Blair Edwards was a Hulstrian politician and leader of the Saints Alliance in the later years of the People's Socialist Republic of Gishoto and in the beginning of the Republic of Gishoto. Edwards played a prominent and controversial role in the political fabric of the nation, especially among republican and leftist circles, at this time and was elected a total of seven times as Head of State. He originaly was allied with Konsort Strauss of the Kaiserliche Hulsterreichische Partei but broke away to form his own coalition, leading to a long KHP-SA rivalry. Edwards at his peak was one of the members of the "Gang of Four", a sub-group of the governing Left-Wing Coalition that had large influence over the policy and operations of the government at that time.