<p>I think it would be interesting to see which schools educate future senators/representatives. One may not have to attend HYP to become a congressman.</p>
<p>Picking randomly from a list of senators on Wikipedia:
Bob Corker (TN) - University of Tennessee
Maria Cantwell (WA) - Miami of Ohio
Mike Enzi (WY) - GW, then U of Denver
Tim Johnson (SD) - University of South Dakota, Michigan State University
Kent Conrad (ND) - Exeter, Stanford, GW
Robert Byrd (WV) - Beckley College, Concord College, Morris Harvey College, and Marshall College then American University’s Washington College of Law
Chris Dodd (CT) - Georgetown, University of Louisville Law
Richard Lugar (IN) - Denison, then Oxford as a Rhodes</p>
<p>Then notables from the Cabinet:
Defense: William and Mary, then Georgetown
State: Wellesley, then Yale Law
Treasury: Dartmouth, then Peking University, then Beijing Normal University, then Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies
Energy: Rochester then Berkeley for a PhD.
Justice: Columbia and Columbia Law</p>
<p>So politics does not necessarily require a fancy degree, but it sure seems to help.</p>