American Political Leaders, Second Edition contains biographical profiles of men and women in the United States who have demonstrated their political leadership primarily by being elected, nominated, or appointed to significant political offices in the United States.

Table of Contents

• A
• Abzug, Bella
• Acheson, Dean
• Adams, Charles Francis
• Adams, John
• Adams, John Quincy
• Adams, Samuel
• Adams, Sherman
• Agnew, Spiro
• Albert, Carl
• Albright, Madeleine
• Aldrich, Nelson
• Alito, Samuel
• Anderson, John B.
• Arnold, Thurman
• Arthur, Chester A.
• Atchison, David Rice
• B
• Baker, Howard
• Baker, James A.
• Baker, Newton
• Ballinger, Richard Achilles
• Bankhead, William
• Banks, Nathaniel
• Barkley, Alben
• Belknap, William
• Bell, John
• Benjamin, Judah P.
• Benton, Thomas Hart
• Berger, Victor
• Beveridge, Albert
• Biddle, Nicholas (banker)
• Biden, Joseph
• Birney, James G.
• Black, Hugo
• Blackmun, Harry
• Blaine, James G.
• Bland, Richard Parks
• Boehner, John
• Borah, William
• Bradford, William (governor)
• Brandeis, Louis D.
• Braun, Carol Moseley
• Breckinridge, John C.
• Brennan, William J., Jr.
• Brooke, Edward W.
• Brown, Jerry
• Bruce, Blanche Kelso
• Bryan, William Jennings
• Brzezinski, Zbigniew
• Buchanan, James
• Burger, Warren
• Burr, Aaron
• Bush, George H. W.
• Bush, George W.
• Butler, Benjamin Franklin
• Byrnes, James F.
• Byrns, Joseph Wellington
• C
• Calhoun, John C.
• Cameron, Simon
• Campbell, Ben Nighthorse
• Cannon, Joseph
• Cardozo, Benjamin
• Carmack, Edward Ward
• Carter, Jimmy
• Casey, William
• Chase, Salmon P.
• Chase, Samuel
• Chisholm, Shirley
• Cisneros, Henry
• Clark, James Beauchamp
• Clay, Henry
• Cleveland, Grover
• Clifford, Clark McAdams
• Clinton, Bill
• Clinton, DeWitt
• Clinton, George
• Clinton, Hillary Rodham
• Colfax, Schuyler
• Conkling, Roscoe
• Coolidge, Calvin
• Cox, James
• Curtis, Charles
• D
• Daschle, Tom
• Daugherty, Harry
• Davis, Jefferson
• De Priest, Oscar
• Denby, Edwin
• Dewey, Thomas E.
• Dickinson, John
• Dirksen, Everett
• Dole, Bob
• Dole, Elizabeth
• Douglas, Stephen
• Douglas, William O.
• Dulles, Allen
• Dulles, John Foster
• E
• Edwards, John
• Ehrlichman, John
• Eisenhower, Dwight D.
• Ellsworth, Oliver
• Ervin, Sam
• F
• Fall, Albert
• Farley, James A.
• Ferraro, Geraldine
• Fillmore, Millard
• Ford, Gerald
• Frankfurter, Felix
• Frémont, John C.
• Fulbright, J. William
• Fuller, Melville W.
• G
• Gadsden, James
• Garfield, James A.
• Garner, John Nance
• Gephardt, Dick
• Gerry, Elbridge
• Gingrich, Newt
• Ginsburg, Ruth Bader
• Goldberg, Arthur J.
• Goldwater, Barry
• Gore, Al
• Gorsuch, Neil
• Grant, Ulysses S.
• Greeley, Horace
• Greenspan, Alan
• H
• Haig, Alexander
• Haldeman, H. R.
• Hamilton, Alexander
• Hancock, John
• Hanna, Marcus
• Harding, Warren G.
• Harlan, John Marshall
• Harrison, Benjamin
• Harrison, William Henry
• Hastert, Dennis
• Hayes, Rutherford B.
• Henry, Patrick
• Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.
• Hoover, Herbert
• Hoover, J. Edgar
• Hopkins, Harry
• House, Edward Mandell
• Hughes, Charles Evans
• Hull, Cordell
• Humphrey, Hubert
• I
• Inouye, Daniel K.
• J
• Jackson, Andrew
• Jay, John
• Jefferson, Thomas
• Johnson, Andrew
• Johnson, Hiram W.
• Johnson, Lyndon B.
• Jordan, Barbara
• K
• Kagen, Elena
• Kaine, Tim
• Kassebaum, Nancy Landon
• Kefauver, Estes
• Kellogg, Frank
• Kennedy, Anthony
• Kennedy, John F.
• Kennedy, Joseph P.
• Kennedy, Robert F.
• Kennedy, Ted
• Kerry, John
• Kirkpatrick, Jeane
• Kissinger, Henry
• Knox, Henry
• L
• La Follette, Robert M.
• La Guardia, Fiorello
• Landon, Alfred
• Lansing, Robert
• Lee, Richard Henry
• Lincoln, Abraham
• Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr.
• London, Meyer
• Long, Huey
• Longworth, Nicholas
• Lott, Trent
• M
• Madison, James
• Mansfield, Mike
• Marcantonio, Vito
• Marshall, John
• Martin, Joseph W., Jr.
• Mason, George
• McCain, John
• McCarthy, Eugene
• McCarthy, Joseph
• McClellan, George B.
• McCloy, John J.
• McConnell, Mitch
• McCormack, John
• McGovern, George
• McKinley, William
• McNamara, Robert
• Monroe, James
• Morse, Wayne
• Moynihan, Daniel Patrick
• Murphy, Frank
• Muskie, Edmund
• N
• Nixon, Richard
• Norris, George
• Nye, Gerald P.
• O
• Obama, Barack
• Obama, Michelle
• O’Connor, Sandra Day
• O’Neill, Tip
• P
• Paine, Thomas
• Palin, Sarah
• Pelosi, Nancy
• Pence, Michael
• Pepper, Claude
• Perkins, Frances
• Perot, Ross
• Pickering, Timothy
• Pierce, Franklin
• Pinchback, P. B. S.
• Pinchot, Gifford
• Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth
• Pinckney, Thomas
• Polk, James K.
• Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr.
• R
• Randolph, Edmund
• Rankin, Jeannette
• Rayburn, Samuel
• Reagan, Ronald
• Reed, Thomas B.
• Rehnquist, William
• Reid, Harry
• Revels, Hiram
• Rice, Condoleeza
• Roberts, John
• Rockefeller, Nelson A.
• Rogers, William P.
• Romney, Mitt
• Roosevelt, Franklin D.
• Roosevelt, Theodore
• Root, Elihu
• Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana
• Rush, Benjamin
• Rusk, Dean
• Ryan, Paul
• S
• Sanders, Bernie
• Scalia, Antonin
• Schurz, Carl
• Scott, Winfield
• Seward, William H.
• Shultz, George P.
• Smith, Al
• Smith, Margaret Chase
• Sotomayor, Sonia
• Stanton, Edwin M.
• Stevens, Thaddeus
• Stevenson, Adlai
• Stimson, Henry L.
• Sumner, Charles
• T
• Taft, William Howard
• Taney, Roger B.
• Taylor, Zachary
• Thurmond, Strom
• Tilden, Samuel J.
• Truman, Harry S.
• Trump, Donald J.
• Tyler, John
• V
• Van Buren, Martin
• Vance, Cyrus
• Vandenberg, Arthur H.
• W
• Wade, Benjamin
• Wagner, Robert F.
• Wallace, George
• Warren, Earl
• Warren, Elizabeth
• Washington, George
• Webster, Daniel
• Wheeler, Burton K.
• Wilson, Edith
• Wilson, Woodrow
• Y
• Yellen, Janet