumni include 13 current or former [[United States Governor|governors]] of U.S. states, eight [[United States Senate|U.S. senators]], and 33 members of the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives]].

Its graduates have achieved a number of historical firsts in United States history, including [[Edward Brooke]] III, the first [[African Americans|African-American]] Senator, [[Barbara Jordan]], the first [[African Americans|African-American]] [[United States House of Representatives|Representative]] from a Southern state, [[Gary Locke]], the first [[Chinese Americans|Chinese American]] governor, and [[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]], the youngest woman elected to the House.

Notable alumni in American politics include former Defense Secretary [[William Cohen]], former US Ambassador to China [[Gary Locke]], former Senator [[Judd Gregg]], former United States Senator [[Edward Brooke]], former Massachusetts Attorney General [[Martha Coakley]], former Second Lady [[Tipper Gore]], and the former First Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston [[Earle O. Latham]]. Former President [[William Howard Taft]] lectured on Legal Ethics at the university's [[Boston University School of Law|law school]] from 1918 to 1921.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BU School of Law Timeline |url=http://www.bu.edu/law/about/timeline.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140118120155/http://www.bu.edu/law/about/timeline.html |archive-date=January 18, 2014 |access-date=January 16, 2014 |publisher=Boston University}}</ref>

After leaving politics in 2014, former Boston mayor [[Thomas Menino]] was professor of the practice of political science at the university until his death later in the year.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Ryan |first1=Andrew |last2=Bombardieri |first2=Marcella |date=November 12, 2013 |title=Menino to help start urban institute at BU |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/11/12/mayor-thomas-menino-headed-boston-university-help-run-new-initiative-cities/Q3BwuoO1BAWZ0kGloKV9XM/story.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190509032016/https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/11/12/mayor-thomas-menino-headed-boston-university-help-run-new-initiative-cities/Q3BwuoO1BAWZ0kGloKV9XM/story.html |archive-date=May 9, 2019 |access-date=May 9, 2019 |work=The Boston Globe}}</ref>

Television personality [[Bill O'Reilly (political commentator)|Bill O'Reilly]] studied journalism at the university in the 1970s and was a columnist for the student newspaper, ''The Daily Free Press''.<ref name="Leving 2009">{{Cite news |last=Leving |first=Jessica |date=June 4, 2009 |title=Bill O'Reilly's BU Days |url=http://www.bu.edu/today/2009/bill-o%E2%80%99reilly%E2%80%99s-bu-days/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150127083759/http://www.bu.edu/today/2009/bill-o%E2%80%99reilly%E2%80%99s-bu-days/ |archive-date=January 27, 2015 |access-date=June 25, 2014 |work=BU Today}}</ref> Describing his time at the university, he wrote, "Throughout that fall at BU, covering stories became a passion for me. I loved going places and seeing new things. I ran around Boston annoying the hell out of everyone, but bringing back good, crisp copy" and "what I learned at Boston University firmly set me on the course I continue to this day. Amidst the chaos of Commonwealth Avenue, I found an occupation that I enjoyed."<ref name="Leving 2009" />

In international politics, Boston University alumni include [[Sherwin Gatchalian]], a Philippine senator elected in 2016, and [[Daniyal Aziz]], a Pakistani politician affiliated with the [[Pakistan Muslim League (N)]] who is currently a member of the [[National Assembly of Pakistan]]. [[Archbishop Makarios]], the first [[President of Cyprus]], studied at Boston University under a [[World Council of Churches]] scholarship. The founder of the Albanian Orthodox Church, [[Fan S. Noli]], received a doctorate from Boston University. [[Moeed Yusuf]], the current [[National Security Advisor (Pakistan)]] to the [[Prime Minister of Pakistan]], received his master's and doctoral degrees from Boston University.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Moeed Yusuf |url=https://www.bu.edu/pardee/community/moeed-yusuf/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111103172735/http://www.bu.edu/pardee/community/moeed-yusuf/ |archive-date=November 3, 2011 |access-date=August 25, 2021 |publisher=Pardee School of Global Studies}}</ref>