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• Mike Cooney — Member of the Montana Senate from the 40th district In office 2002 2010 Succeeded by Mary Caferro Personal details Born Washington, D.C. Polit …   Wikipedia

• Milton, John — (1608 1674)    English poet, political figure, and au thor of tracts on political and religious issues. Though his life is to tally contained in the 17th century and so falls chronologically into a post Renaissance age, his prodigious mastery of… …   Historical Dictionary of Renaissance

• KAEMPFER, Engelbert — (1651–1716)    Born in Lemgo (Lippe, Germany), Kaempfer studied political science in Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland), graduating in 1673; he later studied medicine at Leiden University (degree in 1693–1694). Meanwhile he had also studied in Uppsala,… …   Historical Dictionary of the Netherlands

• KOK, Wim (Willem) — (1938– )    Politician. Kok held various posi tions in the Nederlands Verbond van Vakverenigingen (NVV, Nether lands Association of Trade Unions). In 1969, he was appointed sec retary of the board, and in 1973, president. He kept this position… …   Historical Dictionary of the Netherlands

• FENTON, Sir Geoffrey — (c. 1539 1609) Geoffrey Fenton was an Elizabethan translator, colonial administrator, and advocate of severity against the Irish. Little is known about his early years until 1567, when he dedicated his Certaine Tragicall Discourses Written oute… …   Renaissance and Reformation 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary

• LASCO (or LASKI), John A — (1499 1560) A Polish Reformer, proponent of Protestant church union, Bible translator, and friend of Thomas Cranmer,* Desiderius Erasmus,* and John Calvin,* John a Lasco was born at Lask to Jaroslav and his wife Susanna of Bakova Gora. Under the… …   Renaissance and Reformation 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary

• Ebert, Friedrich — (1871 1925)    politician; served as interim Chancellor, cochairman of the Council of People s Representatives,* and Reich President. Born in Heidelberg, he apprenticed as a saddlemaker. His father s stepbrother, a tailor named Strotz, introduced …   Historical dictionary of Weimar Republik

• Jung, Edgar — (1894 1934)    right wing publicist; among the first Young Conservatives to publicly oppose the NSDAP. Born to a middle class family in Ludwigshafen, he studied law at Lausanne under Vilfredo Pareto and then prac ticed in Munich before… …   Historical dictionary of Weimar Republik

• Preuss, Hugo — (1860 1925)    constitutional lawyer; known as the father of the Weimar Constitution.* Born in Berlin* to a Jewish businessman, he studied law at Berlin, where he completed his Habilitation in 1889. Politically left liberal, he published the… …   Historical dictionary of Weimar Republik

• Scheidemann, Philipp — (1865 1939)    socialist politician; member of the Council of People s Representatives* and Chancellor. Born to a working class family in Kassel, he was a skilled printer when he joined the SPD at eighteen. Three years later, with the Party… …   Historical dictionary of Weimar Republik