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Íñigo Vélez de Guevara, 7th Count of Oñate

Íñigo Vélez de Guevara, seventh Count of Oñate and Count of Villamediana (1566 – October 31, 1644 in Madrid) was a Spanish political figure.

James H. Cummings

James Harvey "Mister Jim" Cummings (1890–1979) was a Tennessee farmer, attorney, and political figure.

Joaquín Suárez

Joaquín Luis Miguel Suárez de Rondelo (August 18, 1781 in Canelones – December 26, 1868 in Montevideo) was a Uruguayan political figure.


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Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz

Ibn al-Mu'tazz is best known, not as a political figure, but as a leading Arabic poet and the author of the Kitab al-Badi, an early study of Arabic forms of poetry.

Antoine Juchereau Duchesnay

Antoine-Louis Juchereau Duchesnay (1767–1825), his son, seigneur and Lower Canada political figure

Benjamin Cohen

Benjamin Victor Cohen (1894–1983), American political figure, member of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Brain Trust

Charles Ingersoll

Charles Fortescue Ingersoll (1791–1832), Massachusetts-born Canadian businessman and political figure who served in War of 1812 and represented Oxford County in Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1824 until his death from cholera

Charlie Chong

Charlie Chong (October 13, 1926 – April 26, 2007) was a populist Seattle political figure and activist on behalf of the Pike Place Market and against the marginalization of West Seattle.

Cormier

Charles Cormier (1813 – 1887), a Quebec businessman and political figure

Dai Qing

Dai Qing was then adopted by her father's friend, Ye Jianying (葉劍英), who was a major Chinese political figure and one of the ten marshals of the People's Liberation Army.

Duncan Stewart

Duncan Alexander Stewart (1850–1936), Scottish-born farmer and political figure in Manitoba, Canada

Edward Davison

Edward Doran Davison (1819–1894), lumber merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia

Frank McManus

Francis J. McManus (1844–?), political figure in New Brunswick, Canada

Franklin Carpenter

Franklin Metcalfe Carpenter (1847–1907), farmer and political figure in Ontario, Canada

George Huff

George Albert Huff (died 1934), merchant and political figure in British Columbia

George Norman

George Wesley Norman (died 1970), printer and political figure in Saskatchewan

George Stuart

George Okill Stuart, Jr. (1807–1884), Quebec lawyer, judge and political figure

Gordon Cameron

Gordon Robertson Cameron (1921–2010), businessman and political figure in the Yukon, Canada

Heney

Hugues Heney (1789–1844), lawyer and political figure in Lower Canada

House of Carrillo

Marquis Luis de Benavides Carrillo, Marquis of Caracena, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands (1659 and 1664), Governor of Milan, Spanish general and political figure.

Ivens Buffett

Ivens François "Toon" Buffett was a political figure from the Australian External Territory of Norfolk Island.

Jacob Smith

Jacob W. Smith (1851–1926), businessman and political figure in Saskatchewan, Canada

James Birch

James E. Birch (1849–1941), Canadian merchant, horse breeder and political figure in Prince Edward Island

James McGrath

James Francis McGrath (1859–1902), fisherman and political figure in Newfoundland

James W. Reid

James William Reid (1859–1933), physician and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada

Jean-Michel Bokamba-Yangouma

He was a prominent political figure from the 1970s to the 1990s, heading the Congolese Trade Union Confederation (Confédération syndicale congolaise, CSC).

John Hearn

John Gabriel Hearn (1863–1927), a Quebec businessman and political figure

John Platt

John Milton Platt (1840–1919), physician and political figure in Ontario, Canada.

Jonathan Miles

Reginald F. Sparkes (1906 – January 1990): educator, author and political figure in Newfoundland who wrote a weekly column under the name "Jonathan Miles"

Joseph Robertson

Joseph Gibb Robertson (1820–1899), Scottish-born merchant, farmer and political figure in Quebec

Kenneth Davidson

Kenneth Walter Davidson (born 1937), former political figure in British Columbia, Canada

Kouprasith Abhay

General Kouprasith Abhay, also known by his nickname 'Fat K', was a Laotian military and political figure from the Vietnam War, also designated the Second Indochina War.

Lleras

Carlos Lleras Restrepo (1908–1994), important Colombian lawyer and political figure

Louis Boyer

Louis-Alphonse Boyer (1839–1916), Canadian merchant and political figure from Quebec

Malhiot

François-Xavier Malhiot (1781–1854), merchant, seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada

François Malhiot (1733–1808), businessman and political figure in Lower Canada

McElhinney

Robert McElhinney (1747–1831), Irish-born political figure in Nova Scotia

Norman Wilson

Norman Frank Wilson (1876-1956), Canadian farmer and political figure

Otto H. York

He was the father of Rhode Island political figure Myrth York.

Pascual Racuyal

Unlike Harold Stassen, the former Minnesota governor whose repeated runs for the American presidency earned him renown of a similar nature, Racuyal, a mechanic by profession, was never a credible political figure at any point in his life.

Phillips Callbeck

Phillips Callbeck (c. 1744 – January 28, 1790) was a merchant, lawyer and political figure in St. John's Island (later Prince Edward Island).

Pierre Vincent

Pierre-Vincent Valin (1827–1897), Canadian businessman and political figure from Quebec

Publius Varinius

He's a military and political figure of some importance, holding the rank of praetor, like Glaber (Craig Parker); as such, due to the competitive nature of Roman politics, the two are rivals.

Richard Duncan

Richard Duncan Fraser (c. 1784–1857), fur trader, businessman, farmer and political figure in Upper Canada

Richard Gill

Richard J. Gill (1886–?), lumberman and political figure in New Brunswick

Richard Wilkinson

Richard Norton Wilkinson (died 1804), judge and political figure in Upper Canada

Routhier

Félix Routhier (1827–1891), Ontario businessman and political figure

Théberge

Carole Théberge (born 1953), marketing professional and former political figure in Quebec

Thomas Gillespie

Thomas F. Gillespie, Irish-born merchant and political figure in Canada

Tolton

Edwin Tolton (1856-1917), a farmer, grain merchant and political figure in Ontario, Canada

Towle

Edward Towle Brooks (1830-1897), Quebec lawyer, judge and political figure

William Boulton

William Henry Boulton (1812–1874), lawyer and political figure in Canada West

William Hartley

William James Hartley (born 1945), political figure in British Columbia, Canada