Political Biographies

A Dictionary of Political Biography, edited by Dennis Kavanagh, published by Oxford University Press
The backgrounds, careers and achievements of the men and women who have shaped political events across the world in the 20th century, balancing fact with critical appraisal.
On this page: Mackenzie King to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
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Mackenzie King (Canadian politician)
Mahathir bin Mohamad (Malaysian politician)
Mao Zedong (Political Leader)
Marcello José das Neves Alves Caetano (Portuguese jurist & statesman/stateswoman)
Marcus Alonzo Hanna (American businessman/businesswoman, politician & financier)
Margaret Chase Smith (American politician)
Margaret Grace Bondfield (English politician & labor leader)
Margaret Hilda Thatcher (Former British Prime Minister)
Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares (Portuguese politician)
Mario Matthew Cuomo (American politician)
Marorji Desai (Indian politician & statesman/stateswoman)
Martin Brian Mulroney (Canadian politician)
Martin Dies (American statesman/stateswoman)
Martin Luther King (Clergyman / Activist / Civil Rights Figure)
Mary Robinson (Irish lawyer and politician)
Mátyás Rákosi (Hungarian statesman/stateswoman & politician)
Maurice Harold Macmillan (English statesman/stateswoman)
Maurice Thorez (French politician)
Maximilian Litvinov (Russian statesman/stateswoman)
Mehmet Shehu (Albanian politician & statesman/stateswoman)
Mengistu Haile Mariam (Ethiopian politician)
Michael Collins (Irish politician)
Michael Foot (British politician)
Michael Heseltine (English politician & statesman/stateswoman)
Michael Joseph Mansfield (American statesman/stateswoman)
Michael Norman Manley (Jamaican statesman/stateswoman)
Michael Stanley Dukakis (State Governor / Political Figure)
Michel Debré (Modern Europe)
Michel Louis Léon Rocard (French politician)
Mikhail Andreevich Suslov (Russian politician & scholar)
Mikhail Makarios (Cypriot politician)
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (President of the U.S.S.R.)
Miklós Horthy de Nagybánya (Hungarian military leader)
Miloš Jakeš (Czech politician)
Milovan Djilas (Yugoslav statesman/stateswoman & writer)
Milton Apollo Obote (Uganda president)
Mohammad Ali Jinnah (Political Figure)
Mohammed Ahmed Ben Bella (Algerian statesman/stateswoman)
Mohammed Hosni Said Mubarak (President of Egypt)
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (Political Leader)
Mohammed Siyad Barre (Somali politician)
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Spirtitual/Political Leader)