Statesmen

Abraham Lincoln Sixteenth president, first Republican to hold the office, who led the Union through the Civil War and ended slavery. Barry Goldwater Arizona senator and 1964 Republican nominee whose book The Conscience of a Conservative helped lay the groundwork for the modern conservative movement. Calvin Coolidge Thirtieth president, a Massachusetts Republican known for restrained government, tax cuts and a plain-spoken defence of limited federal power in the 1920s. Jeane Kirkpatrick Georgetown political scientist and the first woman U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, author of the essay Dictatorships and Double Standards. Margaret Thatcher Britain's first woman prime minister, who from 1979 to 1990 curbed union power, privatised state industries and championed free markets and a strong defence. Robert Taft Ohio senator nicknamed Mr. Republican, co-author of the Taft-Hartley Act and the leader of the conservative coalition that resisted the New Deal's expansion. Ronald Reagan Fortieth president and former California governor whose tax cuts, defence buildup and firm stand against communism defined the modern conservative era. Winston Churchill British statesman and writer who led the country as prime minister from 1940 to 1945, warned against appeasement and won the Nobel Prize in Literature.