Biographical Resources

Secretaries of State from John Jay to Colin Powell are profiled in this volume. Each essay provides personal, professional, and political information and concludes with a bibliography.

In addition to contact information for staff in all federal departments, a chapter of this annual directory includes short biographies for more than 1000 federal executives.
Issued three times per year. Latest edition in Ready Reference.

This Congressional Quarterly Publication features in-depth profiles, photographs, and interest grop ratings of all 535 members of Congress and the six delegates. Latest edition only in Reference. Also available as an e-resource; see CQ Political Reference Suite of Online Editions (at right).

An authoritative reference source on people, organisations and countries worldwide. The directory includes over 3,000 biographies, including politicians from every country of the world, diplomats, heads of international organisations and many more. Biographies for US governors, congressional representatives and senators are also included. Latest edition only in Reference; earlier editions in AU Library stacks.

This volum provides brief profiles of those who most greatly influence the American political landscape. Coverage of the directory reflects the results of recent elections and includes: the President, the Vice President, the Cabinet, members of Congress, prominent federal official appointees, congressional staff members, U.S. ambassadors, governors, lieutenant governors, state officials, state supreme court justices, state legislators, federal judges, national and state political party chairs, mayors of cities with populations over 150,000, lobbyists, heads of specials interest groups, and numerous political commentators and strategists.