Minister may refer to:
- Minister (Christianity), a Christian who ministers in some way
- Minister (diplomacy), the rank of diplomat directly below ambassador
- Minister (government), a politician who heads a ministry (government department)
- Shadow minister, a member of a Shadow Cabinet of the opposition
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... an endorsement from Secretary of State Daniel Webster, President John Tyler appointed Irving as Minister to Spain ... While Irving hoped his position as Minister would allow him plenty of time to write, Spain was in a state of perpetual political upheaval during most of his tenure, with a number of warring factions vying for ... His official duties as Spanish Minister also involved negotiating American trade interests with Cuba and following the Spanish parliament's debates over slave trade ...
... She was Norwegian Minister for Environmental Affairs from 1974 to 1979 and became Norway's first, and to date only, female Prime Minister ... She served as Prime Minister from February to October in 1981 ... Brundtland became Norwegian Prime Minister for two subsequent terms the first was from 9 May 1986 until 16 October 1989 ...
... A prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system ... In many systems, the prime minister selects and may dismiss other members of the cabinet, and allocates posts to members within the government ... In most systems, the prime minister is the presiding member and chairman of the cabinet ...
21 October 1969 Kurt Georg Kiesinger (CDU) - Chancellor Willy Brandt (SPD) - Vice Chancellor and Minister of Foreign Affairs Gerhard Schröder (CDU) - Minister of ... October 1968 - Aenne Brauksiepe (CDU) succeeds Heck as Minister of Family and Youth ... Erhard Eppler (SPD) succeeds Wischnewski as Minister of Economic Cooperation ...
Famous quotes containing the word minister:
“But, my dear, you cannot live in isolation from the human race, you know.”
—John Clifford, U.S. screenwriter, and Herk Harvey. Minister (Stan Levitt)
“Rosalynn said, “Jimmy, if we could only get Prime Minister Begin and President Sadat up here on this mountain for a few days, I believe they might consider how they could prevent another war between their countries.” That gave me the idea, and a few weeks later, I invited both men to join me for a series of private talks. In September 1978, they both came to Camp David.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)
“Before any woman is a wife, a sister or a mother she is a human being. We ask nothing as women but everything as human beings.”
—Ida C. Hultin, U.S. minister and suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 17, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)