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: ‘Waldeck’ Émile Rochet to Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski.
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‘Waldeck’ Émile Rochet (French politician)
Walter Frederic Mondale (U.S. Vice President)
Walter Runciman (British businessman/businesswoman & politician)
Walter Scheel (German president)
Walter Ulbricht (German politician & statesman/stateswoman)
Warren Gamaliel Harding (29th U.S. President)
Wendell Willkie (American industrialist & politician)
Wilhelm Marx (German statesman/stateswoman)
Willi Stoph (German politician)
William (Bill) Jefferson Clinton (U.S. President, 1993-2000)
William Averell Harriman (American statesman/stateswoman)
William Edgar Borah (American statesman/stateswoman)
William Fife Knowland (US politician)
William Howard Taft (27th President of the United States)
William Jennings Bryan (American politician)
William Joynson-Hicks (British politician)
William Maxwell Aitken Beaverbrook, 1st Lord (English financier, statesman/stateswoman & businessman/businesswoman)
William Morris Hughes (Australian statesman/stateswoman)
William Proxmire (American politician)
William Stephen Ian Whitelaw (British politician)
William Stuart Symington (American politician & statesman/stateswoman)
William T. Cosgrave (Irish politician)
Willy Brandt (German statesman/stateswoman)
Władysław Gomułka (Polish politician)
Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski (Polish military leader & politician)