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Thomas Cardinal Wolsey
Oil portrait of Hugo de Groot, also known as Hugo Grotius, by the workshop of Michiel Janszoon van Mierevelt, showing him with a ruffled white collar and dark clothing.
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Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
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Bernard-François, marquis de Chauvelin
French diplomat and politician
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Melchior de Polignac
French clergyman and statesman
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Bernard-Louis, marquis de Chauvelin
French general and diplomat
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Raul H. Castro
American politician
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Douglas Richard Hurd
British diplomat
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Susan Rice
American public official and foreign policy analyst
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Leonard Woodcock
American labor leader and diplomat
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Aleksandr Nikolayevich Yakovlev
Soviet economist and official
Digitally restored vector painting of President Thomas Jefferson, shown from the chest up wearing a dark coat and white cravat, with a neutral background.
Thomas Jefferson
president of United States
Otto von Bismarck in military uniform and cap, with a mustache, facing slightly to the side in a black-and-white portrait taken around 1880.
Otto von Bismarck
German chancellor and prime minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, wearing a dark suit and blue tie with a yellow ribbon pinned to his lapel, speaks emphatically at a podium in the U.S. House chamber.
Benjamin Netanyahu
prime minister of Israel
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
American publisher, author, and scientist
Portrait of Niccolo Machiavelli by Santi di Tito shows Machiavelli in black and red robes, holding a document, against a plain background.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Italian statesman and writer
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams
president of United States
Peter Paul Rubens: self-portrait
Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish artist
Gilbert Stuart: portrait of John Adams
John Adams
president of United States
John XXIII
St. John XXIII
pope
Klemens von Metternich
Klemens von Metternich
Austrian statesman
Talleyrand
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, prince de Bénévent
French statesman and diplomat
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
president of United States