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Information:  - A U.S. state is a constituent political entity of the United States of America. There are 50 states, which are bound together in a union with each other. Each state holds administrative jurisdiction over a defined geographic territory, and shares its sovereignty with the United States federal government. Due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the federal government, Americans are citizens of both the federal republic and of the state in which they reside. State citizenship and residency are flexible, and no government approval is required to move between states, except for persons covered by certain types of court orders (e.g., paroled convicts and children of divorced spouses who are sharing custody).  - Marvin Mandel (April 19, 1920  August 30, 2015) was an American politician and lawyer. Mandel served as the 56th Governor of Maryland from January 7, 1969 to January 17, 1979, including a one-and-a-half-year period when Lt. Governor Blair Lee III served as the state's acting Governor in Mandel's place from June 1977 to January 15, 1979. He was a member of the Democratic Party, as well as Maryland's first, and (to date) only, Governor of the Jewish faith.  - Francis Preston Blair Lee III ( May 19 , 1916 -- October 25 , 1985 ) , popularly known as Blair Lee III , was an American Democratic politician . He served as the Secretary of State of Maryland from 1969 to 1971 . He was the second ever Lieutenant Governor of Maryland from 1971 to 1979 , and the first to hold that office in over a century , and served as the Acting Governor of Maryland from 1977 to 1979 , during Marvin Mandel 's self - imposed suspension of gubernatorial powers and duties .  - The Secretary of State of Maryland is charged with the administrative and record-keeping functions of the State Government of the U.S. state of Maryland. The Secretary of State also holds custody of the Seal of Maryland. Unlike in many states, the Secretary of State is not an elective office, but is appointed by the Governor.  - The Governor of Maryland heads the executive branch of the government of Maryland, and is the commander-in-chief of the state's National Guard units. The Governor is the highest-ranking official in the state and has a broad range of appointive powers in both the State and local governments, as specified by the Maryland Constitution. Because of the extent of these constitutional powers, the Governor of Maryland has been ranked as being among the most powerful Governors in the United States.  - A commander-in-chief is the person or body that exercises supreme operational command and control of a nation's military forces or significant elements of those forces. In the latter case, the force element is those forces within a particular region, or associated by function. As a practical term; it refers to military competencies that reside in a nation-state's executive leadershipeither a head of state, a head of government, a minister of defence, a national cabinet, or some other collegial body. Often, a given country's commander-in-chief (if held by an official) need not be or have been a commissioned officer or even a veteran. This follows the principle of civilian control of the military.    Given the information above, choose from the list below the object entity that exhibits the relation 'member of political party' with the subject 'blair lee iii'.  Choices: - democratic party  - military  - union
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democratic party


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Information:  - The Permian is a geologic period and system which spans 46.7 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic Period 252.2 Mya. It is the last period of the Paleozoic Era; the following Triassic Period belongs to the Mesozoic Era. The concept of the Permian was introduced in 1841 by geologist Sir Roderick Murchison, who named it after the city of Perm.  - Therapsida is a group of synapsids that includes mammals and their ancestors . Many of the traits today seen as unique to mammals had their origin within early therapsids , including having their four limbs extend vertically beneath the body , as opposed to the sprawling posture of other reptiles . The earliest fossil attributed to Therapsida is Tetraceratops insignis from the Lower Permian . Therapsids evolved from pelycosaurs ( specifically sphenacodonts ) 275 million years ago . They replaced the pelycosaurs as the dominant large land animals in the Middle Permian and were replaced , in turn , by the archosauromorphs in the Triassic , although one group of therapsids , the kannemeyeriiforms , remained diverse in the Late Triassic . The therapsids included the cynodonts , the group that gave rise to mammals in the Late Triassic around 225 million years ago . Of the non-mammalian therapsids , only cynodonts and dicynodonts survived the Triassic -- Jurassic extinction event . The last of the non-mammalian therapsids , the tritylodontid cynodonts , became extinct in the Early Cretaceous , approximately 100 million years ago .  - The Triassic is a geologic period and system which spans 50.9 million years from the end of the Permian Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period Mya. The Triassic is the first period of the Mesozoic Era. Both the start and end of the period are marked by major extinction events. The Triassic was named in 1834 by Friedrich von Alberti, after the three distinct rock layers ("tri" meaning "three") that are found throughout Germany and northwestern Europered beds, capped by marine limestone, followed by a series of terrestrial mud- and sandstonescalled the "Trias".  - Mammals are any vertebrates within the class Mammalia (from Latin "mamma" "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles and birds by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones and mammary glands. The sister group of mammals may be the extinct "Haldanodon." The mammals represent the only living Synapsida, which together with the Sauropsida form the Amniota clade. The mammals consist of the Yinotheria including monotrema and the Theriiformes including the theria.  - The neocortex, also called the neopallium and isocortex, is the part of the mammalian brain involved in higher-order brain functions such as sensory perception, cognition, generation of motor commands, spatial reasoning and language.     Given the information above, choose from the list below the object entity that exhibits the relation 'taxon rank' with the subject 'therapsid'.  Choices: - order  - series
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order