compromiser

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He was respected as a practical compromiser who worked with both sides to cut good deals for the country.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2021

Matthew Crenson, a professor emeritus of political science at Johns Hopkins University, called Mr. Busch a “great compromiser and negotiator, a legislative peacemaker and a solid policymaker.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2019

Dutton, not much of a compromiser, goes to the mattresses and calls on his grown kids.

From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2018

Lubbers was a political centrist and a pragmatic compromiser, forming coalition governments with the right and left.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2018

Do they not know that Mr. Clay never came into the Missouri controversy as a compromiser until after the compromise of 1820 was repudiated, and it became necessary to make another?

From American Eloquence, Volume 3 Studies In American Political History (1897) by Johnston, Alexander