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9780816045365

American Political Leaders

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  • ISBN13:

    9780816045365

  • ISBN10:

    0816045364

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-11-01
  • Publisher: Facts on File
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Summary

Profiles of major figures in American politics, from Bella Abzug through Woodrow Wilson, arranged alphabetically, by area of activity, and by year of birth.

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Excerpts

American Political Leaders contains more than 250 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 or by having attained some special prominence associated with political leadership. This reference work provides students and general readers with a concise, readable guide to present and past leaders in U.S. politics.
Included in this book are presidents, vice presidents, major party candidates for president, significant third party candidates, important Supreme Court justices, Speakers of the U.S. House of Representatives, senators, representatives, cabinet officers, significant agency heads, and diplomats. Since much of U.S. political leadership involves the representation of successive waves of new groups within the U.S. political system, special care has been taken to include the contributions of women, Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, and Americans who represented earlier waves of immigrants to the United States.
Profiles include:
John Adams: president, vice president, diplomat, Revolutionary leader, author
Madeleine Korbell Albright: secretary of state, ambassador to the United Nations
Aaron Burr: vice president, senator
Henry Cisneros: secretary of housing and urban development
Jefferson Davis: secretary of war, senator, representative, president of the Confederate States of America
James A. Farley: postmaster general, national party chairman
Geraldine Ferraro: candidate for vice president, representative, author
Daniel Ken Inouye: senator
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.: candidate for vice president, diplomat, senator, author
Sandra Day O'Connor: associate justice of the Supreme Court
Adam Clayton Powell: representative.

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