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 |
|---|---|
| John King Jr. | United States Secretary of Education |
| Miguel Cardona | United States Cabinet member |
| Benjamin H. Bristow | United States Solicitor General |
| Arthur J. Goldberg | United States Secretary of Labor |
| James Maury | American diplomat |
| Jefferson Caffery | American diplomat |
| Thomas A. Shannon Jr. | American diplomat |
| J. R. McCarl | American government official |
| Lincoln Gordon | American diplomat |
| Dillon S. Myer | American government official |
| William W. Wright | American public official |
|
President Trevor Potter
surface form:
Trevor Potter
|
former government official |
| Trevor Potter | former government official |
| Thomas J. Pickard | FBI agent |
| Frederick Vreeland | American diplomat |
| Edwin O. Reischauer | American diplomat |
| Edward J. McCormack | American public official |
| Aaron Hotchner | FBI agent |
| Donald McHenry | American diplomat |
| Thomas Drake | former government official |
|
William B. Wilson (as Secretary of Labor)
surface form:
William B. Wilson
|
United States Secretary of Labor |
|
William N. Doak (as Secretary of Labor)
surface form:
William N. Doak
|
United States Secretary of Labor |
| Thomas Hubbard (diplomat) | American diplomat |
|
Griffin-Valade
surface form:
LaVonne Griffin-Valade
|
American public official |
|
U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens
surface form:
J. Christopher Stevens
|
American diplomat |
|
U.S. Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith
surface form:
Sean Smith
|
American diplomat |
| Stephen T. Early | American government official |
| Lawrence Duggan | American diplomat |
| James Crawford Biggs | Solicitor General of the United States |
| William Thaddeus Coleman Jr. | United States Cabinet member |
| John T. Loughran | American public official |
| George P. Monaghan | American public official |
| Dan K. Webb | United States Attorney |
| Cecilia Muñoz | Obama administration official |
| Wayne Tarrance | FBI agent |
| U.S. Commercial Service officers | U.S. federal government employee |
| Seth Low Pierrepont | American diplomat |
| Percival Brundage | — |
| Daniel Adams Butterfield | — |
| George H. Wadsworth | American diplomat |
| George Ball | American diplomat |
| Charles Bohlen | American diplomat |
| C. Douglas Dillon | American diplomat |
|
Mary Stead
surface form:
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
|
American diplomat |
| John F. Lehman | former United States Secretary of the Navy |
| Elizabeth B. Prelogar | Solicitor General of the United States |
| Armin H. Meyer | American diplomat |
| Douglas MacArthur II | American diplomat |
| William J. Buchanan | American diplomat |
|
Susanna Wilson
surface form:
Frances Perkins
|
United States Secretary of Labor |