American Political Leaders, Third Edition

Richard Wilson

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Praise for previous editions:

"...accessible...this book is an excellent addition to collections serving general readers, high schools, and undergraduates."-American Reference Books Annual

"This readable volume is recommended for high-school, public, and undergraduate libraries..."-Booklist

"...[an] outstanding reference tool...Biographical dictionaries abound, in political science as in other fields...[but] Wilson's work is more accessible, benefitting from his straightforward approach and simpler organization...Highly recommended."-Choice

"Recommended."-Library Media Connection

"...an authoritative and readable guide...serves as a helpful resource for high school, college, and public libraries..."-Christian Library Journal

American Political Leaders, Third Edition contains 286 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


• Amy Coney Barrett: justice of the Supreme Court


• Pete Buttigieg: secretary of transportation; candidate for president


• Andrew Cuomo: governor of New York


• Jefferson Davis: secretary of war, senator, representative, president of the Confederate States of America


• Kamala Harris: senator; vice president


• John Lewis: civil rights activist; representative


• Gavin Newsom: governor of California


• Barack Obama: senator, president


• Sonia Sotomayor: associate justice of the Supreme Court


• Elizabeth Warren: senator; candidate for president

Sujets

• Histoire
• América
• State
• Federal
• Politics
• Government
• American
• United States
• History
• Local
• Election

Informations

• Publié par: Infobase Publishing
• Date de parution: 01 octobre 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781646938704
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 18 Mo

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American Political Leaders, Third Edition
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Contents Entries Abzug, Bella Acheson, Dean Adams, Charles Francis Adams, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Samuel Adams, Sherman Agnew, Spiro Albert, Carl Albright, Madeleine Aldrich, Nelson Alito, Samuel Anderson, John B. Arnold, Thurman Arthur, Chester A. Atchison, David Rice Baker, Howard Baker, James A. Baker, Newton Ballinger, Richard Achilles Bankhead, William Banks, Nathaniel Barkley, Alben Barrett, Amy Coney Belknap, William Bell, John Benjamin, Judah P. Benton, Thomas Hart Berger, Victor Beveridge, Albert Biddle, Nicholas (banker) Biden, Joseph Birney, James G. Black, Hugo Blackmun, Harry Blaine, James G. Bland, Richard Parks Boehner, John Borah, William Bradford, William (governor) Brandeis, Louis D. Braun, Carol Moseley Breckinridge, John C. Brennan, William J., Jr. Brooke, Edward W. Brown, Jerry Bruce, Blanche Kelso Bryan, William Jennings Brzezinski, Zbigniew Buchanan, James Burger, Warren Burr, Aaron Bush, George H. W. Bush, George W. Butler, Benjamin Franklin Buttigieg, Pete Byrnes, James F. Byrns, Joseph Wellington Calhoun, John C. Cameron, Simon Campbell, Ben Nighthorse Cannon, Joseph Cardozo, Benjamin Carmack, Edward Ward Carter, Jimmy Casey, William Chao, Elaine Chase, Salmon P. Chase, Samuel Chisholm, Shirley Cisneros, Henry Clark, James Beauchamp Clay, Henry Cleveland, Grover Clifford, Clark McAdams Clinton, Bill Clinton, DeWitt Clinton, George Clinton, Hillary Rodham Colfax, Schuyler Conkling, Roscoe Coolidge, Calvin Cox, James Cuomo, Andrew Cuomo, Mario Curtis, Charles Daschle, Tom Daugherty, Harry Davis, Jefferson De Priest, Oscar Denby, Edwin Dewey, Thomas E. Dickinson, John Dirksen, Everett Dole, Bob Dole, Elizabeth Douglas, Stephen Douglas, William O. Dulles, Allen Dulles, John Foster Edwards, John Ehrlichman, John Eisenhower, Dwight D. Ellsworth, Oliver Ervin, Sam Fall, Albert Farley, James A. Ferraro, Geraldine Fillmore, Millard Ford, Gerald Frankfurter, Felix Fr mont, John C. Fulbright, J. William Fuller, Melville W. Gadsden, James Garfield, James A. Garner, John Nance Gephardt, Dick Gerry, Elbridge Gingrich, Newt Ginsburg, Ruth Bader Goldberg, Arthur J. Goldwater, Barry Gore, Al Gorsuch, Neil Grant, Ulysses S. Greeley, Horace Greenspan, Alan Haig, Alexander Haldeman, H. R. Hamilton, Alexander Hancock, John Hanna, Marcus Harding, Warren G. Harlan, John Marshall Harris, Kamala Harrison, Benjamin Harrison, William Henry Hastert, Dennis Hayes, Rutherford B. Henry, Patrick Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. Hoover, Herbert Hoover, J. Edgar Hopkins, Harry House, Edward Mandell Hughes, Charles Evans Hull, Cordell Humphrey, Hubert Inouye, Daniel K. Jackson, Andrew Jay, John Jefferson, Thomas Johnson, Andrew Johnson, Hiram W. Johnson, Lyndon B. Jordan, Barbara Kagen, Elena Kaine, Tim Kassebaum, Nancy Landon Kavanaugh, Brett Kefauver, Estes Kellogg, Frank Kennedy, Anthony Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Ted Kerry, John Kirkpatrick, Jeane Kissinger, Henry Knox, Henry La Follette, Robert M. La Guardia, Fiorello Landon, Alfred Lansing, Robert Lee, Richard Henry Lewis, John Lincoln, Abraham Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr. London, Meyer Long, Huey Longworth, Nicholas Lott, Trent Madison, James Mansfield, Mike Marcantonio, Vito Marshall, John Martin, Joseph W., Jr. Mason, George McCain, John McCarthy, Eugene McCarthy, Joseph McClellan, George B. McCloy, John J. McConnell, Mitch McCormack, John McGovern, George McKinley, William McNamara, Robert Monroe, James Morse, Wayne Moynihan, Daniel Patrick Murphy, Frank Muskie, Edmund Newsom, Gavin Nixon, Richard Norris, George Nye, Gerald P. Obama, Barack Obama, Michelle O Connor, Sandra Day O Neill, Tip Paine, Thomas Palin, Sarah Pelosi, Nancy Pence, Michael Pepper, Claude Perkins, Frances Perot, Ross Pickering, Timothy Pierce, Franklin Pinchback, P. B. S. Pinchot, Gifford Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Thomas Polk, James K. Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr. Powell, Colin Randolph, Edmund Rankin, Jeannette Rayburn, Samuel Reagan, Ronald Reed, Thomas B. Rehnquist, William Reid, Harry Revels, Hiram Rice, Condoleeza Roberts, John Rockefeller, Nelson A. Rogers, William P. Romney, Mitt Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Root, Elihu Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana Rush, Benjamin Rusk, Dean Ryan, Paul Sanders, Bernie Scalia, Antonin Schumer, Chuck Schurz, Carl Scott, Winfield Seward, William H. Shultz, George P. Smith, Al Smith, Margaret Chase Sotomayor, Sonia Stanton, Edwin M. Stevens, Thaddeus Stevenson, Adlai Stimson, Henry L. Sumner, Charles Taft, William Howard Taney, Roger B. Taylor, Zachary Thurmond, Strom Tilden, Samuel J. Truman, Harry S. Trump, Donald J. Tyler, John Van Buren, Martin Vance, Cyrus Vandenberg, Arthur H. Wade, Benjamin Wagner, Robert F. Wallace, George Warren, Earl Warren, Elizabeth Washington, George Webster, Daniel Wheeler, Burton K. Wilson, Edith Wilson, Woodrow Yellen, Janet
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Abzug, Bella
Also known as: Bella Savitsky
(b. 1920–d. 1998)
U.S. representative, women's rights leader

Bella Abzug was the first woman to be elected to Congress on a women's rights platform, serving three terms in the House of Representatives from 1971 to 1976. Abzug coauthored the Freedom of Privacy and Information Acts, and the Water Pollution Act. She also wrote the Equal Credit Act, which prohibited discrimination against women attempting to obtain credit. She fought for the Equal Rights Amendment and the first gay and lesbian rights bill, and was the first to call for the impeachment of Richard Nixon. Abzug was later defeated in her bids for New York City mayor and New York senator. She is shown here wearing one of her trademark hats.
Source: Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection.

Bella Abzug was the first Jewish woman ever elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, the founder of a number of organizations for the advancement of women, and a prominent leader of liberal causes. By the 1970s, she was a household word as a champion of a variety of important political issues.
Born Bella Savitsky on July 24, 1920, in the Bronx, New York, as the daughter of Jewish immigrants from Russia, she graduated from Hunter College in 1942. While in Columbia University Law School, she majored in labor law and was selected as the editor of the Columbia Law Review . She graduated from Columbia in 1945 and was admitted to the New York bar in 1947. She married Maurice M. Abzug in 1944, and the couple had two daughters, born in 1949 and 1952.
From 1947 to 1970, Bella Abzug gained a considerable national reputation both as an attorney and as a champion of various liberal causes. Working mainly on a pro bono basis for the American Civil Liberties Union and the Civil Rights Congress, she defended some individuals with liberal political viewpoints in the early 1950s when they were attacked for being Communists by Senator Joseph McCarthy during his anti-Communist crusade against Americans accused of sympathy toward the Soviet Union.
In 1961, Abzug was one of the founders of the Women Strike for Peace, a national organization opposed to U.S. military and foreign policies. She chaired the group from 1961 to 1970, working on disarmament and peace issues. As the United States became more involved in the war in Vietnam in the late 1960s, she led the public protest and supported a variety of antiwar candidates, most notably Senator Eugene McCarthy's effort against Democratic incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1968 presidential campaign.
In 1970, she became a candidate herself for the Reform Democratic Party and unseated the Democratic incumbent in the primary for New York City's 19th District. She was elected to the first of three consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives (1971–1977).
Abzug opened her career in Congress with a strong attack on the seniority system that allowed newcomers to advance only very slowly to prestigious committee assignments. She was defeated in her attempt to be named to the powerful House Armed Services Committee and was relegated to the less powerful Government Operations and Public Works Committees. Her protests helped other women, such as Shirley Chisholm, secure better committee assignments and led to a few reforms, but these were not enough to satisfy her and other congressional insurgents.
As a founder and chair of several of the leading U.S. liberal political organizations for women, Abzug supported the Equal Rights Amendment, abortion rights, a woman's right to establish credit, and children's day-care legislation. In 1971, with Gloria Steinem and Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug cofounded the National Women's Political Caucus, which sought to increase the influence and participation of women in government.
Conservative political forces in the New York state legislature sought to defeat her by redrawing her congressional district, but she confounded them by winning reelection from the 20th District in 1972 and 1974. She gave up her seat in the U.S. House of Representatives to run against Daniel Patrick Moynihan for the Senate in 1976, but she failed in the primary. In 1977, she lost the primary election for mayor of New York City. In the following year, she was defeated for a vacant congressional seat in a special election.
In 1977, Abzug was prominent in the National Women's Conference at Houston, and President Jimmy Carter appointed her th