It was Election Day here in the U.S. earlier this week. To commemorate this event, we thought we’d try something a bit different. We began with six cropped Fan Teaser images of athletes who served as elected leaders in their nation’s federal government.

Were you able to identify them all and the role they served?

Steve Largent

Largent attended his hometown University of Tulsa and was selected in the fourth round of the 1976 NFL Draft by the Houston Oilers but was traded to the Seattle Seahawks during the preseason. It was two seasons later, however, before his first NFL appearance with the Seahawks where he spent his entire 14-year Hall of Fame career, scoring 100 touchdowns over his 200 games.

Five years after his 1989 NFL retirement, Largent ran for and won Oklahoma’s first Congressional seat as a Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives. He served four terms before resigning to run for Governor of Oklahoma in 2002. He lost to Democrat Brad Henry in a hotly contested election that featured an Independent candidate, Gary Richardson, who garnered 14% of the vote.

Ken Dryden

Dryden, a Hamilton, Ontario, native attended Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, before playing with part-time with the minor league Montreal Voyageurs while attending law school at McGill University. He debuted with the Montreal Canadiens near the end of the 1970-71 season. He played in six regular-season games and then went on to backstop all 20 Montreal playoff games, amassing a 3.01 goals against average and a .914 save percentage en route to winning the Conn Smythe Trophy as the Stanley Cup Playoffs MVP for the victorious Canadiens.

He played but seven full NHL seasons was an All-Star in each and won the Vezina Trophy as the NHL’s top goalie five times, and was the Calder Trophy recipient (Rookie of the Year) in another. He was a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame‘s Class of 1983.

After retiring at 32 years old Dryden authored several books, served as a sports commentator (he was with ABC’s Al Michaels on the “Miracle on Ice” call in 1980), a Toronto Maple Leafs’ executive, and a guest professor at McGill.

In 2004 he successfully ran for election as a member of Canada’s Liberal Party for the House of Commons representing Toronto’s Yorke Centre district. He won re-election in 2006 and 2008 before being defeated in 2010.

Jim Bunning

Signed as an amateur free agent out of Cincinnati’s Xavier University in 1950 by the Detroit Tigers, Bunning debuted five years later and spent 17 seasons in the Major Leagues with four teams (Tigers, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Los Angeles Dodgers).

Along the way, the righthander won 224 games, posted a career earned run average of 3.27, and struck out 2,855 batters. He also threw no-hitters in each league. The first with Detroit in 1958 and the second – on Father’s Day 1964 – with the Phillies which was then MLB’s ninth perfect game and the first no-hitter of any kind for the Phillies. He was a Veteran’s Committee selection to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1996.

Following his playing days and a stint managing in the Phillies’ minor league system, Bunning returned to his native northern Kentucky and launched a second career in politics, first serving on Fort Thomas City Council and then the Kentucky Senate. In 1983 he was the Republican nominee for Governor but lost to Democrat Martha Layne Collins. In 1986 he won the first of six terms as a U.S. Representative from Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District. Then, in 1998, Bunning won the U.S. Senate seat previously held by Wendell Ford. He served as Kentucky’s junior senator for two terms before choosing not to see re-election in 2010.

Tom McMillen

In 1970, McMillen – a Mansfield (PA) High School senior – was the nation’s top-rated basketball recruit. Despite overtures from legendary coaches Dean Smith (University of North Carolina) and John Wooden (UCLA), McMillen selected relative newcomer Lefty Driesell and the University of Maryland.

While at Maryland, McMillen was a 3-year starter who garnered All-ACC first-team honors each of his first two seasons, and was a consensus second-team All-American after his second season. Over 88 career games he averaged 20.5 points and 9.8 rebounds. He was also a member of the 1972 U.S. Men’s Olympic Basketball Team that controversially earned a Silver Medal in Munich.

He was selected with the ninth pick in the 1974 NBA Draft by the Buffalo Braves and spent 11 seasons with four teams serving, primarily, as a role player.

Prior to ever playing a game for the Braves, McMillen attended England’s prestigious University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar which makes his post-playing career work unsurprising. In 1986 he was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. House of Representatives serving Maryland’s Fourth Congressional District. He served three terms before Maryland’s districts were redrawn and he lost to a first-term incumbent. From 1993-97 he and Florence Griffith Joyner co-chaired the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.

President George H. W. Bush

President George Herbert Walker Bush deferred his 1942 entry into Yale University in order to join United States Navy and the Allied Forces during World War II.

Upon entering Yale in 1945, Bush was a first baseman on the Bulldogs’ baseball team, starting every game for all three seasons. During his final two seasons, the Bulldogs advanced to the first two editions of the Men’s College World Series. In 1947, Yale lost both games of the Series to the University of California, 17-4 and 8-7, at Kalamazoo’s Hyames Field. In 1948, Yale went 1-2 against the University of Southern California, in the Series, again played in Kalamazoo.

Following graduation, Bush, his wife Barbara, and young son George W. Bush, moved to West Texas where he worked in the oil industry before getting into politics. In 1966 he was elected to the House of Representatives serving Texas’ 7th Congressional District. In 1971 he was appointed Ambassador to the United Nations and in 1974 Ambassador to China. In 1976 he was appointed Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Bush ran unsuccessfully in the 1980 Republican Presidential Primary against Ronald Reagan but was named his running mate soon thereafter and eventually served both terms as the 43rd Vice President. In 1988 he was elected the 41st President and served one term, losing his re-election bid to Bill Clinton.

President Gerald Ford

Ford spent three seasons playing on the University of Michigan’s offensive line and linebacker. He was a reserve center to All-American Charles Bernard during UM’s 1932 and 1933 National Championship teams. Ford ascended to the starting center role in 1934 and was named team Most Valuable Player for a disappointing 1-7 Wolverines’ team that managed to score just 21 points all season.

Ford took an assistant football coaching job at Yale University and attended law school in his spare time. After a stint in the Navy Reserve during WW II, Ford returned to Michigan and in 1948 ran for an won the 5th Congressional District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. He served in that role from 1949 until 1973 when President Richard Nixon tabbed him to replace Vice President Spiro Agnew. Then, upon Nixon’s resignation in 1974, Ford became the 38th U.S. President.

Just to review, The Fan Teaser was the creation of former Ann Arbor News Sports Editor Geoff Larcom. Longtime friend and fellow Ann Arbor News alum, Pat Schutte, took it to heights previously unknown. We aim to keep it alive here at The Sports Fan Project. The cropped photo and the accompanying clue give you an idea as to who or what the image is of. We invite you to use the Comment option to take a crack at solving the Teaser and, if you’re so inclined, participate in some good-spirited banter with your fellow sports fans. The Fan Teaser will appear each Friday morning with the reveal coming to you Sunday.