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  • Edmund Burke was an Irish-born British statesman and writer. He earned some early recognition as a philosophical thinker but spent the bulk of his professional life as a member of Parliament, where he gained prominence for his outspokenness and leadership on controversial issues as well as for the quality of his rhetoric. [Source: Encyclopedia of Political Theory; Burke, Edmund (c. 1729–1797)]

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