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Heath Shuler
Heath Shuler (Joseph Heath Shuler), former NFL quarterback and Democratic U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 11th district (2007-2013); 1993 Heisman runner-up at Tennessee, drafted third overall in 1994, later Duke Energy federal affairs executive.
Heather Cloud
Heather Cloud is an American Republican politician serving in the Louisiana Senate from District 28, elected in October 2019 as the first Republican to hold the seat.
Heather Hadwick
Heather Hadwick is an American politician and Republican member of the California State Assembly, elected in 2024 to represent the 1st district covering 11 Northern California counties.
Heather Maahs
Heather Maahs, Conservative MLA for Chilliwack North, British Columbia, since October 2024, defeating NDP incumbent Dan Coulter with 54.6 percent. Longtime Chilliwack school trustee (2008-2024), shadow critic for Children and Family Development, and interim Leader of the Opposition June to September 2026, seeking re-election in 2026.
Heather Simmons (New Jersey politician)
Heather Simmons is an American Democratic politician who has represented New Jersey's 3rd district in the General Assembly since 2024, after four terms as a Gloucester County Commissioner.
Heather Smiley
Heather Smiley is an American Republican politician and retired Ford Motor Company executive, the 2026 nominee for Michigan's 6th District after losing to Debbie Dingell in 2024.
Heather Somers
Heather Somers is an American Republican politician elected to the Connecticut Senate from the 18th district in 2016, and previously Mayor of Groton from 2012 to 2014.
Héctor José Cámpora
Héctor José Cámpora (1909–1980) was an Argentine dentist and Peronist legislator who served as president of Argentina for 49 days in 1973, resigning to allow Juan Perón's return.
Hedy Fry
Hedy Fry (born 1941, San Fernando, Trinidad) is a Trinidadian-Canadian physician and Liberal MP for Vancouver Centre since 1993, when she defeated Prime Minister Kim Campbell; Canada's longest-serving female MP, former Secretary of State for Multiculturalism and Status of Women, and OSCE PA Special Representative on Gender Issues.
Hegemonic stability theory
Hegemonic stability theory (HST), also called the theory of hegemonic stability, an international political economy theory holding that open trade and monetary stability require a dominant hegemon supplying public goods; founded on Kindleberger's Great Depression analysis, named by Keohane, and heavily criticized by Snidal and others.
Hegemony
Hegemony (from Greek hēgemonía, leadership) is the predominance of one state over others through coercion and consent, not direct control, as with Britain and the United States.
Heidi Alexander
Heidi Alexander is a British Labour politician who has been Secretary of State for Transport since November 2024 and MP for Swindon South since 2024.
Heidi Allen
Heidi Suzanne Allen, British former MP for South Cambridgeshire (2015-2019), Conservative tax-credit rebel who defected to the Independent Group, led Change UK, joined the Liberal Democrats, then stood down in 2019.
Heidi Balderree
Heidi Balderree is an American politician and Republican member of the Utah Senate representing District 22 in Utah County, and a former educator who taught Japanese and Spanish.
Heidi Campbell (Tennessee politician)
Heidi Campbell is an American Democratic politician, a Tennessee state senator for District 20 and former mayor of Oak Hill, where she was the first woman to hold the office.
Heidi Heitkamp
Heidi Heitkamp (Mary Kathryn Heitkamp), Democratic U.S. senator from North Dakota 2013–2019, earlier state tax commissioner and attorney general; first woman elected to the Senate from North Dakota; lost 2018 re-election to Kevin Cramer after voting against Kavanaugh.
Heidi Kuhn
Heidi Kuhn is an American politician and the Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in Tennessee's 8th District in 2026, having served as Shelby County Criminal Court Clerk since 2018.
Heidi Overton
Heidi Overton, American physician and deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, nominated by Trump in August 2026 as youngest-ever FDA commissioner nominee; UNM-trained doctor, former AFPI policy chief.
Heidi Reichinnek
Heidi Reichinnek is a German politician of The Left who has been a member of the Bundestag since 2021 and Co-Chair of its parliamentary group since 2025.
Heidi Workman
Heidi Workman is an American politician and Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives, elected in November 2024 to represent most of Portage County in the 72nd district.
Heidy Purga
Heidy Purga, born 1975, is an Estonian Reform Party politician who has served as Minister of Culture since 2023, after a career in television and radio and a term in the Riigikogu.
Heights of presidents and presidential candidates of the United States
The heights of US presidents and major presidential candidates: Lincoln tallest at 1.93 m, Madison shortest at 1.63 m; taller candidates win 58% of elections, near chance.
Heinrich Brüning
Heinrich Brüning (1885-1970), Zentrum politician and Reich Chancellor 1930-1932, led Weimar's first presidential cabinet, pursued deflationary austerity and reparations cancellation, was dismissed by Hindenburg in May 1932, and died in exile in Norwich, Vermont.
Heinrich Lammasch
Heinrich Lammasch was an Austrian criminal-law scholar and Hague arbitrator who served as the last prime minister of imperial Austria from 27 October to 11 November 1918.
Heir apparent
Heir apparent: the person first in line to inherit or succeed whose position cannot be displaced by later births, unlike an heir presumptive; covers estate law, royal succession, titles, and primogeniture reforms.
Heir presumptive
Heir presumptive: the person next in line to a throne, title, or estate whose claim can be displaced by the birth of a nearer heir, unlike the heir apparent; Elizabeth II under George VI is the classic example.
Hekuran Murati
Hekuran Murati is a Kosovo politician of the Lëvizja Vetëvendosje movement who serves as Minister of Finance and has sat in the Kosovo Assembly as a deputy.
Hélder Sousa Silva
Hélder Sousa Silva, born in 1965, is a Portuguese Social Democratic Party politician, mayor of Mafra from 2013 to 2024, and a Member of the European Parliament since 2024.
Heleen Herbert
Heleen Herbert, born in 1972, is a Dutch CDA politician who has served as Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy in the Jetten government since February 2026.
Helen Clark
Helen Clark (born 1950) is a New Zealand politician, Prime Minister 1999–2008 (first woman elected to the office) and UNDP Administrator 2009–2017, its first female leader; now Gavi Board Chair from 2026.