Nevada has tempted the influential with many chances to misuse their power. Here are five times they gave inEben Rhoades and the Disappearing MoneyIn the same 1864 election in which they supported Honest Abe Lincoln, Nevadans elected Eben Rhoades state treasurer.

Elaine Wynn Businesswoman, education official While she has the influence you'd expect of No. 296 on last year's Forbes 400, Wynn is of interest to us here as president of the state Board of Education.

When Jay Sarno visited Las Vegas in 1963, he wasn’t impressed. Surveying the city’s second-class hotels and cheesy Old West themes, the Atlanta hotel developer found nothing fabulous about it.

Tod Story, Executive Director, ACLUStory is usually behind the scenes, but as the newish executive director of the ACLU of Nevada, he has worked directly on issues of equity and justice, including issues of police force in Southern Nevada. He served as district director for former Congresswoman Shelley Berkley and as an aide to Sen.