United States government official
C2387
concept
A United States government official is an individual who holds an appointed or elected position within the federal, state, or local government of the United States, responsible for carrying out public duties and implementing laws and policies.
All labels observed (73)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| American diplomat | 88 |
| United States Attorney | 47 |
| United States Cabinet member | 43 |
| American government official | 35 |
| United States government official canonical | 33 |
| American public official | 21 |
| FBI agent | 13 |
| United States ambassador | 8 |
| former government official | 8 |
| United States Secretary of Labor | 7 |
| United States Secretary of Education | 6 |
| Solicitor General of the United States | 5 |
| member of the United States Senate | 5 |
| national security advisor | 5 |
| political appointee | 4 |
| senior executive branch official | 4 |
| United States Solicitor General | 3 |
| American civil servant | 2 |
| American presidential elector | 2 |
| Chief of Protocol of the United States | 2 |
| FBI official | 2 |
| New Deal administrator | 2 |
| Obama administration official | 2 |
| United States Department of Justice official | 2 |
| United States Deputy Attorney General | 2 |
| United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare | 2 |
| United States Secretary of the Interior | 2 |
| United States diplomat | 2 |
| United States senator (fictional) | 2 |
| federal government official | 2 |
| federal official | 2 |
| government employee | 2 |
| African American officeholder | 1 |
| American local government leader | 1 |
| American local official | 1 |
| California state government official | 1 |
| Comptroller General of the United States | 1 |
| Foreign Service officer | 1 |
| German-American politician | 1 |
| Massachusetts government position | 1 |
| NACA official | 1 |
| NOAA administrator | 1 |
| Reagan administration official | 1 |
| U.S. Department of State position | 1 |
| U.S. federal government employee | 1 |
| U.S. government official | 1 |
| Under Secretary of State of the United States | 1 |
| United States Department of Transportation official | 1 |
| United States Foreign Service officer | 1 |
| United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | 1 |
| United States Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs | 1 |
| United States civil servant | 1 |
| United States diplomatic representative | 1 |
| United States federal government official | 1 |
| United States federal government personnel | 1 |
| United States minister | 1 |
| United States vice president | 1 |
| Watergate scandal figure | 1 |
| administrator of the United States Agency for International Development | 1 |
| chief executive of the National Archives and Records Administration | 1 |
| constitutional officer of Illinois | 1 |
| constitutional officer of Missouri | 1 |
| director of government agency | 1 |
| foreign policy official | 1 |
| former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency | 1 |
| former United States Secretary of Commerce | 1 |
| former United States Secretary of the Navy | 1 |
| member of the 9/11 Commission | 1 |
| nonpartisan officer of the United States House of Representatives | 1 |
| officer of the United States House of Representatives | 1 |
| senior U.S. intelligence official role | 1 |
| senior leadership role in the U.S. Department of State | 1 |
| senior official role in the U.S. Department of Labor | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: United States government official
Generated description
A United States government official is an individual who holds an appointed or elected position within the federal, state, or local government of the United States, responsible for carrying out public duties and implementing laws and policies.
Instances (393)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| Aubrey Williams | New Deal administrator |
| John B. Payne | American public official |
| Chester Bowles | American diplomat |
| Ronald H. Brown | United States Cabinet member |
| Felix Rohatyn | United States ambassador |
|
Bundy
surface form:
McGeorge Bundy
|
American government official |
|
United States Commissioner
surface form:
United States Commissioner (International Boundary Commission)
|
federal government official |
| Regional Security Officer | U.S. Department of State position |
| Under Secretary of State | senior executive branch official |
| Rogers Clark Ballard Morton | United States Secretary of the Interior |
| Wilfred J. McNeil | American government official |
|
Hufstedler
surface form:
Shirley Hufstedler
|
United States Secretary of Education |
| Terrel Bell | United States Secretary of Education |
| Ryan C. Crocker | American diplomat |
| Edward Thomas Wailes | American diplomat |
| Hannah Rosenthal | American diplomat |
| Richard Holbrooke | American diplomat |
| Charles Kupperman | American government official |
| Douglas Pike | American diplomat |
| Nancy Foster | NOAA administrator |
|
Żarnowiec, Duchy of Warsaw
surface form:
Joel Barlow
|
American diplomat |
| Edward L. Hedden | American public official |
| Richard Helms | American government official |
| Nathaniel P. Davis | American diplomat |
| Brent Scowcroft | national security advisor |
| William Stuart Symington Jr. | United States Cabinet member |
| Archivist of the United States | chief executive of the National Archives and Records Administration |
| K. T. McFarland | political appointee |
|
Assistant Secretaries of Energy
surface form:
Assistant Secretary of Energy
|
senior executive branch official |
| James T. Molloy | American public official |
| Nancy McEldowney | American diplomat |
| Hamilton Fish Armstrong | American diplomat |
| Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar | United States Cabinet member |
| Bill Richardson | United States Cabinet member |
| Ray Cline | American government official |
| John Bolton | American diplomat |
| Larz Anderson | American diplomat |
| Linda Thomas-Greenfield | American diplomat |
| Paul Clement | Solicitor General of the United States |
| Thomas C. Hubbard | American diplomat |
| Janet Napolitano | United States Cabinet member |
|
James G. Watt, Secretary of the Interior
surface form:
James G. Watt
|
United States Cabinet member |
| William P. Clark, Secretary of the Interior | — |
| Philip Habib | American diplomat |
| Eugene Scalia | United States Cabinet member |
| James R. Young | American public official |
|
Richard Harrison (first Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury)
surface form:
Richard Harrison
|
American government official |
| Edward J. Perkins | American diplomat |
| Donald P. Hodel | United States Cabinet member |
| United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma | United States Attorney |