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  • George Mason IV (December 11, 1725 – October 7, 1792) was a United States patriot, statesman, and delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional ...
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  • John Milton Hay (October 8, 1838 – July 1, 1905) was an American statesman, diplomat, author, journalist, and private secretary and assistant ...
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  • He was the nephew of the philosopher and statesman, Lucius Anneaus Seneca ... when Gaius Calpurnius Piso, a popular statesman and orator, conspired to ...
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  • Theodore Metochites or Theodoros Metochites (1270 – 1332) was a Byzantine statesman, author, gentleman philosopher, and patron of the arts ...
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  • fifth, seventh and tenth) and genro (elder statesman). ... with the equally talented and ambitious statesman Okuma Shigenobu. In a series ...
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  • Jacques Necker (September 30, 1732 – April 9, 1804) was a French statesman of Swiss origin and finance minister of King Louis XVI. Jacques ...
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  • worked as an agent of Thomas Cromwell, the statesman and lawyer who pushed for an effective and well-running government under Henry the VIII's ...
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  • a Chinese Communist military leader and statesman. He is regarded as the ... to be a prominent and respected elder statesman until his death in July 1976. ...
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  • * Boardman, Roger Shermam. Roger Sherman, Signer and Statesman. New ... * Boyd, Julian P. "Roger Sherman: Portrait of a Cordwainer Statesman ...
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  • Thus, his legacy stands as a great statesman of broadcasting. ... himself praised Stanton as a corporate mentor and statesman. ...
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  • Robert Grosseteste (c. 1175 - October 9, 1253), an English statesman, scholastic philosopher, theologian, and bishop of Lincoln, is well-known ...
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  • * Remini, Robert Vincent. Henry Clay: statesman for the Union. New York: W.W. Norton, 1991. ISBN 0393310884 * Rodgers, Ned, Ralph Phillips, Leon ...
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  • Greek thinkers, including Polemon, the statesman Phocion, the academic Crantor ... Besides Polemon, Crates the Cynic, the statesman Phocion, Chaeron (tyrant ...
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  • ==Diplomat and statesman== When the League of Nations was established in 1920, Nitobe became one of the Under-Secretaries General of the League ...
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  • * Cray, Ed. General of the Army: George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman ... htm George C. Marshall: Statesman 1945-1959] (Vol. 4) * Steele, Richard ...
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  • quot; (1794), occasioned by the death of Russian statesman and a favorite of Empress Catherine, Prince Potemkin, and "Bullfinch" (1800), a ...
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  • comes to us first from Plato, who, in his Statesman dialogue, introduces the approach of grouping objects based on their similar properties. ...
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  • – November 29, 1895) was an Austrian statesman within the Austro-Hungarian ... While not a great creative statesman, Taaffe had a talent for managing ...
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  • during the reign of the outstanding statesman Mai Idris Aluma (c. 1571–1603 ... during the reign of the outstanding statesman Mai Idris Aluma (c. 1571–1603 ...
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  • In his own time, Montaigne was admired more as a statesman than as ... and Protestants. His eloquence as a statesman and his ability to successfully ...
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  • ===Statesman=== When Britain announced its intention to give independence ... “He is a visionary statesman who has influenced many world leaders ...
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  • Otis became a nationally recognized patriot, statesman, pamphleteer, and orator. He went beyond the traditional mentality of the American Revolution ...
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  • André Malraux (November 3, 1901 - November 23, 1976) was a French author, adventurer and statesman preeminent in the world of French politics ...
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  • John Rutledge (September 17, 1739 – July 23, 1800) was an American statesman and judge who became the first Governor of South Carolina following ...
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  • romantic involvement with the Athenian statesman Pericles. She was born ... in the public life of the city. After the statesman Pericles divorced his first ...
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  • Henry Clay (April 12, 1777 – June 29, 1852) was a leading American statesman and orator who represented Kentucky in both the House of Representatives ...
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  • * Loker, Aleck. George Wythe: Venerable Statesman, Jurist, and Educator. Williamsburg, VA: Solitude Press, 2007. ==External links== ...
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  • noted Irish-born British career officer and statesman—unqualified references to the Duke of Wellington almost always refer to him. He is most famous ...
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  • George Canning (April 11, 1770 – August 8, 1827) was a British statesman and politician who served as Foreign Secretary and, briefly, Prime ...
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  • 4, 1642), was a French clergyman, noble, and statesman. He was consecrated as a bishop in 1607, he later entered politics, becoming a Secretary of State ...
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  • ruled that the portrait of this eminent statesman will be displayed at the ... “…Juárez is the upright statesman that makes a clear contrast ...
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  • Samuel Houston (March 2, 1793 – July 26, 1863) was a nineteenth century American statesman, politician, and soldier. The Virginia-born Houston ...
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  • | occupation = Commissar, statesman | majority = | spouse = Ashkhen ... was an Armenian Bolshevik and Soviet statesman during the Stalin and Khrushchev ...
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  • the Three Kingdoms period, as well as a statesman, engineer, scholar, and ... Zhuge Liang is considered the most popular Chinese hero and statesman ...
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  • population—including the influential statesman, general, and ruler Pericles ... infantry, some expert seamen, and their statesman and general Pericles, who ...
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  • and the sculptor Pheidias. The leading statesman of this period was Pericles ... despite the warnings of the last great statesman of independent Athens, ...
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  • Katō Hiroyuki (加藤弘之,Katō Hiroyuki August 5, 1836 – February 9, 1916) was an educator, political theorist, statesman, and leader of ...
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  • Nina Burleigh, Stranger and the Statesman: James Smithson, John Quincy ... * Burleigh, Nina. Stranger and the Statesman: James Smithson, John ...
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  • Robert A. Slayton, Empire Statesman: The Rise and Redemption of Al ... * Slayton, Robert A. Empire Statesman: The Rise and Redemption of ...
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  • Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, (August 26, 1676 – March 18, 1745) was a British statesman who is generally regarded as having been the ...
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  • wildflower." The Austin American-Statesman, July 13, 2007, p.2 (Lady ... Statesman, [http://www.statesman.com/news/content/shared/news/stories/ladyb ...
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  • Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (February 5, 1900 – July 14, 1965) was an American statesman and politician. He was known for his intellectual demeanor ...
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  • Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, GCB, OM, GCMG, KCSI, CIE, PC, FRS (February 26, 1841, – January 29, 1917, was a British statesman, diplomat ...
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  • 7, 43 B.C.E.) Cicero was a Roman lawyer, statesman, philosopher and writer ... of virtue, and explains the role of a statesman, the concept of natural ...
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  • Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain, KG (October 16, 1863 – March 17, 1937), was a British statesman, politician, and recipient of the Nobel Peace ...
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  • Dynasty Chinese poet, musician, painter and statesman, composed a poem in which he mentioned Nakamaro as a young man of distinction, who was expected ...
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  • * White, Barry. John Hume: a statesman of the troubles. Belfast L Blackstaff, 1984. ISBN 9780856403279 ==External links== All links retrieved ...
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  • The Statesman, Lashkar raids Red Fort, guns down 3, December 22, 2000. The Prime Minister of India addresses the nation on August 15, the day ...
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  • Félix Faure (1841-1899), to which the French statesman and journalist Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929) appended the eye-catching title "J'accuse ...
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  • 63 B.C.E.–12 B.C.E.), who was a well known Roman statesman and general. Sent by Herod the Great to be educated in Rome, the young Agrippa became ...
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  • 1897 to 1910, and a direct descendant of the statesman Henry Clay. Smith, Lucius D. Clay, 26. Lucius Clay graduated from West Point in 1918 and ...
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  • who was an experienced soldier and statesman. Fortunately for Canute, a strong mercenary chief, Thorkell the High, pledged allegiance to him ...
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  • John Marshall (September 24, 1755 – July 6, 1835) was an American statesman and jurist who shaped American constitutional law and made the ...
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  • lawyer, nor a politician, nor a statesman, nor can it even be said that he has been an active participant in peace organizations for long periods ...
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  • of Jan Smuts, the South African philosopher and statesman who felt that it was important to understand people as unified wholes in the context of their ...
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  • gov.pk/Quaid/politician7.htm "The Statesman: Jinnah's differences ... gov.pk/Quaid/politician11.htm "The Statesman: Quaid-i-Azam's Fourteen ...
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  • Peking), was a Franciscan missionary, traveler and statesman, founder of the earliest Roman Catholic missions in India and China, and archbishop of Peking ...
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  • John Adair (January 9, 1757 – May 19, 1840) was an American pioneer, soldier, and statesman. He was the seventh governor of Kentucky and represented ...
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  • html Mali traditional states from World Statesman]. Category: History Bamana_Empire|203549586|Umar_Tall|204100619 ...
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  • "Mad" Anthony Wayne (January 1, 1745 - December 15, 1796), was a United States Army general and statesman. Wayne adopted a military ...
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  • John Jay (December 12, 1745 – May 17, 1829) was an American politician, statesman, revolutionary, diplomat, and jurist, best known as the ...
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  • Edmund Burke (January 12, 1729 – July 9, 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher, who served ...
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  • topics for The Listener, The Observer , the New Statesman, the Times Literary Supplement and the New York Review of Books. He was head of the literary ...
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  • François Guillimann, a statesman of Fribourg and later historian and advisor of the Habsburg emperor Rudolph II, wrote to Melchior Goldast in ...
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  • * Remini, Robert. Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union. New York. W.W. Norton. 1991. ISBN 9780393030044 * Sewell, Richard H. "Ballots for ...
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  • by 1070 C.E. In 1088, Song Dynasty scientist and statesman Shen Kuo (1031–1095) wrote in his Dream Pool Essays: At the beginning of the dynasty ...
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  • 1977. A Leader, Not A Statesman. The Times. 60073:13:A. ... and of "a statesman too big for his small island". ...
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  • The Times, The Spectator, and the New Statesman. Scruton was knighted ... From 2001 to 2009 Scruton wrote a wine column for the New Statesman ...
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  • The idea was introduced to the Governor by the statesman from Lowell, Isaac Henry Paige. It was established on April 19, commemorating the date of the ...
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  • ) was a Chinese economist, statesman, and poet of the Song Dynasty who came to power in 1069 as Chancellor and attempted to institute some controversial ...
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  • April 17, 1975), was an Indian philosopher and statesman, the second president of India (1962-1967). Radhakrishnan was one of the foremost scholars ...
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  • religion of Zoroaster. He was also a great statesman and organizer. Darius thoroughly revised the Persian system of administration and also the legal ...
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  • March 20, 1925) was a British Conservative statesman, and hereditary peer seven times over, who served as Viceroy of India and Foreign Secretary. As ...
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  • quot; and "his stature as an elder statesman." In his capacity ... * Morton, Andrew. Moi: The Making of an African Statesman. London: ...
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  • William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham PC (November 15, 1708 – May 1, 1778) was a British Whig statesman who achieved his greatest fame as Secretary ...
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  • a prerequisite to becoming an effective statesman. This achievement demonstrated his fierce will and determination to learn whatever he needed ...
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  • business." Patrick Beach, [http://www.statesman.com/life/content/life/stories/other/05/06/0506halstead.html Time's Long Lens,] The Statesman ...
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  • use of the phrase in a March 1964 New Statesman article. The New York Times first used the phrase in its editorial content in an article by Walter ...
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  • W. Montgomery Watt. 1961 Muḥammad: prophet and statesman. (London ... * Watt, W. Montgomery. 1961. Muḥammad: prophet and statesman. London ...
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  • intellectuals of his era. Scholar and statesman, he eschewed the partisan ... intellectuals of his era. Scholar and statesman, he eschewed the partisan ...
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  • * Hong-Kyu, Park. 2006. "King Taejong as a Statesman: From Power to Authority," Korea Journal. 46 (4):192. OCLC: 123674341 ...
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  • the only daughter of the late French author and statesman André Malraux). His second wife was Sabine Azéma, who acted in the majority of his films from ...
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  • * Larson, Robert W. 1997. Red Cloud: warrior-statesman of the Lakota Sioux. The Oklahoma western biographies, v. 13. Norman: University of Oklahoma ...
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  • Ion Brătianu was the leading Romanian statesman who was sent to negotiate ... not in order to converse with you as a statesman, but quite openly and freely ...
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  • military commander and a skillful statesman. He was greatly admired by Niccolò Machiavelli, who was at Borgia's court from October 7, 1502 ...
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  • of African-American Literature" New Statesman, April 25, 1997. * Gates, H. The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet ...
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  • He was also a marked mathematician and a loyal statesman of his native France. As did Marquis de Lafayette Bougainville participated in both the American ...
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  • * Ridley, Jasper. Statesman and Saint: Cardinal Wolsey, Sir Thomas More, and the Politics of Henry VIII. New York: Viking Press, 1982. ISBN 0670489050 ...
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  • League, and the black community's elder statesman, W. E. B. Du Bois. In 1939, Du Bois served on the advisory council for Sanger's "Negro ...
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  • Baron Samuel von Pufendorf (January 8, 1632 – October 13, 1694), was a German jurist, political philosopher, economist, statesman, and historian ...
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  • * Thorne, Florence Calvert. Samuel Gompers, American Statesman. New York: Philosophical Library, 1957. ISBN 0837122937 Category:Biography ...
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  • Confidential Clerk (1953), and The Elder Statesman (1958). Eliot admitted ... * The Elder Statesman (first performed in 1958, published in 1959) ...
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  • He gained great respect as an elder statesman in the area of foreign ... He gained great respect as an elder statesman in the area of foreign ...
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  • Varma continues to inspire,"] The Statesman, September 11, 2018. Retrieved ... Varma continues to inspire,"] The Statesman, September 11, 2018. Retrieved ...
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  • point the most famous man in Europe. As a statesman in London before the Revolution ... of the postal system, but his fame as a statesman rests chiefly on his diplomatic ...
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  • Colin Luther Powell, KCB, MSC, (April 5, 1937 - October 18, 2021) was an American statesman and a former four-star general in the United States ...
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  • Dean Gooderham Acheson (April 11, 1893 – October 12, 1971) was an American statesman and lawyer; as United States Secretary of State in the ...
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  • Tasan was also a great statesman who stood on the verge of accomplishing audacious reforms in Korea hand in hand with the king Chongjo. When ...
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  • Henry Lewis Stimson (September 21, 1867 – October 20, 1950) was an American statesman, who served as Secretary of War, Governor-General of ...
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  • and pneumonia. He died a respected elder statesman, on March 13, 1901, and is interred in Crown Hill Cemetery. ==Legacy== The Benjamin Harrison ...
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