A man who started in politics with the McGovern campaign, a politician nearly all of his adult life, a man who has known virtually no avocation beyond getting elected.

The Italian Parliament voted today to abolish the country's 45-year-old electoral system and replace it with a direct ballot that is supposed to make politicians more accountable to the people who elect them.

He became the first left-wing politician elected President of France by universal suffrage.

Centre Party formed one-party government in Tallinn was led by Jüri Ratas, a 27 year old politician elected the Mayor of Tallinn in November 2005.

Tufele Liamatua, 71, American Samoan politician and paramount chief, first elected Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa (1978-1985).

Nothing but time-and that might be as short as a few days, before these petit-bourgeois politicians in the Assembly elect the Executive Secretary to the noble post of Dictator!

An infinitesimal amount, even if quadrupled, is still a pittance compared with the public cost of having politicians more beholden to special interests than to the voters who elected them.

Deciding that a black politician elected with white support is not really an "authentic" black politician.

Martín Buzzi (born March 6, 1967) is an Argentine political scientist and politician elected Governor of Chubut Province in 2011.