Raúl Alfonsín
President of Argentina from 1983-1989, lawyer, statesman, democratically elected official post military coup from 1976-1983, pioneer of Alfonsinisn as leader of the Radical Civic Union, father of modern democracy in Argentina
Abraham "Abe" Lincoln
16th President of the United States from 1861-1865, National Union Party politician, statesman aka Abe Lincoln, assassinated at Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth, died at Petersen House (near the White House) at the end of the American Civil War, abolished slavery, greenbacks were interest-free US dollars
1809-1865 (56)
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Aldo Moro
Prime Minister of Italy, Christian Democrat Party politician, statesman, kidnaped by the Red Brigades in 1978 and shot to death (assassinated) with orders from the P2 Masonry
Alfred Milner
Chairman of the Inland Board of Revenue, founder of the British South Africa Company, statesman, high commissioner in southern Africa, socialist colonial governor of Cape Colony in 1897, imperialist of Egypt, banker, financier, co-founder of the Pilgrims Society and the Round Table (Committee of 300, the Olympians) with Cecil Rhodes in 1902
1854-1925 (71)
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Arnaldo Forlani living
43rd prime minister of Italy from 1980-1981, statesman, politician, deputy prime minister of Italy from 1983-1987
1925- (99)
Boris Godunov
Tsar of Russia (Muscovy/Moscow) from 1598-1605, statesman, chief advisor to Fyodor I from 1584-1598
1551-1605 (54)
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Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Patrician, statesman, farmer, pioneer of Roman civic virtues, dictator of elitism against the plebians (commoners), military leader of the early Roman Republic (Roman Kingdom), the Society of the Cincinnati is named after him founded by Henry Knox
519 BCE-430 BCE
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Georges Clemenceau
Prime Minister of France from 1906-1909 and 1917-1920, statesman, politician
1841-1929 (88)
Donald J. Trump living
45th President of the United States from 2016-2020, Republican Party politician, statesman, real estate mogul, billionaire founder of Trump International Hotels & Resorts
1946- (78)
donaldjtrump.com
George Clymer
Federalist Party politician, one of the founding fathers of the United States, signed the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution
1739-1813 (74)
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George Wythe
Classical scholar, the first law professor, lawyer, attorney general of Virginia, founding father of the United States
1726-1806 (80)
Gouverneur Morris
US statesman, one of the founding fathers of the United States, signatory on the articles of Confederation
1752-1816 (64)
Henry Cabot Lodge
Republican politician, US senator from Massachusetts from 1893-1924, statesman, historian
1850-1924 (74)
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James R. Killian
VP of MIT from 1945-1948, President of MIT from 1948-1959, chairman of MIT from 1959-1971, MBA engineer, helped to form NASA (1958) after Sputnik satellite news in 1957 from the USSR (Russia), statesman, editor at Technology Review
1904-1988 (84)
killianlectures.mit.edu
Jared Ingersoll
Lawyer, attorney, statesman, Federalist Party politician, signatory for the US constitution, one of the founding fathers of the United States
1749-1822 (73)
history.army.mil
Javier Milei living
President of Argentina since 2023, populist, statesman, Libertarian Party politician, economist, populist, nationalist, founder of Freedom Advances, professor of economics
1970- (54)
Jean Monnet
Administrator, diplomat, financier, one of the founding fathers of the European Union
John C. Calhoun
statesman, politician, US secretary of the War of 1812, VP of the United States from 1825-1832
John Dickinson
Politician aka Penman of the Revolution, scholar, solicitor, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, 12 Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania in 1767-1768
1732-1808 (76)
Lorenzo de' Medici
Renaissance banker, statesman, House of Medici, ruler of the Florentine Republic
1449-1492 (43)
themedicifamily.com
Niccolò Machiavelli
Renaissance historian, humanist, diplomat, statesman, nationalist, politician, philosopher, hated the Venetian mercenaries, author of The Prince in 1513 and published in 1932
1469-1527 (58)
Michael Hainisch
President of Austria from 1920-1928 at the end of World War I (WWI/WW1), politician, economist, statesman, political activist
1858-1940 (82)
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Olof Palme
Prime Minister of Sweden from 1969-1976 and 1982-1986, assassinated in 1986, Swedish Social Democratic Party politician, nobleman, statesman
1927-1986 (59)
Pericles
Military general, statesman during the Golden Age who rebuilt Athens and the Parthenon between 447-432 BC
Richard Henry Lee
Statesman, pioneer of the Lee Resolution, one of the founding fathers of the United States of America
1732-1794 (62)
encyclopediavirginia.org
Samuel Adams
Political philosopher, politics, tax collector, revolutionary statesman, one of the founding fathers of the United States, cousin of John Adams
1722-1803 (81)
Solon
Athenian democratic statesman of classical antiquity, lawmaker, pioneer of humane laws at the end of an Aristocracy (or wealthy powerful people), poet, wise man, one of the Seven Sages of Greece
630 BCE-560 BCE
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Vladimir Putin
Prime Minister of Russia, statesman, former KGB chief intelligence officer
William (W.E.), Lord Gladstone
Prime Minister of Great Britain (UK) from 1868-1874, 1880-1885, 1892-1894, merchant prince (his father John Gladstone owned slaves), statesman, mathematician, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer
1809-1898 (89)
britishmuseum.org
William Pitt the Younger
Tory statesman, politician, prime minister of Great Britain in 1783, India Act in 1785, 1st Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Ireland) in 1801
Willy Brandt
Politician, statesman, chancellor of West Germany from 1969-1974, leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany from 1964-1987