Billy Mays
The television salesman best known for his infomercials promoting, OxiClean, Orange Glo, and Kaboom revealed he was a Republican in a 2008 interview. Sadly Mays passed away from heart trouble in 2009.
Daniel Lawrence
The comedian Daniel Lawrence Whitney, better known as Larry, the Cable Guy, was a supporter of Presidential nominee Donald Trump in the 2016 election. In an interview, he told Rare Country, “I think he’s going to do a great job. I think it’s about time we ran this country like a business and not put people in positions of power who bought the position. Donald Trump is putting people… I mean he’s even considering people he doesn’t agree with because he feels he is best for the job. You need somebody like that.”
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play major league baseball. What might be surprising is that as an African American in 1960 he was a Republican and campaigned for presidential candidate Richard Nixon. He supported the Republican party because of the long tradition of blacks giving their support to the party of Lincoln. Robinson also challenged John F. Kennedy on his dithering of black equality. Kennedy listened and met with Robinson to address his concerns. It was partly because of Robinson that Kennedy delivered his landmark speech in 1963 that spoke of inequality.