African American legislators -- Biography
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Black Americans in Congress, 1870-2007 (Washington: GPO, 2008), contrib. by United States House Committee on House Administration and United States House Office of History and Preservation (PDF with commentary at govinfo.gov)
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Filed under: African American legislators -- Texas- Negro Legislators of Texas and Their Descendants: A History of the Negro in Texas Politics From Reconstruction to Disfranchisement (Dallas: Mathis Pub. Co., c1935), by John Mason Brewer, contrib. by Herbert Pickens Gambrell (page images at HathiTrust)
- One Step from the White House: The Rise and Fall of Senator William F. Knowland (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Gayle B. Montgomery and James W. Johnson (HTML at UC Press)
- Tagging Along: Memories of My Grandfather, James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr. (Geneseo, NY: Published at Milne Library, SUNY College at Geneseo, c2013), by Stuart Symington (PDF and Epub with commentary at geneseo.edu)
- Boss Rule in the Gilded Age: Matt Quay of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981), by James A. Kehl (page images at Pitt)
- Journeys to War and Peace: A Congressional Memoir (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2011), by Stephen J. Solarz, contrib. by Norman J. Ornstein (page images and PDF at Brandeis)
- Paul Wellstone: The Life of a Passionate Progressive (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), by Bill Lofy (page images at HathiTrust)
- Independent Man: The Life and Times of Senator James Couzens (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002), by Harry Barnard (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)
- Star of Destiny: The Private Life of Sam and Margaret Houston (Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 1993), by Madge Thornall Roberts, contrib. by Randolph B. Campbell (page images at Portal to Texas History)
- Auto-Biography of Lemuel Sawyer, by Lemuel Sawyer (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry (Philadelphia: J. Webster, 1817), by William Wirt
- Tom Watson, Agrarian Rebel (New York: Macmillan, 1938), by C. Vann Woodward (page images at HathiTrust)
- Journey Through My Years (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946), by James M. Cox (page images at HathiTrust)
- Private Memoir of Thomas Worthington, Esq. of Adena, Ross County, Ohio, Senator, Governor, etc., etc., by His Daughter (Cincinnati: Press of Robert Clarke and Co., 1882), by Sarah Worthington King Peter (PDF at State Library of Ohio)
- The Life and Correspondence of Rufus King: Comprising His Letters, Private and Official, His Public Documents, and His Speeches (6 volumes; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1894-1900), by Rufus King, ed. by Charles R. King (page images at HathiTrust)
- Life of David Crockett, the Original Humorist and Irrepressible Backwoodsman: Comprising His Early History; His Bear Hunting and Other Adventures; His Services in the Creek War; His Electioneering Speeches and Career in Congress; with His Triumphal Tour Through the Northern States, and Services in the Texas War. To Which is Added an Account of His Glorious Death at the Alamo While Fighting in Defence of Texan Independence (Philadelphia: J.E. Potter and Co., c1865), by Davy Crockett, contrib. by Richard Penn Smith
- Hispanic Americans in Congress, 1822-2012 (Washington: GPO, 2013), ed. by Matthew A. Wasniewski, Albin Kowalewski, Laura Turner O'Hara, and Terrance Rucker (PDF files at govinfo.gov)
- Women in Congress, 1917-2006 (Washington: GPO, 2006), contrib. by United States House Committee on House Administration and United States House Office of History and Preservation (PDF with commentary at govinfo.gov)
- Moses of South Carolina: A Jewish Scalawag During Radical Reconstruction (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010), by Benjamin Ginsberg (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- An Italian Portrait Gallery: Being Brief Biographies of Scholars Illustrious Within the Memory of Our Grand-Fathers for the Published Monument of Their Genius (Boston: Chapman and Grimes, 1935), by Paolo Giovio, trans. by Florence Alden Gragg (HTML at elfinspell.com)
- Portraits in Miniature and Other Essays (c1931), by Lytton Strachey (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Biographical Sketches (New York: Leypoldt and Holt, 1869), by Harriet Martineau (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Biographical Sketches (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1863), by Nassau William Senior
- A Book of Worthies, Gathered From the Old Histories and Now Written Anew (London: Macmillan and Co, 1869), by Charlotte M. Yonge (multiple formats at Google)
- Brief Biographies (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861; with illustrations added for the online edition), by Samuel Smiles (illustrated HTML with commentary in the UK)
- Classic Memoirs (revised edition, 3 volumes; New York: Colonial Press, c1901), contrib. by George Saintsbury and Robert Arnot
- Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great (14 volume Memorial edition, 1916), by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg texts)
- The One Great Society: A Book of Recollections (New York et al.: Fleming H. Revell Co., c1918), by Frederick Henry Lynch (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (Columbus, OH: J. and H. Miller, 1856), by Thomas H. Prescott
- The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (St. Louis: J. and H. Miller, 1856), by Thomas H. Prescott (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (Columbus OH: J. and H. Miller, 1857), by Thomas H. Prescott
- Curiosities of Human Nature (Boston: J. E. Hickman, ca. 1843), by Samuel G. Goodrich (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Portraits and Principles of the World's Great Men and Women, With Practical Lessons on Successful Life by Over Fifty Leading Thinkers (Springfield, MA: King-Richardson Pub. Co., 1897), ed. by William C. King, contrib. by C. H. Parkhurst (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Biographical Review of Prominent Men and Women of the Day (c1888), by Thomas William Herringshaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co.; London: Grant Richards, 1901), by George Paston
- Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century (1902), by George Paston (Gutenberg text)
- Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century (London: Grant Richards; New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1902), by George Paston
- Fame in the 20th Century (electronic edition, with complete text and some illustrations of print edition; 2010), by Clive James (HTML at clivejames.com)
- Index to Profile Sketches in New Yorker Magazine (Boston: F. W. Faxon Co., 1946), by Thomas Shuler Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dictionary of World Biography (fifth edition, c2018), by Barry O. Jones (multiple formats at ANU E Press)
- Cyclopedia of Universal Biography: A Record of the Names of the Most Eminent Men of the World (Home Cyclopedia v4; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1855), by Parke Godwin (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Cyclopedia of Universal Biography: A Record of the Names of the Most Eminent Men of the World (Home Cyclopedia v4; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1856), by Parke Godwin
- Hand-Book of Universal Biography (Putnam's Home Cyclopedia v4; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1852), by Parke Godwin
- An Historical and Critical Dictionary, Selected and Abridged from the Great Work of Peter Bayle; With a Life of Bayle (4 volumes; London: Printed for Hunt and Clarke, 1826), by Pierre Bayle
- Men and Women of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries (15th edition; London: G. Routledge and sons, 1899), ed. by Victor Plarr (page images at HathiTrust)
- Vitae Selectorum Aliquot Virorum Qui Doctrinâ, Dignitate, Aut Pietate Inclaruere (in Latin; London: A. G. and J. P., 1681), by William Bates
- Crusaders for Freedom (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., c1962), by Henry Steele Commager, illust. by Mimi Korach (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dawnings of Genius: or, The Early Lives of Some Eminent Persons of the Last Century (London: Charles Knight and Co., 1841), by Anne Pratt (page images at Google)
- Famous Men of Ancient Times (Boston: Brown and Taggard, 1860), by Samuel G. Goodrich (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Red Book of Heroes (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1909), by Mrs. Lang, ed. by Andrew Lang, illust. by Arthur Wallis Mills (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Triumphs of Perseverance and Enterprise (with updated illustrations), by Thomas Cooper (illustrated HTML in the UK)
- Historic Girls: Stories of Girls Who Have Influenced the History of Their Times, by Elbridge S. Brooks
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