office seeker

a person who seeks appointment or election to some government position.

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We do not ask what may be the rle of the political adventurer, the office-seeker, the government speculator or tuft-hunter.
Catholic World, Vol. XIII, April to September, 1871|Various
I'll haunt the alderman like an office-seeker, till some of them lets you in.
Fashion and Famine|Ann S. Stephens
A story is told of an office-seeker in Washington who asserted to an inquirer that he had never heard of Mark Twain.
Jokes For All Occasions|Anonymous
He left with the comforting assurance that as an office-seeker he was by no means a success.
Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1 (of 2)|William H. Herndon

In none of his letters do we find the real tone of the office-seeker.
The Tribune of Nova Scotia|W. L. (William Lawson) Grant