As a freshman, Ravi Sangisetty ’03 did not strike friends as a natural candidate for Congress. Now he has tossed his hat into the ring as the sole Democrat in the race for Louisiana’s third congressional district and one of a handful of alumni running for Congress as first-time politicians.

After three decades in journalism, Douglas Pike ’71 has decided to embark on a different path. He announced his candidacy to represent Pennsylvania’s sixth congressional district in the House of Representatives on April 8, 2009.

After graduating with a law degree from New York University and co-founding an international consulting firm — OC Global Partners, LLC — Christopher Cox ’01 has set his sights on a different career: congressman.

The grandson of former president Richard Nixon, Cox is running in the Republican primary this September and hopes to represent New York’s first congressional district, on eastern Long Island.