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: Abd al-Aziz Al-Sa'ud to Andrei Antonovich Grechko.
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Abd al-Aziz Al-Sa'ud (Arabian politician)
Achmed Sukarno (Indonesian politician)
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (American statesman/stateswoman & theologian)
Adlai Stevenson (State Governor)
Adolf Hitler (Political Leader / World War II Figure)
Adolfo Suárez González (Spanish politician)
Ahmadu Ahidjo (Cameroonian politician)
Ahmed Sékou Touré (Guinean president)
Aimé Fernand Césaire (poet & writer)
Al Smith (American politician)
Al-Mussavi Ruhollah Al-Khomeini (Iranian Islamic statesman/stateswoman)
Alain Marie Juppé (French politician)
Alan Cranston (us senator)
Alben William Barkley (U.S. Vice President / Political Figure)
Albert Gore, Jr. (U.S. Vice President)
Albert John Luthuli (South African politician)
Albert Lebrun (French statesman/stateswoman)
Albert Reynolds (Irish politician)
Alcide De Gasperi (Italian politician & statesman/stateswoman)
Aleksandr Nikolaevich Shelepin (Russian politician & statesman/stateswoman)
Aleksandr Nikolayevich Yakovlev (Russian statesman/stateswoman)
Aleksandr Vasilievich Kolchak (Russian military leader)
Aleksei Ivanovich Rykov (Russian politician)
Alexander Dubček (Czechoslovak statesman/stateswoman)
Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr. (Military Leader / U.S. Secretary of State)
Alexander Vladimirovich Rutskoi (Russian politician)
Alexandre Millerand (French president)
Alexei Nikolaevich Kosygin (Russian politician & statesman/stateswoman)
Alfred Deakin (Australian politician & statesman/stateswoman)
Alfred Landon (American politician)
Alfredo Stroessner (Paraguayian president)
Ali Akhbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani (Iranian politician & religious leader)
Alija Izetbegovic (Bosnian lawyer and politician)
Amintore Fanfani (Italian politician & statesman/stateswoman)
Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan (Russian politician)
Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky (Russian military leader, dramatist & critic)
Andreas G. Papandreou (American-Greek politician)
Andrei Aleksandrovich Zhdanov (Russian politician)
Andrei Antonovich Grechko (Russian military leader & statesman/stateswoman)