The following is a list of political career biographies.
It is meant to complement the list of political memoirs page, with the key difference being that the books in this list are authored by persons other than the book's subject.
This list is sorted by country and by the political position and last name of the book's subject: Richard Casey: Minister for Foreign Affairs 1951-1960 Ben Chifley: Prime Minister 1945-1949 Sir Robert Menzies: Prime Minister 1939-1941; 1949-1966 Graham Richardson: Senator 1983-1994 Gough Whitlam: Prime Minister 1972-1975 Karl Marx: Writer 1818-1883 Albright, Madeleine: Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton, 1997-2001 Brown, Ron: Secretary of Commerce under President Bill Clinton, 1993-1996 Byrnes, James F.: Secretary of State under President Harry Truman, 1945-1947 Connally, John: Secretary of the Treasury under President Richard Nixon, 1971-1972 Dulles, John Foster: Secretary of Defense under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953-1959 Forrestal, James: Secretary of Defense under President Harry Truman, 1947-1949 Johnson, Louis: Secretary of Defense under President Harry Truman, 1949-1950 Kissinger, Henry: Secretary of State under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, 1973-1977 Marshall, George C.: Secretary of State, 1947-1949, and Secretary of Defense, 1950-1951, under President Harry Truman McNamara, Robert: Secretary of Defense under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, 1961-1968 O'Neill, Paul: Secretary of the Treasury under President George W. Bush, 2001-2002 Rumsfeld, Donald: Secretary of Defense under President George W. Bush, 2001–present Vance, Cyrus: Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter, 1977-1980 Blackmun, Harry: 98th Supreme Court Justice, 1970-1994 Marshall, Thurgood: 96th Supreme Court Justice, 1967-1991 O'Connor, Sandra Day: 102nd Supreme Court Justice, 1981-2006 Scalia, Antonin: 103rd Supreme Court Justice, 1986–present Souter, David: 105th Supreme Court Justice, 1990–present Thomas, Clarence: 106th Supreme Court Justice, 1991–present