Politician: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

A politician is an individual involved in politics, sometimes this may include political scientists. In other settings, a politician is a type of political figure.

In Western democracies, the term is generally restricted to those either holding or seeking elected office for themselves, rather than specialists employed by such people. Such a distinction is less clear in non-democratic forms of government.

Some common offices for politicians can include:

• President
• Prime Minister
• Senator
• Member of Parliament
• Governor
• Minister
• Councillor
• Mayor
• School board member

Some examples of famous politicians:

• Kofi Annan - United Nations Secretary-General
• Clement Attlee - British post-war Prime Minister
• Lazaro Cardenas - President of Mexico
• Winston Churchill - wartime Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• Indira Gandhi - Prime Minister of India
• Mohandas Gandhi - Nationalist leader of India
• Thomas Jefferson - Founding Father of the United States
• Petra Kelly - Founder of the Green Party
• Abraham Lincoln - President of the United States
• Paul Martin Jr. - Prime Minister of Canada
• Hun Sen Prime Minister of Cambodia
• Pierre Trudeau - Prime Minister of Canada
• Olof Palme - Prime Minister of Sweden
• Vladimir Putin - President of Russia
• Romano Prodi - President of the European Commission
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt - U.S. war-time President
• Sun Yat-sen - Kuomintang Leader, Revolutionary leader of the Republic of China

See List of Japanese politicans, List of British politicians, List of New Zealand politicians