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Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( , ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, and writer who tried to uphold principles during the political crises of the Roman Republic that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire. The extensive writings of Cicero include treatises on rhetoric, philosophy, and politics. He is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists and the innovator of what became known as "Ciceronian rhetoric". Cicero was educated in Rome and in Greece. He came from a wealthy municipal () family of the Roman
Benazir Bhutto
11th and 13th prime minister of Pakistan (1953–2007)
James A. Garfield
James Abram Garfield was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March 1881 until his death in September that year after being shot in July. A preacher, lawyer, and Civil War general, Garfield served nine terms in the United States House of Representatives and is the only sitting member of the House to be elected president. Before he ran for president, the Ohio General Assembly had elected him to the U.S. Senate, a position he declined upon becoming president-elect.
Pericles
Pericles (; ; –429 BC) was a Greek statesman and general during the Golden Age of Athens. He was prominent and influential in Ancient Athenian politics, particularly between the Greco-Persian Wars and the Peloponnesian War, and was acclaimed by Thucydides, a contemporary historian, as "the first citizen of Athens". Pericles turned the Delian League into an Athenian empire and led his countrymen during the first two years of the Peloponnesian War. The period during which he led Athens as its preeminent orator and statesman, roughly from 461 to 429 BC, is sometimes known as the "Age of Pericles
Frederick Douglass
African-American social reformer, writer, and abolitionist (c. 1818–1895)
William Jennings Bryan
American politician (1860–1925)
Almeida Garrett
Portuguese writer and politician (1799–1854)
Ferenc Kölcsey
Hungarian politician and writer (1790-1838)
Theroigne de Mericourt
French revolutionary (1762-1817)
Marcus Antonius
Roman orator and grandfather of Mark Antony the triumvir
Hortensia
1st century BC female Roman orator
Rufus Choate
American politician (1799–1859)
Red Jacket
Seneca chief (1750-1830)
Henry Hunt
British politician (1773-1835)
Denis-Luc Frayssinous
French writer (1765-1841)
Jacques Antoine Marie de Cazalès
French politician
Jeremiah N. Reynolds
American explorer
Hegesippus
Athenian politician
John Philpot Curran
Irish politician
John Thelwall
British writer (1764-1834)
Keokuk
Sauk leader
Richard Lalor Sheil
British politician; (1791-1851)
Black Hoof
Chief of the Shawnee Indians
Carl Peter Hagberg
Swedish priest
Ödön Beöthy
Hungarian nobleman, politician (1796-1854)
Abraham de Cologna
French rabbi
Robert T. Conrad
American politician (1810–1858)
Henri Fonfrède
French economist