| Definition/Meaning | Word/Phrase |
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| English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626) |
1st Baron Verulam
,
Bacon
,
Baron Verulam
,
Francis Bacon
,
Sir Francis Bacon
,
Viscount St. Albans
|
| British statesman and leader of the Labour party who instituted the welfare state in England (1883-1967) |
1st Earl Attlee
,
Attlee
,
Clement Attlee
,
Clement Richard Attlee
|
| English statesman; member of the Conservative Party (1867-1947) |
1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
,
Baldwin
,
Stanley Baldwin
|
| English statesman; member of the Conservative Party (1848-1930) |
1st Earl of Balfour
,
Arthur James Balfour
,
Balfour
|
| United States statesman who promoted the Marshall Plan and helped establish NATO (1893-1971) |
Acheson
,
Dean Acheson
,
Dean Gooderham Acheson
|
| Indonesian statesman who obtained the independence of Indonesia from the Netherlands in 1949 and served as president until ousted by Suharto in a coup d'etat (1901-1970) |
Achmad Sukarno
,
Sukarno
|
| German statesman; chancellor of West Germany (1876-1967) |
Adenauer
,
Konrad Adenauer
|
| ancient Athenian statesman and general in the Peloponnesian War (circa 450-404 BC) |
Alcibiades
|
| United States statesman and leader of the Federalists; as the first Secretary of the Treasury he establish a federal bank; was mortally wounded in a duel with Aaron Burr (1755-1804) |
Alexander Hamilton
,
Hamilton
|
| Roman who was an early Christian philosopher and statesman who was executed for treason; Boethius had a decisive influence on medieval logic (circa 480-524) |
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
,
Boethius
|
| British statesman who became prime minister in 1997 (born in 1953) |
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
,
Blair
,
Tony Blair
|
| Egyptian statesman who (as president of Egypt) negotiated a peace treaty with Menachem Begin (then prime minister of Israel) (1918-1981) |
Anwar el-Sadat
,
Anwar Sadat
,
Sadat
|
| Palestinian statesman who was chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (1929-2004) |
Arafat
,
Yasser Arafat
|
| French prelate and statesman; principal minister to Louis XIII (1585-1642) |
Armand Jean du Plessis
,
Cardinal Richelieu
,
Duc de Richelieu
,
Richelieu
|
| British statesman who as Prime Minister pursued a policy of appeasement toward fascist Germany (1869-1940) |
Arthur Neville Chamberlain
,
Chamberlain
,
Neville Chamberlain
|
| British general and statesman; he defeated Napoleon at Waterloo; subsequently served as Prime Minister (1769-1852) |
Arthur Wellesley
,
Duke of Wellington
,
First Duke of Wellington
,
Iron Duke
,
Wellington
|
| Turkish statesman who abolished the caliphate and founded Turkey as a modern secular state (1881-1938) |
Ataturk
,
Kemal Ataturk
,
Kemal Pasha
,
Mustafa Kemal
|
| Roman statesman who established the Roman Empire and became emperor in 27 BC; defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra in 31 BC at Actium (63 BC - AD 14) |
Augustus
,
Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus
,
Gaius Octavianus
,
Octavian
|
| British general and statesman whose victory at Plassey in 1757 strengthened British control of India (1725-1774) |
Baron Clive
,
Baron Clive of Plassey
,
Clive
,
Robert Clive
|
| Israeli statesman (born in Russia) who (as prime minister of Israel) negotiated a peace treaty with Anwar Sadat (then the president of Egypt) (1913-1992) |
Begin
,
Menachem Begin
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