Historical politicians thread

Throatpunch

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So my last politicians thread was only about modern day ones. This one is about your favourite old day politicians. Not ones that are active today (trump, clinton etc), only older ones this time.

I am actually gonna be serious now because my other one was sort of a joke (masqueraded as a republican). Earth was the only one that figured it out.

I'd say:
  • Teddy Roosevelt
  • Dwight.D Eisenhower
  • Jimmy Carter
  • FDR
  • Bill Clinton
  • Al Gore
  • LBJ
  • Clement Attlee
  • John Major
  • Nigel Lawson
  • Margeret Thatcher
  • Winston Churchill
  • Michael Howard
  • Kenneth Clarke
 
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George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jackson
Teddy Roosevelt
Ronald Reagan
Napoleon Bonaparte

Also aren't Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and Jimmy Carter all still alive and active today?
 
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Doomsdayprepper said:
So my last politicians thread was only about modern day ones. This one is about your favourite old day politicians. Not ones that are active today (trump, clinton etc), only older ones this time.

I am actually gonna be serious now because my other one was sort of a joke (masqueraded as a republican). Earth was the only one that figured it out.

I'd say:
  • T. Roosevelt
  • Dwight.D Eisenhower
  • Jimmy Carter
  • Bill Clinton
  • Al Gore
  • LBJ
  • Clement Attlee
  • John Major
  • Winston Churchill
  • FDR
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I'm a little disappointed that, considering you're British, you've almost entirely mentioned American politicians, and very few British ones. What about William Gladstone (who, by the way, Nigel Farage values very highly), Keir Hardie, Ramsay MacDonald, Lord Ashley, Charles Grey, Pitt the Younger, Lord Liverpool, Lord John Russell, William Wilberforce, Charles Parnell, Benjamin Disraeli, William O'Brien and David Lloyd George. I haven't even gone into union and protest leaders.

"Who are you, that do not know your history?"
 
I'm a little disappointed that, considering you're British, you've almost entirely mentioned American politicians, and very few British ones. What about William Gladstone (who, by the way, Nigel Farage values very highly), Keir Hardie, Ramsay MacDonald, Lord Ashley, Charles Grey, Pitt the Younger, Lord Liverpool, Lord John Russell, William Wilberforce, Charles Parnell, Benjamin Disraeli, William O'Brien and David Lloyd George. I haven't even gone into union and protest leaders.
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I know who they all are but I just would not call them my favourites.
A second politicians thread... Why?
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First one was current politicians this one is older ones.
 
Here I come to talk about a politician that pretty much no one ever heard about:

Maria de Lourdes Ruivo da Silva de Matos Pintasilgo - 108th Prime Minister of Portugal

Notable achievements:
  • In 1953, at the age of 23 she got an engineering degree in industrial chemistry
  • Finished a graduate program with the national Nuclear Energy Board
  • By 1954, she held the position of chief engineer of the studies and projects division of a a large Portuguese conglomerate (Companhia União Fabril)
  • She quickly moved to the position of project director, where she was in charge of the firm's documentation center and responsible for the company's technical journals
  • In 1956 she became the international president of a movement of Catholic students, Pax Romana
  • In 1961, Pintasilgo joined the Grail (Graal), an international Catholic laywomen's movement
  • By 1965 she had become the Grail's international vice-president
  • She was also appointed by the Vatican and served as woman's liaison between the Roman Catholic Church and the World Council of Churches
  • She held a job in government until 1969 which was to run Portugal's program for development and social change
  • In 1970, she presided over government working groups involving women's affairs, as well as being a member of the Portuguese delegation to the United Nations
  • In 1974 she was appointed secretary of state for social welfare in the first provisional government following the revolution
  • In 1975 she moved her way up to Minister of Social Affairs
  • In 1975, Pintasilgo became Portugal's first Ambassador to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO
  • In 1979 she became the first and only woman Prime Minister of Portugal
  • She became the third woman Prime Minister in Europe history (After Savka Dabčević-Kučar and Margaret Thatcher)
  • She left her mark by making social security universal and improving health care, education, and labor legislation in Portugal
  • She contributed the piece "Daring to be different" to the 1984 anthology Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology, edited by Robin Morgan
  • In 1987 she was elected to the European Parliament as a member of the Socialist Party which she held until 1989
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo died of cardiac arrest at her home in Lisbon on 10 July 2004, aged 74
 
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