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A haughty politician, on seeing a satirical cartoon in a newspaper, rushes to the paper's offices to shoot the cartoonist. On discovering the cartoonist is a pretty woman, he falls instantly in love and wastes no time in trying to woo her.

Mack Sennett
Boss Tim Crogan

Marion Leonard
Peters - the Cartoonist

Herbert Prior
Crogan's Friend

Linda Arvidson
Woman - Third Couple

George Gebhardt
Newspaper Employee

D.W. Griffith
Man - First Couple
Anita Hendrie
Woman - Fourth Couple

Florence Lawrence

Florence La Badie

David Miles
Newspaper Employee / Man - Fourth Couple
The Politician's Love Story is a comedy, romance, drama film released in 1909. Directed by D.W. Griffith, it stars Mack Sennett, Marion Leonard, Herbert Prior. A haughty politician, on seeing a satirical cartoon in a newspaper, rushes to the paper's offices to shoot the cartoonist. On discovering the cartoonist is a pretty woman, he falls instantly in love and wastes no time in trying to woo her.
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