Evelyn Denison, by Alfred Thompson - Published in Vanity Fair, 12 March 1870

He was a British statesman who served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1857 to 1872. He is the eponym of Speaker Denison's rule.

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The Marquis of Salisbury, by Carlo Pellegrini - Vanity Fair, 10 July 1869

He was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister 3 times for a total of over 13 years. He avoided alignments or alliances, maintaining the policy of "splendid isolation"

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The Earl Grey, by Carlo Pellegrini - Vanity Fair, 8 May 1869

Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey, known as Viscount Howick from 1807 until 1845, was an English statesman.

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The Duke of Argyll, by Carlo Pellegrini - Vanity Fair, 17 April 1869

George John Douglas Campbell was a Scottish polymath and Liberal statesman.

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The Marquis of Hartington, by Carlo Pellegrini - Vanity Fair, 27 March 1869

Spencer Compton Cavendish was a British statesman. He has the distinction of having held leading positions in three political parties: leading the Liberal, the Liberal Unionist, & the Conservative Party

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John Bright. by Carlo Pellegrini - Vanity Fair, 13 February 1869

He was a British Radical and Liberal statesman, one of the greatest orators of his generation and a promoter of free trade policies.

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“We met many years ago on the river at Hampton Court,” he reminded her, bowing low. "It must have been in 1785, for I remember Pitt’s Sinking Fund being debated!”https://t.co/sdTCCoahHU
Charles James Fox, Whig Statesman, died 1806 <

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Boris Johnson compared himself to Roman statesman in his farebad speech. Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (519 BC-438 BC) was a dicatator, an enemy of the people.

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Zhuge Kongming - Zhuge Liang, courtesy name Kongming, was a Chinese statesman and military strategist. He is recognised as the most accomplished strategist of his era, and has been compared to Sun Tzu, the author of The Art of War. Zhuge Kongming is also a character in HI3.

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Zhangheng - Zhang Heng was a Chinese polymathic scientist and statesman. But also an astronomer, mathematician, seismologist, hydraulic engineer, inventor, geographer, cartographer, ethnographer, artist, poet, philosopher, politician, and literary scholar.

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Frederick Douglass - (redraw) Limited Edition (5)
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American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.

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24 June 1850, Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, soldier and statesman, was born in Ballylongford, Co. Kerry.

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Xun You (157–214), courtesy name Gongda, was a statesman who lived during the late Eastern Han dynasty of China and served as an adviser to the warlord Cao Cao.
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S.M. Kirov brokers a peace agreement between Ingush and Ossetians, 1938.

Painting by Nikolay Yassievich (1902-1976)

Sergei Kirov was a Soviet statesman and political figure. He was shot dead in December 1934. His murder triggered the start of mass repression in the USSR.

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Vanity Fair: Statesman, No. 126 "An Arbitrator", 1872 https://t.co/PGC60burez

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Introducing The Statesman Brothers, musical duo from North Carolina, not unlike . 2/30 of the rare Claw Tooth Diplomats from . One likes coffee, and the other prefers tea.

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Happy Birthday to M.W. Henry Clay, American Statesman and Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky, born on this day in 1777.
Portrait by Travis Simpkins
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