English > pol: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | A person active in party politics. |
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| Synonyms | politician, politico, political leader |
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| Instances | Astor, Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor | British politician (born in the United States) who was the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons (1879-1964) |
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| Barkley, Alben Barkley, Alben William Barkley | United States politician and lawyer |
| Beaverbrook, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, William Maxwell Aitken | British newspaper publisher and politician (born in Canada) |
| Bradley, Thomas Bradley, Tom Bradley | United States politician / politician who was elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles (1917-1998) |
| Bryan, William Jennings Bryan, Great Commoner, Boy Orator of the Platte | United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925) |
| Burr, Aaron Burr | United States politician / politician who served as vice president under Jefferson |
| Chase, Salmon P. Chase, Salmon Portland Chase | United States politician and jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1808-1873) |
| Clark, Joe Clark, Charles Joseph Clark | Canadian politician who served as prime minister (1939-) |
| Clay, Henry Clay, the Great Compromiser | United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852) |
| Clinton, DeWitt Clinton | United States politician / politician who as governor of New York supported the project to build the Erie Canal (1769-1828) |
| Crockett, Davy Crockett, David Crockett | United States frontiersman and Tennessee politician who died at the siege of the Alamo (1786-1836) |
| Douglas, Stephen A. Douglas, Stephen Arnold Douglas, Little Giant | United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery |
| Houston, Sam Houston, Samuel Houston | United States politician and military leader who fought to gain independence for Texas from Mexico and to make it a part of the United States (1793-1863) |
| Jackson, Jesse Jackson, Jesse Louis Jackson | United States civil rights leader who led a national campaign against racial discrimination and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941) |
| Jackson, Glenda Jackson | English film actress who later became a member of British Parliament (born in 1936) |
| Maginot, Andre Maginot | French politician who proposed the Maginot Line (1877-1932) |
| McCarthy, Joseph McCarthy, Joseph Raymond McCarthy | United States politician who unscrupulously accused many citizens of being Communists (1908-1957) |
| Moynihan, Daniel Patrick Moynihan | United States politician and educator (1927-2003) |
| Mullah Omar, Mullah Mohammed Omar | reclusive Afghanistani politician and leader of the Taliban who imposed a strict interpretation of shariah law on Afghanistan (born in 1960) |
| Peel, Robert Peel, Sir Robert Peel | British politician (1788-1850) |
| Rankin, Jeannette Rankin | leader in the women's suffrage movement in Montana |
| Ross, Nellie Ross, Nellie Tayloe Ross | A politician / politician in Wyoming who was the first woman governor in the United States (1876-1977) |
| Seward, William Henry Seward | United States politician who as Secretary of State in 1867 arranged for the purchase of Alaska from Russia (known at the time as Seward's Folly) (1801-1872) |
| Webster, Daniel Webster | United States politician and orator (1782-1817) |
| Narrower | Communist | A member of the communist party |
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| Democrat | A member of the Democratic Party |
| Federalist | A member of a former political party in the United States that favored / favored a strong centralized federal government |
| Labourite | A member of the British Labour Party |
| Mugwump | someone who bolted from the Republican Party during the U.S. presidential election of 1884 |
| Potemkin, Potyokin, Grigori Potemkin, Grigori Potyokin, Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin | A Russian officer and politician who was a favorite of Catherine II and in 1762 helped her to seize power |
| Republican | A member of the Republican Party |
| Whig | A member of the Whig Party that existed in the United States before the American Civil War |
| campaigner, candidate, nominee | A politician who is running for public office |
| demagogue, demagog, rabble-rouser | A political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices |
| machine politician, ward-heeler, political hack, hack | A politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends |
| noncandidate | someone who has announced they are not a candidate |
| party boss, political boss, boss | A leader in a political party who controls votes and dictates appointments |
| party man, party liner | A member of a political party who follows strictly the party line |
| sachem | A political leader (especially of Tammany Hall) |
| socialist | A political advocate of socialism / socialism |
| standard-bearer | An outstanding / outstanding leader of a political movement |
| statesman, solon, national leader | A man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs |
| technocrat | An advocate of technocracy |
| Broader | leader | A person who rules or guides or inspires others |
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| Spanish | político, pol |
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| Catalan | polític, pol |
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