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The Adams family come prominently from Massachusetts and is one of the main political dynasties in United States history. It includes two presidents (the second and the sixth ), a Secretary of the Navy , the ambassador to the United Kingdom during the Civil War and multiple other high profile functions.
A foul-mouthed former Philippine president who jailed political rivals, insulted the pope and claims to have hired “death squad” gangsters is running for re-election in his hometown in a ...
In the early 2000s, he worked on political campaigns, including the 2000 re-election campaign for his uncle, Senator Ted Kennedy, as well as Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.
Hereditary politicians refers to politicians (especially modern politicians) whose political position can be seen as being conferred by or based on inheritance from a parent or grandparent in some sense. It should not be confused with political dynasty though these two concepts are not mutually exclusive. Political dynasty or political family ...
The Long family is a family of politicians from the United States.Many have characterized it as a political dynasty.After Huey Long's 1935 assassination, a family dynasty emerged: his brother Earl was elected lieutenant-governor in 1936, and governor in 1948 and 1956.
That dynasty - the leftist core of the powerful Peronist movement - is now waning, a tectonic shift in the country's political power dynamics, with a new force that has burst onto the scene in the ...
The Frelinghuysen family (/ ˈ f r eɪ l ɪ ŋ ˌ h aɪ s ən /; [2] / ˈ f r iː l ɪ ŋ ˌ h aɪ z ən /; [3] / ˌ f r iː l ɪ ŋ ˈ h aɪ s ən / [4]) is an American political dynasty, primarily based in New Jersey, that first emigrated from The Netherlands in 1720.
The Bush family is considered a modern political dynasty, having produced two presidents and a few other political figures: Prescott Sheldon Bush: H.W. Bush’s father, a senator from Connecticut