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Political agent

Political Agent or political agent may refer to:

  • Political Resident, a representative with consular duties and political contacts with local chiefs
  • Political officer (British Empire), an officer of the British imperial civil administration
  • Election agent, a person legally responsible for the conduct of a candidate's political campaign

Usage examples of "political agent".

Who else are you going to use as your political agent on the spot, Elizabeth?

The only thing George was sure of was that Falkenberg was very interested in what his political agent was doing.

The true story seems to be that she was arrested by a political agent who was given a key of the convent, so that he had only to let himself in and take her by surprise.

Foster and another man, not the man from Irkutsk but the political agent who'd conducted the interrogation in the Ochota precinct, his pale hands lifting and dropping on the arms of the chair.

Flashy, Jack-of-all-trades, you see: in the space of a few months I'd already been a gentleman of leisure, staff officer, secret political agent, ambassador, and sepoy, so why not a nigger butler for a change?

Stephen at once replied, 'Can the gentleman possibly conceive of any political agent yet weaned capable of such enormous folly, mortal to himself and to his colleague?

Kharkoff stands high in the Russian community, and it is thought by the police that the bomb was placed by a Russian political agent, as Kharkoff has been active in the ranks of the revolutionists.