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The Honourable - American usage | | The Honourable - American usage: Encyclopedia II - The Honourable - American usage | | In the United States, the prefix The Honorable is used for a large number of high ranking (and not so high ranking) government officials, including:
The President and Vice President of the United States
Members of the Congress and state legislatures
Members of the Cabinet
Senior officers of executive departments
Ambassadors
Supreme Court Justices, Federal judges and magistrate judges
Governors of States of the Union
Mayors of cities
City council members
State and municipal judges and magistrates
Elected part ...
See also:The Honourable, The Honourable - British usage, The Honourable - Entitlement, The Honourable - Usage, The Honourable - American usage, The Honourable - Australian usage, The Honourable - Canadian usage, The Honourable - Hong Kong usage, The Honourable - New Zealand usage | | | The Honourable, The Honourable - American usage, The Honourable - Australian usage, The Honourable - British usage, The Honourable - Canadian usage, The Honourable - Entitlement, The Honourable - Hong Kong usage, The Honourable - New Zealand usage, The Honourable - Usage, The Right Honourable, The Most Honourable, Style (manner of address), Excellency, Your worship, UK topics, Use of courtesy titles and honorifics in professional writing | | |
| | | The Honourable: Encyclopedia II - The Honourable - American usage
The Honourable - American usage
In the United States, the prefix The Honorable is used for a large number of high ranking (and not so high ranking) government officials, including:
- The President and Vice President of the United States
- Members of the Congress and state legislatures
- Members of the Cabinet
- Senior officers of executive departments
- Ambassadors
- Supreme Court Justices, Federal judges and magistrate judges
- Governors of States of the Union
- Mayors of cities
- City council members
- State and municipal judges and magistrates
- Elected party leaders
- Other elected officials
The term Your Honor as a spoken form of address is usually reserved for judges, justices, and magistrates (who are addressed as such when presiding in court). Some mayors, such as the Mayor of New York City are also given the title.
H.L. Mencken on the American usage of "The Hon."
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