#politico__politician__pol__political_leader__politicalleader a person active in party politics
supertype: leader a person who rules or guides or inspires others
instance: Nancy_Witcher_Astor Alben_William_Barkley 1st_Baron_Beaverbrook Thomas_Bradley William_Jennings_Bryan Aaron_Burr Charles_Joseph_Clark Henry_Clay DeWitt_Clinton David_Crockett Stephen_Arnold_Douglas Samuel_Houston Jesse_Louis_Jackson Glenda_Jackson Andre_Maginot Joseph_Raymond_McCarthy Sir_Robert_Peel Jeannette_Rankin Nellie_Tayloe_Ross William_Henry_Seward Daniel_Webster
subtype: campaigner__candidate__nominee a politician who is running for public office
subtype: dark_horse.campaigner__darkhorse a political candidate who is not well known but could win unexpectedly
subtype: favorite_son__favourite_son__favouriteson a politician favored mainly in his or her home state
subtype: running_mate__runningmate a nominee for the lesser of two closely related political offices
subtype: spoiler.campaigner a candidate with no chance of winning but who may draw enough votes to prevent one of the leading candidates from winning
subtype: stalking-horse.campaigner__stalkinghorse a candidate put forward to divide the opposition or to mask the true candidate
subtype: write-in_candidate a candidate for public office whose name does not appear on the ballot and so must be written on the ballot by the voters
subtype: Communist a member of the communist party
subtype: Democrat a member of the Democratic Party
subtype: Federalist a member of a former political party in the United States that favored a strong centralized federal government
subtype: Labourite a member of the British Labour Party
subtype: machine_politician__machinepolitician__ward-heeler__political_hack__politicalhack__hack a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
subtype: Mugwump someone who bolted from the Republican Party during the U.S. presidential election of 1884
subtype: 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
subtype: party_boss__political_boss__boss a leader in a political party who controls votes and dictates appointments; "party bosses have a reputation for corruption"
subtype: party_man__partyman__party_liner__partyliner a member of a political party who follows strictly the party line
subtype: Republican a member of the Republican Party
subtype: sachem a political leader (especially of Tammany Hall)
subtype: socialist a political advocate of socialism
subtype: communist__commie a socialist who advocates communism
subtype: Bolshevist__Bolshevik a Russian member of the left-wing majority group that followed Lenin and eventually became the Russian communist party
instance: Nikolai_Ivanovich_Bukharin__Bukharin Vladimir_Ilyich_Lenin__Lenin__Vladimir_Lenin__Nikolai_Lenin__Vladimir_Ilich_Lenin__Vladimir_Ilyich_Ulyanov__Vladimir_Ilich_Ulyanov Leon_Trotsky__Trotsky__Lev_Davidovich_Bronstein
subtype: Comrade a fellow member of the Communist Party
subtype: revisionist a Communist who tries to rewrite Marxism to justify a retreat from the revolutionary position
instance: Mao_Tsetung__Mao__Mao_Zedong John_Reed__Reed Joseph_Stalin__Stalin__Iosif_Vissarionovich_Dzhugashvili Zhou_En-lai__Chou_En-lai
subtype: Fabian a member of the Fabian Society in Britain
subtype: internationalist a member of a socialist or communist international
subtype: Menshevik a Russian member of the liberal minority group that advocated gradual reform and opposed the Bolsheviks before and during the Russian Revolution
subtype: collectivist__leftist__left-winger a person who belongs to the political left
instance: Fidel_Castro__Castro Friedrich_Engels__Engels William_Dudley_Haywood__Haywood__Big_Bill_Haywood Pierre_Joseph_Proudhon__Proudhon Norman_Mattoon_Thomas__Thomas__Norman_Thomas
subtype: standard-bearer an outstanding leader of a political movement
subtype: statesman__solon__national_leader a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs
subtype: elder_statesman__elderstatesman an elderly statesman whose advice is sought be government leaders
subtype: Founding_Father a member of the Constitutional Convention that drafted the United States Constitution in 1787
subtype: stateswoman a woman statesman
instance: Baroness_Thatcher_of_Kesteven__Thatcher__Margaret_Thatcher__Margaret_Hilda_Thatcher__Iron_Lady
instance: Dean_Gooderham_Acheson__Acheson__Dean_Acheson Konrad_Adenauer__Adenauer Marcus_Vipsanius_Agrippa__Agrippa Alcibiades Clement_Richard_Attlee__Attlee__Clement_Attlee__1st_Earl_Attlee Augustus__Gaius_Octavianus__Gaius_Julius_Caesar_Octavianus__Octavian Francis_Bacon__Bacon__Baron_Verulam__1st_Baron_Verulam__Viscount_St._Albans 1st_Earl_Baldwin_of_Bewdley__Baldwin__Stanley_Baldwin Arthur_James_Balfour__Balfour__1st_Earl_of_Balfour Menachem_Begin__Begin David_Ben_Gurion__Ben_Gurion__David_Grun Ernest_Bevin__Bevin Prince_Otto_Eduard_Leopold_von_Bismarck__Bismarck__von_Bismarck__Otto_von_Bismarck__Prince_Otto_von_Bismarck__Iron_Chancellor Simon_Bolivar__Bolivar__bolivar__ellibertador Willy_Brandt__Brandt Leonid_Ilyich_Brezhnev__Brezhnev__Leonid_Brezhnev Marcus_Junius_Brutus__Brutus Edmund_Burke__Burke Gaius_Julius_Caesar__Caesar__Julius_Caesar Gaius_Cassius_Longinus__Cassius__Cassius_Longinus Arthur_Neville_Chamberlain__Chamberlain__Neville_Chamberlain Francois_Rene_Chateaubriand__Chateaubriand__Vicomte_de_Chateaubriand Fourth_Earl_of_Chesterfield__Chesterfield__Philip_Dormer_Stanhope Chiang_Kai-shek__Chiang_Chung-cheng Sir_Winston_Leonard_Spenser_Churchill__Churchill__Winston_Churchill__Winston_S._Churchill Marcus_Tullius_Cicero__Cicero__Tully Lucius_Quinctius_Cincinnatus__Cincinnatus Georges_Eugene_Benjamin_Clemenceau__Clemenceau__Georges_Clemenceau Baron_Clive_of_Plassey__Clive__Robert_Clive__Baron_Clive Cosimo_de_Medici__Cosimo_the_Elder Oliver_Cromwell__Cromwell__Ironsides Jefferson_Davis__Davis Moshe_Dayan__Dayan Charles_Andre_Joseph_Marie_de_Gaulle__de_Gaulle__Charles_de_Gaulle Demosthenes Deng_Xiaoping__Teng_Hsiaoping Eamon_de_Valera__de_Valera Benjamin_Disraeli__Disraeli__First_Earl_of_Beaconsfield Flaminius__Gaius_Falminius Charles_James_Fox__Fox Indira_Nehru_Gandhi__Gandhi__Indira_Gandhi__Mrs._Gandhi William_Ewart_Gladstone__Gladstone__William_Gladstone Mikhail_Sergeyevich_Gorbachev__Gorbachev__Mikhail_Gorbachev Second_Earl_Grey__Grey__Charles_Grey First_Viscount_Haldane_of_Cloan__Haldane__Richard_Haldane__Richard_Burdon_Haldane Alexander_Hamilton__Hamilton Vaclav_Havel__Havel Paul_Ludwig_von_Beneckendorff_und_von_Hindenburg__Hindenburg__Paul_von_Hindenburg Ho_Chi_Minh__Nguyen_That_Thanh Mikhail_Ivanovich_Kalinin__Kalinin__kalinin__Mikhail_Kalinin Kenneth_David_Kaunda__Kaunda__Kenneth_Kaunda Kemal_Ataturk__Kemal_Pasha__Mustafa_Kemal Jomo_Kenyata__Kenyata Aleksandr_Feodorovich_Kerensky__Kerensky Sir_Seretse_Khama__Khama Nikita_Sergeyevich_Khrushchev__Khrushchev__Nikita_Khrushchev Prince_Fumimaro_Konoe__Konoe__Fumimaro_Konoe__Konoye__Fumimaro_Konoye__Prince_Fumimaro_Konoye Stephanus_Johannes_Paulus_Kruger__Kruger__Oom_Paul_Kruger Lorenzo_de_Medici__Lorenzo_the_Magnificent Niccolo_Machiavelli__Machiavelli Nelson_Rolihlahla_Mandela__Mandela__mandela__Nelson_Mandela George_Catlett_Marshall__Marshall__George_Marshall Golda_Meir__Meir Prince_Klemens_Wenzel_Nepomuk_Lothar_von_Metternich__Metternich__Klemens_Metternich Francois_Maurice_Marie_Mitterand__Mitterand__Francois_Mitterand Vyacheslav_Mikhailovich_Molotov__Molotov Sir_Thomas_More__More__Thomas_More Gouverneur_Morris__Morris Hosni_Mubarak__Mubarak Fridtjof_Nansen__Nansen Gamal_Abdel_Nasser__Nasser Jawaharlal_Nehru__Nehru Frederick_North__North__Second_Earl_of_Guilford Daniel_Ortega_Saavedra__Ortega__Daniel_Ortega Ignace_Jan_Paderewski__Paderewski Pericles Pitt_the_Elder__Pitt__William_Pitt__First_Earl_of_Chatham Pitt_the_Younger__Pitt__William_Pitt__Second_Earl_of_Chatham Pompey_the_Great__Pompey__Gnaeus_Pompeius_Magnus Cardinal_Richelieu__Richelieu__Duc_de_Richelieu__Armand_Jean_du_Plessis Second_Marquis_of_Rockingham__Rockingham__Charles_Watson-Wentworth Anwar_el-Sadat__Sadat Helmut_Heinrich_Waldemar_Schmidt__Schmidt__Helmut_Schmidt Lucius_Annaeus_Seneca__Seneca Ian_Douglas_Smith__Smith__Ian_Smith Jan_Christian_Smuts__Smuts Suharto Achmad_Sukarno__Sukarno Duc_de_Sully__Sully__Maxmilien_de_Bethune Sun_Yat-sen__Sun_Yixian Charles_Maurice_de_Talleyrand__Talleyrand Themistocles Marshal_Tito__Tito__Josip_Broz Getulio_Dornelles_Vargas__Vargas Hendrik_Frensch_Verwoerd__Verwoerd__Hendrik_Verwoerd Kurt_Waldheim__Waldheim Lech_Walesa__Walesa Sir_Robert_Walpole__Walpole__Robert_Walpole__First_Earl_of_Orford Earl_of_Warwick__Warwick__Richard_Neville__the_Kingmaker Chaim_Azriel_Weizmann__Weizmann__Chaim_Weizmann First_Duke_of_Wellington__Wellington__Duke_of_Wellington__Arthur_Wellesley__the_Iron_Duke William_of_Wykeham__Wykeham__wykeham
subtype: technocrat an advocate of technocracy
subtype: Whig.politico__whig a member of the Whig Party in the United States in pre-Civil-War times
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