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| x Gavin Newsom |
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Gavin Christopher Newsom (born October 10, 1967) is an American politician who is the 49th and current Lieutenant Governor of California. Previously, he was the 42nd Mayor of San Francisco, and was elected in 2003 to succeed Willie Brown, becoming...
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Mayor | Mayor of San Francisco | |
| Councillor | San Francisco Supervisor | San Francisco Board of Supervisors | |||
| Lieutenant Governor | Lieutenant Governor of California | ||||
| x Michela Alioto-Pier |
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Michela Alioto-Pier (born 1968) served as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. She represented District 2, encompassing the Marina and Pacific Heights neighborhoods. She previously served as a member of the San Francisco Port...
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Councillor | San Francisco Supervisor | San Francisco Board of Supervisors |
| x Aaron Peskin |
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Aaron Peskin (born 1964) is a former member 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 and...
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President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors | San Francisco Board of Supervisors | |
| Councillor | San Francisco Supervisor | San Francisco Board of Supervisors | |||
| x Ugyen Wangchuck |
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Gongsa Ugyen Wangchuck (Dzongkha: , Wylie: o rgyan dbang phyug; 1862–1926) was the first King of Bhutan from 1907 to 1926.
He was born in 1862 to Jigme Namgyal, penlop (governor) of Trongsa and Ashi Pema Choki. He succeeded his father as Penlop of...
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Monarch | King of Bhutan | |
| x Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuk |
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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Prime minister | Prime Minister of Bhutan | ||
| Prime minister | Prime Minister of Bhutan | ||||
| Prime minister | Prime Minister of Bhutan | Lhengye Zhungtshog | |||
| Prime minister | Prime Minister of Bhutan | ||||
| x Ted Arnott |
Theodore Calvin 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.
The son of Warren Arnott and Jessie Hawkins, Arnott...
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Member of Provincial Parliament | Legislative Assembly of Ontario | ||
| x Dalton McGuinty |
Dalton James Patrick McGuinty, Jr., MPP (born July 19, 1955) is a Canadian politician and, since October 23, 2003, the 24th and current Premier of the Canadian province of Ontario.
McGuinty is generally regarded as holding moderate views on economic...
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Premier | Premier of Ontario | ||
| Member of Provincial Parliament | Legislative Assembly of Ontario | ||||
| x Wen Jiabao |
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Wen Jiabao (born 19 September 1942) is the sixth and current Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, serving as China's head of government and leading its cabinet. In his capacity as Premier, Wen is regarded as the leading...
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Premier | Premier of the People's Republic of China | |
| x Zhu Rongji |
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Zhū Róngjī (pinyin: Zhū Róngjī; Wade-Giles: Chu Jung-chi; IPA: [tʂú ʐʊ̌ŋtɕí]; born 23 October 1928 in Changsha, Hunan) is a prominent Chinese politician who served as the Mayor and Party chief in Shanghai between 1987 and 1991, before serving as...
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Premier | Premier of the People's Republic of China | |
| x Wu Yi |
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Wu Yi (born November 1938 in Wuhan, Hubei, 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 lady", Wu is one of the toughest...
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Deputy Premier | Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China | State Council of the People's Republic of China |
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| x Zeng Peiyan |
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Zeng Peiyan (Chinese: 曾培炎; pinyin: Zēng Péiyán; born December 1938 in Shaoxing, Zhejiang) is a Chinese politician. He was a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China from 2002 to 2007 and was a Vice-premier from 2003 to 2008.
Zeng...
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Deputy Premier | Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China | State Council of the People's Republic of China |
| x Strom Thurmond |
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James Strom Thurmond (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was an American politician who served for forty-eight years as a United States Senator. He also ran for the Presidency of the United States in 1948 as the segregationist States Rights...
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United States Senator | United States Senate | |
| Governor | Governor of South Carolina | ||||
| x Samuel Alito |
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Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr. (pronounced /əˈliːtoʊ/; born April 1, 1950) is an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He was nominated by President George W. Bush and has served on the court since January 31, 2006.
Raised in Hamilton Township,...
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| x Micheline Calmy-Rey | |||||
| x Yoshio Utsumi |
Yoshio Utsumi (内海 善雄, Utsumi Yoshio, born August 14, 1942) was 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...
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| x Pekka TARJANNE | |||||
| x Richard Butler | |||||
| x John Howard |
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John Winston Howard, OM, AC, SSI, (born 26 July 1939) was the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007. He was the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister after Sir Robert Menzies.
Howard was a member of the...
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Leader of the Opposition | Australian House of Representatives | |
| Treasurer of Australia | Australian House of Representatives | ||||
| Prime minister | Prime Minister of Australia | Australian House of Representatives | |||
| Member of Parliament | Member of the Australian Parliament | Australian House of Representatives | |||
| x Peter Garrett |
Peter Robert Garrett AM, MP (born 16 April 1953) is an Australian musician, environmentalist, activist and politician.
Garrett was lead singer of the rock band Midnight Oil from 1973 until its disbanding in 2002. He served as President of the...
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Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Environment & Heritage, Arts | Australian House of Representatives | ||
| Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Reconciliation and the Arts | |||||
| Member of Parliament | Member of the Australian Parliament | Australian House of Representatives | |||
| x Julie Bishop |
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Julie Isabel Bishop (born 17 July 1956) is an Australian politician and the current Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of Australia. She holds this title as the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia. She is the party's first...
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Member of Parliament | Member of the Australian Parliament | Australian House of Representatives |
| x Allan Rocher |
Allan Rocher (born 16 February 1936), Australian politician, is a former Liberal Party of Australia Senator for Western Australia from 1978 to 1981 and member of the Australian House of Representatives Division of Curtin from 1981 to 1998. Up until...
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Australian Senator | Australian Senate | ||
| Member of Parliament | Member of the Australian Parliament | Australian House of Representatives | |||
| x Mahatma Gandhi |
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (pronounced: [ˈmoːɦənd̪aːs ˈkərəmtʃənd̪ ˈɡaːnd̪ʱi]; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in British ruled India. Employing non-violent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to...
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| x Gustavo Díaz Ordaz |
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Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Bolaños (12 March 1911 – 15 July 1979) served as the President of Mexico from 1964 to 1970.
Díaz Ordaz was born in San Andrés Chalchícomula (nowadays Ciudad Serdán, Puebla). His father, Ramón Díaz Ordaz Redonet, worked as an...
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| x Felipe G. Calderón |
Felipe Gonzáles Calderón y Roca (April 4, 1868 – July 6, 1908) was a Filipino lawyer, politician, and intellectual, known as the "Father of the Malolos Constitution".
Calderón y Roca was born in Santa Cruz de Malabon (now Tanza), Cavite, to Don José...
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| x Felipe Calderón |
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Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa (Spanish pronunciation: [feˈlipe kaldeˈɾon] ( listen); born August 18, 1962) is the current President of Mexico. He assumed office on December 1, 2006, and was elected for a single six-year term through 2012. He is...
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President | President of Mexico | |
| x George W. Bush |
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George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 and the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000.
Bush was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the eldest son...
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President | President of the United States | |
| Governor | Governor of Texas | ||||
| x Luis Calderón Vega |
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 González...
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| x Andrés Manuel López Obrador |
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Andrés Manuel López Obrador (born November 13, 1952), also known as AMLO or El Peje, is a Mexican politician who held the position of Head of Government of the Federal District (roughly, Mayor of Mexico City) from 2000 to 2005, before resigning in...
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Head of Government of the Federal District | ||
| x Marcelo Ebrard |
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Marcelo Luis Ebrard Casaubón (born October 10, 1959) is the current Head of Government of the Federal District since December 5, 2006. He is a Mexican politician affiliated to the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) who served as Secretary...
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Head of Government of the Federal District | ||
| x Al Gore |
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Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., is an American environmental activist, author, businessperson, former politician and former journalist. He served as the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. ...
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United States Representative | United States House of Representatives | |
| United States Representative | United States House of Representatives | ||||
| Vice President | Vice President of the United States | ||||
| United States Senator | United States Senate | ||||
| x Hillary Rodham Clinton |
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Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton ( /ˈhɪləri daɪˈæn ˈrɒdəm ˈklɪntən/; born October 26, 1947) is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a United States Senator for New York from 2001 to...
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Secretary of State | United States Secretary of State | United States Cabinet |
| United States Senator | United States Senate | ||||
| x Yossi Sarid |
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Yossi Sarid (Hebrew: יוסי שריד, born 24 October 1940) is a left-wing Israeli news commentator and former politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for the Alignment, Ratz and Meretz between 1974 and 2006. A former Minister of Education and...
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Member of the Knesset | Knesset | |
| x Robert Aderholt |
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Robert Brown Aderholt (born July 22, 1965) is the U.S. Representative for Alabama's 4th congressional district, serving since 1997. He is a member of the Republican Party.
The district includes most of the far northern suburbs of Birmingham, as well...
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United States Representative | United States House of Representatives | |
| x Spencer Bachus |
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Spencer Thomas Bachus III (born December 28, 1947) is the U.S. Representative for Alabama's 6th congressional district, serving since 1993. He is a member of the Republican Party and the senior member of the Alabama U. S. House delegation. The...
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United States Representative | United States House of Representatives | |
| x Josiah Bonner |
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Josiah Robins "Jo" Bonner, Jr. (born November 19, 1959), is the U.S. Representative for Alabama's 1st congressional district, having served since 2003. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Bonner was born in Selma, Alabama (but was reared in...
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United States Representative | United States House of Representatives | |
| x Robert Cramer |
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Robert Edward "Bud" Cramer, Jr., (born August 22, 1947) is an American politician and was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1991, representing Alabama's 5th congressional district. On March 13, 2008, Cramer...
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United States Representative | United States House of Representatives | |
| x Artur Davis |
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Artur Genestre Davis (born October 9, 1967) is a former Democratic Party member of the United States House of Representatives for Alabama's 7th congressional district, serving from 2003 to 2011. Davis was a candidate for Alabama's Democratic...
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United States Representative | United States House of Representatives | |
| x Terry Everett |
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Robert Terry Everett (born February 15, 1937) is an American politician and a Republican former member of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama's 2nd congressional district. He served from 1993 to 2009.
On September 26, 2007,...
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United States Representative | United States House of Representatives | |
| x Michael D. Rogers |
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Michael Dennis "Mike" Rogers (born July 16, 1958), is the U.S. Representative for Alabama's 3rd congressional district, serving since 2003. He is a member of the Republican Party.
A fifth generation resident of Calhoun County in East Alabama, Rogers...
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United States Representative | United States House of Representatives | |
| x Jefferson Sessions |
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Jefferson Beauregard "Jeff" Sessions III (born December 24, 1946) is the junior United States Senator from Alabama. First elected in 1996, Sessions is a member of the Republican Party. He serves as the ranking minority member on the Senate Budget...
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Senator | United States Senator | United States Senate |
| x Richard Shelby |
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Richard Craig Shelby (born May 6, 1934) is the senior United States Senator from Alabama. First elected to the Senate in 1986, he is the ranking member of the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and was its chairman...
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Senator | United States Senator | United States Senate |
| x Lisa Murkowski |
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Lisa Ann Murkowski (born May 22, 1957) is the senior United States Senator from the State of Alaska and a member of the Republican Party. She was appointed to the Senate in 2002 by her father, Governor Frank Murkowski. After losing a Republican...
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Senator | United States Senator | United States Senate |
| x Theodore Stevens |
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Theodore Fulton "Ted" Stevens, Sr. (November 18, 1923 – August 9, 2010) was a United States Senator from Alaska, serving from December 24, 1968, until January 3, 2009, and thus the longest-serving Republican senator in history. He was President pro...
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United States Senator | United States Senate | |
| President pro tempore of the United States Senate | United States Senate | ||||
| United States Representative | United States House of Representatives | ||||
| x Donald Young |
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Donald Edwin "Don" Young (born June 9, 1933) is the U.S. Representative for Alaska's At-large congressional district, serving since 1973. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Young is the 6th most senior U.S. Representative and the 2nd most...
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United States Representative | United States House of Representatives | |
| x Pervez Musharraf |
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Pervez Musharraf (Urdu: پرویز مشرف, born 11 August 1943) is a retired four-star general who served as the 13th Chief of Army Staff and tenth President of Pakistan as well as tenth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee. Musharraf headed and...
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President | President of Pakistan | |
| Dictator | |||||
| x Ted Kennedy |
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Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was a United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. Serving almost 47 years, he was the second most senior member of the Senate when he died and is the...
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United States Senator | United States Senate | |
| x John Kerry |
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John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, the 10th most senior United States Senator and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was the presidential nominee of the Democratic...
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Senator | United States Senator | United States Senate |
| x John McCain |
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John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican presidential nominee in the 2008 United States election.
McCain followed his father and grandfather, both four-star admirals, into...
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Senator | United States Senator | United States Senate |
| United States Representative | United States House of Representatives | ||||
| x Jon Kyl |
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Jon Llewellyn Kyl (pronounced /ˈkaɪl/; born April 25, 1942) is the junior United States Senator from Arizona and the Senate Minority Whip, the second-highest position in the Republican Senate leadership. In 2010 he was recognized by Time magazine as...
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Senator | United States Senator | United States Senate |
| United States Representative | United States House of Representatives | ||||
| x Blanche Lincoln |
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Blanche Meyers Lambert Lincoln (born September 30, 1960) is a former U.S. Senator from Arkansas and a member of the Democratic Party. First elected to the Senate in 1998, she was the first woman elected to the Senate from Arkansas since Hattie...
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United States Senator | United States Senate | |
| United States Representative | United States House of Representatives | ||||
| x Jo Leinen |
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Jo Leinen (born April 6, 1948 in Bisten) is a Member of the European Parliament. He was elected on the SPD ticket and acts as a representative within the Party of European Socialists group. He is well known for his support for the European ideal.
He...
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| Member of Parliament | Member of the European Parliament | ||||
| x Altiero Spinelli |
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Altiero Spinelli (31 August 1907 – 23 May 1986) was an Italian political theorist and a European federalist. Spinelli is referred to as one of the "Founding Fathers of the European Union" due to his co-authorship of the Ventotene Manifesto, his...
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Member of the European Commission | European Commission | |
| x Mark Pryor |
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Mark Lunsford Pryor (born January 10, 1963) is the senior United States Senator from Arkansas, serving since 2003. He is a member of the Democratic Party and former Attorney General of Arkansas.
Born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Pryor is the son of...
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Senator | United States Senator | United States Senate |
| x Barbara Boxer |
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Barbara Levy Boxer (born November 11, 1940) is the junior United States Senator from California (since 1993). A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1983–1993).
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Boxer...
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Senator | United States Senator | United States Senate |
| x Dianne Feinstein |
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Dianne Goldman Berman Feinstein ( /ˈfaɪnstaɪn/; born June 22, 1933) is the senior United States Senator from California. A member of the Democratic Party, she has served in the Senate since 1992. She also served as 38th Mayor of San Francisco from...
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Senator | United States Senator | United States Senate |
| Councillor | San Francisco Supervisor | San Francisco Board of Supervisors | |||
| Mayor | Mayor of San Francisco | ||||
| x Wayne Allard |
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Alan Wayne Allard (born December 2, 1943) is a member of the Republican Party, and was a United States Senator from Colorado. He did not seek re-election in 2008.
Allard was born in Fort Collins, Colorado, the son of Sibyl Jean (née Stewart) and...
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United States Senator | United States Senate | |
| x Christopher Dodd |
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Christopher John "Chris" Dodd (born May 27, 1944) is an American lawyer, lobbyist, and Democratic Party politician who served as a United States Senator from Connecticut for a thirty-year period ending with the 111th United States Congress.
Dodd is...
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United States Senator | United States Senate | |
| x Joe Lieberman |
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Joseph Isadore "Joe" Lieberman (born February 24, 1942) is the senior United States Senator from Connecticut. A former member of the Democratic Party, he was the party's nominee for Vice President in the 2000 election. Currently an independent, he...
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Senator | United States Senator | United States Senate |
| Attorney General | Connecticut Attorney General | ||||
| x Joe Biden |
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Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. (pronunciation: /ˈdʒoʊsɨf rɒbɨˈnɛt ˈbaɪdən/; born November 20, 1942) is the 47th and current Vice President of the United States, serving under President Barack Obama. A Democrat, he was a United States Senator from...
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Vice President | Vice President of the United States | |
| United States Senator | United States Senate | ||||
| Councillor | New Castle County Council Member | New Castle County Council | |||
| x Thomas R. Carper |
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Thomas Richard "Tom" Carper (born January 23, 1947) is the senior United States Senator from Delaware and a member of the Democratic Party. He was previously the 71st Governor of Delaware and a member of the House of Representatives from Delaware.
A...
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Senator | United States Senator | United States Senate |
