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Niki Ashton, member of Parliament of Canada, two time Leadership candidate; Obafemi Awolowo, Premier of the Western State of Nigeria (1954–1960) [49] Tony Benn, member of the Labour Party and founder of the Socialist Campaign Group [50] [51] Eduard Bernstein, member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany [52] [53]
Harry Hopkins (1890–1946), Democratic adviser of President Franklin Roosevelt; Governor and Chief Justice Earl Warren (1891–1974), Republican from California; Governor Adlai E. Stevenson (1900–1965), Democratic Governor of Illinois and 1952 and 1956 Democratic presidential nominee; Mayor Richard J. Daley, Chicago (1902–1976), Democrat
President Johnson and civil rights movement activists, such as King, were influential to progressives not only for their positions on race and identity but also on economics, for example Johnson for the Great Society, which has been called by some a "second Reconstruction", [1]: 91 [29] or King for his support of democratic socialism. [30]
John W. Kern was a Democratic senator from Indiana. While the title was not official, the Senate website identifies Kern as the first Senate party leader, serving in that capacity from 1913 through 1917 (and in turn, the first Senate Democratic leader), while serving concurrently as chairman of the Senate Democratic Caucus. [3]
The top two U.S. Democratic congressional leaders endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to be their party's presidential nominee, the pair told reporters on Tuesday. Senate Majority Leader Chuck ...
The Democratic Leadership Council, the organization that produced such figures as Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Joe Lieberman and Terry McAuliffe, has long been pushing the party to forget blue-collar voters and concentrate instead on recruiting affluent, white-collar professionals who are liberal on social issues. The larger interests that the DLC ...
Important Democratic leaders during this time included Presidents Truman (1945–1953), John F. Kennedy (1961–1963), and Lyndon B. Johnson (1963–1969). Republican Richard Nixon won the White House in 1968 and 1972, leading to the end of the New Deal era; however, the party became extremely successful in the House, holding it with a majority ...
Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (in Spanish) —contextualised biographies of world political leaders; EmilePhaneuf—an archived, partial list of official websites for heads of state; Portale Storia (in Italian) —a list of current rulers by country; Rulers—a list of rulers throughout time and places