politician (noun)

  • 61DeWitt Clinton — noun United States politician who as governor of New York supported the project to build the Erie Canal (1769 1828) • Syn: ↑Clinton • Instance Hypernyms: ↑politician, ↑politico, ↑pol, ↑political leader …

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  • 62Douglas — noun 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) • Syn: ↑Stephen A. Douglas, ↑Stephen Arnold… …

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  • 63Glenn — noun made the first orbital rocket powered flight by a United States astronaut in 1962; later in United States Senate (1921 ) • Syn: ↑John Glenn, ↑John Herschel Glenn Jr. • Instance Hypernyms: ↑astronaut, ↑spaceman, ↑cosmonaut, ↑senator * * * …

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  • 64Great Commoner — noun United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860 1925) • Syn: ↑Bryan, ↑William Jennings Bryan, ↑Boy Orator of the Platte • Instance… …

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  • 65Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin — noun 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) • Syn: ↑Potemkin, ↑Potyokin, ↑Grigori… …

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  • 66Grigori Potemkin — noun 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) • Syn: ↑Potemkin, ↑Potyokin, ↑Grigori… …

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  • 67Grigori Potyokin — noun 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) • Syn: ↑Potemkin, ↑Potyokin, ↑Grigori… …

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  • 68Harmsworth — noun British newspaper publisher (1865 1922) • Syn: ↑Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, ↑Viscount Northcliffe • Instance Hypernyms: ↑publisher, ↑newspaper publisher * * * /hahrmz werrth/, n. 1. Alfred Charles William, Viscoun …

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  • 69Hays — noun 1. United States lawyer and politician who formulated a production code that prescribed the moral content of United States films from 1930 to 1966 (1879 1954) • Syn: ↑Will Hays, ↑William Harrison Hays • Instance Hypernyms: ↑lawyer, ↑attorney …

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  • 70Henry Clay — noun United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777 1852) • Syn: ↑Clay, ↑the Great Compromiser • Instance Hypernyms: ↑politician, ↑politico, ↑pol, ↑political leader …

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