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  • B.C.E.), was a prominent Athenian statesman, orator, and general. He was the last famous member of his mother's aristocratic family, the ...
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  • 21|1902|8 NovemberJanuary 25, 1982) was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served as Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ...
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  • text=Demosthenes (384–322 B.C.E.) was a prominent Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens. His orations constitute the last significant ...
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  • 2, 1924 - February 20, 2010) was an American statesman and military leader. He retired as a general from the United States Army, after serving during ...
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  • 28, 1869, was a French author, poet, and statesman who was instrumental in the foundation of the Second Republic and the continuation of the ...
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  • , also known as Sergius Witte, was a Russian statesman who served as the first prime minister of the Russian Empire, replacing the Tsar as head of the ...
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  • (of the state) and Italian statista (statesman, politician), compare English statist. Statistik introduced by Gottfried Achenwall (1749), originally ...
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  • February 5 – January 12, 1983) was a Soviet statesman who served as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the head of state of the Soviet ...
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  • February 8 – December 18, 1980) was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served as the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1980 and was one ...
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  • {{Unification aspects|John Robert Lewis was an American statesman and Civil rights movement leader. Lewis fulfilled many critical roles in the ...
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  • {{Unification Aspects|Alexander Meigs Haig Jr. was an American statesman and military leader, reaching the rank of general before retiring from ...
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  • Anastas Mikoyan was an Armenian Bolshevik and Soviet statesman during the Stalin and Khrushchev years. In the Soviet Union he is primarily known ...
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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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