Not long thereafter Johnson gave a speech in Nashville, denouncing the Know Nothing Party, and rebuked a prominent Whig lawyer, Thomas T. Smiley, who took issue with him.

After his father's death, the nine-year-old Sherman was raised by a Lancaster neighbor and family friend, attorney Thomas Ewing, a prominent member of the Whig Party who served as senator from Ohio and as the first Secretary of the Interior.

As the foster son of a prominent Whig politician, in Charleston, the popular Lt. Sherman moved within the upper circles of Old South society.

The new King, George I and the Prince of Wales both had significant holdings in the company as did some prominent Whig politicians, including James Cragg, the Earl of Halifax and Sir Joseph Jekyll.

He was one of the last nationally prominent Whig office holders.

Although it was not used as his main residence, his wife Georgiana Spencer, a prominent but controversial figure in fashion and politics whom he married in 1774, used the house as a retreat and as a Whig stronghold for many years, being the place of death of Charles James Fox in 1806.

Charles James Fox PC ( 24 January 1749 – 13 September 1806 ), styled The Honourable from 1762, was a prominent British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned thirty-eight years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and who was particularly noted for being the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger.

While in Rome he had met Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, through whom he met Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland and his wife Elizabeth Fox, Baroness Holland, their London home, Holland House was the centre of the Whig Party ( Barry remained a lifelong supporter of the Liberal party, the successor to the Whig Party ), Barry was invited to the gatherings at the house, and there met many of the prominent members of the group ; this led to many of his subsequent commissions.

During the 16th century the school educated writers including Ben Jonson and Richard Hakluyt ; in the seventeenth, the poet John Dryden, philosopher John Locke, scientist Robert Hooke, composer Henry Purcell and architect Christopher Wren were pupils ; and in the 18th century, philosopher Jeremy Bentham and several Whig Prime Ministers and other statesmen ; recent Old Westminsters include prominent politicians of all parties, and many members of the arts and media.

Stratford Canning was a Whig and would introduce his nephew in the 1780s to prominent Whigs such as Charles James Fox, Edmund Burke, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

Berrien had been President Andrew Jackson's Attorney General and was a prominent Whig.

The closest of his London friends is his mentor, Lady Laura Standish, the daughter of the prominent Whig politician Lord Brentford.

A prominent Whig commented, " God has declared against us.

He was a prominent Whig politician and served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1830 to 1834, which tenure saw the passing of the Great Reform Act of 1832.

The Whig party was born during the Exclusion Crisis, and Shaftesbury was one of the party's most prominent leaders.

With Fox he was never on terms of friendship, and Samuel Rogers, in his Table Talk, asserts that their antipathy was so pronounced that at a dinner party given by a prominent Whig not the slightest notice was taken by Fox of the presence of Horne Tooke.

Somers now became the most prominent member of the Whig Junto, the small council which comprised the chief members of the Whig party.

Lord Rockingham was a prominent Whig grandee and served as Prime Minister of Great Britain between 1765 and 1766 and again in 1782.

Whittier became an out-spoken critic of President Andrew Jackson, and by 1830 was editor of the prominent New England Weekly Review in Hartford, Connecticut, the most influential Whig journal in New England.

The second barony was created on 17 April 1763 for her husband, the prominent Whig politician Henry Fox.

Although Lincoln was a former Whig, the prominent former Whig Judge Theophilus Lyle Dickey said that Lincoln was too closely tied to the abolitionists, and supported Douglas.

Hearst's luck was even poorer when he had a chat with Franklin K. Lane, a prominent California journalist and reform politician, whom he asked for his support.

Sir William Harcourt, a prominent Liberal politician in the Victorian era, said this about liberalism in 1872:

Alessandra Mussolini, the granddaughter of Benito Mussolini, and a prominent Italian Neofascism | neofascist politician.

In 1862, the King dismissed his Prime Minister, the former admiral Constantine Kanaris, the most prominent politician of the period.

His heirs, Earls of Abercorn, heirs male of the Hamilton family from 1651, became Marquesses of Abercorn in 1790, and Dukes of Abercorn in 1868 ; the 2nd Duke of Abercorn ( b. 1838 ) being a prominent Unionist politician and chairman of the British South Africa Company.

Cleon was a major political figure of the time and through the actions of the characters about which he writes Aristophanes is able to freely criticize the actions of this prominent politician in public and through his comedy.

His father, Lycortas, was a prominent, land-owning politician and member of the governing class.

The most prominent Congolese politician until 1956 was Jean-Félix Tchicaya, born in Libreville on 9 November 1903 and a member of the royal family of the Kingdom of Loango.

This friendship would become important to his success later in life, as would his friendship with the Chatham lawyer, Lemuel J. Tweedie, a prominent Conservative politician.

Lt. General Shaul Mofaz (, born 4 November 1948 ) is a prominent Israeli politician and the Leader of the Opposition in the Knesset.

In the years after Marathon, and in the run up to the second Persian invasion he became the most prominent politician in Athens.

Lord Wharton, made a Duke by George I, was a prominent politician with two separate lives: the first, " a ... man of letters " and the second, "... a drunkard, a rioter, an infidel and a rake ".

Many airport names honour a public figure, commonly a politician ( e. g. Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport ) or a prominent figure in aviation history of the region ( e. g. Will Rogers World Airport ).

In May 1991, the prominent Sinn Féin politician Councillor Eddie Fullerton was assassinated by the U. D. A.

* Cahir Healy – A journalist who was a very prominent Irish Nationalist politician and who was a long-serving M. P.

* Ernst von Koerber, prominent politician of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Lev Borisovich Kamenev (, ; – 25 August 1936 ), born Rozenfeld (), was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent Soviet politician.

When the Maes was re-opened in July 2009 by the local politician and Heritage Minister of Wales, Alun Ffred Jones AM, he said " the use of beautiful local slate is very prominent in the new Maes.

Its first leader was Salah Mohammad Zeary, a prominent politician within the PDPA.

Their second son, Benjamin Chew Howard, was also a prominent politician in Maryland, elected for four terms in the U. S. Congress.

Only two remain living: John Chiang is a prominent KMT politician, while Chiang Hsiao-chang, her children and grandchildren reside in the United States.

Pre-1937 buildings that survive include: Dambadarjaalin monastery in Sukhbaatar District ( 1765 ), Dashchoilin monastery's large yurt chapels ( built in 1778 ), Gandan monastery's golden-roofed Gandantegchinlen temple also called the Tsogchin dugan ( 1838 ), Vajradhara temple ( 1841 ), Zuu temple ( 1869 ), Didan Laviran temple ( 19th century ), the restored Russian Consulate building ( 1863 ), Erdem Itgemjit temple ( 1893 ) at the Bogd Khan's Winter Palace, rest of the buildings at the same Palace ( 1893 – 1906 ), the Museum of Ulaanbaatar's History which was formerly the private residence of the rich Buryat merchant Tsogt Badamjav ( 1904 ), Zanabazar's Art Museum building which was formerly called the Ondor Khorshoo ( 1905 ), the two-storey brick headquarters of the mining company " Mongolore " ( 1905 ), the tall Megjid Janraisig temple ( 1913 – 1914 ), the residence of Chin Wang Khanddorj, a prominent noble and politician in the early years of Mongolia's independence ( 1913 ), the first telephone building where Russian Orthodox choir singers stayed ( 1914 ), Marshal Zhukov Museum etc.

* Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk ( 1473 – 1554 ), prominent Tudor politician

* Sebastian Coe, former middle-distance runner and politician, now a prominent sports administrator, was the Member of Parliament for the area in the 1990s.