Politician

A politician is an individual involved in politics, sometimes this may include political scientists. In other settings, a politician is a type of political figure. In Western democracies, the term is generally restricted to those either holding or seeking elected office for themselves, rather than specialists employed by such people. Such a distinction is less clear in non-democratic forms of government. Some common offices for politicians can include:\n*President\n*Prime Minister\n*Senator\n*Member of Parliament\n*Governor\n*Minister\n*Councillor\n*Mayor\n*School board member Some examples of famous politicians:

• Kofi Annan - United Nations Secretary-General\n* Clement Attlee - British post-war Prime Minister\n* Lazaro Cardenas - President of Mexico\n* Winston Churchill - wartime Prime Minister of the United Kingdom\n* Indira Gandhi - Prime Minister of India\n* Mohandas Gandhi - Nationalist leader of India\n* Thomas Jefferson - Founding Father of the United States\n* Petra Kelly - Founder of the Green Party\n* Abraham Lincoln - President of the United States\n* Paul Martin Jr - Prime Minister of Canada\n* Hun Sen Prime Minister of Cambodia\n* Pierre Trudeau - Prime Minister of Canada\n* Olof Palme - Prime Minister of Sweden\n* Vladimir Putin - President of Russia\n* Romano Prodi - President of the European Commission\n* Franklin Delano Roosevelt - U.S. war-time President\n* Sun Yat-sen - Kuomintang Leader, Revolutionary leader of the Republic of China

See List of Japanese politicans, List of British politicians, List of New Zealand politicians

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\n* List of American Politicians by Year Born or Died \n\n\n Politicians