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:
Australia Richard Casey: Minister for Foreign Affairs 1951-1960 R G Casey, Australian Foreign Minister, Collins 1972 Ben Chifley: Prime Minister 1945-1949 Ben Chifley, Things Worth Fighting For, Melbourne University Press, 1952 Sir Robert Menzies: Prime Minister 1939-1941; 1949-1966 R. G. Menzies, Afternoon Light, Cassell & Co., London, 1967 Graham Richardson: Senator 1983-1994 Graham Richardson, Whatever It Takes (Bantam, 1994) Gough Whitlam: Prime Minister 1972-1975 Gough Whitlam, The Whitlam Government, Penguin, 1985
United Kingdom
Karl Marx: Writer 1818-1883 Karl Marx: His Life and Environment (1939) by Isaiah Berlin Karl Marx: The Story of His Life (1918) by Franz Mehring Karl Marx: His Life and Thought (1973) by David McLellan
United States U.S. Cabinet Albright, Madeleine: Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton, 1997-2001 Madeleine Albright : A Twentieth-Century Odyssey (2000) by Michael Dobbs
Brown, Ron: Secretary of Commerce under President Bill Clinton, 1993-1996 Ron Brown: An Uncommon Life (2001) by Steven A. Holmes
Byrnes, James F.: Secretary of State under President Harry Truman, 1945-1947 Sly and Able: A Political Biography of James F. Byrnes (1994; ) by David Robertson
Connally, John: Secretary of the Treasury under President Richard Nixon, 1971-1972 The Lone Star: The Life of John Connally (1989) by James Reston Jr.
Dulles, John Foster: Secretary of Defense under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953-1959 Power and Peace: The Diplomacy of John Foster Dulles (1995) by Frederick Marks John Foster Dulles: Piety, Pragmatism, and Power in U.S. Foreign Policy (1998) by Richard H. Immerman
Forrestal, James: Secretary of Defense under President Harry Truman, 1947-1949 Driven Patriot : The Life and Times of James Forrestal (1992) by Townsend Hoopes
Johnson, Louis: Secretary of Defense under President Harry Truman, 1949-1950 Louis Johnson And the Arming of America: The Roosevelt And Truman Years (2005) by Keith D. McFarland and David L. Roll
Kissinger, Henry: Secretary of State under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, 1973-1977 Kissinger Transcripts: The Top Secret Talks With Beijing and Moscow (1999) by William Burr The Flawed Architect : Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy (2004) by Jussi M. Hanhimaki The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House (1983) by Seymour M. Hersh Sideshow, Revised Edition : Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia (2002) by William Shawcross The Nixon-Kissinger Years: Reshaping of America's Foreign Policy (1989) by Richard C. Thornton
Marshall, George C.: Secretary of State, 1947-1949, and Secretary of Defense, 1950-1951, under President Harry Truman George C. Marshall: Statesman 1945-1959 (1987) by Forrest Pogue
McNamara, Robert: Secretary of Defense under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, 1961-1968 Promise and Power: The Life and Times of Robert McNamara (1993) by Deborah Shapely
O'Neill, Paul: Secretary of the Treasury under President George W. Bush, 2001-2002 The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill (2004) by Ron Suskind
Rumsfeld, Donald: Secretary of Defense under President George W. Bush, 2001–present Rumsfeld's War: The Untold Story of America's Anti-Terrorist Commander (2004) by Rowan Scarborough
Vance, Cyrus: Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter, 1977-1980 Cyrus Vance (1985) by David S. McLellan
U.S. Supreme Court Blackmun, Harry: 98th Supreme Court Justice, 1970-1994 Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey (2005; ) by Linda Greenhouse
Marshall, Thurgood: 96th Supreme Court Justice, 1967-1991 Thurgood Marshall: Justice for All (1992; ) by Roger Goldman and David Gallen Dream Makers, Dream Breakers: The World of Justice Thurgood Marshall (1993; ) by Carl T. Rowan Thurgood Marshall : American Revolutionary (2000; ) by Juan Williams
O'Connor, Sandra Day: 102nd Supreme Court Justice, 1981-2006 Sandra Day O'Connor : How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice (2005; ) by Joan Biskupic
Scalia, Antonin: 103rd Supreme Court Justice, 1986–present Justice Antonin Scalia and the Conservative Revival (1998; ) by Richard A. Brisbin Jr. Scalia Dissents : Writings of the Supreme Court's Wittiest, Most Outspoken Justice (2004; ) by Kevin A. Ring American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (2009; ) by Joan Biskupic
Souter, David: 105th Supreme Court Justice, 1990–present David Hackett Souter: Traditional Republican On The Rehnquist Court (2005; ) by Tinsley E. Yarbrough
Thomas, Clarence: 106th Supreme Court Justice, 1991–present The Prince and the Pauper: The Case Against Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (2001; ) by John L. Cooper and Armin Cooper Judging Thomas : The Life and Times of Clarence Thomas (2004; ) by Ken Foskett Supreme Discomfort : The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas (2006; ) by Kevin Merida and Michael Fletcher Clarence Thomas: A Biography (2001; ) by Andrew Peyton Thomas
See also List of American political memoirs List of Australian political memoirs