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The following is a list of political career biographies. It is meant to complement the list of political memoirs page, with the key difference being that the books in this list are authored by persons other than the book's subject. This list is sorted by country and by the political position and last name of the book's subject:
Pages in category "Biographies about politicians" The following 85 pages are in this category, out of 85 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
Ulysses S. Grant, working on his memoirs in 1885.His Personal Memoirs is considered by historians to be among the best by a U.S. president.. Many presidents of the United States have written autobiographies about their presidencies and/or (some periods of) their life before their time in office.
Pages in category "Political autobiographies" The following 120 pages are in this category, out of 120 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
United States House of Representatives biography of Powell; Booknotes interview with Charles Hamilton on Adam Clayton Powell Jr.: The Political Biography of an American Dilemma, January 5, 1992. Speech by Adam Clayton Powell given on April 10, 1969. Audio recording, from The University of Alabama's Emphasis Symposium on Contemporary Issues
John Marshall was probably the most important figure to have held constitutional office in all three branches. Although his periods of service in Congress and as Secretary of State were both brief, he was Chief Justice of the United States for nearly 35 years, and had a powerful influence on the development of the Supreme Court.
Huey Pierce Long Jr. was born on August 30, 1893, near Winnfield, a small town in north-central Louisiana, the seat of Winn Parish. [1] Although Long often told followers he was born in a log cabin to an impoverished family, they lived in a "comfortable" farmhouse and were well-off compared to others in Winnfield.
The American secretaries of state and their diplomacy (19 vol., 1963) scholarly biographies. partly online; Graebner, Norman A., ed. An Uncertain Tradition: American Secretaries of State in the Twentieth Century (1961) scholarly essays on John Hay through John Foster Dulles. online