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• Soldier-Statesmen of the Constitution, by Robert K. Wright and Morris J. MacGregor (illustrated HTML at US Army CMH)

• Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence (9 volumes; Philadelphia: R. W. Pomeroy, 1823-1827), ed. by John Sanderson, Robert Waln, and Henry D. Gilpin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sanderson's Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence (original 1820s edition edited by Sanderson, Waln, and Gilpin; this version revised and edited by Conrad; Philadelphia: C. Desilver and Sons; et al., 1876), ed. by John Sanderson, Robert Waln, Henry D. Gilpin, and Robert Taylor Conrad (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Mirrors of Washington, by Clinton W. Gilbert and John Kirby (Gutenberg text)
• The New Star Chamber, and Other Essays (Chicago: Hammersmark Publishing Company, 1904), by Edgar Lee Masters (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Presidential Candidates: Containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860, by D. W. Bartlett (page images at MOA)
• Speech of Hon. George F. Hoar, of Massachusetts, December 22, 1898, at the Banquet of the New England Society, of Charleston, South Carolina (Washington: Saxton Printing Co., 1899), by George Frisbie Hoar (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lest We Forget (East Aurora, NY: Printed at the Roycroft Shop, 1914), by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (HTML at ellawheelerwilcox.org)

• Sumner Welles, Postwar Planning, and the Quest for a New World Order, 1937-1943 (c2003), by Christopher D. O'Sullivan (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at gutenberg-e.org)
• A Character of Hugh Legaré (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1985), by Michael O'Brien (PDF at Tennessee)
• The Unfinished Life of Benjamin Franklin (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2012), by Douglas Anderson (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Autobiography, by Benjamin Franklin (multiple editions)
• Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Christopher Gadsden and the American Revolution (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1982), by E. Stanly Godbold and Robert H. Woody (PDF at Newfound Press)
• The Autobiography and Other Writings, by Benjamin Franklin (HTML at Bibliomania)
• Eulogy on General Alexander Hamilton, Pronounced at the Request of the Citizens of Boston, July 26, 1804 (Albany, NY: C. R. and G. Webster, 1804), by Harrison Gray Otis (page images at Ohio Memory)
• The Life of Benjamin Franklin, by M. L. Weems (frame-dependent page images at antiquebooks.net)
• The Life of John Marshall (standard library edition, 4 volumes; Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, c1919), by Albert J. Beveridge
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
• Soldier-Statesmen of the Constitution, by Robert K. Wright and Morris J. MacGregor (illustrated HTML at US Army CMH)
• The Peerless Leader: William Jennings Bryan (New York: Farrar and Rinehart, c1929), by Paxton Hibben and C. Hartley Grattan, contrib. by Charles A. Beard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Power of Consuls to Remove Merchant Captains: or, An Examination Into the Legality and Propriety of the Conduct of Gorham Parks, Esq., Late United States Consul in Rio de Janeiro, in the Removal of the Captains of the Ships "Pacific" and "Xylon", and of the Schooners "Friendship" and "Sacramento" (New York: Oliver and Brother, 1850) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Peerless Leader: William Jennings Bryan (New York: Farrar and Rinehart, c1929), by Paxton Hibben and C. Hartley Grattan, contrib. by Charles A. Beard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bryan Campaign for the American People's Money (Chicago: Laird and Lee, 1896), by Ignatius Donnelly (multiple formats at Google)

• 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)

• Journey Through My Years (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946), by James M. Cox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1920), by Charles E. Morris
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox, by Charles E. Morris (Gutenberg text)

• A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (Philadelphia, E. L. Carey and A. Hart; Baltimore, Carey, Hart and Co., 1834), by Davy Crockett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• David Crockett: His Life and Adventures (New York: Dodd and Mead, 1875), by John S. C. Abbott
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• David Crockett: His Life and Adventures, by John S. C. Abbott (Gutenberg text)
• The Story of the Filibusters; To Which is Added the Life of Colonel David Crockett (London: T. F. Unwin, 1891), by James Jeffrey Roche
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Way to the West, and the Lives of Three Early Americans: Boone; Crockett; Carson (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1903), by Emerson Hough, illust. by Frederic Remington (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Unfinished Life of Benjamin Franklin (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2012), by Douglas Anderson (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Autobiography, by Benjamin Franklin (multiple editions)
• The Autobiography and Other Writings, by Benjamin Franklin (HTML at Bibliomania)
• Benjamin Franklin, Printer (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., for the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, 1917), by John Clyde Oswald
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed: A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on His Own Writings (2 volumes; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917), by William Cabell Bruce
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Four American Leaders (Boston: American Unitarian Association, 1906), by Charles William Eliot (Gutenberg text)
• Franklin and the University; Frankliniana in the University Library (reprinted from the "Alumni Register" of the University of Pennsylvania, 1906), by J. G. Rosengarten and Morris Jastrow (page images at HathiTrust)
• From Boyhood to Manhood: Life of Benjamin Franklin, by William M. Thayer (Gutenberg text)
• The Life of Benjamin Franklin, by M. L. Weems (frame-dependent page images at antiquebooks.net)
• Life of Benjamin Franklin: A Continuation of Franklin's Autobiography, by Jared Sparks (HTML at ushistory.org)
• Benjamin Franklin and the University of Pennsylvania (Washington: GPO, 1893), ed. by Francis Newton Thorpe (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Forgotten Founders: Benjamin Franklin, the Iroquois, and the Rationale for the American Revolution, by Bruce E. Johansen (HTML at ratical.org)
• Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Six Historic Americans: Paine, Jefferson, Washington, Franklin, Lincoln, Grant, the Fathers and Saviors of Our Republic, Freethinkers (New York: Truth Seeker Co., ca. 1906), by John E. Remsburg
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Christopher Gadsden and the American Revolution (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1982), by E. Stanly Godbold and Robert H. Woody (PDF at Newfound Press)

• The Fantastic Life of Walter Murray Gibson, Hawaii's Minister of Everything (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1986), by Jacob Adler and Robert M. Kamins (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii)

• Eulogy on General Alexander Hamilton, Pronounced at the Request of the Citizens of Boston, July 26, 1804 (Albany, NY: C. R. and G. Webster, 1804), by Harrison Gray Otis (page images at Ohio Memory)
• A Sketch of the Character of Alexander Hamilton (Boston: Repertory Office, 1804), by Fisher Ames (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alexander Hamilton: A Study of the Revolution and the Union (Cincinnati: Jones Brothers and Co, 1883), by John Clark Ridpath (illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana)
• Martin Van Buren's Calumnies Repudiated: Hamilton's Conduct as Secretary of the Treasury Vindicated (New York: C. Scribner and Co., 1870), by James A. Hamilton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Works of Alexander Hamilton (Constitutional edition, 12 volumes; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, ca. 1903), by Alexander Hamilton, ed. by Henry Cabot Lodge
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IX (mislabeled as 8): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume X: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XII: multiple formats at archive.org
• Observations on Certain Documents Contained in No. V and VI of "The History of the United States for the Year 1796," In Which the Charge of Speculation Against Alexander Hamilton, Late Secretary of the Treasury, is Fully Refuted (also known as the "Reynolds pamphlet"; Philadelphia: Printed for J. Fenno by J. Bioren, 1797), by Alexander Hamilton
  • HTML at Michigan
  • PDF at nymag.com
• Love-Children: A Book of Illustrious Illegitimates (New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh, The Dial Press; Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1931), by Miriam Allen De Ford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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