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predecessor
I noun ancestor, antecedent, antecessor, elder, forebearer, forefather, foregoer, foreparent, forerunner, former incumbent, former officeholder, founder, originator, patriarch, precursor, procreator, progenitor II index ancestor, ascendant, forerunner, parents, pioneer, precedent, precursor, primogenitor, progenitor

Burton's Legal Thesaurus. . 2006