office seeker

We do not ask what may be the rle of the political adventurer, the office-seeker, the government speculator or tuft-hunter.

I'll haunt the alderman like an office-seeker, till some of them lets you in.

A story is told of an office-seeker in Washington who asserted to an inquirer that he had never heard of Mark Twain.

He left with the comforting assurance that as an office-seeker he was by no means a success.