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| Benjamin Franklin |
U.S. statesman, inventor, diplomat, postmaster, scientist, and author, considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America (b. 1706--d. 1790). |
| elder statesman |
a retired, usu. elderly statesman whose advice is sought by government leaders. [1/2 definitions] |
| Jimmy Carter |
U.S. statesman, the 39th U.S. President (1977-1981) and 83rd Governor of Georgia (1971-1975); born James Earl Carter, Jr. (b.1924). |
| John Hancock |
a prominent merchant and statesman who took part in the American Revolution and was a signer of the United States Constitution (b. 1737--d. 1793). [1/2 definitions] |
| Julius Caesar |
a Roman general and statesman, and dictator of Rome from 49 to 44 B.C. (b.100 B.C.?--d.44 B.C.). |
| Mikhail Gorbachev |
a statesman and leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991, during which time his foreign policy and domestic reforms contributed to the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Communist U.S.S.R. (b.1931). |
| Nelson Mandela |
South African statesman, anti-apartheid activist, and Nobel Peace Prize winner, who was held as a political prisoner for 27 years and became the first democratically elected and first black President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999 (b. 1918). |
| Niccolò Machiavelli |
an Italian statesman and author, whose most well-known work is associated with the philosophy that "the ends justify the means" (b.1469--d.1527). |
| Nikita Khrushchev |
Soviet statesman and premier of the U.S.S.R. from 1958 to 1964, who denounced his predecessor, Joseph Stalin (b.1894--d.1971). |
| Pericles |
an Athenian statesman and general (495?-429 B.C.). |
| Philippic |
any of the orations delivered by the Athenian statesman Demosthenes against Philip II of Macedon in the fourth century B.C. [1/2 definitions] |
| Solon |
an Athenian statesman and lawgiver (638?-559? B.C.). |
| Thomas Jefferson |
U.S. statesman, architect, and one of the authors of the Declaration of Independence, who became the third President of the United States, serving from 1801 to 1809 (b.1743--d.1826). |
| Thomas More |
an English statesman and writer who was canonized in 1935; St. Thomas More (b.1478--d.1535). |
| Winston Churchill |
a British statesman and author (b.1874--d.1965); prime minister in 1940-45 and 1951-55. |
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