Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. People (hierarchy name)
4. people (agents)
5. [people by occupation]
6. [people in administration and government]
7. administrators
8. officers (administrators)
9. public officers

Anotations

Scope note:

In modern contexts, refers to officers having this title and appointed by or with the authority of a government to reside in a foreign country in order to represent the interests of citizens of the appointing country. Also refers to the chief magistrates of Republican Rome and of the First French Republic, 1799-1804, who bore this title.