The heart and lung specialist became the first practising doctor elected to the Senate since 1928. His great, great grandfather was one of the Chattanooga, Tennessee?s 53 original settlers. The keen pilot and hunter carried out the first successful heart-lung transplant in southeast America and frequently jets out to Africa to perform surgery for those in need. Tipped as a possible future Republican President at the next election.

Another potential White House candidate, currently considered as the frontrunner by some Capitol Hill political pundits. The Arizona heavyweight started his career as a Naval pilot and ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for President in 2000. He has seven children. Bermuda officials were impressed with his ?homely touch? in talks yesterday.

Raised on the Kansas farm where his parents still live, he was elected to the House of Representatives in 1994, then the Senate in 1996. Currently keen to promote traditional marriage and an optional flat tax. Over the years he has been a radio broadcaster, lawyer, teacher, and The New York Times said he was ?one of the most conservative, religious, fascinating ? and in many ways admirable ? politicians in America today.?

The Deputy Secretary of the US Commerce Department is responsible for the management of its $6.5 billion budget and 38,000 staff. His department also looks after sea and coastal marine resources. Graduate of the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.

Second in command at the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, the experienced peacekeeper is also a career member of the US Foreign Service. During his time at the National Security Council, he was responsible for launching NATO operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. Until 2001 he took main responsibility for Balkans peacekeeping, defence and nuclear planning. Spent two years as a CIA analyst. Speaks Hungarian, Swedish and French.

Describes himself as a community organiser and civil rights attorney, his brief also states he continues to fight for working families. After a number of inmates on death row were found innocent, the Senator drafted laws making videotaping of questioning of suspects a must in all capital cases. Born in Hawaii, he graduated from Harvard Law School and was the first African American editor of the university?s Law Review.