His intellectual stature and international background also propelled him into a leadership role in the North Carolina delegation.
But he left after the first year and they've never replaced him with someone of the same intellectual stature.
Her show at Tate Britain was one of the best of the year, revealing an artist of great moral and intellectual stature.
The growth of the American Advertising Museum, which in June celebrated its fifth anniversary, provides further evidence that advertising's intellectual stature is rising.
The intellectual stature of today's Justices has also been a matter of concern.
Locke replied that he could not do it; it would take someone of the intellectual stature of Newton.
Tesla intentionally engineered love and women out of his life, and while he achieved gigantic intellectual stature, he failed to achieve its perpetuation either through his own progeny or through disciples.
The advance by leaps and bounds of the intellectual stature of the proletariat affords an inviolable guarantee of its further progress in the inevitable economic and political struggles ahead.
A game that equals chess in intellectual stature if not international popularity is go, an intricate brain twister that may have originated in Japan or China in the third millennium B.C.
There is no one of his intellectual stature to hover in the background, no matter how remotely.