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British statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause of the American colonists in British Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797)

↑statesman, ↑solon, ↑national leader, ↑orator, ↑speechmaker, ↑rhetorician, ↑public speaker, ↑speechifier

Edmund Burke [Edmund Burke]

(1729–97) a British ↑Whig politician and writer, born in Ireland. He was a ↑Member of Parliament (1765–94) but is best remembered for speaking and writing in favour of American ↑independence and the rights of Irish Catholics. In his best-known book, Reflections of the Revolution in France (1790), he argued against the more extreme acts of the French Revolution.