Politics and government

Enrique Olaya Herrera

Enrique Olaya Herrera was a Colombian journalist, diplomat, and statesman who served as president of Colombia from 1930 to 1934, ending the Conservative Hegemony and opening the Liberal Republic.

Enrique Peña Nieto, PRI politician and president of Mexico 2012–2018 after governing the State of Mexico 2005–2011; known for the Pacto por México structural reforms, the 43-students crisis, Casa Blanca scandal, and the PRI's 2018 collapse.

Enrique Peñaranda

Enrique Peñaranda was a Bolivian general who served as the 38th president of Bolivia from 1940 to 1943, after commanding the army during the Chaco War against Paraguay.

Enver Hoxha

Enver Hoxha (1908–1985) was the communist dictator who ruled Albania from 1944 until his death, founding the Party of Labor, breaking with Yugoslavia, the USSR, and China, banning religion in 1967, and isolating Albania as 'Europe's North Korea.'

Environmental impact assessment

Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is the formal process of evaluating a project's environmental effects before approval, rooted in NEPA (1970) and the EU EIA and SEA Directives, and studied through procedural, substantive, transactive, and normative effectiveness dimensions.

Epameinondas Deligeorgis

Epameinondas Deligeorgis (Επαμεινώνδας Δεληγεώργης, 1829–1879) was a Greek lawyer and liberal politician who served six times as Prime Minister of Greece, first taking office at age 36 in 1865.

Epistemic democracy

Epistemic democracy is the view that democratic decisions are justified partly because they tend to be correct, drawing on Condorcet's jury theorem and thinkers like Estlund and Landemore.

Epistocracy

Epistocracy is a proposed political system that distributes political power by law according to citizens' knowledge or competence, a term coined by David Estlund in 2003.

Eqrem Vlora

Eqrem Vlora, also written Ekrem bey Vlora, was an Albanian politician, diplomat, and historian who signed the Albanian declaration of independence in 1912 and served as ambassador and wartime minister.

Era of Good Feelings

Era of Good Feelings, c. 1815–1825, the one-party period of James Monroe's US presidency after Federalist collapse; coined by Boston's Columbian Centinel in 1817, strained by the Panic of 1819, Missouri Compromise, and the contested 1824 election.

Eric Abetz

Eric Abetz, born 1958 in Stuttgart, German-born Australian Liberal politician; Senator for Tasmania 1994-2022, federal employment minister, since 2024 Tasmanian MP for Franklin and state Treasurer.

Eric Adams

Eric L. Adams, American politician and retired NYPD captain, 110th mayor of New York City (2022–2025), second Black mayor, formerly state senator and Brooklyn borough president; federally indicted in 2024, charges dismissed 2025, ended 2025 reelection bid.

Eric Barlow

Eric Barlow is an American Republican politician, a fourth-generation Wyoming rancher and veterinarian, who won the party's 2026 nomination for governor after serving as Wyoming House Speaker.

Eric Bassler

Eric Bassler is an American politician and Republican member of the Indiana Senate representing District 39, elected in 2014, who previously served on the Washington city council.

Eric Berthel

Eric Berthel is an American politician, a Republican member of the Connecticut Senate representing the 32nd district, first serving in the Connecticut House from the 68th district.

Eric Burlison

Eric Burlison, born 1976, is an American Republican politician serving as the U.S. Representative from Missouri's 7th congressional district since 2023, after serving in the Missouri Senate.

Eric Cantor

Eric Cantor, Republican U.S. representative from Virginia's 7th District (2001–2014) and House Majority Leader (2011–2014), lost the 2014 primary to David Brat, the first majority leader defeated in a primary since 1899.

Eric Ching

Eric Ching is an American Republican politician and former city councilmember and mayor, running as the 2026 nominee for the U.S. House in California's 31st District.

Éric Ciotti

Éric Ciotti, born in 1965 in Nice, is a French politician who leads the Union des droites pour la République and serves as mayor of Nice.

Eric Conroy

Eric Conroy is an American politician and Republican nominee for the U.S. House in Ohio's 1st Congressional District, facing incumbent Democrat Greg Landsman in 2026.

Éric Coquerel

Éric Coquerel, born in 1958 in Courbevoie, is a French politician of La France insoumise who has been deputy for Seine-Saint-Denis since 2017 and chairs the Assembly's Finance Committee.

Eric Flores

Eric Flores is an American Republican politician and Army veteran from Mission, Texas, who is the 2026 Republican nominee for the U.S. House in Texas's 34th Congressional District.

Eric Gairy

Sir Eric Matthew Gairy was a Grenadian trade unionist and politician who founded the Grenada United Labour Party and served as the first Prime Minister of independent Grenada.

Eric Garcetti

Eric Garcetti, 42nd mayor of Los Angeles (2013-2022) and later U.S. Ambassador to India, confirmed 52-42 in March 2023 after a 20-month delay over the Rick Jacobs harassment scandal.

Eric Greitens

Eric Greitens (born 1974) is a former Navy SEAL, founder of The Mission Continues, and the 56th governor of Missouri (R, 2017–2018), who resigned amid criminal charges, then finished third in the 2022 Missouri Republican Senate primary.

Eric Hafner

Eric Hafner is an American Democratic politician serving a 20-year federal prison sentence in New York while running for Alaska's U.S. House seat in 2026.

Eric Holcomb

Eric J. Holcomb, 51st Governor of Indiana (2017–2025), Republican, former Navy intelligence officer, state GOP chair, Dan Coats chief of staff, and Pence's lieutenant governor; re-elected 2020 with 56.5%.

Eric Jenkins

Eric Jenkins is an American politician and retired Army colonel who is the Republican nominee for the U.S. House in Kansas's 3rd Congressional District in 2026.

Eric Johnson (Dallas mayor)

Eric L. Johnson is an American politician serving as mayor of Dallas, Texas, first elected in 2019 and reelected in 2023.