Political figures

William Maxwell Evarts (English: William Maxwell Evarts, February 6, 1818 - February 28, 1901), American lawyer and politician, served as Secretary of State and Attorney General of the United States. He became a lawyer in 1841, and his first case was the forgery and fraud case against Monroe Edwards. In 1891, he retired due to health problems. He died in New York City in 1901.

William Pierce Rogers (English: William Pierce Rogers, June 23, 1913 - January 2, 2001) was an American politician who served as the 55th Secretary of State and Attorney General of the United States. On August 1, 1969, Rogers visited Taiwan. On August 2, he paid a visit to Chiang Ching-kuo, Vice President of the Executive Yuan, and invited Chiang Ching-kuo to visit the United States. On August 3, after three visits with Chiang Kai-shek, Rogers left Taiwan. .

William R. King (English: William R. King, April 7, 1786 - April 18, 1853), American politician and diplomat, served as the 13th Vice President of the United States in 1853. He died less than two months after taking office. He previously served as a Representative from North Carolina and a Senator from Alabama.

Sun Yat-sen (November 12, 1866 - March 12, 1925) was named Wen when he was studying, and his name was Zai. His musical name was Deming, and his childhood name was Dixiang. In 1886, he changed his name to Yixian, and in 1897 he changed his name to Zhongshan Qiao. A native of Cuiheng Township, Xiangshan, Guangdong (now Zhongshan City). Sun Yat-sen was a statesman and revolutionary in the late Qing Dynasty who made significant and far-reaching contributions to the development of democratic politics in modern China. The great pioneer of the democratic revolution and the founder of the Republic of China. In 1892, Sun Yat-sen graduated from the Hong Kong College of Western Medicine and practiced medicine in Macau and Guangzhou. In 1894, Sun Yat-sen wrote to Li Hongzhang, proposing revolutionary politics but was rejected, so he went to Honolulu to organize the Revival of China Conference, proposing the slogan "Revitalize China" and a political platform of "Expelling the Tartars, restoring China, and establishing a United Government." In 1895, the Xingzhonghui launched the Yiwei Guangzhou Uprising. In 1905, Sun Yat-sen formed the China League in Tokyo, Japan, and was elected as Prime Minister. He established the revolutionary political platform of "driving out the Tartars, restoring China, establishing the Republic of China, and equalizing land rights," and proposed the Three People's Principles. He founded the People's Daily, promoted the revolution, and engaged in fierce debates with the Chinese reformists at the time. Since then, Sun Yat-sen developed revolutionary organizations at home and abroad, contacted overseas Chinese, the Communist Party of China and the New Army, and launched many armed uprisings. In October 1911, the Wuchang Uprising occurred, and all provinces responded to it. On December 29, Sun Yat-sen was elected as the provisional president of the Republic of China by representatives of the seventeen provinces in Nanjing. He was proclaimed in office in Nanjing on January 1, 1912 (the first year of the Republic of China), established the provisional government of the Republic of China, and formed the provisional Senate at the end of the month. On February 13, due to the compromise between the revolutionaries and Yuan Shikai, Sun Yat-sen was forced to resign; in March, the Provisional Senate passed the "Provisional Constitution of the Republic of China" formulated under the chairmanship of Sun Yat-sen; in August, the China League was reorganized into the Kuomintang, and Sun Yat-sen was elected as chairman. In March 1913, when Kuomintang leader Song Jiaoren was shot and killed at Shanghai North Railway Station, Sun Yat-sen immediately launched an army to attack Yuan, but failed and fled to Japan. In 1914, Sun Yat-sen established the Chinese Revolutionary Party in Japan, raised the banner of revolution, and issued two declarations to attack Yuan. In 1917, Duan Qirui dissolved the National Assembly, and Sun Yat-sen held an extraordinary session of the National Assembly in Guangzhou to organize a military government to protect the law. He was elected as Grand Marshal and vowed to fight for the Northern Expedition. The following year, he was hijacked by the old Guangxi warlords and the political science department, and was forced to resign and go to Shanghai. In 1919, Sun Yat-sen founded the magazine "Construction", published "Industrial Plan", and reorganized the Chinese Revolutionary Party into the Chinese Kuomintang. Sun Yat-sen returned to Guangdong in 1920 and took office as the Very President the following year. In 1922, he retired to Shanghai due to the Chen Jiongming Incident. communism in china

Sun Shilin (August 1951 -), a native of Pengshui, Chongqing, a Tujia nationality, a political figure of the People's Republic of China, and a representative of Chongqing at the 11th National People's Congress. Graduated from Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, majoring in business administration, and is a member of the Communist Party of China. He serves as Vice Chairman of Chongqing CPPCC, Chairman (President) of Chongqing Federation of Industry and Commerce (General Chamber of Commerce), Chairman and Party Committee Secretary of Chongqing Southern Group Co., Ltd., and Chairman of Chongqing Southern Translation College of Sichuan Foreign Studies University. He has served as a deputy to the National People's Congress since 2008.

Sun Jun (October 3, 1926 - March 1, 2024), male, originally from Shaoxing, Zhejiang, was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu. He is an expert in tunnel and underground construction engineering in China. He has been engaged in the teaching and scientific research of geomechanics, tunneling and underground engineering for a long time, and developed and established a new branch of the discipline - Engineering Mechanics of Underground Structures (1962). He has considerable attainments in the rheological mechanics of geomaterials, viscoelastic plasticity theory of underground structures, urban environmental geotechnical and the application of soft science theories and methods in geomechanics and engineering. Since the early 1980s, it has undertaken and completed nearly 20 national key scientific and technological research projects, major natural science projects, key projects, and general fund projects, as well as more than 40 engineering research projects for major national engineering construction projects. The results have been applied to actual production and have achieved huge technical and economic benefits. He has written more than 200 academic papers and 8 monographs. He has won 15 awards at the national, provincial and ministerial levels. He is one of the first batch of doctoral supervisors in my country and the first batch of academic leaders of key disciplines in the country. Since 1960, he has presided over the establishment of the first "Tunnel and Underground Construction Engineering" major at home and abroad at Tongji University.

Ziya Saimat (Russian: Зия Самеди, 1914-2000), Uyghur writer and politician.

Ning Yuanxi (1970-), a native of Shanyang, Shaanxi, Han nationality, a politician of the People's Republic of China and a representative of the Guangdong region at the 12th National People's Congress. Graduated from the Mathematics Department of Baoji University of Arts and Sciences, majoring in mathematics education. Join the Communist Party of China. Served as the chairman of Guangdong Baolihua New Energy Co., Ltd. He has served as a deputy to the National People's Congress since 2008. In 2013, he served as a deputy to the National People's Congress.

Uno Sosuke (Japanese: Uno Sōsuke/Uno Sosuke, Romanized: Uno Sōsuke August 27, 1922 - May 19, 1998) was a Japanese politician who was born in Moriyama City, Shiga Prefecture. He served as the Prime Minister of Japan (the 75th). Before becoming prime minister, Uno was the foreign minister in Takeshita's cabinet. After Noboru Takeshita stepped down due to the Rikuruto scandal, the Liberal Democratic Party wanted to nominate Masayoshi Ito, who had a good image, as prime minister, but he refused again (he had already declined an opportunity to become prime minister in 1980). In desperation, on June 2, 1989, Sosuke Uno of the Nakasone faction was pushed out to clean up the mess and became the 75th Prime Minister of Japan. On June 3, 1989, Sosuke Uno became Prime Minister. After taking office, a sex scandal broke out, and the consumption tax and Likulut scandals caused the Liberal Democratic Party to be defeated in the Senate election. He was responsible for only 69 days in office.

Dorothy Ann Richards (September 1, 1933 - September 13, 2006) was a Democratic politician in Texas, United States, who served as the governor of Texas from 1991 to 1995. She is the second female governor in Texas history, after fellow Democrat Miriam A. Ferguson.

Shintaro Abe (Japanese: Abe Shintaro/Abe Shintaro, Romanized: Abe Shintarō, April 29, 1924 - May 15, 1991), a Japanese politician after Japan surrendered in World War II, served as the foreign minister of former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone. His wife is Yoko Kishi, the daughter of former Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi. His eldest son, Hironobu Abe, is an entrepreneur. His second son, Shinzo Abe, was the Prime Minister of Japan. His third son, Nobuo Kishi, was the Minister of Defense.

Shinzo Abe (Japanese: Abe Shinzo/Abe Shinzo, Romanized: Abe Shinzō, pronounced: [abe ɕindzoː] ; September 21, 1954 - July 8, 2022) was a politician from the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan. He served as Prime Minister (Prime Minister; 90th, 96th, 97th, 98th), President of the Liberal Democratic Party (21st, 25th), Chief Cabinet Secretary (72nd), and Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party (41st). He belongs to the Qinghe Policy Research Association among the liberal democratic parties and will serve as the 10th president in 2021. Shinzo Abe was born into a political family in Tokyo and is originally from Yamaguchi Prefecture. His grandfather, Hiroshi Abe, was a member of the House of Representatives, and his father, Shintaro Abe, once served as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Shinzo Abe, his maternal grandfather Nobusuke Kishi, and his maternal uncle Eisaku Sato have all served as prime ministers and are known as the "Three Prime Ministers of the Family." Since 1993, Shinzo Abe has been elected to the House of Representatives for ten consecutive terms in Yamaguchi Prefecture. In 2005, Junichiro Koizumi appointed him Chief Cabinet Secretary, and the following year he was elected president of the Liberal Democratic Party and Prime Minister. He was also the first Prime Minister born after World War II. During his tenure, he promoted diplomatic relations with neighboring countries. After pension record issues and defeat in the upper house election, he finally resigned due to ulcerative colitis and was succeeded by Yasuo Fukuda. In 2012, Shinzo Abe was re-elected as the president of the Liberal Democratic Party, leading the Liberal Democratic Party to gain power in the House of Representatives election in the same year, and served as Prime Minister of the Cabinet for the second time. He continued to lead the Liberal Democratic Party to win a majority of seats in multiple House of Representatives and Senate elections, establishing the "Abe-dominated" leadership pattern and becoming the longest-serving Prime Minister in Japan's constitutional history. Shinzo Abe is a conservative right-wing politician who has promoted many domestic and foreign affairs tasks during his tenure. Economically, he launched the "Abenomics" reform policy to drive economic growth through quantitative easing, economic stimulus and structural reforms, and later also promoted social security policies. In terms of defense diplomacy, Shinzo Abe proposed the strategy of "values ​​diplomacy" and "active pacifism" to strengthen the US-Japan alliance and lead the "Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership" and the "Arc of Freedom and Prosperity." Faced with threats from North Korea and the People's Republic of China, Shinzo Abe has strengthened his military strength, pushed for the amendment of Article 9 of the Constitution of Japan, and expanded the right to collective self-defense through the Japan Peace and Security Law. Shinzo Abe’s views on war responsibilities, comfort women and other history

Angela Davis (English: Angela Davis; January 26, 1944-) is an American political activist, scholar, and writer. Davis was a nationally renowned activist and activist in the 1960s. He was the leader of the Communist Party of the United States and the Black Panther Party. Now a retired professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on feminism, African America, critical theory, Marxism, popular music and social consciousness, and the philosophy and history of punishment and prisons. She was banned from teaching at any university in California by Ronald Reagan in 1969 because of her membership in the Communist Party. He was tried for his alleged involvement in the kidnapping and murder of Soledad in Marin County, California, in August 1970. He was later acquitted. She was twice nominated as the vice presidential candidate of the United States by the Communist Party of the United States in the 1980s.

Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (his surname is also translated as Sakharov, Russian: Андрей Дмитриевич Сахаров; May 21, 1921 - December 14, 1989), a Soviet atomic physicist, famous for his research in the fields of nuclear fusion, cosmic rays, elementary particles and baryon generation. He participated in the invention of the Tokamak and led the development of the Soviet Union's first hydrogen bomb. He is known as the "Father of the Soviet Hydrogen Bomb". Sakharov was also a human rights campaigner, Soviet dissident, advocate of civil liberties, and supporter of democratic reforms in the Soviet Union. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975. In memory of him, the European Parliament named Europe's highest human rights award the Sakharov Prize.

Angela Deneece Alsobrooks (English: Angela Deneece Alsobrooks, February 23, 1971 -), born in Suitland, Maryland, United States, is an American lawyer, politician, member of the Democratic Party, and currently serves as a U.S. Senator from Maryland. He served as county commissioner of Prince George's County, Maryland, and served two terms as the county's state attorney from 2010 to 2018. Osso Brooks is the first female county commissioner of Prince George’s County and the first black female county commissioner in Maryland history. Ossobrooks ran for the Maryland U.S. Senate in 2024, defeating Congressman David Trump in the Democratic primary and defeating Republican former Governor Larry Hogan in the general election.

Angela Dorothea Merkel, maiden name Kasner, is a German female politician, physicist, and quantum chemist. She was the former Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany, a member of the German Christian Democratic Union, and served as the leader of the party for many years. He graduated from the University of Leipzig with a master's degree in physics and a doctorate in quantum chemistry. In addition to German, he also speaks Russian, English and other languages.

Angus Stanley King, Jr. (English: Angus Stanley King, Jr.; March 31, 1944 -) is an American independent politician and lawyer who has served as a U.S. Senator from Maine since 2013 and previously served as the Governor of Maine from 1995 to 2003. King was born and raised in Virginia and moved to Maine after graduating from law school. In 1989, he founded Northeast Energy Management, Inc., which develops and operates electric energy conservation projects. In the 1994 Maine gubernatorial election, he won a four-way race as an independent candidate and was re-elected in a landslide in the 1998 Maine gubernatorial election. As the nation's only independent governor, King enjoyed high approval ratings during his tenure. After leaving office in 2003, King returned to the business world. King won Maine's 2012 Senate election, succeeding retiring Maine Republican Olympia Snow. He was successfully re-elected to a second term in 2018 after the state first adopted ranked-choice elections, and won a third term in 2024. He aligned himself with Democrats in the caucuses because of how the U.S. Senate committees are grouped. He is one of two independents in the Senate; the other is Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also aligned with Democrats.

Mohammed Anwar al-Sādāt (Arabic: محمد أنورالسادات, Romanized: Muḥammad Anwar al-Sādāt; December 25, 1918 – October 6, 1981), the third president of Egypt. Anwar Sadat was born on December 25, 1918 in Mit Abu Elkom, in the Memphia Governorate of the then Sultanate of Egypt. His family was poor, but he entered the Egyptian Military Academy through his own efforts and joined the Free Officers Movement led by Gamal Abdel Nasser and became his close friend. During the 1952 Egyptian Revolution, Sadat and Nasser jointly overthrew King Farouk I, established a republican regime, and served as vice president twice during Nasser's term. After Nasser's death in 1970, he succeeded him as president. In 1978, Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin signed a peace treaty with the mediation of US President Jimmy Carter, for which they jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize. During his 11 years as president, he changed Egypt's development path, departing from many of the political and economic ideas of Nasserism, reestablishing a multi-party system, and proposing the Infita policy to attract foreign investment and promote economic growth. In terms of military affairs, he led Egypt to launch the Yom Kippur War in 1973 to recapture the Sinai Peninsula that had been occupied by Israel since the Third Middle East War, making him a hero in Egypt and even the entire Arab world for a time. Thereafter, he launched negotiations with Israel, eventually reaching the Camp David Accords and the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty. Although it reached a peace treaty with Israel, which boosted its support in Egypt, it was opposed by the Muslim Brotherhood, who believed that Sadat had given up on efforts to establish a Palestinian state. Except for Sudan, countries in the Arab world and the Palestine Liberation Organization strongly opposed Sadat's independent peace with Israel without prior consultation with other Arab countries. His refusal to compromise with other Arab states on the Palestinian issue led to Egypt's suspension from the Arab League from 1979 to 1989. At the same time, due to his strong anti-communist views, he was also opposed by Egypt's domestic left wing. On October 6, 1981, opposition military officers led by Khalid Islambouli and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad assassinated Sadat during a military parade in Cairo. He died on the spot.

Song Jiacheng (born in 1960), male, Han nationality. EMBA of Tsinghua University, senior engineer, founder of Gulf Group, currently chairman of China Xiaoyun Group, and member of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Song Qingling (formerly known as Rosamonde in English; January 27, 1893 - May 29, 1981), formerly known as Song Qinglin and Song Qinglin, was a 20th-century Chinese political figure and social activist, a state-level leader of the People's Republic of China, the widow of Sun Yat-sen, and a member of the Song family. Soong Ching Ling is the only woman and non-member of the Communist Party of China to perform the functions of the head of state of the People's Republic of China. She secretly joined the Communist International in the early days and later joined the Chinese Communist Party 15 days before her death. During the Northern Expedition, she adhered to Sun Yat-sen's legacy, defended the policy of "alliance with Russia and accommodated the Communist Party", and opposed the Kuomintang's "party purge" campaign. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Soong Ching Ling sent a call to support the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and showed herself to others as "unity and cooperation" with the Song sisters. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, she strived to achieve peaceful nation-building and opposed civil war. During the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, he broke with Chiang Kai-shek and the Song family and supported the Communist Party of China. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, she successively served as Vice Chairman of the Central People's Government, Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Vice President of the State (exercising the powers of the President from 1968 to 1972), Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (exercising the powers of the Head of State from 1976 to 1978), and other positions. She became the first female head of state in the history of the People's Republic of China and also ranked among the country's main leaders. Song Qingling actively participated in social welfare undertakings. During the Anti-Japanese War, she presided over the establishment of the China Welfare Association and raised funds for the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and the suffering people. After the founding of the Republic, she successively served as Chairman of the National Liberation Army, Honorary Chairman of the All-China Women's Federation, and Honorary Chairman of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee. In 1951, she was elected as the chairman of the Chinese People's National Committee for the Defense of Children. The magazine "Children's Time" she founded was one of the earliest children's books in the People's Republic of China. In 1952, he initiated the "Asia and Pacific Regional Peace Conference" with Guo Moruo and others, and led the Chinese delegation to participate in the Asia-Pacific Regional Peace Conference held in Beijing, and was elected as the chairman of the Liaison Committee. In May 1981, she was awarded the title of "Honorary President of the People's Republic of China" by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. She is the only person to have received this honorary title so far. At the end of the same month, she died of illness in Beijing at the age of 88.

Gong Xiaosheng (March 1953-), native of Shandong, is a politician and diplomat of the People's Republic of China.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt is an American Democratic politician and the 32nd President of the United States. He is a Dutch-American and a member of the Roosevelt family of New York City. He was one of the central figures in the economic crisis and World War II in the United States from the 1920s to the 1930s. From 1933 to 1945, he served four consecutive terms as President of the United States and was the only U.S. President to serve more than two consecutive terms. Franklin Roosevelt's distant brother Theodore Roosevelt (Roosevelt Sr.) also served as the President of the United States (the 26th), so Franklin Roosevelt is often called "Roosevelt Jr." in the Chinese world.

Koizumi Junichiro (Japanese: Koizumi Junichiro/ Junichiro, Romanized: Koizumi Jun'ichirō, January 8, 1942 -) is a Japanese politician, the 87th-89th Prime Minister of Japan (Prime Minister). He is Japan's fourth longest-serving Prime Minister since the end of World War II. He is also the longest-serving Prime Minister since Yasuhiro Nakasone resigned in 1987 and before Shinzo Abe became Prime Minister again in 2012. In the eyes of many Japanese, Junichiro Koizumi, the former president of the Liberal Democratic Party, is a representative of the reformists: he once ignored the opposition within the party and vigorously promoted the postal privatization reform, even at the risk of his own political life. In the 2005 general election, Koizumi led the Liberal Democratic Party, which had been demoralized for many years, to a resounding victory, and his political career reached its peak. Junichiro Koizumi actively reached a strategic partnership with the US government, which improved and strengthened Japan-US relations during his term as Prime Minister. In addition, Koizumi also actively supported the dispatch of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces to Iraq, which was Japan's first overseas military operation after World War II. In contrast, Koizumi's diplomacy with China, South Korea, and Russia has not achieved significant results. He has been entangled in the territorial disputes over the four northern islands and the Yasukuni Shrine dispute. During his term of office, he ignored the objections of neighboring countries and visited the shrine six times, causing high dissatisfaction between China and South Korea. However, despite this, his historical stance basically follows the Murayama Statement. The Koizumi government has not shied away from admitting its responsibility for the aggression. He is the first Prime Minister of the Liberal Democratic Party to express support for the trial of war criminals. Therefore, scholars believe that in addition to the traditional Japanese religious views, his visit to the shrine may also be related to the memory of his cousin (who is on the list of shrines), rather than a political purpose. Junichiro Koizumi was once Japan's longest-serving prime minister since Eisaku Sato in 1972, until this record was broken by Shinzo Abe in 2019. He was also Japan's prime minister with the highest public support after the war, and he enjoyed high public support until he left office in 2006. However, in 2008, after Taro Aso, who was in conflict with Junichiro Koizumi's political views, was overwhelmingly elected as the 23rd president of the Liberal Democratic Party and the 92nd prime minister of the cabinet, Junichiro Koizumi announced his retirement from politics.

Koizumi Shinjiro (Japanese: Smallizumi Shinjiro/ Shinjiro, Romanized: Koizumi Shinjirō, April 14, 1981 -), a politician from the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan and the current Minister of Defense. He has served as the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, the Minister of the Environment, and the Minister in charge of Special Atomic Energy Disaster Prevention in the Cabinet Office. He has been elected to the House of Representatives for seven consecutive terms since 2009. Shinjiro Koizumi has successively served as Chief Secretary to the Cabinet Office and Chief Secretary to the Minister of Reconstruction, Youth Director of the Liberal Democratic Party, President of the Liberal Democratic Party’s Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and Comprehensive Fisheries Policy Research Association, Deputy Writing Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party, and President of the Liberal Democratic Party’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.