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the last officeholder was extremely conscientious about not using public funds for his personal gain
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Some of these folks are current officeholders with lots of obligations.
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Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
She has been endorsed by a number of Democratic groups and party officeholders for the supervisor post.
—Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 24 Mar. 2025
The resistors were bankers and business leaders, Kiwanis and Rotary Club members and clergy, and middle-class members of White Citizens’ Councils who took pains to distance themselves from the Ku Klux Klan—as well as officeholders from local school boards to state capitols to the halls of Congress.
—Essence, 22 Mar. 2025
Whether they would be elected or appointed by current officeholders is an open question.
—Thomas D. Elias, Orange County Register, 21 Mar. 2025
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Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
She has been endorsed by a number of Democratic groups and party officeholders for the supervisor post.
—Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 24 Mar. 2025
The resistors were bankers and business leaders, Kiwanis and Rotary Club members and clergy, and middle-class members of White Citizens’ Councils who took pains to distance themselves from the Ku Klux Klan—as well as officeholders from local school boards to state capitols to the halls of Congress.
—Essence, 22 Mar. 2025
Whether they would be elected or appointed by current officeholders is an open question.
—Thomas D. Elias, Orange County Register, 21 Mar. 2025
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“Officeholder.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/officeholder. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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officeholder
noun
of·fice·hold·er
-ˌhōl-dər 
: a person holding a public office
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