politician

1. A leader engaged in civil administration (synset 110470837)
   is a type of: leader - a person who rules or guides or inspires others
   subtypes:

   • governor - the head of a state government
   • legislator - someone who makes or enacts laws
   • city manager, mayor - the head of a city government
2. A person active in party politics (synset 110469877)
   is a type of: leader - a person who rules or guides or inspires others
   subtypes:

   • campaigner, candidate, nominee - a politician who is running for public office
   • communist - a member of the communist party
   • demagog, demagogue, rabble-rouser - a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices
   • democrat - a member of the Democratic Party
   • federalist - a member of a former political party in the United States that favored a strong centralized federal government
   • labourite - a member of the British Labour Party
   • hack, machine politician, political hack, ward-heeler - a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
   • mugwump - someone who bolted from the Republican Party during the U.S. presidential election of 1884
   • noncandidate - someone who has announced they are not a candidate; especially a politician who has announced that he or she is not a candidate for some political office
   • boss, party boss, political boss - a leader in a political party who controls votes and dictates appointments
   • party liner, party man - a member of a political party who follows strictly the party line
   • republican - a member of the Republican Party
   • sachem - a political leader (especially of Tammany Hall)
   • socialist - a political advocate of socialism
   • standard-bearer - an outstanding leader of a political movement
   • national leader, solon, statesman - a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs
   • technocrat - an advocate of technocracy
   • whig - a member of the Whig Party that existed in the United States before the American Civil War
   • grigori aleksandrovich potemkin, grigori potemkin, grigori potyokin, potemkin, potyokin - a Russian officer and politician who was a favorite of Catherine II and in 1762 helped her to seize power; when she visited the Crimea in 1787 he gave the order for sham villages to be built (1739-1791)
   specific 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)
   • alben barkley, alben william barkley, barkley - United States politician and lawyer; vice president of the United States (1877-1956)
   • 1st baron beaverbrook, beaverbrook, william maxwell aitken - British newspaper publisher and politician (born in Canada); confidant of Winston Churchill (1879-1964)
   • bradley, thomas bradley, tom bradley - United States politician who was elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles (1917-1998)
   • boy orator of the platte, bryan, great commoner, william jennings bryan - United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925)
   • aaron burr, burr - United States politician who served as vice president under Jefferson; he mortally wounded his political rival Alexander Hamilton in a duel and fled south (1756-1836)
   • 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)
   • charles joseph clark, clark, joe 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 who as governor of New York supported the project to build the Erie Canal (1769-1828)
   • crockett, david crockett, davy crockett - United States frontiersman and Tennessee politician who died at the siege of the Alamo (1786-1836)
   • douglas, little giant, stephen a. douglas, stephen arnold douglas - United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery; he engaged in a famous series of debates with Abraham Lincoln (1813-1861)
   • 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)
   • glenda jackson, jackson - English film actress who later became a member of British Parliament (born in 1936)
   • andre maginot, maginot - French politician who proposed the Maginot Line (1877-1932)
   • joseph mccarthy, joseph raymond mccarthy, mccarthy - United States politician who unscrupulously accused many citizens of being Communists (1908-1957)
   • daniel patrick moynihan, moynihan - United States politician and educator (1927-2003)
   • mullah mohammed omar, mullah 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)
   • jeannette rankin, rankin - leader in the women's suffrage movement in Montana; the first woman to serve in the United States House of Representatives (1880-1973)
   • nellie ross, nellie tayloe ross, ross - a 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)
   • daniel webster, webster - United States politician and orator (1782-1817)
   same as: pol, political leader, politico
3. A schemer who tries to gain advantage in an organization in sly or underhanded ways (synset 110471024)
   is a type of: plotter, schemer - a planner who draws up a personal scheme of action

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