is a specific kind of: leader.

is a broader term that covers: campaigner, candidate, nominee | Communist | demagog, demagogue, rabble-rouser | Democrat | Federalist | Labourite | hack, machine politician, political hack, ward-heeler | Mugwump | noncandidate | boss, party boss, political boss | party liner, party man | Republican | sachem | socialist | standard-bearer | national leader, solon, statesman | technocrat | Whig | Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin, Grigori Potemkin, Grigori Potyokin, Potemkin, Potyokin ... show more.

instances of which are: Astor, Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor | Alben Barkley, Alben William Barkley, Barkley | 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Beaverbrook, William Maxwell Aitken | Bradley, Thomas Bradley, Tom Bradley | Boy Orator of the Platte, Bryan, Great Commoner, William Jennings Bryan | Aaron Burr, Burr | Chase, Salmon P. Chase, Salmon Portland Chase | Charles Joseph Clark, Clark, Joe Clark | Clay, Henry Clay, the Great Compromiser | Clinton, DeWitt Clinton | Crockett, David Crockett, Davy Crockett | Douglas, Little Giant, Stephen A. Douglas, Stephen Arnold Douglas | Houston, Sam Houston, Samuel Houston | Jackson, Jesse Jackson, Jesse Louis Jackson | Glenda Jackson, Jackson | Andre Maginot, Maginot | Joseph McCarthy, Joseph Raymond McCarthy, McCarthy | Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Moynihan | Mullah Mohammed Omar, Mullah Omar | Peel, Robert Peel, Sir Robert Peel | Jeannette Rankin, Rankin | Nellie Ross, Nellie Tayloe Ross, Ross | Seward, William Henry Seward | Daniel Webster, Webster ... show more.

derivation: politics | political relation, politics.