He was the General Secretary in charge of the Congress Working Committee, a body of High Command in the ruling Indian National Congress government. Moopanar – The 'kingmaker' who rose to prominence in the Indian national scene during the post- Emergency days of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Kamaraj – instrumental in making Lal Bahadur Shastri and Indira Gandhi as Prime Ministers of India in 19, respectively Che Guevara – accompanied Fidel Castro in the Revolution and later helped him attain power.James Farley – orchestrated the gubernatorial and presidential elections of Franklin D.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi – a pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement under whose influence were all the major political leaders of the Indian freedom struggle including Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabbhai Patel.Hajji Ebrahim Shirazi – the kalantar (lord mayor) of Shiraz and later the grand vizier of Qajar Iran who enthroned four kings from two different dynasties: Jafar Khan, Lotf Ali Khan, Agha Mohammad Khan and Fath-Ali Shah.Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick – wealthiest peer in England during the Wars of the Roses, who overthrew King Henry VI and then restored him over his successor King Edward IV.Wiremu Tamihana in the Māori King Movement.Henry of Blois, Bishop of Winchester during The Anarchy.Baron Carl Otto Mörner in the House of Bernadotte ( King of Sweden).

Godwin, Earl of Wessex in late Anglo-Saxon England.

Janissaries, Midhat Pasha in the Ottoman Empire.

Nogai, Mamai, and Edigu in the Golden Horde.

Ricimer in the Late Western Roman Empire – magister militum who appointed a series of puppet emperors.

Tonyukuk in the Second Turkic Khaganate.The Praetorian Guard in the Roman Empire.The prophet Samuel of the Hebrew Bible, in the transition from the period of the biblical judges to the institution of a Kingdom of Israel under Saul, and again in the transition from Saul to David.Originally, the term applied to the activities of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick-'Warwick the Kingmaker'-during the Wars of the Roses (1455–1487) in England. Kingmakers may use political, monetary, religious, and military means to influence the succession. A kingmaker is a person or group that has great influence on a royal or political succession, without themselves being a viable candidate.

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