The dictionary, after all, defines a political maverick as one "who bolts at will and sets an independent course" from his party.

BY their own admission, both are political mavericks.

Hadden has gained a reputation as something of a political maverick, having publicly attacked her own party on several issues.

But the governor has prided himself on being a political maverick.

Religious and political mavericks in the totalitarian partners of the new world order get prison, or death, often both.

Except one: a political maverick who spent four months in Federal prison in 1990 on a fraud conviction.

Greece, always an economic and political maverick in the union's affairs, has the highest rate of all, 12.75 percent.

In general, Williams was a political maverick who stressed the need for limited government while also having greater accountability to the voters.

By 1914, he left that party, and becoming a political maverick.

Those who denounced him as a political maverick were not surprised when, in 1924, he joined the Labour party.