Politician
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Any person who has held or sought a position in a government. The term "politician" may not be strictly accurate for some positions such as kings, but we have to call it something! Suggestions for better names are welcome. ...
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| Gavin Newsom |
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Person | Mayor of San Francisco |
Gavin Christopher Newsom (born October 10, 1967) is the current mayor of San Francisco, California. A Democrat, Newsom was elected mayor in 2003, succeeding Willie Brown and becoming San Francisco's youngest mayor in 100 years. In 2004, Newsom...
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| Michela Alioto-Pier |
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Person | San Francisco Supervisor | San Francisco Board of Supervisors |
Michela Alioto-Pier (b. 1968) is a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. She represents District 2, encompassing the Marina and Pacific Heights neighborhoods. She previously served as a member of the San Francisco Port Commission. She...
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| Aaron Peskin |
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Person | President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors | San Francisco Board of Supervisors |
Aaron Peskin (born 1964) is the current president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He was first elected to the Board in 2000, and was re-elected in 2004. In January 2005, his colleagues elected him President of the Board.
Peskin was born...
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| Ugyen Wangchuck |
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Person | King of Bhutan |
Maharaja Sri Sir Gongsar Ugyen Wangchuck (or Deb Nagpo), GCIE, KCSI (1861–1926) was the first king of Bhutan from 1907 to 1926. He was the penlop (governor) of Trongsa. From his power base in central Bhutan, Ugyen Wangchuck defeated his political...
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| Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuk | Person | Prime Minister of Bhutan |
Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuk (born 1950) is a political figure in Bhutan. He was Chairman of the Council (Prime Minister) from 2001 until 2002. In September 2006, he became Prime Minister again; he was then replaced by Kinzang Dorji on 2 August 2007,...
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| Ted Arnott | Person | Member of Provincial Parliament | Legislative Assembly of Ontario |
Theodore Calvin (Ted) Arnott (born April 8, 1963 in Fergus, Ontario) is a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario representing the district of Wellington—Halton Hills.
Arnott received a Bachelor of Arts degree from...
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| Dalton McGuinty | Person | Premier of Ontario |
Dalton James Patrick McGuinty, Jr. (born July 19, 1955, in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian lawyer and politician and, since October 23, 2003, Premier of Ontario. He is the twenty-fourth premier of Ontario, and the second Roman Catholic to hold this...
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| Wen Jiabao |
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Person | Premier of the People's Republic of China |
Wen Jiabao (born September 15, 1942) is the Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China. He serves as a member of its Leading Party Members' Group and Secretary of the Financial Work Committee of the CPC Central Committee. Since...
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| Zhu Rongji |
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Person | Premier of the People's Republic of China |
Zhū Róngjī (born October 1, 1928, ) is a prominent Chinese politician who served as the Mayor and Party chief in Shanghai between 1987 and 1991, before serving as Vice-Premier and then Premier of the People's Republic of China from March 1998 to...
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| Wu Yi |
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Person | Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China | State Council of the People's Republic of China |
Wu Yi (Simplified: 吴仪; Traditional: 吳儀; Pinyin: Wú Yí; born November 1938 in Wuhan, China) was one of four Vice Premiers of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, overseeing the country's economy until March 2008. Known as the "iron...
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| Zeng Peiyan | Person | Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China | State Council of the People's Republic of China |
Zeng Peiyan (Chinese: 曾培炎; Pinyin: Zēng Péiyán; born December 1938 in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province) is a Chinese politician. He was a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China from 2002 to 2007 and is a Vice-premier since 2003.
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| Strom Thurmond |
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James Strom Thurmond (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was an American politician who served as governor of South Carolina and as a United States Senator. He also ran for the presidency of the United States in 1948 under the segregationist States...
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| Jerry Springer |
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Person | Mayor of Cincinnati |
Gerald Norman "Jerry" Springer (born February 13, 1944) is a former politician-turned daytime talk show host. British-born American television personality, a former Democratic mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, musician and host of the tabloid talk show...
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| Samuel Alito |
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Person | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States | Supreme Court of the United States |
Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr. (born April 1, 1950) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Appointed by Republican President George W. Bush, Alito is generally considered a conservative jurist and since becoming a member of...
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| Yoshio Utsumi | Person |
(born August 14, 1942) is the secretary-general of the International Telecommunication Union, 1998-2006.
He was born in Japan in 1942, and earned his Bachelor in law at the University of Tokyo, and a Master of Arts in Political Science from the...
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| John Howard |
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Person | Leader of the Opposition | Australian House of Representatives |
John Winston Howard (born 26 July, 1939) was the 25th Prime Minister of Australia from 11 March, 1996 to 3 December, 2007. He is the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister after Sir Robert Menzies.
Howard was a member of the Australian...
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| Peter Garrett |
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Person | Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Environment & Heritage, Arts | Australian House of Representatives |
Peter Robert Garrett AM MP (born 16 April 1953), is an Australia musician and politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the House of Representatives for the seat of Kingsford Smith, New South Wales, since October 2004. After the...
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| Julie Bishop |
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Person | Member of the Australian Parliament | Australian House of Representatives |
Julie Isabel Bishop (born 17 July, 1956), Australia politician and Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of Australia as deputy leader of the Liberal Party of Australia. She is the party's first female Deputy Leader.
She has been a...
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| Allan Rocher | Person | Member of the Australian Parliament | Australian House of Representatives |
Allan Rocher (born 16 February 1936), Australian politician, is a former Liberal Party member of the Australian House of Representatives, and later an Independent, who represented the Division of Curtin in Western Australia from 1981 to 1998. He...
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| Mahatma Gandhi |
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Gujarati: મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી, mohandās karamchand gā̃dhī; ) (2 October 1869–30 January 1948), also known as Mahatma Gandhi, was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. He...
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| Gustavo Díaz Ordaz |
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Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (March 12, 1911 - July 15, 1979) served as the President of Mexico from 1964 to 1970. After Díaz Ordaz, Mexicans did not elect a president who had previously been elected to an office until the presidential election of former...
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| Felipe G. Calderón | Person |
Felipe Calderón y Roca (April 4, 1868–July 6, 1908) was a Filipino politician and intellectual known as the Father of the Malolos Constitution.
He was born on April 4, 1868 in Santa Cruz de Malabon (now Tanza), Cavite to a Spanish nobleman, Don...
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| Felipe Calderón Hinojosa |
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Person | President of Mexico |
Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa (born August 18, 1962 in Morelia, Michoacán) is the President of Mexico. He assumed office on December 1, 2006, and was elected for one six-year term that will end in 2012 without the possibility of re-election. He...
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| George W. Bush |
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Person | President of the United States |
George Walker Bush (; born July 6, 1946) is the forty-third and current President of the United States of America. He served as the forty-sixth Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000 and is the eldest son of former American President George Herbert...
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| Luis Calderón Vega | Person |
Luis Calderón Vega (1911 – 1989) was a Mexican politician and writer. Along with other leading opposition politicians, he was one of the founders of the National Action Party (PAN) in 1939.
Calderón Vega, who married María del Carmen Hinojosa...
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| Andrés Manuel López Obrador |
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Person | Head of Government of the Federal District |
Andrés Manuel López Obrador a.k.a. "El Peje" (born November 13, 1953) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD). He is recognized by his followers as the leader of a civil resistance movement rejecting the...
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